I read philosophy, and a great deal of philosophical texts, including those by Nietzsche, Plato, Hume, and a great deal of others include a similar grammar that I do not understand: that an independent clause which is a question may begin with a lowercase letter if it is following another question.  Here is an example from Phaedo (by Plato):     "And is the soul in agreement with the affections of the body? [or]   is she at variance with them?   Why is it permissible to lowercase 'or'?  Unfortunately I cannot recall any specific examples of this, but I remember having the exact same question when reading Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals.   Is there any grammatical rule sanctioning lower case letters at the beginning of questions following other questions (perhaps if that question begins with a conjunction, or is directly related to the preceding question?)?  Not that it matters, but I quite like it. It looks unique and interesting to me.
May I use a question mark in the middle of a sentence? Examples:  Would you like the drapes to be white? or perhaps something off-white? Would you like the logo to be centered? at the bottom? left off entirely?
What is the word for the emotion I feel when I see someone being humiliated? When I see someone else being embarrassed / humiliated, for example a singer forgetting their words in a concert, I would say something like "I feel embarrassed for them". But is there a better word to describe this feeling?  I would say it's a mix of:   Empathetic discomfort for someone else's humiliation Tension; hope that spectators will be forgiving Frustration that I cannot help them   Other scenarios I would feel the same emotion:   Seeing someone make a presentation, the slides are all out of order, and their face gets red with embarrassment while there's a tense silence in the room. Seeing someone make an embarrassing social blunder in front of unforgiving people. Seeing a speaker who keeps making a distracting and annoying gesture, and they don't realize that the whole audience is annoyed. Seeing someone be taken advantage of, like seeing someone naively and happily accept a terrible offer on a car. Seeing a person of strong image (for example the CEO of your company) do something like accidentally leave their webcam on after a conference call, and employees see him/her let out a big burp and pick their nose or something.   In these cases it's important that the audience is not forgiving, even if they don't confront the person about it. The person may or may not know they are being humiliated.  "Pity" as proposed in an answer seems very close, but I think it lacks a few components. I think "pity" has a chronic connotation - that you are referring to the general state of things rather than a specific event.  I think "pity" also depends on the subject suffering, but in my example they are often oblivious.  It could very well be that there is no word for this at all.  NOTE: Some people do not feel the same way I do in this scenario, so you may not think this question makes any sense. On SO, when I'm scrolling through "questions" some have a yellow background.  Is this intuitive to everyone but me?  What is the yellow background trying to tell me about this particular question? How to find the mime type of a file in python? Using the affine linearized polynomial $f(x)=x^p-x-b$ is irreducible over $\mathbb{F}_q$ if and only if $\operatorname{Tr}_{\mathbb{F}_q/\mathbb{F}_p} \neq 0$. But here $\mathbb{F}_3$ is not a field extension of $\mathbb{F}_5$.  Also we have that: Let $a \in \mathbb{F}_q$ and let $p$ be the characteristic of $\mathbb{F}_q$. Then the trinomial $x^P - x - a$ is irreducible in $\mathbb{F}_q[x]$ if and only if it has no root in $\mathbb{F}_q$. I was a member of a study team that produced a couple of research papers. The authors of the paper are, for example:      Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, John Smith and The ABC Study Investigators   In the acknowledgements, it reads:     The ABC Study team consists of members from Harvard University (James Bond, Thomas Harper, David Price, and Jason Jolly)   (Suppose that my name is David Price.)  Can I list such papers in the publication list of my CV? If not, how can I show that I participated in these research papers?  In PubMed, my name was listed as one of 'collaborators.' How to solve $y^2=3x^4+3x^2+1$ for integers. If $x,y \in \mathbb Z$ , then find all the solutions of   $$y^2=3x^4+3x^2+1$$       I was asked this question by my friend who said that he encountered this while solving another problem. I have tried several things but am unable to solve this question. Moreover, this has to be done using elementary methods only. So far, I have tried to factorize and use Pell's equation. At the end, I'm getting $$2y_{n} + (2x^2_{n}+1)\sqrt{3}=(2+\sqrt{3})^{n}$$   where $n \in \mathbb Z^{+}$    But I'm not able to figure out how to show a contradiction from here. Can anyone please help me out? Thanks. Is it possible to switch a certain Stack Exchange site's interface (as a personal preference) to the theme used by beta sites?  Some sites have flashy decorations or unreadable fonts (I prefer to disable antialiasing on fonts). It would be nice to have an option to see a site with the "beta" theme.  If there's a solution using custom styles, I would accept that as an answer. How do I display a decimal value to 2 decimal places? When displaying the value of a decimal currently with .ToString(), it's accurate to like 15 decimal places, and since I'm using it to represent dollars and cents, I only want the output to be 2 decimal places.   Do I use a variation of .ToString() for this? Subtracting (erasing) polygons from polygon using ArcGIS for Desktop? The Many Memes of Meta Catchphrases and concepts that spread from person to person are known as [memes], which, courtesy the Internet, can now explode across the Earth like a highly contagious virus (hence &quot;going viral&quot;). As with their real-life counterparts, some infectious diseases are global (pandemic), while others are endemic to specific regions. Stack Overflow, and now even more predominantly Meta Stack Exchange, have seen more than their fair share of these pathological social constructs spread through the user base. They are now ingrained units of our collective culture as SOpedians (a term which I hate, by the way). Just as travelers' immune systems can be assaulted by new diseases in new places, new users are increasingly likely to be miffed by an ingrained meme and left sitting scratching their heads. I therefore propose that this space be used to document the memes endemic to Stack Exchange's culture. Each meme should be listed in a separate answer and I hope that we as a community will be able to provide greater context to each one. Please actually explain each meme in a way understandable to those not already in the know. Especially considering that a lot of these memes aren't really understandable to newer users who weren't around in the early years of the network, or are based on system features that no longer exist.  On other Stack Exchange sites          [memes]: If so, what? If not, why not?  For a sample on the line, the median minimizes the total absolute deviation. It would seem natural to extend the definition to R2, etc., but I've never seen it. But then, I've been out in left field for a long time. I am currently working on a project to create a (not prepaid) postage label.  In java, I would go about doing this by creating a bufferedimage and adding various other images to it to create what I want.  What I want is to put text, converted to an image, onto a template letter, to make a proper postage label.    For example, imagine I was given a document with blank spaces such as:  "Name: _________"  This document is in the form of an image, and I want to use apex and visualforce (the page is already constructed, I am just stuck at the image manipulation part) to add whatever name the user types in onto the image and pack it and email the new image.  The question I have here is: where do I even start?  Java is a little nicer when it comes to image manipulation, as far as I can see.  I've looked into using a web service and sending a soapxml request to return a proper encoded image, but I haven't found a web service that can do this.  Any pointers would be nice. Thanks. How can I randomize order of elements in a list? "Those who qualify will be awarded a certificate" or "those who qualify will be awarded certificates"? How to prove $x^{n}$ is not uniformly continuous How to prove $x^{n}$ is not uniformly continuous on the interval $[0, +\infty)$? Has anyone successfully deleted the Windows Installer files successfully before? They are taking up 35.1% of my total hard drive space.  Which ones are needed and which ones can be purged?  In order to see this folder, I had to unhide system files by going to Windows Explorer > Organize (dropdown) > Folder and Search Options > view tab > uncheck ==> Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).  I used WinDirStat program to get these percentages. To see the image in full size, open it in a new tab.  I was told by someone that you should not delete these files, but then I found a utility--Windows Installer CleanUp Utility (very old version) that deleted these.  But it doesn't run on Windows 7.  If anyone has a later version that they found works, please let me know the path. Cite_key instead of a number, what is going on? I have the following problem: I correctly obtain a numbered bibliography at the end but along the text the cite_key appear instead of a number. How to fix this problem?   \documentclass[11pt]{book}  \usepackage[]{biblatex} \begin{document} %some text  ... \cite{ABKM2015}... %some text  \begin{thebibliography}{99} \bibitem{ABKM2015} Arroja, F. and Bartolo, N. and Karmakar P. and Matarrese, S. (2015). \newblock The Two Faces of Mimetic Horndeski Gravity             \newblock {\em ArXiV}, 1506.08575 (2015). \end{thebibliography} \end{document}   After compiling I get ... [ABKM2015] ... while I want for example  [1]. What is the difference between .profile and .bash_profile and why don't I have a .profile file on my system? So I'm pretty new to Linux and recently installed Fedora 19 on my netbook. I want to have a deeper understanding of Linux and the CLI so I'm now reading .  In exercise 3 the author gives the following commands:   ls -al cat .profile   I try to follow these instructions but to no avail. There is no .profile file in my user name directory as I can see from ls -al. From what I've learned the .bash_profile and .profile file are practically the same. The only difference I concluded from my research is that .bash_profile gets checked first.   What I don't understand is why are there multiple files for the same function in Linux, why is the Author using .profile and not .bash_profile (if I understand correctly .profile won't be read when the system finds .bash_profile first) and how comes that I don't have the .profile file on my system? Is it possible to extend a tourist Schengen visa (12 more days)? Bonferroni adjustment in SPSS - what does it do?