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- Britain says it should still be able to influence EU regulations after leaving EU
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- ONS overestimated that 90,000 international students per year were overstaying. Actual figure is 4,600
- (tags: immigration fail students Education OhForFucksSake )
- Samsung TV owners furious after software update leaves sets unusable
- (tags: software tv OhForFucksSake samsung )
- Caffeine makes food and drink seem less sweet
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- Grenfell proved it: the British media are part of a disconnected elite
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- What It Takes to Hold Your Breath for 24 Minutes
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- The Best Way To End Poverty
- (tags: poverty economics GuaranteedIncome )
- 6 Inventions Making British Disabled People's Lives Better In 2017
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- Self-driving lorries to be tested on UK roads in the next year
- (tags: technology transport automation uk )
- Chemicals used in furniture and gym mats could be making women infertile
- (tags: fertility chemistry )
- Here at the End of All Things : on losing oneself in in maps of fantasy worlds
- (tags: fantasy maps viaFanf )
- Half-Life Writer Shares Episode 3 Details
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- British man's heavily-pregnant Chinese wife denied visa
- (tags: marriage immigration OhForFucksSake )
- The Scotsmen Who Invented Modernity
- (tags: scotland history philosophy economics )
- Fishing Planet has the most epic trailer music ever - for a game where you mostly stand still next to a river
- (tags: music fish viaSwampers trailer video )
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Date: 2017-08-25 11:06 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2017-08-25 03:55 pm (UTC)I suppose that that shared sense is likely to change over time, as society becomes wealthier, so there is a relative element, but in that sense basic income obviously can address relative poverty, because as total wealth increases, the resources available to fund it do likewise.
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Date: 2017-08-25 11:47 am (UTC)Some of us belonging to certain minorities knew this decades ago!!
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Date: 2017-08-25 11:47 am (UTC)Both parts of this are false.
Tolkien desperately wanted to publish the Silmarillion, which is what "the background mythology" was called, and at one point even insisted to his publisher that it appear as an indivisible part of The Lord of the Rings. The problem was that, as he'd been working on it for decades, the conception had changed over time, and would require massive recasting to fit with the version of the story told in LOTR, recasting he was uncertain how to do and, in the end, unable to accomplish.
Nor was any motive of his estate to "cash in." That's an unjustified insult. The estate was doing very well financially from the works already available. But an audience clamored for The Silmarillion and both the estate and the publishers thought they deserved to get it. What they got, after enormous editorial work by Tolkien's son incompatible with any idea of casually "cashing in," was a kind of photoshopped snapshot of the mythology as best compatible with Lord of the Rings. But that didn't convey the depth of the invention, and by necessity left out much fine work that wasn't compatible. So, after another 20 years of painstaking editorial work, even more incompatible with casually "cashing in," he produced more volumes laying out the whole thing. These have sold moderately well, because Tolkien has a large fandom that wants them, but they're no monster bestsellers, they're no cash cow, and above all they're no instant quickie novelizations gingered up to milk the readership. They're scholarly editions of Tolkien's actual work.
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Date: 2017-08-25 05:00 pm (UTC)