... existence to be more than a "linguistic convention." No one who postulates an external entity believes he is merely reinforcing or heeding a linguistic convention. Instead, he believes he is *using* the language to assert the .... We do not discover that a model was "wrong," in the "metaphysical" sense I think you mean. We merely find another model which is more probable, and replace the former model with the new one. "Wrong" is ...

... numbers became apparent circa "18 months" ago, let it get out-of-hand We are tonight in some new/unchatered territory- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - CAVEAT READER: Please don't merely accept ideologue Cockburn 's take on today's zionism, because (so far as I know), he has rarely if ever dissed/ criticized (very fallible) Marxism, so in my own semi liberal mindset he's a demagogue-dogmatist somewhat as his ...

... Southern Metro network is gearing up for Oyster acceptance - I understand that the new South Central franchise will contain a commitment to smart card ticketing - presumably with a specific commitment to Oyster, as opposed to merely ITSO?. Some follow on questions - who's paying for and co-ordinating these new installations - Southern acting on instruction from the DfT to get things ready for the new franchise (and possibly franchisee), ...

... buying land in his Bitterroot valley and putting up the usual McMansions, but then finding out mining operations polluted all the aquifers. You cant even water the garden with it. There are places on the Gulf Coast where a mere 20 foot of elevation means the diff between whether your house is there after a storm. Pines go up like torches once a brush fire gets going, but- not hardwoods. For some years now, the Forest Service has ...

... much like they were saying: For those who doubt that road building/widening is never ending it is estimated that there are 41 road projects currently in hand in the UK Woo. 41 projects... One of those, I suspect, is the one at the Beaconsfield junction of the M40 - which is merely rebuilding and extending the roundabout above the m'way and building a service area. No extra road, no change in the capacity of the road.

... children and child soldiers and takes place in a tribunal in which no U.S. citizen can be tried," Kuebler concluded that the decision to appeal the "enterprise" ruling "plainly show(s) that Omar Khadr is a mere guinea pig for the anticipated trials of real terrorists such as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other alleged al Qaeda masterminds." With this appeal yet to proceed, Omar's defense team recently stepped up its efforts to derail the ...

Bush Bankrupts America. Impeach Now! Many were skeptical that the criminal creeps in the White House could actually bankrupt the entire United States of America in a mere 8 years, and yet here we are, staring into the abyss of that "Mission Accomplished" right now. And deliberately lying the American people into a counterproductive and illegal two trillion dollar war was just another day's treason for those occupants. Now, even WE do ...

... sad to see people who are so stupid. I think sometimes the Borg are a bit cruel - because I think humans have some kind of awareness. And sometimes I do not enjoy laughing at them as much as the Borg do. I know when humans die there is nothing after for them - and that they only have to put up with a few years - but sometimes I wonder if they have some kind of feelings and they are not merely inanimate objects. The Borg Queen

.... You can't sell it. But I wasn't referring to undiscovered or unknown land. I was referring to the land/acreage you can find listed in the real estate section of any newspaper - or now by merely doing a Google search. I tried that with you notion of scarcity but got no results. This is the point that Publius refused to address in his meterorite example. An example that is surely not indicative of goods in ...

... ?untitled? is conventional, far more widely understood, and more general than ?scratch?. A mere unimportant trifle. it's not umimportant trifle. Familiarity is important aspect of software usability. OK, let...the least important. But "familiarity is [an] important aspect of ... usability". This is confused thinking. Merely by using software, any software, you will become familiar with it. This has no bearing on how...