Sure they were — e.g. Elrond was just such a hybrid and he had two sons and a daughter. His brother Elros was the ancestor of all the kings of Numenor (and the kings of Arnor and Gondor, including Aragorn). And their own parents, Earendil and Elwing, were also "Half-elven".
Asimov's The Bicentennial Man is actually a novella rather than a book — the expansion to novel length was done years afterward by Robert Silverberg. (He also expanded Nightfall and The Ugly Little Boy.)
Most recent was one about another kind of giant squid that's even bigger and was caught in a net accidentally. The fishing trawler was smart enough to quickly freeze it. In the show, they were able to thaw it carefully and do a dissection. Apparently one of the problems with scientists working with these is that thy decompose extremely rapidly.
You mean the Colossal Squid. The team that dissected it has a blog about it here.
Yep. This is a 10-year-old news story of a ceremony at which they received a medal for it — their names being Hugh Thompson, Lawrence Colburn, and Glenn Andreotta. The last named was killed only a week after his heroic act.
Bad Astronomy posted an entry devoted to refuting this idea! As Phil Plait says, the very fact that the toolkit has just been sighted shows that it's still up there, and could not have been the fireball.
Words which can be typed with only the left hand are all very well, but for a real challenge, compose a piano piece which can be played with the left hand only! And make it good enough to become a familiar part of the classical repertory, while you're at it. Maurice Ravel did just that in 1929-1930.
And he didn't do it simply as a stunt, either. A concert pianist named Paul Wittgenstein had lost an arm in WWI but didn't want to give up playing, so he asked a number of composers to write something he could play with his remaining hand. With Ravel's piece, and more by other composers, he was actually able to resume his career.
Godwin has come full circle, then. How many of you are aware who it was who had just been called a Nazi - and for what reason - when Mike Godwin first stated his "rule of Nazi analogies" as such?
Phil Plait of the Bad Astronomy blog recently published a book, Death from the Skies, about human extinction scenarios — some of them preventable, others not. The inevitable ones such as proton decay would take many billions of years, but some, such as gamma-ray bursts, could theoretically come at any time.
But what did item (c) refer to? I've just searched through the decision at Groklaw, and I can't find the word "style" anywhere. Were you referring perhaps to the fact that the companion books were themselves references, and the judge found that Vander Ark's incorporation of material from them into another reference was insufficiently transformative? If not, I'm puzzled by the mention of "writing style".
Yep. And there are other kinds of non-chromosomal bodies which transmit genetic information, too — see the Wikipedia article on Extranuclear inheritance, to start with. And this has been known for a very long time; the book I just used to check my recollection of this was copyrighted in 1970!
Arguably, it should just be "viruses". Not all Latin words retain Latinate plurals in English (e.g. "circus/circuses"), and not all Latin words ending in -us had plurals ending in -i. See this excerpt from the alt.usage.english FAQ for more.
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Well, when I was a kid, this guy kept asking everyone, "Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts of them are edible, you know!" But I was never tempted to try it...
What about the 1950s and 1960s? Pogo was as great a strip as any of those mentioned, and it was full of political satire! And Peanuts was at its peak then.
Several of those are phrases, not individual words. However, Inuit languages don't really have a large number of independent words for snow, either; their polysynthetic structure makes it possible to form an unlimited number of words relating to snow from a handful of elements. This article by the linguist Geoffrey K. Pullum has more details.
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Haven't quite a few Ruby versions been released around Christmas? Maybe Larry is imitating Matz!
Sure they were — e.g. Elrond was just such a hybrid and he had two sons and a daughter. His brother Elros was the ancestor of all the kings of Numenor (and the kings of Arnor and Gondor, including Aragorn). And their own parents, Earendil and Elwing, were also "Half-elven".
Asimov's The Bicentennial Man is actually a novella rather than a book — the expansion to novel length was done years afterward by Robert Silverberg. (He also expanded Nightfall and The Ugly Little Boy.)
You mean the Colossal Squid. The team that dissected it has a blog about it here.
Give the kid an Etch-A-Sketch and teach him you shake it to reboot.
Better not tell Monica Lewinsky's mother that.
Yep. This is a 10-year-old news story of a ceremony at which they received a medal for it — their names being Hugh Thompson, Lawrence Colburn, and Glenn Andreotta. The last named was killed only a week after his heroic act.
Bad Astronomy posted an entry devoted to refuting this idea! As Phil Plait says, the very fact that the toolkit has just been sighted shows that it's still up there, and could not have been the fireball.
Words which can be typed with only the left hand are all very well, but for a real challenge, compose a piano piece which can be played with the left hand only! And make it good enough to become a familiar part of the classical repertory, while you're at it. Maurice Ravel did just that in 1929-1930.
And he didn't do it simply as a stunt, either. A concert pianist named Paul Wittgenstein had lost an arm in WWI but didn't want to give up playing, so he asked a number of composers to write something he could play with his remaining hand. With Ravel's piece, and more by other composers, he was actually able to resume his career.
Godwin has come full circle, then. How many of you are aware who it was who had just been called a Nazi - and for what reason - when Mike Godwin first stated his "rule of Nazi analogies" as such?
The link just gives me a 404. But am I correct in assuming the short story is Isaac Asimov's "Jokester"?
Phil Plait of the Bad Astronomy blog recently published a book, Death from the Skies , about human extinction scenarios — some of them preventable, others not. The inevitable ones such as proton decay would take many billions of years, but some, such as gamma-ray bursts, could theoretically come at any time.
Or try s/Harry Potter/Hari Puttar/g for a Bollywood film! Of course, they were sued by Warner Bros., but unsuccessfully.
But what did item (c) refer to? I've just searched through the decision at Groklaw, and I can't find the word "style" anywhere. Were you referring perhaps to the fact that the companion books were themselves references, and the judge found that Vander Ark's incorporation of material from them into another reference was insufficiently transformative? If not, I'm puzzled by the mention of "writing style".
Yep. And there are other kinds of non-chromosomal bodies which transmit genetic information, too — see the Wikipedia article on Extranuclear inheritance, to start with. And this has been known for a very long time; the book I just used to check my recollection of this was copyrighted in 1970!
Arguably, it should just be "viruses". Not all Latin words retain Latinate plurals in English (e.g. "circus/circuses"), and not all Latin words ending in -us had plurals ending in -i. See this excerpt from the alt.usage.english FAQ for more. </pedantry>
Supernews and Giganews each retain posts from mid-2003 for the text-only groups.
Note that on Debian-derived distros, the equivalent of "readcd" is called "readom".
Well, when I was a kid, this guy kept asking everyone, "Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts of them are edible, you know!" But I was never tempted to try it...
That sounds more like a description of Mycroft Holmes than Sherlock.
Both your spelling checker and Slashdot's have clearly been infected by "virii"!
The analogy is by Douglas Adams - see http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2001/may/14/books.booksnews (toward the bottom of the page).
These sites are similar to Snopes: http://www.truthorfiction.com/ http://www.hoax-slayer.com/
What about the 1950s and 1960s? Pogo was as great a strip as any of those mentioned, and it was full of political satire! And Peanuts was at its peak then.
Several of those are phrases, not individual words. However, Inuit languages don't really have a large number of independent words for snow, either; their polysynthetic structure makes it possible to form an unlimited number of words relating to snow from a handful of elements. This article by the linguist Geoffrey K. Pullum has more details.