Word: dumbness
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...Republican,” and the provocative “Lick Bush 2004.” If mocking only the President doesn’t satisfy you, Hidden Sweets also sells a t-shirt with the faces of both Bush Senior and Junior, and the catchphrase “Dumb and Dumber...
...consider the President’s decision, in August 2001, to cut funding for the effort to secure Russia’s nuclear materials. It seems pretty dumb now, but they’ve learned their lesson since then, right? Well… not really. Even today—despite Cheney’s ceaseless apocalyptic warnings about terrorists smuggling nuclear bombs into American cities—the administration has still not provided enough funds to finish securing Russian nukes before...
Secondly, the Internet is built up on a principal called “end-to-end.” Unlike the telephone system, the Internet is a dumb network. All it does is, in principle, is take data and send it off to where it’s going. It doesn’t care what kind of data it’s carrying, or who the data are coming from, and you don’t need a license to plug a machine in and start transmitting data, or to write software that transmits new kinds of data. This...
...failure, but rather because of it. The hype was justified, the music was that good, and yet it crashed and burned and it’s all very tragic and still wonderful. In Sept. 1966, Brian Wilson, with Parks, began in earnest to work on the concept of Dumb Angel, which they soon renamed Smile. They churned out “Heroes and Villains,” a tribute to the Old West intended to be a single; “Wonderful,” a gentle harpsichord piece with a gorgeous, intricate melody; and “Surf?...
...version of a piece like “Wave” in a Sharper Image catalog or sitting on the desk of some executive. Which is not to say that playing with “Wave” isn’t fun, but rather that it is, ultimately, dumb. At its best this work offers a very immediate satisfaction, but they are more diverting than enlightening. The artists might have done well to remember that to offer the viewer meaning worthy of contemplation is also to invite him to participate in the work, if not quite so ostentatiously...