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...n their small safe bubbles -- and they don't even know it. Batteries of a machine race? Hardly. 'Batteries' of the System that keeps people containe... ... accepting it, by becoming a part of it, they power the self-perpetuating machine. But in the end, is it really so far of a stretch? Humans don’t wan... ...d to believe that everything is black and white, that we were "good" and "machines were bad", and that that was all there was to it. I fell into it ... ...sired the right to choose, the right to live, and because they were "only Machines", the humans treated them much like white people treated people o... ...ere far superior simply out of being human -- sought to destroy them. The Machines, as any being concerned with survival would, fought back. And the... ...nstant rain of ash that continues to drift over everything like hot black snow... in the middle of this brutality, I found... one single, small creat... ...ology, toward what some researchers call the Singularity, is a proverbial snowball that cannot now be halted. But rather than simply paving the way ... ...s two Siberian huskies which she runs in harness on dirt tracks (only one snow race is held in Australia), and considers herself a "proud member and...

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... meandering river whose source, she was told, was in the glaciers of the mighty Himalayas, their snow-capped peaks rising majestically in the distan... ...eeze. Dark, wooded foothills were silhouetted against the horizon and beyond were the everlasting snows of the high ranges, their white caps blushin... ...t you since our last meeting and hoped to see you once more before I continue my journey to those snow-capped heights. There I hope to find shruti,’... ... garden and high above the city stood the magnificent backdrop of the Himalayas whose everlasting snows had beckoned to her Sunyassi to find his shr... ...e valley narrowed and the river was no more than a fast flowing stream, swollen now by the melted snows of the high peaks. Helen was the first to no... ...s were testing their musketry and sharpening their bayonets and knives. Home-made bombs, infernal machines, huge stones and blocks of wood to impel ...

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...el less safe than something with two wheels and no walls. The truck had a machinegun mounted in the back with a belt feed of 5.65 mm rounds. She was... ...the driver’s seat and Ron jumped into the back of the truck and armed the machinegun. Lexi started up the bike at the same time that Derek started t... ...d Ron panicking. “Shoot at them moron!” Derek yelled at him. Ron moved the machinegun and opened fre on the bladeless helicopter. He had never fred a... ...gun and opened fre on the bladeless helicopter. He had never fred a heavy machinegun before. Actu- ally, prior to the Flash Storm, he had never even ... ... “Vincent, you come storming in here with outrageous claims of some giant machine that’s going to wipe us all out and you have a Seeker over your sh... ...s. We should load up that Bronco since it’s covered. It’ll be good in the snow too since we’re going up north.” “D…does that mean I’m coming with you...

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...ur apartment: for the tape recorder?" he asked. She turned off the machine without the least concern about a distraction deferring her scholar... ...ables and chairs in the center and woks, burners, a refrigerator, and Coke machine in the front. It had taken the family so many years of working on t... ...ases hung around their chests. "I thought she didn't have the chance of a snowball in hell of winning" commented the mosquito. "Anyhow, here she is ... ... to New York City?" "What's in Canada, Nawin? It's got a few walking snowmen but what else? Snowy landscapes and cold temperatures good for pen... ...htlife, and beautiful girls like me. What is the symbol of Canada?" "Snowmen," said Nawin as he chuckled, "and Canadian dollars." He was enjoyi... ...an dollars." He was enjoying the conversation. "What are they: these snowmen? Are they just Englishmen?" "That but also Americans who didn... ... would always stay with him. Born in boredom and anguish at seeing snow fall while doing her dishes in front of the kitchen window, delivered ... ...penthouse but was a sidewalk-based seamster with his little antique sewing machine, a pedal, and a hill of torn clothes he was supposed to sew. He wa... ...e sustenance), sidewalk seamstresses with their antique foot pumped sewing machines, and a man with a bicycle-pulled ice-cream cart who stood there sc...

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...ning Narcissism Prague at Dusk In Moist Propinquity Prowling Getting Old Sally Ann Selfdream Snowflake Haiku Twinkle Star Synthetic Joy Tableaux (van ... ...does he want to go, I wander? My brain is working overtime. My skull-domiciled well-oiled machine, whose parts are in metallic shine, impeccable, u... ...iled machine, whose parts are in metallic shine, impeccable, unerring, impervious to pain. Machines don't ache this brother, sprawled on the couch,... ...med by one of my confabulations. I remember descending from a train, ankle-high in rustling snow, treading uncharted tracks towards an illuminated b... ...ght but way obese. His wild stubble and wire glasses accentuate his burliness, the towering machinery, the vaulted chamber. "The Cyclops's Cave", I ... ... what could go wrong with such a name? Partly to find out, I left my voice in her answering machine. Her message served only to enhance my interest.... ...ounded like a femme fatale, the kind that makes trouble merely by momentarily flashing the snowy and wrinkled confluence of her armpits and her bre... ...negotiated. A trading of the wounds. My chains carve metal and I am branded. Return Snowflake Haiku by Sam Vaknin Where I begin yo...

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... It’s my turn. I place the groceries on the counter, dig into my pocket and produce the K100 note. Instead of punching on her machine, the till la... ...astic manners? They are sickening. “Yes sir. This man has been robbed,” says the teller. “Did you punch the amount into the machine?” The manage... ...dium sized, five meters long and four metres wide. It contains a bed attached to a wall, a basin, and a bathroom. Its walls are snow-white, the colo... ...ow much?” “K20.” “Here.” He gives the kid a K20 note and the kid runs away. He watches the kid go and he smiles, revealing snow-white teeth. ...

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...g. Sees her husband grappling inside the vortex before he collapses like a snowman in the sun. Through tear-blurred eyes, salt stinging and half-blind... ...on mawla's 27"-screen with Dolby stereo sound; and the deadly cold killing machines of Shark Week on the Discovery Channel. One minute he could see wh... ...an his "artisan" skills to make a useful weapon. But having mawla's mate's machinery available to him encouraged him about his prospects. He had at le... ...Hey, those guys are like mailmen when it comes to parades. Through, sleet, snow, pouring rain ... They're in there." "I see." He nodded. "Good. Now ca...

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... they were some form of solicitation, or someone he had no desire to talk with. After the machine responded with “No one’s here; please leave a messa... ... her again. He entered his apartment to a red eye blinking incessantly on his answering machine. He pressed the message button; it hummed until a r... ...At first, it made no sense, then I realized he was staring at the red light on the coffee machine. I shut it off, and he stopped walking. That was t... ... Brand asked not liking what he was hearing. “Yeah,” Kidd answered, “like two flakes in a snow storm.” “Actually,” Cummings said, “in between argume...

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... are two intermediate steps between them. Neutrosophic logic is yet another idea generated by Florentin Smarandache, who seems to be a perpetual idea machine. Like classical logic, it can be used in many ways, everywhere from statistics to quantum mechanics. Neutrosophy is more than just a form of logic however. There are several different definitions, extending into many ...

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...idea generated by Florentin Smarandache, who seems to be a perpetual idea machine. Like classical logic, it can be used in many ways, everywhere fro... ...d Becca. At the ages of ten and eleven, they have their own lawn care and snow removal business. They are permanent fixtures in the neighborhood pus... ...w, we will be able to apply a value of T or F to the expression, “It will snow tomorrow.” However, today we have no such certainty, but based on exp... ...her patterns, it is possible to say, “There is an 80% chance that it will snow tomorrow.” Fuzzy logic allows values between 0.0 and 1.0 to be a...

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... your old man don’t know his head from his toes. And that’s when he’s sober.” Mack stamped his feet in the sludge left over from the previous night’s snow. Then he started fishing inside his coat for his cigarette case. “Speaking of which – where the hell’s your hat? You look like a bum, huddled out here with no hood for your head.” He found the case and flipped it open. “...

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... buzz amidst “10,000 walking, talking computer freaks.” 2 The Apple II was a machine for hobbyists who did not want to fuss with soldering irons: all ... ...tions. But the hurdle was not high. Some owners were inspired to program the machines themselves, but true beginners simply could load up software wri... ...lc, the world’s first spreadsheet program—sales of the ungainly but very cool machine took off dramatically. 3 An Apple running VisiCalc helped to convi... ...sses began to plan on selling software. Jobs (and Apple) had no clue how the machine would be used. They had their hunches, but, fortunately for them,... ... then delivered on the threat) to transform the iPhone into an iBrick. 5 The machine was not to be generative beyond the in- novations that Apple (and... ... sured by the same factors, scooters and bicycles are more accessible, while snowplows are less so. Standard PCs are very accessible; they come in a w... ...give rise to liability for the paper, CDA § 230 notwithstanding. 50. Michael Snow, Article Creation Restricted to Logged-in Editors (Dec. 5, 2005), ht...

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...identical to each other. No two drops of water are exactly the same. No two snowflakes are identical to each other. No two atoms are exactly the ... ...permutations of different grains of sand, different drops of water, different snowflakes, different atoms, different planets, different stars, diffe... ...nd two leaves that are exactly the same. Sooner or later: you would find two snowflakes that are exactly the same. This has never happened. T... ... You can see how the dynamic of expanding 3-dimensional space works in bubble machines at amusement parks. The closer the bubbles are to the solid ... ... planet in our solar system goes to show that no matter on what level: from a snowflake, to an eco-system, from an atmosphere, to a planetary crust:... ...use this is how the entire Universe is organized and structured. The digital machine knowledge of 1 and 0 cannot explain a damned thing because it ... ...anic living creatures cannot be explained by 2-dimensional 0’s and 1’s. Dead machines will never become organically aware and they will never becom... ...they will never become organically intelligent. The point is: we do not need machines to understand the origins of our Universe. We owe it to ours... ... other as little as possible. This is why the permutations of the designs of snowflakes are infinite: but their basic hexagonal structure never chan...

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... Local rice farming 108 * Hierarchy of rice 110 * Buffalo or ploughing machine? 112 * Delocal production farming 114 Iron claws of the market ... ...logy - supernatural engineering, re-created flora and fauna, cyborgs, nano-machinery, chemical consciousness - scientific-technological ethics - biolo... ...cial to those who are the first to adapt, who purchase the first ploughing machine, educate their children, move to the city... Every cultural system ... ...und sunset. At midday, in the heat, the buffalo couldn't work. Now we have machines and they are very good. Although I have heard that somewhere in t... ...lthough I have heard that somewhere in the south, where they started using machines earlier, they have found that rice crops became poorer and they h... ...nd Needs of Thai Women: Where Has Development Taken Us? G. Sen - R. C. Snow (eds.), Power and Decision: The Social Control of Reproduction. Harva...

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...y seeks refuge in coma; organs fail as the days tick by and hands switch off machines - a flick here, a click there, 27 that's all it takes, not muc... ... Russia, surviving winter's deadly cold by washing each morning the body in snows of freezing, glacial white. 'Crazy Harry,' the others say, but it s... ... Good coming out of bad, warmth radiating from cold, sunshine pouring out of snow. Resistance makes us all grow stronger and fly ever higher on the ...

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...L A T I O NS I. Psychophysics II. Parapsychology and the Paranormal III. Turing Machines and Universes IV. The Science of Superstitions G O D... ...ngs - why did evolution resort to the false perception of continuum? And how can a machine which is bound to be discrete by virtue of its "naturaln... ...echnical Note about Ambiguity and Vagueness The Basic Dilemma of the Artist Turing Machines and Universes Born Aliens The Manifold of Sense Surpa... ...Existence Being John Malkovich The Shattered Identity The Matrix Return Turing Machines and Universes In 1936 an American (Alonzo Church) and a... ...se methods were so called because they could, in principle, be performed by simple machines (or human-computers or human- calculators, to use Turing... ...ntribution of a thing towards a desired result does not account for its occurrence. Snow does not fall IN ORD ER to allow people to ski, for instanc...

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...uch books only as I happen to possess, I find abundant proof that this simple machinery has been in use from time imme- morial.” Jefferson cites from h... ...ld have been hard-pressed to do so. Perhaps you could find a balky mimeograph machine, or press a reel-to-reel tape recorder into use. You might manage... ...g printing press. Three-quarters of the way along the line is a photocopying machine. At the far end lies the Internet and the online version of the h... ... (copyright was now being used to regulate functional articles of commerce: “machines” made of binary code). The dif- ference between copying and read... ...Jefferson pointed out, slow technological de- velopment. But a monopoly over Snow White or “Ode on a Grecian Urn”? We do not normally think of rights ... ...that no one else uses is in the position of the person who owns the only fax machine in the world. Peer-to-peer networks provide cheap and unregula- b...

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...ted the idea of animal rights. They regarded animals as the organic equivalents of machines, driven by coarse instincts, unable to experience pain ... ... the subject of the famous Turing Test: there is no effective way to distinguish a machine from a human when we rely exclusively on symbol manipula... ...s of the origin. Consider the software-mind metaphor. The computer is a "thinking machine" (however limited, simulated, recursive and mechanical).... ...limited, simulated, recursive and mechanical). Similarly, the brain is a "thinking machine" (admittedly much more agile, versatile, non-linear, may... ...lation is by virtue of two facts: (1) Both the brain and the computer are "thinking machines" and (2) the latter is the product of the former. Thus,... ...nibalism? When members of a plane-wrecked rugby team, stranded on an inaccessible, snow-piled, mountain range resort to eating each other in order ... ...ntribution of a thing towards a desired result does not account for its occurrence. Snow does not fall IN ORDER to allow people to ski, for instance...

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...ted the idea of animal rights. They regarded animals as the organic equivalents of machines, driven by coarse instincts, unable to experience pain ... ... the subject of the famous Turing Test: there is no effective way to distinguish a machine from a human when we rely exclusively on symbol manipula... ...s of the origin. Consider the software-mind metaphor. The computer is a "thinking machine" (however limited, simulated, recursive and mechanical).... ...limited, simulated, recursive and mechanical). Similarly, the brain is a "thinking machine" (admittedly much more agile, versatile, non-linear, may... ...lation is by virtue of two facts: (1) Both the brain and the computer are "thinking machines" and (2) the latter is the product of the former. Thus,... ...nibalism? When members of a plane-wrecked rugby team, stranded on an inaccessible, snow-piled, mountain range resort to eating each other in order ... ...ntribution of a thing towards a desired result does not account for its occurrence. Snow does not fall IN ORDER to allow people to ski, for instance...

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...g baby, and for the house. She made drapes and bedspreads on an old sewing machine she got at a church sale. Together, they bought furniture from ‘con... ...s atten- tion, Roger became more frustrated. He spent his time curling and snowmobiling in the winter, and in the summer he went with Mario and Joe fo... ...he house. With Roger’s golf clubs, bowling shoes, skis, curling equipment, snowmobile, skates and camping gear gone, as well as his clothes and books,... ...hat networking was largely respon- sible for his success. He heard the fax machine ringing behind him. With a last, satisfied look at the throngs belo... ...lace, people only came to the lake during the summer, but now lots come to snowmobile and ski at Horseshoe Valley. Many are tearing down their cottage... ...e you on the weekend.” They disconnected. The sky was dark. It looked like snow . Figures, Jana thought. Only the middle of December and winter’s in f... ...full force. Getting back and forth to work was often a headache during the snowy months. She made it home just as fluffy flakes started to swirl down.... ...lete-body bone scan, grateful that she didn’t need a driver this time. The machine whirred and coughed and grunted as it moved up and down and all aro... ...ay after Christmas Lacey had a brain scan under another whirring, clicking machine. I think brain cancer must 117 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE be the worst, t...

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...money to fund the health needs of those retirees. Jobs became more scarce as machines did the work of the unskilled and some of the skilled workers. ... ... would eagerly await the planetarium show. The giant black insect-like machine, the Zeiss planetarium, was perched in the middle of the 75 foot... ...s it out for a future home for our excess population. Maybe some day a time machine or an astral travel mechanism can be invented that would make em... ... service the firms founded on foreign money—the cleaning services, the copy machine maintenance companies, the various suppliers—fear not, much of ... ...y couldn’t pay the mortgages? Would they be willing to give up their sun and snow vacations? Their cars? On the other hand the people of Gaza, Somali... ... can build vertical farms that use hydroponics. Today’s farms require large machines powered by oil. They require great amounts of water, which woul... ...lection. Businessmen want profits today. “I must join that small snowball that is already rolling down the hill. We all must become part ...