.... it is used to carry passengers and cargo. It obtains its buoyancy from the presence of a lighter-than-air gas such as hydrogen or helium. The first airship was developed by the French, called a ballon dirigible, it could be steered and could also be flown against the wind. TYPES OF AIRSHIP Two basic types of airship have been developed: the rigid airship, the shape of which is fixed by its internal structure; and the nonrigid blimp, which depends on the pressure created by a series of air diaphragms inside its gas space to maintain the shape of its fabric hull. Inventors sought to combine the best features of these models in a semirigid type, but it met with only l ....

.... a quadriplegic after a car accident, has met this situation. Nevertheless, it is cruel to ask him to face this life if he does not desire to. He can no longer sculpt, run, move, kiss or have any form of sexual fulfillment. Obviously, his normal life has drifted away. The tendency to sustain people's lives, just because the technology is available, is intolerance under certain circumstances. It is the individual patient who must make a decision about whether to keep himself alive. "What is the point of prolonging a person's biological life if it is obtained at the cost of a serious assault on that person's liberty?" There is probably no simple answer for this question. Any ....

.... on line services which provide a variety of services, including access to the Internet. Some widely used on line services are Compu-serve, America On Line, and Prodigy. In the line of communication, these companies offer electronic mail, live conferencing, and allow users to converse with individuals. These services also provide large reference sections, including encyclopedias, libraries of all sorts, journals, newspapers, and magazines. They have databases consisting of airline fares, routes, and travel times, and allow for users to make flight reservations on line. Through on line services, users are able to check, buy, and sell stocks and bonds through broke ....

.... and bottom part, the top part had two beads and each bead in the row was assigned a value of five(of whatever place value the beads were in), and the bottom part had five beads and each bead had a value of one (same goes for these as well). As the origin is not known as to whom may have made the invention and since may ancient empires used it, some of the first to use it were the Chinese and so the credit has been given to them. Another invention that comes from the abacus and was used in a similar fashion was the soraban. The soraban comes from the Japanese who perfected it to there use. The soraban is slightly different in the fact that it has one bead on the top par ....

.... which are designed to stop the formation of monopolies. The investigation continued on for the next three years without resolve, until Novell, maker of DR-DOS, a competitor of Microsoft’s MS-DOS, filed a complaint with the Competition Directorate of the European Commission in June of 1993. (Maldoom 1) Doing this stalled the investigations even more, until finally in August of 1993, (Check 1)the Federal Trade Commission decided to hand the case over to the Department of Justice. The Department of Justice moved quickly, with Anne K. Bingaman, head of the Antitrust Division of the DOJ, leading the way.(Check 1) The case was finally ended on July 15, 1994, with Microsoft si ....

.... enews is a broadcast, free to the Internet medium. 3. The term FTP is also frequently used. File transfer protocol (FTP) started as an Internet archival and retrieval medium, somewhat analogous to traditional libraries. 4. The world-wide web (WWW), which is another component of the Net, can be used to "publish" material that would traditionally appear in journals, magazines, posters, books, television and even on film. 2. It is also essential to give a brief history on the internet. 3.The U.S. government is now trying to pass bills to prevent misuse of the Net. II. In order to understand the need for the ever-growing body of legislation, it is important to exp ....

.... sights in Germany that appear routine to the country's citizens. For example he has witnessed the feeling that every German citizen lives to close to nuclear weapons storage facilities. And the threat of soviet attacks that they must live with everyday are uncomprehending. He says the United States is no more distant from catastrophe than the Germans, for he states that Americans experience of war in the past has created an attitude of "it can't happen here" to grow. Weizenbaum tries to say the military is not an evil or technology is not evil because it has been adopted by the military, but we are becoming increasingly militarized. I think he states this in an effort no ....

.... Part of the Game VI. Conclusion The Internet is a wondrous place. Practically anything you could ever want is available on the Net. It's like a big city, it has the highly prestigious areas, and the sex-ridden slums. It has the upstanding citizens, and it has the criminals. On the Net, crime is more abundant than in a large city, though, mainly because of the difficulties in tracking and prosecuting offenders. Even from its beginnings, the Internet has always been a battlefield between phreaks and administrators. The Internet hasn't always been a public forum. In fact, the Internet has been around for years. The Internet is just a new fad ("The More I Learn" A1). T ....