In 1789, with bankruptcy staring the government in the face, Louis XVI took the momentous decision to summon the States-General.

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My mother said she's good with me being alone with my date as long as she's met them first.

Autonomicity, however, is not only intelligent behavior but also an organizational manner. ... a predefined set of conditional statements (e.g., if-then-else) put in an endless loop is the simplest form of autonomicity implementation.