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These days when I hear about these horrible incidents on the news I get the feeling that more and more young people are losing their ability to distinguish between real and virtual worlds.
Virtual memory is a memory management technique developed for multitasking kernels.
Full body scanners perform a virtual strip search.
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We were only able to film these virtual savageswith the help of a friend from Las Hurdes, who acted as intermediary.
It'll be a virtual monopoly for Pearce and Crump and their buses.
Four: if, prior to this time we have done nothing to suppress their retaliatory capabilities we will suffer virtual annihilation.
There is an epidemic of mass murder being committed by a virtual army of unidentified assassins.
Virtual immortality, or as much as any man will ever want.
Virtual isolation of Moonbase.
It's been 10 years since I moved to this place, a virtual garbage heap.
He went into the Institute for a rest and has been a virtual prisoner ever since.
I'm virtual Vincent, and I'll be your tour guide through each delectable course of my feast d'amour as well as through your undersea cruise through the enchanting Global Dynamics aquafarm.
And remember, there's no need for you lovebirds to be shy around virtual Vincent.
They're using virtual Vincent's super wi-fi connection to communicate.
Come the rainy season, the whole area becomes a virtual river.
It is a virtual impossibility, sir.
Himmler was in undisputed control of a virtual private empire.
When a man is so jealous that he keeps his wife a virtual prisoner in her own home, won't even let her out to talk to a neighbor, then he has to be insane.
To unite the world, you. Are cheated by the virtual reality.
According to the physio-cultural reports submitted to the Federation, it's a virtual paradise.
That and the fact that she's been a virtual shut-in for the past 30 years. has given rise to frequent lapses in memory, bouts of senility. and even paranoid delusions.
Tolerance is a virtual, my dear Shiloh.
And of no use to society. We need a subject who'll welcome the power the virtual immortality we offer.
I am adding virtual particle trajectories.
We can employ virtual imaging to interpolate missing data.
Well, it was very well constructed, a virtual tribute to form.
How can you deliver her into a life of virtual prostitution?
She is a virtual prisoner in there.
And virtual-reality displays show our geneticists the gaps in the DNA sequence.
Four: If prior to this time. we have done nothing to suppress their retaliatory capabilities. we will suffer virtual annihilation.
He had been its virtual leader.
It might be a virtual dictatorship, but at least it's a benevolent one.
Come rainy season, the whole area becomes a virtual river.
He returned home a virtual zombie.
He became a virtual recluse.
They want this animal trained in virtual reality to use the infrared battle helmet, not to recite the abcs.
He's already exhibiting behavioral instability in the virtual battle simulations.
Virtual reality holds a key to the evolution of the human mind and that's my focus! This is something.
I'm going to step up the virtual treatments and increase the dosage of nootropic drugs.
News and current affairs
At a red light in New York, a squeegee kid or two might approach your car; in Accra, a stopped car is immediately surrounded by a virtual supermarket.
And, in a world in which many citizens spend an increasing proportion of their time in virtual space, de facto condominialism is already happening.
Indeed, the second conclusion to be drawn from the US government shutdown is the virtual disappearance of American triumphalism.
Colombian goods already enjoy virtual free entry to the US market, while Colombian consumers would benefit enormously if their country were to reciprocate by opening its markets to US goods and services.
They remind us that we Internet users are, indeed, under constant virtual surveillance.
It cannot have escaped their notice that to uphold indefinite detention of foreign nationals without judicial process would have made them virtual pariahs on the conference circuit.
Aided by systems developed by western intelligence agencies, China has forged a virtual sword that threatens to block the path to democracy.
As of the mid-1980's, there were more than 300,000 cases of polio per year worldwide, despite the disease's virtual elimination in the richest countries, where vaccination was routine.
In fact, it is not really an organized market, but only an informal virtual exchange.
But this avoids the important interconnections between the physical and virtual layers of cyberspace.
Sending money to some countries is now allowed only through formal banking channels, and this has created virtual monopolies while also preventing remittance money from reaching rural areas where banks don't operate.
When the Internet was created in the 1970s, its members formed a virtual village; everyone knew one another, and together they designed an open system, paying little attention to security.
China's government has blocked Liu's wife, the acclaimed photographer Liu Xia, from participating by keeping her under virtual house arrest in Beijing.
The country increasingly lives in its own virtual reality, simultaneously proximate to and far removed from the revolutionary pre-modernity of most of its neighbors.
Rather than a single laboratory, such a program could be a distributed virtual enterprise, taking advantage of the sort of innovative industrial collaboration in which China currently excels.
Sequential GDP growth slowed to a low single-digit pace - a virtual standstill by Chinese standards.
After years of virtual non-existence, civil society, therefore cannot be restored from above, or by legal fiat.
More than half of the world's population now lives in cities, and any political renaissance must counterbalance the appeal of vast virtual communities with resilient urban societies.
Citizens must become reengaged with the political process, educated in public affairs, and provided with real (not merely virtual) platforms to air their differences and debate alternative views.
But for all this generosity, an authoritarian government rules Ethiopia with virtual impunity.
Humiliating a small country and rendering it a virtual protectorate does not serve Europe's long-term interest.
Being in virtual control of large swathes of Central American territory and being able to act with relative impunity are ultimately very good for business.