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The Silver Lining: Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...nister or monomaniac people – there can be no Utopia. In H.G. Wells' book "The Time Machine", the hero wanders off to the third millennium only to c... ...bers are immortal, don't have to work, or think in order to survive. Sophisticated machines take care of all their needs. No one forbids them to ma... ...s the most virulent attack on capitalism in a long time. Greedy, thoughtless money machines in the form of billionaire tycoon-producers exploit Tru... ...im looking tubes and keeps them immersed in gelatinous liquid in cocoons. This new "machine species" derives its energy needs from the electricity p... ...and horror when we are faced with "resistant stains" of bacteria or with creatures, machines, or groups able to survive and thrive in extremely host... ...hers as "non-robots". Will non-robots include monkeys and parrots? Yes, unless the manufacturers equip the robots with digital or optical or molecu... ...an empirical hierarchy of humans. Should we, as humans, rely on robots or on their manufacturers (however wise, moral and compassionate) to make th...

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Rossum's Universal Robots

By: Karel Capek

...count. Do you play the piano? HELENA Yes. DOMIN That's good. But a working machine must not play the piano, must not feel happy, must not do a whole ... ...u spoke of lies. HELENA You wouldn't have her killed? DOMIN You can't kill machines. R. U. R. I-13 HELENA Don't be afraid, Sulla, I won't let you go.... ...work, Miss Glory! One Robot can replace two and a half workmen. The human machine, Miss Glory, was terribly imperfect. It had to be removed sooner o... ...!–– and ensure good treatment for them. FABRY Not a bad object, either. A machine has to be treated properly. Upon my soul, I approve of that. I don... ... damage to himself because it doesn't hurt him. He puts his hand into the machine, breaks his finger, smashes his head, its all the same to him. We ... ...rease in production, to raise the standards of their armies. And all the manufacturers in the world are ordering Robots like mad. HELENA And has no...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...to found Mattel with her husband, Elliott. It is now one of the world's largest toy manufacturers (revenues - c. $5 billion annually, a third of whi... ...o the Burmese but he has collaborated with the Japanese war-crime tainted military machine throughout the second world war - though he conveniently... ...and "low tar" designate tar and nicotine yields in cigarette smoke as measured by a machine. The number on the cigarette pack merely reflects the... ...ects the milligrams of nicotine or tar found in cigarette smoke as measured by the machine. It does not relate to the real amount of nicotine per c... ...ned in 1962) and SAGE with full e-mail capabilities by 1966. But these were same-machine e-mail applications. They could not connect different co... ... Still, when war broke out, Lindbergh served as a civilian consultant to aircraft manufacturers. Later, the US Army sent him on clandestine missio... ...n their destructive mission. The Merck Veterinary Manual describes these killing machines thus: "The parasitic larvae are tapered and have mou...

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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

... 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... ...fail to perform as promised, the user knows exactly whom to blame, since the manufacturers determine the device’s behavior as surely as Herman Holleri... ...e code that feeds into the machine itself and rewires it in a heartbeat. The manufacturers of general-purpose PCs could thus write software that gave ... ...new code that could be tried and shared at very little effort and cost. Their manufacturers—both hardware and operating system makers—found their incen... ...e PC beat leased and appliancized counterparts that could perform only their manufacturers’ applications and nothing else, the In- ternet first linked ...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...ng as publishers. The introduction of "book ATMs" - POD (Print On Demand) machines, which will print every conceivable title in minutes, on the spo... ...n other words, it returns the book to its origins: a time capsule, a time machine and the embodiment of a historical narrative. E-books, hitherto, ... ...nd typesetting, new methods of reproducing illustrations, cloth bindings, machine-made paper, ready-bound books, paperbacks, book clubs, and book to... ...t comes with no literature, warranties or support). So why should the big manufacturers, publishing houses, record companies, software companies and ... ... still limited to industrial designs and processes, mainly as embedded in machinery. The patent was born. The more massive the market, the more soph... ...es - the larger loomed the issue of intellectual property. It spread from machinery to designs, processes, books, newspapers, any printed matter, wor... ...r-Mechana, the copyright fees collection agency, negotiated with hardware manufacturers and importers the introduction of a levy on personal computer... ...ians, Portuguese and Dutch haven't even considered the option. Hardware manufacturers are livid. In a buyers' market, their razor-thin profit margi... ...s to work in 66 languages. In their own words: "WordWalla allows device manufacturers and application developers to meet this challenge by develop...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...s, or farmers is limited - as is their life span. The quantities of raw materials, machinery and plant are constrained. Contrary to classic economi... ... they incur - the initial expenditures and investments in research and development, machine tools, plant, and branding. To sum, though financial a... ...ese, in turn, foster further consolidation among suppliers, service providers, and manufacturers. Market purists consider oligopolies - not to men... ...nt over the long run." In his recently published tome "The Free-Market Innovation Machine - Analysing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism", William B... ...ados, Ireland, and in the USA: Vermont, Colorado, and Hawaii. Companies - from manufacturers to insurance agents - are willing to retain more r... ...ould be achieved bilaterally, between companies and purchasers, patent holders and manufacturers, global suppliers and countries - or through a mar... ...its sold cover the enormous fixed and sunk costs of authoring the software and the machine tools used in the manufacturing process. The actual prod... ...ls. In impoverished countries, differential pricing was introduced illegally where manufacturers insisted on rigid, rich-world, price lists. Pira... ...of innovation fully understood. In a new tome titled "The Free-Market Innovation Machine", William Baumol of Princeton University claims that onl...

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A History of U. S. Communications Security (Volumes I and Ii);1973

By: David G. Boak

... sent in the Seventh Army in Europe, and vice versa. Of course some systems, parti­ cularly some machine systems, are designed specifically for interc... ...he form of the messages themselves permit this terrible inflexibility. We use a few of them, but machines are the things we're moving towards to meet ... ...hey are built for speed; they are by far the Castest means of communicating securely with­ out a machine. Finally, they are extremely specialized, nar... ...This looks like a whole communications center or laboratof)' or something; but it'••U one cipher machine. It was caUed SIGSALLY. Ityou counted the air... ...d circuits that e: ~ happen to use sophisticated transmission techniques. A favorite ploy of the manufacturers of for- - ward tropospheric: and ionosp... ...the actual business of government and strategic military affairs is con­ ducted. This called for machinery that was smaller and packaged differently t... ...avy some lunda (about a quarter of what they asked for) to cany out that development. Meanwhile, manufacturers were coaxed to develop some interim sup... ...mportant ones. I have hardly touched on the role of industry or on the program designed to train manufacturers and mobilize their resources to work on... ...een on the back burner since the late 50'S, began to let a areat deal of attention from computer manufacturers tbcmsclves and from some of their custo...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

... 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... ... was established in the Philippines, financed principally by large Western manufacturers of tractors and agricultural machinery. By crossing local var... ...puter skills. But the Scouting ideal has influential defendants, above all manufacturers of Scout uniforms. It is a large national business, and for m...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... 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 ... ...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... ... on the Totality of 12, in the TV series called: Star Gate. The series has a machine that is round and has 12 numbers around an THE PATH OF SPLITN... ...h publicity you get. Nobody will listen to you at all. Chemical and weapons manufacturers, and the worst corporate polluters in world all use the s... ...m the need to make a profit. If cars were built to last a lifetime; then car manufacturers could not get richer. The basic function of making tools... ...oisoned forms of Life that kill other living things. Just because the seed manufacturers need to sell in bulk in order to make a profit, just beca... ...n that would put Microsoft out of business. Because then a million different manufacturers would make their own versions of the simplified speciali...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...on’t have to pay the research costs? How are authors and publishers and drug manufacturers to make money? And if they can’t make money, how are we to ... ...he same time, trademarks fulfill a second function: they are supposed to give manufacturers an incentive to make good products—or at least to make prod... ...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... ...ith the owner of the rights: other publishers, movie theaters, distributors, manufacturers. In practice, if not theory, the law was predomi- nantly a ... ...tellectual talents to explaining why writers, telecom companies, scientists, manufacturers of consumer electronics, and a host of other groups should ... ...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... ...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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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...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,... ...s at one tenth the speed. Competition has innumerable advantages: a. It encourages manufacturers and service providers to be more efficient, to bet... ...hannels. - This is common practice in many countries. Open threats are made by the manufacturers of popular products: "If you distribute my competi... ... (also known as dumping) to eliminate competitors. - This tactic is mostly used by manufacturers in developing or emerging economies and in Japan. ... ...probation officers, wardens, sociologists, non-governmental-organizations, weapons manufacturers, laboratory technicians, graphologists, and privat...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...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,... ...s at one tenth the speed. Competition has innumerable advantages: a. It encourages manufacturers and service providers to be more efficient, to bet... ...hannels. - This is common practice in many countries. Open threats are made by the manufacturers of popular products: "If you distribute my competi... ... (also known as dumping) to eliminate competitors. - This tactic is mostly used by manufacturers in developing or emerging economies and in Japan. ... ...probation officers, wardens, sociologists, non-governmental-organizations, weapons manufacturers, laboratory technicians, graphologists, and privat...

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Apec's Achievements in Trade Facilitation 2007-2010-Final Assessment of Tfapii

By: Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Policy Support Unit

...cal Commission (IEC) within APEC economies. The harmonized set of standards gives manufacturers greater certainty in standards compliance and allows ... ...onform to relevant IEC standards. These test certificates can then be utilized by manufacturers directly to enable market access of their products, o... ...lasses. By economies undertaking this alignment to a harmonized set of standards, manufacturers have greater certainty in standards compliance, which... ... 2010. By economies undertaking this alignment to a harmonized set of standards, manufacturers have greater certainty in standards compliance, which... ...go, preferably using non-intrusive detection equipment such as large- scale X-ray machines and radiation detectors. Create and implement an Authori... ...em which pre- clears passengers to ensure faster clearance on arrival. Introduce machine readable travel documents (MRTDs), if possible with biomet...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...o office of Allyn & Bacon, publish- ers. Howe will enter the employ of the Manufacturers' National bank, Troy, N. Y. Hoyne will enter either law or bu... ...ractical ed- ucation is an education which fits a man to lire; it is not a machine to do his work. We Americans must be hard at work at somo- tliiiig.... ... ID. Sbuiman 6 Tompanv TAILORS At Bemis' .. NEW HAVEN, CONN. Pianos Victor Machines Sheet Music A Complete Line of 5mall Qoods Cluett& Sons 16 and 18 ... .... Sbulman ^ Tompanv TAILORS At Bemis' .. .. NEW HAVEN, CONN. Pianos Victor Machines Sheet Music A Complete Line of Small Goods Cluett& Sons 16 and 18 ... ... ID. Sbulman ^ Tompanv TAILORS At Bemls' .. NEW HAVEN, CONN. Pianos Victor Machines Sheet Music A Complete Line of Small Qoods Cluett& Sons 16 and 18 ... ...s the topic chosen by W. M. Clark. The laborer is too often consid- ered a machine, and it is this fact which gives rise to the present un- rest in th... ...erved for Hantmond Typewriter Company A. G. SPALDING ^ & BROS, \je Largest Manufacturers In the \l'otlcl of Official Athletic Supplies Baseball, Footb... ... ]lovb6 CJ) INI [ jr >N TIT' Cignrcttcs A. G. SPALDING ^ & BROS. ^ Largest Manufacturers In the World of Official Athletic Supplies Baseball, Football... ...-> CignrrttcEi mi l')L the paikcl (i( A. G. SPALDING *i6 & BROS. ^ Largest Manufacturers in the \^orld o( Official Athletic Supplies Baseball, Footbal...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

...ty of underemployment, inefficiency, and incestuous relationships between manufacturers, suppliers, the government, and financial institutions. The... ...effect on the relocation of work from factory and office to home and car. Machine tools and office equipment well into the 1980's were too cumbersom... ... other ominous signs. The worker of the future will interface mainly with machines or with others through machines - often from home. The merging of... ...for their former child workers and their families." Such examples abound. Manufacturers - fearing legal reprisals and "reputation risks" (naming-and... ...ate of the art supply chain management systems, retailers, suppliers, and manufacturers habitually run out of stocks of finished and semi-finished p... ...tion of the common industrial worker, the veritable "anonymous cog in the machine". Not only was the link between worker and product broken - but t... ...hological warfare. The customer has to rely on the goodwill of suppliers, manufacturers, and service providers - and often finds himself at their wh... ... outsourcing). Competition has innumerable advantages: a. It encourages manufacturers and service providers (such as workers) to be more efficient...

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Trade Facilitation through Customs Procedures: Assessment of Apec's Progress

By: Its Global

...alent supply chain security standards. Authorized Economic Operators include inter alia manufacturers, importers, exporters, brokers, carriers, cons... ...ustoms clearance and the delivery of goods in order to benefit importers, exporters and manufacturers through simplified and harmonized customs proc... ...nd cargo, preferably using non-intrusive detection equipment such as large-scale X-ray machines and radiation detectors. e) Create and implement a... ...toms clearance and the delivery of goods in order to benefit importers, exporters and manufacturers through simplified and harmonised customs proc... ...ystem which pre-clears passengers to ensure faster clearance on arrival. c) Introduce machine readable travel documents (MRTDs), if possible with ...

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Yellow on the Outside, Shame on the inside : Asian Culture Revealed

By: Chi, Anson

...too close and just far — enough away. Gabriel heads straight for the change machine while I venture to the gaming area to scout out the competition.... ... — also in noodles which prompted the shutdown of one of the biggest noodle manufacturers in China. Not to mention the complete violation of human r... ...calculus textbook that she was reading before we boarded the plane. She's a machine, my little sister. My parents are still reading the same paper a... ...l reading the same paper as they were at the terminal gate, so everyone's a machine except good old Johnson. Now I'm hungry, and I regret not eating... ...lf, maintain a good attitude and keep a sharp mental awareness. I am a MCAT machine, ready to go! But I would much rather be a MCAT machine with the... ...nuity, and intuition, so in turn, they are easily manipulated into becoming machines to overachieve and overwork. That is why Asians want power, eve...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

..., lumber, and extractive industries (chrome and oil) Shortages: spare parts, machinery and equipment, some food products and con- sumer goods Electric... ...etables, fruits, and tobacco Imports: $335 million (1985 est.); machin- ery, machine tools, iron and steel products, textiles, chemicals, Pharmaceutic... ...er, and cotton Imports: $1.4 billion (f.o.b., 1986 est.); capital equipment (machinery and electri- cal equipment), food, vehicles and spare parts, te... ... cloth- ing, rum, lobsters Imports: $134 million (f.o.b., 1984); fuel, food, machinery Major trade partners: exports 47% Trinidad and Tobago, 8% Barba... ...(Peronist- leaning umbrella labor organization), Argentine Industrial Union (manufacturers' association), Argentine Rural Society (large landowners' a... ...seed, hides, wool Imports: $4.1 billion (f.o.b., 1985); chemi- cal products, machinery, metallurgical products, fuel and lubricants Major trade partne... ...mmerce (Communist controlled), Feder- ation of Hong Kong Industries, Chinese Manufacturers' Association of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Professional Teachers'... ...Democratic, and UIL Social Democratic, Socialist, and Republi- can); Italian manufacturers association (Confindustria); organized farm groups (Confcol...

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Surviving the Economic Crisis : Current and Future Trends

By: Mark W. Medley

...ith loan defaults increasing, so does the need for an “Agent.” 7. Solar Manufacturers Ford and Citibank may be shedding workers, but thousan... ...k may be shedding workers, but thousands of small to medium scale Solar panel manufacturers are hiring. Cheap, self sustainable energy is the future... ...e will have to keep their possessions longer, and eventually fridges, washing machines, cars and Televisions do break down. Other workshops th... ...that a few years ago no mobile manufacturer will consider cost effective. Now Manufacturers in the developing World, are creating their own Mobile b...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

...00-million to $400-million range to supply polysilicon to major PV panel manufacturers in China, Hong Kong and Japan. In essence, Hoku secured adv... ...te ofcials started down the path by entering relationships with EV car manufacturers, including Chevrolet, Ford, Nissan and Mitsubishi; with c... ...neapples under the Dole brand. In 1911, engineer Henry Ginaca invented a machine that revolutionized the industry by peeling and coring 80 pineapp... ...motionless for 5 minutes while lying in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine is diffi cult. For some, especially the very young, it’s nearly imp... ...’s Medical Center, has invented a revolutionary system that allows an MRI machine to compensate for slight movements—making this life-saving medical ... ... tissue and place the syringe into a CIS unit in the operating room. The machine washes the fat and adds an enzyme solution that isolates stem cel...

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