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These are weapons of mass destruction.	2
What's the difference between that mass destruction and the mass destruction over at Columbine High School?"	2
In a time of simple-minded patriotism, loud, clear and dissenting voices like Mr. Moore's are perceived as disturbing and have to be silenced, partially through well funded public relations campaigns, partially through conservative "grass-roots" propaganda.	2
McCollum understands it this way -- otherwise he would protest against the plant being mischaracterized.	0
Even Lockheed did not believe the public to be that gullible.	3
In response to one Moore detractor, McCollum wrote: "Although other units of Lockheed Martin Corporation elsewhere in the country produce weapons to support the defense of the U.S., we make no weapons at the Littleton-area facility Moore visited."	3
"Although other units of Lockheed Martin Corporation elsewhere in the country produce weapons to support the defense of the U.S., we make no weapons at the Littleton-area facility Moore visited."	1
Of course, critics have conveniently ignored the fact that Lockheed Martin does supply weapons of mass destruction to the US military, and that the company is the nation's largest military contractor.	2
As Moore correctly points out, it is bizarre for a society to openly embrace the production of destructive weapons, but on the other hand see no connection of this to everyday violence -- children learn by imitating adults.	3
Yes, Moore makes this point through slight exaggeration by moving with the camera through the LM plant -- but he makes no incorrect statement.	3
It is typical for his critics to jump on what is at most a slightly misleading implication, but in doing so, they themselves have, unlike Moore, made many incorrect claims.	3
3) Denver NRA meeting.	0
Critics like yourself claim that Moore has massively distorted evidence to support his point that Charlton Heston has effectively insulted the victims of the Columbine tragedy by holding a rally in Denver shortly afterwards.	2
First, the "from my cold, dead hands" part: This is used by Moore as a visual citation to introduce Heston.	3
It is perhaps one of his most famous quotes, shown on national TV even here in Germany.	0
It tells viewers: Aha, this is the person we are talking about.	1
It is Moore's way to say: Viewers, meet Charlton Heston, gun nut extraordinaire.	0
If you do have something better to do, though, by all means do it .	3
Why is someone so young not having fun with friends on a Friday night.	2
Granted grading papers is important, but no fun makes for a boring life.	3
since, when I was your age I had fun playing with my adorable son and caring for another baby.	1
You need to try to have a life outside your computer.	3
The one that really stuck in my mind was explaining transitions in the panels of Watchmen .	3
I'd read Watchmen a short while before and appreciated its narrative complexity, but not being used to reading comics, hadn't registered all the technical tricks that the artist was using to achieve this.	0
The post not only taught me something about the grammar of such images, but more importantly led to me realising that there is a grammar to look for in the first place.	1
So thanks a lot for that one.	2
SEK, I started going through your back posts and noticed a pattern in my selections, so I think it would be easier (for me, because I'm rubbish with html) to just say all the scene analysis posts and the close reading comics posts, like the one Magistra mentioned and many others after that.	0
Plus Justifying Comics as a Legitimate Object of Study Parts I & II.	3
I also liked "Teaching the Overdetermined Image.	1
Your takedown of Cashill and the whole Ayers-wrote-Dreams was excellent, and the Cruel_cruel_death post (you know what I'm talking about, right?	0
Also, The Day in Actual Communist and Real Nazi History seems as relevant today as ever.	0
Agree with the previous two comments.	1
What happened to your post that appeared in my RSS reader yesterday?	0
Would it be possible to arrange your posts into three 'parties', and give your many readers the opportunity to 'vote' for one of them, by 'secret ballot'?	3
I feel your British readers would appreciate that.	1
However, when I started looking through my archives, it occurred to me that my output this year defines me much more sharply than in years past.	0
I can't believe I wrote all that last year.	2
What do I mean?	2
The posts I consider foundational to my current professional identity all seem to have been composed in 2009.	3
Granted, the likelihood that I'm suffering from the identitarian equivalent of presentism is awfully high, but I honestly thought I'd written some of the posts from early 2009 in 2006 or so.	1
Because I've been grading all damn day and am as tired as a Swearengen of hearing other about the finished semesters of pretty much every other academic blogger, I thought that it might be best to avoid jealously lashing out and scribble a "Best of Acephalous 2009" post.	0
I noted on Facebook that, from a statistical perspective, what makes baseball such an amazing sport is that you can watch it your entire life and still see, on a daily basis, something you’ve never seen before.	0
The fact that I can verify vague memories of events that occurred twenty-five years ago astounds me in a way I sometimes forget the Internet is capable of doing.	0
This realization is obviously not of world-historical importance, merely a reminder that this thing whose existence we take for granted daily represents a fundamentally weird complement to human memory.	0
The fact that at some point in the future I can know who I rode in an elevator with on 28 December 2005 is less weird because I chose to write about riding in an elevator with Grimace .	3
Joe Sambito.	0
Wow.	0
I'd completely forgotten about him.	3
I sometimes wish I could forget that Pendelton is the Braves hitting coach.	3
Closest I came to that was watching Dale Murphy get tagged out at the plate on what would have been an inside-the-park slam.	2
He pitched for the Astros before he came to the Mets, stayed for '85, then he pitched for the Red Sox against the Mets in '86 World Series.	0
I didn't remember that I remember that, but now that I do, I do.	0
Memory, as Gertrude Stein would say, is funny.	1
Apparently the drug use, sexual excess, and weird UCI experiences haven't softened your brain yet.	3
What's really bothersome, though, is when you only remember things from your distant past.	3
My grandpa was alert till the end, but when I last saw him at age 92 everything he wanted to talk about was 70 years in the past.	2
The Internet occasionally reminds me of how different life is because of it.	3
A guess, but perhaps your grandfather's life at 22 was more interesting than the ensuing 70 yrs.	3
It’s a truism, I know, but it has the benefit of actually being true.	3
You know what makes this post great?	0
No stinking cricket.	0
Yeah, I remember Sambito from the Astros (when the Braves were in the old NL West because it made sense to have a team 3,000 miles from most of their division rivals).	3
Solid pitcher for a while.	3
Apparently, he is a player's representative now.	3
Prosthetic memory.	2
I like to read about others watching baseball more than I like to watch baseball by a factor of nine.	0
In this case, the something in question was watching the wonderfully named Angel Pagan hit an inside-the-park home run and initiate a triple play in the same game.	1
It is true that at the end of time, the old time baseball writers will be hailed as the very best writers, as they had access to an event that was susceptible to beautiful writing, but horrendous to watch in person.	2
Plus, they smoked a prodigious quantity of cigarettes.	2
nota bene: An overdue library book is a crime against Humanities.	0
John Emerson responded with some humbug about it not being an inside-the-park grand slam, which made me remember that I had seen an inside-the-park grand slam at some time in the remote past.	3
I remember being six or seven years old and watching the Mets play the Cardinals in an afternoon game at Shea Stadium, and thanks to the miracle of the Internet, I can definitively say that at approximately 4:30 p.m. on 9 June 1985 , I watched Terry Pendleton hit an inside-the-park grand slam off Joe Sambito in a game the Cardinals would go on to win handily.	0
Diagram of the polarization-opponent unit described by Lambrinos, et al (2000).	0
The unit takes in polarization levels through the two polarization-sensitive photodiodes and feeds them into the logarithm ratio amplifier, which returns the difference of the logarithmized signals from the photodiodes.	3
The e-vector (heading) returned from the two polarization-sensitive photodiodes (1, 2) follows a cos2-function.	0
These stalks will need to have receptors to measure the n-alkene levels present in another ant’s cuticular hydrocarbons, which research indicates is the marker for harvester ants of a nestmate’s current task, perhaps because the hydrocarbons are altered in the dry sun, causing a different ratio of n-alkanes to n-alkenes and the presence of branched n-alkanes in the hydrocarbon profile (Wagner, et al, 2001, as cited in Gordon & Greene, 2003).	3
Antie’s stalks would also have receptors for the hydrocarbons themselves, which research shows indicate to the ants whether another ant is their nestmate (Arnold, et al, 1996, as cited in Gordon & Mehdiabadi, 1999), receptors to detect food, and receptors for three types of pheromones: those released by successful foragers returning with food, those released by successful patrollers returning to the nest, and those marking piles of trash as midden.	0
For the purposes of this proposal, I will assume that the nest maintenance and food processing ants have marked the midden with a particular pheromone.	0
I propose here the theoretical construction and programming of a robot (hereafter referred to as Antie) that will be able to infiltrate a red harvester ant nest, switching between the foraging, patrolling and midden work behaviors.	2
This technique, described by Ishida, et al (2001), has been shown to improve the chemical plume-tracking abilities of robots.	0
The wires will lead back down through the stalk to the on-board PC.	3
Finally, Antie will have tactile sensors on its grippers to analyze the pressure being exerted on a gripped object.	1
These sensors will be of the type patented by Peterson, et al (Patent #4,492,949), and will feature several layers of electrically insulating and parallel flexible conductive rods arranged such that an exerted pressure may be measured in output voltage.	1
These will correspond to the muscles of the ant’s mandibles, which provide sensorimotor feedback to the ant when grasping objects.	3
A table of the sensors and their relation to the ant’s sensory system is provided below.	0
Table of sensors and their relations to the ant.	0
The red harvester ant lives in hot, dry deserts, building its nests in light yellowy sand and foraging for seeds deposited by winds and rain.	0
The ants forage for more than 30 different varieties of seeds, many of which do not grow in the desert (Gordon, 54), where only a few varieties of small shrubs, small herbaceous flowering plants and short grasses do grow (Gordon, 51).	3
Introduction	0
Motors	3
Antie’s motors will allow it to move around and interact with its environment and fellow ants.	1
There will be two individually operated motors to drive the two side wheels in lieu of legs.	3
Two simultaneously operated motors will open and close the grippers, emulating the grasping power of the ant’s mandibles.	2
A third motor will lift and lower the grippers, allowing Antie to raise and lower gripped items as an ant would by raising and lowering its head.	0
Three small sprayers will emit successful patroller and forager pheromones and cuticular hydrocarbons from the appropriate sacs.	0
Antie will not spray different pheromones depending on its task, on the assumption that its time in the sun will alter its hydrocarbons enough that its tasks will be recognizable to other ants.	3
Other insects and creatures, including other species of ants, are present in the desert, but red harvester ants seem to be relatively undisturbed by these animals (Gordon, 7-11).	0
Almost all motor output will be a direct function of sensory input as indicated in the following section.	1
Antie will have a hybrid software architecture: a subsumption hierarchy will be responsible for switching between behaviors, but many sub-behaviors will operate on a schema basis.	2
Pseudocode will approximate this architecture as closely as possible, and where appropriate, different subroutines running on a schema basis will be marked.	0

These are weapons of mass destruction.

2

What's the difference between that mass destruction and the mass destruction over at Columbine High School?"

2

In a time of simple-minded patriotism, loud, clear and dissenting voices like Mr. Moore's are perceived as disturbing and have to be silenced, partially through well funded public relations campaigns, partially through conservative "grass-roots" propaganda.

2

McCollum understands it this way -- otherwise he would protest against the plant being mischaracterized.

0

Even Lockheed did not believe the public to be that gullible.

3

In response to one Moore detractor, McCollum wrote: "Although other units of Lockheed Martin Corporation elsewhere in the country produce weapons to support the defense of the U.S., we make no weapons at the Littleton-area facility Moore visited."

3

"Although other units of Lockheed Martin Corporation elsewhere in the country produce weapons to support the defense of the U.S., we make no weapons at the Littleton-area facility Moore visited."

1

Of course, critics have conveniently ignored the fact that Lockheed Martin does supply weapons of mass destruction to the US military, and that the company is the nation's largest military contractor.

2

As Moore correctly points out, it is bizarre for a society to openly embrace the production of destructive weapons, but on the other hand see no connection of this to everyday violence -- children learn by imitating adults.

3

Yes, Moore makes this point through slight exaggeration by moving with the camera through the LM plant -- but he makes no incorrect statement.

3

It is typical for his critics to jump on what is at most a slightly misleading implication, but in doing so, they themselves have, unlike Moore, made many incorrect claims.

3

3) Denver NRA meeting.

0

Critics like yourself claim that Moore has massively distorted evidence to support his point that Charlton Heston has effectively insulted the victims of the Columbine tragedy by holding a rally in Denver shortly afterwards.

2

First, the "from my cold, dead hands" part: This is used by Moore as a visual citation to introduce Heston.

3

It is perhaps one of his most famous quotes, shown on national TV even here in Germany.

0

It tells viewers: Aha, this is the person we are talking about.

1

It is Moore's way to say: Viewers, meet Charlton Heston, gun nut extraordinaire.

0

If you do have something better to do, though, by all means do it .

3

Why is someone so young not having fun with friends on a Friday night.

2

Granted grading papers is important, but no fun makes for a boring life.

3

since, when I was your age I had fun playing with my adorable son and caring for another baby.

1

You need to try to have a life outside your computer.

3

The one that really stuck in my mind was explaining transitions in the panels of Watchmen .

3

I'd read Watchmen a short while before and appreciated its narrative complexity, but not being used to reading comics, hadn't registered all the technical tricks that the artist was using to achieve this.

0

The post not only taught me something about the grammar of such images, but more importantly led to me realising that there is a grammar to look for in the first place.

1

So thanks a lot for that one.

2

SEK, I started going through your back posts and noticed a pattern in my selections, so I think it would be easier (for me, because I'm rubbish with html) to just say all the scene analysis posts and the close reading comics posts, like the one Magistra mentioned and many others after that.

0

Plus Justifying Comics as a Legitimate Object of Study Parts I & II.

3

I also liked "Teaching the Overdetermined Image.

1

Your takedown of Cashill and the whole Ayers-wrote-Dreams was excellent, and the Cruel_cruel_death post (you know what I'm talking about, right?

0

Also, The Day in Actual Communist and Real Nazi History seems as relevant today as ever.

0

Agree with the previous two comments.

1

What happened to your post that appeared in my RSS reader yesterday?

0

Would it be possible to arrange your posts into three 'parties', and give your many readers the opportunity to 'vote' for one of them, by 'secret ballot'?

3

I feel your British readers would appreciate that.

1

However, when I started looking through my archives, it occurred to me that my output this year defines me much more sharply than in years past.

0

I can't believe I wrote all that last year.

2

What do I mean?

2

The posts I consider foundational to my current professional identity all seem to have been composed in 2009.

3

Granted, the likelihood that I'm suffering from the identitarian equivalent of presentism is awfully high, but I honestly thought I'd written some of the posts from early 2009 in 2006 or so.

1

Because I've been grading all damn day and am as tired as a Swearengen of hearing other about the finished semesters of pretty much every other academic blogger, I thought that it might be best to avoid jealously lashing out and scribble a "Best of Acephalous 2009" post.

0

I noted on Facebook that, from a statistical perspective, what makes baseball such an amazing sport is that you can watch it your entire life and still see, on a daily basis, something you’ve never seen before.

0

The fact that I can verify vague memories of events that occurred twenty-five years ago astounds me in a way I sometimes forget the Internet is capable of doing.

0

This realization is obviously not of world-historical importance, merely a reminder that this thing whose existence we take for granted daily represents a fundamentally weird complement to human memory.

0

The fact that at some point in the future I can know who I rode in an elevator with on 28 December 2005 is less weird because I chose to write about riding in an elevator with Grimace .

3

Joe Sambito.

0

Wow.

0

I'd completely forgotten about him.

3

I sometimes wish I could forget that Pendelton is the Braves hitting coach.

3

Closest I came to that was watching Dale Murphy get tagged out at the plate on what would have been an inside-the-park slam.

2

He pitched for the Astros before he came to the Mets, stayed for '85, then he pitched for the Red Sox against the Mets in '86 World Series.

0

I didn't remember that I remember that, but now that I do, I do.

0

Memory, as Gertrude Stein would say, is funny.

1

Apparently the drug use, sexual excess, and weird UCI experiences haven't softened your brain yet.

3

What's really bothersome, though, is when you only remember things from your distant past.

3

My grandpa was alert till the end, but when I last saw him at age 92 everything he wanted to talk about was 70 years in the past.

2

The Internet occasionally reminds me of how different life is because of it.

3

A guess, but perhaps your grandfather's life at 22 was more interesting than the ensuing 70 yrs.

3

It’s a truism, I know, but it has the benefit of actually being true.

3

You know what makes this post great?

0

No stinking cricket.

0

Yeah, I remember Sambito from the Astros (when the Braves were in the old NL West because it made sense to have a team 3,000 miles from most of their division rivals).

3

Solid pitcher for a while.

3

Apparently, he is a player's representative now.

3

Prosthetic memory.

2

I like to read about others watching baseball more than I like to watch baseball by a factor of nine.

0

In this case, the something in question was watching the wonderfully named Angel Pagan hit an inside-the-park home run and initiate a triple play in the same game.

1

It is true that at the end of time, the old time baseball writers will be hailed as the very best writers, as they had access to an event that was susceptible to beautiful writing, but horrendous to watch in person.

2

Plus, they smoked a prodigious quantity of cigarettes.

2

nota bene: An overdue library book is a crime against Humanities.

0

John Emerson responded with some humbug about it not being an inside-the-park grand slam, which made me remember that I had seen an inside-the-park grand slam at some time in the remote past.

3

I remember being six or seven years old and watching the Mets play the Cardinals in an afternoon game at Shea Stadium, and thanks to the miracle of the Internet, I can definitively say that at approximately 4:30 p.m. on 9 June 1985 , I watched Terry Pendleton hit an inside-the-park grand slam off Joe Sambito in a game the Cardinals would go on to win handily.

0

Diagram of the polarization-opponent unit described by Lambrinos, et al (2000).

0

The unit takes in polarization levels through the two polarization-sensitive photodiodes and feeds them into the logarithm ratio amplifier, which returns the difference of the logarithmized signals from the photodiodes.

3

The e-vector (heading) returned from the two polarization-sensitive photodiodes (1, 2) follows a cos2-function.

0

These stalks will need to have receptors to measure the n-alkene levels present in another ant’s cuticular hydrocarbons, which research indicates is the marker for harvester ants of a nestmate’s current task, perhaps because the hydrocarbons are altered in the dry sun, causing a different ratio of n-alkanes to n-alkenes and the presence of branched n-alkanes in the hydrocarbon profile (Wagner, et al, 2001, as cited in Gordon & Greene, 2003).

3

Antie’s stalks would also have receptors for the hydrocarbons themselves, which research shows indicate to the ants whether another ant is their nestmate (Arnold, et al, 1996, as cited in Gordon & Mehdiabadi, 1999), receptors to detect food, and receptors for three types of pheromones: those released by successful foragers returning with food, those released by successful patrollers returning to the nest, and those marking piles of trash as midden.

0

For the purposes of this proposal, I will assume that the nest maintenance and food processing ants have marked the midden with a particular pheromone.

0

I propose here the theoretical construction and programming of a robot (hereafter referred to as Antie) that will be able to infiltrate a red harvester ant nest, switching between the foraging, patrolling and midden work behaviors.

2

This technique, described by Ishida, et al (2001), has been shown to improve the chemical plume-tracking abilities of robots.

0

The wires will lead back down through the stalk to the on-board PC.

3

Finally, Antie will have tactile sensors on its grippers to analyze the pressure being exerted on a gripped object.

1

These sensors will be of the type patented by Peterson, et al (Patent #4,492,949), and will feature several layers of electrically insulating and parallel flexible conductive rods arranged such that an exerted pressure may be measured in output voltage.

1

These will correspond to the muscles of the ant’s mandibles, which provide sensorimotor feedback to the ant when grasping objects.

3

A table of the sensors and their relation to the ant’s sensory system is provided below.

0

Table of sensors and their relations to the ant.

0

The red harvester ant lives in hot, dry deserts, building its nests in light yellowy sand and foraging for seeds deposited by winds and rain.

0

The ants forage for more than 30 different varieties of seeds, many of which do not grow in the desert (Gordon, 54), where only a few varieties of small shrubs, small herbaceous flowering plants and short grasses do grow (Gordon, 51).

3

Introduction

0

Motors

3

Antie’s motors will allow it to move around and interact with its environment and fellow ants.

1

There will be two individually operated motors to drive the two side wheels in lieu of legs.

3

Two simultaneously operated motors will open and close the grippers, emulating the grasping power of the ant’s mandibles.

2

A third motor will lift and lower the grippers, allowing Antie to raise and lower gripped items as an ant would by raising and lowering its head.

0

Three small sprayers will emit successful patroller and forager pheromones and cuticular hydrocarbons from the appropriate sacs.

0

Antie will not spray different pheromones depending on its task, on the assumption that its time in the sun will alter its hydrocarbons enough that its tasks will be recognizable to other ants.

3

Other insects and creatures, including other species of ants, are present in the desert, but red harvester ants seem to be relatively undisturbed by these animals (Gordon, 7-11).

0

Almost all motor output will be a direct function of sensory input as indicated in the following section.

1

Antie will have a hybrid software architecture: a subsumption hierarchy will be responsible for switching between behaviors, but many sub-behaviors will operate on a schema basis.

2

Pseudocode will approximate this architecture as closely as possible, and where appropriate, different subroutines running on a schema basis will be marked.

0