cameo - How does stan lee's random appearance work in Marvel Cinematic Universe?

Stan lee's cameo in the Marvel Cinematic Universe are as follows -

In Iron Man (2008) Stan lee appears with three blonds to resemble
Hugh Hefner.

In The Incredible Hulk (2008), Lee appears seen drinking soft drink
mixed with Bruce Banner's blood.

In Iron Man 2 (2010), Lee is greeted by Tony Stark as "Larry King".

In Thor (2011), Lee appears among many people at the site where Thor's
hammer Mjolnir lands on earth. He tears the back off his pickup truck
in an attempt to pull Mjolnir out of the ground with a chain and
causes everyone to laugh by asking, "Did it work?".

In Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), Lee portrayed a general
in World War II, who mistakes another man for Captain America/Steve
Rogers, commenting, "I thought he'd be taller."

In The Avengers (2012), Lee makes a cameo appearance as a random
citizen in the park asked about the Avengers saving Manhattan. Lee's
character responds, "Superheroes in New York? Give me a break", and
then returns to his game of chess. He also appears in a deleted scene,
apparently as the same character: when a waitress flirts with Steve
Rogers, he says to him, "Ask for her number, you moron!"
(source:Wikipedia)

So these random appeararances conflict with the shared universe, especially for the case of Captain America: The First Avenger.

So how does Stan Lee's random appearances work in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

single word requests - A more formal way of saying "pointing out"

The goal of an edge detection algorithm is identifying pixels that
belong to an edge of an object in an image ...

The rest of the sentence should say something along the lines of "and point them out by ..." - but "point out" seems too informal.

Pointing out is also the wrong phrase because the pixels don't need to actually be "displayed" to some user at all, and most likely will just be used as information for some next step.

So the word/phrase I am looking for should not imply something visual, but informative.

star trek - What happens to a TNG-era Romulan Warbird power core when it is destroyed in combat or decommissioned?

In the trek novel Badlands 2, Captain Janeway encounters a "free-range" artificial quantum singularity:

No wonder they couldn’t find the source of the tetryon shockwaves. The
AQS must be moving much faster than the speed of light, at nearly warp
10. It would be impossible for sensors to detect until it was on top of them and already gone in its tremendous orbit. The subspace
shockwave would therefore dissipate quickly, less than two hundred
million kilometers away from the source. Any ships unlucky enough to
be close to it when it passed by would suffer a lapse in gravity,
sensor overload, and disruption of the power circuits. And the passage
of tetryons through the ship would cause radiation poisoning in the
crew members.

Since the singularities are apparently quite valuable and not (at least in theory) prone to the effects of aging, I think we can reasonably assume that singularities that are no longer needed in one vessel are simply returned to the dockyard to be re-implanted into new ships.

Word or Phrase for Identical Twins with Opposite Personalities?

If your twins are identical in every way, except in organization, I can only come up with "almost identical" and I don't think there is a single word for that. Of course you can also say "very much alike" but that's not a single word either, and if you just say "they are alike", it doesn't mean they are identical in every aspect except one.

scrubs - Was the Janitor real?

Yes, they purposefully set this up. If you watch the first season of the show, the Janitor never interacts with anyone except for JD. There are a few occasions when a janitor is interacting minimally with others, but if you examine those scenes, it's not clear that anyone else sees the Janitor there.

In season 2 and onward, they drop this shtick.

Wikipedia states:

As revealed in the DVD commentary on several episodes, the Janitor character was initially to be used as a figment of J.D.'s imagination if the show had been canceled during the first season or the first half of the second. This would have been revealed to the audience in the finale. ... Since the start of season two, Janitor has had encounters with most of the other regular characters. He has even had an entire episode ("His Story III") devoted mostly to him.

Taken - "I can tell you I don't have money"

This question has been on my mind all day and a few things occurred to me.

Before Bryan said the line, the abductor had been on the phone for several seconds, so if it was a kidnapping, he had plenty of opportunity to demand a ransom. This leaves likely possible scenarios:

• The abductor is just some petty thug, some muscle hired to do the actual kidnapping, and the guys boss would later contact them to demand a ransom


• The abduction has nothing to do with ransom, in which case it is likely to be either:
  
  • Something nasty with rape and murder
  
  
  • Kidnapping for use in sex-trafficking
  
  

If it is the first case and the guy was just a petty thug, then Bryan’s threat had a small, but decent chance of scaring the guy into abandoning the kidnapping and running away.

If it is not about ransom and it was the first sub case, then Kim was as good as dead by the time that Bryan has a chance to even get to France. In this case, skip to the end.

If it is the second sub case (sex-trafficking), then he knows that even if they treat her like crap, they are going to keep her alive since they don’t usually cater to necrophiliacs. Remember that Bryan is a retired CIA agent so regardless of what department he was in, he has likely learned quite a bit about the sex-trafficking “industry” and how it works. He likely understood that they would be somewhat professional and thus, prefer to just rent her out or sell her than to attempt to arrange a likely-to-fail ransom exchange.

Either way, he had nothing left to lose (his ex-wife is married to another man, he is retired, and now his daughter has been kidnapped). What else is he going to do now, read the Harry Potter books? Of course not; he has nothing to lose and nothing to do anymore, so he may as well spend the rest of his life tracking her down if possible and hunting the kidnappers down and killing them.

No doubt that at the back of his mind, he considered that he may very well never see her again. He is not the type of person to play the victim and just roll over, so he of course he wants to pull a Ransom and fight back.

I agree that warning them was bad. He may be around the world, but by telling them that he’s got skills and connections and is coming for them, he puts them on high-alert, especially with her. However, don’t forget that no matter how well he is trained to contain his emotions, his child was just abducted, so he feels fear and rage and cannot just think through every single angle and action in a couple of seconds.

story identification - Animated show with character that has no legs

I can vaguely remember watching this show in the late 80s or possibly the early 90s. It was a fantasy setting in which a man and a group or mutants or aliens were traveling together. The only concrete memory I have is that one of the characters had no lower body and got around on just his arms. I'm not sure if it was a movie or series and it may have been on pay cable and may have contained nudity.

In my searching the only thing I found was a post on Yahoo answers from a girl looking for possibly the same thing. She adds: "the man and group of aliens are watching, from a distance, this dinosaur nest of eggs. One of the eggs begins to move. A little later a woman hatches from the egg."