I picked these up and love them!

And yet they can put it up as collateral and borrow against it at favorable rates. While it is not a liquid asset it definitely should be taxed as income.

I just went on all of that. I am paying $300/month total for A, B, D, and Medigap. I was paying close to $1000/month for insurance when I was working full time.

The current Medicare is much more affordable for me.

Since you mentioned Disney I take it you are reporting those violations I mentioned in the MP that use Yoda's image?

And just for reference, here is the current (?) LL IP complaint process.

wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_...

you need to be consistent. And you need to do the reporting you clearly want when mentioning your moderation idea in another post. And prepare for the natural outcome of this.

Our vendors deserve to have their products protected. While I am not a builder I know a number of them, and the hours they put into designing, scripting, and building their products is huge. That deserves protection.

But...if you are wanting aggressive enforcement on the part of LL against this,

So you are taking the time to report all those vendors? If so I encourage you to search the following terms:

- Chainsaw Man
- Batman
- Camaro
- F/A 18 Hornet

I could continue. Look, I agree with you that IP theft is a problem in the MP.

Do this for me. Go to the MP and search on the term "Yoda". IP rights to Yoda currently belong to Disney. Disney is legendary for enforcement and protection of its IP. Will you report these as IP violations or not, and how do you make your choice?

Is making a virtual copy of a product and selling it in world as bad as ripping a copy of an existing virtual product from a vendor and reselling it? I am not a lawyer nor have I slept at a Holiday Inn Express, but I have to wonder how far strict enforcement would go towards killing SL.

Agreed. But it is. I fly virtual reproductions of RL aircraft every day. Many of these products are named for their RL counterparts. Others have a different name but mention their RL inspiration in their product description. All of this is ignored by LL.

I won't name the vendors for obvious reasons, but if this standard is applied as you suggest you have just shut down every aircraft, watercraft, and land vehicle vendor on the grid save for a handful of fantasy/sci-fi vendors. The SL economy is built on giving IP violations a nod and wink.

By this standard a vendor who builds a plane or boat based on a RL object and sells it is infringing on IP rights. We have vendors who make very detailed copies of warplanes that are used daily down in the combat area. Are these vendors in violation as well?

And I think we have the classic example of why this concept is doomed to failure. Legitimate questions about biases and abuse of such a system are dismissed and ridiculed. For example, what safeguards would you suggest be put in place by LL to prevent the kind of abuse suggested by others?

Sending copious head pats.

Not to mention it looks like crap. This is why landlords like SKF have a requirement that skyboxes can be no lower than 600m. You buy or rent a parcel for a view and some entitled fool drops a skybox at 75m.

If it is on your mind now then it is a good time to do it.

True...but when large segments of the community are ignored (including those who pay to participate in the community), fragmentation is a natural part of the outcome. Twitter is one such example, though fewer paid for that service.