Here on these cliffs of Dover
so high you can’t see over
and while your head is spinning
hold tight it’s just beginning
you come from parents’ wanton
a childhood rough and rotten
I come from wealth and beauty
untouched by work or duty
Posts Tagged 'nomine'
I had that term used on me today. I’ve said it to people before admittedly and when I started dancing again I immediately apologized because I realized what a douche thing it was to say.
You hear it from time to time as a dancer. You’ll be having a conversation with somebody and they’ll find out your a dancer and that is when the tone changes. Like somehow what we do is so incredibly dirty we’re second class SL citizens. And for the most part we’re going to be okay with that? Now, why would be okay with that? Allow me to tell you.
Ah
We move like cagey tigers
We couldn’t get closer than this
The way we walk
The way we talk
The way we stalk
The way we kiss
We slip through the streets
While everyone sleeps
Getting bigger and sleeker
And wider and brighter
We bite and scratch and scream all night
Let’s go and throw
All the songs we know…
Into the sea
You and me
All these years and no one heard
I’ll show you in spring
It’s a treacherous thing
We missed you hissed the lovecats
She has always watched over me
She takes good care of me
She is such an integral part of me
That I forgot who I was
And I forgot she was there
For me
We have traveled this world for years
We have consoled each other’s fears
We dried each other’s tears
Yet always in doubt, and never in bed
Of we
With a fever, with a passion
Within anger or with compassion
In a rage, when distrustful
When she’s screaming or when she’s lustful
With the fever, with a passion
When in anger or in compassion
In a rage, when distrustful
When she’s screaming and when she’s lustful
*psst* I have a confession to make. I have been worshiping exotic goddesses, besides the holy couture trinity (and yes I was sad that one of the trinity has left Second Life).
Fast Tube by Casper
The dread magnificent and great goddess I have been worshipping is none other than the most spectacular Munchflower Zaius, of Nomine. *cue screaming undead gothic fangirls*. And OMG. She won my still beating severed heart even before she gave me the most incredible Sugar Skull skin as a gift <333….and ZOMG, she is about to release a whole line of them! If you Plurk she posted a few teaser pictures there already, and Achariya posted them with permission on her blog too. So yes. I am just seriously dying to wear those incredible skins!!!!!
It is amazing how perfectly her skin goes with the new Day of the Dead themed dress from Grim Bros. Cutea Benelli has made the most wonderfully insanely amazing Dia de los Muertos gown ever! It is so amazingly gorgeous I just nearly fainted when I saw it, just wonderfully flamboyant and fabulous.
In fact I would say the goddess Cutea is on a total roll right now. She also released a very festive dress called Viva la Catrina that comes with an adorable skin too!
And, if you even join a fashion group just to get cool freebies, then join the Rotten Toe group, because these Vision of Death eyes are sooooo to die for!!!!
The Pentinent Fashion Sinner Juana wears:
Dia de los Muertos set by Cutea Benelli/Grim bros
Sugar skull skin (custom) <333 by Nomine
Skull ear spikes by …mad about
Visions of death eyes by Rotten toe (group gift)
Rosary ring choker by handmaidens
Tattoo and Tropicana hair flower by artilleri
listening to “streets of laredo” by
Tom Drexl aka. Uwe Höck
visiting the Guadalajara Cathedral sim and Nomine
(also shown: Viva la Catrina dress, rusty bangles, Dia de los Muertos shoes, and skin by Cutea Benelli, Gloves and Stockings by Rotten Toe, To Live and Die tattoos by Bakersfield Kidd, Wild woman hair by MiaSnow, and Natsumi by Diversity hair)
Recently it has come to light that Stroker Serpentine of SexGen and Munchflower Zaius of Nomine have filed suit against Linden Research International (also known as Linden Lab) for what they view as their complete mismanagement of the content theft situation, they even go so far as to accuse Linden Lab of profiting off of it. And they are absolutely correct. For those of you who wish to read the official complaint you can find it here.
In the complaint the Plaintiffs state that Linden Lab has directly and secondarily infringed on the trademarks and copyrights of both Eros and Nomine and that it freely allows other Second Life users to do so and that it even gives the tools to Second Life users to do so.
Let’s address this first shall we? It’s true. Linden Lab has long tradition of looking the other way when it comes to the financial issues of it’s customers. Were they not then bots would not exist. Their continual allowance of things like CopyBot to exist speaks volumes about their concern for issues like trademarks and copyrights. Content theft has in fact become so widespread in Second Life that frankly a good deal of the users do not even care anymore. Don’t believe me? Go to any blog article anywhere that points out content theft and look at the comments.
Also, in the complaint the Plaintiffs make the statement that Linden Lab profits off of the rampant content theft that is happening within it’s servers. This is true. Especially after the acquisition of Second Life Exchange by Linden Lab turning it into XStreet. Content thief uploads stolen content to the grid? Profit. Content thief sells stolen goods on XStreet? Thanks to that completely retarded cut that the Lab still takes out of sales…Profit. Let’s face it Lindens, your hand has been caught in the virtual cookie jar.
The complaint also states that Linden Lab already has tools available to deal with the content theft situation but refuses to do so on the account they make too much money off of it. Where are the MAC Bans Linden Lab? We know you can do them. Do you use them? Only when griefer groups directly challenge you. Otherwise you let content thieves make alt account after alt account after alt account. You have the power to remove items from inventories based on UUID…you do not however. Hand in the cookie jar? You betcha.
Stroker and Munchflower are filing this for two reasons according the complaint. 1: They want Linden Lab to grow a set of manberries and actually do something about the content theft instead of the usual “Awww shucks, file a DMCA and maybe we’ll do something” routine and 2: They want their pound of flesh. Stores as popular as Nomine and SexGen have been seriously damaged by Linden Lab’s refusal to deal with the issue. Money has indeed been lost by the two parties and they feel that Linden Lab should cough up the dough.
So let us look into the future. Let us say that Stroker and Munchflower win their suit against Linden Lab. What is going to happen? Here are some possibilities
- Linden Lab realizes that the content theft is a problem and deals with it in a smart, rational, well implemented manner (Read: Yeah fucking right)
- Stroker and Munchflower are removed from Second Life (Sour Grapes? I would not put it past Linden Lab to pull this shit off)
- As somebody who was possibly huffing paint suggested Linden Lab could simply disallow building. (Yes, because sometimes big companies just totally want to go out of business)
- The Lab creates a staff of draconian copyright nazis who scour the grid constantly and lay down the banhammer without so much as a “By your leave” (If they use this option, it will be done half assed, it will not be effective, and it will just turn people off of Second Life)
There are many other options for the result of this lawsuit to be honest. None of them actually look good. What should have happened was that Linden Lab should have addressed this from the very beginning instead of being such complete wusses about it. This is no longer some type of Virtual Hippie Commune. This is a business and Linden Lab needs to start acting like it. And they actually are. In all the bad ways. If you look at the TOS they have actually added shit saying you can’t sue them. Basically this screams out “Hey Customer, Fuck you! We’re going to do what we want when we want how we want and you don’t get a say about it”.
Linden Lab, would it better if a bigger corporation came hunting for you? Tell you what….around Christmas time you should have Disney come into Second Life to check out all their ripped off shit (Touch of Ireland…I am looking at you….you too Ramos). Maybe Marvel and DC could come down and you can explain to them your hands off policy concerning trademarks and copyrights when they see all the superhero avatars people in Second Life have made. Shit, we could get any major motion picture studio down into the grid and then maybe your whole stance will change.
This lawsuit by two Second Life users? Could be the best thing that ever happened to you.
There is actually a pretty healthy discussion of this lawsuit over on Second Citizen
Start wearing purple wearing purple
start wearing purple, for me now
all your sanity and wits, they will all vanish
I promise, it’s just a matter of time…
I know you since you were a twenty and I was twenty
but thought that some years from now
a purple little little lady will be perfect
for dirty old and useless clown
So yeah, start wearing purple wearing purple!
Start wearing purple for me now!
All your sanity and wits, they will all vanish,
I promise, it’s just a matter of time!
I know it all from Diogenis to Foucault
from Lozgechkin to Paspartu
I ja kljanus obostzav dva paltza
schto muzika poshla ot Zvukov Mu!…
Start wearing purple wearing purple!
Start wearing purple for me now!
All your sanity and wits, they will all vanish,
I promise, it’s just a matter of time!
So yeah, start wearing purple wearing purple!
Start wearing purple for me now!…
So why don’t you start wearing purple?
Why don’t you start wearing purple…
Start wearing purple for me now!
All your sanity and wits, they will all vanish,
I promise, it’s just a matter of time!…
So Fio-Fio-Fioletta! Etta! Va-va-va-vaja dama ti moja!
Eh podayte name karetu, votetu, i mi poedem k ebenjam!
So yeah, start wearing purple wearing purple!
Start wearing purple for me now!
All your sanity and wits, they will all vanish,
I promise, it’s just a matter of time!…
Fast Tube by Casper
Dancien is wearing:
Skin – Fire-Salamander- Eyeliner Shaved – Signature Skins
Hair – DEEP – Espresso – [SHAG]
Eyes – Sn@tch Gloss Eyes (Dark Purple) – SN@TCH
Shirt -Nomine Gypsy Tunic – White – Nomine
Vest – Nomine Gypsy Vest Male – Nomine
Pants – SN@TCH Blacktop Suede Pants (Purple/Black) – SN@TCH
Shoes – Allen Shoes – Black & White – [hoorenbeek]
Necklace – Candy Cross Necklace – Primitive Design
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