...sold dried fish. With my wife and two small sons, I had arrived in Lampang on the night train from Bangkok, and stood there after an ill-slept night, ... ... I have made five trips in all to Northern Thailand and collected material on people's lives in three villages in the province and in its centre, the ... ...ions. The original academic working title of my research project was , and based on the 1972-73 material, I wrote a book of the same title ( ), publis... ...ter the Second World War. It marked the beginning of the era of technology based on oil, and today's modern development culture was created. Now the f... ...es and they are like summer cottages, holiday homes of the rich. We have a television set and the young people watch it, but I don't care to watch. So... ...do you like most? watch it. I stopped watching TV many years ago. I think television is a good thing. You can see the news from our home country and ... ...ars, but that way, the poor carry a great burden of debt. About television programs I would also like to say that they bring a lot of bad influences. ... ...ls, too, as computers; they are controlled by complex genetic and chemical programs only understood by state-of-the-art science. Postlocal experiences... ...ted in reading and have literature in their homes other than magazines and comics. In the 1970s, the villages of this book housed scarcely anybody who...

...The book is a descriptive overview of the culture of the villages. It contains material on the villagers' housing, rice farming and other means of livelihood, community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. The author draws surprising parallels between the world...

...e public domain, right?” My colleagues at Duke are one of the main influences on my work. I am lucky enough to work in the only “Center for the Study o... ...fluenced every chapter in this book. David Lange brought me to Duke. His work on the public domain has always been an inspi- ration to mine. Arti Rai’s... ...a result, the structure of the book is designed to facilitate self-selection based on inter- est. The first three chapters and the conclusion provide t... ... complaint from those who normally object to inefficient gov- ernment subsidy programs.) Worst of all, we have turned the system on its head. Copyright... ...nited States, does not see intellectual property as a claim of natural right based on expended labor. Instead it is a temporary state-created monopoly... ... parody, commentary, and criticism, and also for “decompilation” of computer programs so that Microsoft’s competitors can reverse engineer Word’s feat... ...ness plans relied upon showing movies in theaters and then licensing them to television stations. VCRs and Betamaxes fit nowhere in this plan; they wer... ...nt that it was a “fair use” under U.S. copyright law for consumers to record television programs for time-shifting purposes. Since fair The Internet T... ...would have been contacted by the very talented person who took images from a comic book about fair use that I co-wrote and mashed them up with words f...

...Our music, our culture, our science, and our economic welfare all 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...

...d has against his parents: food, shelter, emotional nourishment, education, and so on. It is debatable whether such rights of the fetus and, later,... ...e the mother's womb, if possible. But it is not clear whether it has a right to go on using the mother's body, or resources, or to burden her in an... ...ps such as the Animal Liberation Front, the Earth Liberation Front and the Britain-based SHAC, or Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, are 'way out in f... ...ou are invested, the less likely you are to reap the dividenda of survival. Indeed, based on actuary tables, it becomes increasingly less rational t... ...h an independent copy of a book of instructions). The receiver can be passive (as television is). In such a case we will not be justified in sayin... ...n vitro fertilization to space travel. Every technology can be potentially abused. Television can be either a wonderful educational tool - or an a... ...or spectrum. Yet, this may be a simplistic view, indeed. Simple procedures (codes, programs), in nature as well as in computing, often yield the mo... ...evolutionary process culminate in a being that transcends its genetic baggage, that programs and charts its future, and that allows its weakest and ... ...n based) intelligent life forms seem to provoke in us. But it goes no deeper than a comic book treatment of the important themes that it broaches. I...

...d has against his parents: food, shelter, emotional nourishment, education, and so on. It is debatable whether such rights of the fetus and, later,... ...e the mother's womb, if possible. But it is not clear whether it has a right to go on using the mother's body, or resources, or to burden her in an... ...ps such as the Animal Liberation Front, the Earth Liberation Front and the Britain-based SHAC, or Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, are 'way out in f... ...ou are invested, the less likely you are to reap the dividenda of survival. Indeed, based on actuary tables, it becomes increasingly less rational t... ...h an independent copy of a book of instructions). The receiver can be passive (as television is). In such a case we will not be justified in sayin... ...n vitro fertilization to space travel. Every technology can be potentially abused. Television can be either a wonderful educational tool - or an a... ...or spectrum. Yet, this may be a simplistic view, indeed. Simple procedures (codes, programs), in nature as well as in computing, often yield the mo... ...evolutionary process culminate in a being that transcends its genetic baggage, that programs and charts its future, and that allows its weakest and ... ...n based) intelligent life forms seem to provoke in us. But it goes no deeper than a comic book treatment of the important themes that it broaches. I...

...eir Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise... ... of Change After the fall of Rome, Western culture focuses for centuries on guarding rather than expanding accumulated knowledge, but the shift fro... ... from other primates and force them to live in flooded, swampy areas? Based on a theory developed in 1930 by British marine biologist Alistair Ha... ...strip them of their hard outer fibers, and then slice the core into short strips. After they soaked them in water, they would:  Pound the strips... ...ooth with pumice; washed and dressed with chalk; and finished with a lime-based wash. Vellum—the highest grade of parchment—was made of the skin ... ...ightbulb 1880  Electricity distribution 1906–1919  Radio 1920s  Television 1930s (or sooner)  Punch cards to input and externally store ... ...puters. 1950s  Rotating magnetic drums for internal storage of data and programs.  Transistors replace vacuum tubes. 1952  Pre-election polls... ...of the twenty-first century:  Satellite TV gave people access on their television sets to real reporting of images and information on CNN, Al Jaz... ... HarperCollins, 2006. Hogben, Lancelot Thomas. From Cave Painting to Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope of Human Communication. New York: Chanticleer ...

...This book also begins with that wondrous 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 m...

... -- 12. Invaders from the North Scandinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. -- 13. He Unchained Books-The German goldsmith’s invention frees access to library books and breaks the chains of ignorance that held ...

...eir Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise... ... of Change After the fall of Rome, Western culture focuses for centuries on guarding rather than expanding accumulated knowledge, but the shift fro... ...rs from other primates and force them to live in flooded, swampy areas? Based on a theory developed in 1930 by British marine biologist Alistair Ha... ...strip them of their hard outer fibers, and then slice the core into short strips. After they soaked them in water, they would:  Pound the strips... ...ooth with pumice; washed and dressed with chalk; and finished with a lime-based wash. Vellum—the highest grade of parchment—was made of the skin of... ...ightbulb 1880  Electricity distribution 1906–1919  Radio 1920s  Television 1930s (or sooner)  Punch cards to input and externally store ... ...puters. 1950s  Rotating magnetic drums for internal storage of data and programs.  Transistors replace vacuum tubes. 1952  Pre-election polls... ...of the twenty-first century:  Satellite TV gave people access on their television sets to real reporting of images and information on CNN, Al Jaz... ... HarperCollins, 2006. Hogben, Lancelot Thomas. From Cave Painting to Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope of Human Communication. New York: Chanticleer ...

...This book also begins with that wondrous 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 ...

...ally comparing things to each other, continually gaining a better perspective on the larger context, continually understanding things better. It is... ...ings of Civilization Pgs 704-1469 B: The Effect of Civilization on Humans Pgs 1470-1868 Chapter 7: Entities an... ...o admit that Einstein’s famous prediction of the lunar eclipse of the sun was based upon a completely false premise. Here is a crude representation... ... for Everythingness to exist at all. Our Trialistic Universe came into being based upon pre-existing Dualistic Conditions which had to exist before... ...… never mind the birth of our Infinite Universe. Their educational training programs them into an unspoken assumption that you begin from nothing a... ...ts motives and its actions are. We live inside an abstract civilization that programs us and brainwashes us to live as we were not designed to live.... ...heir children at day-care centers, after-school programs, comes home to watch television, and calls itself a family. Now the culture of ‘day care’ h... ...slaved people on Earth. Enslaved by ease and wealth and corruption. Every television commercial, every cultural dance, every cultural song, every... ...less of who the author was. Regardless if they were the equivalent of a Greek comic book, or a recipe THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Chapter Six A: Civiliz...

...man Psycho-biology. 5: The beginnings of civilization. 6: The effect of civilization upon humans. 7: Death, the existence of evil and its effect on humans. Offered as a free E-book at: http://thepathofsplitness.com/ ...

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