Following the debate over Custer's Revenge, an Atari 2600 VCS title with adult themes, Atari had concerns over similar adult titles finding their way onto the 7800 and displaying adult graphics on the significantly improved graphics of the MARIA chip.

Today scientists and philosophers seriously debate whether computers and robots could develop a kind of consciousness ( artificial intelligence, AI ), and organic interaction ( artificial life ) similar to or exceeding that of human beings.

The distinction arises in many areas of debate with similar but distinct meanings.

After 1992, the discovery of numerous small icy objects with similar or even wider orbits than Pluto led to a debate over whether Pluto should remain a planet, or whether it and its neighbours should, like the asteroids, be given their own separate classification.

Rule XIX, which governs debate, does not authorize the Vice President to participate in debate, and grants only to members of the Senate ( and, upon appropriate notice, former presidents of the United States ) the privilege of addressing the Senate, without granting a similar privilege to the sitting Vice President.

There has also been similar debate regarding related terms such as web page, web server, and webcam.

The incident sparked debate on the appropriate firepower for United States patrol officers to have available in similar situations in the future.

In similar fashion, proposed connections between the arabesque and Arabic knowledge of geometry remains a subject of debate ; not all art historians are persuaded that such knowledge had reached, or was needed by, those creating arabesque designs, although in certain cases there is evidence that such a connection did exist.

In terms of the nature versus nurture debate, biological determinism is approximately analogous to the " nature " argument, and social determinism is similar to the " nurture " view-point.

A similar reversal is the subject of debate in the United Kingdom, among others, due to evidence of incipient segregation and anxieties over " home-grown " terrorism.

St Kitts and Nevis Commissioner, Cedric Liburd, pointed out to various anti whaling counties during debate on the secret ballot vote on the first day of the 2006 meeting in St Kitts that it was extremely hypocritical of such countries to pontificate on the need for transparency within the IWC by open voting when such countries quite happily voted via secret ballot in CITES, a similar management body.

There is similar pressure on Black Bermudians ( most of whom are multi-racial ) not to self-identify as mixed race as there is in Blacks in the USA, where President Barack Obama, raised by his single, white mother, sparked debate when he identified himself on the census as black, rather than mixed race, and in the UK, in both of which countries greater flexibility is also now allowed for people to describe themselves racially.

In the early 16th century, the debate on the Earth's motion was continued by Al-Birjandi ( d. 1528 ), who in his analysis of what might occur if the Earth were rotating, develops a hypothesis similar to Galileo Galilei's notion of " circular inertia ", which he described in the following observational test:

When Taylor offered a picture of Hitler similar to Bullock's in his 1961 book The Origins of the Second World War, the same debate continued, very publicly, between Taylor and Trevor-Roper.

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MFI's actions are sometimes used as an example in the fansub debate as a reason why other Japanese companies should not pursue similar injunctions.

In a similar sense, researchers and historians continually debate the use of sunstone in Viking navigation.

In a similar vein, Andrew Orlowski in The Register commented that " any of today's debaters prefer ' Fisking '— line-by-line rebuttals where facts are dropped like radar chaff — to rational debate or building a coherent argument.

At about the same time that Calvinists and Arminians were debating the meaning of grace in Protestantism, in Catholicism a similar debate was taking place between the Jansenists and the Jesuits.

Today, approximately 450 drawings are attributed to Jordaens, however, there is continuing scholarly debate in terms of accurate attribution of Flemish drawings to Jordaens or Rubens, due to their similar oeuvre.

The physical appearance of a number of the Ainu who were first encountered by the Europeans in the 19th Century were similar to Caucasians, and thus caused quite a stir among contemporary academics, and has spurred debate about their origins.

Prominent musicologists debate whether or not the Pathétique may have been inspired by Mozart's piano sonata K. 457, since both compositions are in C minor and have three very similar movements.

) Cutting personal taxes and / or raising transfer payments can have similar expansionary effects, though which method has a better stimulative economic effect is a matter of debate.

In 2009, researchers hypothesized that smooth-edged holes found in the fossil jaws of tyrannosaurid dinosaurs such as Albertosaurus were caused by a parasite similar to Trichomonas gallinae which infects birds.

This divergence between American English and British English once caused George Bernard Shaw to say that the United States and United Kingdom are " two countries divided by a common language "; a similar comment is ascribed to Winston Churchill.

Several other similar systems also existed with even higher performance, but these often required special cabling that was incompatible with LocalTalk / PhoneNet, and also required patches to the networking stack that often caused problems.

In the letter, Cambodian ambassador tells the Council that this powder ‘ caused cases of vomiting and illness, having symptoms similar to those of influenza among the population in these regions.

Injuries occurring from bokken are very similar to those caused by clubs and similar battering weapons and include compound fractures, ruptured organs, and other such blunt force injuries.

The report concluded, " The firing by soldiers of 1 PARA on Bloody Sunday caused the deaths of 13 people and injury to a similar number, none of whom was posing a threat of causing death or serious injury.

A Canadian Medical Association Journal paper states that " The famine in Cuba during the Special Period was caused by political and economic factors similar to the ones that caused a famine in North Korea in the mid-1990s.

Two impacts 12 hours apart on July 19 created impact marks of similar size to that caused by fragment G, and impacts continued until July 22, when fragment W struck the planet.

A similar situation arose from the French revolution, which caused fractures in France that still exist.

It is similar to the earlier mentioned study regarding estimated theoretical infant mortality caused by DDT and subject to the criticism also mentioned earlier.

Therefore there will be no correlation between key closeness and similar popularity of data as there might be if keys did exhibit some semantic meaning, thus avoiding bottlenecks caused by popular subjects.

Mass production of glass window panes in the early twentieth century caused a similar effect.

While recent evidence suggesting that American Ivory-billed Woodpeckers may still exist in the wild has caused excitement in the Ornithology community, no similar evidence exists for the Cuban Ivory-billed bird, believed to be extinct since the last sighting in the late 1980s.

Like many bunraku plays, it was adapted for kabuki, and it spawned many imitators — in fact, it and similar plays reportedly caused so many real-life " copycat " suicides that the government banned shinju mono ( plays about lovers ' double suicides ) in 1723.

The development of LED technology has caused their efficiency and light output to rise exponentially, with a doubling occurring about every 36 months since the 1960s, in a way similar to Moore's law.

In the recent drug cartel wars of the region, many homicides and decapitations are suspected of being caused by machetes or similar tools.

* Absorption of similar businesses under single management: similar portfolio invested by two different mutual funds namely united money market fund and united growth and income fund, caused the management to absorb united money market fund into united growth and income fund.

It interrupted electrical telegraph service and caused visible aurorae as far south as Havana, Hawaii, and Rome with similar activity in the southern hemisphere.

The high altitude and freezing conditions also cause logistical and welfare difficulties ; in past similar conflicts ( such as the Italian Campaign of World War I ) more casualties have been caused by the harsh conditions than enemy action.

In the first four years of the Chávez presidency, the economy grew at first ( 1999 – 2001 ), then contracted from 2001-2003 to GDP levels similar to 1997, at first because of low oil prices, then because of the turmoil caused by the 2002 coup attempt and the 2002-2003 business strike.

Coeliac ( also written as celiac ) disease is a condition that is caused by an adverse immune system reaction to gliadin, a gluten protein found in wheat ( and similar proteins of the tribe Triticeae which includes other species such as barley and rye ).

A number of various diseases may present with symptoms similar to those caused by a clinical West Nile virus infection.