Posts by giovanni tiso
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Here's an example of an artwork that is objectively crappy.
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Perhaps it is me, but I find this shit rather offensive given that a filter has no ability to prevent the instrumental abuse of children.
I think the argument is that if you reduce access to those images, you'll also limit their production. It doesn't strike me as unreasonable.
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Agree, I'm not saying it's not art. I'm just saying it's the kind of art I'd happily take a blowtorch to.
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Maybe they could add to the Prius a rotten egg smell, like they do to gas.
"Did you just fart?"
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I'm saying that that the tripod is pedestrian if competent in its execution and utterly unimaginative in its conception. I don't think you'd say the same of Piero's portrait of Federico Da Montefeltro, or Rembrandt's portrait of his mother. The idea there may be somewhat obvious - here's my boss! here's Mum! - but the execution is something else entirely, and what is extraordinary about the two paintings is not the likeness in itself.
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I don't imagine they gave Schumacher 50 million dollars a year on account of his boyish good looks.
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Due to decimation only a cohort survived
I believe you're going to hear from Craig's attorneys on this one.
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And I can see the appeal of that appeal. I have argued against absolutist dogma myself and been confronted with exactly that criticism: that I'm not tolerant of alternative views and ways of doing things. By the way, do 9/11 "truthers" have an equally valid view of those events as you and I?
No. And the reason why they don't is that their appeal is bogus and their arguments dishonest. This can be exposed relatively simply.
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I quite like it. It's playful and is perfectly located - right in front of the Embassy theatre, just down from the Paramount, in the town's entertainment district.
I could tolerate it for all those reasons if it was temporary, like the troll on top of the embassy. As a permanent fixture it's just a concept that wasn't very clever to start with and keeps getting older. IMHO, and all that.
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Pretty much describes the doctrine of libertarianism, too?
I don't know about libertarianism, but certainly one of the reasons why I think studying and talking about epistemology is far from boring or pointless or idiotic or insufficiently humane - as it has been variously suggested on this thread - is that it helps when it comes to refuting false histories such as the Celtic hypothesis of Doutrè et al, or neoconservative revisionisms like Brash's 2025 taskforce report. These aren't idle pastimes.