On 2017-10-21, Brad Rogers <b...@fineby.me.uk> wrote: > --Sig_/C/xj3njr+UxhCQ2w_j=VGJl > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Sat, 21 Oct 2017 07:58:41 +0000 (UTC) > Curt <cu...@free.fr> wrote: > > Hello Curt, > >>whether a section containing part of the support (pole or whatever) for >>the sign constitutes something I should click on or not; then, after > > The pole doesn't count as part of the sign but sometimes there's a > rectangle that contains a very small portion of the sign, although google > thinks it doesn't, which can make you fail to verify. They're also a bit > vague about what constitutes a shop front or a car.
Yes, a rectangle with a small portion of something which may be part of a sign, but isn't a sign, so, I wonder exactly, when is a sign not a sign? When it no longer signals anything, has been deprived of its semantic content, and this stumps me, also, because I ask myself--is that not yet another sort of a sign? A symbol of a sign's absence? Jocular excursions, of course, but this reminds me of a short story by Nabokov, "Signs and Symbols" (which the New Yorker editor who first published it in 1948 decided to change to "Symbols and Signs." Jesus, what's that a sign of when some high-brow editor tells a literary genius to displace two words in a three-word title? Sign of the times? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1948/05/15/symbols-and-signs > The irony being that to ensure we're *not* a robot, their capture image > is created and checked by a robot. Badly. > > --=20 > Regards _ > / ) "The blindingly obvious is > / _)rad never immediately apparent" > No guarantee the stimuli must be perceived the same... > Gary Gilmore's Eyes - The Adverts > > --Sig_/C/xj3njr+UxhCQ2w_j=VGJl > Content-Type: application/pgp-signature > Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature > > > --Sig_/C/xj3njr+UxhCQ2w_j=VGJl-- > > -- "A simpering Bambi narcissist and a thieving, fanatical Albanian dwarf." Christopher Hitchens, commenting shortly after the nearly concurrent deaths of Lady Diana and Mother Theresa.
