Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Nalates Urriah I’ve been swamped with work this week, which is good. So, I haven’t had time to enjoy Seccond Life™ or keep up on the goings on. Today I’ve taken some time to catch up on the new Firestorm Viewer release 4.7.5. The announcement is here: Firestorm Update 4.7.5-47975.
Inara has her review here: Firestorm 4.7.5: something for everyone.
Canary Beck wrote an article titled Hatred does not cease by hatred – hatred ceases by love. It is about the reaction of France to the attacks by ISIS. I am going to look at the ideas expressed in the article. I disagree with most of the thinking Canary expresses in this article. You can see if you think she or I see things as they are.
I find Canary’s article horribly incomplete. The presuppositions, biases, fallacies, and reality are unlikely to be pointed out by the politically correct. But, I am not PC… so… I’ll give you the other side.
Canary is concerned when world leaders express thoughts like France’s President Hollande did, We are going to lead a war which will be pitiless. One should be worried whenever there is talk of a war, pitiless or otherwise.
But, nowhere does she express a concern about ISIS and their stated goals. But she may not even know what ISIS’ goals are. After all Major General Michael K. Nagata, the Special Operations commander for the United States in the Middle East, in speaking about the thinking driving ISIS has stated, “We do not even understand the idea.”
Hamlet posted an odd one… Mid-Week Open Forum: Say Anything About VR, AR or SL. The post is obviously to encourage input from readers and see what’s on people minds, which isn’t odd. At least that’s what I infer from it. The odd part is in the comments. But what are people thinking and saying? And are these people exemplary of who is reading Hamlet?
First the comments then I have some push back.
Linda Evans thinks the decline in SL regions is due to Ebbe Altberg… really!?!
Yes, sort of. Ebbe was on a panel at a get together (Web Summit) in Dublin, Ireland. The Guardian, a UK news outlet, lead a panel to discuss what might happen if machines could read and understand our emotions.
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Several people have blogged about an interview by Martin Bryant with Ebbe posted by The Next World (TNW) blog. It is interesting, but there is nothing new. The audio lasts about 10 minutes.
Since there is nothing new in this interview… I got nothing to say.
Anthropomorphic Global Warming has been an ongoing debate since the mid 1970’s and for this generation since the 1990’s. Low information voters tend to be warmers and high information voters tend to be skeptics. Presumably that is because high information people do more research and dig below the surface. Low information people tend to accept the easy to find and hear information. At least that is my personal experience. What do you actually know about the global warming debate?
A good summary is here: New studies flip climate-change notions upside down. They don’t provide the supporting links. But anyone Googling the points mentioned is likely to generate a growing collection of questions.
Left out of the article is the information from studies of temperatures on Mars and Venus. They have been paralleling temperature changes on Earth. That makes it much more likely the sun is the source of heating and cooling than it is CO2, unless you think our CO2 is making it to to other planets…
But, facts seldom change minds… and common sense long ago left the arena.
Think you have proof of global warming? This winter in the northern hemisphere this 2015-16 year is likely the beginning of a trend that may crush your beliefs. (Early Snow, Record Antarctic Ice, Arctic Ice, Sea Levels, Ice Cap site)