In the 1977 movie release of Star Wars Episode IV, why was the princess rescued in the first place?
As the required information was with the droid and a lot of time had passed since she was captured, there was a high probablity that she was already dead.
Even if she was to be rescued, why not do both the missions - rescuing the princess and destroying the weapon at the same time?
In the very popular TV Series Friends, the character Joey Tribbiani moves out from his small apartment (where he lived with Chandler) to a very big and expensive place when he gets a role in the soap opera "The Days of Our Lives".
When his character is killed in the series, he moves back to the apartment with Chandler.
However, when his character re-emerges, why doesn't he moves back to a bigger and more expensive apartment?
Is there any reference saying that he got a much lower salary this time?
The quick answer: The word 'Tulpa' does not appear anywhere in the Twin Peaks series.
The long answer: If the word doesn't appear in the series why would I have such a strong memory of hearing it? In series 2 episode 20, Major Briggs shows Cooper a video tape of Windom Earle where he uses the word 'Dugpa', also of Tibetan origin:
... these evil sorcerers, dugpas, they call them, cultivate evil for the sake of evil and nothing else. They express themselves in darkness for darkness, without leavening motive. This ardent purity has allowed them to access a secret place of great power, where the cultivation of evil proceeds in exponential fashion. And with it, the furtherance of evil's resulting power. These are not fairy tales, or myths. This place of power is tangible, and as such, can be found, entered, and perhaps, utilized in some fashion. The dugpas have many names for it, but chief among them is the Black Lodge.
But you don't believe me, do you? You think I'm mad.
Overworked. Go away.
It seems I misheard the unfamiliar word 'Dugpa' for a word I was at least vaguely aware of.
Having said that, a Tulpa in Tibetan Buddhism and Bon shamanism refers to a thought-form created through the discipline of sorcery such that it appears as a being or object that can be seen and interact. The initiates of the Dugpa sect would certainly be included in the list of sorcerers that can reputedly do this.
If the magician characters in Twin Peaks were based on the real Dugpas they were named after, it would certainly be a possible explanation for some of the phenomenon they manifest...
You wrote in your comment: It's a term used in a really long document. Also, when building user interfaces I need to keep it compact. In headers it appears as "Requirements for [adj] exams", or another one "students will be better informed to choose the right exams from the [adj] exams".
How about referring to the exams as chosen if the students have already chosen, "Requirements for chosen exams"
And if they have not already chosen, you could say offered exams.
"Students will be better informed about choosing the right exams from those offered."
I would hope the instructions make it very clear that they have to choose 2 or 3 of the offered exams.
I'm looking for the name of a movie I vaguely remember watching around 1997.
The plot was about a man being washed up on a beach with memory loss. He's taken in by a woman who is a psychology student/enthusiast and trying to analyze him and help him get his memory back.
Edit:
I think the movie was taking place in the UK, but I'm not 100% sure about that. The movie wasn't based on real events, and he gets his memory back in the end. The sea theme is very prominent in the movie, and I think the last shot of the movie is an empty, stormy beach.
I think the name of the movie might have included 'sea' or 'memory' but so far I haven't found anything in that direction.
It isn't likely.
It is far from conclusive that ET and Star Wars share the same universe. To draw that conclusion requires a lot of interpretation, assumptions and relying on information from non-canonical sources.
The child wearing a yoda mask in ET strongly implies that star wars is fiction in the ET universe, rendering any other assumptions that could lead to them being in the same universe moot.
While Indy-Earth and ET-Earth seem to both be set in our universe, that is the only reason to assume that they share the same universe, which isn't enough. There is nothing wrong with thinking so, but there is nothing to definitely show it to be true either.
While ET and Star Wars are not likely in the same universe, there is even less reason to think Indy and Star Wars are in the same universe, as there is nothing directly linking them. In fact, Star Wars may seem to be fiction in the Indy Earth due to the name of a bar in Temple of Doom, as pointed out by WOPR in a comment above.
So, no, there is nothing to indicate Indiana Jones and Star Wars are in the same universe.
I do not really think that the video game series is vital to the understanding of the movie Silent Hill.
In fact, concerning the Silent Hill games, there are several of them, but they all deal with different stories.
For instance, the 1st game Silent Hill deals with a guy named Harry Mason who searches his adoptive daughter Cheryl after a car accident, while the game Silent Hill 2 talks about James Sunderland who decides to go to Silent Hill town after receiving a letter from his deceased wife Mary.
However, even though all the games have different stories, they still have common things like:
the main characters need to survive against a lot of creepy monsters, in a scary alternate dimension (for information, only some game scenarios occur in the town Silent Hill, but not all of them)
the player need to solve crazy puzzles
short vision range: sometimes when exploring the games, you have thick snow and / or no light (so, the player need to use a flashlight and BOOH! Here comes a creepy monster ;P )
ambiguous endings: according to the paths you followed during the games, you can have a "good", "bad", or "joke" (= crazy funny ending which can include UFOs for example) ending.
When playing a given game, you may find some references to another game, but these do not consist in a essential link to continue your quests and to succeed in the game.
When watching the movie, you notice that the adaptation shares similar stuffs coming from the video game series, but the story remains different.
Considering the end of the movie, I think that they wanted to keep this ambiguous feeling and let the spectators decide what would be the ending. So, it would be up to us to decide what happens: they may be still trapped in this hell dimension, or they might be possessed, or they might be trapped in their mind or some kind of nightmare (I think that in one of the video game, there's an ending where you finally understand that the main character was actually insane or in a coma... I will have to check that.
What kind of company is Initech in the movie Office Space?
There are a few important things we know about Initech that the movie plot hinged on. Are there any real-life companies that actually fit this criteria?
Items 1,2,7 make Initech sound like a software development house that contracts with financial institutions. Item 3 additionally makes Initech sound like a company that contracts with financial institutions for server and software maintenance.
Item 4 makes Initech sound like the actual financial institution.
Item 5 sounds more like a consulting firm, as I think "accounts payable" is more likely simply called "loans"; but an actual banker could probably clear this up.
Item 6 could probably be either a bank or a consulting firm.
I would think maybe Initech is simply a subsidiary of a large financial corporation, that does in-house IT consulting and programming for the parent company. But item 7 doesn't fit with this theory, as then there wouldn't be any real "customers" (in a traditional sense).
So... What kind of company is Initech? :)
EDIT March 9 2013: Here's author Martel's explanation: island served the sole purpose of making the “animal” version of the story harder and harder to believe.
“Many readers assume it is something deeply symbolic they just don’t get, or it’s an hallucination –they need a reason to prop up the fiction.”
But in his own words “religion goes beyond the confines of the reasonable”.
-http://paula-greatstories.blogspot.com/2008/09/life-of-pi-explained.html
my original answer:
IMHO the island represented how Pi's view of life had changed after he killed the cook:
According to the insurance guys, there was no such island in reality, suggesting it was a symbol of something, not a real island.
Pi found the island after Richard Parker killed the hyena, which symbolizes Pi killing the cook (and shows that the ordeal at sea had changed Pi forever -- the innocence of his youth was gone).
Initially the island seems like a tranquil paradise but is eventually revealed to be a killer, just like how Pi begins the movie an innocent boy but eventually kills another human being -- and just like how as all of us get older, we inevitably see some of the darker sides of life, and even participate in some of the darkness ourselves.
After finding human teeth in a tree he is sitting in, Pi realizes that the island slowly "digested" someone who tried to stay there before -- symbolizing Pi realizing what will happen if he gets too bogged down in thinking about how he killed the cook (or about other horrors in life).
Then Pi decides that instead of staying on the island (which would represent dwelling on what he did or on life's horrors) he's going to get back on the raft and keep going (which represents moving on with his life).
Here's the quote with a bit more context:
"We're going to double down on
secrecy on products," Cook said, but on
other things, "we will be the most
transparent company in the world," -
like social good and supplier practices.
Double down is originally a blackjack term to play for double or nothing.
It is used more generally to mean make a calculated gamble to double your commitment, to concentrate or focus on something.
But it seems like use is changing, and it's simply means you will try twice as hard (as there's always some inherent risk in everything).
Cook is simply saying Apple are going to be more serious and committed about product secrecy.
The linked question asks about:
Palin
is notorious for doubling-down on
perceived missteps, typically blaming a biased media for not
telling the whole story.
This is similar; Sarah Palin concentrates and pays extra attention when people claim she makes mistakes, usually trying to deflect blame to the media.
Who owns the Hogwarts house-elves?
‘Well, whoever owns [Dobby] will be an old wizarding family, and they’ll be rich,’ said Fred.
‘Yeah, Mum’s always wishing we had a house-elf to do the ironing,’ said George. ‘But all we’ve got is a lousy old ghoul in the attic and gnomes all over the garden. House-elves come with big old manors and castles and places like that, you wouldn’t catch one in our house ...’
Chamber of Secrets - pages 27-28 - Bloomsbury - chapter 3, The Burrow
The way George speaks it seems as if house-elves are passed down with the property itself. Dobby seems to confirm this, but also indicates he is bound to serve one family and house forever.
‘Dobby had to punish himself, sir,’ said the elf, who had gone slightly cross-eyed. ‘Dobby almost spoke ill of his family, sir ...’
‘Your family?’
‘The wizard family Dobby serves, sir ... Dobby is a house-elf – bound to serve one house and one family for ever ...’
Chamber of Secrets - page 16 - Bloomsbury - chapter 2, Dobby's Warning
In Order of the Phoenix, Harry discovers a row of severed house-elf heads mounted on the wall along the staircase at No. Twelve Grimmauld Place -- the Black family's house-elves through the generations -- suggesting that perhaps a house-elf is born into servitude to one family and one house.
[T]hey started up the dark staircase, passing a row of shrunken heads mounted on plaques on the wall. A closer look showed Harry that the heads belonged to house-elves. All of them had the same rather snout-like nose.
Order of the Phoenix - page 60 - Bloomsbury - chapter 4, Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place
In Goblet of Fire, Hermione learns that the greatest population of house-elves live and work at Hogwarts.
‘There are house-elves here?’ [Hermione] said, staring, horror-struck, at Nearly Headless Nick. ‘Here at Hogwarts?’
‘Certainly,’ said Nearly Headless Nick, looking surprised at her reaction. ‘The largest number in any dwelling in Britain, I believe. Over a hundred.’
Goblet of Fire - page 161 - Bloomsbury - chapter 12, The Triwizard Tournament
Who owns the Hogwarts house-elves if house-elves are bound to serve one family and one house forever?
The house-elves seem bound to Hogwarts because they are completely resistant to the idea of being freed and ultimately refuse to clean Gryffindor Tower because Hermione is leaving knitted hats hidden around. They disassociate themselves with Dobby and Winky, the two free house-elves at Hogwarts. So, who owns them? Are they house-elves descended from elves originally owned by the four Hogwarts founders? Have they been relocated to Hogwarts from other placements (there is a House-elf Relocation department at the Ministry of Magic)? Is their ownership passed from headmaster to headmaster? Or do they just belong to the Hogwarts castle itself and not to any one person or family as well?
★ I'm looking for a canon-based answer (the Harry Potter novels and three supplemental books, interviews with J.K. Rowling or Pottermore) and don't prefer an answer from the HP Wikia or the Wikipedia.
The verb following DO is not in present form but in the infinitive form. (To be sure, this is a rather artificial distinction, since in most cases the two forms are identical; but they are different for one very common verb, BE.)
Accordingly, there's no present form here to confuse you. Forgot is the form you want.
However, in this context forget takes a bare infinitive rather than a gerund, so the expressions you're looking for are:
Did you forget to switch it off?
You forgot to switch it off, didn't you.
Forgot to switch it off, did you?
Is it Jungle 2 Jungle or Un indien dans la ville?
It is not LA, but New York City and there is no reporter.
But it is Amazonas related, there is a 13-year old boy and:
Michael's fiancée, Charlotte, is less than pleased about the unexpected visitor in a loin cloth outfit, who tries to urinate in front of her at a fake tree (as is usual in his tribe), suggests eating her cat, and releases Maitika, his enormous pet tarantula in her apartment.
You may check the film at Youtube
This is explained in the book. Snape's mother's surname was Prince. Hence, he was a 'half-blood' Prince (not of royalty, just of the family Prince):
'I was going through the rest of the old Prophets and there was a tiny announcement about Eileen Prince marrying a man called Tobias Snape, and then later an announcement saying she'd given birth to a-'
'-murderer,' spat Harry.
'Well...yes,' said Hermione, 'So...I was sort of right. Snape must have been proud of being "half a Prince", you see? Tobias Snape was a Muggle from what it said in the Prophet.'
'Yeah, that fits,' said Harry. 'He'd play up the pure-blood side so he could get in with Lucius Malfoy and the rest of them.'
Half-Blood Prince Chapter 30: "The White Tomb"
(Quote courtesy of DavidS' Answer)
The clones were the original plan.
Note from the link you posted:
OBI-WAN: Sido-Dyas. Is he not the Jedi who hired you for this job?
JANGO FETT: Never heard of him.
OBI-WAN: Really.
JANGO FETT: I was recruited by a man called Darth Tyranus on one of the moons of Bogden.
Darth Tyranus was Dooku's Sith name, and Dooku was Sidious' apprentice. QED.
There are several limits on ship designs in any universe:
Crew
The available crew issue is pretty big in Star Wars... some ships have hundreds of thousands of crewbeings. (Executor is over 270,000 beings...) It's 19,000m long. That's several miles. Assuming that each individual needs some 50 cubic meters of open space and/or quarters for sanity's sake, that's only 1,400,000 cubic meters - a 112m cube - so the crew numbers are pretty low for the roughly 3 cubic kilometers (3,000,000,000 cubic meters). And even given a fleet of 500 of them, that's still under a 0.1 billion people... well within the capability of Coruscant to supply the crews for even given US current rates of volunteers for naval duty.
Structure
It has an acceleration listed as 1280 G's... 12km per second per second!
With those kinds of stresses, all known normal materials in our universe simply will fail... So it has to work by some form of drive that doesn't impose that force by direct mechanical transfer.
Once you posit drives that don't use mechanical transfer, instead imposing an area affect acceleration, size ceases to be a mechanical limitation, as long as the drive fields don't tear it apart.
Officially, star wars drives work by mechanical transfer with artificial gravity preventing turning crew into red paste on the wall...
... but meaning the ships are too large because the stresses involved are unreasonably high.
Price
The Empire can afford to waste the money by all canon sources. Not an issue.
Political Will
Obviously, the Empire has the political will.
Big ships show that, and real world autocracies are very likely to push ship designs to the larger side of what's possible. It's happened a lot in naval history (in the 1800's, plus WW I and II), so a megalomaniacal leadership like we see in Tarkin, Mott, and Palpatine would probably be prone to "A few big ships are enough to scare everyone into submission" thinking.
Construction Time
We know it took many years to build the Executor - construction times of decades are long, but not really overly exaggerated. Modular builds did not make the USS Reagan terribly fast - she took 4 years from awarding to laying the keel, another 3 years from first laying of the keel until launch, and over 2 more to be commissioned and accepted. A decade, for a ship only 333m long... And many components were in construction before the keel was actually laid down.
Discussion
By comparing to the biggest warship afloat, we have 2 indicators of her being oversized...
1) crew volume density. A Nimitz-class carrier is 6000 crew (including aviation wing) in 0.3x0.08x0.06, roughly a prism, so volume 1/2 that... about 0.00072 cubic km, or 720,000cubic meters. That's roughly 1 crewman per 60 cubic meters...
Which, even cutting by a factor of 100 for the SW level of automation, means she's under-crewed by a couple orders of magnitude.
2) material strength... the executor should snap her structure the first time she goes under power given the lack of sufficient handwavium.
Even comparing to the smaller Imperial Star Destroyers, which are described in canon as costing more than a major world's annual budget, and are 1.6km long (about 0.4 wide, and 0.1 thick, roughly a pyramid, for about 0.01 cubic km (10,000,000 cubic meters) - roughly 130 times the size of a Nimitz Class carrier, and a similar role. But they have crew and troops totalling about 45,000 people, only 8x that of a Nimitz class...
And, like the Executor, the ISD's should be bending themselves into pretzels with their 2000+ G's.
So, yes, they're unrealistically large. Not for the size alone, but for the listed performance coupled to the size, they are physically improbable given the central drives.
Only phrase (not a single word) that I can think of is "malicious editor" who does malicious edit. Malicious means
having or showing a desire to cause harm to another person : having or
showing malice
[Merriam Webster]
I found one website which defines malicious edits as
unwarranted removal of content; renaming articles without
justification; purposefully adding incorrect or false information to
articles; editing articles to promote a particular view and/or for
the sake of a personal agenda; editing other Users' comments to
substantially change their meaning; adding nonsense to a page.
Malicious edits also involve: making an offensive Edit Summary in
an attempt to leave a mark that cannot be easily expunged from a
page's history record; uploading or using material in ways that
violate copyright policy after having been warned.
and malicious editor as:
Any User, registered or anonymous, who persists in making edits or
create new pages that contradict the format, style, and standards of
the Lost Girl Wiki will be considered a malicious editor.
It guess you are referring to:
Cult of personality arises when an individual uses mass media, propaganda, or other methods, to create an idealized, heroic, and at times, worshipful image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise.
- Sociologist Max Weber developed a tripartite classification of authority; the cult of personality holds parallels with what Weber defined as "charismatic authority". A cult of personality is similar to hero worship, except that it is established by mass media and propaganda usually by the state, especially in totalitarian states.
No, I would not classify B-Movie as a genre. The name came from the fact that it used to be the second movie of a double-bill, and was usually low budget and shorter than the other.
Nowadays we think of a B-Movie in a broader sense of being a low budget commercial movie, and has some overlap with Exploitation movies, but they can cover multiple genres including Horror as you mention. Science Fiction & Westerns are genres that have produced many B-Movies. The Italians were famous for producing 'Peplum' movies - also known as 'Swords and Sandals' movies.
It is true that there was a 'golden age' of B-Movies and that there are certain traits that might make you think 'this is a b-movie', but I do not think they would form a recognized genre in their own right.
Yes, director's would often know they were making a B-Movie - explicitly because it had a low budget and was destined to accompany a main feature. This might impart some of the characteristics that people love or hate about B-Movies, but it doesn't make it a genre IMHO.
Before Eärnil ll took the throne in T.A. 1945 "Gondor came near to destruction." [Gondor and the Heirs of Anárion] The Wainriders sat on their haunches after defeating the Northern Army. Earnil who was a cousin to the King and led the Southern army came up from the South after victory there and took the Wainriders out. It was only 4 years after Arnor and Gondor started to communicate again that King Ondoher died [1944] in this war along with his two sons. It is said that the reason that the North and South kingdoms made contact [1940] with one another again was because
they perceived that some single power and will was directing the
assault from many quarters upon the survivors of Numenor. [Gondor and
the Heirs of Anárion]
Earnil was never quite secure in sending men to aid Arthedain for quite some time after becoming king [around 30 years] and when he finally did send help after receiving dire messages from the North he could only send a a small force. However, even at this point in Gondor's waining they have a clear advantage over the North in strength.
Then Eärnil sent his son Eärnur north with a fleet, as swiftly as he
could, and with as great strength as he could spare. Too late.... when
Eärnur came to the Grey Havens there was joy and great wonder among
both Elves and Men. So great in draught and so many were his ships
that they could scarcely find harbourage, though both the Harlond and
the Forlond were also filled; and from them descended an army of
power, with munition and provision for a great war of kings. Or so it
seemed to the people of the North, though this was but a SMALL
sending-force of the whole might of Gondor. [Appendix A., Gondor and
the heirs of Anárion]
As to the Elves, Arthedain in particular remained friendly with them and were receiving help from Lindon and Rivendell for their long war with Angmar.
Amlaith and his descendants maintained friendship with the Eldar,
especially with Cirdan at the Havens. [The Heirs of Elendil, Chapter
7]
When the other two kingdoms are ravaged Arthedain holds out with "aid from Lindon and Imladris". Before Angmar invaded Arnor in 1409 Rivendell had been beseiged, and during that invasion Weathertop was destroyed. The last Prince of Cardolan [such as the one in Dol Amroth] was killed when this invasion came. The Dúnedain held out at Fornost with aid from Lindon.
Araphor son of Arveleg was not yet full-grown, but he was valiant, and
with aid from Círdan he repelled the enemy from Fornost and the North
Downs. [Appendix A: The North-kingdom and the Dúnedain]
For the most part the Dúnedain held out at Fornost, the North Downs, and at Tyrn Gorthad [those fighting here were without their Prince who had died but was said to have been buried here, "some say the mound in which the Ringbearer was imprisoned had been the grave of the last Prince of Cardolan" - The North-kingdom and the Dúnedain].
So the North Kindom did get help from Lindon and Rivendell. Elrond even sent for Elves to help from Lórien, but clearly it did not do much good. For a lot of this time the 3 seperate Kingdoms in Arnor were fighting Angmar. For about 300 years before Arthedain fell it was really Arthedain versus Angmar. The Dúnedain in Cardolan were wiped out finally in the plague in 1636 and Rhudaur had long fallen before the Plague to Angmar.
Basically it was slow decay and constant picking away at both kingdoms in decline. Both kingdoms aided in their decline with in-fighting, the split in the North, the Kin-strife in the South and a further diminishment of the royal line in the South with members of that line renouncing their inheritance and joining rebels since they were fearful of the jealous kings.
For many years now, I've been curious about what bathrooms - and especially toilets - look like in the Galaxy Far, Far Away1. I'm quite sure we never see one in the original trilogy, even in settings in which we can reasonably expect to find them - for example, Leia's detention cell aboard the Death Star:
I am also reasonably confident that there aren't any in the prequels either, although I have only seen the prequels two or three times (as compared to having seen the each installment of the original trilogy scores of times). I haven't seen The Force Awakens yet, but I have asked around, and no one seems to recall seeing a bathroom there, either.
If we assume that the anatomical differences between the various sentient species aren't merely cosmetic and skin-deep, then the sheer logistics of providing facilities for all the different species that inhabit the Star Wars universe - or even just the most common and widespread species, like humans, Twi'leks, Rodians, Bothans, Transdoshans, and Wookiees - would be staggering.
Of course, there is no need to have facilities designed to accommodate a species that will probably never use them. Therefore, the typical Wookiee home on Kashyyk would probably have facilities designed specifically for Wookiees (because they wouldn't anticipate a Hutt needing to use their bathroom), and Owen and Beru Lars presumably had a bathroom not that different from our own (because they didn't expect an Aqualish to use their toilet). And in some cases, a sentient species might not have toilets of any kind - I would assume that Ewoks do their business in crude pit latrines, or even just out in the woods somewhere.
But there are plenty of places in the galaxy where many species came together, like the Mos Eisley Cantina, or the Jedi Temple, or the Galactic Senate building. In these cases, the public bathrooms would have to accommodate all manner of different species, and the anatomical differences between the species would necessitate drastically different types of toilets.
1Full Disclosure: This curiosity was born out of a question my friend once asked me:
"If you had the choice of being best friends with Chewbacca, and hanging out with him all the time, so your relationship was just like the Chewbacca/Han Solo partnership, or being best friends with R2-D2, and hanging out with him all the time, just like the Luke/R2-D2 partnership (minus C-3PO), and assuming you could perfectly understand everything that was said by whichever best friend you chose, who would you pick?"
I gave the question more thought than I would like to admit, and eventually, I started pondering the logistics of sharing my apartment with a Wookiee. I figured my food expenses would drastically increase, but that didn't bother me as much as the next problem that occurred to me: Could I handle sharing a bathroom with Chewbacca? That is to say, can a toilet designed for use by humans handle the kind of punishment a Wookiee is likely to dish out? How long does it take for a bathroom to become habitable again after a Wookiee uses it? Would I have to leave the apartment for a few hours so it could air out after Chewbacca does his business? The other problems that would likely arise from having a Wookiee roommate - shedding; fleas; having to clean enormous hairballs out of the shower drain every morning; angry neighbors complaining and calling the cops because Chewie keeps eating their pets; etc - would probably pale in comparison to the horror of modern plumbing's inability to cope with the digestive processes of a seven foot tall carnivorous space-ape with a penchant for eating raw Endor-monkey meat.
Peter Mayhew, AKA Chewbacca, has commented on this issue on Reddit, but he would only say this:
Let's just say, even toilets let Wookiees win.
Cheers,
Peter Mayhew
This might very well be Army of Darkness.
It's a (somewhat odd) comedy about a guy from present time getting sucked in some kind of wormhole, where he gets warped to the middle ages. There he is considered an enemy of the people who find him, and thrown into a deep pit. After getting out of the pit, he ends up having to help protect the town against an army of 'walking dead'.
Your description doesn't match this movie completely, but close enough if you ask me. About the 'claws' you mention, he somehow loses one hand early in the movie and he attaches a chainsaw to his arm.
P.s. fun fact: If you're a gamer, Duke Nukem uses many quotes from this movie.
I was chatting with my client, and he said the following sentence in between:
Oh, also swung around with the CreditCard folks, we'll need to do some validation against their production system at somepoint to...not sure what is involved for that to occur
Although, the exact meaning of it is not required to understand the sentence, but when I looked it on dictionary, I couldn't find any verb that fits this.
I can only guess that it means "he had a chat or conversation with the credit card folks".
First of all, I have read the answers about "gonna have to" usage, and they are quite clear:
I am gonna have to vs I have to
and
why-prefix-a-request-with-im-going-to-have-to-ask-you
The answers say that the extra words work as a politeness device. OK.
But I have heard gonna have to only from American English speakers, so my question is: Is it an Americanism?
First of all, the production staff lawyered up real well. From a Slashfilm interview with Mike Judge:
And as far as the products stuff, I remember writing it and going, “Oh
man, there’s no way we’re going to clear all of this stuff.” And I had
a meeting with the lawyers, who were actually really cool and really
liked the script. [laughs] And in the Beavis & Butt-Head movie I
couldn’t even have a bottle that was shaped like a Jack Daniel’s
bottle. I couldn’t have, there was more, it was just ridiculous on
that [movie].
But on Idiocracy, when we were talking about Starbucks, the lawyers
said, “Well, it would help if you didn’t pick on just one company and
if you did more than one.” So, [laughs] I was like okay, and that’s
why there’s the whole red light district with Starbucks and there’s an
H&R Block with “Tax Return and Relief,” and all of that. But the other
stuff, Carl Jr’s, that was all in the script, and I couldn’t believe
it all cleared.
Second, it wasn't high profile enough to cause the companies any big issues (from the same interview):
At one point, [Fox] told me, “Hey, it’s not testing well, we’re not
going to spend a lot of money promoting it.”
Though they are of different origin, I would go for 'genius' and 'ingenious', perhaps?
I also have some points to raise from previous answers:
Irregardless is most likely from a combination of 'irrespective' and 'regardless', which are synonyms of each other. Therefore 'irregardless' is seen as an erroneous construction by many, as Sam pointed out.
Also, 'ravel' and 'unravel' are not the same. The phrasal verb 'ravel out' is synonymous with 'unravel' but alone, 'ravel' means to complicate, while 'unravel' in that sense would mean 'make clear something that was complicated'.
I don't know, on this occasion, that the thinking particularly came from me, actually. I've always been open to anything that shakes [the series] up. I think that decision actually came from the BBC.
But I've been well up for anything that we can do to shake up the transmission pattern, the way we deliver it to the audience and how long we make the audience wait, simply because that makes 'Doctor Who' an event piece.
The more 'Doctor Who' becomes a perennial, the faster it starts to die. ''You've got to shake it up, you've got to keep people on edge and wondering when it will come back.
'Sherlock' is the prime example, as far as that goes. 'Sherlock' almost exists on starving its audience. By the time it came back this year, 'Sherlock' was like a rock star re-entering the building!
So keeping 'Doctor Who' as an event, and never making people feel, 'Oh, it's lovely, reliable old Doctor Who - it'll be on about this time, at that time of year'. Once you start to do that, just slowly, it becomes like any much-loved ornament in your house - ultimately invisible. And I don't want that to ever be the case.
Yes. The usage of divine as a verb to mean 'to discover' or 'intuit' or even, yes 'practice divination' is perfectly acceptable and useful and should be found in most better dictionaries.
However, it is less common than the religious, noun definition, so you'll need to skip past a number of unrelated uses. For instance, Merriam Websters has it listed last of three.
I have been wondering that same thing, I can't quite figure it out. I have two theories though. Either it had something to do with the fact that he time-traveled while in the past, when he jumped down from the rocket launch thingy with Boris. Maybe that somehow made him resistant to time fracture, because he wasn't really present while the change happened.
Or maybe it has to do with agent K neurolizing young James. It somehow made him forget about the changes in the past.
I realize it's not very helpful, but that's the best I have been able to come up with.
1990s movie about a group of people who are convinced that someone in their group is a Russian spy. They go on a retreat together and somewhere in the movie, a pet cat is found dead in the kitchen. In the trailer, or tagline, it says "What would you do if your best friend was a Russian spy?" That's all I know.
From the Adventure Time wiki:
Pendleton Ward, the creator of Adventure Time, has stated in an interview that the Land of Ooo is actually a post-apocalyptic Earth, the result of a global disaster called the Mushroom War, hence the ruined pieces of modern technology scattered across the land.
I remember a Live Action movie where a rich boy has a dual life: one as a rich guy and another as a hero. He has powers like invisibility through some kind of device and he is like an android. He has a super computer that has a girl's face which gives him his assignments.
I think the heroine has a similar face to super computer's face but I am not sure. But even super computer feels jealous of the heroine. The bad guy tried to use two girls to kill the hero. The girls use a poison capsule to kill people by kissing them, but they get killed by the Hero when the kiss effect gets reversed. There is a final fight sequence in a computer world (Virtual Reality) where the bad guy is killed by his own virus which he used to kill the hero in computer world.
I am sure its somehow related to Max Steel.
It may be a exact duplicate of http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/4296/sci-fi-movie-identification question posted on Movies and TV Beta but I am not sure, so I am posting it separately. I don't have any idea about release date but i watched it on HBO 6/7 years before in India.
(Some of my mentioned facts may be wrong but most of them are correct specially about invisibility, super computer and virtual computer world and Heroine's face similarity to computer's face)
When The Doctor is shot by the astronaut at Lake Silencio, he begins to regenerate, before being shot again and killed. But, at that point, he was
The Teselecta, with the real Doctor safely miniaturized inside.
So why does his body start to generate as normal, with a ton of regeneration energy streaming off of him? How did he accomplish that without actually being injured and regenerating?
Approaching this from a real-life perspective, one of the earliest crime databases was that of the NCIC (National Crime Information Center) which was set up in 1967.
On January 27, 1967, the system was launched on 15 state and city computers that were tied into the FBI's central computer in Washington, D.C.—which at that time contained five files and 356,784 records on things like stolen autos, stolen license plates, stolen/missing guns, and wanted persons/fugitives. In its first year of operation, NCIC processed approximately 2.4 million transactions, an average of 5,479 transactions daily.
The first hit came in May 1967, when a New York City police officer—suspicious of a parked car—radioed in a request for an NCIC search of the license plate. Within 90 seconds, he was informed that the car had been stolen a month earlier in Boston. We got a report that the patrolman exclaimed, "It works! It works!"
A police drama named Adam-12 which ran between 1968 and 1975 appears to have been the first to incorporate NCIC checks in its plot. IMDb's blurb for the eighteenth episode of the first season, Log 112: You Blew It (broadcast on 8 Feb. 1969) reads:
Malloy and Reed conduct a traffic stop, but decide to let the man off with a warning before the NCIC check is completed. In their haste, they let a man wanted on armed robbery and weapons charges go free. The lieutenant calls the officers in to scold them for not going "by the book," particularly since another officer could have responded to the scene of what turned out to be a routine domestic dispute. Malloy and Reed must then put their being scolded behind them as they come up with a plan to nab the wanted criminal.
I have no factual evidence for this but the impression I get from this exchange is that Wormtongue is doing this to spite Saruman in some way. By the end of the book we know that Wormtongue is totally dominated by Saruman and hates him intensely. We also know the magnitude of the power that Sarumans voice has over Wormtongue (making him kill Lotho at the end of the book - seemingly against his will). I see the Orthanc exchange as Wormtongue grasping an opportunity to get back at Saruman in some way while Sarumans attention is diverted by the exchange with Gandalf.
I am sure there will be plenty of disagreement with this opinion, but I will just reproduce the following quotes from the books that make me view things this way.
Firstly there is the observation of Aragorn
'The murderous rogue!' cried Éomer. But Gandalf was unmoved. 'No, that
was not thrown by Saruman,' he said; 'nor even at his bidding, I
think. It came from a window far above. A parting shot from Master
Wormtongue, I fancy, but ill aimed.'
'The aim was poor, maybe, because he could not make up his mind which
he hated more, you or Saruman,' said Aragorn.
Then later (In the chapter Many Partings) during the encounter on the return to the Shire after Saruman has struck him with his staff we hear from Wormtongue:
The beggar turned and slouched past whimpering: 'Poor old Grima! Poor
old Grima! Always beaten and cursed. How I hate him! I wish I could
leave him!'
Finally we see that Wormtongue hates Saruman to the extent that he kills him outside of Bag End.
Clearly the relationship was on good terms in the beginning when they formed their alliance but soured from the point at which Gandalf arrived at Edoras and exposed Wormtongue as a traitor.
The pair of them are then locked inside of Orthanc and it is probably this that accelerates the breakdown in their relationship. It would be understandable for Wormtongue to see his failure to obtain his desire (Eowyn) as the fault of Saruman.
My impression of it all is that Wormtongue knows the importance of the Palantir (he is clearly a man of some intelligence as exhibited by his manipulation of Theoden) and discards the stone as an act of defiance against Saruman
I'm trying to find an old sci fi movie. All I remember is that a few astronauts have a station on this red planet (I think they have plants inside) and there's a big pyramid or some kind of statue on the planet. At the end of the movie they enter it and you don't know what happens next. I know for sure that it's not Total Recall or Stargate.
I am looking for a novel I read when I was in elementary school. I would guess that I read it around 1988 or 1989, but it seems to me the story was probably quite a bit older than that when I read it. At the time, I was checking out pulps from my small public library and going through them quite quickly. Alas, I was not paying attention to authors or titles at that point, which is why I need help.
Humans had begun spreading out into the habitable planets around our solar system. Up to that point, they had not discovered any alien life. Unbeknownst to most of humanity, that had recently changed. As humans were scouting for new planets, an alien race had been discovered. (I think they had discovered them with very powerful telescopes, but I don't remember for sure.)
The story opens as a crew of people are flying in a starship to the planet inhabited by aliens. I remember that the starship was flying close to or faster than light, because the book talked about how they were flying at such great speed that they were either blind or practically blind. They had to fly on a very precise pre-computed path, or they could get lost in the vastness of space. It would be a very serious thing to get lost.
Most of the rest of humanity could teleport from world to world instantaneously. For that to work, though, they had to have the appropriate machinery set up on both ends of the transport. To explore a new world with no teleporter set up, someone had to travel there.
The main character was a man whose wife had died in a teleporter accident. She had stepped into a teleporter and never come out anywhere. The teleport network operators said that was a very rare accident. He had held out hope that she had
actually traveled somewhere very far away and was just unable to return, but the teleport operators said the logs showed that due to a glitch, she had vanished on one end but never reappeared on the other. Because of the teleporters, waiting
is something human beings had sort of forgotten how to do. The prospect of a weeks- or months-long journey in a starship was daunting.
The crew had five to ten scientists aboard, all of whom were chosen due to specialties. For example, one was a language expert whose job would be to establish communication with the aliens. I forget the others.
But I do positively remember one of the character's names! His name was Stone. More on why in a moment.
Once they reach the aliens, they get out and go to meet the natives. It turns out the aliens live in a caste system. The castes can be distinguished by the color of their skin. There are at least three castes. The first are the workers. They
do heavy manual labor. The second seems to be a managerial class. They tell the workers what to do. The workers and the managers are green and blue skinned, but I can't remember which color went with which caste. The final caste is the leaders. They were purple skinned.
The first aliens the humans encounter are of the worker class. When they meet each other, it becomes clear pretty quickly that the aliens will have to learn the humans language, because the aliens are capable of making a much wider range of sounds including popping and clicking that the humans can't make. So the humans set out to teach the aliens English.
During the language learning, the aliens become confused that "stone" means rock, but it is also the name of one of the crew members. Once the confusion is sorted out, they start calling the man "label-Stone". This is how I remember that one of the characters was named Stone.
The worker aliens learn English fairly quickly -- in several hours they have learned enough to know they need to involve the managers. When the manager aliens show up, they are able to pick up English about 10x faster than the workers were. They retrieve the leaders in turn, and the leaders learn the language even faster. The book comments that the aliens appear to have established the caste system around the various aliens' intelligence levels; they each appear to be doing the work they are most suited for.
The humans goal is to divide the galaxy. They want to work out some sort of a treaty that says, Humans can expand here, Aliens can expand there. But the aliens don't see why they should agree to this. They tell the humans they are welcome to keep the planets they have already expanded into. The rest of the galaxy will be for the aliens. Despite humans best attempts, this is the most the aliens are willing to do, and they seem to think they are being generous at that. The humans get back in their starship and being the long trek home, dejected.
On the way home, something goes wrong and the crew find their ship has gone off course. At first the crew is in a panic, because they are very unlikely to be able to find their way back to the humans territory. But gradually it becomes clear that something is pulling on the ship and guiding it. They are worried about this, but they find that they can't do anything about it.
Eventually, the ship is guided into the area of a superintelligence. If I remember right, they have also collected the caste aliens, and they put them down together and basically tell them to stop their fighting or the superintelligence will intervene. The superintelligence says it has been watching both of them, and will continue to keep an eye on them. It basically warns them to work out their differences. Then it sends both species back home.
And that is pretty much how the book ends. The humans observe that their government isn't going to like this one bit -- they had been uncomfortable enough just finding one other race of comparable technology as us. Now we knew there was at least one more that was far, far more technologically advanced.
So, does anyone know the title and author of this book? I'd love the chance to read it again and see how my impressions of it have held up after these many years.
UPDATE
It could be Collision Course by Robert Silverberg. The description has striking similarities, but also lots of details I don't remember. The word "transmat" for the teleporter sounds right. Also, the character name Bernard sounds familiar. I'm going to see what I can do about getting a copy and reading through it. If this is the right book, I'll update this as an answer.
I disagree that "all products" implies all products in existence, because it is clear from the context that it refers only to products on this particular website.
Consider a menu that says "All prices include 10% service & 15% VAT" - one does not assume that this means all prices in existence, just those on this menu. (Not to mention that "All the products" and "All products" can both mean "All [the] products in existence").
As the definite article is used to distinguish a particular from a general, "the" in this context can be distracting. I almost expect the sentence to continue: "All the products we sell online (as opposed to those other ones that we only sell in-store)" or "All the products on page 1 (as opposed to those on the other pages)".
If you do wish to make a distinction, consider "All our products" or "All products on this website".
The choice of phrasing here is, however, a matter of stylistic preference. Any of the abovementioned examples will almost certainly be understood the same way.
As a rough rule of thumb, I would suggest using the singular if the normal state of affairs is for there to be "either zero or one" of the given item, and the plural if there's no 'expected' number as such.
It would probably be more common here to use the plural, because we don't have a sense that "a room normally has one ball in it". A room isn't specifically designed for holding balls, and the number of expected balls in a room isn't "zero or one".
However, the singular is much more likely in a case such as:
There's no car in the garage.
because we have a notion that 'a garage usually fits one car in it'.
(On the other hand, if your particular garage happens to be a very large/shared one, then the plural would then be appropriate.)
From Session 9 to The Ninth Gate, and even pre-DVD with Dante's nine circles of Hell, it's a formidable number. Read more about number 9 and all its usage in culture and mythology here.
Both movies, Session 9 and Psych:9, take place in abandoned (well in Psych: 9′s case, soon to be abandoned) hospitals and both have that number 9 in the title that becomes a major plot point. Upon watching the film I was even more surprised how right I was as Psych follows the same formula as Session with much of the film being a supernatural thriller until the end.
Roslyn (Sara Foster) is a sad woman who takes a job collating files for a soon to be demolished hospital. During her shifts she notices some strange occurrences such as ghostly figures and some mysterious singing. Roslyn is also grappling with the fact that she apparently can’t bear children, making her more on edge and putting her at odds with her husband Cole (Gabriel Mann).
She eventually befriends the only other person working in the building, Dr. Clement (Cary Elwes), who works up on the fifth floor in the psychology ward. This particular ward is filled with many archaic, cruel looking devices, especially room 9.
Read the whole article here.
I am going to assert my personal knowledge here.
I actually saw 'Star Wars' in 1977, several times, on its original release. In the original theatrical version there is only a single shot.
Bear in mind that they are sitting down, at a table in the Cantina bar, opposite each other. Greedo goes for his gun, saying, "I'm going to enjoy this". There is a muffled blast, and a flash, as Solo, in self defence, fires under the table, without even drawing his blaster from its holster. Greedo slumps face-down on the table, dead.
I don't understand where the suggestion has come from that Solo shot him in cold blood. Greedo quite plainly grabs for his own blaster, and even has time to deliver his gloating line; his intention to murder Solo is perfectly clear.
Solo merely waits, to see what Greedo's intention is. It is only when that intention is clearly demonstrated, and Greedo is actually in the act of going for his gun, that Solo fires.
That shot got a big laugh, because Greedo was so clearly not expecting it, and so obviously thought Solo was entirely at his mercy. But, unexpectedly, Solo shoots him - without even drawing his weapon. His innocuous, unthreatening posture took the audience, and Greedo, completely by surprise; and the unexpected reversal - with Greedo shot dead instead of doing the shooting - got a well deserved belly laugh.
Lucas is mistaken. The reason why audiences reacted badly to his later tampering with this scene was because they wanted to preserve that laugh.
The whole point of the scene is to introduce the character of Han Solo with a joke and a belly laugh. Greedo thinks he's got the upper hand; but Solo demonstrates how clever and resourceful he actually is, behind his harmless pose. It's an Indiana Jones moment, pulling his chestnuts out of the fire unexpectedly, and at the last possible moment.
Audiences wanted to associate Han Solo with that particular laugh, because that's how he was first introduced to them in the entire 'Star Wars' saga. They resented Lucas for later tampering with a scene that was already perfect, and that perfectly summed-up the character.
The relevant part from TT is given in Book 3, Chapter 4 (Treebeard):
'The trees and the Ents,' said Treebeard. 'I do not understand all that goes on myself, so I cannot explain it to you. Some of us are still true Ents, and lively enough in our fashion, but many are growing sleepy, going tree-ish, as you might say. Most of the trees are just trees, of course; but many are half awake. Some are quite wide awake, and a few are, well, ah, well getting Entish. That is going on all the time.
'When that happens to a tree, you find that some have bad hearts. Nothing to do with their wood: I do not mean that. Why, I knew some good old willows down the Entwash, gone long ago, alas! They were quite hollow, indeed they were falling all to pieces, but as quiet and sweet-spoken as a young leaf. And then there are some trees in the valleys under the mountains, sound as a bell, and bad right through. That sort of thing seems to spread. There used to be some very dangerous parts in this country. There are still some very black patches.'
'Like the Old Forest away to the north, do you mean?' asked Merry.
'Aye, aye, something like, but much worse. I do not doubt there is some shadow of the Great Darkness lying there still away north; and bad memories are handed down...
Not everything bad in the world need be controlled by a great evil nor directed towards a single purpose; in this case the trees in the Old Forest are just "bad trees".
There are some other interesting references elsewhere in TT:
'We came down over the last ridge into Nan Curunir, after night had fallen,' Merry continued. 'It was then that I first had the feeling that the Forest itself was moving behind us. I thought I was dreaming an entish dream, but Pippin had noticed it too. We were both frightened; but we did not find out more about it until later.
'It was the Huorns, or so the Ents call them in "short language". Treebeard won't say much about them, but I think they are Ents that have become almost like trees, at least to look at. They stand here and there in the wood or under its eaves, silent, watching endlessly over the trees; but deep in the darkest dales there are hundreds and hundreds of them, I believe.
'There is a great power in them, and they seem able to wrap themselves in shadow: it is difficult to see them moving. But they do. They can move very quickly, if they are angry. You stand still looking at the weather, maybe, or listening to the rustling of the wind, and then suddenly you find that you are in the middle of a wood with great groping trees all around you. They still have voices, and can speak with the Ents, that is why they are called Huorns, Treebeard says, but they have become queer and wild. Dangerous. I should be terrified of meeting them, if there were no true Ents about to look after them.
(Chapter 9)
'So Saruman would not leave?' he said. 'I did not think he would. His heart is as rotten as a black Huorn's.
(Chapter 10)
It's quite obvious that these descriptions match nicely with the observed behaviour in the Old Forest, with Old Man Willow being a particularly nasty example (and, of course, with no true Ents around to look after him, he is quite terrifying and dangerous to meet).
When Bruce is left broken and suffering in the Prison Pit, Bane explains that this is where he suffered and where Bruce will fully realize his failure with Gotham, and then be killed.
During his time there, the Doctor and his friend explain that Bane owns the prison, and their only duty is to keep him alive until Bane wants to kill him. However, they seem to turn around, heal his back and start encouraging him to find the will and ability to climb out of the pit.
The question here is, why?
Why would they disobey Bane and help Bruce?
This makes me think of the Darkover series by Marion Zimmer Bradley. I just Googled it and one of the novels in the series is called 'Stormqueen!: A Darkover Novel'. The cover has a redhead atop a tower with lightning all around. There was lots of magic in that series, strong female characters, issues about using magical powers, hiding magical powers, escaping from towers, etc. I read the series in the 80's.
One of the themes of the movie is 'outsiders', people that for one reason or another are not fully integrated or fully understood by their peers, parents, siblings.
Cherita is an outsider because she looks different and is a bit awkward. The movie is set in the mid 80's where perhaps there were fewer asian immigrants in the USA, and perhaps it was a little less socially unacceptable to express racially inspired abuse like that, particularly amongst adolescents.
Donnie himself is clearly an outsider, but of a more subtle kind. His family know that he has issues and is seeing a psychologist or psychiatrist, but beyond that he is less isolated socially than Cherita seems to be. However he knows that he is different, and is experiencing things he does not understand. I believe he empathizes with Cherita and wants to help her. I believe the abuse she gets and Donnie's response is used by the writers to reveal Donnie's empathy with another outsider and his innate kindness, as in many other respects he does act like a bit of a jerk towards his family.
It's a bit different to Seanland's answer, but this site gives a couple of instances (both on the first page).
Visible crew/equipment: At the funeral of William Wallace's wife, Murron, a white van can be seen. He bends down to kiss her and as he stands back up, if you look over his left shoulder through the trees you can see the van going past. It's very quick, small, and blurred, but it's there.
It's not during a battle scene like you asked, but (apparently) it is van and not a car.
Revealing: When Wallace walks up to the man who killed Murron and faces him. Look at the man behind Wallace and the man. You can actually see a car passing behind his head in the distance.
I don't have any timecodes or video links to check the accuracy of these things (or the site in general) but you should be able to find the scenes from the descriptions.
In Star Trek Into Darkness we meet Khan and know that he is superior to humans in more or less every way, but where did he come from? Was he once human? Or a completely different race as he was discovered on a ship after they were exiled - but exiled from where and what was it that he did that caused him and the other to be exiled?
If he was human and was just experimented on to make him the way he is why was there no record of him before?
Quotes from the show indicates that they are, just like you said, half-brothers. But, whether they have the same mother, or father is unclear.
The following quote by "Drama" implies that they have the same father
You have your mom's legs but I got dad's calves
However, in the first episode of the third season when their (?) mother is hugging Vince, "Drama" says
Always hugs him first... I am your firstborn!
...which implies the opposite.
No definite answer has been provided in the show, and, as far as I know, no producer or actor have commented on it either.
The character bios on the official site at HBO says that they are brothers, though. Not half-brothers. So, even though the show is a little fuzzy when it comes to how these two are related, I would go with "full brothers".
J.K. Rowling drew a basic layout of Hogwarts and its surrounding grounds:
I will see if I can find any other drawings having to do with Hogwarts specifically. I think the movies are really wonderful, and they have J.K. Rowling's input and approval, so using ideas from the movies should be within the spirit of canon, if not perfectly, technically canon. Sachin Shekhar has already mentioned the Order of the Phoenix video game; make sure you get another source or two verifying the game is based on official movie blueprints, as most movies have only partial sets and a lot of the Harry Potter movies are filmed in front of the green screen. Enjoy building Hogwarts!
Just for the record, since this question has caused some confusion. Future readers (particularly English learners) may find this useful. The word
simply mens "soak". So, if you're an engineer, or you make shoes, you use it constantly, along with words like "weld" or "truss" or "staple".
"OMG, the dye is impregnating the steel plate." "This impregnating
machine is crap dude." "How the hell are we going to get the glue to
impregnate this weird nylon stuff?"
Here are some impregnating machines,
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http://www.vanwees.nl/products-services/impregnation-machines/
http://www.godfreywing.com/vacuum-impregnation/equipment
Here's some impregnated sleeving (beautiful isn't it?)
http://www.detakta.de/en/glasfibre-sleevings/glassfibre-sleeving-impregnated-with-silicone.html
http://www.atkinsandpearce.com/coated-insulation-solutions/suflex/acrylic-sleeving/acryflex-vpi/
Some impregnation substances,
http://www.isomat.eu/Waterproofing-of-walls-by-water-repellent-impregnation.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skST_iPIj1U
Here's some leather impregnation tips,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skST_iPIj1U
http://www.schuhdealer.com/shoeblog/schuhe-richtig-impragnieren/
Here's a whole pile of impregnating stuff and impregnated stuff,
http://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?SearchText=impregnating
http://www.isve.com/en/impregnation-treatment-and-coating-of-wood-in-autoclave-using-double-vacuum-system
So, impregnate -- soak.
Now, consider the word "impregnable". It has utterly no relationship, in any way, meaningwise or etymologically, to "impregnate". But "impregnable" and "impregnate" (coincidentally) look similar. Further, as the OP points out, various variations of these words are also confusingly similar. (I'm sure you could easily find thousands of examples of people using these words the wrong way, mixing-up the two words: which is an absolutely commonplace phenomenon in English usage.)
Now. I actually do not know what the questions is asking as there is no decisive "question asking" part to the question. But the general tenor of the question seems to be "what's the deal with these two words."
(1) Note that gpr has perfectly explained that there is no, zero, etymological connection.
(2) I suspect that, particularly for any English learners reading in the future, there is some confusion about the word "impregnate"/"soak". I have tried here to take some pains to show the everyday use of the very common normal word "impregnate"-ie-"soak" which has a spectacularly clear meaning (to wit ........... "soak" !) My point with this answer is that hopefully it will make it quite clear that "impregnate"/"soak" has no connection at all to issues of medieval warfare, breaking into castles, etc.
(3) I think the overwhelming takeaway point is that it is utterly common in English that two words "happen to sound or look similar" but in fact have zero connection in any way (meaning, use, or etymology). This is part of the general "English is a spectacular mess" phenomenon of all English spelling and usage. Indeed note that it's a common feature on this site that a, perhaps new English learner, will ask questions about two coincidentally similar words ...... and the answer is nothing more than "oh that's a coincidence, the words are 1000 years apart in etymology and have no connection at all in meaning." This is completely commonplace in English.
(4) A final point is that "sometimes the in- prefix means 'into', and sometimes it means 'negation'." (And additionally im- and in- are simply alternate spellings of the same prefix.) But this observation is so commonplace on this site and ELL that it's barely worth mentioning. (The absolutely obvious joke based on the two meanings of the 'in-' prefix .. "So, is 'duce' the opposite of 'induce' ?! .. hahahahah!" must have been made 100 times on this site; often English learners will ask it for real, not as a joke.)
Another detail to note: Sauron sent the Lord of the Nazgûl, to fight the Northern Dúnedain, located in Arnor (to the North of Middle Earth). He founded the kingdom of Angmar and named himself 'The Witch-King of Angmar'. He gathered men and orcs to him and attacked the Northern Dúnedain, who got the Elves to help them.
The warriors who fell in that conflict were buried in the barrows, which were not evil places until the Witch-King sent evil spirits to occupy them. The long and the short of it is that the weapons that were buried with them were specifically forged (and enchanted, or at least it was intimated) to battle the forces of Angmar and even the Witch-King himself. That is why that blade in particular is anathema to the Witch-King.
I've seen debates where people argue for that reason that Merry's blow was what actually killed the Witch-King, and Éowyn merely gave the coup-de-grace. (After all, isn't a Hobbit not a man, either?) Regardless, it's a nice example of the level of intricacy Tolkien regularly employed.
You want to lose yourself in a very well organized and comprehensive Tolkien-Lore repository, google 'Encyclopedia of Arda'.
I need to program computer agents that interact with each other (for example they play a computer game with each other). Sometimes it happens that two agents are interacting with each other. I need to find a word to describe who they are to each other. I have the following options:
My main requirement is that the word should be neutral (since the interaction can be of different kinds: cooperation, competition, fight). I am afraid that opponent is a bit "negative" (in the sense that it assumes that two agents are enemies, that they are fighting). Partner, in contrast, seems to be positive to me (assuming that agents cooperate with each other). What about companion? Or may be you can propose other words?
The odds against a planetary collusion in a system old enough to have multi celled life on one of the planets, are well - astronomical.
Planetary collisions are the type of crazy stuff which happens in young solar systems. But in the first few hundred million years bodies in unstable orbits are removed, spiraling inward and being adsorbed by the sun, or spiraling outward and being ejected from the solar system. And sometimes they collide with other planets and protoplanets when on their way in or out. After all the bodies in unstable orbits are removed that way in the first few hundred million years, the odd against any more planetary collisions are astronomical.
It took billions of years for multi-celled plants and animals to evolve on earth, so the Ceti eels prove that the Ceti Alpha system was billions of years old and thus the odds against any planets colliding and exploding would be astronomical.
But that would still be more more likely to happen than a planet exploding from internal forces. Exploding as a result of a collision would be more likely than exploding from internal forces by an amount that would also be - astronomical
In colloquial AmE there is the admonition, "Why don't you act like a human being?" which implies civilized behavior - or the shorter, "C'mon, be human" which means the same thing.
In the NE US, we often say "He/She is 'good people'" (using the plural for a single person) to mean someone who is thoughtful, friendly, down-to-earth, and/or generous. We also borrow the Yiddish expression mensch (literally, 'person') but used in the same way.
Paramount Studios had intended to release The Keep on DVD in 2004, but this would have been the (frankly incomprehensible) version, edited down to 96 minutes from Mann's original 180 minute version, and the release was shelved for no apparent reason.
The edited version seen in theaters and on VHS is indeed pretty poor and doesn't make a whole lot of sense, due, I would think, to being only half a film!
There appears to be no clear evidence over who is blocking the film, and I am not convinced that Mann has enough power to do so, but efforts have been underway for a while now to get a full, director's cut, release made. You can follow these efforts on this fan-run site here and sign the petition here. This site does include a fascinating interview with Mann from 1983.
Incidently, a graphic novel was produced, which F Paul Wilson adapted himself.
Classically, an adverb can modify either a verb or an adjective (or perhaps other things), but there are subtleties. "Very" is an adverb that can modify adjectives but not verbs, which is useful to know for a grammarian, because it can be used to distinguish verbs from adjectives in cases where the difference is not obvious (such as participles).
At least sometimes, when "very" cannot be used because it would modify a verb, it can be converted to a verb modifier by adding "... much":
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The new regulations bewildered him.
He was very bewildered at the new regulations.
*The new regulations very bewildered him.
?? He was very bewildered by the new regulations.
The new regulations very much bewildered him.
He was very much bewildered by the new regulations.
Edit: Trying to make this less wordy without dropping relevant content.
In Star Wars Insider #87, the article Order 66: Destroy All Jedi features an in-universe report for Palpatine by presumably Sate Prestage. It states the official number of Jedi survivors at less than 100, or approximately 1% of the Jedi Order (unofficially, sources used in How many Jedi were there at the time of the purge? puts the final survivor count is at 200+, but the percentage isn't tied to this number).
That puts the Jedi Order at 9-10,000 strong. I assume the in-universe derivation of this percentage is based on some census obtained prior to the Clone Wars, during the Order's last known steady state.
To exterminate the Jedi order, Palpatine needs to kill 10,000 Jedi. This was achieved by:
Before leaving to confront Palpatine, Mace Windu had the Jedi Temple fortified, armed and on alert to an imminent Sith attack. Lightsabers were given to every last Jedi, even younglings. Although Palpatine had the element of surprise - Darth Vader and the 501st Legion were not initially recognized as the enemy - this didn't last long as Vader announced his intentions immediately upon entering the main hall (the first room and before the clones started fanning out). It was enough however to force the Jedi to start evacuating the younglings and Padawans, though most of them didn't escape successfully.
During the Clone Wars, when Captain Rex led the 501st and 212th to arrest Jedi General Pong Krell, the Jedi Master demonstrated the capability to hold off with his 4 blades 11 clone troopers when surrounded on 3-4 sides (The Clone Wars, Season 4 Episode 10) - and that may not even be the most he can handle.
A Jedi Knight on alert can reasonably expect to hold off with 1 blade 3-5 clones surrounded. Masters can maybe handle 7-9, but these guys are mostly dealt with by Vader, not the clones. This suggests that the 501st Legion, numbering 9,216 at full strength, could handle an alerted Jedi garrison of an estimated 1-1.3k, less to further guarantee success.
Order 66 was issued at 2100 hours and ended before daybreak. Assuming Vader had an average kill rate of 1 Jedi per 5, 15 or 60 seconds for 9 hours, he would be able to kill up to 6.5, 2.25 or 0.5 thousand Jedi that night respectively. The expected casualties in the Jedi Temple during Order 66 can be estimated to 1.5-7.8k Jedi if the massacre lasted all the way to daybreak.
From the above figures alone, 2.2-8.5k Jedi are accounted for - a lot of which heavily depends on how fast Vader kills Jedi - 4-4.3k dead Jedi is a more likely figure (at 15 seconds kill-rate). These are all uppermost estimates.
The way I see it, the remaining Jedi have to be either on missions separate from the war (likeliest to survive), be attached to the GAR in non-officer roles or be part of the unofficial existing casualties of war. Depending on what you believe about Vader, that can be over one or eight thousand Jedi to be accounted for in this manner. Are there any evidence to support this as the likeliest case or any evidence to correct any of the math thus far?
The number, gender, and person of a pronoun must match its closest antecedent. Most style manuals advise using a singular possessive pronoun when the antecedent is a disjunctive set of singular nouns:
Either FDR, Churchill, or Stalin forgot to tie his shoes before the conference.
This makes sense because the pronoun refers to any one of the three nouns.
Meanwhile, a plural pronoun is appropriate when the antecedent is a group of singular nouns joined by a conjunction:
Churchill, Stalin, and FDR attended the conference but forgot to record minutes of their deliberations.
Again, this makes sense because the pronoun must refer to all three nouns.
Question: Is a singular possessive pronoun still appropriate when the antecedent is several nouns joined with "or" but the pronoun must refer to all the nouns at once? Here is an example:
Churchill, Stalin, or FDR or one of their male staff members dressed as a woman. The KGB found a dress in the shared laundry hopper.
Using "his" as the possessive pronoun just doesn't sound right in that sentence. Is that because the pronoun is really referring to the group of Churchill, Stalin and FDR? Parenthesis help illustrate:
(Churchill, Stalin, or FDR) or (one of their staff members) dressed as a woman. The KGB found a dress in the shared laundry hopper.
The two movies are ignored in the continuity of the show.
Cynthia Cidre, the new show's writer and executive producer, addressed this in an interview:
Interviewer: In JR Returns the scene was set for a continuation of the Barnes Ewing
feud. Why did you move away from this?
Cynthia - I was told, not necessarily to pick up where it left off but
not to pay to much attention to the movies because the movies had
tried to wrap stuff up in two hours. But we did not, I have to admit,
although I saw one of them, I did not download it in my brain. I was
really going off the end of the season, I don't pick it up from then,
its now 2012 so we have not seen the Ewing family in all those years
but now we are going to see them and they look good.
Therefore, the two movies were not considered canon. This can be seen in the treatment of JR. For example, in the first film it was revealed J.R. shot a mirror and left to go to Europe. In the second film, he returned and tried to regain his empire. All of this is ignored in the new series.
So the two Dallas movies have officially been retconned and are no longer canon.
Japanese students call a report and essay made up by only putting data downloaded from the Internet e.g. passages from Wikipedia put together without including their own thoughts or creative ideas, a “コピペ-Kopipe,” which is pronounced as 'kopipay.'
It is a compound of ‘copied + pasted + paper’. Incidentally ‘copy ,’ ‘paste,’ and ‘paper’ are all adapted to Japanese language, and pronounced as ‘kopi-i, ‘paisuto, and ‘paypah’.
To me 'Kopipe' is akin to plagiarism, but it doesn’t have the same criminal overtone as plagiarism itself. It seems to be just a labor-saving editing or blending job for students.
While riding on the train, I've overheard students say to each other:
“I submitted a report in time by ‘kopipeing’ articles”
innocently, as if they were playing a game.
Is there a similar student jargon or abbreviation for ‘Kopipe’ in English?
I don't know if LaTeX is considered a definitive source for mathematics writing style (although it was developed for typesetting math equations), but this link and this one seem to indicate that, yes, a period would be inserted after the equation in the example
We used the equation
x + y = z.
This is the next sentence.
The Wikipedia Manual of Style (Mathematics), which cites several published mathematics style guides, offers this wisdom (emphasis added by me):
Just as in mathematics publications, a sentence which ends with a formula must have a period at the end of the formula. This equally applies to displayed formulae (that is, formulae that take up a line by themselves). Similarly, if the conventional punctuation rules would require a question mark, comma, semicolon, or other punctuation at that place, the formula must have that punctuation at the end.
The reference for this section is Higham, Nicholas J. (1998), Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences (second ed.), SIAM, ISBN 0-89871-420-6. The notation states that this is the style adopted by "many mathematics journals," so it is probably a safe choice.
Alternatively, you could use
We used Equation 1.
Equation 1.
x + y = z
This is the next sentence.
I'm pretty sure your thinking of Deadly Prey from 1986. The plot, as taken from Wikipedia is
Colonel Hogan rents his mercenaries out to anyone with the right
price. This time it's businessman Michaelson. A deal is struck, and
Hogan recruits new troops. For training, he orders his troops to
kidnap innocent people, take them to the forest and hunt them.
Unfortunately this time, they picked the wrong guy, Mike Danton.
Danton, a Vietnam veteran, is ambushed while taking out the trash.
Taken to the forest, he is stripped to his shorts, greased up and told
to run. The mercenaries hunt Danton, but are meticulously picked off
one by one. The troops report this to Colonel Hogan, who sends a task
force with his best man, Lieutenant Thornton. One of this elite combat
unit is Jack Cooper. Cooper and Danton realize who each other are
while trying to kill each other. Cooper has not seen Danton since he
took a bullet for him in 'Nam. With his new-found friend, Danton
continues to punish the mercenaries, and get back to his wife Jaimey.
Like all good villains, Hogan uses Danton's family against him, but
this angers Danton. After storming the military training camp Danton
arms himself up, and destroys all traces of Hogan's mercenaries.
There is an extended trailer on YouTube here. At the 5:50 mark you can see the scene where Denton cuts of the guys arm and beats him with it.
Usage of the rings of power are based on the experience/desires of the user as well as the limitations of the ring itself. In The Hobbit, when Bilbo first used the ring (in Gollum's lair) his greatest desire at the moment was to go unnoticed (i.e., invisibility). Frodo likely had the same experience since his initial understanding of the Ring was as limited as Bilbo's. Keep in mind that in the LOTR books, another character, Tom Bombadil also did not become invisible (or affected in any way) when wearing the ring likely due to his experience as a much older magical being. Thus, Sauron could use it to help create entire armies, whereas magically inexperienced Hobbits simply became invisible.
Also, what Oliver_C answered.
This was something that was changed from the book. My answer will be based on the book A Clash of Kings.
Initially Qhorin states that it will be easier for Jon if the rest do not watch.
“Then you must do what needs be done,” Qhorin Halfhand said. “You are the blood of Winterfell and a man of the Night’s Watch.” He looked at the others. “Come, brothers. Leave him to it. It will go easier for him if we do not watch.”
However it is later revealed that Qhorin didn't need her dead, he just
wanted to test whether Jon would kill her.
Qhorin’s shrewd grey eyes seemed to see right through him. “So you let her go?” He did not sound the least surprised.
“You know?”
“Now. Tell me why you spared her.”
It was hard to put into words. “My father never used a headsman. He
said he owed it to men he killed to look into their eyes and hear
their last words. And when I looked into Ygritte’s eyes, I...” Jon
stared down at his hands helplessly. “I know she was an enemy, but
there was no evil in her.”
“No more than in the other two.”
“It was their lives or ours,” Jon said. “If they had seen us, if they
had sounded that horn...”
“The wildlings would hunt us down and slay us, true enough.”
“Stonesnake has the horn now, though, and we took Ygritte’s knife and
axe. She’s behind us, afoot, unarmed...”
“And not like to be a threat,” Qhorin agreed. “If I had needed her
dead, I would have left her with Ebben, or done the thing myself.”
“Then why did you command it of me?”
“I did not command it. I told you to do what needed to be done, and
left you to decide what that would be.” Qhorin stood and slid his
longsword back into its scabbard. “When I want a mountain scaled, I
call on Stonesnake. Should I need to put an arrow through the eye of
some foe across a windy battlefield, I summon Squire Dalbridge. Ebben
can make any man give up his secrets. To lead men you must know them,
Jon Snow. I know more of you now than I did this morning.”
“And if I had slain her?” asked Jon.
“She would be dead, and I would know you better than I had before. But enough talk. You ought be sleeping. We have leagues to go, and dangers to face. You will need your strength.”
I've bolded the important parts of the quote.