When we were planning the expedition, someone suggested a tiny kite-powered ice buggy that had been developed for a previous trip, but it was too small, too light for us.
The business of daily deals created dozens of clones, but is too new for us to have created a category in our Customer Loyalty Engagement Index to measure them.
But our borders are just too vast for us to be able to solve the problem only with fences and border patrols.
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Ah yes, well, he's riding high now, he may seem to be standing up for Wales in just the spot where we alone used to stand up for Wales, squeezing us out, crowding us out ... but what happens if too little of what Carwyn Jones called for is actually included in Labour's manifesto ahead of the general election in 2015?
But don't feel too sorry for those of us out here.
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"But for us the cost of their loss of life is too high for us and society to bear, so we have to incentivize them to overlook the cost, " she says.
"Usually, bat sounds are inaudible to humans as they are too high for us to hear but special 'time expansion' ultrasonic detectors convert these sounds to a lower frequency, " Prof Jones, who is also chairwoman of the UK Bat Conservation Trust, explained.
The corporations insist that US students are now too dumb for STEM, but there are as many good students as ever.
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So too, it will make it all but impossible for the US to safely project is military force in the region.
They are not, as you might guess, as interesting to watch in relative poverty as in obscene wealth, and the poverty part goes on much too long not just for them, but for us watching them.
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But to me and many people here today, like guys I see, Bill Bradley and Jim Sasser, who long left the Senate for greener pastures, and I hope better remuneration -- we used to kid about that, too -- but I -- for a lot of us, he was a friend, and he was a mentor and he was a guide.
Moderate Republican Senators reduced the tax cut - which Mr Bush believes is essential for reviving the US economy - but half, on the grounds that it would create too large a budget deficit.
You get in there, you get that quick rush but the truth is that in the long run it's not good for us to have too much debt.
Last time we saw the Gametel Bluetooth controller, it was an Android-only affair, but here at CES, the company informed us that it now works for iOS and PCs, too.
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But the fact is, that we -- there are too many conversations and meetings taking place for us to catalogue each and every one.
Just as the media has manufactured false realities to convince some 60 percent of the American public that the Iraq campaign is not only unwinnable but that the US doesn't deserve to win, so too, the media has labored for years to convince the majority of Israelis that we cannot win and indeed have no right to victory.
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But gradually there grew to be far too many of us, and our communities became too large and disparate for us to be able to feel a part of them, and our technologies were unequal to the task of drawing us together.
But today isn't just a day for Iraqis to celebrate -- it's a good day for us, too.
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