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... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download f... ...nto a person with consciousness and free will. Philosophically, no identity can be established between potential and actuality. The destruction of ... ... society. Thus, they are rendered "invisible", "subhuman", and unprotected by laws, institutions, and ethics. This process of distancing and dehuman... ...us anarchism (Leo Tolstoy), anarcho- communism (Kropotkin) and anarcho-syndicalism, educational anarchism (Paul Goodman), and communitarian anarchis... ...be done in either of two ways: 1. By violently dismantling existing structures and institutions and replacing them with voluntary, self- regulating ... ...elf-regulating organizations of free individuals whose functions parallel those of established hierarchies and institutions ("dual power"). Gradual... .... Every technology can be potentially abused. Television can be either a wonderful educational tool - or an addictive and mind numbing pastime. Nuc... ... Henri Poincaret insisted (in a presentation to the Psychological Society of Paris, 1901) that even simple mathematical operations require an "intui...
Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.
...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....
... be accessed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congr... ...served mockery. “Want that insignia torn off your car, Dad? Then it would be in the public domain, right?” My colleagues at Duke are one of the main i... ...ized for the tenth anniversary of that article. Finally, I need to thank the institutions who have supported this study. The Rockefeller Center in Bel... ...ite? The answer to all of these questions is “not exactly.” Like most social institutions, intellectual property has an altogether messier and more in... ...ax” on rights holders and a “subsidy” to those who benefited from it, such as educational institutions. 4 The White Paper also suggested that while any... ...al process was going to be particularly vulnerable to problems of capture by established industries, many of whom would (rightly) see the Internet as ... ...e, including whether such use is of a com- mercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes; (2) the nature of the copyrighted work; (3) the amo... ... to use their service! No one is going to sue Apple now, of course. In fact, established players in the marketplace are probably fairly safe (and have... ...uction to the Industrial and Social History of England (New York: Macmillan, 1901), 219. 2. Although we refer to it as the enclosure movement, it was ...
...ll depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent,...
... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ...amlets, and irrigated fields. They served as the religious, governmental, educational, and commercial centers of their age. As temple complexes gr... ... even on into the Atlantic Ocean. Sailing out from their homeland, they established trading centers and gradually spread their alphabet‘s use to p... ...cripted the angry words of those biblical prophets who so freely attacked established practices?) It‘s quite ironic, however, that: The alphabe... ...s. Taking the name Genghis Khan, he quickly moved to establish all the institutions needed by this new state of Yeke Mongol Ulus (Great Mongol Na... ...iterati. Sanctuaries for foreign translators, émigrés, and refugees. Institutions of advanced learning. Focal points for every kind of cultu... ... chief source of information about community life. Opened doors to more educational opportunities Mergenthaler‘s invention also opened the door ... ...cation to library science (1875–1925). Andrew Carnegie‘s philanthropy (1901–19). At home Mergenthaler‘s family had no money for schoolbooks, an...
...first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....
...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name ev...
...From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of cra...