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dhex

http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2006/10/15/us-congress-launchs-probe-into-virtual-economies/

player 2 · . Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 585 Location: Madison, WI USA

The reason we have taxation is because the Government uses that money to protect us, right? So if the Government taxed us in-game then they'd have to do something like stop PKers and scammers and shit, right? Isn't that how it works? I don't really know...
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

laffo pow :(
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dhex · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:22 pm Post subject:

i believe they're going to frame it in the same way they view capital gains on stock investments.

which is, uh, interesting.
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dessgeega · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:51 pm Post subject:

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

I used to try using that Bill Hicks 'brown people' expression too, to poke fun at our country's foriegn policy. Most times it went over people's heads and I looked like a racist Sad

dessgeega · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 7:07 pm Post subject:

in my circles it's used to refer to the collective non-white (or non-western) population of the world. for example: "america's economy is based on the european principal of stealing from brown people". it also refers to richard rodriguez's brown: the last discovery of america.
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dhex · Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 12:08 pm Post subject:

that's kind of weird, considering most of them aren't brown.

i look forward to the first virtual irs agent sting. (cue video of characters running away while "yelling" 'it's a sting!')
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Lockeownzj00 · . Joined: 16 Aug 2005 Posts: 214

Won't this bring about the downfall of online gaming? The whole fun of virtual economies is that they're virtual--none of the real life consequences for ridonkulous decisions! Yes, you can pawn off your entire set of armor for no real reason, if you are so inclined!

Although I read something recently which detailed the theories of some whatsisname saying virtual economies might actual be halfway-testing sites for theoretical economic structures n shits.

Watch the anarcho-communists flail as their WoW gift economy bombs!

dhex · Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 5:24 pm Post subject:

Lockeownzj00 · . Joined: 16 Aug 2005 Posts: 214

At times, I've fretted over the possibility of the Internet being harshly policed, but in nearly all scenarios, it's far too sprawling to ever be contained. Underground communities, decentralised sharing programs, fuck, Internet3s; haqqers and pirates and "freethinkers" will always think of something.

dessgeega · Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 6:06 pm Post subject:

google's buying dark cable aaaaaa
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