Meths make copies of their D.H.Fs to avoid personality frag.
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In the end, all the bad Meths — Bancroft, Miriam, and Rei — are punished.
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Aerium: A city above the clouds, where the super-rich (calls Meths) live.
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These temporary deaths are all horrible, of course, as is the Meths' overall callousness.
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And now, Kovacs is working for the very embodiment of wealth inequality: The Meths.
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In the novels, the Meths—rich, powerful, and long-lived humans—are barely seen.
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She founds Psychasec, the organization responsible for all the devious technologies that Meths love to use. A.k.a.
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D.H.F. Backup: Only the wealthiest individuals (Meths) can afford to make copies of their consciousnesses, or D.H.F.s.
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Meths clone their bodies, and resleeve into new ones long before their bodies' life spans are used up.
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The rich, called Meths (for Methuselahs), can repeatedly clone themselves and live out an unchanging prime of life.
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And why do so few people, including the dour Meths, seem to be doing anything interesting with the technology?
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We stuck to a very specific palette for the Meths [the show's upper class], because they live above the clouds.
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People like Bancroft are called Meths, a term that derives from the Biblical figure Methusulah, who lived to be 969 years old.
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The long-lived, super-wealthy individuals of the world are derogatorily referred to as Meths — a reference to the Biblical figure Methuselah.
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Most of it originates in the fantasies of bored, immortal Meths like Bancroft, who are freed from the limits of mortality and morality.
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Neo-C coding prevented murdered sex workers from being spun up (or revived) and testifying against the rich Meths who killed them for sport.
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He's still trying to stop Protectorate from making immortality available only to the rich elite, known as "Meths," the top 1% of the 1%.
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Psychasec: The powerful company that creates all of the technology Meths frequently take advantage of, like clones, Head in the Clouds, and virtual torture chambers.
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Otherwise, after several hundred years of life, Altered Carbon's Meths have settled on two hobbies: admiring the middlebrow neoclassical decor of their private sky mansions, and killing poor people.
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Richard K. Morgan's 2003 novel "Altered Carbon," made into a TV series in 2018, envisioned a society in which wealthy "meths" (for Methuselah) could transfer their consciousness into newly grown clones.
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Altered Carbon's neo-San Francisco is ruled by multi-centenarian "Methuselahs" or Meths, and it would make sense if they'd held onto nostalgic relics like some nightmare version of the Baby Boomers.
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Meths are able to achieve virtual immortality by creating clones of their bodies, and making copies of D.H.Fs. Neo-C: A version of Catholicism that believes that people should not be "spun up," or revived, after death.
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Cars fly, entire seedy, gray neighborhoods pulse on the Golden Gate Bridge, and the impossibly long-living and wealthy among us — called "meths," like the elderly, Biblical Methuselah — live high in the sky to avoid the unwashed masses slithering below the crowds.
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The interior has a V-berth and heads at the front, a galley to starboard, keel box and lifting gear in the centre and two quarterberths. The small galley area has a sink and often a single burner Origo meths stove.
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The only painted part is the mazak flywheel. The brass boiler is fired by a brass cylindrical three wick meths burner. It has a safety valve and a separate filler plug and overflow plug and a dummy chimney. Unlike the 13/1, it has no whistle.
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The brass boiler is fired by a brass cylindrical three wick meths burner. It has a safety valve and a separate filler plug and overflow plug and is fitted with a whistle. It has a dummy chimney. The boiler is held onto the steel firebox with a single brass band.
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Dillon, The Dirty War, pp.55-56 The MRF's surveillance operations included the use of front companies (see below) and disguises. Former members claim they posed as road sweepers, dustmen and even homeless meths-drinkers while carrying out surveillance. The MRF is known to have used agents referred to as 'Freds'.
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The boiler cover forms the 'bonnet' of the car with the sight-glass for checking the water level being the 'radiator grille'. Early versions sported the traditional overflow plug, which was replaced by the sight glass in 1978 to conform with the new Euro Toy Regulations. The earliest Roadsters were meths fired, appearing in late 1976.
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Those who have lived for multiple lifespans are called Meths, a reference to the Biblical figure Methuselah. The very rich are also able to keep copies of their minds in remote storage, which they update regularly. This ensures that even if their stack is destroyed, they can be re-sleeved. People who commit serious crimes are imprisoned "on stack".
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Reference dose for methanol is 0.5 mg/kg/day.Methanol (CASRN 67-56-1) Ethanol is sometimes denatured (adulterated), and made poisonous, by the addition of methanol. The result is known as methylated spirit, "meths" (British use) or "metho" (Australian slang). This is not to be confused with "meth", a common abbreviation for methamphetamine and for methadone in Britain and the United States.
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Cyldon 13-1 steam engine (whistle missing) The 13/1 was (presumably) the first model made by Cyldon and is atypical in some details. The firebox is a different style from the usual Cyldon type and is steel instead of aluminium. The meths burner is also slightly different. The base is made of wood (as is the 13/2 but none of the other models).
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Early steam wagons were produced in green, with a meths vaporising burner. Around 1977, they adopted the solid fuel pan burners and by 1978 had a sight glass instead of the usual over-flow plug, with blue paint replacing the green. In the early 2000s the brown version was produced. The engine is fitted with the usual spring-loaded whistle as well as steering gear from the TE1a.
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Cyldon 13/2 steam engine with semi- rotative valve gear The 13/2 is interesting for a couple of reasons. Firstly, the overall layout, with the crankshaft, cylinder, boiler and burner all in line longitudinally, on a long thin wooden base. Secondly, and the most interesting aspect, is the semi-rotative valve gear (see below). The meths burner has three short wick tubes set into a cylindrical fuel tank.
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Cyldon 13/4 single- cylinder oscillating steam engine The 13/4 is very typical of Cyldon, having similarities with most of the other models. It has the same main components as the 13/3 but laid out in an in-line configuration like the 13/2. It has a geared output like the 13/5. The brass boiler is fired by a brass cylindrical three-wick meths burner.
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Their first gig was on 6 March 1971. Ellis quit later that year and was replaced with Alan Moore. Early shows included Hendrix and Quatermass covers, and in 1972, the set list included the originals "Never Satisfied", "Winter", and the show-closer "Caviar and Meths". July 1971 also saw them making their first recording, a 45 of "Mind Conception" with "Holy is the Man" on the B side for the Zella Records label.
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As required by the rules of pacifist warfare, the McGHA fights its battles using strictly non-harmful weapons, such as newspaper swords and cardboard shields for personal duelling. 'Mass effect' weapons such as water bombs, flour bombs, porridge bombs, funnelators (huge slingshots), and meths mortars armed with soft or rotten fruit are also used (though water and flour bombs are the most common). 'Psychological Weapons' such as the Can-Can charge, heavy duty assault poetry, mass singing and vicious taunting are also permissible.
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With the introduction of stricter health and safety laws and the European Toy regulations, the use of liquid fuel for use in steam toys in the UK was outlawed from 1977. Malins decided to switch to solid fuel after the infamous 'exploding fuel lamp' story of 1976Malins p67 The engines were then 'converted' to burn dry Hexamine fuel tablet in redesigned burner trays which, at the time, Malins manufactured on their own premises. The solid fuel is, in some respects, much safer than "meths". While burning, however, it gives off unpleasant and toxic fumes and a reduced level of heat.
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From about 1977, all models used a steel pan-type solid fuel burner, although the older steel pan meths burners still fitted. The oscillating-cylinder engine is mounted externally on the left-hand side of the model and incorporates a simple forward and reverse lever like that used on the SE2a and MEC1 stationary engines. The unit drives (via a shaft) a small solid flywheel, mounted externally on the right-hand side. Again, a distinguishing feature of early models is the 'split-drive' with final drive on the left-hand side, as opposed to later (and current) models where the drive is all on the right.
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While this means anyone can live forever, only the wealthiest, known as "Meths" in reference to Methuselah, have the means to change bodies through clones and remote storage of their consciousness in satellites, so they never have to die of old age before being resleeved. Takeshi Kovacs, a political operative with mercenary skills, is the sole surviving soldier of the Envoys, a rebel group defeated in an uprising against the new world order. In the first season, set 250 years after the Envoys are destroyed, his stack is pulled out of prison by 300-year-old Meth Laurens Bancroft, one of the wealthiest men in the settled worlds. Bancroft offers him the chance to solve a murder—Bancroft's own—to get a new shot at life.
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Alf's Imperial Army is a proponent of "pacifist warfare" and fights its battles using strictly non-harmful weapons, such as newspaper swords and cardboard shields for personal duelling. 'Mass effect' weapons such as water bombs, flour bombs, porridge bombs, funnelators (huge slingshots), and meths mortars armed with soft or rotten fruit are also used (though water or flour bombs are the most common). 'Psychological Weapons' such as the dreaded Can-Can charge, heavy duty assault poetry, mass singing and vicious taunting are also permissible. Aside from being a soldier, participants in a pacifist battle (usually organised into "armies") may have roles such as scout, magician, witch, official scribe, photographer, or whatever other roles may be called for by the mythos of a particular group or particular battle.
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Producer Rodger Bain, whose resume included Black Sabbath's first three albums as well as Budgie's first album, dominated the production of the album and made decisions with which the band did not agree. Bain also chose to leave fan favourites from the band's live set, such as "Tyrant", "Genocide" and "The Ripper", off the album and he cut the song "Caviar and Meths" from a 10-minute song down to a 2-minute instrumental. The tour for Rocka Rolla was Judas Priest's first international tour with dates in Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Denmark including one show at Hotel Klubben in Tønsberg, one hour from Oslo, Norway, which scored them a somewhat negative review in the local press. The album flopped upon release, leaving Priest in dire financial straits.
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He was the producer of Black Sabbath's first three albums, Budgie's first two albums, Judas Priest's first album, Rocka Rolla, and Wild Turkey's debut album Battle Hymn. Bain dominated the production of Priest's first album and made decisions that the band did not agree with,Judas Priest Info Pages - Rocka Rolla such as leaving fan favourites such as "Tyrant", "Genocide", and "The Ripper," off the album. He also cut the song "Caviar and Meths" from a 10-minute song down to a two- minute instrumental. He also produced the Judas Priest album Hero, Hero (an album not authorised by the band who, in their split with Gull Records, had had to concede the original recordings of their first albums to them, although they retained the rights to the songs), which contained remixed versions of the tracks on Rocka Rolla.
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The club was established in 1946 by a merger of Anstey Methodists and St Mary's under the name Anstey Meths and Mary's.A Brief History of Anstey Nomads Anstey Nomads F.C. They joined the Central Division of the Leicestershire Senior League, Anstey Methodists having been members of the league prior to World War II, and were Central Division runners-up in their first season.Leicestershire Senior League 1894–1950 Non-League Matters The following year the club was renamed Anstey Nomads, and when the league was reorganised in 1948, they were placed in Division One. In 1951–52 the club won Division One, a feat they repeated in 1953–54. In 1955 they also started playing in Division One of the Central Alliance,The Central Alliance 1947-1962 Non-League Matters and left the Leicestershire Senior League at the end of the 1955–56 season. For 1956–57 they were placed in Division One South of the Central Alliance, where they remained until being transferred to Division One North in 1958.
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