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ORIGIN OF BIRDS AND MAMMALS
Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile · Search for insurmountable in alt.philosophy
Author: Hamady
Date: Sep 20, 2008 05:25
... differences between these two different living classes. In terms of such features as their skeleton structure, lung systems, and warm-blooded metabolism, birds are very different from reptiles. Another trait that poses an insurmountable gap between birds and reptiles is the feathers of birds which have a form entirely peculiar to them. The bodies of reptiles are covered with scales, whereas the bodies of birds are covered with feathers....
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Re: [9fans] 9p over high-latency
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Author: sqweek
Date: Sep 18, 2008 07:02
... fundamental problem is that it becomes very difficult to implement fileservers which don't serve up regular files. you might make perminant changes to something stored on a disk with readahead. I'm not sure this problem is insurmountable. Some simple heuristics along the lines of waiting a couple of Rreads to see if it looks like an i/o pattern that is slurping up the whole file could go a long way. However, I agree this is not ...
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Re: Scarcity - and how capitalism solves it
Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile · Search for insurmountable in alt.philosophy
Author: Immortalist
Date: Sep 5, 2008 20:05
... to even out the cycle is a difficult task in a society with a complex economy, even when Keynesian theory is applied. According to some theorists, notably nineteenth-century advocates of communism, this difficulty is insurmountable. Karl Marx in particular claimed that the recurrent business cycle crises of capitalism were inevitable results of the system's operations. In this view, all that the government can do is to change the timing of...
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Re: Fed up with companies/individuals who deny network services to disabled
Group: alt.seduction.fast · Group Profile · Search for insurmountable in alt.seduction.fast
Author: dman
Date: Sep 1, 2008 18:32
... any woman I meet here would have that understanding in common with me. Where else would I meet a woman that had anything major in common with me, so that we could understand each other's emotions to some degree without insurmountable effort required just to *begin* at the slightest bit of understanding? or even from online at all Why not? There's no *other* place to meet nice available women. It's not like you can...
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Re: Fed up with companies/individuals who deny network services to disabled
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Author: Robert Maas, http://tinyurl.com/uh3t
Date: Sep 1, 2008 13:30
... and any woman I meet here would have that understanding in common with me. Where else would I meet a woman that had anything major in common with me, so that we could understand each other's emotions to some degree without insurmountable effort required just to *begin* at the slightest bit of understanding? or even from online at all Why not? There's no *other* place to meet nice available women. It's not like you can just walk up ...
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Re: A man after Publius' heart
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Author: Ed
Date: Aug 31, 2008 11:33
...> neighborhood or one of the many overlapping political subdivisions? Or, is your community those whose company you enjoy? Those who want to start the study of human action from the collective units encounter an insurmountable obstacle in the fact that an individual at the same time can belong and — with the exception of the most primitive tribesmen — really belongs to various collective entities. The problems raised by the ...
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A man after Publius' heart
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Author: knucmo
Date: Aug 31, 2008 03:28
...community your neighborhood or one of the many overlapping political subdivisions? Or, is your community those whose company you enjoy? Those who want to start the study of human action from the collective units encounter an insurmountable obstacle in the fact that an individual at the same time can belong and — with the exception of the most primitive tribesmen — really belongs to various collective entities. The problems raised by the ...
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Re: China means Cheating
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Author: hochimanh
Date: Aug 21, 2008 18:46
IOC orders investigation into He Kexin's age By Chris Chase The International Olympic Committee has ordered an investigation into the age of Chinese gymnast He Kexin, The Times of London reports. Faced with almost insurmountable evidence which suggests that He is two years younger than the birth date listed on her Chinese passport, the IOC has launched an inquiry that could result in the stripping of He's gold medals. This news comes ...
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Re: Darker Tone in New Trek
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Author: Wickeddoll®
Date: Jul 25, 2008 11:39
... No Shat, No Show. As a member of the aforementioned organization, I have to intercede... The payoffs still exist, but certainly not the pedophilia ring. Just wanted to clarify that. The church suffered a nearly insurmountable catastrophe because of the actions of *less than 1%%* of the Catholic clergy. Make no mistake, though - I most seriously considered leaving the church, if they didn't do everything to make amends for the ...
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Re: association for the scientific study of consciousness
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Author: Publius
Date: Jul 18, 2008 12:22
... any set of explanatory postulates. We cannot even get to the question about whether an EF predicts the phenomenon, because we cannot describe the phenomenon our EF is expected to predict. Thus we have encountered an insurmountable logical roadblock that bars any further progress along that path. That tells us we must backtrack to some intersection, some surer ground, where we may find another path to follow. But the dead-end has ...
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