http://www.gearfuse.com/sweden-to-make-an-embassy-for-second-life-hasnt-this-gone-a-bit-far/ Gearfuse is a tech blog featuring news, views and opinions on the best of gadgets, gizmos, consumer electronics, hardware and more... Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:47:45 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.gearfuse.com/sweden-to-make-an-embassy-for-second-life-hasnt-this-gone-a-bit-far/comment-page-1/#comment-241 Andrew Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:18:32 +0000 http://www.gearfuse.com/sweden-to-make-an-embassy-for-second-life-hasnt-this-gone-a-bit-far/#comment-241 <p>It's really not a matter of being negative towards Sweden or any other diplomatic channel. But the use of ambassador involvement in a video game is a ridiculous premise. Why should we mix politics with technology if we don't have too? The questions of net neutrality were inevitable, but involving foreign policy within a simulated platform is purely ridiculous. If there was a benefit from launching an embassy, other than lagging down the servers with the extra data, I would love to hear it. The proof shows that this is nothing but a cheap marketing ploy to put Sweden on the map in the technology world.</p> It’s really not a matter of being negative towards Sweden or any other diplomatic channel. But the use of ambassador involvement in a video game is a ridiculous premise. Why should we mix politics with technology if we don’t have too? The questions of net neutrality were inevitable, but involving foreign policy within a simulated platform is purely ridiculous. If there was a benefit from launching an embassy, other than lagging down the servers with the extra data, I would love to hear it. The proof shows that this is nothing but a cheap marketing ploy to put Sweden on the map in the technology world.

]]> http://www.gearfuse.com/sweden-to-make-an-embassy-for-second-life-hasnt-this-gone-a-bit-far/comment-page-1/#comment-239 Amazed Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:53:43 +0000 http://www.gearfuse.com/sweden-to-make-an-embassy-for-second-life-hasnt-this-gone-a-bit-far/#comment-239 God, you are negative... God, you are negative…

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