Word: statically
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...court did require Napster to remove any songs copyrighted by recording companies. This is a tall order, given that Napster users name their own files and that "MysteriousWays.mp3" could be anything from U2 to static to uncopyrighted German techno. A poorly structured injunction could mean that Napster will be forced to shut down its service, unable to bear the costs of compliance...
More important, the NHTSA ratings are static, which means they do not take into account how a car handles. Consumers Union, the nonprofit organization that publishes Consumer Reports, last week criticized the ratings for this reason. Increasingly, the top-selling SUVs have a battery of onboard systems that help prevent a rollover, including antilock brakes, independent suspensions and computerized monitoring systems that adjust power to each wheel when a skid begins...
...children's skulls are thinner than those of adults, and their brains smaller, radiation emitted from cell phones can more easily penetrate their heads. A child's brain, a mass of tissue alive with electrochemical activity, is still developing and is thus extremely sensitive to outside interference. Imagine the static you hear in your car radio as you drive past a power line. Similarly, microwaves from cell phones can affect youngsters' brain rhythms. As for whether such microwaves ultimately do the same kind of harm to adults, that remains much in dispute...
...MIGHT NOT Art films today are often slow films, and if Yi Yi's pulse were any slower it would merit not a review but an autopsy. At 2 hr. 53 min., it contains many scenes of silent staring into the middle distance--human disasters made statuesque and static...
...paper that sit on shelves anymore. Printed text, which has remained basically unchanged since Gutenberg first got his fingers inky, is about to bloom into a thousand different forms. The one you use will increasingly depend on what you need to use it for. "The tyranny of the static book is over," says Rich Gold, head of the Research on Experimental Documents (RED) team at Xerox PARC. "The digital revolution can incorporate radical new visions of reading...