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Yay, there still is something left in this thread!!!

Where have you found that pile of rubbish?

Actually the cover by "Hot Butter" is what made the song famous - and yes, there was even a dance to go around with it as you can see in the below video:

This here is the original version of Popcorn by its composer Gershon Kingsley (sounds better than Götz Gustav Ksinski) from 1969, which introduced the Moog synthesizer to pop music, so basically the invention of synth-pop:
 
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I didn't know there was more than one version of this, and now I find out there is an earlier original *bounces around to popcorn*
 

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Where have you found that pile of rubbish?

Actually the cover by "Hot Butter" is what made the song famous - and yes, there was even a dance to go around with it as you can see in the below video:

This here is the original version of Popcorn by its composer Gershon Kingsley (sounds better than Götz Gustav Ksinski) from 1969, which introduced the Moog synthesizer to pop music, so basically the invention of synth-pop:
The Popcorn Makers version was in the Dutch charts at the same time as Hot Butter and even 2 others versions were around. The Popcorn Makers reached the number one position for weeks in a row, Hot Butter's highest ranking was number 12. So......... The Popcorn Makers version is somewhat preferred in NL.

Edit to add: It is the first time I hear it in stereo today, and I must say, that is no improvement.
 
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I know that, but you are not my target-audience. Alienating some of you was the cost of doing business. There is always a cost for committing activism.
So who is your target audience, and how are you reaching them via this forum?
 
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That is your opinion. Second Life is as real as you let it be, so I, and many people from Old Gor differentiate between the equally real forms of life as virtual-time and real-time.

What most of the other recent posters are expressing now is a conservative preference for property-rights over human rights. The person has no rights, and must be subservient to the landlord as in a feudal-system. I'm not a peasant. I assert my rights.

If I had been a problem-tenant, they would have said so. I'm a wolverine. Don't fuck with me, you'll never see me. Come after me, I'll rip your throat out.
No.

Stop being an idiot.

It's ten dollars. Nobody has to starve or get exposed to the elements because of an SL eviction.

There are, in fact. LL rules relating to human rights , which is why there are restrictions on the display of hate symbols, and etc, and why if your landlord was trying to extort you by some terrible means, they would still be reportable to LL. The right to not lose ten USD , outside of an obvious criminal theft, is not a human right. Yes, LL is a corporation that is ultimately flawed and capitalistic, but you really and truly are the wrong one here.

And frankly, talking about GOR as a reference point for a "human rights" discussion in this platform is so ridiculous that I no longer believe you are a real person, but rather an entire avatar name and cultivated personality dedicated to sewing chaos. 90% of role players in that community are aware that it's just pure play and kink and aren't using it to spread around their shoddily stitched political opinions)

Because, for human rights to even be relevant here, you have to be a person. You are just another dramatic , entitled persona on top of the heap of them in SL. That's why nobody is taking your bullshit seriously!
 

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And frankly, talking about GOR as a reference point for a "human rights" discussion in this platform is so ridiculous that I no longer believe you are a real person, but rather an entire avatar name and cultivated personality dedicated to sewing chaos. 90% of role players in that community are aware that it's just pure play and kink and aren't using it to spread around their shoddily stitched political opinions)
I mentioned Gor as the source for why I use the terms real-time and virtual-time, not in regard to anything about rights. Old Gor refers to Gorean roleplay prior to Second Life Gor, which was nothing like what we see on SL.
 

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I wonder how the thread (I am assuming there was one) on LL's forums went?
 
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The Popcorn Makers version was in the Dutch charts at the same time as Hot Butter and even 2 others versions were around. The Popcorn Makers reached the number one position for weeks on a row, Hot Butter's highest ranking was number 12. So......... The Popcorn Makers version is somewhat preferred in NL.

Edit to ad: It is the first time I hear it in stereo today, and I must say, that is no improvement.
Now, I have only read the very last page of this thread so far. Based upon some of the responses I am seeing and that it will involve GOR, I think the possibilities are very high that when I go back to page one to read through what surely looks like might be a dumpster fire, I will require popcorn.

My contribution:

 
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By the way, Second Life is literally a real-time system, because time is a critical component of correctness.

Source: I've been working on real-time control systems for 40 years.
 

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More popcorn needed.

 

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I didn't know there was more than one version of this, and now I find out there is an earlier original *bounces around to popcorn*
Oh, the versions of it are really plentiful! Like really, really plentiful!

The list goes something like this:



Which can be found here: :: Popcorn-song.com | A comprehensive list of all versions::

You can also find the different lyrics there, history of the song and other stuff.

And for Sid here's Dutch TV show "Top 2000 a gogo" with an interview feat. Gershon Kingsley, so it's obviously Dutch and with Dutch subtitles:
 
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By the way, Second Life is literally a real-time system, because time is a critical component of correctness.

Source: I've been working on real-time control systems for 40 years.
Are you saying Second Life is correct?
 

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Are you saying Second Life is correct?
I'm saying that in determining the correctness of the output of SL, you have to include whether the output corresponds to the actual time it's expected to occur based on the data and inputs. For example, if the sim is not able to calculate the physics for a physics frame at 45 fps, it has to drop and stretch frames to keep the simulation in real time. It's not OK for it just to calculate the state of the sim in virtual 1/45th of a second chunks even if it takes several seconds to calculate all the chunks for a second of wallclock time.

As opposed to a non real-time problem, like generating frames for a movie, where it's perfectly OK to take multiple seconds, minutes, or hours to generate each frame because it's all going to be processed and cut and edited afterwards anyway.
 
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