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    • … copyright came everything was in public domain. Anyone could copy and distribute any expression - be it writing, drawing, music … So why copyright was introduced? When printing press was invented information in the printed form cost money to produce and move. So to get this money back copyright …

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    • … the printing press, geared machines, gunpowder, and the other technologies that began the industrial revolution, long before the West. When it comes time to develop the next generation of anti-missile radar, or electric car batteries, Chinese originality may assert itself once again. Chinese who …

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    • … battle standard of the emperor Constantine. In any case, by the fifteenth century Xmas emerged as a widely used symbol for Christmas. In 1436 Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press with moveable type. In the early days of printing typesetting was done by hand and was very tedious …

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    • … they weren’t using it. It just sat there on the table, looking sad and unused. I guess it’s true, it’s not the size that counts. Personally I thought the manufacturers ran out of ink when printing the label. I’m all but certain it was supposed to read “THE BIG PENis”, well, that’s what it looked …

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    • ” “The present shift in intellectual capital in favor of the East has no precedent in world history.” “China invented the clock, the magnetic compass, the printing press, geared machines, gunpowder, and the other technologies that began the industrial revolution, long before the West. When it comes time …

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    • … exposed the racists of the John Birch Society, his printing press had been repeatedly firebombed. Week after week, he painstakingly assembled evidence that all but demolished the official version of Kennedy’s murder. This was journalism as it had been before corporate journalism was invented, before …

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    • … adoption. In a recent speech, Obama called the level of access in the U.S. “unacceptable.” Here, in the country that invented the internet, every child should have the chance to get online, and they’ll get that chance when I’m President – because that’s how we’ll strengthen America’s competitiveness …

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    • … an agnostic. (Personally I consider that if you take the message and themes of the Bible rather than every last picayune detail within, it shouldn’t do anything to your faith other than inform.) For the previous fourteen centuries before the printing press was invented, the Bible had to be copied …

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    • … created around words and ideas was when Gutenberg invented the printing press in the 15th century. His press unlocked literacy and information and gave it to the people. For centuries the book has informed and entertained us. Electronic reading propels literacy and information to the next level …

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    • … to protect knowledge when everything has to be written by hand. Chef Ferraro and his fellow guardians are trying to figure out how to use the power of the newly invented printing press to make this knowledge accessible. But for now it is too expensive and dangerous.




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