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  Prime Directive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Prime Directive dictates that there be no interference with the natural development of any primitive society, chiefly meaning that no primitive culture can be given or exposed to any information regarding advanced technology or alien races.
Sometimes the Directive is deliberately violated; circa stardate 2534.0 (2266), cultural observer and historian John Gill openly created a regime based on Nazi Germany on a primitive planet in a misguided effort to create a more benign version of the original.
Those in favor of the Prime Directive have said that no one has the right to impose their own standards on others and it is hardly moral cowardice to keep to a difficult, but ultimately beneficial principle in the face of temptation.
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 Directive
Directive This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name...
Directive 95/46/EC on the protection of personal data The full title of this directive is Directive 95/46/EC on the prot...
Temporal Prime Directive The Temporal Prime Directive is a principle in the timeline.
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 Prime Directive -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Prime Directive dictates that there be no interference with the natural development of any primitive society, chiefly meaning that no primitive culture can be given or exposed to any information regarding advanced technology or (A person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country) alien races.
In the fictional storyline, the Prime Directive was created by (Click link for more info and facts about Starfleet) Starfleet and the (Click link for more info and facts about United Federation of Planets) United Federation of Planets shortly after they were first formed.
Also, in at least two different situations, the Prime Directive was used against Janeway and her crew, wherein they encountered civilizations that had technology which could shorten their journey home, but were denied access to it because the alien cultures had policies against sharing advanced technology with other races.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/P/Pr/Prime_Directive.htm   (1930 words)

  
 MI5 - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Prime Minister's personal responsibility for the Service was delegated to the Home Secretary in 1952, an arrangement that persists to this day.
A directive issued by the Home Secretaryset out the Service's tasks and the role of its Director General but it was not put on a statutory basis until 1989, when the Security Service Act was introduced.
In fact, it was not until the end of the1980s that the government admitted the Service's existence, although it was hardly asecret by that time.
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 Estonia [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Prime MinisterThe Prime Minister of Estonia is the head of government of the Republic of Estonia.
The prime minister is chosen by the President and conferred by Parliament.
The government or the executive branch is formed by the prime minister, nominated by the president, and a total of 14 ministers.
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 Hellas [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The prime ministerIn a parliamentary system, such as the Westminster System, the Prime Minister is the head of the government while the head of state is largely a ceremonial position.
In some monarchies the prime minister exercises powers (known as the Royal Prerogative) that are constitutionally vested in the monarch and which can be exercised without the approval of parliament.
Its general direction is from N.W. to S.E., and it is traversed throughout its length by a mountain range, which forms part of the chain that bound...
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 Prime Directive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In at least one case, where two different factions of one race were at war with each other, the Prime Directive had been interpreted to mean that neither race could have an advantage, that there had to be a balance of power.
Despite the fact that this event took place in the series Star Trek: Enterprise, before the formation of both the Federation and the Prime Directive, it reflects the views of space faring humans and their allies in the years leading up to the creation of the Federation.
In another case, a starship stood by and watched as the loss of a planet's atmosphere was about to wipe out the last remaining members of a primitive civilization, rather than interfere to save their lives.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/P/Prime-Directive.htm   (1335 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Autism
All of these conditions are characterized by varying degrees of difference in communication skills, social interactions, and restricted, repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior.
This discrepancy can lead to confusion among service providers who equate IQ with functioning and may refuse to serve high-IQ autistic people who are severely compromised in their ability to perform daily living tasks, or may fail to recognize the intellectual potential of many autistic people who are considered LFA.
StephTheGeek is a prime example of a female geek A geek is a person who is fascinated, perhaps obsessively, by obscure or very specific areas of knowledge and imagination.
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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
MIT's contributions to the twentieth century advancement of science andtechnology include project Whirlwind, the pioneeringcomputer built under the direction of Jay W. Forrester between1947 and 1952, and notable for its technologicalachievement (including the invention of magnetic core memory), as well as forits cultural contribution to the development of personal computing.
The school has a powerful anti-authoritarian ethos in which it is believed that one's social status should be determined byraw intellectual prowess rather than by social class or organizational position.
Other beliefs that are strongly held by peoplewithin the school are that information should be widely disseminated and not held secret, and that truth is a matter of empiricalreality rather than the result of popular belief or management directive.
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Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Prime Minister of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
Prime minister of the People's Republic of China
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 Greenwich Mean Time [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It is marked by a brass strip in the courtyard and, since December 16, 1999, a powerful green laser shining north across the London night sky....
Longitude is given as an angular measurement ranging from 0° at the Prime Meridian to +180° eastward and −180° westward.
Those countries marked in dark blue on the map at right use European Summer TimeEuropean Summer Time is the daylight saving time practiced in Europe, the period during which clocks are advanced by one hour in relation to the official time observed during the rest of the year.
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 Bambooweb: MI5
It originally worked in concert with the Special Branch of the Metropolitan Police; MI5 was responsible for overall direction and the actual identification of foreign spies, while the Special Branch provided the manpower for the investigation of their affairs and their arrest and interrogation.
The Prime Minister's personal responsibility for MI5 was delegated to the Home Secretary in 1952, an arrangement that persists to this day.
In fact, it was not until the end of the 1980s that the government admitted MI5's existence, although it was hardly a secret by that time.
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 Prime Directive (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prime Directive – the guiding principle of Star Trek's Starfleet
Prime Directive (album) – an album by the Dave Holland Quintet
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title.
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 DigeratiCafe: Wikipedia:How to edit a page :Online Reference Section   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Redirect one article title to another by placing a directive like the one shown to the right on the first line of the article (such as at a page titled "UN").
Other commonly used templates are: {{disambig}} for disambiguation pages, {{spoiler}} for spoiler warnings and {{sectstub}} like an article stub but for a section.
If you are making an article about something that belongs to a group of objects (a city, an astronomical object, a Chinese character...) check if there is a WikiProject on the group and try to follow its directions explicitly.
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 Course: Main Glossary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Some time in the 20th century, non-sporting coaches emerged: non-experts in the specific technical skills of their clients, but who nevertheless ventured to offer generalised motivational or inspirational advice.
The field has grown in many directions since its beginnings in modeling successful psychotherapists and has found applications in most areas involving human communications, such as education and learning, persuasion, negotiation, sales, leadership, team-building, etc., as well as decision-making, creative processes, health, medicine, and athletic performance.
However NLP when taught as a set of techniques directed at a specific goal, and especially when divorced from its full background, has at times been presented as mechanistic ("this is how to do that") or manipulative ("this is how to make someone do something").
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 O'Reilly Network Weblogs: An Artificial Intelligence Thesis
In these terms, I figured I might have some luck approaching cognition in a different direction, one that I would have had to go with anyway because of my fundamental outlook on life.
Disambiguation: Pattern recognition, optical character recognition, speech recognition, all depend on a process called disambiguation, where the computer has to figure out why things aren't the same.
Instead of robocopping it and using a "don't violate the prime directive" and giving the AI program a neurosis, I think in my AI research I would work on helping the AI solve it's problems by looking for the source of what was causing them, instead of getting stuck between the two opposed goals.
www.oreillynet.com /lpt/wlg/4533   (4150 words)

  
 9. Acquisition of Static Knowledge Sources for Ontological Semantics
The depth of coverage is determined by the disambiguation needs and capabilities of an application that determine the minimum number of senses that a lexeme should have.
Disambiguation at runtime will be greatly facilitated by the small number of senses for a lexeme.
Such situations are notably also difficult for human translators, who often have to resort to guesses or arbitrary rules or conventions, such as the common practice of using a form of goluboy to translate blue dress when worn in the daytime and a form of siniy otherwise.
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 Domain Leader Dot Com!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
see soma disambiguation for other uses soma sanskrit or haoma avestan is a ritual drink of importance in vedic and iranian peoples iranian cultures it is frequently mentioned in the vedic scriptures which contain many hymns praising its energizing and intoxicating qualities it is described as prepared by extracting juice
Sectors such as transport, communication and energy services that are deemed to be of general interest could be excluded from the scope of the directive.The disputed country of origin principle would be replaced by a principle of mutual recognition.
Prime ministry spokesman Laith Kubba told a news conference terrorists are finding it very difficult to move in Baghdad.
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 Time Lord - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Their portrayal in the series has been reminiscent of academics living in ivory towers, unconcerned with external affairs.
It has been suggested that, since perfecting the science of time travel, they have withdrawn, bound by the moral complexity of interfering in the natural flow of history (compare with the Prime Directive).
Another explanation might be that they simply find the outside universe distasteful.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Time_Lord   (3705 words)

  
 SPAG Game Reviews O
I will grant that the higher the synonym count, the higher the chance of a disambiguation problem, but in this case I don't believe it applies -- or even if it does, I think it could have been handled far more gracefully than it was.
Since the game is driven by completing conversations, this presents even more of a problem than it looks like on the first glance; you simply can't go somewhere else and do something (that choice isn't available) and then come back when you have a new idea.
This is the rule that Star Trek calls the Prime Directive, and apparently, this similarity bothered some people.
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I had never really thought of getting direct inspiration from any of these areas that I study, but now that I think about it, there are quite a few possibilities (especially with the moral philosophy).
I suppose All Things Devours came more from my desire to get to the bottom of an issue, asking a lot of questions and trying to work out the answers: a desire that is probably shared by a lot of philosophers and quite a few IF authors too.
As for the story, you are one of several other colonists who are traveling to a distant planet known as Ayria Prime 6.
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 Brass Lantern Andrew Krywaniuk IFComp 2004 Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
(There are a lot of compass directions mentioned in the room descriptions, but very often you can't go that way.) Talking to people is also frustrating.
A lot of it seems derived from Star Trek, especially the concept of the prime directive.
Except for some disambiguation problems with the uniforms, the game was also remarkably bug free.
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 Brass Lantern Joao Mendes IFComp 2004 Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
My main problem was the lack of disambiguation and the lack of default objects for verbs.
Trying to get into the pool without the correct object in your inventory yields a sequence of messages reading "You should find something to keep your possessions before entering the pool.", which is then followed by a pop-up whose contents are "Frotz Fatal Error: Stack overflow", after which Frotz shuts down.
There are exits to all directions from this room.
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 jasonlove: IFComp 2004 Scores (and a few reviews)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The author probably doesn't appreciate it, but I at least hope he learns from it.
This is the classic Star Trek Prime Directive dilemma: explore an alien planet, but don't influence the culture or let on that you're not a native.
This is about right in terms of size.
www.livejournal.com /users/jasonlove/31437.html   (3040 words)

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