SFist: Low-Intensity Conflict Looms

jacobe

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:45:13 -0800

there have been others... http://www.flickr.com/photos/hrubinj/2572237734/sizes/l/

travin

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:27:24 -0800

suckafree wrote: ...i'd like to see the entire city become a low intensity conflict zone. > 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!

Belgand

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:22:58 -0800

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.

Brock Keeling

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:19:02 -0800

it's a damn art piece? barf. annoying.

wlynn

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:44:03 -0800

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

suckafree

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:47:20 -0800

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.

MacDad

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:55:09 -0800

With the astronomical divorce rate in this country, I think "The Hets" have already ruined "the sanctity of marriage" their self!!

travin

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:20:56 -0800

I think it's a commentary about how The Gays are ruining the sanctity of marriage.

MisterDarcy

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:49:28 -0800

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.

Generic

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:43:12 -0800

Love it. LOVE IT.

Belgand

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:29:58 -0800

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.

fizzandpop

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:20:37 -0800

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.