To develop a defense system that would keep Americans safe from missiles.
To be able to shoot down communist missles.
SDI made people think of Star Wars. It was not really what inspired Reagan to promote the plan.
From the State's website: California State Disability Insurance (SDI) is a partial wage-replacement insurance plan for California workers. The SDI programs are State-mandated, and funded through employee payroll deductions. SDI provides affordable, short-term benefits to eligible workers. Workers covered by SDI are covered by two programs: Disability Insurance and Paid Family Leave Insurance.
Supply-side economics
raising interest rates to curb inflation
SDI stands for Serial Digital Interface. It is a *format* for transmitting video over cable. The cable can be a coax, ethernet, whatever - SDI simply dictates how the video is coded over those wires. Consequently SDI must be encoded and decoded on either end of the cable. A common use would be to feed video to a HD-SDI switching unit for use in a live broadcast situation. If you plan on switching HD video it's basically the only way to go under $10K
SDI Technologies was created in 1956.
The duration of The Reagans is 1.5 hours.
Surveillance Data Inc
The Reagans was created on 2003-11-30.
SDI:S= SamsungD= Display and DigitalI = Interface and Internet componentSource: I SEE SDI (www.aeca.es/comisiones/.../samsung.pdf)
SDI stands for standard diesal injection