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1876: On July 26th, on its way to attack a Lakota village, Custer's 7th Cavalry was crushed at the battle of Little Big Horn.
The front of wars is increasingly non-human eyes peering down on our perceived enemies from space, guiding missiles toward unseen targets, while the human conduct of the orchestra of media relations in the event that this particular drone attack hits a villager instead of an extremist.
Not "You must kill unbelievers in Mecca," but you can, you are allowed to, but only after a grace period is over, and only if there's no other pact in place, and only if they try to stop you getting to the Kaaba, and only if they attack you first.
Or even better, "Let me get one of the green kids, who are already proficient in that concept, to be the first line of attack, and actually tutor their peer."
And after we experimented with different flavors of cheese, I realized, well, this is a directed attack.
They knew all the bits and bites that they had to attack.
Here you see a sample of this actual attack code.
And guess what we found in the attack code?
Think about this: this attack is generic.
She was able to see the vectors and trend lines and intentions long before any of us and understand what was going to happen and made a philosophical decision to attack in a peace game.
The future holds the promise that new drugs will be developed that are not symptom-modifying drugs that simply mask the problem, as we have now, but that will be disease-modifying drugs that will actually go right to the root of the problem and attack those glial cells, or those pernicious proteins that the glial cells elaborate, that spill over and cause this central nervous system wind-up, or plasticity, that so is capable of distorting and amplifying the sensory experience that we call pain.
But if it's a burglar alarm, you wouldn't expect it to attack the jellyfish directly.
If we take our own bone marrow cells and treat a patient with a heart attack, we can see much improved heart function and better survival using our own bone marrow derived cells after a heart attack.
We need that same kind of passion and energy to attack global gridlock.
This Nigerian student studied in London, trained in Yemen, boarded a flight in Amsterdam to attack America.
In the meanwhile, the Old mentality with a capital O, was represented by his father, the head of the Nigerian bank, warning the CIA that his own son was about to attack, and this warning fell on deaf ears.
And the question is: Can we, as socio-economic beings, avoid a heart attack?
And as fate would have it, just a few months ago, Captain Davis suffered a massive heart attack, at the age of 46.
You never know when they're going to attack next, who or what the consequences will be.
Nonetheless, in an unexpected attack of hubris a couple of years ago, I decided I would try and do that.
The staircase that remained standing after September 11th and the attack on the World Trade Center was dubbed the "Survivors' Staircase," because it played such a central role in leading hundreds of people to safety.
In some cases, religion drives many Africans to extraordinary length: to attack other human beings, to commit ritual killing, targeting those living with albinism, those with a humpback, and as I recently learned, those with a bald head.
Now, this does not show the attack on Ian Tomlinson, but he appears to be in some distress.
But still, at this stage, with witnesses telling us that they'd seen police attack Ian Tomlinson before his death, still, police refused to accept that.
It means an expansion in the range of scientific problems we can hope to attack at all.
It can attack.
But today both countries say the best defense is to attack.
So to sum up, on the one hand, when a possible enemy announces they're building a cyberwar unit, you don't know whether it's for attack or defense.
In this context, when you don't know if the potential enemy is preparing for defense or attack, and if the weapons give an advantage to attacking, then this environment is most likely to spark a conflict.
Because no nation knows for sure whether its neighbor is about to attack.
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