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According to HASCS, the firewall is a content-neutral filter in the interests of limited bandwidth. But in reality, it implicitly suggests that certain types of network usage are somehow "less important" that others. For example, a firewall would allow a student to download the trailer for Star Wars: Episode II, but not allow that student to share the same file with others. But, for the larger online Star Wars community, both actions are equally important. A more "academic" example might be open-source software, which depends on a unique kind of active, community-wide participation. A firewall, however, adopts...
Other connections between Diana and me may be more related to our matching DNA and thus more applicable to clones. My twin and I filter information in much the same way, and we think, perceive and interpret things similarly. When we're together, we often respond simultaneously with the same word or sentence. We have put on the same T shirt on the same day in different cities. We have friends who are twins, both doctors, who have similar experiences. They took a pharmacy class together in medical school but sat across the classroom from each other and took separate...
...bypass operations easier on the brain. Some surgeons, for example, try to minimize the risk of shaking loose a clot by scanning the aorta with ultrasound for plaque-free regions at which to attach the heart-lung machine. Another option being tested in the U.S. is to stick a filter into the aorta to catch any wayward debris...
Sounds easy, right? Tell the truth--it sounds so basic, so simple, such a small part of a filmmaker's art. Yet again and again, the glitterati of Southern California manage to take the world we inhabit, shake it around a little and then filter it through a peculiar, politically correct prism. The result can be viewed in any movie about Washington politics ("The American President," "Dave," "The Contender," and so forth), in which the evil, cigar-smoking and preferably slightly deformed Republicans are defeated by a noble, principled, sexy liberal who just wants to pass a gun control bill...
...parent could think to pick with a teenage girl, fighting over what she wears should be way down the list. Teen girls are like total eclipses of the sun. If you look at them straight on, you'll go blind. Mothers need to see their girls through the filter of their own experience and try to remember their own instincts and attitudes as kids. It's pretty hard to look back at our adolescent longings and fashion disasters. It's even harder to let our daughters make similar mistakes--to be out in the world looking dumb and thinking they...