We've seen on multiple occasions that the Iron Man suit can be completely autonomous or remote (voice) controlled. Why does Tony ever need to risk his life by actually riding in the suit at all? To me, it would seem more strategic if Stark would just hang back and monitor the fight from a distance.
In Iron Man 3, we saw that Tony was able to control Mark 42 armor remotely.  Talking about the Hulkbuster armor used in Avengers: Age of Ultron, it was very dangerous because Hulk's unpredictable rage could rip it apart any time.  Why didn't Iron Man simply control the Hulkbuster armor remotely?
Do the Manuals and Tomes allow you to exceed 20 in an ability score? And can they be stacked? I am looking at items like Manual of Bodily Health, Tome of Clear Thought, etc.  Quoting from Manual of Bodily Health     If you spend 48 hours ... your Constitution score increases by 2, as   does your maximum for that score.   This sounds to me like when you read the tome according to the instructions, you are then allowed to increase your CON up to a maximum of 22.     Is that a correct reading -- that these magic items allow a player to override the usual ability score maximum of 20? Probably, you were already at 20 when you read it, but if, say, you were at 18 and read it to bring your CON up to 20, could you then later increase your CON further via feats or ability score increases gained at certain levels? Can you read more than one book of the same type, to increase your maximum by an additional 2 points? Is there a graceful way to handle passing a list of ids as a parameter to a stored procedure?   For instance, I want departments 1, 2, 5, 7, 20 returned by my stored procedure. In the past, I have passed in a comma delimited list of ids, like the below code, but feel really dirty doing it.   SQL Server 2005 is my only applicable limitation I think.  create procedure getDepartments   @DepartmentIds varchar(max) as   declare @Sql varchar(max)        select @Sql = 'select [Name] from Department where DepartmentId in (' + @DepartmentIds + ')'   exec(@Sql) Clearing NSUserDefaults I'm using +[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] to store application settings. This consists of roughly a dozen string values. Is it possible to delete these values permanently instead of just setting them to a default value? Can the sum of the first $p$ factorials ever be a perfect power for $\ p>3\ $? Has $$\sum_{j=1}^p j!=q^r$$ , where q,p,r are positive integers, and r > 1 , a solution ?   I solved partially, if r is even, then RHS is a perfect square, and there is no doubt in that. Therefore, the left side must be a perfect square as well. But for p>3, the last digit of LHS is 3 which is not the last digit of any square. Hence, p&lt;4, and hence manually checking, only solutions are p =1,3. But i cannot generalize when r is odd.  Any solution to the next part would be helpful! How do I remove extra Skype icon or ghost icons for removed apps from GNOME shell? How to Run an app as Administrator without the prompt? When I start SQL Server Management Studio 2008, I get an error that's been around forever and is documented .  One of the suggestions to fix it that actually worked was to start SSMS with Run as Administrator. So I modified the properties of the shortcut to always run it as the administrator.  The only annoyance is that I get a prompt every single time asking whether I really want to do it. 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And subclasses like Dog, Duck, Mouse etc which add specific behavior like bark(), quack() etc.  Here's the Animal class:  public class Animal {     private Map&lt;String,Animal&gt; friends = new HashMap&lt;&gt;();      public void addFriend(String name, Animal animal){         friends.put(name,animal);     }      public Animal callFriend(String name){         return friends.get(name);     } }   And here's some code snippet with lots of typecasting:  Mouse jerry = new Mouse(); jerry.addFriend("spike", new Dog()); jerry.addFriend("quacker", new Duck());  ((Dog) jerry.callFriend("spike")).bark(); ((Duck) jerry.callFriend("quacker")).quack();   Is there any way I can use generics for the return type to get rid of the typecasting, so that I can say      jerry.callFriend("spike").bark(); jerry.callFriend("quacker").quack();   Here's some initial code with return type conveyed to the method as a parameter that's never used.   public&lt;T extends Animal&gt; T callFriend(String name, T unusedTypeObj){     return (T)friends.get(name);         }   Is there a way to figure out the return type at runtime without the extra parameter using instanceof? Or at least by passing a class of the type instead of a dummy instance. I understand generics are for compile time type-checking, but is there a workaround for this? Automatically updating column in feature class when another column is changed? I have a feature class in a file geodatabase and it contains a field called [curing] in short integer type and another field called [IsPopulated] in short integer as well.  What I want to achieve is to make [IsPopulated] automatically populated with "0" or "1" depending on whether the [curing] column is filled with a numeric value.  "Field Calculator" does not help as it's just a one-off operation and NOT automatic. When Dirac found his equation for the electron $(-i\gamma^\mu\partial_\mu+m)\psi=0$ he famously discovered that it had negative energy solutions. In order to solve the problem of the stability of the ground state of the electron he invoked Pauli's exclusion principle and postulated that negative energy states well already filled by a "sea" of electrons. This allowed him to predict the positron, viewed as a hole in the sea.  This interpretation was ultimately discarded owing to its inapplicability to bosons and difficulties with explaining the invisibility of the infinite charge of the sea.  According to my understanding, the modern argument goes something like this. There is a discrete symmetry of the lagrangian called charge conjugation $\psi \rightarrow \psi^c$ which allows the negative energy solutions to be interpreted as positive energy solutions for a second mode of excitation of the electron field with opposite charge, called positrons. The decay of electrons to positrons is then suppressed by the $U(1)$ gauge symmetry of the lagrangian forcing conservation of electrical charge.  According to this interpretation What Dirac would have missed was the lagrangian formalism. Is this historically and physically correct? Convert a Cannondale SM1000 (about 1991 model) to disk brakes I've got an older, about 1991, model Cannondale SM1000 mountain bike purchased new.  Would it be worth it to convert to disk brakes and if so what would be the process? Why was the switch statement designed to need a break? Given a simple switch statement  switch (int) {     case 1 :     {         printf("1\n");         break;     }      case 2 :      {         printf("2\n");     }      case 3 :      {         printf("3\n");     } }   The absence of a break statement in case 2, implies that execution will continue inside the code for case 3. This is not an accident; it was designed that way. Why was this decisions made? What benefit does this provide vs. having an automatic break semantic for the blocks? What was the rationale? How to schedule jobs in Sql server 2008 for less than 10 sec? 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Word for a person who knows two or three languages A polyglot is a person who is fluent in many languages, but what do we call a person who is fluent in only two or three languages?  Is bi-glot a proper term for this?  I don't think the words bilingual / trilingual fit the bill, because I am looking for a -glot word. My mother is given a UK tourist visa for 2 years with a duration of stay as 180 days. It is a c type multiple entry visa. Is this 180 days is the total stay she can take or is it duration of stay per visit.  Thanks in advance for your reply. How do I create directory if it doesn't exist to create a file? What are the benefits of playing an alignment other than True Neutral? So I had  closed within eight minutes of asking.  Is this a little fast? Not only do I object to the reason it was closed (not a real question, come on I'm asking for decent books!), but it was closed insanely fast. Should there be a grace period for questions (diamond mods exempt if so) before they can be voted on to be closed? Creating all possible line segments between all points using QGIS