McLaughlin formed Earth in late 2005 out of bits and pieces of other penny-stock companies he controls, including Apollo Resources.
The task was to work out which colour-coded film containers held some bits of cheese, then prise the containers open and eat the contents.
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Soon that capacity will hit 15 trillion bits, meaning that the switch could spew out the equivalent of 400 feature-length movies every second.
Once a design is set, different bits of the manufacturing process are tried out on computer: a virtual pipe-bending machine, for instance, makes sure that the fuel lines which snake their way through the airframe can be created without wrapping themselves around the machine and bringing it to a halt.
Other bits do not go far enough: it is foolish to rule out letting for-profit companies run schools and wrong to exempt the NHS from cuts.
Concerns that state money would enable BNP Paribas to finance its proposed acquisition of the Belgian bits of Fortis gave commission officials pause when they first reviewed France's bail-out scheme.
Over nine years and at least a dozen sittings under a needle in a tattoo chair (Thomas said the tattoo parlor "is a great place for just hanging out too"), the 25-year old has had bits of his story inked on his body.
Costumed actors would normally be frightening visitors with tales of Dick Turpin and re-enacting grisly bits of York's past but today they are helping to pump out the building.
We have always said Alchemy was bad news for this plant - they are asset strippers who intended to sell off the best bits and leave people out of work.
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Some of the weaker bits, such as the construction and retailing sectors, will need some long-term strategies mapped out to cope with unemployment and retraining before they can be trimmed.
Mind you, textures are all those crocs sacrificed, as like the company's earlier Crocodile-themed machines these lappys are still made entirely of plastic and bits of silicon -- just grooved and pigmented to look like prehistoric, genetically modified reptiles (check out the detail pic after the break).
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Various models of contracting out bits of public health care are used, but more could be done, especially at primary-care level.
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Out-of-town shopping centres are suburban because they offer "the city without the scary bits", she says, like free parking, no Big Issue sellers and no graffiti.
They want to scrape bits of tissue from planes, discover which birds are most often being struck, and thus work out which bird-migration routes to avoid.
Until now, the mobile hotspot market has given users essentially two basic payment plans, both of which are borrowed from the phone market: You can prepay for some fixed amount of data and re-up when you run out, or you can plop down a monthly fee for a capped per-month allocation of bits.
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