My opponent in a multiplayer game had exiled 2 cards I controlled during a recent game with an  like ability.  On my next turn I hit him for lethal.  What happens when he loses the game? Do the 2 cards remain exiled or do they re-enter play under my control?
In Magic: The Gathering, the rules for a player losing in a multiplayer game are quite complex, so I'd like to try to understand them by example. I would be happy to ask each of these situations as a separate question if that is preferred, but they all seem related, and I would love to have one place to look up all of these answers.  Let's say I'm playing with two friends, Bob and Chloe, in a simple free for all. Unfortunately, I lose. When I lose, suppose the following:   I controlled an  which has exiled Bob's , does he get his bear back? I have a  on the stack targeting Chloe, does Chloe take the 2 damage still? Earlier in the turn I cast  to prevent damage to one of Bob's . If it later takes 3 damage, will that damage be prevented? Something I controlled gave Bob a 1/1 soldier token. What happens to the token? Something Chloe controlled gave me a 1/1 soldier token. What happens to the token? I had a  enchanting one of Bob's army of . What happens to the bear? I had also played  on Bob's final . What happens to the last bear? Chloe had  my . What happens to the Clone? Are there any other situations specifically addressed by the rules?
Is there a gender-neutral pronoun that can replace “his” or “her”? Book about classical mechanics I am looking for a book about "advanced" classical mechanics. By advanced I mean a book considering directly Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulation, and also providing a firm basis in the geometrical consideration related to these to formalism (like tangent bundle, cotangent bundle, 1-form, 2-form, etc.).  I have , but I would like to go into more details about the [symplectic] geometrical and mathematical foundations of classical mechanics.  Additional note: A chapter about relativistic Hamiltonian dynamics would be a good thing. I have a string "1112224444' it is a telephone number. I want to format as 111-222-4444 before I store it in a file. It is on a datarecord and I would prefer to be able to do this without assigning a new variable.  I was thinking:  String.Format("{0:###-###-####}", i["MyPhone"].ToString() );   but that does not seem to do the trick.  ** UPDATE **  Ok. I went with this solution  Convert.ToInt64(i["Customer Phone"]).ToString("###-###-#### ####")   Now its gets messed up when the extension is less than 4 digits. It will fill in the numbers from the right. so  1112224444 333  becomes  11-221-244 3334   Any ideas? I am developing a PHP application in which I am in need to store values bigger than 1 million, but with the flexibility of having floating points. I know the traditional float and double. I am looking to store only up to two decimal points, and will only handle operations with numbers that have 2 decimals exclusively.  I have chosen my column type of double and unsigned, but whenever I store a row with a value bigger than one million, it gets truncated to 999999.99  Why is this? I am looking for the right datatype/solution. If you could point me in the right direction, I will appreciate it a lot!  Thank you for your time in advance!  Cheers. mv * folder (avoiding 'cannot move' error) How do you type a single backslash, code-formatted, in a comment? Is there a way to type something in a comment that renders like this?     You'll need to escape it with a backslash - that is, the \ character.   I've tried various combinations, but a single backslash formatted as code seems to be impossible. Can this be fixed, or can I be enlightened please?  And to clarify: I expect this:  You'll need to escape it with a backslash - that is, the `\\` character.   to work properly, but it doesn't. Instead, one backslash escapes the ` and I'm left with a mess. Can we get x comment votes per y minutes, rather than one vote per 5 seconds? How can I add mp3 files as podcasts to my iPhone using iTunes? I am using iTunes 12.5 on Windows 10 with an iPhone 5s.  Sometimes I download hour-long .mp3 files that I want to put onto my iPhone as podcasts, so that it automatically remembers where I am in my listening if I have to stop in the middle.  I know how to transfer .mp3 files to my iPhone, where they show up as Music.  I also know that I can right click on any song, choose 'Get Info' and under Options change the media kind to 'Podcast.'  But when I change the file to a podcast, it disappears from iTunes, though it does show up on my device when I open the Podcasts app.  How can I transfer an .mp3 file to my iPhone as a podcast, and still have that podcast show up in iTunes when I look there to see what podcasts are on my device? WCF - Faults / Exceptions versus Messages We're currently having a debate whether it's better to throw faults over a WCF channel, versus passing a message indicating the status or the response from a service.  Faults come with built-in support from WCF where by you can use the built-in error handlers and react accordingly. This, however, carries overhead as throwing exceptions in .NET can be quite costly.  Messages can contain the necessary information to determine what happened with your service call without the overhead of throwing an exception. It does however need several lines of repetitive code to analyze the message and determine actions following its contents.  We took a stab at creating a generic message object we could utilize in our services, and this is what we came up with:  public class ReturnItemDTO&lt;T&gt; {     [DataMember]     public bool Success { get; set; }      [DataMember]     public string ErrorMessage { get; set; }      [DataMember]     public T Item { get; set; } }   If all my service calls return this item, I can consistently check the "Success" property to determine if all went well. I then have an error message string in the event indicating something went wrong, and a generic item containing a Dto if needed.  The exception information will have to be logged away to a central logging service and not passed back from the service.  Thoughts? Comments? Ideas? Suggestions?  Some further clarification on my question  An issue I'm having with fault contracts is communicating business rules.  Like, if someone logs in, and their account is locked, how do I communicate that? Their login obviously fails, but it fails due to the reason "Account Locked".  So do I:  A) use a boolean, throw Fault with message account locked  B) return AuthenticatedDTO with relevant information Preface:  An axis plotted with  is usually using the current math font for its ticklabels. But if they are overwritten by e.g. xticklabels={-8,-6,...,8} then the current text font is used. Also an axis label ylabel={Y} would be in text font unless put explicitly in math mode ylabel={$Y$}. However it would be nice, if  one hadn't to do so.   Question:  I'm aiming to ensure that pgfplots always uses the current math font. But please assume that the classic font commands like \rmfamily are screwed up by the corporate design I'm supposed to use, e.g. assume: \renewcommand{\rmdefault}{\sfdefault}  It works if I explicitly define a font  \newcommand{\pgfmathfont}{\fontfamily{pxfonts}\selectfont}   and pass it to pgfplots together with assume math mode=true:  \begin{axis}[ font = \pgfmathfont,  tick label style={/pgf/number format/assume math mode=true} ]   But it requires that I insert the name of the current math font. How can I do that automatically? How to get the currently used math font to insert it into the macro?    MWE  \documentclass{beamer}  \usetheme{Warsaw} \usefonttheme{professionalfonts} \usepackage{pxfonts} \usepackage{pgfplots}  % screwed up by Corporate Design \renewcommand{\rmdefault}{\sfdefault}  % I'd like this line to be generic! \newcommand{\pgfmathfont}{\fontfamily{pxfonts}\selectfont} %           put current math font here   X  \begin{document}  \begin{frame}  This is a basic equation:    \[ x + y = 42\]  \begin{tikzpicture}     \begin{axis}[ %   font = \rmfamily, % makes no sense here     font = \pgfmathfont,      xlabel={$x$-label: I want to be in math font!},     ylabel={Y},     xtick={-4,-3,...,4},     xticklabels={-8,-6,...,8}, %   xticklabels={$-8$,$-6$,...,$8$}, % does not work     tick label style={/pgf/number format/assume math mode=true}     ]      \addplot {x^2};      \end{axis} \end{tikzpicture}  \end{frame}  \end{document}     Everything related to  is no option at all!  Thank you! What if the LHC doesn't see SUSY? A question in four parts.   What are the main problems which supersymmetry purports to solve?  What would constitute lack of evidence for SUSY at the proposed LHC energy scales (e.g. certain predicted superpartners are not in fact observed)?  Are there alternative theoretical approaches which would address the SUSY problem set and which would still be credible in such an LHC no-SUSY-scenario? Where would LHC-disconfirmation of SUSY leave String Theory?   I would like to think that these four points could be taken together as one question. An explanation of Hawking Radiation Could someone please provide an explanation for the origin of ? (Ideally someone who I have been speaking with on the h-bar)  Any advanced maths beyond basic calculus will most probably leave me at a loss, though I do not mind a challenge! Please assume little prior knowledge, as over the past few days I have discovered that much of my understanding surrounding the process as virtual particle pairs is completely wrong. Suppose that $(s_n)$ converges to s. Prove that $(s_n^2)$ converges to $s^2$ I am really struggling with my proofs class, I don't really understand how to prove a statement like this, or what the epsilon is standing for..  Suppose that $(s_n)$ converges to s.  Prove that $(s_n^2)$ converges to $s^2$ directly without using the fact that $lim(s_nt_n)=st$  Suppose that $(s_n)$ converges to s. Then, since $(s_n)$ is convergent, there exists an $M_1$ such that $|S_n|&lt;M_1$, for all $n\in \!\,\mathbb{N} \!\,$. Let $M=M_1+|S|$ (I don't completely understand this step...). Then given $ε&gt;0$, there exists N such that n>N implies that $|s_n-s|&lt;ε/M$. Thus for n>N, we have $|s_n^2-s^2|=|s_n-s|*|s_n+s|&lt;(ε/M)(M)=ε$. Hence, $s_n^2$ converges to $s^2$. Why is it so difficult to pull an immersed mug out of the water? Suppose I put a mug in the water and then tilt it so that the water gets inside. It then floats due to buoyant force. But if I try to pull it out then a lot of force is needed. That's due to suction? What exactly happens at the moment when the force I apply is enough to pull the mug out? And what causes the loud pop sound when that happens? Hiding downvoted questions silences important discussions on Meta I just noticed a particular MSE post today on a topic I care about that was posted almost a week ago, which I entirely missed before. I'm a pretty avid MSE user, and this happens quite rarely to me.     was created by an SE employee, and is essentially the final answer to , which is the 10th most upvoted MSE post with a bit more than 900 upvotes right now. So it's kind of an important post, and on a topic I care about, but I still missed it entirely until it was linked in a comment somewhere else.  The reason I missed it is because it's heavily downvoted. This means that as it has below -8 score, it's hidden from the home page entirely, drastically reducing the visibility of the post. In particular, the negative score removes all visibility a question usually receives from being bumped due to edits, new answers and bounties.   Many of the recent heavily-downvoted Meta posts by SE have been featured manually, which grants them a lot of visibility beyond the particular meta site. This masked the problem pretty efficiently, but it is more of a workaround, and one that isn't applicable to all situations.  Voting means something different on meta sites, and not every downvoted question should be hidden from view. Closed downvoted questions can certainly still be affected by the usual rules on the home page, and that should cover the vast majority of questions that actually have a purpose being on the home page. But open questions should be displayed on the home page on meta sites even if they're heavily downvoted. Show that if $ab$ has finite order $n$, then $ba$ also has order $n$. - Fraleigh p. 47 6.46. How to prove that this set is closed? Suppose $Y$ be an ordered set in the order topology. Let $f, g: X \to Y$ be continuous. How to show that the set $\{x| f(x) \leq g(x)\}$ is closed?  This is a excercise from munkres. Maybe trying to show that the set $f(\{x| f(x) &gt; g(x)\})$ is open is suffice. But I could not figure out the connection between this set and the continuity of the two functions.Could you give a hint?  Thanks. Is there are rule when to use opened vs open?  I always get confused even though I've been speaking English as the dominant language for more than half my life.  E.g.         Is the door open(ed)?   Which file do you have open(ed) in your editor? I've been playing the heck out of this game for the past few days, and I noticed some players had some nice shiny golden guns.  What conditions do I need to fulfill in order to unlock these weapons? (Are the they tied to the story mode, Amiibo, etc.)? Why do all the planets of the solar system orbit in roughly the same 2D plane?