Why is the "Force-Choke" the only form of precise attack involving the force and specific body areas? Darth Vader is very well known for his force-choke. It's probably the most specific use of the force that I can remember seeing, in that otherwise you usually see force users pushing or pulling entire people or objects, rather than just part of them.  Why don't the Jedi, or even the Sith, also go for physical force techniques on other parts of the body to incapacitate targets either more quickly, or without killing them?  For instance, a Sith with no qualms about it could squeeze a Jedi's heart and he's dead without having to resort to light-saber fighting. Or force strike their nose up towards the brain. Or probably a lot of other easier and deadlier attacks that simply pull an important vein, causing very quick bleed-out.  A Jedi could do the equivalent of a hard strike to the spine, separating the spine and causing paralysis, but not death. He could disarm his opponents and restrain them.  Why don't force users engage in more varied force attacks, both against other force users and against individuals not fluent in the force?
Why don't Jedi (or Sith) use the Force to snap their foes' necks? I understand that the Jedi use the Force for self defence, but still, couldn't they just use the Force to snap their foes' necks and be done with it? Like when Jaina Solo was hunting down Darth Caedus. Or even when Caedus was duelling Grand Master Skywalker. If he just used the Force to snap Skywalker's neck (like he did to poor Lieutenant Tebut), it will all be over very fast.  Is there a canon reason why Jedi and Sith don't use their powers to directly harm their opponents?
Can we let users with privileges on one site have them on another? I have almost 4k reputation on Arqade. On Stack Overflow, I have to suggest edits and can't hit the close button. But I want to help with the close queue, which is at 62k at the time of this writing.  While I realize that people may be inexperienced with the system, I think I am experienced enough. If I want to edit something, I have to let it sit in the queue and get robo-reviewed. Yes, I know more about gaming than about coding. But I think I would know if this question is a duplicate of that, and if this question is off topic.  So, my request is that we should have the same privledges on every site, based on the site that we have the most reputation in. 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How to merge two partitions? \phantom causes a spacing issue between paragraghs What is the best practice for multiple button placement and emphasis? Usually, we only have 2 buttons at the bottom of a form or a page that requires an action: Submit &amp; Cancel.  This one is quite easy to style. However, what if we are dealing with multiple buttons at the bottom of a page? For example:   ← Back | Send Email | Booking Paid | Check-in Guest   I'm thinking of making "Back" just a link (not a button) and making "Send Email" / "Booking Paid" secondary buttons (light gray). Then I'd make "Check-in Guest" as the primary button (green).  I still feel that there's a better way of doing it or dealing with multiple buttons / actions. What do you think? I heard a lot about in-body image stabilization recently and I wonder how this technology works. 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There's only one way I could image IBIS to work without resolution reduction: if the sensor area was significantly bigger than the area exposed to light, so that there's still sensor available when it currently moves out of its initial position. But wouldn't this (partly) be the same as digital stabilization because the final image gets calculated from the full sensor area minus the not exposed area?  I really would like to understand this and it would be great if someone could "shed some light on this". What was Stack Exchange 1.0? I've seen a few users mention that certain SE sites like  and  are unique, as they were originally created as Stack Exchange 1.0 sites.  As a fairly recent user, I don't know what Stack Exchange 1.0 was like. The current version of Stack Exchange is the only version I've ever known.   What was Stack Exchange 1.0? What changed between SE 1.0 and 2.0? How should I validate an e-mail address? What is the difference between ++i and i++? 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Currently I am creating a fishnet over my polygon then spatially joining the squares that intersect the polygon. This is not optimal.  Also note the squares can be shifted vertically/horizontally but not rotated.  My end goal: The polygon represents a clipped image and I want a tiling of the clipped image. Where each tile is 300px by 300px. Some overlap is fine if that makes the problem easier.  Current    Manually optimized    Are there any tools or algorithms that would help with this? I am proficient with Python and ArcMap.  The polygon was created from line features so I also have access to those segments. Maybe that would will help for generating the squares.  The entire polygon must be covered.