Word: scours
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Back in the heyday of the Cold War, American intelligence officers used to scour May Day pictures in Pravda to gain clues about Russia's leaders and the general state of our arch-enemy. By analyzing these pictures, they learned who was in control, how healthy they were, how good the Russian economy was, and other useful tidbits. Watching President George W. Bush's speech last Wednesday, anybody could have learned the same things about our country, even without moles in the FBI. They would have seen that our country is in good shape, though we possess some...
...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...
...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...