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why does Microsoft Word sometimes reformat half my document just because I hit enter or delete a space? | The boring answer is that you've deleted a formatting character such as a section break, or you've caused an element in your document to get bumped to somewhere where it triggers a bunch of Word's other arrangement/formatting rules, potentially causing a cascade of fuckery. Some of the time it lets you do things that y... |
How do people "paralysed from the neck down" control their hearts? | Each vertebrae in your spine [controls different things]. People who are paralyzed from the neck down are paralysed because they damaged vertebrae the [C1–C7] in their neck. However, it is the [thoracic vertebrae] in the mid-back that controls the heart. & nbsp; As a side note, breathing is controlled by the C1, C3 and... |
Do the speed settings on my blender really work? | Only if the different speeds are used within the same amount of time. Figure that the cutting blades on a blender are spinning at a certain speed . It follows then that in a certain period of time a faster speed will cause the blades to contact the material more frequently resulting in a more finely chopped material. A... |
what is the highest elected office a foreign-born person can attain in the US government? | The presidential succession act of 1947 specifies the line of succession in the event of "death, resignation, removal from office, inability, or **failure to qualify**." That last one means that if a speaker were not a natural-born citizen, succession would skip to the third in line, the president pro-tempore of the se... |
the difference between a "pyramid scheme" and any normal business/corporation | A normal business sells a product or service, and this is the where the the corporate income comes from, as well as how it compensates its employees and executives . The company's "goal," is to make as much money as possible for the investors and pay its debts. Money is "funneled" toward the top in the form of increase... |
What is the mechanism in the human body that keeps one from urinating when they sneeze? | You can sneeze and pee and have your eyes open all at the same time. And, in fact, it's quite common for older women to pee a little when they sneeze because they can't fully tighten their urethral muscles and sneezing causes contractions around their bladder, which can force a small amount of urine out. That being sai... |
How does UNILAD blatantly steal content from Reddit and not face any repercussions? | Reddit doesn't own the content posted here; it's just a sharing site. The users are the ones who technically own it, but only if its original. But if they're posting it here they're not making money off their creation so they won't really have any incentive to pursue a copyright claim. I 've never even heard of unilad,... |
Why does the pdf format seem to be still the most common digital format for digital books? | The most common? Amazon uses the MOBI format on its Kindles, so I think that would be more common. MOBI and EPUB are closer to a standard web page format, in that they don't dictate page size etc. The book can be read on all kinds of devices with little difficulty. PDF, on the other hand, provides pages that look as if... |
Can gases like oxygen, argon, helium, nitrogen, etc, after being cooled to a liquid form, be further cooled into ice? | I'm not sure how much chemistry a 5 year old is supposed to be able to comprehend, but the 3 phases of matter - solid, liquid, and gas are all aspects of a material at specific intersections of some particular pressure it is subjected to and the temperature at which that pressure is applied. References are being made a... |
What does the Super Bowl have to do with Sex Trafficking? | This is one of those myths the media loves to perpetuate every year because they are lazy and it's an easy fluff story. Anther common one you will see year in and year out is about how dangerous Halloween candy is. Here are two articles about it. One is from snopes and the other is a rare salon article that actually ha... |
why are nocturnal insects attacted to light | > why are nocturnal insects attacted to light They aren't. Artificial lights simply screw up their attempts to navigate by the moon. If you keep the moon at a constant angle as you travel, you'll move in a straight line. This works because of the huge distance to the moon. But then humans invented artificial lights, an... |
Why does smoking sometimes make you need the toilet? | I believe it has to do with the stimulants, much like those in coffee, that cause a contraction in the muscles around where your fecal matter is stored. If you have "one in the chamber" you will find yourself needing to use the restroom much sooner than if you were to let nature decide when those muscles were to contra... |
Why aren't hybrid/electric cars such as the prius shaped like sports cars? | Because the aerodynamics of racing cars are not optimized for fuel economy, but downforce to increase traction under cornering. This actually increases drag and hurts fuel economy.Have you not heard of Tesla? But the answer in general is that aerodynamics are good, but having a car that's actually practical do drive ar... |
Why are gas prices [almost] identical at gas stations? Are the prices fixed? Lots of companies but almost no competitive prices. | There is competition, but the margin is very small. You're making a few cents on the gallon, if that. A gas stations main profit does not come from gas, it comes from items sold in the store. The US has a tiered system, and when you go to a BP station, you probably aren't buying directly from BP. That gas may have been... |
Why are NHL farm teams (the AHL) located in cities different than their NHL counterparts? | Hockey is not popular enough in the US to support multiple teams in the same city so in order to not dilute the fanbase they have the farm teams in different places. There are a few places that have a strong enough hockey tradition to support multiple teams, but there are not manyThis is intentional. The farm leagues t... |
How do fish at the bottom of the ocean resist water pressure? | I invite you to read [this answer] to a pretty similar question and come back here if you want further explanation |
Why all vehicle manufacturers haven't adopted LED headlights/taillights? | The advantage of LEDs is that they use less power and don't burn out. To a car manufacturer well, these aren't things that matter, frankly. They don't care if your headlight burns out, that's not going to happen until *long* after you purchase the car, and it's not something that people think about when making purchasi... |
In languages where nouns have genders (der, die, das; la, le, les etc), how is it decided what gender new words take on? | Based on how they sound like. For example in Slovak language, the grammar is incredibly complex, but there are "patterns" that are being reused. Some of these patterns are \'gender\'-bound and also are dependent on phonetic sound of the word. New words usually fall naturally into one of these patterns and \'gender\' ca... |
how can energizer claim to make some of their new batteries from recycled batteries, when consumers cannot (to my knowledge) recycle their AA batteries? | Here in the UK a lot of supermarkets have battery recycling bins. Any business that sells over 32kg a year must have these bins. [link]. Then you just take them to the supermarket when you have dead batteries, and if your aren't just gonna throw them in the regular trash.They use the depleted chemicals in old batteries... |
Why is √4 = -2 false? | It’s really just convention that sqrt only means the positive square root. You’re right that 4 has a positive and negative square root, but we write +-sqrt to mean 2 and -2, whereas sqrt just means 2. However, when solving the equation x^2 =4, we include both solutions 2 and -2 unless there’s some other information tha... |
how did the Democratic Party transition from a party that was against to civil rights movements to what it is today? | Some democrats were against civil rights. LBJ signed the civil rights act. Truman desegregated the military. Its more like the republicans saw their chance to get the segrgationist southern democrats to vote republican for nixon, so they appealed to them', "Party politics are very, very different today than they used t... |
Why are curse words considered bad? | Depends on the word, but *generally* most words we see as curse words started as normal and acceptable, but slowly evolved to have negative connotations. This is known as semantic progression. For example, the word piss is in the King James' Bible . Cunt was used in the Canterbury Tales as an acceptable euphemism for v... |
Why do Flies constantly bug people when we have nothing to offer them and more often than not kill them? | You do have something to offer Moisture and salt and sustenance. We don't care if you kill us. We have reinforcements coming. Oh yes.You are attributing too much to the fly. Flies are basic input output mechanisms, warmth detected? go towards it. getting dryer? go back to where you were.Flies are stupid. They don't rea... |
Why are there ads on Hulu? | Getting episodes not long after they air is more expensive to license than shows that were cancelled a decade ago.It's already been said a bunch elsewhere but you also pay for cable and there are way more commercials there. Plus a lot of the old shows and movies that they offer don't have commercials. It's mostly the n... |
Why do courtrooms still use stenographers over more advanced recording equipment? | Part of the stenographers job is to read back portions of the transcript immediately upon request. If you just recorded audio you would at the very least need a guy sitting there in charge of the audio with the ability to quickly jump back and replay specific sections. Youd still have a person sitting in court working ... |
How much influence does the president have over the FBI? | To some degree, the FBI is independent of the Office, the director of the FBI is appointed to a 10 year term, to reduce the power the president has over the FBI. Long term appointments like given to Hoover will never happen again. Then there's the reality that the FBI still needs the president and congress's support to... |
Why is childbirth painful? Shouldn't it be orgasmic to encourage reproduction? | This is known as the [Obstetrical dilemma.] Other primates give birth relatively easy compared to humans. Humans have issues because, once they decided to walk upright, the pelvis had to adapt to this upright orientation, decreasing the space of the birth canal. Meanwhile, brains, and therefore skulls, became bigger. B... |
Why are most car models (models as in girls) Asian? | I googled "car models" the ones with the Asian girls are at car shows in Asia,so mystery solved, probably a bit of confirmation bias as wellModels are typically from locally sourced modeling agenc, so if you are looking at the Japanese or Chinese auto shows, the models will be Asian, while American and European shows w... |
How do DJ's always find the right part of the song to start playing at? | DJs cue up the right moment in the song as the previous song is playing. This is why they wear headphones, so they can hear where they are in the next song before they start playing it through the speakers. A simple DJ setup is simply two media players. They cue up song after song and then fade between them so there is... |
How does a game on PC get poorly optimized? | Yes, either game code being more complicated than it needs to be, wasting clock cycles and RAM. Or, on the driver side of things, which someone more knowledgeable can explainDepends on the game, actually. If it is made for Console, porting it to PC will raise some compatibility issues. Also, PCs hardware are not unifor... |
British TV license and the laws surrounding them. | To help pay for public broadcasting if you want to access television in the UK you need a licence , this applies to all forms of TV, including "free-to-air". The license is also required if you watch TV on cable/satellite or over the Internet if it is live. Some people object to paying the fee for whatever reason, and ... |
Why do we cover our mouths when we're shocked? | So our souls don't fly out of our mouths from fright.Actually this probably started in the media, as a way of dramatizing things, and was then adopted by many people as a sort of learned response to surprise. I personally only ever see image conscious people do this. When I asked my friend this she said it was to cover... |
Is it legal for an ordinary citizen to kill ISIS militants? | Are you asking if you go to Iraq or Syria and shoot one? Or are you asking if you know this guy is an ISIS member in your own country?', "You mean if you went to your local gun store and bought an AR and all the .223 and 5.56 ammo you could fit into a backpack and flew to Syria to fight on the front lines? I think it's... |
Current flow through resistors, capacitors, and inductors | Forget the imaginary resistances, that's just a technique used to make the math work nicely. You'll only really need to understand that if you're an engineering student. For an intuitive understanding of electricity, I always like the hydraulic analogy. Imagine electricity as water flowing through pipes. The water pres... |
How does the body neutralize the spicy flavor of foods in your mouth? | By rinsing away the capsaicin using saliva. When the capsaicin no longer is present, it no longer stimulates the heat receptors, so the spiciness no longer persists. |
Why do the frets on a guitar get closer the further you go down the fretboard? | By pressing down on a string in a particular place you're making the string shorter, this makes it vibrate faster producing a slightly higher pitched note. As the string gets shorter it takes a smaller distance to change the pitch by the same amount, so while each fret changes the note by one semitone they have to redu... |
NYPD action against Occupy Wall Street protesters... did they do something? Or are the city just tired of the protesters? | Well, no more than normal. * although the constitution mentions free speech, setting up camp isn't the same* There have been a number of issues, mainly to do with homeless people/people will mental issues/anarchists causing disturbances on the camp site.* The park apparently is private property, or contracted to privat... |
How did Switzerland amass so much wealth? | Switzerland remained neutral for some times in the ongoing and never-ending wars between Germany and France, and between Italian states. This made it a very safe place to store money, making it the hub of the banking industry for a long timeSwitzerland was an utter shithole until the late 1800s, when it started to indu... |
What modern methods replaces the royal food taster role in rich households today? | Tasters were pointless anyway even in the old days because poisons can take hours or days to show their effects. |
why do salmon return to the same river to spawn? | It's a spawning location that has been proven successful. Salmon that choose poor spawning locations don't reproduce. |
if a colorblind person is colorblind from birth, how does it handicap them at all? | They are handicapped by lacking the ability to distinguish different colors. Red looks like they know red to be, but it might also look like green.Let us speculate that someone is red-blue colour blind: they cannot see the difference between red and blue. I place two cups in front of them: one red, one blue. I tell the... |
Chernobyl "hotspots." Why does a radioactive hotspot not continue to spread around an entire area? | Radioactivity isn't like a field that permeates an area; it's more like light . A radioactive particle is something that emits light and other particles that are damaging to the complex chemistry that makes up life. When Reactor #4 at Chernobyl exploded, it didn't make things that previously weren't radioactive suddenl... |
How did people deal with painful teeth issues like Wisdom teeth before modern dentistry? | Well before modern dentistry people generally had room in their mouths in the form of missing teeth. Aside from that, they either got you drunk and took them out or, more likely, left them in and you died of infectionYeah, modern dentistry is just one of very, very many reasons why being alive today is so much better t... |
If tomatoes are a product of the new world, what did Italians eat before tomatoes were brought back from the Americas? | Not pizza and marinara . [Here] is a random thing I found about the history of Italian cuisine. |
Paris scam I don't understand | What you're discussing is a variation of a grift called a [pigeon drop]. I have an item I have convinced you is worth more than what I am asking for it, so you pay me. In this case it relies on the mark's dishonesty that this is your ring, you'll try to find whose ring it is, or that you're willing to accept unconfirme... |
Why do I see red and blue dots and lines instead of darness. | I believe you're seeing the after effect of what you were looking at after saturating the cones in your eye. |
How can a breathalyzer detect the amount of alcohol in your blood? | When you breathe, all that air fills your lungs and touches your blood. The oxygen goes from the air into your blood and the carbon dioxide goes from your blood into your lungs. When you drink alcohol, some of that alcohol in your blood also goes into your lungs, just like the carbon dioxide. That's what the breathalyz... |
Why do people get "the spins" when laying down while drunk? | Alcohol disturbs a number of functions in your brain. One of them is the interpretation of data coming from your eyes and the semi-circular canals in your ears. I think anyone who's been drinking can easily remember the way alcohol messes with your vision, and a similar thing happens with the canals in your ears. Visio... |
Why is the former Yugoslavia such a hotbed of racism, violence, & similar problems? | It's a complex topic. I'd suggest checking out [this short video] by Khan Academy for a decent explanation. The TL;DR version is that there are multiple ethnic groups each with different religious back grounds separated by different languages that were all packed into one country called Yugoslavia. Whenever such dispar... |
if i am not supposed to peel off a scab how come all my instincts are telling me to do it | Because your scab has healed at the edges, meaning your body, right at those points, is going "Hey there's some junk on this healthy skin, get it off!" so you have the instinct to rip at it . The problem is, it's *only* healed at the edges, and the scab is a big whole thing that's attached, so you can't JUST pull off t... |
After reading that HBO just hired over 100 lawyers. Do more lawyers give you more power in court? | More eyes for reading and sifting through laws and documents.Lawyer's work involves tons and tons of research, review, writing, etc. Not all of those 160 are full-on senior partners however, most of them are probably young associates who act as support for the big lawyers at the top. |
Why do parents of adult children get to file wrongful death lawsuits and get awarded money? | Are you single? If so, your parents would be next of kin, and vice versa. You are getting payment for emotional damages given by a faulty design. For example, my grandfather was exposed to asbestos. He has been in a class action lawsuit that was recently awarded money. He has been dead for many years, so the money then... |
How do pain killers work? | The ingredient block the chemical signal in your brain that sends the feeling of "pain". It basically acts as an neutralizer. |
How are people who used to be in shape able to seemingly stay in shape even after they stop working out? | This doesn't always happen. I've seen people that were body builders get fat pretty quickly after they stop working out regularly . There are likely a few things that are occurring. The first is diet. If they eat healthy - and they probably do since they developed healthy eating habits while they worked out - they won'... |
Why it seems to be the norm to make fun of neckbeards? | Well, straight white males area already the last group that it's entirely socially acceptable to denigrate. Add in the perceived anti-social behavior, fringe hobbies and interests, and possible lack of hygiene and good old human nature that hates everything it deems different, weak, or unattractive takes over.I think w... |
How do gas nozzles know my car's tank is full? | It uses the venturi effect. There is a venturi tube and a small tube in the middle leading to a bladder. When the pressure changes because the top of the gas nozzle is submerged in your now full gas tank, it causes an automatic shut off. This video really did well in explaining it for me, I hope my paraphrasing was acc... |
What's that rumbling noise you hear when you block your ears with your fingers?. | Everybody who reads this will be blocking their ears right now. Just thought I'd let you know a useless fact.The blood flow in your ears is very high. If you ever burn your fingers, put them to your ear lope, the massive blood flow will quickly transport the heat away. So the rumbling would the blood flow in your ears.... |
- Debt consolidation, how does it work? | Let's say you have a $3000 balance on credit card A with an 18% interest rate, $1500 on credit card B with a 24% interest rate, $1000 on credit card C with a 24% interest rate, a medical debt of $4500 from a surgery you needed when you weren't insured. a debt consolidator would cut checks for these four debts and pay o... |
Why is it easy to balance on a bike with forward momentum, but incredibly difficult when it is standing still? | This is actually a fairly complex topic, and the stabilty of a bike while in motion is a combination of factors, including gyroscopic stability , but there are many other factors. This wikipedia page should get you started: _URL_0_Momentum. The rotating wheels exert a force in a single plane and it takes extra effort t... |
ELI5: Why Valve does not use 128 tick on CS: GO matchmaking | One thing that I know is, 128 tick servers are much more expensive than 64-tick servers.I don't know whether this is relevant or not but Valve adding 128 tick servers will drag A LOT of the customers away from the popular pug service: ESEA.This also video also digs deeper into your question. _URL_0_ |
The difference between a "font" and a "typeface" | Typeface is what most people mean when they say font. A font is a typeface at a certain size. So Times New Roman is a typeface, Times New Roman 10pt is a font/u/secondHandFleshlight is closer to the right answer than anyone else here, but let me expand just slightly. To understand this stuff, it may help to work from t... |
If heat rises does that make the top surface of a cup of tea the hottest? | Technically yes, but not noticeably hotter. Convection currents will cause the temperature of the tea to be a fairly constant temperature throughout the cup. Hot tea goes up, cools down,then falls down to the bottom forcing more hot tea up to the top again. |
why does space-x want to land on a barge, why not just parachute into the water like the solid rocket boosters from the shuttle? | The whole idea is to make space flight easier and cheaper. Having to fish a multi-ton machine out of the ocean, deal with corrosion from saltwater, etc. are all expenses that can be negated by simply landing in the same position you launch from. |
Why does it seem like some people have an easier/harder time gaining/losing weight than others? | hello:-) I'm not a specialist in that area, but I did some research when I was trying to gain some weight before. It seems like it is something that you're born with, mostly. But there are some factors that influence quite largely on the matter. 1. amount of muscle. Some people are born with more or less muscle thatn o... |
Does the case of Warren Vs D.C. boil down to the police not having a duty to protect us? | They don't have a duty to provide services to individuals. So if the police fail to respond to your call, or don't prioritize properly there's nothing you can sue for. Their duty is to the public at large, and there's no duty to respond to you specifically. In practice that means if you call multiple times because some... |
how can a company make you sign a non-compete? | The no compete clause is often written into the contract you sign when you take the job. But it can also be included in a redundancy agreement if you lose your job rather than quit. If you refuse to sign you don't get a redundancy payout other than what you're legally entitled to . |
If the best picture of Pluto was a blurry mess prior to New Horizons, how do we know so much about planets light years away? (Such as their atmospheric makeup, etc.) | Ah, the first one not being "how can we make galaxy photos" ;) We can find out a whole lot about them by observing how they interact with their star , or by their brightness we can estimate their size. For the composition we look at the absorption lines we can observe: at certain wavelengths atoms get excited by the li... |
Why is Marijuana a schedule 1 substance & what will it take to change this? | Because lots of groups lobby to keep it that way. It would take a group of people to contribute more money than tobacco, alcohol, paper, pharmacy, and other industries are contributing to politiciansThere is money to make off of pot prohibition. Police forces can make bank off of the assets they can seize from people t... |
Why is it important to save water? | The problem comes when the water usage exceeds collected rainfall in a given area, thus the amount of fresh, drinkable water for that area decreases faster than it is replenished. This is basically what happens in a drought. If you're in an area that receives a lot of rain, it's unlikely to matter as much. But living i... |
Why do people who suffer from Tourrettes use curse words for their "tic" more than normal words? | From what I understand, it's only a certain type or subset of Tourrette's known as coprolalia. |
What does "there is a 30% chance of rain" really mean? | Given 100 days with similar conditions, 30 of them will experience rain"30% chance of rain" could be almost anything. "30% POP" stands for \'probability of precipitation\' and, in North America at least, is defined as 1/100th of an inch of rain will fall in a single spot, where the odds for each spot are averaged over ... |
the whole "you can get paracetamol for 25p in the shops but the NHS has to spend £10" thing? | For any other Americans who are confused, paracetamol is the British term for acetaminophen, aka Tylenol.I can't comment in that specifical situation, but there are cases where filling a prescription for an OTC drug would be a lot more expensive than purchasing the drug off the shelf. Part of it is the cost the pharmac... |
Why is editing software so expensive? | Supply and demand. There is a high demand for professional level software and not a lot of options. And if you look at almost any profession, the tools of the trade are often expensive but people pay the price because that is what they need to make money. Also note that many software packages have a student version tha... |
why do fireflies glow and only glow for a few seconds. | Fire flys only glow for brief moments when they feel happy. They can only use it for a few seconds before they're depleted. Just like if you started jogging and got tired and walked for a portion. The fire flys live life each and erry day glowing for happiness and it's they're only true cause. |
What happens when no one buys government bonds? | The offered interest rate increases or the sell price decreases, both of these increase the yield. The yield keeps going up until the country can sell the necessary quantity of bonds, someone will eventually buy the bonds. |
How come cats can face off with animals way bigger and deadlier than them (like bears or crocodiles) and still manage to scare them off and assert dominance? | In ecology there is a concept that animals balance trade offs when foraging. For example, for a bear is risking getting his eyes gouged out by the cat worth killing the cat or take the cat's food? Most likely not. |
the difference between Electric Potential and the Electric Field. | They are related. The electric field is the strength of eclectic force on a charged particle that depends on its location. For example, the electric field close to an electron is stronger close to the electron than farther away. An equation that represents an electric field can be thought of as a kind of "map" of where... |
If someone sends me a text message, in for example California, how does the system find where I am and deliver the text message? | you phone logs onto the cellular system by broadcasting a signal "here i am! here i am!" and the nearest cellular tower broadcasts back "i got you!" if there is a text or call for your phone, the systems directs the data to that nearest cellular tower and tell it "broadcast this message to LWielkiewicz's phone" "ok got... |
Why does Victoria's Secret have soft-core porn commercials that seemed geared towards men when their main clientele is women? | Actually Victoria's Secret shops were made for men. Wikipedia article: "Eight years prior to founding Victoria's Secret, Raymond had been embarrassed when purchasing lingerie for his wife at a department store. Newsweek reported him looking back on the incident from the vantage of 1981: "When I tried to buy lingerie fo... |
I often hear that the US has the highest corporate tax rate in the world. I also often hear that many large companies like ExxonMobil pay no taxes at all. Is either true? | Both are true. The US has the highest statutory tax rate of OECD countries - 39.1%. But with the large numbers of deductions and work arounds available the effective rate is closer to 25% **on profits** What companies like Exxon do is cleverly shift their money around so that, on paper, it looks like they don't make an... |
If Japanese is read right-to-left, why is Mario played left-to-right? | Japanese itself isn't necessarily read from right to left. Actual sentences are read left to right, top to bottom. The only time it's read right to left is when the text is using the traditional tategaki system . Similarly, manga is read from right to left by tradition, although the actual text reads left to right unle... |
Why are Graham Crackers or Tim Tams or Perky Nanas geo-restricted? Why are popular snackfoods not just sold everywhere? | Some of the geo-restrictions are legal ones and some are simply the local tastes not matching up. Different cultures like different things. |
Why do our ears pick up noise in complete silence? | here's a room that's absolutely silent. people can't stand to be in it for more than 45minutes. _URL_0_ |
This is kinda a fucked up question, but why was there no blood in the video of the shooting? | - 1: Poor camera quality.- 2: Gun shots will be obscured by clothes and it will take time for blood to _seep_ through.- 3: People don't gush blood in squirts when hit by a bullet unless you hit a major external artery. |
When to use heat vs cold on an injury? | It's a matter of increasing or decreasing blood flow: if you have a bruise, you want to reduce the blood flow, if you have some kind of stretch pain, heat might move more blood to the affected area", 'Let me give you two injuries to explain this. A strained quad and an ankle sprain. With the quad strain, you would want... |
How can companies like Nissan and Tesla sell electric cars everywhere, but car companies like VW and Fiat don't? | Some states, particularly California, have mandates for a certain number of zero emissions car sales. Automakers who need to meet these quotas build or farm out construction of these electric cars, often barely breaking even or having a slight loss. Nissan and Tesla aim their electric cars at a wide market, so they've ... |
How do fruit flies appear seemingly out of nowhere? | Their eggs are microscopic and everywhere. They are in your trash, your garbage disposal, on your produce, and fruit flies are even able to get through window screens. If there is any good place to lay eggs they will propagate en masse. This means, dirty disposal, trash, food left out. If you have a fruit fly problem: ... |
If the UK economy is improving, why propose raising interest rates? | When an economy is going full blast there are many opportunities for investment. There are more possibilities than there is money available. Money is rationed by charging interest for its use. If a project has good prospects for a good return then it will be worthwhile investing the money and paying a higher interest r... |
How do 28, 000 FPS cameras work? | They take 28,000 pictures per second. 28,000 fps pictures don't magnify, the lens does that. If you have a good enough lens you can get very detailed images of things that are very far away or very small. When you take a video at 28,000 images per second, this allows you to play back those 28,000 images per second at a... |
Why are airport fire trucks so different from "regular" fire trucks? | A regular fire engine or ladder truck doesn't need the same level of equipment or face the same threats. A regular fire engine only needs to carry about 500 gal of water, is going to be reasonably close to a hydrant or can call out for a water tanker truck. Most fire department call outs are for medical issues, vehicle... |
Beef farmers, is the fatter the cow, the better? Or is there a limit beyond which the meat has such high fat content it's market value starts reducing? | Not a farmer, but I do know a little about this subject. "Better" is a relative term. Better than what? Generally, for beef, *better* will refer to the fat content and tenderness of a cut of beef. As far as fat goes, it's not just the amount of fat, but how the fat is distributed that is important. Have you heard someo... |
Music preference. Why do we prefer certain sounds over others and how do they get that way? | Yes. Someone please explain why I actually enjoy Ke$ha despite every instinct telling me not to.I've heard that how much we like music is greatly affected by our familiarity with it. So, if we are in a situation where we are forced to listen to a lot of country music, we become familiar with it and that causes us to en... |
Why haven't we visited moon since 1972 | We haven't really needed to. A moon mission costs a huge amount of money and puts the astronauts' lives at risk. Unless we have good reason to go there then we don't go. It's just that we haven't really had any reason to go there since 1972. |
what would happen if there only existed one currency in the world. | It most likely will never happen. Look to the Euro-zone to see what happens on a smaller scale. By having the Euro, individual countries lose control of their money. Spain can't print Euros because everyone else will get angry at them. Countries that are run poorly drag down the countries that do well . There's so many... |
Fed interest rates. Why the interest rates are more wacked then ever. | Banks are expected to pay back their loans roughly 100% of the time. In the unlikely event that a bank declares bankruptcy, it is likely that the government will step in and provide assistance. Individuals can miss payments, make late payments, renegotiate terms, leave the country, die, or declare bankruptcy. So the ba... |
Can anyone tell me what part of the Constitution the President has actually violated? | Eh. All opposition states that the President is "overstepping their constitutional authority." They said it about Bush as they said it about Obama as they said it about Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter, etc The same thing happened, say, under Bush: it was "unconstitutional" to go to war, even though a declaration of war w... |
What is a cookie (internet, not delicious food item)? | It's a small piece of data that a website sends you and you store on your computer. Generally used to track something from the server about you. Good examples of this might be authentication cookies. The server sends you some information that proves to the server that you're logged in and what account you're logged int... |
Why does residual coffee/tea in a cup generally only stain in a ring where the liquid meets the air? Is this some sort of reduction/oxidation product? | Someone else might have a better answer, but I think the reason is simply that at the edge is the only contact point of liquid & mug where the water is evaporating, and it leaves behind a deposit of tea/coffee as it doesBecause that is where the coffee dries, depositing the sticky solids on the side of the cup. |
How is money that exists online confirmed as real, and how does a company like PayPal obtain a reputable status as a mover of such electronic money? | It's actually a lot simpler than you think: money doesn't "exist online." There's no electronic money, so no problem. Instead, companies with a web presence really work just the way they always have: when you have an account with them, the "balance" you have represents only an *obligation* they have to pay you. They ma... |
How do places legally get schedule 1 drugs for clinical trials? | If the trial have been approved by the FDA, NIH and the DEA . The researchers are entitled to purchase the otherwise illegal drugs from regulated chemical suppliers . Although most of the time, these companies do not produce these chemicals from human consumption in clinical trials, most of the drugs are used to calibr... |
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