I'm looking for another noun to describe someone who knows things are bad, but doesn't do anything to improve the situation because of fear of the consequences of acting.   Ostrich is the closest I can get but it doesn't fit with the six other labels I'm using; it introduces an unwanted comic element. Also, the ostrich pretends not to know: I'm trying to describe someone who knows perfectly well, but feels paralysed. Paralysis could work but it's not a noun used for a person; I can't use paralytic because that would have completely different connotations.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke  Is there an idiom, phrase or preferably a single word that we can call people that could have helped but didn't? Bystanders don't necessarily have help to give. Cowards aren't particularly helpful either.    Addendum:  For example, once EMS has arrived on scene, bystanders are encouraged not to try to help, unless they're a nurse and therefore have the necessary skills to, and sometimes even then so. If in The Service, I would not want a coward (a liability) next me holding the line. Not to take anything away from these great answers, or to insist on a non-militaristic point of view, I would like to veer into the commercial or civilian realm in which I find this quote most often alluded to, E.G., "If we all gave 5 cents we could cure cancer tomorrow." Pretend most of us did give 5 cents and we did cure cancer, but you didn't give. You are now a(n) ____?... yes, I know what we call them, but what is their proper designation?
I want it to know how to convert string field values to integer values in QGIS Dufour... there are numbers and strings in the same field, when I use toreal(string) it stops and it won´t create the field. Setting git default flags on commands How to restore default group/user ownership of all files under /var? I accidentally changed /var owner/group to my username and then changed it back to root, but not all the /var folders' owners are root, so is there anyway to change back owner/group of files/folders to default state?  Or at least those files/folders that are created by packages? Eclemma not offering report exportation option A machine is described as being "really slow" or "freezing". How can I troubleshoot/resolve this issue? What should be the first steps to take? Is Con modifier × level added to HP every level-up? I am using ArcMap 10.1. The background: I have an .mxd that I intend to roll out across the company as our default template for all future maps/figure production. This .mxd contains two Data Frames; the first (&quot;Main&quot;) is larger (occupying almost the entire page) and is designed to be used to hold the majority of mapped data whilst the second (&quot;Inset&quot;) is much smaller and is to be used as an overview map. The problem: When choosing to import this new .mxd to an existing .mxd (using the Change Layout button on the Layout toolbar) the wizard automatically selects the smaller (&quot;Inset&quot;) Data Frame to occupy the larger part of the page. The screenshot below shows this interface with a red box indicating the two possible locations of each Data Frame:  Whilst it is possible to manually alter the order of the Data Frames using the Move Up or Move Down buttons, how do I change the default option for this setting (i.e. so that the &quot;Main&quot; Data Frame always appears in the larger space - &quot;2&quot;)? The reasoning is that I would like the process of using this new .mxd template to be as simple as possible, this is especially important as we have a wide range of users with varying abilities. Does anyone know how to choose/change this default setting? It does not appear to be in the Data Frame Properties &gt; Data Frame menu where I would expect it to be. Why are my PHP sessions dying? And why can't I restore them? I have an app using PHP and the PayPal API. The basic way it works to get a payment is that you do a web service call to PayPal to get a token and then do a browser redirect to PayPal with that token for the user to pay. After the payment details have been confirmed, PayPal redirects back to the URL you originally set in the service call.  This all works, millions of people use it every day, et cetera.  Strange thing is, when PayPal redirects back, the PHP session is gone. It's a .  First question: why is this happening? Both pages are on the same domain, both use HTTPS. The session works for all requests up until the PayPal redirect back.  The linked forum thread suggests a workaround, to persist the session ID in the PayPal request and then to retrieve it later and restore the session. Great, except it doesn't seem to work.  I can add some log statements:  log(session_id());   before and after the various redirects. When coming back from PayPal, I log some more.  log("session id is " . session_id()); $session_id = get_session_id_from_paypal(); log("setting it back to " . $session_id); session_id($session_id); session_start(); log("session id is now " . session_id());   The result is not at all what I'd expect:     session_id is fc8f459a186a3f4695ff9ac71b563825   setting it back to 82460dcf8c8ddd538466e7cb89712e72   session_id is now 360ba3fd99d233e0735397278d2b2e55     Second question: why is the session id not at all what I set it to? What am I doing wrong? Or, at least, why do none of the session variables come back? How can I get ssh-agent working over ssh and in tmux (on OS X)? I have a private key set up for my github account, the passphrase to which is, I believe, stored in OS X's keychain. I certainly don't have to type it in when I open a terminal window and enter ssh git@github.com.  However, when I'm running bash over an ssh session, or locally inside a tmux session, I have to type in the passphrase every single time I attempt to ssh to github.   suggests that a similar problem exists with screen, but I don't really understand the issue well enough to fix it in tmux. There's also  which includes a fairly complicated solution, but for zsh.  EDIT:  In response to , from a local terminal I get the following output:  [~] $ echo $SSH_AUTH_SOCK /tmp/launch-S4HBD6/Listeners [~]  $ ssh-add -l 2048 [my key fingerprint] /Users/richie/.ssh/id_rsa (RSA) [~] $ typeset -p SSH_AUTH_SOCK declare -x SSH_AUTH_SOCK="/tmp/launch-S4HBD6/Listeners"   Whereas over ssh or in tmux I get:  [~] $ echo $SSH_AUTH_SOCK  [~] $ ssh-add -l Could not open a connection to your authentication agent. [~] $ typeset -p SSH_AUTH_SOCK bash: typeset: SSH_AUTH_SOCK: not found   echo $SSH_AGENT_PID returns nothing whatever shell I run it from. How to switch between low latency and generic kernels? I just graduated, and I'm starting a new job soon. My employer has pretty good policy for matching 401(k) contributions, so I want to invest as much as possible, especially during this first year.  My question is: should I invest in a traditional 401(k), a Roth 401(k), or some combination of the two? On the one hand, tax rates may be much higher when I retire, and I might be in a higher tax bracket, so a Roth 401(k) would be good. On the other hand, I might be in a lower tax bracket when I retire, so a traditional 401(k) might be better. It's hard to know where I will stand in 30 years.  Is this the same trade-off as with a traditional / Roth IRA, or is there any other tax difference I should know about? Economics.SE's favicon is missing in action What is the difference between #include  and #include "filename"? How should I understand "$A$ unless $B$"? Indefinite integral of secant cubed I need to calculate the following indefinite integral:  $$I=\int \frac{1}{\cos^3(x)}dx$$  I know what the result is (from Mathematica):  $$I=\tanh^{-1}(\tan(x/2))+(1/2)\sec(x)\tan(x)$$  but I don't know how to integrate it myself. I have been trying some substitutions to no avail.   Equivalently, I need to know how to compute:  $$I=\int \sqrt{1+z^2}dz$$  which follows after making the change of variables $z=\tan x$. In Season 6, we find out the following about the magical properties of the wall:     BENJEN: This is where I leave you.   BRAN: You're not coming with us?   BENJEN: The Wall is not just ice and stone. Ancient spells were carved into its foundations. Strong magic to protect men from what lies beyond. And while it stands, the dead cannot pass. I cannot pass.   —"Winds of Winter" (Game of Thrones, S06E10)   So why would the men of Westeros need to worry about the Night King and his army? Couldn't they sit back and enjoy the wall's protection? How to unselect Excel Cell using Keyboard Shortcut? One can select multiple Excel cells (either contiguously or not) using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Click.   How do you deselect one or more of these previously-selected cells? I miss those pins I make in Windows.     How can I do the same in Ubuntu 17.10 with GNOME 3? 'Possible duplicate' comment not appearing for questions with deleted comments containing the link Does $x^{y^z}$ equal $x^{(y^z)}$? If so, why?   Why not simply apply the order of the operation from left to right? Meaning $x^{y^z}$ equals $(x^y)^z$?  I always get confused with this and I don't understand the underlying rule. Any help would be appreciated!