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...primary reason for the media attention Rumsfeld enjoyed this week was the fact that he is playing maestro in what may be the most comprehensive overhaul ever of the U.S. military - and is keeping the nation guessing (and its media furiously speculating) over just what that will entail, making him our newsmaker of the week...
Current top-down methods of chip production use electron beam lithography, an expensive process that involves etching silicon into smaller and smaller pieces. Such methods will eventually hit a limit at which further miniaturization would entail extreme expense...
...problem is that it's not just a question of biology. Those who consider homosexuality (a term under which I include every shade of the BGLT rainbow) as biological, or at the very least unchosen and unchangeable, might see no need to investigate further. But actions always entail choices, and those opposed to these choices can easily proclaim a doctrine of "hate the sin, love the sinner." Those suffering from kleptomania also have strong desires for immoral acts; their situation is monstrously unfair, but that doesn't make theft morally acceptable. Using biology as an excuse promotes an image...
While playing the council's way would entail a series of reforms that might be reasonable, the imperious nature with which the requests were made was unreasonable. Directives such as these taint the community relationship the Ivy Council attempts to establish. The Ivy Council constitution, to which all member student governments have agreed, presents fair avenues through which student government concerns may be voiced and resolved. Unwarranted ultimatums fall below the level of maturity and sophistication one would expect from student leaders at a preeminent institution of higher education...
...paradigm shift in music distribution and monetary disbursement this would entail is the real, albeit more capitalistic "digital music revolution" yet to come...