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  Agent X - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Agent X is a fictional mercenary whose adventures have been published by Marvel Comics.
Agent X's real name is Nijo, though after suffering amnesia he took on the identity of Alex Hayden.
Since the conclusion of the Agent X series, Agent X has appeared in two issues of Cable and Deadpool, wherein he was hired to kill Deadpool and stop him from resurrecting Cable.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Agent_X   (630 words)

  
 Agent X #13 Review - Silver Bullet Comics
We then join Agent X as he's busy finishing off a group of thugs that were sent after him by his previous employer, but we find most of his attention is caught up in his conflicted feelings over his current relationship with Sandi, and his inability to choose between her & Outlaw.
Agent X's nonplused reaction to their nonstop cheerful banter was also rather amusing, as it quickly becomes apparent he's having a grand old time in this fight, and that his mood is almost as irritatingly upbeat as the assassins he's facing.
Agent X's battle with the super happy assassins is a fun little exercise that nicely lampoons the overly cute elements one finds in anime/manga, and the battle has a nice sense of energy to it thanks to the steady stream of amusing, if somewhat off the wall observations that Agent X continually offers up.
www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /reviews/10620207404975.htm   (949 words)

  
 Secret Agent X-9 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Agent X9 magazine was for a long period published in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland, but today only the Swedish and Norwegian editions prevail.
During the 80s the Agent X9 editors requested more Secret Agent X-9 material from King Features since the newspaper stories were quickly published (despite the fact that the strip didn't appear in every issue any more).
In the first Agent X-9 movie, Scott Kolk played Agent Dexter (not Phil Corrigan) a.k.a Agent X-9, it was based on the X-9 character who asked in the fifth day of the daily strip in January, 1934 to..."Call me Dexter.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Secret_Agent_X-9   (975 words)

  
 Still on the Shelf #20 - Giant Sized Deadpool/Agent X
It is true that the Agent X series had the same characters with the same creative team, and a protagonist that was in all likelihood Deadpool.
He entered the Weapon X program as a means of finding a cure- but as often happens, the cure is worse than the affliction.
In the next three months, not only is Agent X going to go out with a bang (rather than the whimper we were looking at), but also we are going to see the return of Deadpool, leading into the new Deadpool/Cable series.
www.stillontheshelf.com /sots/archives/sots020.html   (3076 words)

  
 Compatibilism
Wolf's reasoning is that, if an agent does act in accord with the True and the Good, and if indeed she is so psychologically determined that she cannot but act in accord with the True and the Good, her inability to act otherwise does not threaten the sort of freedom that morally responsible agents need.
On Wolf's view, if an agent does act from reasons, and if her reasons are (or are susceptible to) the True and the Good, then she as an agent is a source of conduct that carries with it (or is able to carry with it) the stamp of moral reason.
The view is not merely that an agent would display herself in some counterfactual situations to be responsive to reasons, but rather that her responsiveness to reasons in some counterfactual situations is evidence that her actual conduct itself — the causes giving rise to it — is also in response to rational considerations.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/compatibilism   (15891 words)

  
 Secret Agent X-9 (1945)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Naturally secret agents from both sides of the war descend upon the island which is governed by self-proclaimed owner Lucky Kamber (Cy Kendall).
The chief villain of the piece is the sinister Japanese agent, Nabura (Victoria Horne).
Nabura devises a plan whereby an agent whose face is surgically altered to look like the American scientist who has the formula to "722", will be smuggled into the U.S. to steal it.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0038062   (615 words)

  
 Mike's Home for Wayward MiB Agents - Men in Black Agent Roster: X   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Agent X is a valuable ally to have on a mission.
X is the most likely agent to get the ball rolling in a mission.
X is also distinguished by being the only MiB agent to date with any sort of existence recorded before joining.Well, at least a full back history.
gladstone.uoregon.edu /~mpeters1/agents/x.html   (421 words)

  
 Benjamin M. Eidelson and Ian Lustick: The VIR-POX Algorithm
In more complex formulations of the model, agents can vary in their influence levels and other attributes as well, but none of those variations are employed here.
depending on the agent's current phase of the disease (this probability is zero during the incubation period).
“Empty cells” indicate agents that were infected and subsequently removed from their social environment, either by death, by isolation, or by relocation to a medical facility.
jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk /7/3/6-appendix.html   (830 words)

  
 Agent X #1
Agent X is an amnesiac with the letter X carved into his head in two places, the sort of character design which might be a little too literal, depending on what the reason turns out to be.
While we're obviously being set up to accept Agent X as "probably Deadpool", there are some interesting clues planted pointing the other way, or at least towards a more complex explanation.
Whether or not Agent X is Deadpool, the book retains all the qualities that made the previous series worth reading.
www.thexaxis.com /agentx/agentx1.htm   (611 words)

  
 KMC Forums - Agent X vs. Wolverine
Standard weapons for Agent X (which isn't really limiting, since he seems to carry quite a number of firearms and other such weapons on his person) and such.
Agent X tags Wolvie with that anti-healing factor blast and Wolvie becomes a puddle.
With the rest of Agency X. Characters from left to right: Mary Zero, Outlaw, Agent X, Taskmaster, Sandi BrandenbergHe is a combined consciousness, residing in the body of the man named Nijo but possessing certain abilities and mental attributes of Deadpool and the telepathic marksman known as the Black Swan.
www.killermovies.com /forums/f77/t376436.html   (844 words)

  
 KMC Forums - Agent X vs Nightwing
Agent X is basically Deadpool, nothing Nightwing can do would be enough to really put him down.
Agent X usually carries a gun and knife and stuff around.
Agent X should tear through Dick pretty easily, as he has almost every edge in the fight but Dick can be pretty resourceful and X is kind of insance...
www.killermovies.com /forums/f77/t359845.html   (535 words)

  
 More Bio-Terrorism Fearmongering: Al-Qaeda 'making Agent X advances'
The commission said in its final report that intelligence analysts were "surprised by the intentions and level of research and development" uncovered after the US invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001.
It cited documents as indicating that while al-Qaeda's primary interest was Agent X, the group had "considered acquiring a variety of other biological agents".
The commission backed the "hypothesis" that al-Qaeda had acquired several biological agents, possibly as early as 1999, and had the necessary equipment to enable limited, basic production of Agent X. "Other reporting indicates that al-Qaeda had succeeded in isolating cultures of Agent X," the commission said.
www.infowars.com /articles/terror/alqaeda_agent_x_advances_fearmongering.htm   (404 words)

  
 COMICON.com: MARVEL'S AGENT X BITES THE DUST
Agent X is being cancelled at the end of issue # 12.
Soldier X and Agent X were good books, even better when they were Cable and Deadpool.
Agent X was doing just fine and better then most of the other Marvel books....why is it getting cancelled
www.comicon.com /cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=36&t=000797   (2370 words)

  
 COMICON.com: AGENT X LOSES GAIL SIMONE
Unfortunately for Agent X (just read # 3 last night), I fear # 7 will probably be the last issue.
I'm really sorry that you decided to leave Agent X. For the record I took a look at the ICV2 sales figures -which admittedly are only approximate.
Disregarding issue 1 as a slight aberration, we find that Agent X was selling around 30% more than Gail's final issues of Deadpool, meaning that new readers attracting by the big "#1" were sticking around.
www.comicon.com /cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=36&t=000241   (853 words)

  
 Omnipotence
It is not possible for an agent to bring about an impossible state of affairs (e.g., that there is a shapeless cube), since if it were, it would be possible for an impossible state of affairs to obtain, which is a contradiction.
Thus, an omnipotent agent ought not to be required to have the power to bring about a state of affairs that is identifiable with or analyzable as a conjunctive state of affairs one of whose conjuncts is not possibly brought about by anyone.
The basic idea of this account of omnipotence is that an agent is omnipotent just when he can actualize any state of affairs that it is possible for someone to actualize, except for certain “counterfactuals of freedom”, their consequents, and certain states of affairs that are “accidentally impossible” because of the past.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/omnipotence   (5797 words)

  
 Secret Agent X-9 (1937)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
But, by that time, both Hammett, as the scripter, and Raymond, as the artist and scripter, had departed the strip, although the newspaper comic strip's title retained "Dashiell Hammett's Secret Agent X-9" past the time he was no longer involved.
He later, much, much later, acquired the name of "Corrigan" and the title of the strip was changed to "Secret Agent Corrigan" in the 70's.
Secret Agent X-9 (Scott Kolk) trails Blackstone (Henry Brandon), one of the gang, who hides the gems in a safe deposit vault of a bank.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0029530/combined   (713 words)

  
 Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Secret Agent X-9
Undercover government agents were also becoming a popular form of fiction right then.
Unfortunately, when, in 1934, King Features Syndicate launched Secret Agent X-9, they apparently couldn't decide whether it was a secret agent strip or a Tracy knock-off.
X-9 was so secret an agent, not only was his name a secret, he didn't even reveal what agency he was an agent for!
www.toonopedia.com /x-9.htm   (1015 words)

  
 Secret Agent X-9
Bill Blackbeard, in his intro to Dashiell Hammett's Secret Agent X-9, a handsome volume which collects the Hammett/Raymond sequences, suggests that most of the irregularities and gaffes are the result of King Features' rewriting (Blackbeard called them "jerry-scripting") of Hammett's original script.
The notion of X-9 as a government agent using a private detective role as a front was thrown out.
We had X-9, a nameless government agent (with a secret identity as a private eye?) who's called upon (his name was in the book?) to help a rich man out of a jam.
www.thrillingdetective.com /x9.html   (836 words)

  
 Facilitators and Mediators
As an example, consider a case where an agent A would like to know the truth of a sentence X, and agent B may have X in its knowledge-base, and a facilitator agent F is available.
If, however, A is not aware of what agents are available, or which may have X in their knowledge-bases, or how to contact those of whom it is aware, then a variety of approaches can be used.
In the PACT project [7], for example, all agents used a central, common facilitator whose location was a parameter initialized when the agents were launched.
www.cs.umbc.edu /kqml/papers/kqml-acl-html/subsection3.2.2.html   (730 words)

  
 Simple.: XGrid agent for Unix architectures
What is missing to make it even more powerful is an agent for architectures other than Mac OS X (the agent in Xgrid terminology is the computer performing the computation).
This is important since the computer infrastructure available to scientists is not always based on Mac OS X, and universities have a significant investment in various Unix platforms that should not be neglected when running computations in clusters.
Don't run the agent as root: run as a regular user because there are a lot of vulnerabilities in the code.
unu.novajo.ca /simple/archives/000026.html   (2166 words)

  
 Review of 2003: Agent X
Anyway, thanks to the miracle of alphabetisation, we'll kick off with Agent X, a title that had a less an illustrious year.
Ridiculously, Lis also left almost immediately after, but Agent X had already been condemned to a run-out period of fill-in issues before being condemned to cancellation.
Considering the circumstances, there was some worthwhile material in Agent X this year.
www.thexaxis.com /agentx/2003.htm   (615 words)

  
 IBM - ITM 6.1 5.x Integration Agent won't start on Endpoints on which GSKit has not been installed.
When using witm61agt to push down the ITM 6.1 "5.x Integration Agent" to an Endpoint that has thusfar only been a part of an existing 5.1.x ITM or 3.7 DM environment, the agent fails to start with no discernible error at the default debug level in either the lcfd.log or the logs under $LCF_DATDIR/LCFNEW/KTM/logs.
The cause of the integrations agent's failure to start is a last minute change made to TEMA Framework component library causing it dynamically link to a GSKit library.
Because the ITM integration agent doesn't push down any GSKit files, if the Endpoint has not had an Omegamon agent deployed to it, the GSKit library will be missing.
www.ibm.com /support/docview.wss?rs=650&context=SSTFXA&dc=D600&uid=swg21225015&loc=en_US&cs=UTF-8&lang=en   (390 words)

  
 BUZZSCOPE :: Agent X #1
And will Agent X’s unique talents make him tough enough to endure training at the hands of the Taskmaster?
I have not read the Agent X comic, but since it's written by Gail Simone it must be awesome, in fact I am on my way to my local comic bookstore (where ever that is) and I am buying two copies of that book, no make it three.
Agent X is the best funny book on the stands.
popcultureshock.com /reviews.php?id=1318   (216 words)

  
 Can Anyone Explain Agent X And Solider X To Me? - The Superhero Hype! Boards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Agent X was a weird merging of Deadpool and this guy called Black Swan.
Soldier X was crap and that's saying a lot since I'm a Cable fan.
Agent X was okay for what I read, I plan on going back and getting what I missed.
www.superherohype.com /forums/showthread.php?t=142353   (490 words)

  
 Gail Simone Returns to Agent X
According to The Pulse, fan-favorite writer Gail Simone (Birds of Prey, Killer Princesses) is returning to Marvel’s Agent X for a three-issue series finale beginning with #13.
Agent X was slated to be cancelled after issue #12, but fan response prompted Marvel to greenlight the three-issue arc.
Simone reluctantly left Agent X after issue #7 due to differences with her editor on the direction of the book.
www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /news/105375496021037.htm   (149 words)

  
 Total LiveJournal Space Emo-Lethal v8.0 - AGENT X   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Everybody keeps saying that both books (Agent X and Soldier X)are cancelled, and yet each month Previews (which solicits two months in advance) keeps having the issues available for order.
Additionally, Soldier X was in the top 100 (I think it was around 75) for January.
Agent X is not cancelled, and Cable is going to be in Weapon X, not Agent X. Tyler Durden
www.lethalinjection.com /forums/showthread.php?t=1078   (1060 words)

  
 israelinsider: politics: Commentary: The Search for Agent X   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
According to some of them, the FBI is still searching for Agent X -- the mythological highly-placed American for whom Pollard is supposed to have worked.
In the case of Pollard, Israel abandoned her agent because her leaders reckoned that the abandonment would facilitate the repair of relations with the Americans.
But he is certainly an Israeli agent who fell victim to terrible discrimination, and it is up to Israel to secure his release -- not just for his sake -- but for ours.
web.israelinsider.com /Articles/Politics/5493.htm   (1737 words)

  
 CIS587 : The Wumpus World
The agent dies if it is in the same square as the wumpus.
It means that the agent is holding the object x in situation y.
It means that the agent x in situation z is at location y.
www.cis.temple.edu /~ingargio/cis587/readings/wumpus.shtml   (980 words)

  
 Bloomberg.com: U.S.
Tucker speculated that Agent X is an anthrax bacterium or the bacterium that produces botulinum toxin.
Anthony Cordesman, a senior fellow for strategic assessment at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said he has a ``pretty good idea'' what Agent X might be.
The disclosures on ``Agent X'' are included in a broader report analyzing U.S. intelligence failures since the Sept. 11 attacks.
www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=a4L.mFcKoacs&refer=us   (632 words)

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