Virtual Worlds

Check this out:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20071221/tc_usatoday/internetrenovateshowhomesgetsold

Here is the interesting part:


"It may be too soon to sell an actual home in a virtual world. Yet some real estate speculators are making cold hard cash by buying virtual land. Jon Jacobs, who worked in independent films, refinanced his Miami home in 2005, took $100,000 of his equity and bought an asteroid in Entropia Universe. It came with a shopping mall, apartment towers and a nightclub.
He says 10,000 visitors come to his asteroid every month to hunt animals and mine ore, which they use to make other products for sale, and to relax at his club. The visitors pay an automatic 5.5% tax on what they take from his asteroid, which earns Jacobs $10,000 a month in real dollars, he says.
Entropia Universe "is obviously a fabrication," says Jacobs, 41, who recently moved to Los Angeles and says that managing his virtual real estate investments is a full-time job. "We're all happily participating in a mass delusion because there is a stable, growing economy. I don't think that's much different from real life."

Shelly ought to like that last line....:roll:

Check this out:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20071221/tc_usatoday/internetrenovateshowhomesgetsold

Here is the interesting part:


"It may be too soon to sell an actual home in a virtual world. Yet some real estate speculators are making cold hard cash by buying virtual land. Jon Jacobs, who worked in independent films, refinanced his Miami home in 2005, took $100,000 of his equity and bought an asteroid in Entropia Universe. It came with a shopping mall, apartment towers and a nightclub.
He says 10,000 visitors come to his asteroid every month to hunt animals and mine ore, which they use to make other products for sale, and to relax at his club. The visitors pay an automatic 5.5% tax on what they take from his asteroid, which earns Jacobs $10,000 a month in real dollars, he says.
Entropia Universe "is obviously a fabrication," says Jacobs, 41, who recently moved to Los Angeles and says that managing his virtual real estate investments is a full-time job. "We're all happily participating in a mass delusion because there is a stable, growing economy. I don't think that's much different from real life."

Shelly ought to like that last line....:roll:

NO NO NO NO NO! This can NOT become another real estate thread!

:roll:

Check this out:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20071221/tc_usatoday/internetrenovateshowhomesgetsold

Here is the interesting part:


"It may be too soon to sell an actual home in a virtual world. Yet some real estate speculators are making cold hard cash by buying virtual land. Jon Jacobs, who worked in independent films, refinanced his Miami home in 2005, took $100,000 of his equity and bought an asteroid in Entropia Universe. It came with a shopping mall, apartment towers and a nightclub.
He says 10,000 visitors come to his asteroid every month to hunt animals and mine ore, which they use to make other products for sale, and to relax at his club. The visitors pay an automatic 5.5% tax on what they take from his asteroid, which earns Jacobs $10,000 a month in real dollars, he says.
Entropia Universe "is obviously a fabrication," says Jacobs, 41, who recently moved to Los Angeles and says that managing his virtual real estate investments is a full-time job. "We're all happily participating in a mass delusion because there is a stable, growing economy. I don't think that's much different from real life."

Shelly ought to like that last line....:roll:

Think about that sheet a little bit. Also, think about 'real' money. It started out as virtual didn't it? Oh well, hail's bells, we could all be gazillionaires if we made dough for sowallin'. :scratch:

I am ready. I hope the technology arrives soon to upload my brain into the virtual world. I would let a few of you and others guinea pig it and I would keep an eye on the results. Perhaps a Turing test after a bit of time. I don't know how telling that would be though, my toaster could post more coherently than some I would see uploaded first. As the computing power progressess (doubling every two years if Moore's Law still holds) it will raise interesting questions as to things such as souls if we are ever able to move consciousness to a machine.

Thread about IRS taxing virtual world economies.
IRS wants to tax Warcraft "Virtual Economy" - GamerCast Network Forums


If the government would just stay out of things, like would be more fun.

I am ready. I hope the technology arrives soon to upload my brain into the virtual world. I would let a few of you and others guinea pig it and I would keep an eye on the results. Perhaps a Turing test after a bit of time. I don't know how telling that would be though, my toaster could post more coherently than some I would see uploaded first. As the computing power progressess (doubling every two years if Moore's Law still holds) it will raise interesting questions as to things such as souls if we are ever able to move consciousness to a machine.

The virtual world ain't ready for my brain.

Why does a doll need changes of clothes? Does she get them dirty while eating?

Do you own a Baby Alive?

and Barbie...if you are referring to her...couldn't have just one outfit...Ken would never ask her out for a third date after she showed up in the same clothes on the second date...I thought everyone knew this!

:roll:
Merry Christmas, y'all!

Do you own a Baby Alive?

and Barbie...if you are referring to her...couldn't have just one outfit...Ken would never ask her out for a third date after she showed up in the same clothes on the second date...I thought everyone knew this!

Barbie has moved on...left Ken in the dust...to a new boy Surfer Dude Blaine.

True story. We have a Blaine Barbie. He has real hair and wears surfin' baggies.

Barbie has moved on...left Ken in the dust...to a new boy Surfer Dude Blaine.

True story. We have a Blaine Barbie. He has real hair and wears surfin' baggies.

I feel so cheated...having only had Malibu Ken!