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What is the difference between the Lobby system in the US, and corruption? | Lobbying is ensuring a politician knows your side of the argument. Corruption is paying money for their vote. It does become a grey area when such things as meals and trips are provided to ensure a politician is fully informed and these are paid for by the lobbyist. Or if a politician asks about positions which may be ... |
How does your body decide whether you are going to throw up or defecate when you are ill (i.e. food poisoning, stomach virus)? | Your body doesn't "choose" whether or not to throw up or poop. For example, if you have a problem with your large intestine, you will probably poop. If you have stomach flu, you will probably vomit. It depends where the problem is. |
Why are EMT's paid so poorly when their jobs are so important and demanding? | The training for entry-level EMTs isn't high, and there are a lot of them out there. Because the pool of labor is large, and there isn't a high barrier of entry, companies can pay them little money. Paramedics, or those with high levels of training can make A LOT more. |
Braco and his Gazing. I'm confused as to what this is | For those who don't know what this is , I assume op means this: _URL_0_ As for what it is: it is nonsense, like every other faith healer . |
What is a Palestinian and what is an Israeli and if they really "exist" (Follow up from Newt Gingrich) | All nationalities are "invented"; if arbitrarily lines on the map had been drawn differently, the nationalities we have today could easily be much different. So yes, the Palestinian identity was invented, but this isn't at all importantPrior to the mid-1950's, "Palestinian" referred to Jewish settlers in British Palest... |
When drinking through a straw, why can't I sip the last of the drink? | Straws work by creating lower air pressure in your mouth than exists outside your mouth. The air pushes the liquid up the straw. If air is able to get up the straw directly, it will without pushing the liquid. By sucking quickly, you can get the fluid to bridge the gap of the straw, but sipping doesn't create enough su... |
Why can't we use our eyes independently of each other? | Because you would lose depth perception. Your brain needs images from both in order to figure out how far away things are, so you're hard-wired to move both in sync. Some species, such as chameleons, actually can move them independently, but still bring them back focused on the same point before hunting.I can do this. ... |
Karl Marx's 11th thesis on Feuerbach | I think the idea is that most of philosophy isn't applied philosophy, so they observe the world as it is, instead of exploring how it could be. Marx is concerned with what is bound to happen, while most of the philosophers before him are only concerned with how the world is. Marx is more concerned with the shift of pow... |
Why are states opposing Obama's Clean Power Plan? | I live in Montana, and here in Montana , a lot of people make their living off of coal mining. Our leadership, therefore, are afraid of upsetting their constituents by banning the thing that makes money for those constituents. For better or worse , our state economy is closely tied to the coal industry. So most states ... |
Are bees in danger? What does that mean to us? What are actions that an everyday person could do to help? | Bee populations are in decline as can be seen in [this] data from the USDA. This is a big deal because bees pollinate many billions of dollars worth of agricultural goods for free each year. Their economic value is massive to the agricultural sector. There are several reasons why bee populations have been declining: * ... |
How did humans come to agree upon the meanings of words? | > How the hell does a large group of people come together and decide that this sound means that? Simply put, they dont. It starts like this one guys sitting around a fire and points at a rock and says "Rock" The other guy figures out what he means and also starts using the same word. Other people in other places may ha... |
Were people aware that the government was recording everyone’s information before Edward Snowden or was it just a conspiracy theory? | Pieces of the puzzle were known, but Snowden tied a lot of it together. It really started coming to light in 2006 when it was discovered that the NSA had connected into AT & T's fiber backbone with AT & T complicit support. The FSF sued over this. Prior to that, Five Eyes wasn't exactly a secret program and people had ... |
What is a 529 plan, and how would Obama's proposed changes impact it? | A 529 plan is a kind of investment account. There are restrictions and advantages, the restrictions are many but all boil down to the fact that this kind of account can only be used to save for tuition. It's the kind of thing a parent would set up for a child. The advantages are that it's better for taxes than a normal... |
what exactly is "Identity Politics" and how is it a bad thing for American Government? | Identity Politics is the idea that different groups of people should band together because the group will all have similar interests. Race, Social, class, gender, sexual orientation, religion, rural/urban, whatever. Pick a group and pick a cause. The problem with Identity Politics is that it focuses on the group, inste... |
why were governor Christie's chances of presidency were ruined by bridgegate scandal, while Hillary Clinton remains a strong candidate after Benghazi? | Benghazi was a tragedy, but the investigation did not show any wrongdoing on the part of the administration.The short answer: because the people who believe that Benghazi seriously undermines Hillary Clinton's qualifications to be president would not have supported her anyway. The most important difference between the ... |
How is Linux more "stable" than other OS's? | Imagine you have 3 bags of treats. One is Oreos , the other is Skittles , and finally Nutella . All of these treats are absolutely delicious. With Oreos, it is what you get. Simple and clean, what you see is what you eat. With Skittles they come in different colors, but ultimately are the same. Nutella, on the other ha... |
What physically happens in your brain when you forget something? | If you can't recall something, then for some reason you can't connect the neurones that hold parts of that memory together, usually because other pathways are opening up and blocking it. But really we don't have a clear understanding of how memory works. |
In theory, could we take a person and keep replacing their old/failing organs and effectively make them immortal? Why not? | Ahoy, fellow redditor. Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [ELI5: Why can't you live for ever if you replace organs when they start to fail. ] ^1. [ELI5: If dying of old age is not an actual cause of death then could one live indefinitely provided they have enough money and a constant supply ... |
How did pharmacies like CVS and Walgreens get in the season items business (Halloween costumes, Christmas lights, Beach chairs, etc.) When did the practice start? | My answer isn't limited to why these stores have "seasonal" items, it applies to why they have all kinds of non-pharmacy items. Some states have "blue laws," which regulate what kinds of stores are allowed to be open on sundays and holidays. Obviously, pharmacies tend to be exempt from those laws because it's an essent... |
How does Kickstarter prevent fraud? | But if you need 16 grand for your project, and you get 15 and put in the last grand yourself, thats effectively the same as having just set the bar at 15. I mean the bar is totally arbitrary, its just the point where you defined "yeah thats enough money to do this" if you decide 15 grand is enough and you can stump the... |
How can a 9 year old child complete enough schoolwork, that they can then legitimately enroll in college? | For these prodigy kids, they aren't going to school and sitting in class like most students. They have a private tutor and a custom curriculum to progress academically at an accelerated rate. As long as they can demonstrate that they understand the required material to pass a GED test, they'll be academically eligible ... |
What happens when someone gets their neck snapped action movie style? Do they die or are they just paralyzed? | It depends on where it's snapped. Lower down on the neck could result in quadruplegia, higher up towards the brain stem results in paralysis that includes the lungs. It's not a very nice death, you are suddenly trapped in your own skin, unable to breathe, and you get to feel yourself die over a period of several minute... |
What is the physical reason behind hiccups? | Your diapgram helps move you lungs so you can inhale and exhale. Its a muscle and when it spazzes or twitches just like any other muscle you feel it. Thats why holding breath or slowly drinking water helps because it forces you to regulate your breathing and thus your diaphragmthey are contractions of the diaphragm mus... |
why do vegans eat things like lettuce and carrots, where the whole plant is killed? Shouldn't they only be eating plants that naturally shed their food, like apples and nuts? | Because vegans only abstain from the use of animal products. They have no limitations regarding plants. What you are referring to is called [fruitarianism]Speaking personally, veganism based in the honest recognition that the emotional and physical suffering of non-human animals is something I can empathise with.Then y... |
Would a collision with a drone cause a problem for a commercial jet? | It's all depends on where the collision occurs. A hit to the fuselage would probably just scratch it a little, considering how flimsy most commercial drones are. However, if it got sucked into the intake of the engine, then things may be a little problematic. Birds get sucked into jet engines from time to time, and cau... |
Why is GRILLED chicken healthy and fried chicken not? | Fried chicken is considered less healthy because it is covered in an oily fried salty crust -- basically a salty donut is being added to your chicken. The meat itself is not unhealthyFried = use of a lot of oil that is retained in the finished product for most traditional ways of frying Grilled = use of minimal oil tha... |
Without an existing program to be written on, how was the first ever computer program made? | Programs don't have to run on other programs, they just usually do *today* because it's much easier to write a program that says "tell Windows to display such and such a picture" than to write one that says "tell graphics processor 45876687164 to move byte 6578687562385628569 to address 587625658632565". The very first... |
Why people are arguing that gun manufacturers be held liable for shootings, when we don't have this standard for anything else. | They'll do anything they can to blame anything but the individual. If the individual is responsible, and there are so many individuals doing this kind of thing, then society's fucked up. But if society's fucked up, then there's a huge insurmountable problem. Why not just make a scapegoat out of something else that's ea... |
How can cows put on massive amounts of muscle and weight from a grass diet. But not me on a grass/plant diet? | Cows and their brethren have a rumen, which is filled with bacteria that love to eat grass. The bacteria produce amino acids and free fatty acids as byproducts, which the cow uses for energy. You're not so much feeding the cow as you are feeding the ruminal flora. Additionally, most cattle in the US are getting lots of... |
If two objects travelling in opposite directions at 3/4 the speed of light, wouldn't they appear to be FTL relative to each other? | Nope. From each object, the other one would appear to be passing at a large fraction of *c*, but still less than *c*. Relative motion is nonlinear at those speeds.No. Velocities don't actually add. Its just at small velocities that we experience in our daily lives, the difference is so small that it appears like they a... |
My partner tells me that I get a really bad case of hypnic jerk when I'm falling asleep. Why does myoclonus happen? | They're kind of like hiccups. There isn't an absolute answer. Some people think it's because your body feels like it's falling, other doctors attribute it to caffeine use or unpredictable sleep schedules. An easy to read article on the subject: _URL_0_", 'When you fall asleep, your body releases neurotransmitters to pa... |
What is an EMP? What would happen if a big one from space hit Earth? | An EMP is an [electro-magnetic pulse]. When you move a magnetic field across a conductor it generates electricity. When this EMP crosses the conductors in your computers circuits it can generate more electricity in those circuits than those circuits are designed to handle. This can cause the conductor to over heat and ... |
Could someone explain me why such thing as toll roads exist ? | It's an actually brilliant form of taxation that only taxes those that consume the service the taxes end up funding. You pay x amount every time you pass a toll booth. That money goes to upkeep the roads, so funding doesn't need to come completely from other sources such as income tax, sales tax, property tax, etc. As ... |
Why does everyone dislike Piers Morgan? | My dislike of him stems from his attitude mainly. He's awkwardly backwards and think's he's not. Take his stance on firearms for example. This fool thinks that removing guns from being able to be bought or sold to law-abiding persons will stop criminals, who care less about words written on paper, from doing their crim... |
Why is it socially/morally unacceptable to eat a certain animals? | I've thought about this for awhile. Honestly, the only conclusion I could draw is that dogs and cats are cute, and cows and chickens aren't |
Why is ionizing radiation harmful but non-ionizing radiation not? | Because it can ionize atoms. Ionizing atoms can break chemical bonds, and since your body is made of chemically bonded atoms this is problematicIonizing radiation is harmful because it knocks electrons off of atoms, causing molecules to decompose or be rearranged in different ways. The most obvious example is ionizing ... |
Why do I get sick after sleeping without a shirt when it's cold | When you sweat in your sleep, your body will cool down faster because your skin is "wet". Your immune system is lowered and that's why bacteria and viruses can make you ill. In summer at the pool, you can get a cold when not drying your skin. And that's at 30C.If you are soaked in wet clothes you should change immediat... |
How does one go about getting into the magic circle if it's so secretive? | you pay money. Magicians do share tricks. Many share them in books or videos which they sell. |
Why do the richest families not have larger families? | Actually there was a trend toward larger families among the rich. > Hinze says there is evidence that affluent families are beginning to have more children. According to the Council on Contemporary Families, there’s been a significant increase in three- and four-children families among the “super rich,” or the top-earn... |
American Law Enforcement and Military. | Ok this might get a bit complicated so I hope I can make it simple. Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, CIA, NSA, DIA are part of the Department of Defense. Homeland Security is it's own Department it also contains the TSA, Border Patrol and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement . FBI, ATF, Marshals, DEA are part of the Dep... |
How were old game developers able to playtest their games if the games were far beyond current technological capabilities? | The gaming industry and the hardware manufacturers work hand in hand in some ways. When you develop new hardware and want it to gain market shares, one of the easiest tricks is to make sure that there are products that actually need it. For a graphics board, the trick is to make the prototype available for developers o... |
Why does cardboard get soft when it's cold? | The cold might cause the water vapor to above it to fall onto it and the cardboard absorbs it. Just a hypotheses I made though. |
Why does CPR sometimes revive a dead person, and sometimes does nothing? what is the deciding factor in it working? | It doesn't revive a dead person. That's a movie thing. It's to keep blood pumping around the body until medical personnel arrive and can administer drugs that get the heart pumping again on its own. It rarely even works for that. Almost all people who receive CPR will not be revived and most of the ones who are revived... |
What is the reason for our bodies going into shock after a traumatic event? | Not sure if you are referring to the shock that comes from witnessing a traumatic event and having an adrenaline rush , or shock resulting from actually having trauma inflicted on yourself . I'll try and explain both of them. Shock resulting from trauma , which is referred to as cardiovascular shock, is caused by an in... |
Do Jews and Muslims circumcise for the same reason? | Probably. A lot of religious laws, such as circumcision or the aversion to pork, originated for health/safety reasons. |
How much time has to pass before grave robbing is considered archaeology? | I think they're inherantly different things. Grave robbing is specifically for selling and profiting off of the stuff stolen, while archaeology is specifically for the pursuit of science and knowledge about ancient cultures.[This thread] from /r/askhistorians is pretty much the best answer you could get for this questi... |
What is optimal typing technique people use for 130++ WPM? | The vast majority of time spent coding is staring at code and asking either "Why the fuck doesn't this work?" or "Why the fuck DOES this work?" Typing isn't a huge part of it to be honest. I don't think there are any programmers out there that can come conjure up bug-free code nearly as fast as they can type out a conv... |
Wouldn't splitting water molecules result in less water available to drink? | Technically, yes, splitting water molecules to get hydrogen is using up water. And technically, yes, you can react hydrogen with oxygen and get the water back. But considering the quantity of water on Earth, humans could create a great deal of hydrogen without having a significant impact on the supply. Bear in mind, th... |
Why has the murder of ~15 million by Nazism made it untouchable but Communism seems perfectly socially acceptable after having killed ~90 million? | Yeah, I'm pretty sure that communism isn't considered socially acceptable in the US, for the most part. If you mean socialism, then that's a different story. Really, even Communism isn't to blame for the deaths of $90 million people. It's the people that used Communism as an excuse to kill 90 million people that are to... |
All the main presidential candidates and what they support. | You should search this subreddit, I 'd recommend "Romney and Obama" or something similar. This is possible the most frequently asked question in this subreddit. In addition, the other 3 people, while they are technically candidates have zero chance of winning and likely won't have any meaningful impact at all. |
What's the significance of having '.com' in the address bar? | Everyone of these extensions is called a domain, and is a way to help categorize things in the Internet, and help you know what kind of site you are on, and who runs it. ".com" helps you understand that whatever website you are on is run by some company or business, which makes money, so think of the "com" as company. ... |
How do allergy medicines like Zyrtec and Claritin work? | When I was a teen, and had allergies, it was right around the time both Zyrtec and Claritin were first released. My allergist gave me a buttload of free samples, and I'll never forget what he told me: "Yeah, these two medications work, they just don't work very well." He told me to take two or three times the listed do... |
how exactly does wireless charging work? Can it replace the cable one day entirely? | Wireless charging works via electromagnetical induction. The charger has en electrical coil that you run AC power through. This created and electromagnetical field sorrounding the coil. The device that is to be charged must have a corresponding coil and as this coil enters the electromagnetic field created by the charg... |
How did the 'scum of our society' learn to cook Meth? | What once took geniuses years of research can be replicated quickly by moderately intelligent people. They didn't discover it themselves their just following instructions that a much smarter person wrote. Even an idiot can follow instructions.I reckon the majority are not coming up with cooking methods themselves or ev... |
How does a website like _URL_0_ have access to statistics for every player? | Sites like that can work in two different ways, A, the games owner provides an API, which is basically an url you can go to, and then if you provide the correct settings, it returns all the data you request. B, If there is no API, the alternative is to scrape, scraping is basically navigating to every players profile, ... |
How do we know that the laws of physics are consistent in other parts of the universe? | We don't. You assume that they are until you find evidence that suggests otherwise. If you assume they're the same and you get some contradictory or nonsensical observation, then you start questioning if they might be different. |
Why do people Riot and what do they hope to achieve? | You're right, rioting doesn't look good for the anti-Trump crowd and there are much better ways to make a point and work towards change. The important thing to remember is that the rioters aren't a very accurate representation of Clinton supporters, or Americans in general. They're just the loudest and most visible. Ri... |
Why do non-rechargable/single use batteries last longer than rechargable ones? | They don't need to be recharged every couple of hours. They need to be recharged after a couple of hours of **use**. In this instance, that would mean pushing a button on your TV remote and holding it down for a couple of hours straight, but you don't do that. You push a button for a small fraction of a second each tim... |
If dinosaurs didn't all go extinct, would humans have evolved to what we are today? | Yes, because the dinosaurs didn't all go extinct and here we are. Dinosaur descendants and their eggs are a common food-source all around the world. We call them birds. But in the spirit of what you were asking, no, it's extremely unlikely that humans as we know them would have come about in a world where the mass exti... |
Do other animals actually have “human” facial expressions (Smiles, Frowns, Furrowed brows) or is it just our minds WANTING to see facial expressions in animals? | Sure. A dog will squint different way with either pain or pleasure. We humans pick up on itI believe it somewhat has to do with a cognitive phenomena called Pareidolia - in which our brains responds to certain visual stimuli that evokes the recognition of some pattern where none exists. Please take a look at this artic... |
Why are there seatbelt laws, while I'm allowed to drive my motorcycle? | It's a safety thing. Much safer to stay in a crashed vehicle while it's safer to be thrown clear of a crashed motorcycle. |
Why is economics usually taught at the Arts/Sciences school at most colleges, instead of the business school? | Some business schools do have economics departments. My university, for example, has an economics department in Arts & Science that is more research/social science oriented, an economics department in the Business school that is more business oriented, and an economics department in the Public Policy school that is mor... |
Why is it still polite to say "Bless you" when someone sneezes? Has it just been so ingrained into society that it is rude not to say it | Supposedly, people used to believe that sneezing was your Soul trying to escape from your body, or that demons were trying to tempt you. "God Bless You" was supposed to be some kind of spiritual shield against these calamities. Historically, Pope Gregory the 1st ordered for sneezing people to blessed, as sneezing was o... |
How do game developers fix a bug? | It's not different than fixing any software development bug. Bugs can take many shapes and forms, but many of the most basic are relatively easy to fix, once you know they exist. Some are simple mistakes by the programmer, such as inverting a decision or off by one errors . Other times bugs crop up because of an intera... |
When Pro Athletes admit to using PED's (such as Ryan Braun today), why aren't they arrested for using illegal drugs? | I don't know exactly what drugs were used, but just because a drug is banned from use in sports does not mean it is also illegal to use outside of sports. |
How do fires occur in nature without human intervention? | When the grass is rather dry they can start with a drop of water hanging perfectly from a blade a grass acting like a magnifying glass. Otherwise a piece of glass in a similar situation could do it . Haven't heard of plastic doing the same, but I assume it could. Otherwise a volcano could do it. Sometimes fires can bur... |
What exactly odor is and why it exists. | I'm sorry, can you be more specific? Do you mean why do we have olfactory senses, or is there a more particular odor you want to ask about ? |
What is a stabilised GIF? | Imagine filming a dot in the middle of a white screen with a video camera. Every little shake and movement of the camera makes the whole frame move around, resulting in jiggly footage of the dot. When you stabilise it using whatever clever digital program you want, each frame is compared with the frame before, so the p... |
Why is Texas so Conservative Compared to Some Other Southern States? | Texas isn't that red any more, largely due to the demographic shift. For national level elections like president and senators, the state is only weakly right-leaning. Most of the county and state level reps are Republicans because the demographic shift is concentrated in a few cities, leaving the other counties dominat... |
Why do many Arab countries have similar flags? | Other colors are the other Arab empires. Black is for the Abbasids , White for the Ummayaads, Green for the Fatimids, and Red for the Hashemites, which were the rulers of Mecca who organized an Arab nationalist movement against the Turks. _URL_0_I mean when you think about it, how many western countries use red white a... |
How do companies that sell trees for Christmas and paper start up? | Often the company that grows trees isn't the same as the one selling them to private homes/making paper. People who sell trees often start like this: they buy a piece of forest , and then they go and harvest trees while planting new ones. If they start with an empty field and have to plant trees first, they can do so a... |
Why do people with no teeth make that chewing/gumming motion all of the time? | Without teeth, it is easier for saliva to pool between the lips and the gums. The motion you see is usually to move that saliva back behind the gums, perhaps to swallow it. |
Does Cooking Expiring Food Allow it to Last Longer? | Cooking kills bacteria, but not the bacteria poop. It's the poop that gets you. If the poop is already at an iffy level, cooking it will slow the accumulation, but it doesn't lower it. New bacteria will start adding to it after the cooking. |
Since the tailbone is a vestigial structure, if it were to be removed, would we walk/function totally the same? | yep! some people do get it removed if its too long and causes them discomfort Edit: more specifically, you dont need it, and its not involved in balance or walking. if you get it removed you wouldnt notice the difference at all, because we have other bones that are in control of walking |
Why don't magnets attract blood? | The iron in blood is not in a form that is ferromagnetic. Ferromagnetism is about how the electrons in iron are arranged when they are connected to a bunch of other iron atoms. When iron is bonded with other atoms, this arrangement does not exists, and it does not stick to magnets. |
"I used to say 'Everything is representation theory,' now I say 'nothing is representation theory'" | According to [this article] on Gelfand, it may have been all a bit of a joke. Representation Theory shows up everywhere, from practical physics and chemistry, to the most abstract math. Gelfand, a researcher in Representation Theory, would then always say that "Everything is Representation Theory". But a statement like... |
Can an entire country be sold/given to another country (without there being a war between them)? | I don't see why this couldn't happen if both parties wanted to, and PARTS of nations have certainly been sold. Russia famously sold alaska to the USA for 2 cents per acre. I cant imagine why it WOULD happen however. Due to the sovereignty of nations they can simply choose not to pay back their debt if they want, its no... |
How a wage/salary for a job is determined? | Here are a few factors: 1. How much people with similar experience doing similar things being paid.2. How much a person is willing to accept to do the job3. How much value the job adds to your company. If you make $X an hour for the work, then you determine your markup, subtract that from $X, and get the salary. |
How can scientists determine what a creature's eyesight looks like as far as the different colors they can see? | While they can analyze the structure of the human eye, they can also run experimental tests. Train a dog to react to a red ball. Teach it to react differently to a green ball. If it is unable to do this then it probably can't see the difference. Or it is stupid. |
Why is it called Real Estate? Do we have any reason to believe that it is false? | Real Estate is property that can be inherited, Titular Estate are titles that are inherited. So, for example, Patrick Stewart's son might inherit the title of Knight when he dies, but that's not 'real' estate. The properties and such that Patrick Stewart owns are his 'real' estate, and more likely to have an impact on ... |
How is lag compensated in FPS games? | There are a bunch of ways but one way is for each client to predict the future movement of other players. For example if they are moving forward assume they do until the next updated location. The server then tries to resolve different ideas of the state of the world various ways. Blizzard's Overwatch tends toward trus... |
If the moon is moving at a speed of roughly 3600 km/h how can we just land on it | By matching its speed. Ever see a movie where someone runs up beside a train that is leaving the station, matches its speed, and then jumps inside? It's kind of like that, but a lot faster, and with rockets. |
Before spoken language was developed, were humans able have an inner monologue? | Not really, a monologue is by definition language. If language didn't exist then they couldn't have been doing it internally either. There is a bizarre misconception held by some that all or even the bulk of thinking is done via an internal monologue. When you wake up in the morning and need to pee you don't need to th... |
Why are microscopic images not able to be captured in colour? | It depends on how microscopic you're talking. If you're working at up to 500x, colour is definitely possible. But if you're talking electron microscope levels, it's to do with the wavelength of the visible light spectrum. When you get below a certain magnification level, the only way you can capture an image is by usin... |
How do Ocean currents form? | [THIS VIDEO] explains it very well, and it's easy to understand. It's also more fun to watch this than read a block of text. |
Why do we plan in colonising the Mars, but not the Moon? | Once you accept that any colonizing is within the realm of science fixing at this point: Mars has visiting much closer to earth's potentially. It has water a decent amount of gravity , it could potentially hold an breathable atmosphere after enough centuries of terraforming, etc. The moon is a dry, dead, rock without m... |
How does Satellite television work? | Disclaimer: I'm not 100% sure, but this is my best guess as a techy Direct TV has approximately 19.2 million subscribers. It makes much more sense to broadcast each channel once, rather than 19.2 million separate transmissions. Most satellite dishes only listen, and do not send Sources:_URL_1URL_2URL_0_ |
Why do people with mental disabilities "rock" themselves? | same reason we rock babies. it is calming. in this case self soothing. source: ive struggled with ptsd for 4 years and this is something i do and asked my therapist about. when my ptsd gets triggered i rock and hum one sound. my therapist said what i said above. more sauce: _URL_0_Some people seem to think that in case... |
This "retirement plan" seems way to good to be true. | It's not a pyramid scheme. It's life insurance. You put money into an account and then you get it out later after they take out some fees. It grows at some rate that will be higher than zero. The benefit of this option is that it grows tax deferred, same as your 401k or traditional IRA. What is not great about it is th... |
Why can light pass through transparent and (partially) translucent objects, but are blocked by opaque objects? | Light is part of a much broader spectrum of waves . Different types of waves are different sizes. Depending on how a material is structured it may be able to reflect or absorb very specific sizes of waves. Since you have already referred to optically transparent things, we can start with glass. You see that it is trans... |
How do we know ‘original’ artefacts/paintings in famous museums are in fact the originals? | Sometimes they'll take a sample of the paint to have it analyzed. If a certain dye used hadn't been invented yet then you know it's likely a forgery. After the first atomic bomb was dropped cesium 137 and strontium 90 were found in much higher concentrations in nature and are absorbed by all living things including the... |
If crime statistics are based on arrests then won't NYC see a dramatic drop in crime because the NYPD have stopped arresting people? | Crime statistics are generally based on reported crimes, not necessarily crimes where arrests are made. The statistics may dip some as police fail to take reports for crimes that are committed on the street level, but the major crimes would still be getting reported.Col-fancypants is partly right, faloi is wrong. Stati... |
Why does glossolalia (i.e., tongues) occur in religious contexts? | Pressure to conform cause some people to fake it. Other times, just believing something is real is enough to make our body act as if that thing is real. By telling people to expect pain from something that's not going to actually do anything to them, people will still often feel significant pain. So when you have peopl... |
How does heat affect laptop performance? | It doesn't until the laptop gets to a certain point. Once it gets really hot, the computer will slow itself down to cut back the amount of heat being generated, as a way of avoiding damage.The hotter an integrated circuit gets, the slower it gets . This is particularly an issue for high power devices like the CPU and G... |
whats the difference between mayan and aztecs and native americans | **Native American** - a general term used in American English for the vast majority of indigenous populations in the Americas. Technically excludes the Inuit, Aleut, and Yupik in the Arctic. In Canada, the preferred term is First Nations . In Latin America, *indios* and *pueblos* are commonly used. **Aztecs** - The Azt... |
Why are preorder sales suddenly seem so important to video game companies? | Sound financial planning - money now is ALWAYS better than money later. Look it upThere's a couple of reasons. First, it helps generate a "hive mind" mentality "Ove 1 billion of game X pre-ordered, get yours now!" It's a relatively decent gauge of where sales will be, pre-orders are essentially sales in the bag from th... |
Why do some documents have an almost blank page labeled "This page was intentionally left blank."? | So you don't think it was a copy error. I used to work with confidential materials. We even had to hand write it on written documents.It informs the reader that the document is complete and that you are aware of the gap present in the document. Reasons for the intentional blank insert could be use as divider, a place h... |
the crimes that are being committed in wallstreet. | They aren't talking about open, put-a-gun-at-you robbery. They are claiming that the people with money on Wall St. are manipulating the markets in such a way that the little people who invest their small savings lose their savings due to "market fluctuations," while the rich people earn money through the same fluctuati... |
Why is it generally accepted that you can go at least five over the speed limit without being pulled over? | Speed cameras have a margin of error and so do speedometers. The police recognize this and typically allow a margin to avoid falsely ticketing people. After about 5mp over though, you should be out of that margin. |
Why is the default stressful dream "unprepared in high school" for so many people? | I think it's because school is the first time people are "graded" based on effort entirely within their social circle they are immersed in daily. It's not just hormones causing you to feel uncomfortable, anxious and stressed, but you also have to compare your worth against people who are your peers, which probably smac... |
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