The Langur have built up a military machine, with corrupt leadership.
He also built up a global touring machine that pulled in millions from merchandising and corporate sponsors: Budweiser, Volkswagen, Chase Manhattan.
Often, he said, they built up a "device fingerprint" of the machines used to visit.
Using the same machine over and over built up a trusted-relationship status with online retailers, he said.
At the same time, it built up an imposing political machine that redistributed the fruits of Japan's postwar economic miracle to voters in less developed rural regions.
Guffey and Lawrence used the New Deal programs to increase their political power and build up a Democratic machine that superseded the decaying Republican machine.
He said he admires much of what Ridgewood Bushwick has done, but he sees Mr. Lopez as a man who has used his organization to build up a Tammany-style political machine.
By measuring the time it takes between sending out a pulse and measuring the light bouncing back, software can begin to build up a picture of the machine's surroundings.
Presidents since Franklin Roosevelt, in Unger's view, have inflated external threats in order to build up a vast and unaccountable national security machine that runs roughshod over the framers' design for a modest government with plenty of internal checks and few international obligations.
"So we treat the clothing as a sort of mountain range and then parse that range into its different shapes, which allows the machine to build up a picture of what state the clothing is in.
