ontheotherhand

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by ontheotherhand 14y ago
If an individual disagrees with that view of "society", and I agree with that individual, then just repeating that view of society doesn't really refute anything. It does however explain this deluge of people making themselves known to disa
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by ontheotherhand 14y ago
"It's all a big game, and most people have to play to some degree to be able to do what they love." Sure.. but then don't go mixing those two things up. There is work (entertainment or otherwise), and there is art. That some people cry unfa
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by ontheotherhand 14y ago
Nah, you're just infected ^^
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by ontheotherhand 14y ago
"try talking to an actual professional artist" Well duh. However, I see what you did there. Why the arbitrary qualification? Why does it have to be a professional artist, why not an albino one, or someone who only has 8 fingers, or an artis
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by ontheotherhand 14y ago
What makes you think he considered himself artist, or ranting on stage, or making jokes, art? Quotes please.
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by ontheotherhand 14y ago
So? It's not like they, or I, would care. Consider them stricken.
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by ontheotherhand 14y ago
"humans live, swim and breath in commerce. It was here before art-with-a-capital-A and it will outlive it." Who is talking about commerce? It's about using emotion to lead people to make irrational choices. If you need rice and I farm ric
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by ontheotherhand 14y ago
"it's fairly obvious that something can have artistic merit and be designed to promote something" doesn't constitute an argument either, does it. So there's not really anything there to argue against; just an assertion. Meanwhile, to me it'
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by ontheotherhand 14y ago
Well, there's many ways to mean the word "art" or "artist", aren't there. Of course something that is skillfully crafted is art "on some level". On another, the motivation and goal of the creation, at least to me, outweighs such considerati
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by ontheotherhand 14y ago
OpenSUSE hands down.
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by ontheotherhand 14y ago
Artistic value? The fuck? "Here's the deal, folks. You do a commercial - you're off the artistic roll call, forever. End of story. Okay? You're another whore at the capitalist gang bang and if you do a commercial, there's a price on your h
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by ontheotherhand 14y ago
"You know, it's pretty easy to poke holes in something. It's another thing entirely to come up with something better." I have no problems with coming up with something better. More like 3 a day before breakfast; I'd just have problems mak
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by ontheotherhand 14y ago
"If you win an election and then "betray" your voters, you won't be reelected." That ain't accountability, that's a joke. If you pay me 5000$ to do a job, and I don't lift a finger, and your "punishment" is that we won't do that a second
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by ontheotherhand 14y ago
Or Erich Fromm, or Marc Aurel... etc., etc.... learn from the best or stfu, seriously. Both blogs should be shot.
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by ontheotherhand 14y ago
"So hacks are not solid marketing?" How does that follow from "solid marketing doesn't make it a hack"? "I think SEOs understand how people and the Internet work" Yet you don't even understand the difference between "every ford is a car" an
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by ontheotherhand 14y ago
My brain is what creates the experience out of the sensory input and its current state, memory etc. Therefore at best you may contribute to that sensory input -- the experience is still of my own making, thank you very much. At worst you pr
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by ontheotherhand 14y ago
The wittiest thing I read today was at the very bottom of a HN discussion, whooshing over people's heads :)
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by ontheotherhand 14y ago
"the better players also play a similarly wide range of formats" I guess the keyword is "similarly" here? VLC is the only player that plays all video clips from crappy digital cameras I owned over the years; out of the box, or with a mill
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by ontheotherhand 14y ago
I remember the ads being easy to tune out.. they were never animated and didn't take up much space. The speed and way better UI of Opera made it more than worthwhile. Same goes for Eudora... yeah, I miss the days of ads that weren't totally
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by ontheotherhand 14y ago
Ditto. I've switched to generating passwords that are as long as the site allows (well, up to 80 or so, with spaces and special characters and whatnot). I think I'd rather stop reading FUD articles on Wired written by noobs, than give up pa
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by ontheotherhand 14y ago
"they actually can't delete these old images." They can, it just would break those old links. A dumb decision ages ago doesn't force you to stick to it as you seem to imply.
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by ontheotherhand 14y ago
For me the page didn't load at first, because some script or other was on a host that didn't respond. So maybe try turning off Javascript, it did the trick for me.
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by ontheotherhand 14y ago
Then simply look through all non-deleted documents and see which files are still referenced and which ones are orphans. Delete the orphans. Done.
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by ontheotherhand 14y ago
It's not possible to delete those documents because they didn't have mechanisms in place to delete them back then? It's not possible to physically delete documents that have been flagged as deleted and emptied from trash? How about "no"?
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by ontheotherhand 14y ago
>> In the title, "from 2007" means the article was published on July 15th, 2007 And so is the image that is part of the private document which supposedly was deleted, but can still be accessed even today, more than five years later.