Posts by Keir Leslie
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Gio, I can't think of any mechanism for measuring the impact of, let alone compensating, any individual for benefiting society that isn't a form of welfare benefit apportioned on some incredibly arcane scale and requires a substantial number of bureaucrats to run.
Adam Smith wept.
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It's exactly the point, if you and others are going to continue to pick me up on telling Islander she'd chosen a "legendarily low paying profession".
Dude, you basically told a Booker prize winner that her audience was limited and she couldn't expect much return on her work. we're never going to let that one go.
May not be fair, but by god it was funny to watch.
By the way, do you know what a gilt-edge is?
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And anyway, if it is, why notappropriate from the Gestapo and recontextualise the politics of the image?
Because he isn't doing that.
(And the point about out of copyright work is a moral one.)
Which artists are you talking about in terms of not acknowledging sources? Because there's a whole bunch of different conventions involved, and especially the rules are different when you have a clothing line and move away from fine art.*
* Snobbery? Why, yes.
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Stephen Judd: nah, the main point stands.
No, it is not. It is incorrect and has no semantic meaning.
This is clearly false; if there are two possibilities as to what a word could be, depending on vowel doubling, and in one version there is no attempt to signal, and in the other there is, then one version will be ambiguous, and the other will not, even if the attempt is not strictly ideal.
(So, f'rinstance, if you can't use any non-ASCII characters, signifying doubling by replacing ā with a' would yield a more legible text than just giving up.)
The point was that I used backticks instead of proper opening and closing quote marks; yet you still understood, indicating that they had meaning despite not being proper typography.
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Certainly two dots over a vowel that is not succeeded or preceded by another vowel are unambiguously umlauts.
Brontë.
(Yeah, in the main, but.)
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An umlaut has no value in Māori.
Well, ok, strictly, but a text with umlauts is more usable than one with no marking of vowels. (Likewise, but to a lesser degree, strictly speaking `quotation` like that is wrong; however it is better than quotation.
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An umlaut definitely suggests a rounded vowel if you know any European language that uses them. Totally wrong for Maori.
Really? I should have thought a diaeresis would suggest the non-dipthong nature of a vowel following another, as it does in English and French generally.
More to the point, an umlaut/diaeresis is better than nothing, and probably an improvement on doubled vowels. Macrons would be best, but the rule is arbitrary, so as long as consistency is maintained it is unlikely to harm legibility. (Which is to say, where it differs from `BanWilson', unless you propose the universal substitution of `a' for `e'.)
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Although, were I to be snarky, I should note that he hasn't strictly proved that Fairey is a thief -- i.e, the state of California is unlikely to bring charges under their equivalent of the Crimes Act.
However, I shan't.
It is also an interesting example of how remix culture isn't always happy boingboing stuff; sometimes it is well-off westerners using ideas without bothering to put anything back. (There's a link to Elizabeth Bear and the recent shoutyness with [T|P]NH as well there.)
(Best copyright line I've seen lately, by the way, from here---``This document is protected by no legal copyright other than your ethics.'')
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It really is good.
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(Or rather, artistically iffy given some of his sources and so-on, but not grounds for casting into the Outer Darkness.)