Gingeras is quite clear: "Of course not: you can't compare the act of acquiring with the art of creating.
The act of acquiring and spending (and owing), and the fine details of renovating and decorating, are integral too.
We love things not for their material function, but for the symbolic act of acquiring and possessing them – the thrill of anticipating a new thing, of being handed it by a smiling shop assistant, of pulling up at the golf club in an expensive new car.
The act of acquiring products – "selling stuff" from the retailer's point of view – has been commoditized.
Whether people eat to live or live to eat, the act of acquiring food is always fraught with symbolism, stories and an endlessly broad impact on society.
Phishing is an act of acquiring CSC's information such as name, passwords, social security number, bank account numbers and credit card details by redirecting the CSC to enter his particulars to some replica website whose look and feel is almost identical to the authentic one.
While Bryarly was the one actually fronting the cost to bring in the talent and selling the actual tickets, the act of acquiring talent was a shared, crowdsourced happening each and every gig.
Finally, the degree of HIV transmission risk of prohibited behaviors for each state was then categorized based on the estimated per-act probability of acquiring HIV from an infected source [ 24].
"If we decide to move to a different type of weapon in the future, we would simply destroy those currently in our possession". To track the guns, The Post used the Freedom of Information Act to acquire serial numbers of used D.C. police weapons, then compared them to electronic databases of weapons traced in crimes.
