Their answer has been to produce a poor man's computor, a machine that calculates electronically, but has neither the ability to store data nor the power to plan its own operations that are peculiar to a full-sized electronic brain.

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Nor do they set much store by a reported Haqqani-network promise to sever links with al-Qaeda.

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Nor will they set much store by Mr Abhisit's demand for an independent investigation into the violence.

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Although the product's official page has no mention of MP3s nor a card slot to store them on, and the device itself seems extremely sparse on controls, PocketPCReviews claim to have a review unit on its way and they insist that it'll be able to play MP3s thanks to that transmitter.

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Nor is a socially vetted app store like Android Marketplace.

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Nor will it factor in the liquor store in front of which all that shattered glass landed.

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Imitation of foreign brand name products and store chains is neither new, nor unique to China.

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Interestingly, neither the New York Fed nor the Banque de France charge Germany to store its gold.

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Nor do I mean the genius bunch over at the local Apple store.

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But what I detect at work here is not the store clerks, who are merely executing the will of their paymasters, nor even the company bosses, who in any event are fairly hapless themselves, having gotten where they are mostly by luck of birth and a few fortuitous school choices.

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