Publication takes place in local newspapers and if anyone objects to the lease being issued they can petition or request that it be not granted.

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We love to see it in our movies, video games, on television, and then we'll fiercely defend the right to bear arms, all while flagrantly waving the U.S. Constitution in the face of anyone who objects.

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Infra-red communication suffers the same problems, but has the additional limitation of requiring a direct line of sight between objects as anyone who has tried to operate a television remote control with someone else standing between him and the television will know.

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As anyone who has seen a shooting star can attest, such otherworldly objects do enter the Earth's atmosphere.

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But so is verifying anyone's identity in a world where even three-dimensional objects like Stradivarius violins can easily be "printed", let alone copied en masse.

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"We were motivated by a desire to design a system for anyone to both build with fabric in a way similar to playing with Lego and create objects that are rich with relevant context-aware computation without having to program, " said Nanda, who devised the patches for a project towards a Media Arts and Sciences masters degree.

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As anyone who has seen a shooting star can attest, it's hardly unprecedented for otherworldly objects to enter the Earth's atmosphere.

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