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Holy wow. This was found today near SF MOMA "geotagged with the exact spot." As Flickr user Rubin110 tells us, it's "very official looking." And how. According to Wikipedia, which is always 100% accurate, low-intensity conflict (LIC) "is the use of military forces applied selectively and with restraint to enforce compliance with the policies or objectives of the political body controlling the military force. The term can be used to describe conflicts where at least one or both of the opposing parties operate along such lines."
What does that even mean? What's going on here?
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An example of a low intensity conflict would be opening up a coworker's phone and inserting a slice of brie, then screwing it back together.
Or shouting "we're rolling thirty-deep" to a Harvard singing group.
Based on the definition from Wikipedia it sounds like the modern, reworked phrasing for the activities that would normally be labeled as "martial law" or possibly "police state".
Based on the different text sizes I think it can be read as "Future site of 'Low-Intensity Conflict'" which might mean, since it's near SFMOMA, that they're putting in an installation. It could also just be some new bar or something that thinks it has a clever name.
Love it.
LOVE IT.
LIC can be applied to peacekeeping and peacemaking mission. And I'd say the current Iraq war is similar to a peackmaking mission.
A full-scale war would involve complete mobilization of the country - civilians and military - towards war, such as WWII.
LIC is more like Iraq right now. In Iraq, about 5-50 combatants (Allied or not) die per day (I'm guessing). World War I's Battle of Verdun saw ~250k dead in 10 months - which is like over 830 soldiers dieing per day (or +20 per hour). And mind you, other battles were going on at the same time.
I think it's a commentary about how The Gays are ruining the sanctity of marriage.
With the astronomical divorce rate in this country, I think "The Hets" have already ruined "the sanctity of marriage" their self!!
i'd like to see the entire city become a low intensity conflict zone. i'll tone down my hatred of the homeless, hipsters, fixies on sidewalks, cars that can't stop BEFORE the crosswalk, you name it.
It's art. Most likely connected with the Catherine Clark show. Deemed "benign subversion" by artbusiness.com .
So... does the sfist need an art editor or something??
scroll down to see the image here:
http://www.artbusiness.com/1open/061408.html
it's a damn art piece? barf. annoying.
Ah. Nice to know I was right (more or less). It looked a little bit too professional to just be something thrown up on the street as an isolated piece of art/tomfoolery. Not that that's stopped people in the past.
suckafree wrote: ...i'd like to see the entire city become a low intensity conflict zone.
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Since when hasn't it been so?
That's what makes this place so awesome, because it ain't a conflict directed by the establishment.
San Francisco, the capital of it's own country!
there have been others...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hrubinj/2572237734/sizes/l/