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  (There isn't any problem in sending information from a TV camera to a computer....
• visionary: n. 1. One who hacks vision, in the sense of an Artificial Intelligence researcher working on the problem of getting computers to `see' things using TV cameras.
  (There isn't any problem in sending information from a TV camera to a computer....
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• No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone
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• Ignoramus: Someone who doesn't know what any idiot can tell you without even so much as a thought, which you learned yesterday, after six tutorial lessons.
• An individual without information cannot take responsibility
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