pdmacguire

No. With Second Life it's exactly the opposite. I use it every day but I absolutely refuse to be a Premium subscriber until Linden Lab does something to improve the dreadful customer service. Or at least curtails their more abusive practices.

This is a bit like complaining that Luke Skywalker was white in Star Wars. Weren't some of the characters in the original story GREEN? How are they supposed to duplicate that? with cheesy green makeup?
As for Cleopatra, she was the last of a line of Macedonian/Greek rulers of Egypt, who took over at the time of Alexander the Great (@ 300 B.C.)
The Ptolemaic Greek kings of Egypt interbred a lot, but they never married any native Egyptians. The Egyptian word for the darker skinned and Black Africans then, as it is still now, was "abdeed", which means "slave" in Egyptian.

All I know is that there are definitely more new accounts showing up at events and spending money, and I sold property without losing money on the transaction. I am seeing people spend a LOT of money on shapes and skins and hair (with a lot of action on the new X4 models) and hardly anything on more expensive clothing and houses. Much of the drop in house and furniture sales has to be blamed on the new homesteads for premium accounts - if you want a good look at growth, at least in Premium Accounts, take a look at how many Linden Homes there are now - but I imagine that this will change as new accounts find their way out of the Linden-created ghettoes, much as they did the blighted First Land program.