I got quite confused on what exactly happens in this situation:  Opponent is attacking, he does so with three (3/3) creatures.  I declare blockers, which would be two unimportant (1/1) Slivers and a  (2/2). The Might Sliver has a static ability: "All Slivers get +2/+2", so in fact I have two (3/3)'s and one (4/4) creature to block with.   If, after the blockers are declared and before the damage is dealt, the opponent destroys the Might Sliver with an instant (Murder), will my Slivers retain the +2/+2 bonus until damage is dealt, so I would lose three creatures, while he loses two, or is it lost and my defense crumbles and my defenders are all killed?
At what point is a creature's toughness calculated? If I have  where I can sacrifice a creature and put X 1/1 token creatures onto the battlefield, where X is the sacrificed creature's toughness.  If I have a creature that is 4/4 and cast  to give it +3/+3 then sacrifice it? Do I get 4 tokens or 7?  Also what if my 4/4 creature was dealt 2 combat damage before I sacrificed it? Do I get 2 or 4 creatures?  Finally, what about counters? If my 4/4 had a +1/+1 do I get 4 or 5 tokens?
"physical block size is 2048 bytes, but Linux says it is 512" when formatting USB - How to create a bootable USB without this error I was using:  dd  if=/path/to/my/ubuntuiso/ubuntu.iso  of=/dev/sdb1  bs=4M  &amp;&amp;  sync   In order to create bootable Ubuntu USB drives on older Ubuntu versions. It was working perfectly. Sometimes I used the Startup Disk Creator program, which  worked well.  But when I use the same methods on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, I get some warnings while formatting it afterwards.   The installation media works as expected, but when I try to format that USB stick after my work is done, I get the following warning :    The partitioning of that Pendrive looks strange :    And it also shows my 16GB pendrive as 64GB.  After struggling a lot with Gparted, I will somehow format it. But Why is it happening like this ?? Is there any better methods of creating bootable Ubuntu in 16.04 ?  EDIT : there is a related question . But my question is not about how to format it properly. My question is "How to create a bootable USB without that errors." &amp; "Wht are the causes of that error" Are there popular but poorly paved roads on Big Island which require an SUV? My grandparents will drive only on roads recommended in printed travel guides; they'll ask the rental car company if Waipio Valley Road and the road to the top of Mauna Kea are sanctioned.       A rented 4WD vehicle is allowed by law to travel ANY public roadway in Hawaii. AND there are some places that require a 4WD vehicle.      [...]      If you travel down into  or to the top of , you are legally allowed to do so, but your rental company will expect you to pay for any damage incurred whether you selected the insurance or not, as the insurance is null and void when you violate the contract.        I do not believe a 4x4 rental is necessary for 99% of visitors. For the other 1%, "necessary" is too strong a word!      But, being in that "1%" category, there ARE worthy places to go on the BI that require 4x4 (the kind you can rent from a normal rental outlet, not the kind locals may drive). I won't publicize those places because I don't want such places to become overused. [I bolded.] Just don't believe it when you read here that there is absolutely no place at all worth visiting that would require 4x4.    I doubt the Tripadvisor comments overhead, as none of them discussed potholes:          Please see the bolded phrase. Where on the BI requires an SUV? Nuclear Binding energy Can I deduct a contribution to a traditional IRA if I am also contributing to a 401(k) in the same tax year? Affiliate Ads Are Coming To The Network Some time ago, we announced that . This has gone well and we're extremely thankful to everyone for their support and feedback. Because it has been successful so far, we're going to be extending the program to the majority of our graduated sites. Well, we've pretty much already done that, but there are quite a few sites that have ads enabled, yet still display nothing. The thing is, we don't really have an abundance of clients offering products that a  would find relevant, but Amazon has stand mixers, a selection of super fine chinois, deliciously sharp cutlery and enough cast iron to fill the Gulf Of Mexico with . Beginning as early as this week (week of 5 February 2018), our ad team is going to be hand selecting affiliate ads to be displayed on select sites. The use of inventory will of course depend on the availability of relevant ads to display which means:  Some sites might see very few, if any ads. Some topics simply don't come remotely close to orbiting anything worth advertising. Furthermore, while graduated, some sites simply don't have enough activity for ads to make sense.  Since these are hand-selected, it could take a while for ads to appear initially.  These would of course yield to inventory from clients if clients had products that were relevant to any given topic.   Nothing changes when it comes to the . If you're used to occasionally seeing a community promotion ad, you'll just notice that you'll also occasionally see an ad for something that is likely to be of interest to someone interested in the topic that your site covers. In fact, to be clear, this is simply a continuation of the announcement we made in November of 2016. We just wanted folks to know that we're going to be continuing the program where there's good potential to show relevant advertisements, even if we don't have clients lined up with a demand for it. Where can I give feedback about a certain ad on [site]? Open a meta post on your per-site meta and let us know. Please remember, the bulk of advertisements are an effort to get something small back from folks that hit the sites through search engines and are extremely unlikely to ever become contributors. Their soufflé stopped falling, and we'll probably never see them again. Maybe we can get a few bucks once they realized that copper ions help egg whites stiffen properly and buy a bowl or a proper bloom whisk. However, you're the experts on these topics and we're very likely going to listen to you. What sites, specifically? Are any sites exempt? If you're a former Stack Exchange 1.0 site and / or subsequently joined the network under a special charter, nothing changes - don't panic :) For the rest, we're just extending what we're currently doing with ads on graduated sites to also include those where there's an opportunity to make sensible use of affiliate ads. If a site has less than 15k (average) daily visits, or fewer than roughly 50k combined total posts - it might not yet be time to invest in selecting ads to be shown there. But, part of this exercise is also seeing what works best. I don't really have feedback, just some suggestions Ads aren't just an opportunity to sell stuff, they're an opportunity to really show people that we understand a given topic. That, of course, makes suggestions from people that do that stuff every day quite valuable. Post on your per-site meta and our community / ad critters will take a look. Questions? Comments? Kvetches? Let us know in an answer or comment below. If anything about the plan changes, we'll update this post to let folks know. LibreOffice problem while openning a document My problem is that when I try to open one specific .odt document, I can't move the page or do anything except moving the mouse, which is useless. Also, the mouse, when I'm on the document, is freaking out switching between mouse and loader couple of times per second. It also becomes dark when I click on the document like if it's not responding. Please anyone tell me when we have to use "has been, have been , had been" and something  started in past and still continuing is it possible to use has been ? Matrix given by $a_{ij} = 1/(i+j)$ is non-singular. I get double question marks when referring to labels inside figures I have some charts embedded in figures, and I want to be able to refer to them easily using the "Figure x" notation. I'm doing it like this (in this order):  \documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{article}  ...  \section*{Results} ...we performed a linear regression to obtain a standard curve  (Figure~\ref{0:stdcurve})....  \pagebreak \section*{Results (Graphs)} \subsection*{Construction of Standard Graph for PNP} \begin{figure}[h]   % Figure 1     \centering     \includegraphics[scale=1]{kinematics-res/graph0-1}     \caption{The standard curve for PNP.}     \label{0:stdcurve} \end{figure}   However, instead of getting the output "...to obtain a standard curve (Figure 1)...", I just get "...to obtain a standard curve (Figure ??)..."  I also noticed that the PDFLaTeX compiler is generating warnings saying that it couldn't find the reference of the name 0:stdcurve. Why am I getting these warnings? Setting the correct encoding when piping stdout in Python How to create polygons with straight lines and right angles in QGIS? When creating a polygon, how do I do it so that the lines are straight (90, 0 degrees, etc.) and when I create corners they can be right angles? For instance, how do I create a perfect square or rectangle? I need an approach to allow delegated admins (i.e., non-Administators) to add members to Public Groups and Collaboration Groups (the GroupMember and CollaborationGroupMember objects).  I added a custom object (UserGroupRequest__c) to capture which Users should be added/removed to which Groups.    I've also built a batchable class to process the requests.  However, GroupMember is a Setup object, and CollaborationGroupMember is not.  So this doesn't work if I combine the operations in a single batchable class.  Should I instead be using 2 batch classes, calling one from the finish method of the other?    Any recommendations on how best to proceed?  Am I way off base?    Would a trigger on the Request object perhaps be better? I'm guessing that there may be a permission problem if this is attempted via a trigger as the delegated admins won't be able to add users to public Groups.  Also, I'm guessing the trigger approach would run into the same mixed DML issue - on Insert of the Custom object, I would need to Insert/Delete from GroupMember and from CollaborationGroupMember, and then perform a 2nd update on the Custom object to indicate that processing was completed... How do I drill a 2⅛ inch door knob hole over an existing 1½ inch hole? I need to replace the door knob for this interior door:    The door knobs I've found at the stores require a 2⅛ inch hole.  Mine is only 1½:    Did door knobs used to be smaller?  Is there some place I can find a replacement door knob that will fit my door?  If I need to modify the door to fit a modern door knob, will the new hole completely overlap the old? and can I reuse the latch hole? Why is my profile messed up on a single site and how can I revert it? I was just asking a question on Gardening SE and suddenly my user name there is a25bedc5-3d09-41b8-82fb-ea6c353d75aand my picture is replaced by a Gravatar. My location is also left blank.  Here's a   Curiously, my profiles on all other sites are fine.  I don't have a separate login for SE, I log in using my Google account. Nobody other than me has access to my Google account. I use two step authentication and I can see on "recent devices" in Google that no one but me has accessed my Google account. I only access SE from home, and nobody other than me has used my devices.   I tried to edit my Gardening SE profile back to the way I want it to be and I got the following message:     Oops! There was a problem updating your profile:   Display name may only be changed once every 30 days; you may change again on Jun 20 at 10:49   I'm assuming this is because I changed the "about me" on all SE sites two days ago.  I never edit my profiles individually. I always apply changes to all sites, using the same profile on all sites.  I have certainly not made such strange (or any) edits to my profile on Gardening SE.  Why did this happen, and how can I get my proper user name and picture back on Gardening SE? Do I really have to wait for a whole month? I want to use the site, and I want them to recognize me as the user they know. I don't want to wait a whole month.  Update: The Gardening SE moderator Niall C. helped me out, and he offered the following potentially relevant information:     I changed your display name on Gardening &amp; Landscaping back to "Fiksdal". Your profile history shows that your profile image (from your headshot on imgur.com to a gravatar), email, about me also changed at the same time as your display name on May 21. It also shows that I changed your profile image to a different gravatar when I changed your display name just now... weird! – Niall C. 1 hour ago Many spells have "At higher levels" that provides for more targets or more damage.  For example Magic Missile can be cast as a second level spell and shoot 4 missiles instead of it's 3 as a first level spell.  Can a spell without that verbiage, such as Firestorm be cast in higher level slots for the same effect as the lower level spell? Reserved words as names or identifiers How to know whether Lagrange multipliers gives maximum or minimum? Java, Cannot reduce the visibility of the inherited method from object Duplicate questions that use different words to describe the same problem are important for people to find the content via search engines. But the user experience when an anonymous user arrives at a duplicate is less than ideal.  They have to notice the duplicate link and understand that the answer they are looking for is likely behind that link. I don't think this is all that obvious to someone without experience with an SE site.  I propose to just redirect users to the duplicate automatically if the closed duplicate has zero answers. In that case they need to follow the link to the duplicate in any case, so we might as well redirect them to it in the first place.  I could imagine this being problematic with search engines, as we would be displaying different content than what the search engines see. If that is too problematic I would suggest to show a very obvious link to the duplicate in the answers section for anonymous users. Why can't I transform faces, edges, or vertices without transforming the whole object?