Word: scourings
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...wait. Off in that distant time human ingenuity will save us from this molecular blender. Well, sort of. You must wait for the development of nanotechnology, basically the engineering of FriendlyTinyRobots capable of being programmed and self-duplicating. With a horde of FriendlyTinyRobots willing to scour our body's molecular nooks and crannies, repairing the damage that the crystalline Katana blades have done, thawing is no problem, and if we can solve the thawing problem (i.e. the reassembly of every cell in the body) the original cause of your death ought to be laughably easy to remedy...
...have a schizophrenic approach to money management. I will eat a bagel with peanut butter for dinner two nights in a row, then blow $10 on a fancy deli sandwich for lunch. I will scour Filene's Basement for $5 tights to wear with my $200 boots. I am even tempted to get a $99 color inkjet printer to go with my spiffy $2,500 PC. It all boils down to priorities. I don't need a great printer, merely a decent one. Just as the tights I wear under my boots are a private affair, most of the printing...
...Napster has, in my view, about a 40 percent chance of prevailing on this issue in the appeal currently pending before the 9th Circuit," writes Harvard Professor of Law William W. Fisher in an e-mail message. "Scour believed that it could point to an even more extensive list of legitimate uses of its technology...
...example, while a song in MP3 format can be downloaded in less than a minute on Napster on a high-speed network, a full-length movie would take hours to download on Scour Exchange, even with an network as fast as Harvard's. For users with lower network bandwidth, the download times are slower...
...Free peer-to-peer systems (e.g. Gnutella and Freenet) are multiplying and becoming more user-friendly," writes Fisher, who is also a member of the Berkman Center. "If a chastened Scour began charging for its services (as Napster/Bertlemann suggests it will), then many of its 7 million users would likely flee to free alternatives...