Что это такое - artificial servility? Такого словосочетания не было, пока я здесь его не создал. Это, в литературном переводе, "искусственное рабство", а касается всего, что могут в настоящее время широко распространяющиеся во всем мире электронные устройства для преобразования, перемещения, хранения и last but not least [последнее, но не менее важное - здесь и далее в квадратных скобках примечания переводчика] отображения информации. Почему "рабство"? Потому, что во всем этом производстве (приносящем разным Майкрософтам миллиарды), во всей массе компьютеров, во всех поколениях hardware и software, модемах, провайдерах, серверах нет ни следа разума. Нет ни капли интеллекта. Работают так, как рабы: по нашему приказу. Способны привести в рай "полового удовлетворения" и в "тарпейский ад" [от "Тарпейская скала", с которой в Риме сбрасывали преступников и предателей]. Бредни (junk mail) не отличают от информации даже такой особо важной, как, например, равенство E=mc2. Им, в конце концов, "все равно" в такой степени, которая не сравнима с размерами того послушного рабства, до которого можно было бы при необходимости довести не только человека, но любое животное, наученное реагировать в соответствии с правилами условных рефлексов, и даже безусловных (ибо существуют и эти последние).
This little volume (the result of meditation and experience) is not intended as an exhaustive treatise on the much-written upon subject of the power of thought. It is suggestive rather than explanatory, its object being to stimulate men and women to the discovery and perception of the truth that -"They themselves are makers of themselves"by virtue of the thoughts which they choose and encourage; that mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance, and that, as they may have hitherto woven in ignorance and pain they may now weave in enlightenment and happiness.James Allen
Paz?stam? krievu padomju rakstnieka (1907–1972) p?d?jais rom?ns v?sta par notikumiem 4. g. s. p. m. ?., kad Ma?edonijas Aleksandra karag?jienu un grie?u filozofu hum?nistu m?c?bu ietekm? veidoj?s pla??ks pasaules un cilv?ka esam?bas redz?jums.K? sarkans pavediens rom?nam cauri vijas doma par m?kslas un t?s iedvesmot?jas — sievietes nez?do?o daili.Rom?na «At?nu Ta?da» pamat? ir k?da ant?k?s v?stures avotos paz?stama epizode: Persepoles — vienas no persie?u valsts galvaspils?t?m — nodedzin??ana; to ierosin?ja slaven? At?nu het?ra, kas pavad?ja Ma?edonijas Aleksandru karag?jien?.
ZENONS KOSIDOVSKISB?BELES ST?STIR?GA «ZIN?TNE» 1978Po?u autora Zenona Kosidovska gr?mata «B?beles st?sti» nav p?t?jums, kur? piln?b? aptvertu visu B?beli. Z. Kosidovskis aprobe?ojas ar Vec?s Der?bas tekstu anal?zi, galvenok?rt piev?rsdamies t?m B?beles noda??m, kuras nosac?ti var?tu d?v?t par v?sturisk?m. T?s ir piecas Mozus gr?matas, Jozuas un So?u gr?matas, ?etras ??ni?u gr?matas, Ezras, Nehemijas un Ijaba gr?matas, k? ar? atsevi??i B?beles ...
In this lively and colorful book of popular history, journalist Betsy Israel shines a light on the old stereotypes that have stigmatized single women for years and celebrates their resourceful sense of spirit, enterprise, and unlimited success in a world where it is no longer unusual or unlikely to be unwed.Drawing extensively on primary sources, including private journals, newspaper stories, magazine articles, advertisements, films, and other materials from popular media, Israel paints remarkably vivid portraits of single women—and the way they were perceived—throughout the decades. From the nineteenth-century spinsters, of New England to the Bowery ...
The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Political instructors rammed home the message of Wehrmacht and SS brutality. The result was the most terrifying example of fire and sword ever known, with tanks crushing refugee columns under their tracks, mass rape, pillage and destruction. Hundreds of thousands of women and children froze to death or were massacred because Nazi Party chiefs, refusing to face defeat, had forbidden the evacuation of civilians. Over seven million fled westwards from the terror of the Red Army. Antony Beevor reconstructs the experiences of those millions caught up in the nightmare of the Third Reich's final collapse, telling a terrible story of pride, stupidity, fanatacism, revenge and savagery, but also one of astonishing endurance, self-sacrifice and survival against all odds.
Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens—and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war’s end, both the German and the Soviet killing sites fell behind the iron curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness. is a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single history, in the time and place where they occurred: between Germany and Russia, when Hitler and Stalin both held power. Assiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive, will be required reading for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history.
One day in 2009, twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. A wristband marked her as a “flight risk,” and her medical records—chronicling a monthlong hospital stay of which she had no memory at all—showed hallucinations, violence, and dangerous instability. Only weeks earlier, Susannah had been on the threshold of a new, adult life: a healthy, ambitious college grad a few months into her first serious relationship and a promising career as a cub reporter at a major New York newspaper. Who ...
Повесть-документ `Breakfast зимой в пять утра` вобрала в себя впечатления автора от поездки по Северной Америке - от Нью-Йорка до Калифорнии. На страницах книги описаны встречи с пассажирами поезда американской компании `Амтрак`, переплетенные с эпизодами из личной жизни автора, а также рассказывается об удивительных судьбах эмигрантов из России. В наши дни, когда россияне обрели свободу передвижения, эмиграция стала острой проблемой. Возможно, непростые судьбы эмигрантов, описанные в этой книге, многим читателям покажутся не только занимательными, но и поучительными.
Carl Sagan, writer and scientist, returns from the frontier to tell us about how the world works. In his delightfully down-to-earth style, he explores and explains a mind-boggling future of intelligent robots, extraterrestrial life and its consquences, and other provocative, fascinating quandries of the future that we want to see today.
?. RON? VEC?KAISC??A PAR UGUNIKr???i ilustr?ta 1965 gad? latviski izdota gr?mata par pirmatn?jo kromanjonas cilv?ku dz?vi, par c???m ar pl?s?giem zv?riem un me?on?gu cil?u cilv?k?d?jiem; par m?lest?bu un naidu; par cilv?c?bas uzvaru.
