World Aids day, Store move and more

Well, today is December 1st. Its world aids day. So I created a world aids day gear bag and distributed it out to friends and groups. It has a shirt, a ribbon vendor, a poster and a yard sign.
So if you want one, come to my land, the vendor will be up all day today. And tommorrow it will me to the freebie wall.
Speaking of which, I moved. I haven't fixed the urls in the bags yet, but I am now in Amaro not Xentilx. I am by the massive castle, east of the prim junk yard, near the ocean. Its a white, long brick shop that is recognizable by the piers leading to it.
The chapel is unfinished as it will be different than the last. I also have a Coke puzzle bottle out and a wishing well on the other side of the empty chapel building.
Until the morrow,
Thunderclap

What to say...

I have always found that while I have lots to say I never liked distilling in on blogs for so reason. I don't know why, I just do.

Anyway, I fixed my Onrez account so it is active. The in store shirts, jeans and other items should be there now.

The gym shirt that Claire wore on the season premiere of Heroes (S2) is available for purchase in my shop now. It will be available at both SLexchange and Onrez. The shoes will be soon, as I have decided to sell them as they are. Like em or hate them, I worked hard and thy are single prim sculptie shoes. They are called Red diamond storm. More shoes will be up shortly. The texture will be better.

And finally, I have my first prim ties coming up. As well as a grey knit sweater that once again has teh creater tag messed up. Because of this and the shirts with the same issue (there is a jira about this) I have joined slpto.

Posting more soon.
Thunderclap

I made shoes!

Ok, my quest to make single prim shoes from sculpties has succeeded. I demoed them during the CSI:NY launch and gave them out to two newbs.

Some points: They are mens shoes. This mens they are designed around the sl foot not the other way around. Why should I have to shrink my foot to fit your shoe. IN RL, your shoes fits my foot.
Same mentality here. They are copy and mod enabled, so you can size them to your feet without shrinking your feet.
They will be on sale shortly as I wanted to gauge reaction. I will be putting prim laces on them.
However, the goal was a nicely textured shoe that was prim lite so they could be worn in high lag environments.
The first out will be red diamond storm. Pics soon.

A solution to a growing problem

Okay. Before I start, I want to say that I am still behind on the store because I have numerous RL things that take precedence. As Much as I would Like to do all the things I have planned rapidly. I can't.
However, I do have a few new things. Thanks to my prebuilt templates, I have the 'Costa Verde High School Phys ED' Gym shirt going up for sale by Monday. I am focusing on Heroes related stuff and well as the usual shirts.
This brings me to the point of this blog. A solution to the growing theft problem on Second Life.
It is simple to lift a texture on SL, so I am not going to tell anyone. If you know, you know. If you don't, you really don't need to. And we all use templates of some sort even if we hand paint.
Also, due to compression and the the fact that Jpeg2000 is the file type that the Assest server group uses to store the textures, watermarking is futile. It could be either damaged, removed or altered.
So where do we go from here. Not to the Lindens. Phillip and Robin have repeatedly said they WILL NOT be the police force for SL. That unlike 'there' we are going to have to take care of it ourself.
First, before we do anything we need to like, caLLie cLine said in her comment on Shoppingcartdisco, that the person isn't do it deliberately. Show them the correct way.

But that won't help the true thieves will it? No it won't. They want a quick and easy solution. So here is the way to end that and render the easy of copy moot. As with any plan this will cost something. It will cost any serious designer time. It will cost a bit of money. But it will end this.

I propose a storage bank of non searchable images of everyones originals. It won't be open to the public and it won't be available to wander around and use to steal. But it will be timestamped and dated and be able to solve the problem of people saying 'You ripped my garment'
If the one from the garment is older, then it is the original and the other is the copy. Only the designer and a neutral party would have access to this. I would suggest that the neutral party have minimal photoshop skills but be the warehouser (meaning the person who had major coding skills, networking skills etc)
So lets get together and hash this out. I suggest that all the major designers have a meeting to decide how, who and what about this. Because in all honestly this is the only way to go, if we want to end this.
Thunderclap.

Scientology comes to SL

Well, before I jump in the title of this post, let tell you what is up with the shop.
I am operational with about 12 things for sale. They are almost all shirts. I am working on more but RL gets in the way.
However, I have the bulk of the Big brother Shirts worn by Jen and Evel Dick and some of the other houseguests in my inventory. I just don't have them for sale yet. They will go up soon.
And the chapel next door should start streaming sermons as soon as I get the Url from my paster to paste in.
More clothes are coming as well as other things. New vending machines are in and the Sign is up.
Click the sign and you should get some nice gifts.

On to Scientology...AS I have ran my website for 10 years now I have a section on other religions, about how they differ from christianity.
But you see Scientology isn't a religion. Its a cult. Honestly. So I am teaming up with Operation Clambake to hinder Scientologys plans before get entrenched.

Here is something in the public domain about it:

Who is Xenu?

I'm going to tell you a story. Are you sitting comfortably? Right, then I'll begin.

Once upon a time (75 million years ago to be more precise) there was an alien galactic ruler named Xenu. Xenu was in charge of all the planets in this part of the galaxy including our own planet Earth, except in those days it was called Teegeeack.

Now Xenu had a problem. All of the 76 planets he controlled were overpopulated. Each planet had on average 178 billion people. He wanted to get rid of all the overpopulation so he had a plan.

Xenu took over complete control with the help of renegades to defeat the good people and the Loyal Officers. Then with the help of psychiatrists he called in billions of people for income tax inspections where they were instead given injections of alcohol and glycol mixed to paralyse them. Then they were put into space planes that looked exactly like DC8s (except they had rocket motors instead of propellers).

These DC8 space planes then flew to planet Earth where the paralysed people were stacked around the bases of volcanoes in their hundreds of billions. When they had finished stacking them around then H-bombs were lowered into the volcanoes. Xenu then detonated all the H-bombs at the same time and everyone was killed.

The story doesn't end there though. Since everyone has a soul (called a "thetan" in this story) then you have to trick souls into not coming back again. So while the hundreds of billions of souls were being blown around by the nuclear winds he had special electronic traps that caught all the souls in electronic beams (the electronic beams were sticky like fly-paper).

After he had captured all these souls he had them packed into boxes and taken to a few huge cinemas. There all the souls had to spend days watching special 3D motion pictures that told them what life should be like and many confusing things. In this film they were shown false pictures and told they were God, The Devil and Christ. In the story this process is called "implanting".

When the films ended and the souls left the cinema these souls started to stick together because since they had all seen the same film they thought they were the same people. They clustered in groups of a few thousand. Now because there were only a few living bodies left they stayed as clusters and inhabited these bodies.

As for Xenu, the Loyal Officers finally overthrew him and they locked him away in a mountain on one of the planets. He is kept in by a force-field powered by an eternal battery and Xenu is still alive today.

That is the end of the story. And so today everyone is full of these clusters of souls called "body thetans". And if we are to be a free soul then we have to remove all these "body thetans" and pay lots of money to do so. And the only reason people believe in God and Christ was because it was in the film their body thetans saw 75 million years ago.

Well what did you think of that story?

What? You thought it was a stupid story?

Well so do we. However, this story is the core belief in the religion known as Scientology.* If people knew about this story then most people would never get involved in it. This story is told to you when you reach one of their secret levels called OT III. After that you are supposed to telepathically communicate with these body thetans to make them go away. You have to pay a lot of money to get to this level and do this (or you have to work very hard for the organisation on extremely low pay for many years).

We are telling you this story as a warning. If you become involved with Scientology then we would like you to do so with your eyes open and fully aware of the sort of material it contains.

Most of the Scientologists who work in their Dianetics* centres and so called "Churches" of Scientology do not know this story since they are not allowed to hear it until they reach the secret "upper" levels of Scientology. It may take them many years before they reach this level if they ever do. The ones who do know it are forced to keep it a secret and not tell it to those people who are joining Scientology.

Part of the first page of the secret OT III document in L. Ron Hubbard's own handwriting

Now you have read this you know their big secret. Don't let us put you off joining though.

* Dianetics and Scientology are trademarks of the Religious Technology Centre. This document is not connected with that organisation in any way.

I will be offering this for free in Slexchange as well as in the store as soon as possible. I will also give these notecards out to whoever wants them. IM me if you want one.

Oh and check out Virtually You. Its great, peaceful place to hang. Its in Amaro/168/129/0

Thunderburst

Just thought I would let everyone know that I should have the first floor open by Saturday. Also, I am again involved in with Big Brother, so when I am in world (which won't be much) I will be making designs off the show.

First Post here

Well, This is the first post of the forecast. What is the forecast? Its my announcements page for the Second Life mens clothing line I am launching as well as the shop its self.
I couldn't do it on tripod because of image link issues and general use of the blog over there. So this will be solely devoted to the clothing.
I should have the shop open for business by the end of the month. It won't be much, just some t-shirts, but it will better than the general emptiness now.
Thats it for now. Pics in the next one.

Thunderclap Morgridge.