Players value their online relationships as real ones and go to meetings and conferences.
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They caution, though, that there are important differences between virtual plagues and real ones.
"Unfortunately I don't think we'll ever get to meet the real ones, " one visitor told CNN.
Even toy and replica weapons can be mistaken for real ones in some situations.
More troubling is the ability to fabricate fake signals that are indistinguishable from real ones.
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The storm's fury was felt online, as well, when digital clouds were knocked out by real ones.
Those figures were calculated before the new census figures were announced, so the real ones could be higher.
As a kid he built model aircraft, and as an adult he flies real ones, both fixed-wing and helicopters.
The real ones improved patients' lung function by 20%, compared with 7% for the alternatives: a dummy inhaler or acupuncture.
Is it really such a radical departure to have military chaplain practice their pastoral skills on virtual soldiers instead of real ones?
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He has opinions, real ones that occasionally diverge from those of Superman.
But here's the thing, dude, your friends (the real ones, not the one that just played "Areola" for 73 points) are on to you.
The point is the big ones, the real ones, the Thatchers and Indira Gandhis and Golda Meirs and Angela Merkels, never play the boo-hoo game.
How can you be a member of the House of Lords if you are not a lord and if all the real ones are excluded?
Maybe you armchair generals will prove smarter than the real ones.
Turning paper changes into real ones will be another matter again.
These are designed to scare gullible traders into offloading their own shares, at which point the HFT investors withdraw their own spoof trades and snap up the real ones.
In addition to viewing 350 Barbie dolls and other displays, visitors can strut a long runway, "bake" virtual cupcakes in a pink kitchen or eat real ones in the cafe.
McCartney brilliantly opened up a legion of creative inspiration to himself and his band mates (the real ones) by removing them, and all of their personal expectations, from the outcome.
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Unfortunately, since the early Eighties, the weather media has felt the need to manufacture weather horrors to match the real ones, like Katrina, and today has a big problem of the Chicken Little sky is falling variety.
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And both researchers say that ADS-B lacks both the encryption necessary to keep those communications private and the authentication necessary to prevent spoofed communications from mixing with real ones, potentially allowing hackers to fabricate messages and even entire aircraft with radio tools that are cheaper and more accessible than ever before.
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One of them is how much impact virtual economies and currencies will have on real world ones.
If there is such a thing as a happiness bubble, it is a much tougher, resilient bubble than the stock and real estate ones that have burst recently.
"I couldn't afford real established ones, " he said.
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In the Reagan years, there were tax cuts, real nice ones, on the income tax, down at the top from 70% to 28%, in the context of strong-dollar policy and a low, stable gold price.
The trick is to find out which ones are real, rather than diverting resources into attacking wooden or inflatable units.
In 2002, we created the Monterrey Consensus, a bold approach that links new aid from developed nations to real reform in developing ones.
In addition to adding your own resolution to the map, you can watch in real time as new ones appear, or view resolutions by category.
Lake Woebegone may be fictional but the tendency of people to overestimate their own positive qualities and abilities and to underestimate their negative ones is real.
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