Conventions
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This man refused to fold to the
conventions
of normalcy and just decided to fold.
They defied global
conventions
and decriminalized all drug possession.
Our disciplinary
conventions
were funny as well.
So, one needs to be careful with disciplinary
conventions.
And now, if you went into one of those
conventions
and you said, "Well, I don't think black holes are out there," they'd hoot you off the stage.
Most laws are national in their implementation, despite cybercrime conventions, where the Internet is borderless and international by definition.
And the same thing with the Bill of Rights and all the amendments and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the E.U.
conventions
on human rights and fundamental freedoms and the press freedom?
And I call on them to uphold global
conventions.
With this realization, I was free from the photojournalistic
conventions
of the newspaper and the magazine.
And I couldn't really face that, so I started to challenge the
conventions
of the time, even to the extent of changing my name from "Stephanie" to "Steve" in my business development letters, so as to get through the door before anyone realized that he was a she.
He said this was important because sex trafficking spikes with big sporting events and with
conventions.
If we become aware of the constellation, the terms and conditions of communication, it not only broadens our horizon, it allows us to look behind the regulations that limit our worldview, our specific social, political or aesthetic
conventions.
Since the establishment of the United Nations, wars of aggression have been outlawed and multilateral
conventions
refer to armed conflict instead of war.
Commandeering civilian planes and using them as weapons, dropping atomic bombs, the use of gas chambers or poisonous gas in conflict, all of these actions, if committed, constitute acts of war and war crimes under customary international law and the Hague
conventions.
We create spaces outside of convention, including the
conventions
of time.
So when an adult like Brad Smith, the president of Microsoft, said a few months ago, "We need a new set of Geneva
Conventions
to manage the security of the digital space," many of the senior leaders in Silicon Valley actually spoke against his words.
We don't need any Geneva
Conventions.
BG: Those are strong suggestions and your call for individual responsibility is very strong as well, but I'm troubled by one thought, and it's this: you mentioned, and these are your words, "extraordinary Western leadership" which led 60-something years ago to the whole discussion about human rights, to the
conventions
on refugees, etc. etc.
The thing that all the work has in common is that it challenges the assumptions about
conventions
of space.
And these are everyday conventions,
conventions
that are so obvious that we are blinded by their familiarity.
And we ask the question, can we use technology, high technology, to make an expo pavilion that's decidedly low definition, that also challenges the
conventions
of space and skin, and rethinks our dependence on vision?
And one of the recurring themes, by the way, that in the work was a kind of hostility toward the museum itself, and asking about the
conventions
of the museum, like the wall, the white wall.
And then after Timor, 9/11 has happened, he's named U.N. Human Rights Commissioner, and he has to balance liberty and security and figure out, what do you do when the most powerful country in the United Nations is bowing out of the Geneva Conventions, bowing out of international law?
And so what that means is the kind of things that we used to only talk about at science fiction
conventions
like Comic-Con have to be talked about in the halls of power and places like the Pentagon.
Her teachers trained her to faithfully reproduce reality in the
conventions
of European masters.
So then you realize there are these
conventions.
And you go to one of these conventions, and some dude built the Titanic.
Broke many norms of the standard
conventions
for the first time.
Still, copies exist, mostly on the net and at
conventions.
There are some hilarious things in it, such as the mysterious device the bad guy is seen working on for the whole movie, that turns out to be this tiny helicopter that flutters around carrying and firing a machine gun without so much as a wobble, but is brought down by a bag of balloons (the kind they release at political conventions).
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