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Re: Wittgenstein on the Metaphysical Self
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Author: Publius
Date: Sep 20, 2008 11:45

... be said to exist. So you were *agreeing* with me? Didn't realize you had accepted that only "conventional existence" is cognitively meaningful. If so, then we agree on that point. I disagree with the choice of terminology, since theoretical existents are no more matters of linguistic convention than any other entities whose existence is postulated via language. Thus the "conventional" draws a distinction lacking a difference. ...
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Anyone see "War of the World" documentary by Nial Ferguson. Gripping but I disagree with much of it.
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Author: death from above
Date: Sep 19, 2008 17:44

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-2nNDSphm8
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Re: IMAGINARY MECHANISMS OF EVOLUTION
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Author: Bob Casanova
Date: Sep 19, 2008 13:49

... (which is what natural selection is) isn't a mechanism for change, and therefore for evolution? Interesting idea... Wrong (at least for any commonly-accepted definition of "mechanism"), but interesting. Darwin himself would disagree with you, as I will show at the end of this post. As I stated previously, Darwin's opinion is irrelevant, since he knew nothing of the mechanism of inheritance. Darwin's...
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Re: Version Control Strategies For Block-Based Forths?
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Author: John Doty
Date: Sep 19, 2008 12:56

...>> or something? No, the application doesn't matter for my question. I am interested in history here. The application *always* matters. It matters more than anything else. But we also disagree on what "application" means. Applications are things like selling soap and finding planets. The computer and its code are tools. I'm glad my message allowed you to return to your usual soap-box. If ...
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Re: Version Control Strategies For Block-Based Forths?
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Author: Elizabeth D Rather
Date: Sep 19, 2008 12:25

... or something? No, the application doesn't matter for my question. I am interested in history here. The application *always* matters. It matters more than anything else. But we also disagree on what "application" means. Applications are things like selling soap and finding planets. The computer and its code are tools. I'm glad my message allowed you to return to your usual soap-box. If it ...
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Re: Version Control Strategies For Block-Based Forths?
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Author: John Passaniti
Date: Sep 19, 2008 12:13

... You running for President or something? No, the application doesn't matter for my question. I am interested in history here. The application *always* matters. It matters more than anything else. But we also disagree on what "application" means. Applications are things like selling soap and finding planets. The computer and its code are tools. I'm glad my message allowed you to return to your usual soap-box. If it ...
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Re: Survey: What led you to functional programming?
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Author: namekuseijin
Date: Sep 19, 2008 12:05

...<DekuDekup...@Yahoo.com> wrote: Purely functional is a misnomer, the better name would be langauges who lack assignment. Any language can do that by either using just single assignment or function evaluation. And I disagree. it should say it's hard to teach В non-mainstream languages to students who know that there is no money in them and have experience with mainstream langauges that earned them cash by making web sites...
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Re: Memory Issues
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Author: Sann
Date: Sep 19, 2008 10:27

... large amount of memory and disk resources to operate optimally. Of course, that article also goes on to say that Small Business Server is optimized to handle this case. However, Denny Cherry disagrees: http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/expert/KnowledgebaseAnswer/0,289625,sid87_gci1304934,00.html Although you are running SQL Server 2005, you also might find it interesting to look at the Small ...
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Re: Version Control Strategies For Block-Based Forths?
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Author: John Doty
Date: Sep 19, 2008 10:20

...> I didn't want to discuss my application because it doesn't matter. That's where your outlook differs fundamentally from mine. The application *always* matters. It matters more than anything else. But we also disagree on what "application" means. Applications are things like selling soap and finding planets. The computer and its code are tools. -- John Doty, Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ -- The axiomatic method of ...
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Re: Child Experts Fail to Reveal Full Drug Pay - NY Times Report
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Author: jsomerville
Date: Sep 19, 2008 06:14

..."They have given the Harvard imprimatur to this commercial experimentation on children," said Vera Sharav, president and founder of the Alliance for Human Research Protection, a patient advocacy group. Many researchers strongly disagree over what bipolar looks like in youngsters, and some now fear the definition has been expanded u nnecessarily, due in part to the Harvard group. The group published...
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