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...and went unnoticed. Indifferent in perfunctory movements, taking money and threading her flowers, the saleswoman was as pachydermatous and robotic as ... ...oral pleasure--pleasure giving man a sense of being more cognizant than an automaton of space dust moving in vacuous time eating, drinking, urinating,... ..." for an artist to love the beauty of form. In this world of lackadaisical automatons who never appreciated the here and now, the beauty of the human ... ...lfway believed that in his studies of the dejected Patpong whores, petrous automatons of suburbia, desperate homeless mendicants blowing bird whistles... ...the validity of human emotions thereafter as Nawin, feelings were gossamer threads of chemicals prompting puppet man to breed and breed elsewhere. Mar... ...imself who were cloyed by leisure, a rapturous respite from their roles as automatons and thus they were an essential sport of man. For the naive this... ...as linked to such an amorphous word as love, which only had one consistent thread within it and that was what all love was, a neediness within projec... ...s and yet to interact this way regardless like any biologically programmed automaton thwarted by early childhood experience was an inane life. So he c...

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...ique stores of information in the form of databases, articles, discussion threads, and links to other web sites. Consider "Central Europe Review". It... ...ng since 1999 have changed dramatically since April 2006. The only common thread in all these upheavals is one: the more incoming links from MySpace... ...t with pinpoint accuracy." It places dozens of queries, in dozens of threads simultaneously and spiders the results (rather as a "first generat... ...(replete with clickable web sites), capture Usenet and chat interactions (threads), plot search results (though Alta Vista discontinued its mapping ... ...ence and other e-books, monographs, articles and minutes of discussions ("threads"), among other types of material. Publishing an e-zine has a few ... ...c and rigid statuettes spinning up over the lid. In the XIXth century the automaton is the glorified steam motor, that burns combustible fuel instea... ... combustible fuel instead the glycogen of human muscles. The contemporary automaton opens doors with photoelectric cells, points nuclear weapons or ... ...circumstances). To me, this sounds much more dangerous than any recursive automaton which will NOT include the famous Three Laws. Moreover, what, ... ...It carries out instructions, reads and writes, counts and so on. It is an automaton designed to implement an effective or mechanical method of solvi...

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...king such as a newspaper article, or a poem, or manufactured goods such as a sewing thread). What happened to the complexity? Was it somehow reduce... ...inology. It carries out instructions, reads and writes, counts and so on. It is an automaton designed to implement an effective or mechanical metho... ...ions). If the transition from input to output is deterministic we have a classical automaton if it is determined by a table of probabilities we h... ...utomaton if it is determined by a table of probabilities we have a probabilistic automaton. With time and hype, the limitations of TMs were forg... ...of quantum mechanics gives us a satisfactory answer. It seems that a probabilistic automaton which will deal with semi recursive functions will tac... ...e measurement and the resulting collapse. Perhaps a "boundary" or a "catastrophic" automaton will do the trick. The view that the quantum process i... ...king such as a newspaper article, or a poem, or manufactured goods such as a sewing thread). What happened to the complexity? Was it somehow reduce...

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...tract and linear in nature. Linear fibers of flax were used to become linear threads called lines, or in the plural of a cloth made of linear thread... ...ss at the root level… into linear abstract lines-words-writing-borders-walls- threads… then human awareness becomes an abstract awareness which is d... ...ifferent ways the linear line was used. The use of the plow, the invention of threaded garments, weaving, textiles, design and writing. Straigh... ...nd increases the centralized power back of the power-mongers. The continuous threads of human love-family-history-culture-traditions are broken over... ...y-culture-traditions are broken over, and over again by wars. The continuous threads of peace and happiness are never allowed to grow strong. Other... ...eer. The Prussian and Germanic custom of using their lower class people into automatons and trained soldiers: trained killers. The lower classes t... ... which the undead can attain. The use of the walking ape has now created the automaton: the mechanical man who believes he cannot live without his ...

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...king such as a newspaper article, or a poem, or manufactured goods such as a sewing thread). What happened to the complexity? Was it somehow reduce... ... another. Water can be either toxic or indispensable, depending on the animal, the automaton, or the system. Scorching temperatures, sulfur emissio... ...vices), reference material, e-books, monographs, articles, minutes of discussions ("threads"), conference proceedings, and much more besides. The I... ...To me, such a "robot" sounds much more dangerous (and humanoid) than any recursive automaton which does NOT include the famous Three Laws. Moreove... ...inology. It carries out instructions, reads and writes, counts and so on. It is an automaton designed to implement an effective or mechanical metho... ...tions). If the transition from input to output is deterministic we have a classical automaton – if it is determined by a table of probabilities – we... ...omaton – if it is determined by a table of probabilities – we have a probabilistic automaton. With time and hype, the limitations of TMs were forg... ...king such as a newspaper article, or a poem, or manufactured goods such as a sewing thread). What happened to the complexity? Was it somehow reduce...

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...king such as a newspaper article, or a poem, or manufactured goods such as a sewing thread). What happened to the complexity? Was it somehow reduce... ... another. Water can be either toxic or indispensable, depending on the animal, the automaton, or the system. Scorching temperatures, sulfur emissio... ...vices), reference material, e-books, monographs, articles, minutes of discussions ("threads"), conference proceedings, and much more besides. The I... ...To me, such a "robot" sounds much more dangerous (and humanoid) than any recursive automaton which does NOT include the famous Three Laws. Moreove... ...inology. It carries out instructions, reads and writes, counts and so on. It is an automaton designed to implement an effective or mechanical metho... ...tions). If the transition from input to output is deterministic we have a classical automaton – if it is determined by a table of probabilities – we... ...omaton – if it is determined by a table of probabilities – we have a probabilistic automaton. With time and hype, the limitations of TMs were forg... ...king such as a newspaper article, or a poem, or manufactured goods such as a sewing thread). What happened to the complexity? Was it somehow reduce...

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...thin the brevity of a human's lifespan); and historians of recorded cultures thread together implication, meaning, and motive from a few tangible and ... ...-- it will be you who shall feel the walls of artificial fur ripped from its threads, and your stuffing falling out. For a little beer on top of four... ...ve no reaction whatsoever. As an artist she believed that her mission was to thread a new logical relationship of old ideas or facts if not formulate ... ...." "No, I detest jobs ﾁN especially professional jobs. I would rather be an automaton in a factory than a paper pusher or a money hording entrepreneu... ... is merely married to herself. That's all there is." She tore off the loose threads of her washcloth and tied them onto one of her fingers. Then she ...

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... white uniform, as though he were the heir of the empire, he moves like an automaton and can’t stop yawning. Herzog’s unforgiving eye moves from foc... ...uitors and he describes them in a forboding manner. If there were not a thread that unites all the books, from the first to the last, there would... ...tand why this poem had become so famous among readers of all times. This thread begins with Zeus’ invitation to value wisdom during the introductio...

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...ir use. The older strategy of intellectual property law was a “braided” one: thread a thin layer of intellectual property rights around a commons of m... ...cientists describe their task in terms that should be familiar. “A molecular automaton is an engineered molecular system coupled to a (bio)molecular e... ...d nonexcludable, 2–4, 39, 47, 48, 49, 60, 187, 215, 264; problem as com- mon thread linking different areas of intellectual property, 5–8; reality di-...

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... walked with the air of one who had the map of London in his eye and could thread it blindfold. Temple was thereby 109 George Meredith deceived into ... ...f the Thames; and here his voice struggled, and we tried hard to catch the thread of the tale. T wo men and a girl were in the boat. The men fought, t... ...have vexed me but for the wretched thought that I was losing him again. We threaded the carriages; gazed at the horsemen in a way to 153 George Mered... ...ly in a fixed man- ner, while the sea-wind blew her thick redbrown hair to threads on her cheek. Colour on the fair skin told us we were recognized. ‘... ... peerage, of which we were so jealous that it formed almost an assembly of automatons; we would have virtuous women, only for them to be pursued by im... ...would not be the one to be beaten. I led her away, rather depressed by the automaton perfor- mance assigned to me; from which condition I awoke with a... ...ejoinder. It suggested to me an image of one of the sister Fates cutting a thread. My heart sank when, from Lady Edbury too, I heard the allusion to G...

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...olk continued to play with yesterday’s pack of cards and shuffle them on a threadbare tablecloth, and how it was that they had ceased to dress for the... ...reat lady. Mme. de Beauseant stood out in such strong contrast against the automatons among whom he had spent two months of exile in that out-of-the-w... ...ce. Imagination could discover the ducal coronet of Burgundy in the spiral threads of her golden hair; all the courage of her house seemed to gleam fr...

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...ney, and in learning the spe- cial laws and usages of the Parisian market. Thread, needles, ribbons, pins, buttons, tailors’ furnishings, in short, th... ... will adorn with statues of tinted plaster and fountains which squirt mere threads of water, but on which he will spend a mint of money; others, again... ...wo Rogrons thought constantly of their dear Provins. While Jerome sold his thread he saw the Upper town; as he piled up the cards on which were button... ... heart, nor mind, nor manners”; said Monsieur Tiphaine. “If, after selling thread for twenty years, as my sister did for example—” “Your sister, my de... ...ren’t you clean in Brittany? But I recollect when I went down there to buy thread it was piti- able to see the folks,—they were like savages. At any r... ...grees to repress all liveliness and to make herself, as best she could, an automaton. 57 Balzac V HISTORY OF POOR COUSINS IN THE HOME OF RICH ONES ON...

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... the rudder. Far away astern, at the end of a line no thicker than a black thread, which dipped now and then its long curve in the bursting froth, a t... ...on a muscular chest the colour and smoothness of bronze. From the twist of threadbare sarong wound tightly on the hips protruded outward to the left t... ... as is woven by high-born women in the households of chiefs, only the gold threads were tarnished and the silk frayed in the folds. His head was throw... ...hree paced there for an hour backward and forward lost in dusky immensity, threading at the edge of water the belt of damp sand, smooth, level, elasti... ...he had replaced her yachting skirt by a blue check sarong embroidered with threads of gold. Mr. Travers’ eyes travelling slowly down attached themselv... ...hade, or gave him curt directions as one would make use of some marvellous automaton. And that was apparently the way in which Jorgenson preferred to ...

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...ving surprise, returned to the sofa. Alexander Ossipon got up, tall in his threadbare blue serge suit under the low ceiling, shook off the stiffness o... ...st pocket of his jacket. His clothes, of a nondescript brown mixture, were threadbare and marked with stains, dusty in the folds, with ragged button-h... ...,” he re- flected, with unreasonable resentment, “supposed to hold all the threads in my hands, and yet I can but hold what is put in my hand, and not... ...ut in my hand, and nothing else. And they can fasten the other ends of the threads where they please.” He raised his head, and turned towards his subo... ...ith white eyebrows and an explosive temper, could be managed with a silken thread. He left on reaching the age limit. The second, a perfect gentleman,... .... And this resem- blance to a mechanical figure went so far that he had an automaton’s absurd air of being aware of the machinery inside of him. He cl...

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...field to give the word of command to the couple of regi- ments, riddled to threads, that gained the day. That is life— when we dare death to live! I w... ...ssed to being absorbed in railways, the new lines of railways projected to thread the land and fast map- ping it. ‘You ‘ve not embarked money in them?... ...he scattered creature exhibited in its pages came to her out of the flying threads of the web as her living Tony, whom she loved and prized and was re... ...d more of heaven, insatiable, happily chirruping over her possessions. The threading of the town among the dear common people before others were abroa... ...le before others were abroad, was a pleasure and pleasant her solitariness threading the gardens at the base of the rock, only she astir; and the firs... ...ially by his avoidance of prying que- ries. She wanted just this excellent automaton fac-totum; and she referred him to Mr. Braddock for the title-dee...

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... on the other was a long defile, where the eye pursued a gleaming, sinuous thread, lost in shade and verdure. The ground next the road was walled in b... ... derous legs were jammed so hard into his slim, nether gar- ments that the threads of every seam showed; and, at every step, you looked for a catastro... ... My comrade’s was a brave old Panama hat, made of grass, almost as fine as threads of silk; and so elastic that, upon rolling it up, it sprang into pe... ...ered me!” he cried. “Heav- ens! my head’s all wheels and springs, like the automaton chess-player! What’s to be done, Paul? I’m poisoned.” But, after ... ...s sew into the frame of their tarpaulins), and then, handing me needle and thread, bade me begin at once, and make myself the hat which I so much need...

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...to the dinner, and looked in at the music-shop to bespeak a well-conducted automaton to come and play quadrilles for a carpet dance. Mr and Mrs V enee... ...ke for the time no more. ‘I W as Inquiring,’ said Mr Podsnap, resuming the thread of his discourse, ‘Whether You Have Observed in our Streets as We sh... ...offee, was quite ready , and the bathers came; but not before the discreet automaton had got behind the bars of the piano music-desk, and there presen... ...victim and bore her off to his castle in the top couple. Then the discreet automaton who had surveyed his ground, played a blossomless tuneless ‘set,’... ... mirror. And now, the grand chain riveted to the last link, the dis- creet automaton ceased, and the sixteen, two and two, took a walk among the furni... ...d- coloured under lip trembled with a shameful whine. The whole indecorous threadbare ruin, from the broken shoes to the prematurely-grey scanty hair,... ...on— which had been lying on its face on her bench, while with a needle and thread she fastened the dress on at the back—and looked from it to her. ‘I ... ...or my ruin, I know I should have broken that tie asunder as if it had been thread.’ She glanced at him with a glance of fear, and a shrinking gesture.... ...id, ‘V ery true, sir;’ and again, ‘V ery true, sir,’ be- fore resuming the thread of his discourse. ‘Mr Boffin, if I confess to you that I fell into a...

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...0 Ann Veronica had some training at the T redgold College in disentangling threads from confused statements, and she had a curious persuasion that in ... ...g and discordant, and I find myself doubting if I am really giving you the thread of emotion that should run through all this letter. For al- though I... ...f falling in love. His in- valid wife and her money had been only the thin thread that held his life together; beaded on that permanent relation had b... ...s crying out. She stopped abruptly at the sound of his voice, and lost the thread of what she was saying. In the pause she realized the attention of t... ...ronica had no answer for a moment. She turned her head away sharply . Some automaton within her produced in a quite unfamiliar voice the remark, “They...

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...of his immense shoulder-blades, as they raised and depressed the loose and threadbare black coat which was his constant and only wear. When he spoke, ... ...irst tine to Mannering his tall, gaunt, awkward, bony figure, attired in a threadbare suit of blacks with a coloured handkerchief, not over clean, abo... ...ching with some curiosity, when this eating, drinking, moving, and smoking automaton would perform the part of speaking, he was a good deal diverted w... ... Scottish com- mon people with something of an Eastern costume, she spun a thread, drawn from wool of three different colours, black, white, and gray,... ...ingle shades of joy and woe, Hope, and fear, and peace, and strife, In the thread of hu- man life. While the mystic twist is spinning, And the infant’... ...nded. She took the spindle, now charged with her labours, and, undoing the thread gradu- ally, measured it, by casting it over her elbow, and bringing... ...rance into the room, sprawl- ing out his leg, and bending his back like an automaton, which continues to repeat the same movement until the motion is ... ...n many respects was Mannering, this sort of living catalogue, and animated automaton, had all the advantages of a literary dumb-waiter. As soon as the...

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...dantic efficiency. Romantic possi- bilities of accident lurked in the worn thread of the screw that adjusted the saddle, in the precarious pedals, in ... ...erful thing was that it and a German airship five hundred yards below were threaded as it were on the lightning flash, which turned out of its path as... ...ri- cians at their work, and red gleams xan up the vertical steel mast and threads of copper wire towards the zenith. The Prince sat on a rock close b... ...g of? What did they think of him? What did they mean to do? A hundred busy threads interlaced in his mind as he pottered studiously over the Asiatic a... ...ad, he gave vent to a shout, and raised pistol and sword. At that, like an automaton, Bert pulled his trigger. It was his first experience of an oxyge...