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		caf on July 26, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GCC 4.9 is doing “some seriously crazy shit” accor... Well, for one thing a C compiler is a considerably more utilitarian creation - "Hey, McDonalds, Big Macs taste like shit". And of course even purely artistic creations have always been subject to quite blunt appraisals - you won't have to look far to find them about, say, Jackson Pollock's paintings.

DanBC on July 26, 2014 [–]

Pollack and others were funded through CIA programmes to demonstrate the power of the creative free thinking West.

Listening to the God-awful Jazz they play at my local coffee shops makes me wonder just how effective this campaign of psychological warfare was.

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