* The comic has made references to other webcomics, such as Girls with Slingshots, Wapsi Square, Gunnerkrigg Court, Arcane Times, Something Positive, Dominic Deegan: Oracle For Hire, Basic Instructions, Home on the Strange, The Devil's Panties, Schlock Mercenary and Studio Foglio's own Buck Godot ; and What's New as well as The Order of the Stick, Terry Pratchett's Luggage, Namir Deiter, Digger, Freefall, Questionable Content, Lackadaisy and Bob the Angry Flower.

Slingshots have been used as a military weapon, but primarily by guerrilla forces due to the primitive resources and technology required to construct one.

Slingshots have also been used by the military to launch unmanned aerial vehicles ( UAVs ).

He had to depend on himself, since he was invariably miles and hours away from others.

They differed in the balance they believed essential to the sovereignty of the citizen -- but the supreme sacrifice each made served to maintain a still more fundamental truth: That individual life, liberty and happiness depend on a right balance between the two -- and on the limitation of sovereignty, in all its aspects, which this involves.

Whether any of us remain in it long will depend on what happens as a result of the technological and economic revolutions now going on in the countries of Asia and Africa, and also of course on how long the cold war remains cold.

Only recently, and perhaps because a television debate can so effectively dramatize President Kennedy's extraordinary mastery of detail, have the abilities on which the capacity for making distinctions depend begun to be clearly discernible at the level of politics.

They know that they must depend heavily on factors outside their own control.

First and foremost, they depend on the inhuman idiocies of the Communist regime.

Secondly, they depend on America's `` moral cooperation '' when the crucial moment arrives.

The extent to which we can persuade the less developed countries to appraise their own resources, to set targets toward which they should be working, to establish in the light of this forward perspective the most urgent priorities for their immediate attention, and to do the other things which they must do to help themselves, all on a realistic long-term basis, will depend importantly on the incentives we place before them.

The survival of the family will depend largely on information received by radio.

Meanwhile, the Peace Corps could be physically located in ICA's facilities and depend on the State Department and ICA for administrative support and, when needed, program assistance.

Our own freedom, and the future of freedom around the world, depend, in a very real sense, on their ability to build growing and independent nations where men can live in dignity, liberated from the bonds of hunger, ignorance and poverty.

Faculty members depend on their department chairmen to promote their interests with the administration.

Of course, individual financing arrangements depend a good deal on the purchaser's earning power, credit rating and local bank policy.

The Supermatic Trophy ( prices begin at less than $135 and depend on grade and optional features ) is a 12-gauge auto.

The inner panels do not have to be weatherproof, and the choice will depend on the quality of finish desired.

You might try providing standard vacation time off but make the vacation pay depend on the number of hours worked in the previous year.

Since emotional reactions in the higher vertebrates depend on individual experience and are aroused in man, in addition, by complex symbols, one would expect that the hypothalamus could be excited from the cortex.

There are certain tax attributes of a corporation whose nature and effect might depend on the facts of the particular reorganization involved.

In a set of case studies of teachers with various social-class backgrounds, Wattenberg illustrates a variety of approaches to students and to teaching which depend upon the teacher's personality as well as on his social-class background.

Therefore, the third principle of the plan must be that it does not depend for effectiveness on engagement by the same types, unless at an assured favorable exchange rate.

These losses depend on fiber diameter and length, absorption coefficient, the mean value of the loss per internal reflection and last, but not least, on the angular distribution of the incident light.

Several bistable technologies, like the 360 ° BTN and the bistable cholesteric, depend mainly on the bulk properties of the liquid crystal ( LC ) and use standard strong anchoring, with alignment films and LC mixtures similar to the traditional monostable materials.

Because these depend somewhat on the subjective preferences of humankind, this duty is not as strong as a perfect duty, but it is still morally binding.

Individuals with DPD view strong caretakers, in particular, in an idealized manner ; they believe they will be all right as long as the strong figure upon whom they depend is accessible.

He suggests that, instead of subjecting her women to all-out war, she pit her three strong, brave brothers against Hilarion and his friends, with Ida's hand to depend on the outcome.

The Bureau of Reclamation and Army Corps of Engineers explored alternatives that would not depend on a treaty with Canada, such as raising the level of Flathead Lake or Pend Oreille Lake, but both proposals faced strong local opposition.

When jobs are plentiful on the market, in contrast, as in market-oriented developed countries, individuals depend on a strong state that enforces contracts equally.

The strategic import of this humiliating experience was that the Spanish government now concluded that besieging the strong Dutch fortresses was a waste of time and money and decided to henceforth solely depend on the economic-warfare weapon.

Research has found strong support for the idea that verbal language and sign language depend on similar neural structures.

With the decline of lending libraries in the late 1950s, the company's most profitable move was to realise that there would remain a strong market for romance novels, but that sales would depend on readers having easy access to reasonably priced books.

Although the most efficient known integer factorization methods do not depend on the size of the prime factors of q − 1, this is nonetheless considered important in cryptography: for instance, the ANSI X9. 31 standard mandates that strong primes ( not safe primes ) be used for RSA moduli.

This result is quite strong in the sense that it does not depend on the number of dimensions of the integral: most of the deterministic methods like trapezoidal rule strongly depend on the dimension of the integral, because they use a grid to fill the space to compute the integral, and the grid grows exponentially with the dimensions.

The Socialists held a strong balance of power, which made them more powerful than the Christian Democrats, who had to depend on it to form a majority in Parliament.

* Mainly affects sports that depend on strong hocks ( dressage, stock horse, jumping )

* Fairly common, best to use horse in activities done in soft-footing & those that depend on strong hindquarter usage

According to Marx et al., these studies could have overestimated the age of the HIV groups, because they depend on a molecular clock assumption, may not have accounted for the effects of natural selection in the viruses, and the serial passage process alone would be associated with strong natural selection.

Residents of Essex Fells, which has no commercial or industrial sectors, depend on strong commercial and industrial sectors from the other five towns.

The survival of the FARC-EP's Eastern and Southern blocks, when faced an 18, 000 strong Colombian Army force supported by UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, can be considered to depend on the operations of such military intelligence units.