Major League Baseball In Second Life 40
Jerry23 writes "There's apparently an upcoming Home Run Derby in the world of Second Life, sponsored by Major League Baseball and created by The Electric Sheep Company. In proto-interactive TV style, fans can tune their laptops to the multi-player recreation and chat with other Second Lifers while they watch the real deal on the tube. And of course they can also pop over to the virtual souvenir shop and drop some hard-earned loot on a pixelated jersey." From the article: "[T]he virtual derby will not be a separate contest, but will be 'a real-time Second Life re-enactment' of the real thing, featuring avatars for each of the eight Derby players -- Major Leaguers competing to see who can hit the most home runs over the course of two rounds."
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Oh yes, they are just soooo lazy. Actually, most teachers are hard working. What teachers do you know? Both of my parents are teachers and they usually go in to work around 7 in the morning and don't get back until 5 or 6 at night. I have worked for 3 different schools through tech consultant jobs and dealt with a lot of teachers -- almost every teacher I met seemed like the hard-wor
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The only reason sportsmen get paid a lot is because people like being entertained by them, so you obviously do care what people do for entertainment, even if you're too dumb to realise the connection.
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If you feel that their salaries have some intrinsic value, then you'll agree that all professions should be ranked according to 'worth' and payed accordingly, right?
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You're glad you're not highly paid? I don't see what's stupid about making millions for playing a game. Seems pretty clever to me. Maybe you're the real smart one though, doing something much duller and less exciting for a tiny fraction of the money.
What exactly is wrong with being entertained? Seems you're just bitter that the forms of entertainment you enjoy are different to that of the majority and you feel left out. I'm sure whatever forms of entertainment you like are pretty stupid and pointless, but maybe other people have more class than to insult your intelligence because of it.
I don't remember ever paying millions to a sporting event. Maybe that's in yen?
If you consider entertainment and excitement to be unimportant, then you have no soul.
Stop being so bitter. When millions of people want to watch a social worker wipe the arse of a pensioner then they'll get paid millions. Until then stop your tiring killjoy act, you're not impressing anyone by demonstrating how mature and elitist you are.
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Well, over here we have to (collectively) pay millions to subsidize millionaires. /20051017/NEWS02/510170432/ [indystar.com]
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=
I think the Colts suck and should leave town, but I have to pay for this shit? Lucky for me I live near the county line, so sometimes I'm able to avoid paying this dumb tax.
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By law, the question is whether the work is a derived work of the original. A full play-by-play or reenactment would clearly be a derived work. An "account" of the game that merely summarizes what happened would not be a derived work. And becaus
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I'm still not sure why anyone would pay $3 to watch it, as the only clear benefit over ESPN is not having to listen to Chris Berman and you can do that by hitting the mute button on your TV. But then I'm not a MMR-whatever-it-is'er in the first place...
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