That is, people actually digging up copper wire from the ground, stealing it, and selling it for scrap.
In the early days of FORBES magazine, which was founded 90 years ago, "network" referred to a chain of radio stations hooked up by wire--and, long before that, to intersecting roads, canals, railways and telegraph lines.
And so it is in China, where the authorities have lately been scrambling to throw up barbed wire and other unsightly barriers around diplomatic installations, in order to slow the rising tide of North Koreans seeking political asylum by hopping fences and dashing through gates into foreign missions.
Wire up your microcontroller to power and ground according to its circuit diagram.
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But what it was like spending months locked up behind barbed wire, I hope I'll never know.
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Leaders of this school of thought sought to tear up the barbed wire between nations, the literal and legal forms.
It aims to wire up buildings, at no charge, with the ultimate broadband pipeline--fiber optics--as a platform for selling additional services.
Before now both have needed a visit by technicians to wire up homes and get domestic computers authorised to use to Telewest network.
"We are moving at high speed, " says Dr Ndemo, who was one of the most vocal supporters of the campaign to wire up the region.
" Ralph Stefanelli, telecommunications manager for Cyber-Port, concedes that the infrastructure of the project won't be revolutionary: "Everyone can spend the money and wire up their building.
What's more, some of the pursuits of these venture philanthropists seem more like self-serving science projects: Never mind feeding the poor, let's wire up schools for Web surfing.
Led by the fast-talking David McCourt , RCN (as in Residential Communications Network) once bragged it would wire up 9 million cable, phone and Internet users among 25 million homes mostly in the northeastern corridor.
In the U.S., Google has deployed its own fiber-optic cables to wire up homes in cities in Kansas with high-speed Internet and video, and it has plans to do the same in cities in Missouri, Texas and Utah and elsewhere.
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"Once contact's been made, one of the first things that is going to happen is that everyone with a backyard antenna and the ability to wire up a transmitter is going to get online with their personal philosophies, " says Shostak.
But, short on time, he combined all three techniques by reprinting his own etchings and building them up in 3D using wire to add depth.
On a recent day in November 15, 000 people were pushing up against the barbed wire outside the United Nation's mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo in Goma.
"This really doesn't change anything, " said one young woman passing through an informal checkpoint set up by the barbed wire now sealing off the busy intersection to traffic.
Mr Wire totted up the cost of supplying contraception to women who wished either to delay their childbearing years or to end them artificially but who were not using contraception.
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Same bangs cut straight across like on those dolls done up in native costumes that live their whole lives in plastic cases held up by a metal wire around the waist.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, WIRE makes up 1.31% of the Dynamic Industrials Sector Portfolio ETF (PRN)which is trading higher by about 0.4% on the day Monday.
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And that they think that they might just about break even on doing just that as a result of the copper value of the wire they dig up.
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He waved to the dog on the opposite sidewalk, held the iron bars, hoisted himself up, pushed aside the wire, got cut, and jumped inside, twisting his ankle slightly.
The voters had declined to finance new jail construction, and so, in 1993, Arpaio, vowing that no troublemakers would be released on his watch because of overcrowding, procured a consignment of Army-surplus tents and had them set up, surrounded by barbed wire, in an industrial area in southwest Phoenix.
But he got caught from behind that day at the wire and then hung up his horseshoes for good.
You can even use an old-fashioned wire to hook them up to less-portable devices a desktop computer or CD player, for example.
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Basically, the idea is to build components for a doll house that include the wires: you can, literally, wire the doll house up for electronics.
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