Instead, it's typically a more prosaic end: humanity wiped out because an AI tasked with a simple goal (say, creating paper clips, an example that is often used) requisitions all the energy and raw materials on Earth to relentlessly churn out paper clips, outsmarting and out-maneuvering all human attempts to stop it.
The paper notes that out-of-town drivers made up 66% of drivers stopped, and 69% of drivers who received a ticket.
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The blue-faced man was sitting at a desk on which there were two stacks of crinkled, smoothed-out paper that had obviously been rescued from a trash can.
In its subsequent 14-9 White Paper, the government set out reforms to GCSEs and A-levels and proposed new Specialised Diplomas based on major employment sectors.
These "marathon mice" can run twice as long as their unmodified brothers and sisters-- and, in a paper coming out right at the time of the Olympics, that's leading to hand-wringing about the possibilities of applying this knowledge to create performance-enhancing drugs.
The paper pointed out that Mercedes-Benz also has beefed up demo sales lately.
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On the other hand, as the Treasury paper lays out, non-doms, who include shipping tycoons and City high-fliers, pack an economic punch much weightier than their number, currently around 115, 000.
The rate cut may have been intended to help reduce the cost of this borrowing, and to ensure that less-healthy firms already squeezed out of markets for longer-term corporate debt were not shut out of short-term paper and, crucially, forced to turn to the banking sector.
Editor Paul McNamee said the revamped paper would feature an improved lay-out and beefed-up editorial content.
The Picnic room features a sizable picnic table, astroturf, and a paper-mache tree that was fashioned out of an air duct.
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"It takes the paper and pencil and re-entry out of it, " said Jeff Painter, information specialist for the WSDA's plant protection division.
When Donziger is not in Ecuador, he works out of the paper-strewn kitchen of a two-bedroom apartment that he shares with his wife and young son, on the Upper West Side.
In Donnelley's directory plant in Dwight, for example, new computers alert operators feeding 14 presses when a roll of paper is about to run out--a process they eyeballed until six months ago.
Designed for rough concepting and creative brainstorming, Inkling bridges the gap between paper sketching and digital drawing by giving users at the front end of the creative process a way to rough-out ideas with real ink on paper and capture their concepts digitally so that they can be later refined on their computer.
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Next, you'll make a model airplane out of wood and paper-and it had better fly.
The Montgomery County tax, which was passed by the County Council Tuesday, covers all paper and plastic bags distributed at check-out by a retail establishment.
The proposal was fleshed out in a white paper - Policing in the 21st Century - and enacted in the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act, which became law in 2011.
As part of a congressionally mandated drive to wean U.S. taxpayers from paper, the IRS plans to send out only 29.5 million paper tax packages this year--half the number it sent five years ago and just one for every 4.5 tax filers.
With Jeremy Lin out, point guard becomes paper-thin, meaning Douglas will get huge minutes if he can contribute at all.
On scrap paper, we sketched out a simple one-page website that would tell the story of Open Data: Alpha.
The paper sets out a range of new A-levels and GCSEs in vocational subjects, in areas such as engineering, manufacturing and tourism.
Moody's, another rating agency, recently examined how 300 large companies would be affected, if they were shut out of the commercial-paper market.
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While that paper is busy mocking the system, investors are making big bucks off what is a serious effort to trim out what remains a very paper-heavy industry.
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"We've worked out what it would cost - not just to reduce the amount of paper we're producing every day but to wipe it out, " says Caroline Kimbell, head of licensing at the National Archives, the official archive of the UK government.
And he added they would prepare the health service for the white paper due out later this year on improving out-of-hospital care.
The rest had to rely on getting through to council officials on the phone or paper lists, which critics say becomes quickly out-dated.
At the weekend the prime minister's former policy guru Steve Hilton described how Downing Street was often kept out of the loop by "paper-shuffling" civil servants.
There are one or two aspects we want to talk about further - some of our changes on the research system, for example - but it is a white paper which sets out our proposals clearly.
Russia's new pragmatism is set out in a leaked foreign-ministry paper.
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One of those who was rescued, Priscilla Arena, prayed as she waited, took out a sheet of loose-leaf paper and wrote what she thought might be her last words to her husband and children, ages 5 and 9.
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