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Is there an alternative way to express "has them " other than "makes them "? For example, in the following sentence, can I replace have them with makes them, or is there another verb that more correctly I could use instead of has?     Since the manufacturers are so deeply involved, in some cases Wal-Mart even has them handle their own distribution, saving the retailer big bucks and increasing profit margins on cheaper goods.   Another example could be the following one.     The doctor sends my father and Uncle Johnnie out for all the ice they can get. Then he has them dump the ice in the bathtub, add cold water almost to the top, whereupon my aunt is wrestled into the tub and submerged. formatting long numbers as strings in python What is an easy way in Python to format integers into strings representing thousands with K, and millions with M, and leaving just couple digits after comma?  I'd like to show 7436313 as 7.44M, and 2345 as 2,34K.  Is there some % string formatting operator available for that? Or that could be done only by actually dividing by 1000 in a loop and constructing result string step by step? List.Add seems to be duplicating entries. What's wrong? Is there a way to locate diagrams and move them wherever you want in QGIS 1.7.4/ 1.8.0? I created a pie chart under the tab "diagram". I can mark those diagrams with a green box and move them via the label-tool, but they won't change their position in the end. When I create diagrams with the "diagram overlay" tab they cannot even be marked.  Also, what is the difference between "diagram" and "diagram overlay"? In Ex Machina, can this character survive? The FAQ says that Community Wiki works:     by transferring ownership of the post   from the original author to the   community. They make the post easier   to edit and maintain by a wider group   of users, but they do not contribute   to any user's reputation.   But using the new edit suggestion system, everyone can edit. It's no longer true that community wiki makes a post easier to edit.  Does community wiki still serve a function?    What are good examples of community wiki mode doing what it's supposed to do? "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke  Is there an idiom, phrase or preferably a single word that we can call people that could have helped but didn't? Bystanders don't necessarily have help to give. Cowards aren't particularly helpful either.    Addendum:  For example, once EMS has arrived on scene, bystanders are encouraged not to try to help, unless they're a nurse and therefore have the necessary skills to, and sometimes even then so. If in The Service, I would not want a coward (a liability) next me holding the line. Not to take anything away from these great answers, or to insist on a non-militaristic point of view, I would like to veer into the commercial or civilian realm in which I find this quote most often alluded to, E.G., "If we all gave 5 cents we could cure cancer tomorrow." Pretend most of us did give 5 cents and we did cure cancer, but you didn't give. You are now a(n) ____?... yes, I know what we call them, but what is their proper designation? Let $\varphi:G\rightarrow H$ be a group homomorphism from group $G$ to group $H$. Show that, if $H$ is abelian, all subgroups of $G$ that contain $\mathrm{ker} (\varphi)$ are normal in $G$. How to list available shells for use by command-line? Define a relation and find its equivalence classes. Evaluating this integral : $ \int \frac {1-7\cos^2x} {\sin^7x \cos^2x} dx $ The question :  $$ \int \frac {1-7\cos^2x} {\sin^7x \cos^2x} dx $$  I tried dividing by $\cos^2 x$ and splitting the fraction.  That turned out to be complicated(Atleast for me!)  How do I proceed now? In the article class, it seems that using the abstract environment has an effect to the rest of the document. More precisely, it seems that it redefines the \linewidth, which equals \textwidth without abstract, is smaller with the abstract. My feeling is that \linewidth is redefined for the abstract environment, but the value is not reseted at the end of the abstract.  Here is a minimal example:  \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \abstract{This is an abstract. This is an abstract.}\bigskip  This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text.\\  \rule{\textwidth}{3em} \rule{\linewidth}{3em} \end{document}   The output is not the same if you comment the \abstract line or not.  Do you have the same problem as I do when you compile (if not, I will upload some PDF files to show)? Is this a (known) bug in LaTeX2e? How can we circumvent the problem?  Note: I compile with the pdflatex command, and I use pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian). Density of Solid States of Compounds One of the wonderful properties of water (as my high school biology teacher would say) is that in its solid form, it is lighter than its liquid form. This means that when temperatures drop below 0 degrees Celsius, the top layer of water on, say, a lake freezes first. This works out pretty well for any fish or other aquatic creatures living underneath, because the lower layers of water will not freeze.  I know that this is an exception to the general rule of solid and liquid states: A given substance, when transformed into its solid state, will generally sink in a container of its liquid state. My question is this: What other substances are exceptions to this rule (if any?). What features do they share with water that are responsible for this? Texture disappear on joining Is $x^3+y^3+z^3-1$ irreducible over a field $k$ of characteristic $\neq 3$? Is $x^3+y^3+z^3-1$ irreducible over a field $k$ of characteristic $\neq 3$?   If I can show that $y^3+z^3-1$ is irreducible, I believe I can use Eisenstein's criterion. But I don't see how to show even this.  The other approach on my mind is to show that $k[x,y,z]/(x^3+y^3+z^3-1)$ is an integral domain, but this doesn't seem particularly promising either. My online friend is asking for money in order to visit my home country. Is this a legit request or a scam? Calling a function from a string in C# Why is "nodev" in /etc/fstab so important? How can character devices be used for hacking? I am learning about linux security and struggling to understand why a USB stick with a character device on it is potentially dangerous.  If I have a USB stick with a bash executable that has setuid root on it, the danger is obvious: Anybody with such a USB stick can gain root privileges on my computer if I have an entry like   /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick auto defaults 0 0   in my /etc/fstab because defaults includes suid.  But what about character devices? How can I use a character device to gain root privileges or break stuff if a USB stick with a character device on it gets mounted with dev or defaults? I have something like that  how do I convert this to a YouTube playlist? Cells not updating automatically I have a formula in a cell which counts the values in 2 other cells. Normally, after entering in the values in these 2 other cells, the formula cell updates automatically when Enter is pressed or when the cells are clicked out of.  However, for some reason, the value calculated by the formula does not update automatically. I am having to click on the formula bar, then I have to click enter for the formula cell to do its thing.  Why is this happening?