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Really, I thought that I had seen it all when I saw movies like "Freddy Got Fingered", "The Nutty Professor 2" and all those teenage comedies full of toilet humor and humor about other bodily functions.
'Cocksucker Blues' is a cinema-verite style time capsule, filmed by American photographer Robert Frank, who functions as a sort of fly on the dressing room wall, so to speak.
The plot is similar to Street Trash, as it follows the unoriginal idea (also seen in Larry Cohen's "The Stuff") of a new product disrupting people's bodily functions.
How it functions physically, which teaches about physics.
But the picture's, meaning McCarey's, viewpoint is odious, and even such basic functions as plotting and pacing are substandard.
However, their sex-life only properly functions when the blood of innocent women is shed and thus they start a vagina-stabbing killing spree across the city.
Other players, including Facebook (which can mine a 500-million-plus customer base), could give it strong competition, using newsfeeds or its evolving messaging functions rather than e-mail.
In many ways that is a blessing, but some state functions remain unfulfilled.
Genetically modified mice either lack a specific gene or gene-pair (knock-out mice) or carry a piece of foreign DNA integrated into their own chromosomes (transgenic mice), and are used to deduce the functions of particular genes.
So the question is not whether Europe exists, but whether we are satisfied with the way it functions.
The European currency will take over the functions of the D-Mark.
The first type aims at an institutional reordering, so that inefficiencies and perverse incentives are removed, and the economy functions more smoothly and efficiently.
But support for the TNC is largely skin deep – it is neither grounded in knowledge of how the opaque council functions, nor based on an understanding of its goals.
Institutionalizing the G-8 and providing it with executive functions could best provide the external impetus that is needed.
Almost all of the world’s developed countries consider themselves, and are, social democracies: mixed economies with very large governments performing a wide array of welfare and social insurance functions, and removing large chunks of wealth and commodity distribution from the market.
The Deutsche Mark, already widely used in the region, now functions as the de facto common currency.
A currency serves three functions, providing a means of payment, a unit of account, and a store of value.
At the Fukushima site, the backup power supply, essential for maintaining vital safety functions such as cooling the reactors and spent fuel rods, was not properly protected.
They will choke on the commission’s recommendation of a new criminal offense for reckless conduct that leads to taxpayer bailouts, reinforced by a new “senior persons” regime that would ascribe all bank functions to a specific individual, who would be held personally liable when things go wrong.
Both wage and livelihood insurance appear to have important risk management functions.
But the EU’s unpopularity should not drive countries to exit; it should spur reform that embraces all EU member countries and improves the way the EU functions, rather than merely tinkers with the structure.
Norms that may be ripe for discussion outside the GGE process could include protected status for the core functions of the Internet; supply-chain standards and liability for the Internet of Things; treatment of election processes as protected infrastructure; and, more broadly, norms for issues such as crime and information warfare.
Nonetheless, assembly in physical space fulfills functions for democracy that online activity, however permanent or passionate, simply cannot.
Many studies have focused on the possible negative impact of cannabis use on memory and other cognitive functions.
Already, AI – which focuses on advancing the cognitive functions of machines so that they can “learn” on their own – is reshaping our lives.
International politics may be founded on treaties, but it functions on the basis of rational expectations.
Eventually, everything that is inessential will be gone, and you will be left with only the components necessary for it to perform its basic functions.
– is a simple cell, with only the genes that are essential for life; it has a smaller genome than any autonomously replicating organism found in nature, larger only than those found in viruses and other entities that rely on hosts for essential functions.
Of the 149 genes with unknown functions, 70 have a structure that at least hints at their role in the cell.
The British government, after all, has embarked on a path that runs in precisely the opposite direction – reducing the functions of central bodies and repatriating powers to national capitals.
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