I have two cards that I’ve had disputes with. 1: Shipbreaker Kraken 2: Archipelagore The Kraken says “When Shipbreaker Kraken becomes monstrous, tap up to four target creatures. Those creatures don’t untap during their controllers’ untap steps for as long you control Shipbreaker Kraken.” Can I still target an opponents creature if that creature is already tapped? I’m going off the way it’s worded, I know I can’t do anything impossible (like tap an already tapped creature), but can I still TARGET the creature and the effect happens? Same question with Archipelagore. It says “Whenever this creature mutates, tap up to X target creatures, where X is the number of times this creature has mutated. Those creatures don’t untap during their controllers next untap step.” Can I still TARGET a tapped creature that is already tapped? Scenario: I mutate Archipelagore so it’s effect happens. My opponent has a creature that is tapped (they attacked last turn). Can I target that creature with Archipelagore’s effect so it doesn’t untap during my opponents next untap step? I’m going off of specific wording and the order of the effect. And if you have any up to date rules that would help as well. Thanks!
So I noticed that many cards with tap-effects ship with a clause specifying that they can only be used on untapped permanents, such as  and .  So here's my question:   Doesn't that imply that, given the right situation, one can legally tap an already tapped permanent?   I'll give an example of the kinda scenarios this is relevant for: Can  activate her first ability when no untapped cards are around? Or, thinking untap-effects, could I bounce a forest with  even when there isn't a tapped creature available?  Notice that, unlike the previous batch of examples, the wording on these lacks the clause restricting their use to un/tapped permanents - does that mean that they aren't?  Any kind of clarification would be greatly appreciated here.
Hypernym for "audiobook", "podcast", "speech", etc.? I am looking for a short and concise term (preferably one word) that can be used as a hypernym for essentially everything that contains (audio) speech (e.g. audiobooks, podcasts, recorded news bulletins, recorded performances of comedians,..).  Does such a term exist? I've thought about 'speech', but that seems to be more adequate for e.g. political speeches, and not so much for audio books and the like. But maybe I'm wrong. Teenage girl in life-sustaining valley on poisoned Earth visited by another survivor I'm trying to identify a book I read in school, though I can't recall at what grade level; let's say it had to have been published before I graduated high school in 2000. Despite being required reading, it didn't feel much like a classic.  The story took place on Earth, after some catastrophe had caused the air to become poisonous. However, one teenage girl was able to survive because her house was in a valley which was somehow protected from the poisonous winds and was able to sustain its own ecosystem. One day, a man wearing a protective full-body suit and gas mask appears in the valley, and both are rather surprised to find someone else alive. She feeds and shelters the man and shows him how she had come to survive in the valley. Rather abruptly…      the man attempts to rape her, but she overpowers him somehow. She steals his protective suit and starts to leave the valley. He tells her that he had seen birds in a certain direction away from the valley, indicating there might be life there as well, and she leaves.   I believe there was an author's note either at the beginning or end of the book stating that the author had actually died while writing the manuscript, and that their friends or family had finished the book by going off the author's original notes, which I suppose may explain the abruptness of the ending.  In case it wasn't clear from the above, I didn't really like the book. But I'm curious about it regardless. I'm building a Core  system which supports dual-channel memory (up to 16&nbsp;GB in four DIMMs), my target is 8&nbsp;GB. From the performance perspective, is it better to have two times 4&nbsp;GB or four times 2&nbsp;GB? I'm planning to travel to France a few times in the next few months (tourist). Since I need a Schengen visa, I just don't know how to fill out the forms (which only have questions about travel dates of ONE single trip).  How do I report that I am traveling a few times, because if I don't they might only give me a single entry visa (or a visa not valid long enough for my next trips). I can only see that I'm requesting a multiple entry visa, nothing else about how long I need it to be valid.  Do I need to provide proof of hotel/flight reservations and travel insurance for all the trips or would the first one suffice?  How do I approach this issue so that I get a Schengen visa for at least 4.5 months? I am applying in the UK at their London application centre. How do I escape a percentage sign in T-SQL? Why is my iPhone screen stuck on the 'connect to iTunes' screen? I need help with my iPhone. It's stuck on the 'connect to iTunes' screen.   iTunes does recognize the iPhone, but when I select 'restore', it goes through a few progress bars, then errors again. I've already tried to hard reset the phone, but that doesn't work either. I am using Google Chrome. I re-installed it today as it was crashing when I start it. I guess may be that this was due to any of my Extensions or Google Update. I disabled my extensions but it was still crashing. Now I installed an old version of chrome from . However, Chrome automaticallyuppdates itself (although Windows asks me before installing and I don't grant it permissions, its still annoying to get Google update asking me permission after a couple of minutes.   I saw the question at  however, it doesn't seem to hlp me. i disabled the service and I stopped it as well, but the problem still persists. I also tried to look into the registry according to the following link:  but the "Policies" section of my registry doesn't contain any folder called "Google". I use Windows 7 - 64 bit Home Premium Service pack 1.  Could anybody help? Thanks a ton! I came across this formula in a list:  The number of ways of distributing $n$ identical objects among $r$ groups such that each group can have $0$ or more $(\le n)$ objects  I know that standard way of doing this is to solve the problem of distributing n identical objects and $(r-1)$ partitions among themselves which can be done in $C(n+r-1,r-1)$ ways.   But I am unable to prove to myself why it is not $(r+1)^n$.  Because each of the n objects has r+1 choices, either group1, group2,... group r or none at all. How do I completely remove Ubuntu 12.04 on my Mac? I have dual booted Ubuntu 12.04 on my Mac using disk utility and the rEFIt tool.The battery life is very bad and therefore I want to switch back to Ubuntu 10.04 . How can I completely remove the 12.04 partition? Autokey (autokey-qt) freezes and won't insert text How Does Kylo Ren not stop Chewbacca's blaster? How does Kylo Ren stop the blaster shot in the beginning when being shot at by Poe, only to be unaware of the coming blaster shot from Chewbacca, which seems much more predictable.   I am sure he knew Chewbacca, Rey and Finn where there as Chewbacca turns with the opening of the doors when Rey and Finn come in.  EDIT in regards to Richards Answer: I just want to expand a little more on question. What I don't understand is that Kylo Ren uses the force, so it is just not a matter him not hearing. When Poe shoots him from behind, he makes no sound, but yet he turns and stops the blaster and Poe. That has to be due to the power he commands in the Force.  And this is from Obi-Wan Kenobi:     "Well, the Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field   created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us; it   binds the galaxy together."―Obi-Wan Kenobi —   So it seems to me that it would be very hard for him even in a weakened state to not even notice that he was being shot at by virtue of the force being a part of Sith and Jedi's alike. Even if he was too weak to actually stop the blaster, the Force should have been able to warn him. The question at hand is:  "Two capacitors of capacitances $C_1$ and $C_1$ have charge $Q_1$ and $Q_2$. How much energy, $\Delta w$, is dissipated when they are connected in parallel. Show explicitly that $\Delta w$ is non-negative."  I'm confused about what the physical situation is. I took the assumption that these capacitors were somehow pre-charged, and then connected to each other in parallel without a voltage source. However, I don't understand how this would work. If a circuit is composed of only 2 elements, I don't see how they could be in any arrangement but series. Nevertheless, I tried solving it that way:  Two capacitors in parallel have the same voltage drop. Charge will be redistributed to make it the same voltage for both. Let $Q_1'$ and $Q_2'$ be the charges on the capacitors after they are connected. Now, picture the equivalent capacitor  $C_{eq} = C_1 + C_2 =$ $\frac{Q_1' + Q_2'}{V_f}$   conservation of charge:  $Q_1' + Q_2'= Q_1 + Q_2$,        $C_{eq} =$ $\frac{Q_1 + Q_2}{V_f}$  $V_f = $$\frac{Q_1 + Q_2}{C_1 + C_2}$  The initial energy of the capactiors is:  $U_0 = $$\frac{Q_1^2}{2C_1}$$+\frac{Q_2^2}{2C_2}$  $U_f = $$\frac{1}{2}$$(C_1 + C_2)V_f^2 = $$\frac{(Q_1 + Q_2)^2}{2(C_1 + C_2)}$  $\Delta U$$ = $$\frac{(Q_1 + Q_2)^2}{2(C_1 + C_2)}$-$\frac{Q_1^2}{2C_1}$$-\frac{Q_2^2}{2C_2}$  However, I don't see how this is necessarily non-negative. How does one parse XML files? Running tcpdump starts ssh flood I have runtime Linux running in a PLC. My development machine is running Ubuntu 14.04. The PLC and the development machine are connected through a five port switch. I ssh to PLC from my development machine to transfer executable of a networking application that I develop on my development machine.   I run tcpdump on PLC to debug the kind of packets my network application is receiving BUT as soon as I start tcpdump, there starts a flood of ssh sync and acks back and forth from my ubuntu machine to the PLC. The LED lights of ethernet controller of PLC as well on the switch start blinking rapidly. The flood overwhelms the PLC and it almost dies down while all other packets get dropped. It feels like a DOS attack whenever I run tcpdump but as soon as I stop tcpdump, everything calms down and gets back to the normal.   I would like know remedy on this problem and why it happens?     Any help would be appreciated. It is always told as a fact without explaining the reason. Why do two objects get charged by rubbing? Why one object get negative charge and other get positive ? Can not find the tag library descriptor for “http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core” Is it possible to create image data and save to a file from a script I'm currently trying to extract textures from a binary file, and ideally I'd like to save each texture to a file or embed in the .blend file. However, before saving an image, I need to be able to create an image in memory from an array of pixel data.  The PIL library contains the kinds of functions I need to use, but it is not included with Blender. Is there anything similar to PIL in Blender? bpy.ops.image seems to be close to what I need, but lacks necessary pixel set/manipulation functions. Are all electrons identical? Why should two sub-atomic (or elementary particle) - say electrons need to have identical static properties - identical mass, identical charge? Why can't they differ between each other by a very slight degree? Is there a theory which proves that?  Imagine an alien of size of order of Milky-way galaxy examining our solar system with a probe of size of 10's of solar system dimension and concludes that all planets are identical. Refer to an item in `dirs` I use pushd to work with multiple directories in bash and zsh. I've aliased dirs to dirs -v so that I get an ordered list when I want to see what's on the directory stack:  chb$ dirs 0  /Volumes/banister/grosste_daever_gh/2013-03-27/reader 1  /tmp/20130618202713/Library/Internet Plug-Ins 2  ~/code/foo/view/static/css 3  ~/Downloads   Is there a way (either in bash or zsh) that I can refer to one of the directories listed on the command line using an alias for its position on the stack? For example, instead of typing:  chb$ cp ~/code/foo/view/static/css/baz.css ~/code/bar/view/static/css/   I'd type:  chb$ cp &lt;2&gt;baz.css ~/code/bar/view/static/css/   ...or something like that, maybe using a dollar sign and a variable name instead of &lt;n&gt;. 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