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...campaign, there is a movie. Which, it might be argued, is essentially over the minute the main title flashes on the screen. What film could possibly live up to that alarming phrase: Snakes on a Plane? It has the artless - not to say cheesy - directness of an old-fashioned bottom-of-the-bill B picture, promising thrills of a purely visceral kind: no aliens from outer space, no philosophical musings about man's place in the universe. All the movie has to do is show us a familiar, alarming menace - the aforementioned snakes - slithering around in a closed, inescapable space...
...engine runs like your refrigerator runs. When's the last time you did some maintenance work on the compressor of your refrigerator? [The refrigerator] is a sealed system. You put electricity into that compressor, the bottom end gets hot and gets blown away, and the top end, because you've put electricity in and it's pumping, gets cold, and you cool down the refrigerator. So let's see, electricity into a sealed system, one end gets cold the other gets hot. Take that sealed system, and make [the bottom] end hot with your methane, and keep [the other...
...Here's a piece of technology that should empower people from the bottom up to make self-sustaining, new forms of infrastructure. And I think the lesson here is that technology, 50 years ago, was all mega-technology. Big Blue and mainframes... Ma Bell had pieces of copper wire running from everybody's ear to everybody else's ear. It took 100 years to do it. It was big centralized power companies, nuclear power plants. Transmissions lines. Big, centralized phone companies.... And then look what happened. Communications is now point of use. You carry a cell phone. Computing - you carry...
...human interaction with narcotics is powerful and complex, truly fascinating and the topic of a future column. Here I'm just giving the bottom line and its straight from my heart: if you break a bone, have an operation, wrench your back and get a few tablets for short term use - fine. You will be off them in a few days and probably never feel the grip. But if you have a chronically painful condition of any sort, do everything in your power to stay off narcotic pain medicines. These drugs affect not just your brain, but your mind. Lives...
...bottom line is that Liam O’Hagan has been suspended for the first five games for a violation of team rules,” Murphy said. “It’s not a legal issue, it’s not a public issue, so in that case it’s a private team matter...