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Kerr described what he called “supply chain attacks” in which hackers not only steal proprietary information, but go further and insert erroneous data and programs in communications hardware and software – Trojan horses that can be used to bring down systems.
Medieval European cavalries later put political power into the hands of the wealthy, who could afford to support horses and their groomsmen, but the return of mass armies in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries often turned the tables.
The new money would bypass the financial and corporate sectors and go straight to the thirstiest horses: middle- and lower-income consumers.
The establishment of “national security” and “fighting terrorism” as stalking horses for intimidation of journalists who are doing their jobs – exposing government abuses to the light of day – gives the state an even more effective tool to suppress investigative reporting.
Chinese zoos have drawn crowds by staging animal spectacles, and by allowing members of the public to buy live chickens, goats, and horses in order to watch them being pulled apart by lions, tigers, and other big cats.
For thousands of years, city streets were pedestrian, even if shared with horses and carriages.
Derided as “bull butter,” opponents claimed that margarine contained “diseased and putrid beef, dead horses, dead hogs, dead dogs, mad dogs, and downed sheep.”
The group also pointed out that horses could reproduce themselves, whereas tractors depreciated.
All of this is taking place in a nation where Communist ideology remains strong and that remains in many respects a military dictatorship which threatens to conquer Taiwan by force, as well as uses North Korea, Pakistan, and Libya as stalking horses for weapons development.
When it comes to dogs or horses, however, few people could accept Descartes’ view, even in his own time.
Each time that machines yielded gains in efficiency (including when tractors took over from horses), old jobs disappeared, but new jobs were created.
Only the size and the filigree on the back are different, reflecting her new interest in space travel; last year, it was horses.
The world’s governments must be able to trade horses if pandas and presidents are to do more than smile.
The result of their labor is hauled away in carts pulled by mangy horses or donkeys.
But a hardening of the mood there, and a brokered armistice between its disenchanted youth and older but vastly more experienced political war horses, will not only present PRONACO with a formidable opponent, but could throw West Africa into turmoil if matters degenerate into a frontal clash.
BERLIN: Like old battle horses feeling young as the bugle sounds, Cold War strategists are feeling the adrenalin mount as missile defense becomes front page news.
By contrast, the army’s decision to allow Mubarak loyalists – some riding camels or horses – to charge into Cairo’s Tahrir Square and attack thousands of anti-government demonstrators was a classic “military as government” move.
And there is one environmental benefit that is often overlooked: in 1910, more than 30% of farmland in the United States was used to produce fodder for horses and mules.
Socrates in Silicon ValleyLONDON – If Socrates’s gadfly was in Silicon Valley, it would have a lot of lazy horses to sting.
Indeed, it responded to the Polish opposition’s rise by castigating them as tools of Western power, stalking horses for American or German interests that would ultimately exploit ordinary Poles.
When he left the Kremlin in 2000, his secret fortune, from real estate, yachts, horses, and other properties, was estimated to be worth at least $15 million.
Perhaps of greatest concern, moreover, is that the public, especially in poor countries that cannot undertake offsetting measures, will come to distrust global integration, with multinationals viewed as Trojan horses.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard have uniforms bearing a Koranic verse that reads, “Make ready for them whatever force and strings of horses you can, to terrify thereby the enemy of God and your enemy, and others besides them that you know not;God knows them.”
Plato, in the Phaedrus, uses the metaphor of a chariot pulled by two horses; one represents rational and moral impulses, the other irrational passions or desires.
The role of the charioteer is to make the horses work together as a team.
In addition to the three declared CDU contenders, there are two dark horses who, instead of going the conventional route – first chairman, then candidate chancellor – are playing a waiting game.
Credit subsidies of various kinds, together with light regulation, fueled the booms, while the busts were followed by regulations aimed at slamming shut and bolting all stable doors through which the horses had already escaped.
Or, to cite the immortal wisdom of the 1930s Scottish labor leader Jimmy Maxton: “If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the bloody circus.”
This conversation about horses interested him, but he never forgot Anna, and involuntarily listened to the steps in the corridor and glanced at the clock on the mantelpiece.
'Not at all.''If so you'd better get in, if the horses are quiet and go at a walking pace.'
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