Would someone advise if there's any Expression or term which means 'to argue illogically only to argue'
Quite often, the phrase "x for x's sake" is used in English, and so one could describe someone as being "argumentative for argument's sake" to describe someone who is arguing for the sake of arguing.  However, is there an adjective that means the same thing?  For example, it could be used in the context:     I don't want to be [X], but [argument...]   ... indicating that your argument is necessary and not intended to irritate.
Why don't Muggle-born wizards use Muggle technology to fight Death Eaters? We know that wizards in the Harry Potter universe are subject to regular physical harm (e.g. witness injuries from being hit by Bludgers or just colliding with things when playing Quidditch).  Therefore, it's almost a certainty that an average wizard would be vulnerable to, say, a bunch of bullets.   There may likely be spell(s) to protect from projectiles - witness Dumbledore's  deployed when Voldemort sent a bunch of glass at him during the  at the end of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (according to , possibly an unusually powerful Protego or the Silver shield).   But:   those spells obviously take effort/energy/time to cast (not everyone's Dumbledore) AND more likely than not most Death Eaters wouldn't recognize a Muggle gun for a threat (or realize what kind of threat) till too late.   So, the guns should at best allow an over-matched OotP member (e.g. Harry or Hermione) to greatly equalize the power between any regular Death Eaters and themselves, and even perhaps help against Voldemort (who can't be killed with a bullet, but, at best, would need to expend magical energy and time into conjuring a shield, and, at worst, be stopped/interrupted/driven off).  So I'm looking for an explanation - ideally in-universe, but possibly just some statement by JKR - of why the Muggle-born OotP - who are likely very much at ease AND familiar with Muggle technology and live in the late 20th century - do not use guns. Or, for that matter, ANY Muggle technology of the late 20th century? Cue Arthur C. Clarke's "indistinguishable from magic" meme.  Even if they are on some kind of idiotic moral crusade to never kill their opponents (even the Jedi aren't this dumb), given the time-frame, non-lethal weapons would have already existed, such as rubber bullets and tasers.  NOTE: Please don't offer the "if they do it, Death Eaters would start using guns as well" theory. First, Death Eaters would have used the guns if they knew how to, anyway. Second, the guns, like any "secret weapon", could be reserved for strategic battles, say the defense of Hogwarts in Deathly Hallows.    The origin of the question stems from two things.  First, Harry's fascination with all things that are different in the magical world (e.g. moving photographs), based on his knowledge of the Muggle material world, as well as the somewhat amusing cluelessness of the "Muggle artifacts" expert, Mr. Weasley, regarding Muggle items and how they work.   Basically, from the books, it's clear that the Wizarding world wouldn't know details about guns or what they are for or how they work.  The second thing is it's clear, at least initially, that wizards are afraid of Muggles finding out about them. Hence all the efforts to cloak their society (basically, do you REALLY want every Muggle gunning for you, even with Magic)? The idea of how control over the Muggle world seems to be more indirect, by Death Eaters asserting mind-control over the government. This means there's an implicit understanding by Death Eaters that they don't stand a chance against armed Muggles even given the magical disparity.  Considering Harry and Hermione's overall adaptability and inventiveness (and brains in the latter case), it's mind-boggling that the idea of fighting Death Eaters with modern technology completely slipped their mind. I mean, it's a basic part of human myth (see Steel vs. Magic themes in Conan books, or Beowulf, or heck, A Yankee in King Arthur's Court). So it's not like the idea of using technology against magic would be impossible to come up with. The question begs itself - why not? Considering the fact that Rowling generally tried to be logical and consistent in building the HP universe, I feel like there must be some in-universe explanation for this that I just didn't notice.   (in-universe answers only unless there are some authoritative out-of-universe statements that are part of canon). Convert char to int in C# Possible bug in sidebar "question asked:" date I asked  yesterday, approximately 18 hours ago ("2011-12-13 20:24:03Z" according to the hover text), and it's still being displayed as "today".  I assume the "Z" in the timestamp refers to Zulu time, so I , and the date (2011-12-14) differs from the timestamp on the question.  I don't pretend to understand all of the complexities when converting time zones, but I thought it was strange enough to report. If it matters at all, I'm in US-Eastern. I'm trying to remember information about a series of three books I read in the early 1980's (first book could have been published in the 1970's). The book featured a character who was a scientific creation of some sort. It was (initially, I believe) an assassin, and had the ultimate getaway scheme; with effort, it could change its body, becoming about 10 years younger and switching sex. It changed 4 or 5 times in the first book, coming down from a senior citizen to someone in their teens or twenties; in the second and third books, it changed once per book (by the last book, it was a child or a young teenager).  The first book was title something like "The Morph..." where whatever the word was that started with "Morph" was this creature. No recollection of the author's name, or the titles of the other two books.  I think the cover of the first book was predominantly yellow, with black silhouettes representing the character at the four ages seen in the book, and a black title. And/or, the book might have been published by DAW (all their books at the time had yellow spines with black letters). Splitting a string into words and punctuation I'm trying to split a string up into words and punctuation, adding the punctuation to the list produced by the split.  For instance:  &gt;&gt;&gt; c = "help, me" &gt;&gt;&gt; print c.split() ['help,', 'me']   What I really want the list to look like is:  ['help', ',', 'me']   So, I want the string split at whitespace with the punctuation split from the words.  I've tried to parse the string first and then run the split:  &gt;&gt;&gt; for character in c: ...     if character in ".,;!?": ...             outputCharacter = " %s" % character ...     else: ...             outputCharacter = character ...     separatedPunctuation += outputCharacter &gt;&gt;&gt; print separatedPunctuation help , me &gt;&gt;&gt; print separatedPunctuation.split() ['help', ',', 'me']   This produces the result I want, but is painfully slow on large files.  Is there a way to do this more efficiently? I use Windows 10 with the same Microsoft account on 3 different computers, each one with a different physical keyboard layout: ITA, UK, DE.  In "Control panel - Clock and International settings - Language" I have ITA as display language with ITA/DE/UK keyboard layouts, followed by ENG(US) with only UK layout.  In the same window I opened "Advanced settings" where I set an override (second drop-down list) to the default ("the first one on the list") language/keyboard: that would be ITA/ITA, while I want (on this computer) ITA/DE.  However, when now I log in in the other computers, I get ITA/DE there as well, while each computer should have a different one, being the physical keyboards different: ITA/DE here, ITA/UK on the second one and ITA/ITA on the third one.  If I change one, they all change. And if I don't apply the override, the issue seems to be the same.  Basically the last used language AND keyboard settings are stored on the cloud and applied wherever I log in.  How to set Windows 10 to remember, PER computer, the last used language/keyboard layout settings, without having that setting follow me? Can a free particle absorb/emit photons? Where and why do I have to put the "template" and "typename" keywords? In templates, where and why do I have to put typename and template on dependent names? What exactly are dependent names anyway?    I have the following code:  template &lt;typename T, typename Tail&gt; // Tail will be a UnionNode too. struct UnionNode : public Tail {     // ...     template&lt;typename U&gt; struct inUnion {         // Q: where to add typename/template here?         typedef Tail::inUnion&lt;U&gt; dummy;      };     template&lt; &gt; struct inUnion&lt;T&gt; {     }; }; template &lt;typename T&gt; // For the last node Tn. struct UnionNode&lt;T, void&gt; {     // ...     template&lt;typename U&gt; struct inUnion {         char fail[ -2 + (sizeof(U)%2) ]; // Cannot be instantiated for any U     };     template&lt; &gt; struct inUnion&lt;T&gt; {     }; };   The problem I have is in the typedef Tail::inUnion&lt;U&gt; dummy line. I'm fairly certain that inUnion is a dependent name, and VC++ is quite right in choking on it. I also know that I should be able to add template somewhere to tell the compiler that inUnion is a template-id. But where exactly? And should it then assume that inUnion is a class template, i.e. inUnion&lt;U&gt; names a type and not a function? I own a lot of games on Steam, and I'm overall a big fan of the service.  However, one thing about it really bothers me, and I'm wondering if anything can be done about it.  Let's say I have two different online, multiplayer games, both of which I legally own.   If I bought these games normally, I could be playing one of them online, while my fiance could play the other one online on another computer.     However, with Steam, I can only be signed in on one computer at a time.  So, despite the fact that I have bought about 40 games, if I'm playing one of them, someone else in my house is not able to play any of the others.  Is there a way to get around this?  I don't think this is illegal or immoral as I own both of the games in question, and only one person is playing the game at a given time (same IP address and the same household, so it should be easy for Steam to verify that I am not sharing my games unfairly).    If I had bought simple boxed copies, this wouldn't be an issue, but since I became such a fan of Steam, I can't play any of those games at the same time as my fiance.    Is there anything that can be done? using System; using System.Security.Permissions; using Microsoft.SharePoint; using Microsoft.SharePoint.Security; using Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities; using Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow;  namespace Change_Title_Event.Change_Title {     /// &lt;summary&gt;     /// List Item Events     /// &lt;/summary&gt;     public class Change_Title : SPItemEventReceiver     {        /// &lt;summary&gt;        /// An item is being added.        /// &lt;/summary&gt;        public override void ItemAdding(SPItemEventProperties properties)        {            properties.AfterProperties["Title"] = "Kevin: Changed by event receiver at" + DateTime.Now.TimeOfDay.ToString();            base.ItemAdding(properties);        }       } }   Where simple example, which works perfect on my local Sharepoint 2010. It is sandboxed.  But when I package this solution, it do not work on Sharepoint Online. I does not give any Errors either.  I think I am doing something wrong, something simple, but I can't simply find anything on Google about it.  Here is another who asks on the MSDN forum, but gets a very wierd reply, that I do not understand. Delete all but the most recent n file for each group of files that share the same prefix in a directory My question is a bit different from some older questions simply asking for "deleting all but the most recent n files in a directory".  I have a directory that contains different 'groups' of files where each group of files share some arbitrary prefix and each group has at least one file. I do not know these prefixes in advance and I do not know how many groups there are.  EDIT: actually, I know something about the file names, that is they all follow the pattern prefix-some_digits-some_digits.tar.bz2. The only thing matters here is the prefix part, and we can assume that within each prefix there is no digit or dash.  I want to do the following in a bash script:   Go through the given directory, identify all existing 'groups', and for each group of files, delete all but the most recent n files of the group only. If there are less than n files for a group, do nothing for that group, i.e. do not delete any file for that group.   What is a robust and safe way of doing the above in bash? Could you please explain the commands step-by-step? Re-mounting an un-mounted USB stick Is there a way to mount back a USB stick that is once ejected, without physically detaching it and then plugging it in?  It was a live-usb of Linux Mint 14 in it, if it helps. Why Wi-Fi is getting turned-on automatically in iOS 11 TikZ: Intersection of two lines what is the easiest way to determine the intersection of two lines? I tried  \usetikzlibrary{intersections} \begin{tikzpicture}[every node/.style={black,above right}] \draw[name path=line 1] (0,0) -- (2,2); \draw[name path=line 2] (2,0) -- (0,2); \fill[red,name intersections={of=line 1 and line 2}]     (intersection-1) circle (2pt) node {1}     (intersection-2) circle (2pt) node {2} \end{tikzpicture} Adding a CMS to an existing Magento shop I am working on a project for 3 niche stores built on magento (using magento's multi-store function)  that each get roughly 50k unique visitors a day.  The sites don't currently have a blog or forum or any social networking aspects.    Would like to add a cms to each site that can be centrally run and would like it to take over the front end content from Magento.  Also would like it to maintain an online blog/publication of sorts with videos, articles, and the like with privileges to edit the content given to a dozen or so people with different privileges.  Want to add a forum to each site that is fairly robust and to possibly add some social networking aspects down the road, so extandability and available plugins/mods in each cms is important.  Other than shared login between the forums,blog/publication and store, would like to be able to integrate some content from the forums and blog/publication into the store as well.  After researching this a bit, I am inclined towards Drupal, but I haven't found any modules to integrate it with Magento.  Also, since the blog content will be done by about a dozen nontechnical people, I want something that is very easy to work with.  Lastly, since the site gets a good amount of traffic, speed and security are very important.  What CMS would you recommend integrating in this context?  Deciding between Drupal, Wordpress and ModX.  Also Plone as well.  Thanks. How does "warp drive" not violate Special Relativity causality constraints? 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See this picture below for the sea bottom temperature &amp; salinity voronois by month, underneath the csv points (a sample subset), with the joins already made. I added columns on the csv for each of the fields i'm intending to append.    I also tried spatial joins as per  however it says the layers aren't the same CRS (I checked, they are), then gets to 15% and hangs.  I also also tried spatial join through  but it hit a python error. I can try this again and look to debug the problem if this is the right way to go.  In short: appending polygon data as fields on a points-grid csv: what's the best way in QGIS 2.0? How can I form a word like "quadruple" for any number I want? I'm not sure what these are called, but how can I form a word like "quadruple" for any number I want? Like 5× as much is quintuple, what is 31× as much or 147× as much? I want to know how they are formed so I can make my own.  Similarly, how do I construct the prefixes, such as unicycle, bicycle, tricycle, quadricycle? I figured out 12 is duodeci-, but how can I form any prefix like this? The internals of bcrypt I'm attempting to get a better understanding of cryptography and have run into some questions about bcrypt.   Bcrypt relies on the blowfish cipher, which is a reversible method of encryption. But bcrypt is not reversible. How is that possible? Or am I mistaken? What does bcrypt do on top of blowfish to make it irreversible? Why does bcrypt use blowfish instead of twofish or threefish?