A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

If you plugged it in and it sold itself, there's no reason why you would have to ship it <_<

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

If you plugged it in and it sold itself, there's no reason why you would have to ship it <_<

It's in the purchase agreement.

[rong]

i think he's from houghton (where i attended college drank copious amounts of beer)

[Bella]

HFLS is too ill to get out of bed and post, so he asked me to say that if he bought it, he'd take a hammer and smash it. And at least that guy who glues diamonds onto skulls makes things you can keep!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

It's concept art. What it does is part of the art! It doesn't even HAVE to sell. Being for auction is part of the art piece.

[Jasper]

It's concept art. What it does is part of the art! It doesn't even HAVE to sell. Being for auction is part of the art piece.

Agree.  I think that, even if it had no working components, the idea (or lie, call it what you will) would count as part of the exhibit.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

It's concept art. What it does is part of the art! It doesn't even HAVE to sell. Being for auction is part of the art piece.

Agree.  I think that, even if it had no working components, the idea (or lie, call it what you will) would count as part of the exhibit.

Absolutely.

[Requia ☣]

It's concept art. What it does is part of the art! It doesn't even HAVE to sell. Being for auction is part of the art piece.

Agree.  I think that, even if it had no working components, the idea (or lie, call it what you will) would count as part of the exhibit.

I think it doesn't, at least, it has no apparent power supply.  Without that any components would be rather useless.

[Jasper]

It's concept art. What it does is part of the art! It doesn't even HAVE to sell. Being for auction is part of the art piece.

Agree.  I think that, even if it had no working components, the idea (or lie, call it what you will) would count as part of the exhibit.

I think it doesn't, at least, it has no apparent power supply.  Without that any components would be rather useless.

That, yeah, but also look at the guy's other work.  Not what you would call challenging craftmanship.

Doesn't make the art less cool.  Just makes it less impressive to nerds.

[Requia ☣]

You can get power from a networking cable, more than enough for some smaller devices that are designed for it, but you need special equipment at the other end.

Also, the agreement says the software running the project is hosted elsewhere.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I thought about it for a while, and I just don't get it. OK, yeah, I can kinda understand the concept art thing, but, if I liked it, I'd want to buy it and keep it, like I do with all artworks I like, so I can look at em and shit. I'd not be happy to resell it at all like.

I think it doesn't, at least, it has no apparent power supply.

I dunno.

You can mooch power from a rs232 port, so I guess you could do the same thing with a network cable. My moneys on its a gutted Sheevaplug with mad powering if there is indeed any guts in the thing at all.

The art isn't the thing that's for sale, really. The thing that's for sale is one artistic element of the whole piece. When you looked at the auction and absorbed its purpose, you were looking at the completed art.

Art is kind of like trolling, really.

[cavehamster]

It's pretty cool, but I'd still make sure it was firewalled off from the rest of my network

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

Art is kind of like trolling, really.

I'm actually not entirely clear, anymore, on the difference between art and trolling.

[LMNO]

Berets and cigarettes?

[Triple Zero]

Art is kind of like trolling, really.

I'm actually not entirely clear, anymore, on the difference between art and trolling.

I tried finding a Non Sequitur cartoon by Wiley with the caption "Ned finally grasps the concept of performance art.", anyone?

Also, the used to call trolling "Usenet Performance Art", or UPA.

So yeah.