<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/310abcba-07d6-45fc-a983-669a2c925e6e/6B16CF80-FD34-4189-919E-3BB748469B5D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://forge.ironrealms.com/2006/11/10/more-second-life-nonsense/" href="http://forge.ironrealms.com/2006/11/10/more-second-life-nonsense/" style="font-size: 11px;">forge.ironrealms.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://forge.ironrealms.com/2006/11/10/more-second-life-nonsense/"><H1 id="post-152" class="post-title">More Second Life Nonsense</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://forge.ironrealms.com/2006/11/10/more-second-life-nonsense/"><P class="BigFirst"><A href="http://forge.ironrealms.com/2006/09/06/registration-games/" target="_blank" title="Second Life Registration Games">We’re all aware of how Linden Labs plays fast and loose with its “active user” numbers</A> in<IMG align="right" src="http://www.ironrealms.com/forge_images/furry_sex.jpg" alt="Most Popular Second Life Activity" title="Most Popular Second Life Activity" /> order to attract publicity and investment money. According to the Second Life Herald, <A href="http://www.secondlifeherald.com/slh/2006/11/linden_lab_boas.html#comment-25168727" target="_blank" title="Second Life Herald">that’s not the only kind of bullshit they engage in</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://forge.ironrealms.com/2006/11/10/more-second-life-nonsense/"><P class="post-metadata">Friday, November 10th, 2006 by <A title="Posts by Matt" href="http://forge.ironrealms.com/author/admin/">Matt</A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://forge.ironrealms.com/2006/11/10/more-second-life-nonsense/"><P>Apparently Linden actually counts ANY “Linden Dollars” passed between characters as part of their “economy,” allowing their PR flaks to make claims like, “A gazillion dollars is being spent every day in Second Life! Join the commercial bonanza!” This is equivalent to Iron Realms claiming that “A gazillion dollars is being spent every day in Achaea!” because a lot of gold (which can be traded for credits - the equivalent of Linden dollars - on the formal gold/credit exchange market) changes hands in Achaea.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6B16CF80-FD34-4189-919E-3BB748469B5D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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