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Strange prophecies and visits from mysterious gypsies give way to the skirmishes and firing squads of repeated civil wars.
Imagine a new kind of assassin, one that could perpetrate a crime without firing a single shot or even being in the same country.
This synchronous firing strengthens the connections between that set of neurons, linking them together into what's known as a neuronal ensemble, in this case the one for pineapple.
In fact, every object that you've seen is encoded by a neuronal ensemble associated with it, the neurons wired together by that synchronized firing.
But something in your brain has to coordinate that firing.
The corporate gun lobby has spent billions of dollars blocking the CDC from doing research into the public health epidemic of gun violence; blocking pediatricians from talking to parents about the dangers of guns in the home; blocking smart-gun technology and other technology that would prevent kids from firing parents' guns and would save lives.
Firing weapons was cool, driving and detonating expensive things was great.
And I was an Infantry Marine, where you're shooting machine guns and firing mortars.
Or the police officer who said that understanding the emotional dynamic between people in a painting helped him to read body language at a domestic violence crime scene, and it enabled him to think twice before drawing and firing his weapon.
When you have a dominant mental state, like relaxation, hundreds and thousands of neurons are firing in the brain, creating concurrent electrical discharges in characteristic patterns that can be measured with electroencephalography, or EEG.
And this is coming from neurons in my heart that are firing what's called action potentials, potential meaning voltage and action meaning it moves quickly up and down, which causes my heart to fire, which then causes the signal that you see here.
The old man crooked his finger as though he were firing a gun, and then he made laser sounds.
The West defeated the mighty Soviet Union without firing a shot.
So the effective rate of firing was drastically increased.
Or is it the amplified sound of a synapse firing in the brain of a cockroach?
All of this is happening without firing a shot.
You see it in the Middle East: people who, from Gaza, are firing missiles at Israel.
Your neurons are firing like mad trying to make meaning out of this so that you see something other than black and white blobs.
And one of the first victims of difficult economic times, I think, is public spending of any kind, but certainly in the firing line at the moment is public spending for science, and particularly curiosity-led science and exploration.
Yeah, we see two birds [helicopters], and we're still firing.
This was obviously concocted as an excuse for a shoot out and escape scene bordering on the preposterous, with people popping in and out of doorways and running past windows while firing pistols at each other.
There are some hilarious things in it, such as the mysterious device the bad guy is seen working on for the whole movie, that turns out to be this tiny helicopter that flutters around carrying and firing a machine gun without so much as a wobble, but is brought down by a bag of balloons (the kind they release at political conventions).
then you have 5 armed persons with semi to fully automatic weapons firing without so much as one bullet breaching the walls of the pressurized cabin at 38,000 feet.
He puts posters of himself dressed up like Sly's "Cobra" all over the place and even has a custom built firing range (with action-posed cutouts of his greatest enemies)in Jakarta although he's in the CIA and has just arrived days earlier.
Both this movie and Cobra were bent on showing the hero firing his guns at hip level and the enemy falling in large numbers.
Police officers spend hours at the shooting range so why did they get gunned down by gang members firing aimlessly from their hips?
The U.S. Army does not put 14-year-old girls to work on military bases, nor allow them to use the firing ranges or training courses.
And plenty of tense moments were provided by showing the bickering and firing of Leno's talent manager Helen which NBC heads pressured him to do.
...I saw this movie when it first came out in France, in my hometown, 54 years ago, I was nine, and today I still remember each black and white frame, especially the black ones, because it was so tense, scary, those sneaking attacks through that dark pass in the mountain, the two soldiers, prisoners forced to fight each other by their captors, the last battle with the uncovering of the wagon with the Gatling in it firing away, the last fight between Peck and the chief, and the Happy End which let me take back my breath.
Why lie about not firing weapons when it can be clearly shown on video?
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