Well, we have seen this kind of phenomenon before, and the long-suffering reader will now be expecting a chapterful of negative results on the finite base property for relation-type algebras.

The sharp report of a gun burst the silence, and a moment later the gate swung open.

He then brings a second action in a West Dakota state court for property damage to his car. Quigley pleads res judicata. Under the Full Faith and Credit Clause and § 1738, the West Dakota court must consider whether Altieri's second action would have been barred by claim preclusion if he had brought it in East Dakota.

Armatures are quadruped all-terrain heavy weapons platforms, akin to the armored fighting vehicles of other races. Geth being synthetic intelligences, armatures are not crewed vehicles, but intelligent entities, capable of independent decision-making and learning.