Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This machine is not invincible, however, and I still believe that I had a chance of winning, especially if I had prepared myself properly for the match, which was very different in spirit from the match in Philadelphia...
...course, this is the refrain of technology's cheerleaders. Jobs don't disappear. They just change. Nimble people with can-do spirit can always find a new one. And on average, the jobs pay better and better. Life gets easier and easier. Actually, I'm one of technology's cheerleaders. Forced to choose between hunting buffalo with a bow and arrow and microwaving a cheese-steak hoagie, I'll take the sandwich. On balance, progress does make things better, at least materially, for most people. But the costs are real. Converting someone from a teller to an ATM servicer...
Kasparov still maintains that he will easily defeat Deep Blue in a rematch and that the best humans will always be able to beat computers, "barring human error." Some may balk at the claim and consider Kasparov's excuses of tiredness and lack of spirit to be mere poor sportsmanship, but a part of me (albeit a small part) wonders if maybe Kasparov is right...
...definitely shows something on film that I think no one has seen before: an actual channeling of a spirit from the astral plane," she said...
Puritanism produced nothing in the way of religious art except some tombstones and a few peculiar carvings, known as spirit stones, meant to repel devils. This wasn't because the Puritans hated art in principle--they didn't, as their portraiture, decorated furniture and other artifacts show--but because they disapproved of images of God and the prophets as "popish," too close to the idolatry they associated with the hated religion of Rome. They were, after all, the direct descendants of the iconoclasts who had destroyed nearly all the medieval art of England. The early New Englanders were people...