Despite what the summary says, the rights are owned by Middle-earth Enterprises rather than the Tolkien estate. That is, the rights to adaptations and so forth of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, which are what JRRT sold during his lifetime.
Interestingly, Language Log put up this post just a few hours ago. (It's about which of the various methods people actually use to input Chinese characters.)
Proving a negative is of course always difficult outside of pure mathematics. The research which debunked the "dead cosmonauts" legend to most people's satisfaction was by James Oberg, and here is the relevant chapter from one of his books.
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Hm. Who is Sara, and what does she have to do with any of this?
It's "minuscule", not "miniscule".
Presumably, before the area was cultivated, it was a wilderness or semi-wilderness region with wild animals which the mosquitoes preyed on.
Apparently not.
So, have you now become a "quantum computing nutter"? Or are you just being sarcastic?
For those who don't know the answer: two raised to any odd power then added to one is always divisible by three.
Wait, isn't that last one really a Robert A. Heinlein quote? IIRC there was something very like it in Starship Troopers.
Despite what the summary says, the rights are owned by Middle-earth Enterprises rather than the Tolkien estate. That is, the rights to adaptations and so forth of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, which are what JRRT sold during his lifetime.
King Leopold II, is that you?
Interestingly, Language Log put up this post just a few hours ago. (It's about which of the various methods people actually use to input Chinese characters.)
He isn't American.
Hm, now I'm trying to think why it wouldn't be kosher...
Is it possible to disable or restrict Javascript on Vivaldi? I tried it recently but saw no way to do that.
"Three may keep a secret if two are dead." -Poor Richard's Almanack
Are you a Poe? That comment sounds like a deliberate parody of free-market fundamentalism.
Probably. And in that case, he's referring to an urban legend rather than an authentic Chinese saying.
"havested" should be "harvested".
Indeed.
Proving a negative is of course always difficult outside of pure mathematics. The research which debunked the "dead cosmonauts" legend to most people's satisfaction was by James Oberg, and here is the relevant chapter from one of his books.
Over on Soylent News they had a bright green theme. Coordinated April Fool jokes, maybe?
Presumably, the ones who heard that "Netcraft confirms it".
You can get decent OCR software for Windows; open-source substitutes are laughable when you look at their error rates.
Empedocles?
You may think so, but honestly, someone should have told us that turkeys can't fly!
It does sound likely to be apocryphal to me; after all, Ford didn't invent the automobile!