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We Can and Must Understand Computers NOW

From the endlessly quotable Ted Nelson—whose neologisms pepper the language we use to understand the present, from “hypertext” to “visualization”—perhaps no phrase is better known than, “You Can and Must Understand Computers NOW.” It was emblazoned across the Computer Lib side of his 1974 Computer Lib/Dream Machines ( CL/DM ), the most infl uential book in the history of computational media. 1 ...

Of Beggars, Bagladies, and BUSSIS

If you travel enough, you can't fail to encounter beggars of one sort or another. The term " beggar " generally brings forth the image of a rather unsavory in-dh-idual. But I suspect most people have rather ambiguous feelings about them. It is precisely thk ambivalence that professional beggars prey upon. After all, upon encountering a pathetic-looking beggar, most of us at one time or another ...

Neuropsychiatric Morbidity in a Beggars' Colony

A begger's colony where a neuropsychiatric extension clinic is being run by NIMHANS, Bangalore, was selected for this study wherein 78 neuropsychiatrically ill inmates and 85 well ones were examined and diagnosed as per I.C.D.-9 and followed up on treatment. A period prevalence of 131.09/1000 serious neuropsychiatric morbidity was found with psychoses, mental retardation and epilepsy being more...

Explorer To Buy or Not to Buy ?

This paper examines the interaction of law and policy making on prostitution, with that of BDSM (bondage and discipline, sadism and masochism). Recent policy and legal shifts in the UK mark out prostitutes as vulnerable and in need of ‘rescue’. BDSM that amounts to actual bodily harm is unlawful in the UK, and calls to decriminalise it are often met with fears that participants will be left vul...

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