During that era, entire industries and fiefdoms grew to accommodate the increasingly complex machinery and politics of national defense.

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To sign up, you take a personality test that Fisher designed, which asks you questions about everything from feelings about following rules to your understanding of complex machinery and the length of your ring finger, relative to your index finger.

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There is engineering expertise, notably in Aberdeen, where the offshore oil industry has been installing complex machinery in rough seas for decades.

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Anyone keeping a pulse on the S60 scene knows that for Nokia's complex little pieces of smartphone machinery, firmware updates tend to come fast and furious.

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What if it was possible to break a complex piece of machinery into a thousand pieces and then, at some predetermined moment, have the machine put itself back together again?

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After all, if the safety and reliability of these weapons are allowed to degrade -- how safe and reliable is any complex piece of machinery if left untested for years?

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