Quickie Questions

How badly does having a crime on record (specifically, possession of marijuana/controlled substance and being available on the first page if you Google the person's name) affect a person's chances of getting a job?)

Depends on the employer. Usually a criminal record of any kind will be bad but if it's for something relatively minor like drug possession, and you've cleaned up since then, a good boss would still hire you.

But it really just depends on person to person

It's a significant obstacle, frequently. Depending upon how serious the crime was, how much the potential employers can ask regarding a criminal record. See also this for the US, although it's a bit old.

Drug possession is "relatively minor"? I suppose if it's only that and not actually using or selling it...

Yeah, drug possession is typically a relatively minor offense, depending on the drugs and the amount. The things you learn in high school outside of the classroom XD

Possession is just getting caught with a blunt hidden in your sock or something.

If you have a lot you can be charged with intent to sell and if you're under the influence you can get nailed for that too.

I read an article somewhere on MSN where you can 'trick' your body into becoming well rested but is 'tricking' your body into being advisable? Are there ways where you can take a nap without it impede on your job? There are times where my brain is tired but I am wide after my eight hours of sleep and I need a nap. How useful are power naps? And how do you do them?

Is there a specific type of trope that deals with changing landmarks and significant locations we're familiar with today into something we would barely recognize if we were in that future?

What like finding the Statue of Liberty at the end planet of the apes?

I think he means like putting other people's faces on Mt Rushmore.

In one of my original universes, several of the world's known landmarks and significant buildings are altered in such a way that they couldn't accurately be compared to what they're supposed to be in present day. (Featured examples include the noticeable lack of a Capitol Building in Washington D.C. and a heavily-modified Empire State Building.)

"reality over long timescales"

:P

(Sorry, I don't know the trope name you're thinking of, but I recognize it as a distinctive concept.)

I'm really starting to enjoy my series I've been developing for years now that has been stalled repeatedly. Mainly because I'm a little over halfway done with the first trilogy, which was when I planned to revise and even share...still need to finish that third book and revise all three.

I think Monumental Damage is the closest we've got.

You should create a trope for that.

I'm thinking of making one of my own.

Just for Fun, I'm taking suggestions for an appropiate name for a hypothetical counterpart to Gory Deadly Overkill Title of Fatal Death that switches the violence and death elements with Fanservice, Fetish Fuel and Hotter and Sexier. "Overkill" seems to be the easiest: Switched it with "Oversexed".

A list of synonyms and related words for "sexy".

edited 16th Apr '14 7:30:10 AM by MarqFJA

"Erotic Kinky Oversexed Title of Climactic Hotness?"

(I want to use "sticky" for the first word—it seems to me to parallel the use of "gory" in the original title—but I'm not sure that it would be appropriate...)

Orgasmic hotness?

How about "sultry"? Bonus points for the Double Entendre factor.

Sultry Kinky Oversexed Title of Orgasmic Hotness... Hmmm, I kind of like the ring of that.

Still open to other suggestions, of course. Can't go wrong with multiple alternatives, after all.

edited 16th Apr '14 10:00:00 AM by MarqFJA

I have a question based on a character I currently have in an RP here on this forum.

You all know what penal armies are, right? Basically, they're military units for condemned criminals. Sometimes the criminals are forced into it but other times, it's an alternative for jail and could even get them a pardon. My question is could a deserter ever be part of a penal unit? If he was AWOL and imprisoned and then a war or something major happened, would they let a condemned deserter into a penal unit or would they just assumed he'd go AWOL and keep him locked up?

It would probably depend on how desperately they needed the manpower.

I read somewhere that the USSR, during WWII, used penal battalions for clearing minefields - by having the convicts simply march through the minefield ahead of the troops that they actually considered worth saving.

I wouldn't be surprised if deserters have also been used for that sort of thing.

^^Depends on the initial reasons I guess. If he went AWOL because the exceptional circumstances, say his commanding officer was a psycho more than him realising being in the army means there is a good chance you could get hurt.

On average, how many discrete parts make up a hand gun?

Slide, barrel, recoil spring, barrel bushing, frame, trigger unit and magazine in a semi-automatic pistol.

I might be missing some.

I'd suggest that you either ask that in the gun thread and/or look at exploded views of handguns.