Posts by Keir Leslie
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The Fairey one's difficult, because on the one hand it's appropriation and so-on, and we're all cool with that in today's post-modern age.
But also, it's blatantly a derivative work, and so the original photographer deserves something of the dosh.
Artistically OK, but legally nah.
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As Daniel Davies said, American conservatism is like punk -- dead.
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Because you need railways to have a National Game -- before rail, you didn't need to standardise rule or anything.
Also the urban working class as an entity.
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<i>Is rugby superior in some way? </i>
Fewer long term health problems, I should imagine.
Which is actually a good reason to go back to 15-odd player teams in the NFL -- less bone-crunching.
By the way, it isn't particularly true that's baseball's pre-industrial; baseball as we know it is as much a product of the Industrial Revolution (esp. the railways) as American Football. (In fact possibly more so; American football is imaginable as just an Ivy kind of thing, but baseball is intrinsically connected to industrialisation.)
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He thinks that living off art by means of copyright is for losers. So he either has a job and does art in his spare time, or receives funds from elsewhere
(A) he's a public school twit, and (b) he makes money the non-commissioned painter's way, i.e. sale of works at auction, I should imagine.
(He may also swing grants, but i doubt it, and I shouldn't think he needs that money.)
It's probably a little bit of snobbery, as well. Banksy's not really at risk of anybody downloading a Banksy, so...
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Look, when they got in metres and everything, they tried dicking around with the calendar, and nobody went for it.
As a rule, if Napoleon couldn't do it, it is a Bad Idea.
(See also land wars in Asia.)
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A book some of you might find interesting.
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<quote>But those are ordained and maintained by governments, which are like, authority...</i>
But they needn't be -- see the Co-Op Movement.
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Yeah, but Pennsylvania is weird, with a funny qango running liquor sales.
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Seriously, when we've done away with capitalism, who runs global telecommunications?
Um, a consortium of publically run not-for-profits; you might call them things like the `Post Office' or `British Telecom' or whatever. Like the BBC, but with more democracy.
I'm pretty sure that the anarchists have answers to this one.
Essential infrastructure is traditionally non-market anyway, so...