He joined up to be a tough guy like his dad wanted and deny/repress his gayness, but the hazing rituals he experienced when he did were the homoerotic S&M stuff he was trying to distance himself from. Seems clear to me.
Mapplethorpe is also long dead, and did his work in the 1970s and 1980s. Of course he's not "avant garde" anymore.
His photographs are also gorgeous in terms of composition and light regardless of their content, so one could view his work purely in terms of craft in a way that, say, Nan Goldin's photography (which touches on similar themes from the same time period) does not.
His work was also a lightning rod for moral panic about the limits of art and free speech in America, and for that reason alone is historically significant.
You may also find as you get older that more or less everybody has strong and not entirely consistent feelings about their parents and the way they were raised, and people can develop an emotional connection to an image in a piece of art that does not directly reflect their lived experience. Dismissing this as "daddy issues" is trite, and you completely miss the irony in the GP's story about Mapplethorpe's "daddy issues" driving him to enroll in the ROTC.
Feel free not to like the pictures, but recognize that you sound to people who care about art the way like someone who points to their monitor and calls it a hard drive sounds to you. "It's not to my taste - unposed photojournalism is more my thing," will get you much more mileage at a party.
Armed civilians? In Israel? Haha, no. (except for those yahoos in their settlements). Those gun-toting folks in every public place in Israel are soldiers and reservists on leave, and are required to have access to their weapon at all times. And the rockets are more a result of border checkpoints preventing armed terrorists entering the country than the presence of firepower in a given place.
Get the fuck off/. and get to bed. My little one didn't sleep through the night for TWENTY MONTHS, and I wish I had paced myself better at the start. Granted, that's several standard deviations longer than usual, but you never know...
At least for 'secret' clearance, the questionnaire explicitly only cares about the past seven years, so I think he'd be in the clear no matter what the specifics were. Also, the whole argument is ridiculous, because a commander in chief needs access to classified information to fulfill the obligations of his office whether it's a good idea to give it to him or not.
The context you might be missing is that that particular grammatical error is an extremely common one among toddlers, who haven't learned the exceptions to the general rules about forming tenses yet.
Also, on the face of it, "all social security recipients" includes people who only recently started receiving benefits. Surely at least those people paid in more than they have yet received.
That artillery wouldn't last very long if a shooting war broke out.
Doesn't have to. Each piece (which, BTW NK has had over 50 years to dig in and fortify) only needs to get off a handful of shots to level Seoul (population 10M) and cause appalling civilian casualties when they have 10,000 of them - about 16 for every square kilometer of Seoul's area. And that's not counting the nukes, which don't need a fancy delivery system since Seoul is only about 40 km from the border.
This will sound counter-intuitive but we actually want them to overrun the DMZ. We pulled the bulk of our forces back from the DMZ many years ago. The current plan calls for a counterattack into North Korea to cut them off/go after Pyongyang rather than meeting them at the DMZ and fighting for every inch of ROK soil.
And that strategy protects the civilian population of Seoul how? NK doctrine (warning: pdf) is for a quick and decisive victory with overwhelming force concentrated in small areas backed by special ops in the enemy rear - the plan you mention plays right into that strategy.
NK is a hostage negotiation, not strategic diplomacy.
And conversely, I remember being all excited about getting a chance to play SGIDoom in an animation lab full of Indigos, only to discover it ran in a teeny 320x240 window with no sound.
OTOH, the "immersive" mode where three networked computers would show a single player 270 degrees of view across their three monitors was way cool.
and which very recently killed hundreds due to a cryptosporidium outbreak
Source? I found a reference to "the only documented outbreak in the Great Lakes since record-keeping began in 1978" happening in 2002 and sickening 44 people (with no deaths), but nothing involving even one death, let alone hundreds.
Mostly awesome, but re: your closing paragraph - Colin Powell was widely talked about as a possible Republican nominee in 1998/1999 until he decided not to run.
Currently, all 50 States participate in the program, as well as New York City, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico.
Does New York City have a unique political status of which I am unaware? I imagine that if the state of New York does something, it's reasonable to expect the city does, too. Except, perhaps, vote for republicans.
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He joined up to be a tough guy like his dad wanted and deny/repress his gayness, but the hazing rituals he experienced when he did were the homoerotic S&M stuff he was trying to distance himself from. Seems clear to me.
Mapplethorpe is also long dead, and did his work in the 1970s and 1980s. Of course he's not "avant garde" anymore.
His photographs are also gorgeous in terms of composition and light regardless of their content, so one could view his work purely in terms of craft in a way that, say, Nan Goldin's photography (which touches on similar themes from the same time period) does not.
His work was also a lightning rod for moral panic about the limits of art and free speech in America, and for that reason alone is historically significant.
You may also find as you get older that more or less everybody has strong and not entirely consistent feelings about their parents and the way they were raised, and people can develop an emotional connection to an image in a piece of art that does not directly reflect their lived experience. Dismissing this as "daddy issues" is trite, and you completely miss the irony in the GP's story about Mapplethorpe's "daddy issues" driving him to enroll in the ROTC.
Feel free not to like the pictures, but recognize that you sound to people who care about art the way like someone who points to their monitor and calls it a hard drive sounds to you. "It's not to my taste - unposed photojournalism is more my thing," will get you much more mileage at a party.
Or maybe you did, and didn't know it, because - get this - they weren't all in your face about being gay.
Armed civilians? In Israel? Haha, no. (except for those yahoos in their settlements). Those gun-toting folks in every public place in Israel are soldiers and reservists on leave, and are required to have access to their weapon at all times. And the rockets are more a result of border checkpoints preventing armed terrorists entering the country than the presence of firepower in a given place.
No, they were given tax credits and mandated to add a customer surcharge earmarked for the purpose.
He's talking Jamestown, not Columbus. They knew where they were going (if not what they were doing).
Get the fuck off /. and get to bed. My little one didn't sleep through the night for TWENTY MONTHS, and I wish I had paced myself better at the start. Granted, that's several standard deviations longer than usual, but you never know...
You just said what he said, but he used the language of science while you used the language of bonghits-in-a-dorm-at-a-good-college.
Some would say we already did, in 2000.
At least for 'secret' clearance, the questionnaire explicitly only cares about the past seven years, so I think he'd be in the clear no matter what the specifics were. Also, the whole argument is ridiculous, because a commander in chief needs access to classified information to fulfill the obligations of his office whether it's a good idea to give it to him or not.
The IRS is a lousy example since it isn't something private industry can do, collect taxes.
In the great commonwealth of Pennsylvania, apparently they can. I was more than a bit surprised to learn this when I moved here.
The context you might be missing is that that particular grammatical error is an extremely common one among toddlers, who haven't learned the exceptions to the general rules about forming tenses yet.
they arch up into the sky, and then come back down to the ground - rainbows, that is, not babies
You must be one of those curiosity-killing, overly-restrictive parents that would take a harmless trebuchet away from a bright, inquisitive child.
Source?
Also, on the face of it, "all social security recipients" includes people who only recently started receiving benefits. Surely at least those people paid in more than they have yet received.
This is why you should be deeply distrustful of government interference in healthcare: they can use your health to put you in a box.
Isn't that an even better reason to be deeply distrustful of employer and insurance company interference in healthcare?
That artillery wouldn't last very long if a shooting war broke out.
Doesn't have to. Each piece (which, BTW NK has had over 50 years to dig in and fortify) only needs to get off a handful of shots to level Seoul (population 10M) and cause appalling civilian casualties when they have 10,000 of them - about 16 for every square kilometer of Seoul's area.
And that's not counting the nukes, which don't need a fancy delivery system since Seoul is only about 40 km from the border.
This will sound counter-intuitive but we actually want them to overrun the DMZ. We pulled the bulk of our forces back from the DMZ many years ago. The current plan calls for a counterattack into North Korea to cut them off/go after Pyongyang rather than meeting them at the DMZ and fighting for every inch of ROK soil.
And that strategy protects the civilian population of Seoul how? NK doctrine (warning: pdf) is for a quick and decisive victory with overwhelming force concentrated in small areas backed by special ops in the enemy rear - the plan you mention plays right into that strategy.
NK is a hostage negotiation, not strategic diplomacy.
Don't have to remember very hard when it's in the unofficial national anthem.
And conversely, I remember being all excited about getting a chance to play SGIDoom in an animation lab full of Indigos, only to discover it ran in a teeny 320x240 window with no sound.
OTOH, the "immersive" mode where three networked computers would show a single player 270 degrees of view across their three monitors was way cool.
and which very recently killed hundreds due to a cryptosporidium outbreak
Source? I found a reference to "the only documented outbreak in the Great Lakes since record-keeping began in 1978" happening in 2002 and sickening 44 people (with no deaths), but nothing involving even one death, let alone hundreds.
When someone dies in the army, it's because someone else is trying to kill you and succeeded at their job.
Or because some contractor wanted to save a few bucks.
Windows users, they can just grab themselves a copy of WinSCP.
FileZilla supports SFTP and FTPS out of the box.
Actually, that's no longer the case. Remember the tainted pet food with bad Chinese wheat gluten from a couple of years ago?
Mostly awesome, but re: your closing paragraph - Colin Powell was widely talked about as a possible Republican nominee in 1998/1999 until he decided not to run.
We could call it something like an "appeal" to another court. Let's get right on that...
Currently, all 50 States participate in the program, as well as New York City, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico.
Does New York City have a unique political status of which I am unaware? I imagine that if the state of New York does something, it's reasonable to expect the city does, too. Except, perhaps, vote for republicans.