It's not a problem to link off site if your answer is fine standalone but I wouldn't encourage the practice of adding info solely through a link, though not saying that's what you did here :)
"enough info" is generally whatever you deem to be enough, though obviously the more the better. Seems fine to me though
For answers along the lines of "This is X" we do want something more like how it matches the OPs description or a synopsis but you have that info and some more so seems fine
Oh @Jenayah another note, technically we are a forum, just not a discussion forum
@TheLethalCarrot ah not it didn't, but it linked to the tour
Might just be me but "Q&A site" might imply "let me show you my theory" to some people which is why I say what we aren't, but not what we are ahah
I mean I do though, just not by this phrasing
> Well actually a good bunch of them are answered. There are a lot of good analysis here on several Harry Potter questions (here are the most popular ones, they might interest you); while they sometimes stem from opinions, people are able to back them up with quotes from the books/Pottermore/interviews etc. That's the kind of answers we're looking for :)
if "lemme show you my theory" is just "Well I think he was secretly a bat Animagus because his hair is black and his cape looks a bit like bat wings" then it's not fine
Does someone know if Adult Swim (TV channel block) really showed animés? scifi.stackexchange.com/q/192537/4918 is suspicious because it claims he saw an anime on Adult Swim, and I have a possible western animation match.
@b_jonas I suggest you remove that last sentence out of your answer, it doesn't come across well and is better suited to a comment. Which, as you point out, Jenayah has already done
This was a short story which included a competition, in which the participants had to use an online database to find the answer to a complex question. It was something like "What was the stock price on the day when the temperature reached its highest in the city where..."
It was definitely pre-G...
@Jenayah no no, Mike Scott maybe incorrect depending on the interpreter brand. In that context with the subselect as a simple value (rather than a subselect of the rhs of an IN or as a FROM source), SQLite would ignore the LIMIT and use LIMIT 1 on the subselect anyway, because only one row makes sense.
he's trying to spread confusing "help" about SQL. I'm trying to find the appropriate XML strip, "This is important. Someone is wrong on the internet" it says.
And the part of the SQLite docs I can point to, as proof.
Please don't clutter the comments on that question talking in detail about SQL, it was a light hearted joke not a starting point for a discussion over the details of SQL
@TheLethalCarrot Then flag a mod to convert it to chat starting from Mike's comment or even Jenayah's. Or tell me if Mike deletes his comment, and I'll delete my own or you can flag it.
Actually, let me see first if I can ping Mike in chat.
Can't. chat.stackexchange.com/users/3696/mike-scott is his chat user, and is not in any room. In that case I'll flag the comment thread to move to chat, and refer to xkcd for why to save it. Mike is on answering computer questions on SE itself.
Also, I like outdoor photography,but I wouldn't do that. It's a big cat. They put those behind double-layer strong cages in zoos, even lynxes that look small and innocent. And it's not for their protection. They can protect themselves, even against that photgrapher.
The cervid youth is not that scary.
I wouldn't enjoy him on my back because his parent could come and get angry, but still.
@Jenayah These are the sorts of hard to aquire professional quality photos where we on Commons assume by default that it's a copyrighted image the author doesn't own the copyright for, and delete on sight until he gives source with permission or definite statement to OTRS that it's photos he made, when we can undelete.
I asked James Gunn, the director of Volumes 1 and 2, on Twitter and it turns out Rocket didn’t invent the device. In fact, he stole it (because it was expensive).
Gunn also gave some insight to how it works.
@CarrotLethal: Hello! Did Rocket create the repair tool he uses on the Milano or was...
And on Commons you can find even better images that are licensed so you can reuse them, with source.
If you wan to speak about actualy Sci Fi or Fantasy, I'll stop. But it's the morning, and I'm not the one posting the most fluff in this chatroom generally. You can deal with a few of them.
Last one probably:
Arctic fox. Zoo worker doesn't go close to this one, but is throwing meat in the cage from a bridge above to get him to reveal himself to visitors for a short time. Big predators don't like to pose for photos, even in zoos, thus why such photos are rare. Info and full source is at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arctic_fox_fed_jarvzoo.JPG
@Jenayah Your account is 4 months old. This room is over a year old, and these images are better than the taco memes that were part of the blight in the room whose name we don't speak.
@Jenayah Wikimedia Commons only has photos (and other media) that are licensed under a copyright license that allows free redistribution, even for commercial purposes and in modified form. It has a lot of professional photos too, of much better quality than any of mine. About animals too, but lots of topics. These four are my photos.
Most licenses used still require that you credit the image if you reuse it (I can avoid that in case of my own images, but I want to link to them in this case).
But in exchange, Commons also has mechanisms to require credible proof from the users uploading that they have the right to distribute and allow to redistribute the media under such a license. This burden is higher for obviously professional quality photos, where we assume that a real professional photographer would know how to give permission properly, and will do so at least if we explain the user the procedure to do that.
No matter what we do, some users will not read anything and ignore all the warnings and clear help text, so we get a lot of images we delete.
For amateur images, we can more easily believe a clear statement that the uploader himself has made the photo themself, if he actually claims that and claims that he gives permission under that license; but on the other hand we delete useless really bad amateur photos, which we also get some.
Ah yes, the terrible times when the chatroom was filled with people "blight" and friendly users conversed about various science fictional and fantastical topics and other conversations that took their fancy, watched movies together and conversed. Much worse than the silence, animal photos, transcript stalkers and silent watchers.
@Jenayah Yes. I upload some documentary photos, especially of buildings and statues and plaques and similar monuments exhibited in public places in Budapest (where I live), on the grounds that if before internet age someone thought that a person was important enough that someone paid for a statue or engraved plaque, then it's worth to transfer that info to a more searchable internet this age.
I also upload scanned versions of high quality public domain documents, including commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/… and some illustrations for Jules Verne.
I should write a proper summary about these hobbies on my Commons image page and mention them in two or three lines in my CV.
Just 'cause we haven't been talking about movies and stuff lately doesn't mean we can't :) let me find a Guinea Pig... Poke @TheLethalCarrot how was AMATW? :)
@Edlothiad Once you gain enough XP on Sci Fi that we trust that you can be careful enough with the blight, and wear protection equipment and exit whenever the situation is risky for you, you will be able to read the contents of the blighted room, except for some deleted conversations.
@b_jonas I shall say that people like you, who make content, culture and entertainment accessible to broader audiences (legally, I mean), are great. Keep up the good work :D
@TheLethalCarrot so from what you read on IW would you say I can go watch it and not be spoiled?
(yeah yeah I know, people care too much about spoilers etc etc :p )
@b_jonas You're welcome to your opinion. But the "blight" is an exaggeration by a few users. The room was for the most part a welcoming, friendly and interesting environment, which has continued off-site after certain users were unwelcomed. I think that says enough for the closeness the main chatters felt for each other.
It's an Irish girl who sails to Brooklyn, meets a boy, marries him, then is forced back to Ireland for a while, meets another boy, falls in love with him and DUN DUN DUN!
@Mithrandir Yes. I should write a blog post introduction to it some point, telling what show it's like and when you'll be likely to enjoy it (if you don't read Harry Potter for a world of magic that makes sense, but for characters with motivations and feeling),
and where to start and when to watch the film (don't start with the film, get to know the main characters and the original state of the world first, it will get bad very quickly in the film and you won't understand most of the character motivation; instead start with the "Nerds of a Feather" special ep phineasandferb.wikia.com/wiki/Nerds_of_a_Feather and some of the good episodes from early seasons).
And explain that it's a show that really doesn't take itself seriously most of the time, it's like a joke-a-day comic strip, but occasionally you get the special moments when you appreciate a character doing something really special that is moving only after you've watched at least a quarter season to know the main characters. And of course how it helps if you like American style cartoons with good musical numbers in almost every episode.
P&F has a lot. It has at least one song in almost all episodes (it took them the first too episodes to figure out that's the kind of show they want, but after one very good song in like the third episode, the managers told them to put such a song in every episode, and while a few more episodes were already completed without songs, they actually did, and usually really managed to put a good song.
I am trying to locate a short sci fi story that I read in the 70s or 80s in Omni magazine. I remember it was a really short story and it was published in the last page of the magazine.
The story is about a group of humans who are traveling to space because the Earth is finished. However, due to ...
There are highlights of course, so there are even two compilation specials with ten good songs from the show each, disjoint ones of course, with longer versions of some of the songs.
@Jenayah Meta collective wisdom says the blighted room is probably deleted but not private, and is on SE chat, so you can see it once you get 10000 total rep on Stack Exchance sites (not counting any association bonus and the free 1 rep per site). You'll get that in less than a year if you remain as active as you are.
@b_jonas to be honest, from what I've heard and/or read on Meta and/or started to deduce by your quick discussion with Ed, I'm not sure I want to get there and risk bringing back old demons :) you said it yourself, my account is 4 months old, so I'll just take the train from my own starting point, I guess!
Ahah story-identification is one of my watched tags and between today's new questions and TLC's edits which bump some upfront, my homepage is almost entirely yellow :p
Apparently there's no post on Meta for this (query), but something I've wondered for a while: given that some questions have really low-q posts, such as this recently bumped one), is it ok to flag them for deletion?
Even if they've probably been flagged before, but AFAIK we can't see that
Keeps the homepage somewhat clean and removes useless NaA. And if for some reason that bumps the question back upfront, well, it was already there to begin with
Only thing is just be careful with old, old ones because rules/policies were different then so don't delete something that may have been fine then... unless it's really bad of course
Not to point fingers but it's "yup I agree, no evidence tho", unregistered, last seen one year ago, not likely to turn that into something more interesting
I flagged an answer today.
The key factors were:
It was posted almost four years after the question was posted and received an accepted answer.
It was just one line which merely rephrased what the accepted answer had established about four years ago.
At worst, this is plagiarism. At best, ...
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@b_jonas weren't we talking about Lego games the other day? We've just played Monster 4 with the family. No real building involved except the game board initially, but an enjoyable game. Good mechanism, good balance between chance and strategy.
I asked James Gunn, the director of Volumes 1 and 2, on Twitter and it turns out Rocket didn’t invent the device. In fact, he stole it (because it was expensive).
Gunn also gave some insight to how it works.
@CarrotLethal: Hello! Did Rocket create the repair tool he uses on the Milano or was...
I flagged an answer today.
The key factors were:
It was posted almost four years after the question was posted and received an accepted answer.
It was just one line which merely rephrased what the accepted answer had established about four years ago.
At worst, this is plagiarism. At best, ...
