I find people to be of two primary categories: logical or illogical. If I had to determine a ratio for this, I find the logical on the lower side with a 1 for every 50 illogical individuals. So why is it that I feel the online ratio is much different?

So for this case, we'll use the phrase "The chain is only as strong as its weakest link." We are also all familiar to 'chain of events.' We are also familiar with cause and effect.

As of now, I am ill with a wondrous slew dubbed 'college crud.' This I find interesting in that no matter how many conventions I seem to go to, I never get ill from those visits, yet I go to my local college and my immune system seems to just desert me and party at the conventions' after-shows. I updated Second Life Beta to the next version, and it seems that every other version, Linden Lab feels entitled to use a compressor in their voice systems to block out background news. Cute; if I seriously wanted that feature, I'd use my own set up. Where's the off button for that...?

So I am sipping my tea, talking into my microphone with every other sentence not going through due to the compression. Perfect. So I leave a mentioning of this to everyone because I don't want to create the illusion that I am ignoring them. So they continue to state it is my microphone. I explain to them that the microphone has been the same for the past couple months. They then state I've had this issue all year.

I find the unit of a year an over used unit of time. It is true that I had the issue EARLIER this year when I had a headset, but the issue with that was not the microphone or the software, but a hardware annoyance in the microphone's mute button. This issue was something else. Since I was using the mic, all was well.

So with no one apparently understanding this issue only just came up after I did the recent update, I have to now speak louder into the microphone to ensure the compressor doesn't take action and to apparently make sure they even heard me. This slightly agitates my throat and causes a small amount of pain, but nothing severe. This prompts them to tell me I should stop talking.

As a coder, my hands are busy on the keyboard on a SEPARATE window from the client. Further more, this whole issue wouldn't have even occurred had someone just realized I was trying to just tell them that the compressor was causing issues outside of my control, and that I was not ignoring them. So by being nice, I have to only uncover more of their obvious stupidity?

People just leave me as amazed as I find hopeless. Trying to find people who actually are able to use their heads is an endless walk on a tightrope that has no end. The only reason I continue to work online is because it is the only place I can find a job at this point, and with thanks to our more illogical government, SOPA plans to even stop that.

-Flame

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