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  • I guess my contribution would be to get serious about the ramifications of high-tech-for-the-masses and soon-to-come game changers. low-order conflict means a real engagement on the information and propaganda fronts (well, OK the latter seems pretty advanced as is … but mind-control has a hidden disadvantage in that the minds it produces are not exactly top-notch thinkers).

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Prepping for Pucka. 2010

  • The only creatures that can survive in the blogosphere are low-order molds, able to feed off the waste of others.

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • It was a low-order explosive in a-- an ammunition box similar to this, although we believe the box was slightly larger.

    CNN Transcript Mar 6, 2008 2008

  • "About 95 percent of the questions required only low-order thinking skills" such as memorization says Boston College's George Madaus, the study's principal researcher.

    The Trouble With Tests, Part Two 2008

  • It would seem that trapping their quarry would be a fairly low-order military operation for the carabinieri.

    Bad Bag 2005

  • The first term is a background term needed for numerical stability, since low-order schemes typically accumulate noise at small scales without such terms.

    Exponential Growth in Physical Systems « Climate Audit 2007

  • The $64 question for MBH98 is whether there is a spurious relationship with bristlecones in a complicated multivariate setting with other proxies functioning as white noise or low-order red noise – very much the viewpoint of MM05b and our Reply to Huybers MM05 EE curiously is not cited by Bürger, although he makes many citations to us and not disparagingly.

    Bürger and "Skill" « Climate Audit 2007

  • Convective schemes provide a discontinuous forcing that cannot be handled well by low-order time schemes.

    Exponential Growth in Physical Systems « Climate Audit 2007

  • An idealized model is considered, in which the solar dynamo and the climate are represented by low-order systems, each of which in isolation supports chaotic oscillations.

    Solar Proxies « Climate Audit 2007

  • It would seem that trapping their quarry would be a fairly low-order military operation for the carabinieri.

    Veniceblog: 2005

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