Though it's happening at the same time as the sloppy shamanism of Animal Collective and its acolytes, this is indie rock as an uncomplicated phenomenon: not a retreat for the anguished, overthinking outcast, but a safe space for plain ideas about love and direct, poplike ways of expressing them.
"The story of the Iraqi Christians has been one of catastrophe piled upon catastrophe, and the prospects look very bleak so in this context, the safe haven seems like one of the few remnants of hope .The Nineveh Plains idea is still being mooted.
For an example of a plain bad idea, look at Wayne Huizenga's AutoNation.
What I am driving at here is that even though a technology entrepreneur or a developer with just a plain good idea might not come from, say, London, they should still be given a fair hearing.
But for a variety of reasons particularly plain, bad ideas, such as the notion that central banks could manipulate the value of local currencies to smooth out business cycles and isolate their economies from economic disasters or recessions elsewhere the U.S. abandoned the greenback's tie to gold in the early 1970s.
Keith Christiansen, curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, said by e-mail, "This is just plain a bad idea at the wrong time and it would not be proposed were it not that Leonardo has become a supercelebrity".
But it takes a minimum of $50 million to create a profitable national magazine franchise of substantial size, and both public and privately owned companies do not want to bet on a plain old good idea.
In the latest version of his plan, he's just plain dropped the idea of full privatization in favor of partial privatization — traditional Medicare would be kept around, if only as an option that seniors could choose over private plans.
Now, there is a lot of room for debate on how we should regulate ISPs and who should do it, and a healthy opposition is essential for good governance, but this here is just plain a bad idea, and several Senators said so, in a great many more words than that.
Understanding our Demons in plain sight The idea of weak A.I. that is limited to simple tasks automation is already here.
