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...other smart objects via smart networks. A human is said to "own" a smart object upon purchase, except for those rights retained by the manufacturer and stated more or less clearly in the purchasing contract. Neither the owner nor manufacturer may be held responsible for smart objects that run amok without warning and no smart object can be disassembled without a lengthy trial with good lawyers on all sides...
...three-part series last year on campaign finance, written by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele. As the judges' citation put it, "In an election year that saw much heated rhetoric on campaign finance reform, this concisely written series stands as a devastating indictment of a system run amok. By ferreting out individual stories of who gets hurt and why, the authors bring the issue of big-money political lobbying into ultra-sharp focus...
...Mitch McConnell went straight for the other Democrats' queasy stomachs, daring Snowe-Jeffords supporters who say they've made it constitutionally sound to put their money where their mouth is and taunting Democrats with the prospect of big bad conservative special-interest groups run amok. "We will need the political parties to defend our candidates if Snowe-Jeffords is struck down," McConnell said...
...with mediocrities and idiot intoxications. Haxton writes in his introduction: "To a sober mind, the drunkenness of cultic worshippers must have been particularly unappealing in a cosmopolitan city like Ephesus, with gods of wine on every side, drunken Greeks initiated into the Thracian ecstasies of Dionysus running amok with drunken Phrygians worshipping Sabazius, Lydians possessed by Bassareus, and Cretans in the frenzy of Zagreus, all claiming in their cups to have transcended understanding...
...with mediocrities and idiot intoxications. Haxton writes in his introduction: "To a sober mind, the drunkenness of cultic worshipers must have been particularly unappealing in a cosmopolitan city like Ephesus, with gods of wine on every side, drunken Greeks initiated into the Thracian ecstacies of Dionysius running amok with drunken Phrygians worshipping Sabazius, Lydians possessed by Bassareus, and Cretans in the frenzy of Zagreus, all claiming in their cups to have transcended understanding...