But true cognoscenti are nostalgic for the rougher, anarchic days just after the Berlin Wall fell, when clubs popped up in abandoned spaces along the former no-man's-land, always several steps ahead of tedious fire regulations.
For every hour consumed with choosing a new sofa, vintage rug, or flicking through an interior design magazine, there are 30 spent dealing with an endless stream of leaking showers, malfunctioning boilers, blocked gutters, not to mention moaning tenants, reluctant builders, arrogant architects and tedious government regulations.
At HangarBicocca, Double Bind has been recreated without having to disguise intrusive elements of the building's architecture or signage, or find ways of getting around tedious health and safety regulations.
The participants were presented with a range of stimuli that ranged from enthralling to utterly boring over the course of three minutes -- "fascinating games to tedious readings from EU banking regulation".
As Montesquieu put it, "That kind of health which can be preserved only by a careful and constant regulation of diet is but a tedious disease".
"In a GLP [Good Laboratory Practices] environment, you sometimes need to do tedious work for other reasons--to comply with federal regulations, to lock down intellectual property, to make a partnership happen.
However, building regulatory models is a tedious task, especially when the number of genes and the complexity of regulation increase.
Yet, building regulatory models manually is a tedious task, especially when the number of genes involved increases with the complexity of regulation.
But once a department or agency approves a regulation, it has the force of law, and can be changed only through tedious bureaucratic procedures.
Though the financial crisis offers a once in a generation opportunity for regulation to catch up with global financial-markets reality, it would take years of tedious and painstaking work.
