Many who participated, like Mr. Nieporent, felt that they were simply repaying Mr. Palladin for decades of generosity.
"If you create a park-like environment and people feel really free, adults hang out and participate like children do," Geuze says.
Shiites are "participating like they never have before," said Maj. Mark Brady, of the Multi-National Division-Baghdad REngagemention and Engagement Cell, which works with tribes.
A franchise system could also force waste haulers to meet increased environmental and labor standards in order to participate, like recycling more and lowering their trucks' emissions.
The dream of commercial developers and operators is that, when bandwidth increases, Lara-heads will be multiplaying in their palms, lucratively participating like crazy.
What Blair drew from the film was a moral, that there can be no "bystanders" in any conflict between good and evil: "You participate, like it or not.
When surveillance is conducted pursuant to the law, there is no question of whether telecom firms will "cooperate" or "participate", like children at day camp.
"We were planning to vote and participate like other Iraqis," said Hamza Jasim, 40, who lives in Mosul, the capital of Nineveh.
By September, they were weighing ways to penalize states or police departments that did not participate, like cutting off their access to all criminal fingerprint databases.
Because these technologies had qualities that I found unattractive — loss of privacy, pervasive triviality, the sense of participating like an insect in a pulsing, indiscriminate, conflict-ridden electronic hive — I assumed initially that the technologies would fail or become marginal.
