Does the apparently ungrammatical &quot;States Parties&quot;  in international agreements come from French grammar where &quot;States&quot; would be the noun and &quot;Parties&quot; the adjective agreeing with its plural noun?
When discussing a treaty or international agreement, which is correct?  "There are 100 states party to the treaty." (for example, as used )  Or:  "There are 100 state parties to the treaty." (for example, as used )   Or: "There are 100 states parties to the treaty."  (for example, as used )
Basic buoyancy question: Man in a boat with a stone This comes from a brain teaser but I'm not sure I can solve it:     You are in a rowing boat on a lake. A large heavy rock is also in the boat. You heave the rock overboard. It sinks to the bottom of the lake. What happens to the water level in the lake? Does it rise, fall or stay the same?   I'd say that the water level drops, because when you drop the stone in the lake, the water level rises according to the volume of the stone, BUT the water level decreases by a volume of water weighting the stone's weight, when you take it off the boat.  Is that correct? Is it possible to create a counter just with wiring? With the new logic gates in the 1.3.1 update, is it possible to create some wiring circuit that counts how many times a trigger was activated? In other words, is it possible to make a circuit that outputs a trigger every two input triggers?  I've done some experimenting but the nature of wires and there being no intrinsic on/off state in Terraria makes it pretty counter-intuitive compared to real world logic circuits. Error "Power::infy: Infinite expression 1/0 encountered". Why do I get this? How do you do AppBar docking (to screen edge, like WinAmp) in WPF? Is there any complete guidance on doing AppBar docking (such as locking to the screen edge) in WPF? I understand there are InterOp calls that need to be made, but I'm looking for either a proof of concept based on a simple WPF form, or a componentized version that can be consumed.  Related resources: If the matrix $A^3 = 0$, is $A$ singular? Assessing approximate distribution of data based on a histogram How can I figure out what's slowly eating my HD space? Every few days I get notices on my MacBook that it's running or run out of hard drive space. Curiously, restarting the computer will enable me to recover gigabytes of space (this past time, it was able to recover about 2.2GB). However, I can't identify anything in my personal activity that consumed that space.  It's possible that it's a rogue iTunes podcast or a huge software update that my Mac is automatically downloading - would either of these reclaim the space upon a restart?  One possibility that I can think of is that FileVault has some sort of disk leak, allocating but not freeing files. Does this make sense? Is there a tool that I can run to determine where this space is going? Assuming it is FileVault, should I try to disable it? What's the best way to turn of FileVault on a nearly full computer? Do I need a transit vsa in Kuwait; what about checked baggage? INNER JOIN ON vs WHERE clause Getting MTP enabled devices to work with Ubuntu? Since Ubuntu 13.04 storage access to external devices via MTP is supposed to work out of the box via a GVFS-MTP module.      While this question is about the Galaxy Nexus, other Android devices as well as Windows Phones and MTP enabled media players are also supported.      For troubleshooting see .     I am having quite a bit of problems getting file-transfers working over MTP with the Galaxy Nexus. I am using Kubuntu 11.10 64-bit, and this is what I have done and the results I get:   Added rule for device in /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules. The rule is the following and works for adb:  SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="04e8", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6860", MODE="0666", OWNER="leob" #Galaxy Nexus  Restarted udev (and computer just to make sure).   Adb works, and all methods for reading from the device via MTP seems to work (I have tried mounting with mtpfs, gmtp and using the mtp-tools package directly). When I try to write to the device however, nothing I have tried works.  As an example, running mtp-newfolder test_dir 0 0 gives the following output:  libmtp version: 1.1.0 Device 0 (VID=04e8 and PID=6860) is a Samsung GT-P7510/Galaxy Tab 10.1. Folder creation failed. ERROR: Could not close session!   If I run mtp-folders after a failed mtp-newfolder without re-plugging the device, I get the following output:  Attempting to connect device(s) Device 0 (VID=04e8 and PID=6860) is a Samsung GT-P7510/Galaxy Tab 10.1. PTP_ERROR_IO: failed to open session, trying again after resetting USB interface LIBMTP libusb: Attempt to reset device mtp-folders: Successfully connected Friendly name: (NULL) Error 1: Get Storage information failed. Error 2: PTP Layer error 02fe: get_all_metadata_fast(): could not get proplist of all    objects. Error 2: (Look this up in ptp.h for an explanation.) Error 2: PTP Layer error 02fe: get_handles_recursively(): could not get object handles. Error 2: (Look this up in ptp.h for an explanation.) LIBMTP_Get_Storage() : Resource temporarily unavailable OK.   Accompanied by the following in dmesg:  [ 1000.912082] usb 2-4: reset high speed USB device number 7 using ehci_hcd [ 1001.045877] usb 2-4: usbfs: process 3166 (mtp-folders) did not claim interface 0 before use   Does anyone have any idea about what to do?  EDIT:  I also tried the PTP mode. Again, reading works fine, but I cannot write anything to the device. Why doesn't an Environment texture appear when the world has a Volume Scatter shader? I'm working on lighting a scene in which I need to have both an Environment texture for the background and Volume Scatter for light cones, but when I check the volume section in World setting and choose the Volume Scatter, the environment becomes black background (but the lighting works as I want).  I'm using Blender 2.72  How can this be fixed? How to cheat and avoid cheating in Flash games? sudo apt-get upgrade installs all updates, not just security updates. I know that I can use Update Manager to select only important security updates, but is there a way to do this from the command line? launch sms application with an intent Kill backgrounded SSH when shell exits print python stack trace without exception being raised Which graphics cards are supported by the new AMDGPU driver in Ubuntu 16.04? When should N-Gons be used, and when shouldn't they? Support for N-Gons (polygons consisting of more than 4 vertices) has been in Blender for a while now, but many of us still may not know when to use them, and how to do so effectively.  In what situations do N-Gons really come in handy? When should they be just plain left out? Do they have any place in finished models? How to add and sync folders outside SkyDrive folder? I have folders with documents all over my hard drive, some which I would like to include in SkyDrive without moving them into the SkyDrive folder.  E.g. my SkyDrive folder is in C:\Users\Name\SkyDrive, but I have some files in C:\Users\Name\SyncMePlz that I also would like to be synced with SkyDrive so that I can reach them from other devices.  How can this be achieved? How to Avoid Precision Errors While Creating Numpy Arrays?