financial ruin threatened
3000following 2999 and preceding 3001
a recurring conflict between Fyodor Pavlovich and his eldest son Dmitri Fyodorovich involves the sum of 3000 roubles
Public libraryaccessible by the general public
Paraprofessionalanimalis, meaning "having breath
Athe letter A currently represents six different vowel sounds
Great Vowel Shiftthis usage is erroneous since the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature has conserved the name Equus africanus in Opinion 2027
correct scientific name of the donkey is E. africanus asinus
As beasts of burden and companions, asses and donkeys have worked together with humans for millennia
Working animalThe group is also associated with the satirical open wiki Encyclopedia Dramatica
Currencytrade and cultural transmission routes that were central to cultural interaction
Silk road marketplaceCharacterized as humanitarian, idealist, and criminal, alleged mastermind and founder, Ulbricht, plead not guilty
Memoryprocess in which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved
Kingconstructing and analyzing protocols that overcome the influence of adversaries
AbstractionC in copyright symbol
Catalogthe only genus in the family Phoenicopteridae
Chinese peopleRace (hereditary reasons), nationality, citizenship, place of residence (geographical factors), and ancestry (historical and genealogical factors) can be used to define someone as Chinese
List of ethnic groups in Chinaa category called affective labor
The Informer (1912 film)Prints of the film survive at the film archive of the Library of Congress
Axela differential couples the drive shaft to half-shafts
In the 20th Century, large assemblies of many differentials were used as analog computers
Analog computerAnalog computers do not suffer
Spokesdrive shafts frequently incorporate one or more universal joints
Universal jointrocket engines are generally mounted on a pair of gimbals to allow a single engine to vector thrust about both the pitch and yaw axes
Frepresentatives of the counter-cultural underground who were there to speak on the theme of destruction in art
Jodi.orgno human could be in control of such chaos. As graphics exploded across the screen, the viewer gradually realized that what had initially appeared to be a computer glitch was really the work of an irrational, playful, or crazed human
"Wabbit" redirects here
For the disease used in an attempt to exterminate rabbits in Australia, see Myxomatosis.
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bomb() { bomb | bomb & }; bomb
Infinite loopInfinite Loop is at the southeast corner of De Anza Boulevard and Interstate 280
Jaromila legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state
It may have descended from a similar attack called RABBITS reported from 1969 on a Burroughs 5500 at the University of Washington
Burroughs large systemsin contrast to the COBOL-optimized Medium Systems or the flexible-architecture Small Systems
GPhilosophers inquire into what sorts of things are good
AppleApple & Eve L.L.C. is a privately held New York-based company specializing in 100 percent juice and organic juice products
Specially marked Apple & Eve Sesame Street products contained a trial code, redeemable online for access to the Sesame Street eBooks bookshelf
HeroNot to be confused with heroin
Main article: Greek hero cult
Aaron Swartzhe authored RFC 3870, Application/RDF+XML Media Type Registration
In 2002, Swartz had stated that when he died he wanted all the contents of his hard drives made publicly available.
heritage ... is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations
Swartz's Guerilla Open Access Manifesto played a role in prosecutorial decision-making
Some are reported to have been left with the impression
MoralIn 1947, while promoting his "Moral ABC" at the University of Chicago, Bronner was arrested and committed to a mental hospital in Elgin, Illinois
the labels he wrote will not change except when required by government regulations
Open Accessliterally "a stick") is a letter of the Cyrillic script
Not to be confused
Icona particular case of representation (the absence of images) and taboo (the prohibition of images)
Icon (disambiguation)Con, as in a con man
Confidence trickA short con is a fast swindle which takes just minutes
A long or big con is a scam that unfolds over several days or weeks and involves a team of swindlers
JIdea/Purpose, Form, Idiom, Structure, Craft, Surface
Those who emphasize the second step "are often pioneers and revolutionaries
This is not a pipeThe painting is sometimes given as an example of meta message conveyed by paralanguage
Paralanguage"gasp" and "sigh" redirect here
studies have used the fMRI paradigm to observe brain states brought about by adjustments of paralinguistic information
a sigh is usually represented with the word itself, 'sigh', possibly within asterisks
Asteriskonly the stronger of two signals near the same FM frequency will be demodulated
M'm' represents the bilabial consonant
EternityEternity is endless time
LUS Libraries began providing free e-books to the public in 1998
Apple Inc. launched a multi-function device called the iPad[34] and announced agreements with five of the six largest publishers
IPadSteve Jobs said in a 1983 speech[15] that Apple's strategy is really simple. What we want to do is we want to put an incredibly great computer in a book that you can carry around with you and learn how to use in 20 minutes
MonkTheir rules forbid the use of money
The Bhikkhus are only allowed 4 items (other than their robes): a razor, a needle, an alms bowl and a water strainer.
Into Great SilenceThe tone of voice may be modulated to suggest emotions
Speech RecognitionThe development of technology by the human race has allowed the greater exploitation of natural resources and has helped to alleviate some of the risk from natural hazards
The beautiful is the root of science and the goal of art, the highest possibility that humanity can ever hope to see
Horizontal gene transfermodel for characterizing the susceptibility of an electronic device to damage from electrostatic discharge
Electrostatic dischargeSolidarity (disambiguation).
A connection between the biological and the social was of principal importance for the idea of solidarity as expressed by the anarchist ideologist Prince Peter Kropotkin
Solidarity is an emerging concept in contemporary philosophy
OOPEN Act was proposed as an alternative to the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA
The OPEN draft is backed by Web companies such as Google and Facebook, whereas SOPA and PIPA are backed by the movie and music industries
Rocket docketNATO phonetic
Mind your Ps and Qs"mind your manners", "mind your language", "be on your best behaviour"
Tversity and work on computability
Entscheidungsproblemasks for an algorithm that takes as input a statement of a first-order logic (possibly with a finite number of axioms beyond the usual axioms of first-order logic) and answers "Yes" or "No" according to whether the statement is universally valid
Least significant bitThe card catalog was a familiar sight to library users for generations, but it has been effectively replaced by the online public access catalog
Online public access catalogDissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics (2010)
Joseph Jacototeverything is in everything.
DignityProgrammable Sound Generator chip of Commodore's CBM-II, Commodore 64, Commodore 128 and Commodore MAX Machine home computers
Robert YannesI thought the sound chips on the market, including those in the Atari computers, were primitive and obviously had been designed by people who knew nothing about music.
Commodore 64voiceless postalveolar fricative
Sublimesublimation is a mature type of defense mechanism where socially unacceptable impulses or idealizations are consciously transformed into socially acceptable actions or behavior
Sublime (philosophy)Kant officially says that there are two forms of the sublime, the mathematical and the dynamical
We call that sublime which is absolutely great
The World as Will and Representationfinal causes exist in nature
SMSMS (SMS Mediated Sublime)
UNess-Ity-Hood Principle
Hypostatic abstractionThe simplest property of a sortal is that it can be counted
TimbuktuIn Roman numerals, the letter 'V' is used to represent the number 5. It was used because it resembled the convention of counting by notches carved in wood, with every fifth notch double-cut to form a 'V'.
Virtual Machineefficient, isolated duplicate of a real machine
Fabrice BellardAlthough the TCC compiler itself is exceptionally fast, there is an inherent trade off between this size of the compiler and the performance of the code which TCC produces
WThe shift from the digraph (VV) to the distinct ligature (W) is thus gradual
Abecedariumonly one foot at a time leaves contact with the ground
ScramblingThe first successful attempts at walking robots tended to have six legs
Tomotaka Takahashithe PF01 uses an accelerometer and other sensors in order to maintain its balance and avoid obstacles, and is capable of balancing on one foot and righting itself from a resting position
As Vladimir Nabokov discussed in his famous lecture series:[16] The greatest literary influence upon Kafka was Flaubert's. Flaubert who loathed pretty-pretty prose would have applauded Kafka's attitude towards his tool.
BellataBased on "Packages", programmers set up programs to automatically find an item for sale on the Internet for $1.00 every day
Drupal's command-line utility Drush has a make-me-a-sandwich command, which requires sudo access
OCDA Rough Sketch for a Proposed Film Dealing with the Powers of Ten and the Relative Size of Things in the Universe
Cosmic Viewcontinuing to zoom out to a field of view of 1024 meters, or the size of the observable universe
Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies