In Revenge of the Sith, Palpatine states to Anakin (when Anakin became Palpatine's apprentice):  To cheat death is a power only one has achieved but if we work together I know we can discover the secret.  So right there Anakin knows Palpatine doesn't know how to cheat death.  Padme is a few months pregnant when this happens. So Anakin really thinks he can join the dark side, become Palpatine's apprentice, AND learn how to cheat death all before Padme gives birth in a few months? As Palpatine said, &quot;cheating death is a power only one has achieved&quot; so this means it could take YEARS to learn-- but Padme is giving birth in only a few months-- so what was Anakin's plan here?
In Revenge of the Sith, we learn that Anakin's final seduction to the Dark Side occurs because of his obsession with power and especially his obsession with the power to cheat death to save Padme.       PALPATINE: Only through me can you achieve a power greater than any Jedi. Learn to know the dark side of the Force, Anakin, and you will be able to save your wife from certain death.   (Note, save your wife from certain death, not resurrect)  This obsession is motivated by Anakin's repeated visions of Padme's death during childbirth.   Also, we have     PALPATINE: To cheat death is a power only one has achieved, but if we work together, I know we can discover the secret.   Yet when Padme confronts Anakin on Mustafar, and then Luke and Leia are born, they are full term or close to it.   So how did Anakin think this would help?   Did he expect to figure out this power with Sidious in a matter of days or weeks?
Selecting features within Polygon from another layer using QGIS? I'm using QGIS 1.8 with a PostGIS database and I have three PostGIS-layers in QGIS a lines layer, a points layer and a polygon layer.  What I'm trying to do is to select a polygon in the polygon layer and mark all points within this polygon.   For me the only way to do this is to use the button "Select by Polygon" but in this way, I cannot use an existing polygon for selection. Could a Homorphus Charm Change a Werewolf Back Into a Human Before the Moon Cycle Ends? ‘Nice loud howl, Harry – exactly – and then, if you’ll believe it, I pounced – like this – slammed [the werewolf] to the floor – thus – with one hand, I managed to hold him down – with my other, I put my wand to his throat – I then screwed up my remaining strength and performed the immensely complex Homorphus Charm – he let out a piteous moan – go on, Harry – higher than that – good – the fur vanished – the fangs shrank – and he turned back into a man. Simple, yet effective – and another village will remember me forever as the hero who delivered them from the monthly terror of werewolf attacks.’   Gilderoy Lockhart - Chamber of Secrets - chapter 10 - The Rogue Bludger   Yeah, yeah. I know: consider the source! We all know Gilderoy Lockhart is a fake and a fraud in that he took credit for other heroic wizards' work. However, it occurred to me that in order to sell his books, he would have had to have written accurate and real spells and charms and potions, etc, into the books, or else everyone would have known right away that he was a turkey.   So is it possible there's an actual Homorphus Charm that will change a werewolf back into a human before the werewolf's moon cycle is over? If so, why on earth would they not have used it on Remus Lupin (for Lupin's safety) or Fenrir Greyback (for the community's safety)? Wrong math symbols with XeLaTeX and LuaTeX after TexLive update I just updated my TeX live installation (tlmgr update --all) and now I get some wrong symbols in math mode if I use XeLaTeX or LuaTeX. This MWE for example  \documentclass{standalone} \begin{document} $. + , - / $ \end{document}   produces the following output:    I suppose it is a bug in the new Latex2e version from 2016/02/01. Any ideas how to fix this?    EDIT:  Adding \usepackage{fontspec} produces a different output. But it is still not perfect. Increasing Flood Plain I am doing a project where we are attempting to determine how many more buildings would flood if the FEMA flood plain increased by 1',2' and 5'. I have the elev of the flood plain rasters from lidar data, but I am having trouble figuring out how much more area will be inundated by the rises I described earlier. I'm using raster calc and I have a buffer for the flood plain that also has elevation data. Any thoughts? Is the matrix diagonalizable for all values of t? I've just updated to macOS 10.12 and when I try to execute srm in Terminal, it says -bash: srm: command not found.   Is srm removed? How to fix this? On which Stack Exchange site can I ask questions like        When will [some new feature] for [some product] be released?   Where can I download an update for [some product]?   I'm getting errors when accessing the customer portal for [some company] – how can I fix this?   Why was I banned for doing [some action] on [some platform]?   Why is [some company] discontinuing [some product]?   Why is [some company] giving away [some product] for free?   What's the price for [some product]?      or any other product support/customer service questions?  It's not a product related to programming (or I've read  on Meta Stack Overflow) so I know Stack Overflow isn't the right place. Which other site in the network will take these kind of questions? It is easily checked that $\displaystyle\sum_{i\ =\ 0}^{n}\left(\, -1\,\right)^{i} \binom{n}{i} = 0$, for example by appealing to the binomial theorem.  I'm trying to figure out what happens with the truncated sum $\displaystyle\sum_{i\ =\ 0}^{D}\left(\, -1\,\right)^{i}\binom{n}{i}$.  How far away from $0$ can this get, as a function of $D$ ?.  I'm mostly interested in the case of when $D \ll n$, such as $D \sim \,\sqrt{\,n\,}\,$.  Thanks ! My router can do port-forwarding based on MAC addresses. That is, a specific MAC will get a specific IP, for which I can configure a set of ports to be forwarded. In order to easily change that set of ports, I'd like to have different connections in the Network manager.  How do I change the MAC address for a network connection? How to check if a point is inside a rectangle? There is a point $(x,y)$, and a rectangle $a(x_1,y_1),b(x_2,y_2),c(x_3,y_3),d(x_4,y_4)$, how can one check if the point inside the rectangle? I forgot my username, how do I get it back? I'm pretty sure the answer to this should be obvious - even to me ...  It's been a while I've been reading and attempting to construct simple electronic circuits. The supply almost always is either through a battery/cell, or AC duly rectified to DC.   I have the impression electronic circuits rarely ever work off an AC supply.    Is this impression correct? If yes, why is an electronic circuit rarely (if ever) powered/biased using straight AC? The set of integers $n$ expressible as $n=x^2+xy+y^2$ What's the reasoning behind the delete:1 restriction for only content I own? I recently reached 10k reputation on Stack Overflow, and noticed that I now have the ability to view deleted posts with deleted:1 via the search bar. I'd like clarification as to why the restriction exists that prevents me from searching through all deleted posts?  I feel like this would be beneficial for several reasons:   , a bot that was designed to detect spam,  to help fight spam. Having deleted:1 as an option could offer a second link to show the amount of true positives, to determine if it's worth adding to a blacklist. In , the domain v-play.net was deemed as "Too many FP's". Having a check to see how many TP's there may be, may outweigh the number of false-positives, and would give a better view. Bots are currently unable to view deleted posts through the API (Even if the linked user account/API user has >10k reputation). I think that this is partially because of this restriction. I had brought it up , because I thought that having SmokeDetector log a (non-caught) rude/abuse or spam posts would be beneficial, so that we could adapt our methods to catch these types of posts in the future.  was posted earlier today. I remembered it was similar to another post I came across, but was unable to find it because . Being able to search deleted posts would have allowed me to catch this behavior, and bring it up to the mods (I was lucky that someone else had a link for it, and we were able to advise the user what to do in the future). As a member of , I come across a lot of posts that are borderline spammy (via ) which I have a vague recollection of seeing before. Instead of flagging as spam, I usually vote NAA as to not nuke a user, but by being able to search deleted posts for that user, I can see if he is habitually continuing to post links to his product/service, and flag for custom moderation attention in case.   Overall, I think it would add a lot more visibility that could be helpful in bringing problematic issues to dimaond moderator attention, something that was specifically mentioned in :     Make sure what is being deleted should have been deleted, and bring unnecessary or harmful deletions to the attention of the community and/or moderator team.   Additionally, I think that deleted:1 is almost useless in the current state it's in. If the restriction exists that I can already view my own deleted posts, why shouldn't it be available to all users (If it's limited to one's self), as I can already view my own deleted posts? How can I buy apps in the App Store without a credit card? Question is :  Suppose $X$ is a topological space of infinite cardinality which is homeomorphic to $X\times X$. Then which of the following is true:   $X$ is not connected. $X$ is not compact $X$ is not homeomorphic to a subset of $\mathbb{R}$ None of the above.   I guess first two options are false.  We do have possibility that product of two connected spaces is connected.  So, $X\times X$ is connected if $X$ is connected. So I guess there is no problem.  We do have possibility that product of two compact spaces is compact.  So, $X\times X$ is compact if $X$ is compact. So I guess there is no problem.  I understand that this is not the proof to exclude first two options but I guess the chance is more for them to be false.  So, only thing I have problem with is third option.  I could do nothing for that third option..  I would be thankful if some one can help me out to clear this.  Thank you :) Is there a difference between "Joe said" and "said Joe"? Does the subject/verb order make a difference when writing a dialog tag?  &quot;The sky is blue,&quot; Joe said. &quot;The sky is blue,&quot; said Joe.  Is one preferable over the other? Does one emphasize the speaker (or the method of speech, such as shout) more than the other? (Personally, I would use the second form to emphasize that Joe made the statement) When I spoke with a friend of mine, I had noticed she used sentences similar to "I need to go buy food."   Is it correct to say "to go buy," or should I say "to go to buy"?    I know that I could say "I need to buy food," but I think that in "I need to go buy food," who is speaking is putting in evidence s/he needs to go and that s/he cannot stay any longer, or that her/his time to stay is limited. How to check if element is visible after scrolling? I'm loading elements via AJAX. Some of them are only visible if you scroll down the page. Is there any way I can know if an element is now in the visible part of the page? what is the surface area of a cap on a hypersphere? According to , let the sphere have radius $R$, then the surface area a spherical cap of height $h$ and base radius $a$ is given by $$S=2\pi Rh=2\pi(a^2+h^2).$$  What is this value for an n-dimensional hypersphere? If it helps simplify the problem we can assume $R=1$ and $a=0.5$.   Many thanks.