God & Golem, Inc.: A Comment on Certain Points Where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion - God & Golem, Inc.: A Comment on Certain Points Where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion In God & Golem, Inc.: A Comment on Certain Points Where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion, Norbert Wiener lays down his ideas on machine learning, machine reproduction and the place of machines in society, on a background of religious references. The provocative title sums up the confrontation of technical, mathematical and imaginative boldness with cultural prejudice. He mentions other concerns of his, like sensory feedback in artificial limbs, the problems of human responsibility in relation with technology, the limits of machine game-playing, Darwinism, Marxism, the Cold War, the rigidity of ideological thinking, and a critic of economy as a science. In the conclusion, he brings the burden of ethics to politics, away from religion..
Ken Livingstone - reviewer for the Evening Standard. In 1987 he published an autobiography-cum-political tract, If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It. London's first Mayor Livingstone was again re-elected in the 1997 general election, in which Labour was returned to power under the leadership of Tony Blair. Among Labour's proposals was the establishment of a Greater London Authority with powers similar to the old GLC; this new body would be headed by an elected mayor, the first in London's history. Livingstone was widely tipped for this new post; he still enjoyed a great popularity among Londoners, as evidenced by the massive 14% swing to Labour in the 1997 election for Brent East. The mayoral election was scheduled for 2000, and in 1999 Labour began the long and trying process of selecting its candidate. Despite.
Kemal Atatürk - it was made illegal by law to use the old Arabic script.)This resulted in the increased use of the typewriter and a long-term increase in literacy. Also, the mass introduction of typewriters brought more stenographic jobs and thus more employment for women. It also made it impossible for even educated Turks to read any of the Ottoman history or manuscripts or literature, except as translated by a tightly controlled academia and media. All the citizens from six to forty year old were made to attend school and learn the new alphabet. Drawing any kind of Human forms was banned in Islamic faith. Kemal opened new schools to teach the new art form for boys and girls . He wanted to cut off Turkey from the Arabic nations as much as possible.
Kinky Friedman - Eagles, Kinky Friedman originally found cult fame as a country and western singer with his band The Texas Jewboys. His repertoire mixed social comment (We Reserve The Right To Refuse Service To You) and maudlin ballads (Western Union Wire) with raucously politically incorrect humour (Get Your Biscuits In The Oven and Your Buns In Bed), whilst his "Ride'em Jewboy" was a remarkably effective extended tribute to the victims of the Holocaust. After his music career stalled in the 1980s Friedman found a new lease of life as a detective novelist. His books have many similarities to the music, featuring a fictionalised version of himself solving crimes in New York City and dispensing jokes, wisdom, Texan charm and Jameson's whiskey in equal measure, written in a straightforward style which owes a debt.
Kuro5hin - that a story is protected from voting for a period of time, during which the author can make changes. Comments can be made on the story during this time, and to aid the author, they are distinguished as being Editorial or Topical comments. Rusty Foster named Kuro5hin (pronounced "corrosion") as a pun on his first name. The 5 was inspired by the name of the character Da5id in Neal Stephenson's science fiction novel, Snow Crash. Dylan Griffiths (Inoshiro) is the second in command as site administrator. Additionally, there are a number of other people with powers of story editing (although not comment editing) and site administration. The community also holds a Wiki for Kuro5hin related material called Ko4ting (pronounced "coating" or "cavorting"). It houses information about the community, including a Greatest.
J. L. Mackie - of evil made untenable the main monotheistic religions. Other areas to which he made significant contributions include the nature of causal relationships, and of conditional statements describing them. John Mackie was a fundamentally pleasant man. He is said to have been capable of expressing total disagreement in such a genial way that the person being addressed might mistake the comment for a compliment. This personal style may be exemplified well by the following words from Mackie's preface to his Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong: I am nowhere mainly concerned to refute any individual writer. I believe that all those to whom I have referred, even those with whom I disagree most strongly, have contributed significantly to our understanding of ethics: where I have quoted their actual words, it is because they.
James Brown - a following with their live shows. Musically they played a brand of tight rhythm and blues, that would later be known as funk, and mixed with Brown's trademark screams and melodramatic stage persona, they were capable of whipping crowds into a frenzy. Whilst their early singles were local hits, and performed well on the R'n'B chart the band were not nationally successful until this live show was captured on record, on Brown's self-financed Live at the Apollo in 1963. Brown followed this success with a string of singles that essentially defined funk music. "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag" and "I Got You (I Feel Good)" featured deceptively simple riffs on horn and guitar locked into a compelling groove by the bass guitar. As the sixties went on, Brown would refine.
Jamming - were broken up into short bursts, and the frequencies used were changed rapidly and constantly. Radar jamming for the purposes of defeating speed detection radar is simpler than for military application, although it is often illegal. E-mail Jamming E-mail jamming is used by some civil rights activists to thwart government spy networks such as Echelon. Activists deliberately include "sensitive" words and phrases in otherwise innocuous emails to ensure that these are picked up by the monitoring systems. The theory is that the senders of these emails will eventually be added to a "harmless" list and their emails no longer intercepted, thus allowing them to regain some privacy. E-mail jamming has become increasingly popular in the UK since the introduction of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act by Jack Straw and its.
Jacques Brel - Although France was Brel's "spiritual nation" and he expressed contradictory statments about his native Belgium, many overlook this matter as some of his best compositions pay tribute to Belgium, like Le plat pays or Il neige sur Liège. His themes are extremely diverse, exploring love (Je t'aime, Litanies pour un retour, Dulcinéa), society (Les singes, Les bourgeois, Jaurès) and spiritual concerns (Le bon Dieu, Dites, si c'était vrai, Fernand). His work is not limited to one style. He was as proficient in funny compositions (Les bonbons, Le lion, Comment tuer l'amant de sa femme...) as in heart-breaking ones (Voir un ami pleurer, Fils de..., Jojo). Brel's acute perception made him an innovative and creative painter of daily life with rare poetic ease. He was a master poet. His intelligent use of.
Japanese proverbs - -- (lit. ) from Go game. Comment: Go proverbs seem to be a rich source of proverbs that don't have direct equivalents in English. Does the author have more? If so, at least literal translations would help - Meaning to look at the global view (In Go, the most important thing to learn to is to fight in a way that you win overall) 智恵出でて大偽あり (Chie idete taigi ari) 血も涙もない (Chi mo namida mo nai) -- (lit. He has neither blood or tears) 長者にニ代なし (Choja-ni nidai nashi) (Lit. There is no second generation in the millionare) If you let your children inherit your money, they will blow it all. 知恵者一人馬鹿万人 (Chiesha hitori baka mannin) -- (lit. one wiseman and 10 thousands idiots) 泥中の蓮 (Deichuu no hachisu) -- (lit. ) 海老で鯛を釣る (Ebi.
Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne - of Public Safety, which had decreed the mass arrest of all suspects and the establishment of a revolutionary army, caused the extraordinary criminal tribunal to be named officially "Revolutionary Tribunal" (on October 29, 1793), demanded the execution of Marie Antoinette and then attacked Hébert and Georges Danton. Meanwhile he published Les Elements du republicanisme, in which he demanded a division of property among the citizens. Becoming nervous about his own safety, he turned against Maximilien Robespierre, whom he attacked on the 8th Thermidor as a "moderate" and a Dantonist. Surprised by the Thermidorian reaction, he denounced its partisans to the Jacobin club. He was then attacked himself in the Convention for his cruelty, and a commission was appointed to examine his conduct and that of some other members of the former.
James G. Watt - we can count on until the Lord returns." -- James Watt, to a Congressional committee in 1981, quoted from "A Brief History of the Apocalypse" "I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple. And we have talent." -- James Watt, describing his staff to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on September 21, 1983; this comment led directly to his forced resignation; quoted from Bartlett's Online.
Jean-Luc Godard - (1982), Lettre à Freddy Buache (1982), Prénom Carmen (1984) and Grandeur et décadence (1986). There was, though, another flurry of controversy with Marie, Je vous salue (1985), which was banned by the Catholic Church for alleged heresy, and also with King Lear (1987), an extraordinary but much-excoriated essay on Shakespeare and language. His later films were marked by great formal beauty and frequently a sense of requiem, films such as Nouvelle Vague (1990), the autobiographical JLG/JLG - autoportrait de décembre (1995), and For Ever Mozart (1996). During the 1990s he also produced perhaps the most important work of his career in the multi-part series Histoires du Cinema, which combined all the innovations of his video work with a passionate engagement in the issues of twentieth-century history and the history of film.
Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès - known as "Qui, Quae et Quod." (He, She and It). Before the Revolution, sexual conduct had been regulated by mediaeval ecclesiastical law. When the Constituent Assembly abolished ecclesiastical courts in 1791, it therefore in effect decriminalised male homosexuality, although it is not clear that this was its intention (a similar state of affairs occurred during the early years of the Russian Revolution in 1917). The authors of the Code Napoléon had the option of reintroducing a law against male homosexuality (as was eventually done in the Soviet Union), but chose not to do so, presumably at least partly as a result of the influence of Cambacérès. In this sense Cambacérès can be credited with the decision to make decriminalisation a permanent fact of French law. Recent research by Michael Sibalis has.
Jeremy Sumpter - Peter stands in, at Wendy's nursery, had to be remade four times, so that Sumpter didn't have to crouch to get in. Sumpter comment, "And Hook is supposed to be a lot bigger than I am, right? When I got taller, Jason (Isaacs, the actor playing Captain Hook) had to stand on an apple box.".
Jim Sillars - leading exponent. Sillars also started talking in terms of direct action to bring prominence to the Scottish independence cause, stating that 'we must be prepared to hear the sound of cell doors slamming behind us if we are prepared to win independence'. In 1988 Sillars was chosen as the SNP candidate for the Govan by-election. Govan was a Labour seat (although the SNP had won it in a by-election previously, in 1973), but Sillars proved an inspired choice. His sound use or oratry and his street campaigning style brought life to the SNP and they won a dramatic victory. Sillars would become the SNP's deputy leader, with many surprised he didn't stand for the party leadership when it became available in 1990. The 1992 General Election proved a disappointing one for.
Journalism - where, and how and commenting on the significance of the event. Journalism exists in a number of media: newspapers, television, radio and magazines, with Internet journalism being a newcomer. Generally, a distinction is drawn between straight reporting (just the facts), op-ed columns (opinion and editorial comment from one author), and editorials, the official opinions of the paper. See also: Fourth Estate News style Journalese Journalism fraud List of newspapers List of television reporters News agency OANA Project Censored Pulitzer Prize World Press Freedom Day.
John Hay - community of interests between that country and the United States came as a result of Hay's stay there. In August 1898, Hay was named Secretary of State and helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris (1898). His contributions included the adoption of an Open Door Policy in China (announced on January 2, 1900) and the preparations for the Panama Canal. He is also renowned for his comment, written in a letter to President Theodore Roosevelt, describing the Spanish-American War as a "splendid little war." John Milton Hay is depicted (fictionally) in Gore Vidal's novels Lincoln (novel) and Empire..
John Oswald - His best known project is Plunderphonics, which is copywritten found sounds used to comment upon themselves. A good example of this would be his piece, "Pretender", in which a recording of Dolly Parton singing Buck Ram's song, "The Great Pretender," has been electronically manipulated, slowed-down, and sped-up. The overall result of this might leave the listener thinking that Dolly is pretending to be a man, African-American, or both. At least, she seems to be what she's not. He released a compact disc collection of his manipulations and collages, which was sued out of existence by Michael Jackson's lawyers and a Canadian record industry group. The cover art of the disc was an altered photograph of a nude woman's body with Mr. Jackson's head, which was the provocation for the lawsuit. If.
John Monash - civil engineer, and joined the Army Reserve, becoming a colonel in 1913. When war broke out in 1914 Monash became a full-time Army officer. Despite the anti-German hysteria of the time, there seems to have been no adverse comment on his German origins. When the Australian Imperial Force was formed, he was sent with the 4th Infantry Brigade to Egypt, where, like most Australian troops, he experienced the effects of bad British organisation, planning, and command. In 1915 his brigade, as part of the New Zealand and Australian Division under Major General Godley, participated in the disastrous Gallipoli campaign against the Ottoman Army. The brigade initially defended the line between Pope's Hill and Courtney's Post and the valley behind this line became known as "Monash Valley". There he made a name.
