Word: replaying
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Shapiro’s silly blather reminded me of a history lecture I once suffered through. The professor told the class that the student movement against the Vietnam war was little but a “replay of 19th-century romanticism” peopled by spoiled white rich kids who just couldn’t understand that there really are villains in the world. Well, perhaps the anti-war protesters in the Vietnam era were mostly drawn from the comfortable middle classes, and perhaps there were many in their ranks who joined the movement just for the drugs...
...picture," he told her. "We need to tell the people that an act of war has been committed. This is a different kind of enemy than we have ever faced, and they need to know that." That day, he also moved quickly to pre-empt any possibility of a replay of the fractious congressional debate before the Persian Gulf War, though such a debate was wholly unlikely, given the galvanic effect of the terrorist acts. He demanded authorization of war powers before Congress could demand the right to supply one. Within two days, both houses had given...
...Palestinians by force, there would be much blood, and for Israel, a catastrophic CNN Effect. Turning out the Palestinians would get spun to the world audience as the Highland Clearances and the Trail of Tears and the Bataan Death and even, grotesquely, as the trains to Auschwitz - a replay, precisely, of the "nakba," the Palestinian "disaster...
...weeks ago, San Jose-based TiVo Inc. won the patent for Personal Video Recording. Wall Street approved and the stock shot up 72% in a day. That might have been because TiVo could now theoretically ask Microsoft, owners of Ultimate TV, and Philips, owners of Replay TV, to take out licenses. Or it may just be because the system was formally described in the patent as "multimedia timewarping." C'mon, how cool is that...
...Especially not when Replay TV, based up the road in Mountain View, just signed a deal with Motorola to install its PVR in up to five million cable boxes. Talk about leapfrogging. TiVo is feeling the heat: it just laid off 23% of its staff and said it would not be seeking extra funding this year...