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- 341: The Penalties of Drunk Driving
- ... charge of driving while impaired -- with a blood alcohol level of .06 to .09 percent -- will not be seized. There are six offences in drinking and driving. They are "driving while impaired", “having care and control of a vehicle while impaired", "driving while exceeding 80 m.g.", " having care and control of a vehicle while exceeding 80 m.g.", "refusing to give a breath sample", and "refusing to submit to a roadside screen test. These are all Criminal Code Offences. The sentence for "refusing to give ... The third offence penalty is imprisonment 2 for 3 months to 2 years (or more) and automatic suspension of license for six months. These penalties are the same for the following offences. "Having Care and Control of a Motor Vehicle while Impaired" is another offence. Having care and control of a vehicle does not require that you be driving it. Occupying the driver's seat, even if you did not ...
- 342: PRIVACY
- ... data is becoming alarmingly easier to obtain. Our preferences, our addresses, telephone numbers, and Social Security numbers all are sold routinely. In a 1995 United States survey, 80 percent agreed that consumers have lost all control over how personal information about them is circulated and used by companies (Summers, 23). Some of the most powerful companies and corporations are powerful because of their ability to obtain private information at anytime. Microsoft ... privacy like the "haves" do. This is mainly because the imperializing powers try to prohibit the localizing powers from ensuring their privacy. The government has come up with regulations on the export of cryptography to control the "have nots." One method computer companies have come up with to ensure people privacy is passwords. Passwords are everywhere. People have passwords for phone cards, credit cards, cash cards, and on the Internet. The ... obtaining the privilege of encryption is difficult. Businesses who are allowed the use of cryptography have to pay a lot of money to use it. This is the governments way of ensuring their right to control the amount of privacy people can have. The government explains this use of power as their way of protecting citizens from terrorist and spies. The government says that in order to protect citizens from ...
- 343: What Is Radar
- ... can be used to direct the firing of guns and missiles to protect a country against attack. In peacetime, radar can help navigate ships, land planes in a fog, and guide astronauts. Radar can help control street traffic and assist the police in finding speeding automobiles. Radar sets come in many sizes. A small set, made for use in a guided missile, is not much larger than a coffeepot. The larger ... moving, while the land areas are not. Uses of Radar Radar has both military and civilian uses. There are two main military uses of radar. One is called search radar. The other is called fire control radar. Search radar sets are the kind already discussed. They continually search the sky to find targets, and they help ships and aircraft to find other object. Fire)control radar sets help to aim a gun or missile so that it will hit the target when it is fired. These sets have to be more aurate than search radar sets. They must be ...
- 344: Nuclear Weapon Disarmament
- ... the case for nuclear disarmament, saying that, “there exists an obligation to pursue in good faith and bring to a conclusion negotiations leading to nuclear disarmament in all its aspects under strict and effective international control” (Kreiger, 10reasons.html). On the international stage, the United States never misses an opportunity to sign a treaty calling for nuclear disarmament, but behind closed doors, the United States is still very dependent on nuclear ... of security. Even arguments that we need deterrence to deter other countries is flawed. Imagine this scenario: you are sleeping one night, and you hear a noise downstairs. You get out of bed, grab your gun, and walk downstairs. In the kitchen, you walk up on a robber with a gun. You are thinking, “is he going to shoot me?” while he is thinking the same thing. You both think that it is best to shoot the other, before he can shoot you. The presence ...
- 345: Airplane Warfare In WWI
- ... war was still prohibited by the War Office. Shortly thereafter this changed, people awakened to the possibilities of air warfare. The world soon started to realize the effectiveness of planes in war and how the control of the skies could influence the outcome. Although the French were the first to have a working, conscripting air force and to license fliers, their trust in airplanes still was not up to par. Their ... always one step ahead in airplane advances. These advances were so great that even though the Germans were outnumbered eight to one, they still came out on top. For instance, the mounting of a machine gun behind the propellers seemed like suicide, but the Germans came up with the idea of a timed switch that would allow the gun to fire in-between rotations. This made it easier to aim and fly at the same time. Roland Garros, an allied flier, who mounted a gun in the cockpit and put protective plates on ...
- 346: Anti-Social Personality Disorder
- ... Social Personality Disorder or in laymen's terms the psychopath. The psychopath is probably the most deviant mind that exists and treatment is not very successful because there is not a cure or drug to control it. The solution in my mind to control the problem of sociopaths is to let them live in colonies with each other. Through my research I will develop an understanding of this personality disorder and convince you the reader that my solution might ... and 70 but after 30 are less likely to be in trouble with the law. In a sociopaths in their thirties will continue to have problems such as unstable relationships, substance abuse, impulsiveness, poor temper control and failure to honor financial obligations. In our population 3% men have Anti-Social Personality Disorder and 1% women in the overall population have it. The ratio of men to women is 4 to ...
- 347: The Green Party of Canada
- ... We must fully support all non-violent efforts to resolve conflicts around the world and work to put an everlasting end to war. The vision of the Green Parties non- violent world would include stiffer gun control than was imposed in 1995, a drastic reduction in the military budget, a withdraw from the global arms race and finally specific targeting of a Canada aid program to the poorest countries. Unlike other political ... the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes (Websters 418) . The Greens would like to see a society where the moral code of cooperation and understanding would replace the immoral acts of domination and control. Everyone would be equal, meaning people would share and help one another instead of being told what to do and how to do it. There would exist no difference between that of male and ...
- 348: Nuclear Power for All
- ... have nuclear capabilities. However, no matter what the reason, it clearly goes against the non-proliferation treaty as well as other agreements established to restrict the use of nuclear weapons. “Are the Chinese building a gun that ultimately they’re going to point at us?” asks Kent Harrington, a former CIA Intelligence Officer for Asia. “I don’t think today, we can reach that conclusion. But we need to talk to ... by the Chinese. “With it’s relatively small nuclear arsenal (an estimated 200-300 weapons) compared to the United States and the former Soviet Union, and it's generally minor role in past international arms control negotiations, China attracted limited attention among U.S. nuclear arms control policy makers until recently” (Sutter). Therefore, it can be assumed that China will continue to conduct more frequent test as their arsenal increases. One of the ways China is obtaining new technology is by ...
- 349: Alcatraz
- ... In 1959, he was transferred to the Medical Center for Federal prisoners in Springfield, Missouri, where he died on November 21, 1963. Prison Life While several well-known criminals, such as Al Capone, George "Machine-Gun" Kelly, Alvin Karpis (the first "Public Enemy #1"), and Arthur "Doc" Barker did time on Alcatraz, most of the 1,576 prisoners incarcerated there were not well-known gangsters, but prisoners who refused to conform ... Alcatraz. #10. May 2-4, 1946 - Known as the "Battle of Alcatraz" and the "Alcatraz Blastout," six prisoners were able to overpower cellhouse officers and gain access to weapons and cellhouse keys - in effect, taking control of the cellhouse. Their plan began to fall apart when the inmates found they did not have the key to unlock the recreation yard door. Shortly thereafter, prison officials discovered the escape attempt. Instead of ... blank range by Cretzer (encouraged by Shockley and Thompson). One officer, William Miller, died from his injuries. A second officer, Harold Stites (who stopped the third escape attempt), was shot and killed attempting to regain control of the cellhouse. About 18 officers were injured during the escape attempt. The U.S. Marines were eventually called out to assist, and on May 4, the escape attempt ended with the discovery of ...
- 350: Cinematography Everything You Need To Know
- ... frequency above about 48 interruptions a second will eliminate flicker. Camera Like a still camera (see CAMERA), a movie camera shoots each picture individually. The movie camera, however, must also move the film precisely and control the shutter, keeping the amount of light reaching the film nearly constant from frame to frame. The shutter of a movie camera is essentially a circular plate rotated by an electric motor. An opening in ... hundreds of such studies and went on to lecture in Europe, where his work intrigued the French scientist E. J. MAREY. Marey devised a means of shooting motion photographs with what he called a photographic gun.^Edison became interested in the possibilities of motion photography after hearing Muybridge lecture in West Orange, N.J. Edison's motion picture experiments, under the direction of William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, began in 1888 with ... films between 1908 and 1913, in this period discovering or developing almost every major technique by which film manipulates time and space: the use of alternating close-ups, medium shots, and distant panoramas; the subtle control of rhythmic editing; the effective use of traveling shots, atmospheric lighting, narrative commentary, poetic detail, and visual symbolism; and the advantages of understated acting, at which his acting company excelled. The culmination of Griffith' ...
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