A Drug War on Auto Pilot

Inanimate objects that might spontaneously synchronize themselves.

We know that trees are static entities when we look at their trunks.

Figures provide only a lifeless snapshot of a country.

Now comes the very risky part of my talk, which is to demonstrate that inanimate things can synchronize.

But those were just dry statistics. Images likely mattered more.

Entities such as the Sun, Moon, Earth, sky, and sea were often deified.

We have seen, and we have lived with, the limitations inherent in a freeze frame format that favours a fixed over a fluid formula.

In the American Iranian equation it was the US, not Iran, that conducted rigid ideological diplomacy.

Significant openness, allowing emigration and immigration of all components (closed systems remain static).

We do not believe that, as some suggest, such a step would hamstring the Council by imposing rigid guidelines.

To put it simply, a sound management system cannot operate with rigid bureaucratic structures and institutional inflexibilities.

Language, on the other hand, has an intermediate level of entropy it's neither too rigid, nor is it too random.

On the day the earth and mountains will rock violently , and the mountains turn to a heap of poured out sand .

On a day when the earth and the mountains will tremble , and the mountains turn into dunes of flowing sand .

upon the day when the earth and the mountains shall quake and the mountains become a slipping heap of sand .

On a Day whereon the earth and the mountains shall quake , and the mountains shall become a sand heap poured forth .

On the Day when the earth and the mountains will be in violent shake , and the mountains will be a heap of sand poured out and flowing down .

On the Day when the earth and the mountains tremble , and the mountains become heaps of sand .

( They will come across all this ) on the Day when the earth and the mountains shall tremble violently and the mountains shall crumble into heaps of scattered sand .

On the day when the earth and the hills rock , and the hills become a heap of running sand .

the day when the earth and the mountains will quake , and the mountains will be like dunes of shifting sand .

On the Day when the earth with all its mountains quake and the mountains become heaps of shifting sand .

On the Day the earth and the mountains will convulse and the mountains will become a heap of sand pouring down .

On that day , the earth and the mountains will be violently shaken , and the mountains will be turned into heaps of moving sand .

On the day when the earth and the mountains shall quake and the mountains shall become ( as ) heaps of sand let loose .

on the Day the earth and mountains shall shake and the mountains crumble into shifting sand dunes .

One Day the earth and the mountains will be in violent commotion . And the mountains will be as a heap of sand poured out and flowing down .

These structures are often rigid, quite bureaucratic, dominating by men, and as such, intimidating for women.

And institutions are going to come under an increasing degree of pressure, and the more rigidly managed, and the more they rely on information monopolies, the greater the pressure is going to be.

At some point, merchants find that they can not gain profit if they cut the price further so the sticky price remains.

There are no separate schools for girls or for boys in Tajikistan, and study programmes are not analyzed from the standpoint of gender stereotypes.

The stability of the international financial system today depends on the willingness of countries with rigid exchange rates to allow greater flexibility.

When asked about the role of capital controls, Strauss Kahn said he was not wedded to any rigid ideology on the subject.

The existing paradigm serves to rigidify decision making at a time when extraordinary flexibility and rapid change are essential.

There were are still prejudicial stereotypes particularly the belief that the woman's place is in the home which traditionally undermine women's rights.

In 3D computer graphics, 3D modeling (or modelling) is the process of developing a mathematical representation of any three dimensional surface of an object (either inanimate or living) via specialized software.

Properties Despite their name, aerogels are solid, rigid, and dry materials that do not resemble a gel in their physical properties The name comes from the fact that they are made from gels.

Germany seems to be congealing into an introspective provincialism, and that at a time where its potential, its leadership even, are more urgently needed than ever.

At the lower end of the scale, you find a rigid sequence, a sequence of all A's, and you also find a computer program, in this case in the language Fortran, which obeys really strict rules.

If the current EU budget rules are too rigid and are ignored in the face of a shock, then the door is open for imprudent fiscal behavior.

And that prompted people to make maps like this, with all kinds of wonderful detail on the land, but when you get to the waters edge, the ocean looks like one giant puddle of blue paint.

Secondly, life needs to be in liquid form, so that means even if we had some interesting structures, interesting molecules together but they were frozen solid, then this is not a good place for life.

Never mind that most of the crises could have been avoided, or late least substantially mitigated, if governments had let their currencies float against the dollar, rather than adopting rigid exchange rate pegs.

I decided to ask whether the lesson I had learned from trees as artists could be applied to a static institution such as our prisons, and I think the answer is yes.