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Rossum's Universal Robots

By: Karel Capek

... MR. ALQUIST CONSUL BUSMAN NANA RADIUS A SERVANT HELENA PRIMUS FIRST ROBOT SECOND ROBOT THIRD ROBOT FOURTH ROBOT ACT I Central office of the factory ... ...LLA, who has sat motionless during dictation, now types rapidly for a few seconds, then stops, withdrawing the completed letter) Ready? SULLA Yes. ... ...le, flexible and rapid, which has not yet occurred to nature at all. This second process by which life can be developed was discovered by me today."... ...to have dreadful rows. The old atheist hadn't the slightest conception of industrial matters, and the end of it was that young Rossum shut him up in... ...troduce suffering. HELENA Why do you want to cause them pain? DR. GALL For industrial reasons, Miss Glory. Sometimes a Robot does damage to himself b... ... the Robots throughout the world." HELENA I read that. DOMIN That means a revolution. A revolution of all the Robots in the world. HALLEMEIER By Jov... ...n forbid. DOMIN You mustn't be worried with such things. HELENA But if the revolution had spread as far as here? DOMIN You wouldn't know anything abou...

... SULLA MARIUS HELENA GLORY DR. GALL MR. FABRY DR. HALLEMEIER MR. ALQUIST CONSUL BUSMAN NANA RADIUS A SERVANT HELENA PRIMUS FIRST ROBOT SECOND ROBOT THIRD ROBOT FOURTH ROBOT...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

... but was not impressed. Even in the months after May 1934, when he met her for the second time, dined with her and her husband in their London flat... ... Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) is a Latin American folk hero, revered for having been a revolutionary freedom fighter, a compassionate egalitarian and a... ...ountry The Bolivarian republic of Venezuela to reflect the role of his "Bolivarian revolution". Yet, while alive, Bolivar was a much hated dicta... ...the creation of a professional army (in the Cartagena Manifesto). Far from being a revolutionary he, justly, opposed the reliance on guerrilleros a... ...s collaborated with the Japanese war-crime tainted military machine throughout the second world war - though he conveniently switch allegiances to ... ...of the mother's death in the "Roman Law" wrongly attributed to Numa Pompilius, the second of Rome's seven kings (said to have ruled 715-673 BC). St... ...sented three fifths of all United States exports in 1860. Southerners, dependent on industrial imports as they were, supported free trade. Northerne... ... Guillotin and German engineer and harpsichord maker, Tobias Schmidt, improved and industrialized it. It was Schmidt who transformed the blade, cha... ... Communism" (1917- 1921), the militarization of the economy. Between 1916 and 1920, industrial output plunged by more than four fifths. Grain harves...

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God Prophecy

By: Dr. Paraskev

... Avatar ... Prophets and clairvoyants vision this Kingdom, naming it “ The Second Coming”, “The End of this World”, “The New Jerusalem”, “The New Age”... ... into fuel for engines, oceans and near planets are turned into mining and industrial zones, medicine is turned into “miracle - healing”, etc. This sp... ...man. And especially, it is not realistic to believe that a major Spiritual Revolution will take place. Mind develops according to matter. And until mi... ...ic to think that no spiritual evolution takes place. This evolution is the second part of God’s Plan for us and so, it is programmed in our consciousn... ...tle and “long-range”. Nevertheless, each day , little individual religious revolutions take place in some of us (not many). And thus, step by step, pa... ... us. (Named “The Armageddon Battle”.) Indeed, a real great tribulation and revolution have to take place in us, in order to destroy ignorance with the... ...he use of knowing and building the future then ?! Future could vanish in a second!” All right, no comet will hit and destroy Earth. No gigantic meteor...

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The Hitler File : A Novel of Fact

By: Sam Vaknin

...placed under a rusty showerhead. The icy emanation takes my belabored breath away. Seconds later, I am handed an oversized, perspiration-drenched, ... ...hem. “Throbbing and on fire” – I translated. That did the trick. Chapter the Second The Interview A day later, in my ruined flat, head... ...never wavers or flounders or gets flustered, Himmler. He reminds me of a Fritz Lang industrial robot. “May 1933, Herr Reichsfuehrer, I am certain ... ...r design of at least two apartments and one office a continent apart? I needed a second opinion. Hence Libby. I sprawled on a laid-back settee, f... ...l of Europe. Hitler said: ‘The discovery of the Jewish virus is one of the greatest revolutions that have taken place in the world. The battle in wh... ...nt three years together, before and after her divorce from her husband, Quandt, the industrialist. Later, she had a large apartment in Reichskanzler...

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Kabbalah Revealed

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...y—What We Perceive .........................................................96 Second Boundary—Where We Perceive ........................................ ...usted itself, and that it’s time to move on to the next phase. Democracy, the industrial revolution, wom- en’s liberation, quantum physics, all of th... ...f, and that it’s time to move on to the next phase. Democracy, the industrial revolution, wom- en’s liberation, quantum physics, all of these appeare... ... “tagged” in our minds as rewarding. Once we are used to something, it becomes second nature to us. And when we act according to our nature, we alwa... ...e act according to our nature, we always feel comfortable with ourselves. The second way to handle our desires—by diminishing them—is primarily used... ...e concept of reality. Had it not been for Einstein and Quantum Physics, which revolutionized the way we think about reality, the ideas presented her... ...ign of the Universe and the life whose home it is. The Science of Kabbalah, a revolutionary work that is unmatched in its clarity, depth, and appeal...

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The Silver Lining: Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

... inamorato and tries to slash an old and rekindled flame. He hesitates not a split second when confronted with an offer to betray Greenleaf Sr., hi... ...s. It maintains the requirement of the first type of flow of data. But it fails the second test: people do not know that it exists or any of its att... .... But that it is possible - does not make it real. Appendix - God and Gödel The second movie in the Matrix series - "The Matrix Reloaded" - culm... ...t, God has run afoul of Gödel's theorem and made possible the third sequel, "Matrix Revolutions". Return The Shattered Identity Read these e... ...f the Universe is preordained to accommodate sentient beings - namely, us humans. Industrialists, politicians and economists have only recently be... ...e led to derisory attempts to reverse the inexorable processes of urbanization and industrialization by introducing localized, small-scale producti... ...of every transformation and transition in human history have been steep (recall the Industrial Revolution and, more recently, the transition from Co... ...ansformation and transition in human history have been steep (recall the Industrial Revolution and, more recently, the transition from Communism to ...

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Awakening to Kabbalah

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...ing to Kabbalah text 10/6/05 9:55 AM Page 10 RABBI SHIMON BAR-YOCHAI (SECOND CENTURY CE) Rabbi Shimon Bar-Yochai (Rashbi) was the author of the b... ...hai (Rashbi) was the author of the book of Zohar, which was written in the second century CE. It is the most important work of Kabbalah and considered... ...e beginning of the Renaissance. It was a time of evolution, leading to the industrial revolution. 16 AWAKENING TOKABBALAH Awakening to Kabbalah text ... ... of the Renaissance. It was a time of evolution, leading to the industrial revolution. 16 AWAKENING TOKABBALAH Awakening to Kabbalah text 9/29/05 1:... ...el of this world. That desire was the beginning of the Renaissance and the industrial revolution. In spirituality, this process is expressed by the de... ...world. That desire was the beginning of the Renaissance and the industrial revolution. In spirituality, this process is expressed by the desire to dis...

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From Chaos to Harmony

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...pre- dicament we experience in life, and depicts how we can resolve them. The second part of the book is dedicated to the future of the state of Isr... ...that by the year 2020, mental ailments, and primarily depression, will be the second most com- mon cause of health problems. Depression is one of the... ...at in Israel, similar to other Western developed countries, suicides are the second most common cause of death among chil- dren and youth. 3 Many a... ... Its traces first ap- peared during the Renaissance and continued through the Industrial and Scientific Revolutions, and into the present day. The g... ...ed during the Renaissance and continued through the Industrial and Scientific Revolutions, and into the present day. The growth of the Enlightenment... ...rtificially re- duce it in order to reach equality, love, and social justice. Revolutions and social changes have come and gone, but all have failed... ... states of motion perceived a different picture. In the 1930s, quantum physics revolutionized the world of science. It determined that the observer a...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

... most elite. Advances in literacy and self-education lead to a ―Scientific Revolution.‖ 20. Linotype‘s Digital Demise Smoke and the acrid smell... ...to an individual’s ability to pay.‖ Time Line of Information Technology Revolutions Epilogue Acknowledgments About the Author About Michae... ...xpanding the sharing of knowledge upset the balance of power and spawned revolutionary changes in civilization after civilization.‖ —Brad Bradford... ... Pound the strips nearly dry before overlapping them slightly.  Place a second set of strips at right angles to the first.  Pound those sheets a... ... books‘ contents more accessible.) Block printing vs. movable type The second Chinese InfoTech sibling was print. Historian Jared Diamond dec... ...he fall, one section was planted with winter wheat or rye. In spring, the second field was planted with other crops such as peas, lentils, or beans.... ...eworks of many revolutionary eras, including:  The Reformation,  The Industrial Revolution  Modern science  Democracy The Song of the Pr... ...hnology did the following:  Opened paths to political, scientific, and industrial revolutions.  Formed the basis of every modern education syst... ... CHAPTER 15 Quite simply, Gutenberg’s invention burst open the door to industrial capitalism. Capitalism‘s Link to Ink Printing‘s other histor...

...rdinary citizen access to reading material previously available only to the most elite. Advances in literacy and self-education lead to a ?Scientific Revolution.? -- 20. Linotype‘s Digital Demise-Smoke and the acrid smell of hot lead in the back shop blend with the clickety-clack of a gang of wondrous Linotypes in full cry. Then suddenly, they’re gone. -- 21. The Seeds of ...

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The Renaissance of Science : The Story of the Atom and Chemistry

By: Ph.D. Albert Martini

...EK/ROMAN ERA. The ALCHEMY of ANTIQUITY and the MIDDLE AGES The RENAISSANCE ERA and the AGE OF REASON. THE MODERN ERA and the various SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS. The AGE of COPERNICUS, KEPLER and GALILEO on ASTRONOMY. The AGE of NEWTON, LEIBNIZ, DESCARTES and LAPLACE on ASTRONOMY and MATHEMATICS The AGE of the BERNOULLIS, DESCARTES, FERMAT, EULER and GAUSS on MATHEM...

... medicine. MORE ABOUT THE PSEUDOSCIENCE OF ALCHEMY 43   THE BIRTH OF MODERN SCIENCE 46 THE ADVENT OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE AND THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION DURING THE AGE OF REASON 46 THE PHILOSOPHERS OF SCIENCE AND THE EVOLUTION OF KNOWLEDGE 47 FRANCIS BACON, RENE DESCARTES, BENEDICTUS SPINOZA, GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ and FRANCOIS MARIE VOLTAIRE. FUNDAMENTAL EVENTS IN ...

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Aesthetics

By: Florentin Smaradanche

...TITU POPESCU THE AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 2 Titu Popescu T... ...arch Press Rehoboth 2002 2 Titu Popescu THE AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) Translated from Romanian by P. Georgelin, F. Smarandache, ... ...s derived from the appearance of something with a convincing meaning; the second one, that comes immediately, is the perception of something conceal... ...oppositions. The unity is the concomitance of A and non A (something that revolutionizes the traditional principle of the noncontradictory), an expre... ...ontinuos insurgent exercise, aiming at conquering the poetical revelation/ revolution to which he has given its title. Being interested in the move... ...ral conditions: the simultaneity of the information on a world scale, the revolution of the formal borders, the democratization of the inter-individ... ...ism of the avant-garde, appear anxious to assimilate the imaginary of the industrial civilization, for which they promote, in a consensus with the fu...

...sion of satisfaction and anxiety. The first situation, during an instant, is derived from the appearance of something with a convincing meaning; the second one, that comes immediately, is the perception of something concealed and absurd. Something, that is dissimulated under the level of the logical acceptance, jumps out abruptly in the main point to consider and const...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

... most elite. Advances in literacy and self-education lead to a ―Scientific Revolution.‖ 20. Linotype‘s Digital Demise Smoke and the acrid smell o... ...to an individual’s ability to pay.‖ Time Line of Information Technology Revolutions Epilogue Acknowledgments About the Author About Michae... ...xpanding the sharing of knowledge upset the balance of power and spawned revolutionary changes in civilization after civilization. —brad bradford ... ... Pound the strips nearly dry before overlapping them slightly.  Place a second set of strips at right angles to the first.  Pound those sheets a... ...he books‘ contents more accessible.) Block printing vs. movable type The second Chinese InfoTech sibling was print. Historian Jared Diamond decr... ...he fall, one section was planted with winter wheat or rye. In spring, the second field was planted with other crops such as peas, lentils, or beans.... ...eworks of many revolutionary eras, including:  The Reformation,  The Industrial Revolution  Modern science  Democracy The Song of the Pr... ...nology did the following:  Opened paths to political, scientific, and industrial revolutions.  Formed the basis of every modern education syst... ... CHAPTER 15 Quite simply, Gutenberg’s invention burst open the door to industrial capitalism. Capitalism‘s Link to Ink Printing‘s other historic...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...actured goods, agricultural produce, money, and services are scarce. The number of industrialists, service providers, or farmers is limited - as is... .... The telegraph, the telephone, electricity, the train, the car, the agricultural revolution, information technology and, now, biotechnology have ... ... demand are inelastic and liable to large, random shocks. This is why the prices of industrial goods are less volatile than the prices of shares, or... ...taming prices and ensuring monetary stability. He could not and, indeed, would not second guess the market. He consistently sidestepped the thorny ... ... non- financial business sector has been -0.6 percent in the year to the end of the second quarter of 2002. Germany faces the same predicament. As o... ...rgers do not always drive prices higher. University of Chicago economists studying Industrial Organization - the branch of economics that deals wit... ...rance leads to excess consumption, therefore it is not obvious that competition is second best optimal. Intuitively, it seems that imperfect compet... ... trends of centralization and hierarchical stratification wrought by the Industrial Revolution. From microprocessor to micropower - an enormous cent... ... the cause. The dwindling of dividends has implications which are nothing short of revolutionary. Most of the financial theories we use to determin...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...for some time his paintings bore a somewhat gloomy aspeot, but af- ter his second marriage, light again brightened his vCosks until a change of circum... ... and St N. H. Sanford's news room. Entered at Willisnistown post-ofiice as second class matter. The Excelsior Printing Company North Adams, Mass. .M.4... ...cas Confectionery J. F. Haifa, Prop. Calerins'tfor All Social Occasions 12 Second Street, Troy, N. Y. BOSTON UNIVERSITY Offers Metropolitan Advantages... ...rmany a consign- ment of jjlaster, brass, and thread models of surfaces of revolution, CUbio surfaces, qundrio surfaces and intersections of surfaces,... .... of Troy, N. Y., has been received byProfessor Milham. It illustrates the revolution of the earth around the sun, precession and mutation. It is one ... ...ruction, to curtail unduly the earnings of the road, is to court immediate industrial desolation. Rebuttal Seligman, in presenting tbe FALL '07 Hats N... ...mous by his axiom, "Je pense, doncje suis." This author oauseii a complete revolution of scientific investigation, and his in- fluence from the point ... ...to block legislation against such employ- ment. The fact is, however, that industrial conditions of tbe pres- ent day are materially different from th...

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Surviving the Economic Crisis : Current and Future Trends

By: Mark W. Medley

... That's the major question over the 'New deal', although the proposed "Green Revolution' raises more questions. We lived beyond our means, and need ... ...more menial jobs, earning less. It will take more than a New Deal, and "Green revolution" to satisfy millions of people around the World. We need to... ... a new Germany for 12 Million citizens of the East that had a failed banking, industrial and at that time educational system. A mini-boom was create... ...onism Create Free Trade Between Russia and China? Resource rich Russia, and Industrialized China may be shut out by Europe and the USA, as both wi... ... faltering economies. Two anxious giants look on, Russia and China. One a new Industrial power, another a resource rich and military power. Both ar... ... Solar Energy Engineers Solar Energy is bound to benefit from the new Green Revolution. And the Industry needs specialists to work in this booming... ... was still officially over 15% of Americans collecting welfare. Only when the Second World War started did America become prosperous again. Du... ...feng China (1976- 1980) When Chairman Mao died, Hua Guofeng became the second Premier of the Peoples republic of China. Within a few days he ... ...aviors of others, that candidate will pass the "candidacy threshold" into the second stage of leadership emergence. In some groups, one member take...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

...n Union - A Profile of IG Metall XI. The Demise of the Work Ethic XII. Industrial Action and Competition Laws XIII. Employees and Management Own... ...r one year of operation. The unemployed worker, who participates in the second pilot project, should be provided with a choice. He could either re... ...e even better if the incentives to the employer were to be paid for every SECOND month of employment. Thus, the employer would have an incentive to ... ...ore with every 6 months the person has been unemployed by them. In the second method (preferrale in Macedonia’s conditions), employers must under... ...aw on Health Protection at Work, the Law on Labour Inspection, the Law on Industrial Action and the July 1997 Law on Employment and Insurance in the... ...nally, it has about 150 chapters in the municipalities and in the various industrial sectors (all 15 of them). The typical Macedonian trade union ... ... and hire employees". Entrepreneurship overlaps with two other workplace revolutions: self- employment and flexitime. The number of new businesses s... ...st. Even at the end of the 19th century - at the height of the Industrial Revolution - more than half the population still worked from home. Farmers... ... worker scarcity abounded in each of the previous three historic economic revolutions. As agriculture developed and required increasingly more adva...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...ree Content Sell? XX. Copyright and Free Online Scholarship XXI. The Second Gutenberg XXII. The E-book Evangelist XXIII. Germany’s Copyrigh... ...graphy, etc. directly to end-users and consumers. This is a return to pre-industrial times when artisans ruled the economic scene. Work stability wi... ...ies while their business models were exposed as wishful thinking. The second mistake was to exclusively cater to the needs of a highly idiosyncra... ...ica's sales plummeted. The Britannica was also late to cash on the web revolution - but, when it did, it became a world leader overnight. Its unb... ...s far as declaring "interruption marketing" (=ads and banners) dead. The second approach is simpler and allows for the existence of non-commercial c... ...a Medium The internet is simply the latest in a series of networks which revolutionized our lives. A century before the internet, the telegraph, th... ...nstance. This was all phased over a long period of time - still, it was a revolution whose magnitude is difficult to gauge and whose consequences de... ...roperty rights. Later, the American colonies became the world's centre of industrialized and systematic book piracy. Confronted with abundant and ch... ...rescribed period of time. V. As Readership Expanded The battle between industrial-commercial publishers (fortified by ever more potent technologi...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... demonstrate: children are irrational – is this a licence to commit infanticide? A second approach says that a person has the right to life because... ...continues well into the fourth year of life (physiologically it continues in to the second year of life - see "Born Alien"). Should the location of ... ...ized and debauched. Animal rights activists, environmentalists, feminists, peasant revolutionaries, and techno-punk performers all claim to be anar... ...t identify those asymmetries that underlie all others ("primary asymmetries" vs. "secondary asymmetries"). Most anarchists point at the state and ... ...ic network with an anarchic modus operandi - flourished at these times. The dotcom revolution was less about technology than about new ways of doin... ...ld to Reuters - were established by Jews. Jews also featured prominently in all the revolutionary movements of the past three centuries. Individual ... ...flesh is protein-rich. Most societies, past and present (with the exception of the industrialized West), need to make efficient use of rare protein... ...l Europe (the Czech Republic, Hungary and, to a lesser extent, Poland) experienced industrial capitalism in the inter-war period. But the countries... ...ind of disdain towards "non-productive", "city-based" vocations. Agricultural and industrial occupations were romantically extolled. The cities we...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... demonstrate: children are irrational – is this a licence to commit infanticide? A second approach says that a person has the right to life because... ...continues well into the fourth year of life (physiologically it continues in to the second year of life - see "Born Alien"). Should the location of ... ...ized and debauched. Animal rights activists, environmentalists, feminists, peasant revolutionaries, and techno-punk performers all claim to be anar... ...t identify those asymmetries that underlie all others ("primary asymmetries" vs. "secondary asymmetries"). Most anarchists point at the state and ... ...ic network with an anarchic modus operandi - flourished at these times. The dotcom revolution was less about technology than about new ways of doin... ...ld to Reuters - were established by Jews. Jews also featured prominently in all the revolutionary movements of the past three centuries. Individual ... ...flesh is protein-rich. Most societies, past and present (with the exception of the industrialized West), need to make efficient use of rare protein... ...l Europe (the Czech Republic, Hungary and, to a lesser extent, Poland) experienced industrial capitalism in the inter-war period. But the countries... ...ind of disdain towards "non-productive", "city-based" vocations. Agricultural and industrial occupations were romantically extolled. The cities we...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...1 Why Intellectual Property?, 1 2 Thomas Jefferson Writes a Letter, 17 3 The Second Enclosure Movement, 42 4 The Internet Threat, 54 5 The Farmers’ Ta... ...ed in other forms else- where. Portions of Chapters 2 and 3 appeared as “The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain”; 1 C... ...- plain why it matters, why it is the legal form of the information age. The second goal is to persuade you that our intellectual property policy is g... ...o the environmental movement—to preserve the public domain. The explosion of industrial technologies that threatened the environ- ment also taught us ... ...___ 1 Imagine yourself starting a society from scratch. Perhaps you fought a revolution, or perhaps you led a party of adventurers into some empty lan... ... natural rights view, and on an international level, we have rejected it in “industrial property”—patent and trademark—and modified it in copyright. I ... ...the literary moral rights tradition to the immediate aftermath of the French Revolution. In France before the Revolution, as in England before the Sta... ...08 11:04 AM Page 29 list of titles over which they had the privilege. The Revolution abolished these privileges and, at first, put nothing in their ... ...n or the activities necessary to infringe were largely, though not entirely, industrial. Imagine someone walking up to you in 1950, handing you a book...

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