General Questions Thread

[Hasumi]

^ He's 30, or so it seems.

As for the question, I've only ever counted to a hundred.

[Azuma Denton]

Stumbled upon this image in 9gag...


Same question as the philoshoraptor...
How??

[Hasumi]

Well, memory and knowledge are well uhh...you know...

[Konakaga]

Originally Posted by Detective-san

Well, memory and knowledge are well uhh...you know...

Different areas of the Brain?

[Hasumi]

^ Komoe explains it in To aru Majutsu no Index.

[SaintessHeart]

Are the Falklands a good place to live in for someone who wants to get away from urban life?

[Rennir]

How important does a person have to be in order for their death to be considered an assassination rather than just a murder?

[MUAHAHAHAHAHA]

Originally Posted by Rennir

How important does a person have to be in order for their death to be considered an assassination rather than just a murder?

Corrupted politicians

[Endless Soul]

Originally Posted by MUAHAHAHAHAHA

Corrupted politicians

You're being repetitive.

Endless "Poly+Ticks" Soul

[Konakaga]

Originally Posted by Rennir

How important does a person have to be in order for their death to be considered an assassination rather than just a murder?

I think the difference is by the method of crime rather than the target, since assassination is generally done in such a way to leave as little evidence as possible.

[MUAHAHAHAHAHA]

Originally Posted by Endless Soul

You're being repetitive.

Endless "Poly+Ticks" Soul

Hahaha, nice one.

[papermario13689]

Originally Posted by Konakaga

I think the difference is by the method of crime rather than the target, since assassination is generally done in such a way to leave as little evidence as possible.

Actually, while that method is the dominant descriptor in an assassination, it's only used when a high profile figure ends up becoming the victim. Assassinations are silent kills that are completely unexpected and often revolves around political reasonings, both by hire or for personal reasons.

In a way, the crime comes pretty close to a first-degree murder as those can be silently carried out as well, but murder seems to be the civilian level terminology for it- something the judicial system uses. It's why people like John F. Kennedy was "assassinated" while a civilian being strangled in their sleep by another would be called "first-degree murder" or "premeditated murder". I guess the word "assassination" carries more weight overall since it affects a large amount of the populous once they are gone, like with Julius Caesar and John Lennon.

In order of importance, I don't think that's something us "civilians" can decipher. Those higher up split us apart and basically decide when someone's important enough, since it's all media garbage. Apparently us dying wouldn't be as important.

[Dhomochevsky]

In Win7 you can tack some programs to the bottom left of the taskbar for easy access.

For some of these, if clicked they start the program 'on itself', gaining a light background to show the program is active now, but not taking up any more space (this is good).

Others branch out another icon on the taskbar and have that represent the active program, while the original icon that was clicked is still there too, but inactive (this is bad).

Anyone knows, what's causing this different behavior?

[blaze0041]

Originally Posted by Dhomochevsky

In Win7 you can tack some programs to the bottom left of the taskbar for easy access.

For some of these, if clicked they start the program 'on itself', gaining a light background to show the program is active now, but not taking up any more space (this is good).

Others branch out another icon on the taskbar and have that represent the active program, while the original icon that was clicked is still there too, but inactive (this is bad).

Anyone knows, what's causing this different behavior?

Which of your programs are doing this? I do recall that iTunes does this, and I simply unpin the original and pin the "spawned" icon into the taskbar, which seems to solve that problem...

[Dhomochevsky]

Mozilla Thunderbird.

But you are right, that fixed it.

Thanks.

[GenjiChan]

Does tranquilizers works on zombies to immobilize them?

[dragon4dudes]

I would assume it depends on how the tranquilizer functions and what a zombie is defined to be. Are we talking minor tranquilizer or major tranquilizer? While I doubt immobilization is possible (too lazy to really read on how an antipsychotic tranq works), I figure that since zombies don't typically need sleep, a tranq would be ineffective, or at best slow them down.

[Daniel E.]

Originally Posted by GenjiChan

Does tranquilizers works on zombies to immobilize them?

I must, once again, remind everybody about the rules of this thread:

Rules for this thread:

Only purposeful questions may be posted here. If anyone posts a pointless silly question I will banish your post to the dark side.
While the questions may be silly, only serious answers are allowed. It is embarrassing enough for people to ask these silly things without having to deal with mockery.
No long discussion shall be tolerated here. This is a place for people to find answers.

Please avoid asking for the heck of asking.

[Seitsuki]

Is there any place we are able to ask relatively pointless silly questions? *just thought of one..*

[Daniel E.]

Originally Posted by Seitsuki

Is there any place we are able to ask relatively pointless silly questions? *just thought of one..*

Not that I am aware of, and unlike other forums, we do not have a spam section either.

The purpose of this thread is to give people a place to ask things that would not be enough to warrant an entire thread dedicated to it; This however, doesn't mean that people can come and ask things just for the lulz of it.