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Why do Republican primary results bring religion into the equation while the Democratic primary results do not? | There is a large, well organized segment of the Republican base who believe the US should be governed based on biblical principals. There is a larger group who believe Christianity is patriotic, and looks for that in a candidate. Republicans tend to fall over themselves pandering to these groups. Several Republican can... |
What are the risks when I don't take a shower after sex? | Same risks your primitive ancestors for 240, 000 years have taken, not to mention most of the world. You should pee after sex, esp if female. If you don't shower you'll just smell a little extra crotchy. |
why soldiers from the soviet union always have so many medals on their uniform. | It's usually one or two medals from the actual Great Patriotic War. The rest are commemorative medals awarded after the war |
Given that we started at $0 and we are now at countless zillions, where did all the worlds money come from? | Ogg is a good hunter and kills a deer, more than he can possibly eat on his own. Ook is a really good firestarter. Ogg prefers cooked deer, which lasts longer and tastes better. Ook is hungry - starting fires is a cool skill, but it doesn't feed you. Ogg and Ook trade - Ogg shares his deer, and Ook helps Ogg start a fi... |
Why can Google search the entire Internet faster than a computer can search its hard drive? | Google doesn't do a real-time internet search when you ask it for something. It just searches its own existing database of *previous search results*, and simply shows those to you. This is done on their supercomputers so the result is pretty much instant. Your PC's speed is no match for Google's PCs speeds. |
why do I have to go to the pharmacy 12 times a year to buy birth control pills, instead of being able to purchase my entire year-long prescription at once? | 1. You CAN get it all at once, but your insurance typically won't pay for more than 1-3 months without a special exception. If you choose, you can pay for the medication without your insurance and pick it all up at once. 2. It's usually not a fantastic idea to get a years worth of any medication because you could lose ... |
Why are red and green commonly associated with Christmas? | The red most likely comes from the colour of the Bishop robes worn by St. Nicholas , and was arguably cemented in the 20th century by Coca-Cola's marketing campaigns. Green comes from plants which were traditionally used to liven places up in the winter season.A lot of the symbols and traditions of Christmas actually c... |
Why is masturbation viewed as something you shouldn't do? | Two big reasons: 1. Back in the day, people believed in a seed/ground metaphor for babymaking: The man had the seed, while the woman was the fertile ground for that seed. So masturbating was literally killing babies. 2. There was this guy named Onan in the Old Testament who was in a pickle. His brother had died, leavin... |
Where did all the minivans go? | Also small trucks. I need a truck for work, but they don't make the small ones anymore. I don't need to be able tow a damn house. |
Why do some people talk in "high pitched voice" when talking to their pets? | When I would do this I always felt the animal could hear it better since high tones carry farther and perhaps recognize that I am speaking to them since I wouldn't use that tone with anyone else. Or humans are just mental about cute things and it shows.People do it with dogs because it sounds friendlier. It reminds the... |
why does no one buy and renovate the $1 houses in detroit? | 1. The houses may be a dollar, but they're old, falling-apart, have been gutted for scrap, and are often condemned. It costs a lot of money to tear down a house and build a new one. 2. Ok, so let's say you buy a house, tear it down, and build a new one. Cool. Try selling the house for a profit. Nobody's going to want t... |
Were the Israelites really slaves? | There is no conclusive evidence either way, which pretty much tends to point towards the Exodus story being either fabricated or blown wildly out of proportion. Look up the Hyksos and the Hapiru. They were groups of people that have often been thought to have been proto-Israelites, and the Hyksos were certainly present... |
Why are there many different species of other animals, but only one species of humans? | there's several species in the genus Homo. Homo Sapiens is simply the only one not extinct at the moment. The period of time that we've been the only Hominid species on the Earth is very short though, just a a few tens of thousands of years. Thats really just a blink in evolutionary time.There were used to be other spe... |
Why the majority of animals have five fingers? | We most likely shared a common ancestor, and the amount of digits didn't help/hurt our chances of survival enough to be a factor in natural selection. |
How does pleading the fifth not equate to an admission of guilt to a jury? | In addition to the other answers here, there are scenarios under which an innocent person would plead the 5th. A good reason is to limit the prosecution's ammunition. Testifying to try and prove your innocence is stressful, a prosecutor may try to confuse you or try and twist your words. By not taking the stand, you do... |
Why do spinning objects look like they slow down and start spinning the opposite way after they reach a certain speed? | The brain obviously doesn't fire at an infinite frequency; I think we can all agree there is some finite limit for brain operations. With something complex like vision, it seems reasonable that nearly continuous data coming from the rods and cones of your eyes are sampled at some finite frequency to generate a full fie... |
How is golf filmed for live tv when as soon as the ball is hit the camera follows the ball in the air perfectly | They already know where the ball is going as stated previously, but they also aren't showing live shots. They are showing shots from a few minutes ago, so if they don't get a good angle on the ball, they will just show the person hitting and you won't see the shot of the ball.Aside from the wonderful technology mention... |
Swearing. Where did it start, why is it socially unacceptable, and who labeled certain words "bad", and why are substitutes usually okay? | crap" "poop", and so on. It's only natural that these synonyms get substituted in for the taboo words when the speaker doesn't want to say something offensive_URL_0_ No more to add when Michael Stevens already explained it. |
why does your hair and nails Continue growing after you die? | Long story short, they don't It seems like they do because your skin gets dehydrated as your body breaks down and your hair roots and fingernail bits hidden by skin are revealed as your skin recedes. Ew. |
If the pupil is a hole that lets light through why is it black? | It isn't black. But it absorbs all the light it can and the color of a substance that absorbs most if not all light is black. So it appears black.It isn't. Shine a bright light into it and you can see the retina on the back of the eyeball, mainly colored red because of the blood vessels feeding it. This is why "red eye... |
How do sail boats sail into the wind? | Basically combine the two answers you already have and you get there, but just to really simplify: You can't sail directly in to the wind but you can sail at 45 degrees to the wind and you can use this to zigzag upwind. How do you sail at 45 degrees to the wind? Two main reasons: - sails are, as others have said, like ... |
Why can't we help fight global warming by painting things like cars, roofs, roads, etc. white? Wouldn't it reflect sunlight just like the arctic snow does? | The issue with this is that the atmosphere is the problem, not so much the earth's surface. The atmosphere acts as a blanket over the earth, so when more carbon dioxide or methane is in the atmosphere, less sunlight can escape into space. It bounces off earth and into the atmosphere, hits the carbon gases and then refl... |
Why is it easier to see a white undershirt through a white shirt than it is to see a gray undershirt through a white shirt? | White stands out more against the skin color. That's why white bras show through t-shirts more than tan and other colors. Source: certified bra fitter. |
Why can I hear music and understand/create it but reading it is extremely hard? And vice versa | You just have to learn it, dude. It's not easy. Like donaldrc3 said, it's like learning another language. Nobody sits down and looks at a book of a page in French and just assumes they'll be able to understand it. Even if you were a fluent French speaker, if you'd never seen a word of written French in your life you'd ... |
What is the Fibonacci Sequence and why is it so important in Mathematics? And who was Fibonacci? | About the man: Fibonacci was his nickname. His name was Leonardo Bonacci, but he was also commonly referred to as Leonardo of Pisa. He actually contributed a lot to spreading mathematical ideas during his time, though he wasn't producing much of that work himself. He's probably most famous for writing Liber Abacci, whi... |
AES Encryption, specifically the XOR function. | I'm assuming that they're talking about bit-wise exclusive OR. If that's the case, then where-ever there's a '1' in the second argument, you will invert the corresponding bit in the first argument. If there's a '0' in the second argument, the corresponding bit in the first argument is not changed. Example: 10110100 XOR... |
In films and tv shows, how do they create fake phone numbers without them leading to any random person's number | In addition to what's been said: Nobody wants a repeat of the shitstorm that happened when ***Bruce Almighty*** used a real phone number without checking who it belonged to. |
If rigorous exercise can lead to improved stamina and strength then why does the body perceive this as a painful thing? | Working out causes tears in your muscles, its in repairing these tears that the muscle becomes larger and stronger. It hurts because you're damaging your body, it's just damage that pays off later.Hard exercise breaks down muscle cells and releases lactic acid, which is the pain signal. The muscle then grows more new c... |
The good/bad things Obama has done as a
president | Well, he found his birth certificate. Wasn't a big deal to me, but a ton of people seemed really, really concerned about it, so it must have been a big deal. Meanwhile, in Canada, we elected a guy who ran on a platform of doing a televised speech while holding a kitten. No, really, a live, adorable kitten. |
Can I lie to a police officer? | Be quiet. Ask for a lawyer. Tell your lawyer the truth. Listen to his advice. Pray. You really dont want to be in a position where you have to fuck with cops. If you think lions are bad to fuck with, cops are like, way worse. They have an unending supply of 'Fuck You' at their disposal and they enjoy using it. The best... |
Cell phones connect with each other via wireless signals but how does a cell phone connect with a land line | Cell phones actually connect with cell towers via wireless signals. Cell towers are tied into the land line infrastructure. For two cell phones to communicate, the call has to be routed over the land line to the nearest tower and then transmitted back to the other phone. With land lines, there's no transition back to w... |
How can a food illness get traced back to a restaurant or a specific item being purchased? | I got salmonella from a sushi place. The CDC called me after I checked into the hospital for it. They called me 3 times I think to interview me about what I'd eaten, and where. They tracked it down to 3 states, all with shipments from what place of one type of fish. It was pretty interesting to be part of the process. ... |
Why do bouncy castles and other inflatable large objects need constant inflation instead of just inflating it once? | If the balloon was perfectly sealed, it would be either very hard or very floppy depending on how much pressure you put in. Think of a fully inflated basket ball or a flat basket ball. Neither are very 'bouncy'. To solve this, bouncy castles have a few holes on them. When you land, your weight pushes air out through th... |
. How is salvia legal? | Salvia IS illegal in several states. Edit: Also, it isn't nearly AS illegal because Salvia has never had a mass-media smear blitz. |
How come when I'm watching a war documentary or war footage you never see soldiers being killed in battle usually you see footage of them already dead, does this sort of footage exist? | Journalists rarely are on the front lines. It's inherently dangerous. They are the ones shooting the videos, so they arrive later and mainly see the aftermath, not the fighting itself. You might find one brave person shooting video from the front lines, but most won't risk the danger.Yes, they do. Personally, I have no... |
Why we don't create our own energy for free using magnets? youtube video below | This video, and the thousands that came before it, are fake. This same scam has been around in one form or another for decades. I think it actually predates the internet. By the laws of thermodynamics, you can't get energy from nothing. It must be extracted from another source, such as the chemical bonds in oil, the ki... |
Why does it seem that within the past 5 years, the amount of people who believe in a conspiracy theory has exploded? | 5 years? Conspiracy theories have been around about as long as humans have been able to speculate and theorize. There's nothing really new about this. The internet plays a role in facilitating easier communication, but even in ancient times conspiracy theories were rampant throughout the land. Hell, there's some outlin... |
Why do we get hotter when we sleep? | If you're experiencing night sweats, its something to bring up at your bext physical. Likely just your normal body heat building up against whatever material you're sleeping on, but when I was in my medical classes I ended up finding out I had a blood disorder that was causing me to wake up pretty frequently covered in... |
VAT/GST and why they still exist | Economic theory doesn't teach that it's unfair at all, it does say the tax burden is greater for the poor as a higher proportion of their income flows through broad consumption based taxes. The reason they are popular despite the inequality is because it is efficient. The broader the consumption tax the more difficult ... |
What's the big deal with not accepting global warming? What do people have to lose by accepting it? It's either happening or it's not, right? | > What do people have to lose by accepting it? Money is what they have to lose. Whether it is man-made or not, counteracting rising seas to save coastal cities and islands from being lost, is a massive, expensive engineering job. Massive, expensive engineering jobs that benefit so many people are jobs for government. T... |
How come curse words are beep'ed out, when violence is okay? | Different standards. You're not allowed to say curse words or show naked breasts on television, but a decapitation is fine. I can't tell you *why* it's the case, but western society is more okay with violence and violent images than sexual content. Curse words used to be up there with sexual content, but it seems to me... |
I'm one of 30 people on a plane capable of holding 150+ people. How does the airline justify the expense to fly us 30 an hour and a half? | To add to the other comments, airlines will often overbook a flight where they can, knowing that some people won't show up, so it could be that more seats were paid for than used, or that they cover their costs on another flight. |
Why is it considered rude to wear hats indoors? | My 10th grade history teacher said it's so folks could be identified.\r\rReally shitty lighting indoors meant a hat could conceal your identity fairly easily. |
Why do some couples have trouble with pregnancy when unplanned pregnancy is a significant problem more often? | Why can some people run a mile in under 4 minutes and others can't walk? Individual systems in individual people operate at different efficiencies. When you have a goal that requires two people to be operating properly, there are all sorts of potential complications. Either person can be infertile. Or they could have s... |
How does your body handle mini slivers/splinters that you cannot extract? | Off topic but contrary to what you may hear, have a cold shower, and wipe you arms in one direction only, you want your pores to close, having a hot shower opens the pores and the microscopic slivers of fiberglass go deeper into the pores which can cause more irritation. Acetone works but it can defat skin so if you us... |
Why are human senses so bad compared to most animals? | Humans don't have great visual acuity compared to some things, but compared to others we have an amazing combination of close in visual acuity, color recognition, and an ability to understand three dimensional relationships. Our eyes work great in the daylight, and complement our incredible combination dexterity and st... |
Why don't men wax off their beard? | I don't think waxing is a solution for everyone. It is actually quite stressful for your skin and could cause irritation and breakouts even after longer practiced waxing routine. Btw: the Romans used to not only shave but also pluck their hair. Cesar had always a royal hair plucker with him to pluck his body hair. |
Elon Musk's theory that we are living in a simulation | Our reality is a rectangular piece of paper and we can cut our piece of paper into smaller equal sized rectangular pieces of paper, we can then cut those smaller pieces of paper into even smaller pieces of paper. Our smaller pieces of paper look just like the big one only smaller! The reverse could also be true, our pi... |
If dimples on golf balls help them fly farther/straighter, why don't we use them other places? | I'll put speed holes on your car for $50 . I don't guarantee my work though. |
How come when I microwave food some parts of it are hot while other parts are really cold? | Microwaves don't actually heat food; they excite water molecules, which then bounce around and release heat when they collide with each other and with other molecules in the food. The more water molecules there are in a section of the food, the more quickly that section will heat up. If you heat a jelly donut, the rela... |
Do animals understand death, and how do they react to it? | If anyone is familiar with Koko the gorilla, she's on record as having expressed a lot of grief when one of her pet cats died, and was capable of expressing it though sign language. Another case is Michael, who also used sign language, and was able to recount his Mother's death at the hands of poachers pretty accuratel... |
why can't I put my medicine (pill) in my drink and drink it when it's dissolved? | Most pills, go to town. Nurses crush up pills and give them to patients whatever way they can swallow. It's mostly about taste. Trying chewing a Tylenol . Any pill that goes down is going to be broken down to its component molecules, digested, diffuse into the capillary bed and go through first pass metabolism by the l... |
why do cats throw stuff on the ground? | I can't answer for other cats, but one of my cats just simply enjoyed fucking with me. Her goal was to aggravate me enough that I would finally get up out of my chair and try to smack her. She would knock stuff off of tables, while staring directly at me, ignoring all the yelling for her to quit it, until I would final... |
Why do we find comfort in eating, well, comfort food? | It's also connected to the food you used to enjoy as a child and what you got used to eat as a child. Your confort food is that food or one with similar tastes or textures. |
Why are street lamps so tall and not lit from the ground or closer to our height? | The primary reason has to do with some physics and geometry; more accurately described as photometry. As you pull a light source away from the surface being lit, the illuminated area gets larger. Street lamps need to cover a wide area, with the lowest amount of fixtures possible for efficiency's sake, so placing them h... |
Help me understand Goth and Emo culture | Goth and emo are both subcultures/trends that revolve around feelings of hopelessness, but are directed at different things. From what I've seen, goth is more about nihilism, or hopelessness about life and people in general. Emo is more about hopelessness in oneself, and the emotions that sensation causes. This is also... |
How do you fold the fitted sheet for the bed?! | This is my personal step by step method. 1. Take one corner of the fitted sheet in each hand. 2. Sort of launch yourself towards the far end of the bed while keeping the sheets in your hands. Attempt to spread your arms while you jump.3. When you land, you should have the corners of the sheet approximately in line with... |
The jets that give off those trails in the sky? | The trails are water vapor. Burning jet fuel makes energy, CO2 and H2O. Because of the temperature at that altitude, the H2O condenses leaving a cloud trail. They fly that high because that's where traffic control told them to fly. Any plane with one of them newfangled jet engines can do this. Most of the contrails you... |
What is the purpose of war games/military exercises with other countries? Does it actually provide a strategic benefit or is it just a show of force? | It helps identify communications issues and command chains such that problems can be worked through before they're being done in a live situation. For instance, if a US Naval Admiral needs to be able to order certain units from South Korea, but the SK unit doesn't know to accept/execute those orders or the two teams do... |
What's the big deal about sex with virgins that Islamic Extremists are promised this in heaven?? | Based on what little research I've done, that's not true at all and almost zero muslims believe that. There's a bunch of muslim doctrine that they say straight up may have been corrupted and therefore no muslim has to follow them. So anyone googling muslim ideology can find that and assume they all believe that. Just l... |
What is the purpose of the scratch disk in Final Cut Pro? | I don't know specifically about FCP, but a 'scratch disk' is space on a drive that is used for temporary storage. Certain processes may need to used a certain amount of disk space, but then once the process is finished, the space isn't needed any more. You will run into problems if your drive is too full, and you will ... |
What exactly is Usenet? | Great replies. I came here to say that as a 40-year-old who has been online since the mid-80s, this thread blew my mind. I guess it's like if I asked a really old relative how to shoe a horse.Does anyone have any suggestions for a good usenet provider? |
Can doctors legally/ethically prescribe placebos outside of drug trials? How does the pharmacist fill and label such a prescription? | As a pharmacist. We don't stock placebos but the doctor could prescribe a sub therapeutic dose or a drug that may treat the condition with a low chance for adverse events |
why are diesel engines, and not gasoline engines, the norm for larger vehicles? | I remember learning in physics class how a car's engine actually only turns 30% of the potential energy into motion, and the other 70% becomes heat. A diesel engine gets 40%, but it is less immediate. Another interesting thing about diesel is that it is not ignited with a spark, but rather it is compressed to the point... |
Whats going on in Western Sahara? | It's an attempt at an independent nation. The region is claimed and de-facto controlled by Morocco, but is subject to an ongoing rebellion by the Sahwari Arab Democratic Republic, who want the territory as their own nation, and who are essentially backed by mutual neighbor Algeria. SADR is only really recognized by abo... |
why do otherwise heterosexual men molest boys so often? | When we talk about pedophilia, it has nothing to do with hetero/homosexual orientation - it's sexual attraction to prepubescent children, regardless of gender. |
Why do American politicians care if a few extremely wealthy people like them or not, rather than the low/middle class who elect them? | Low and middle class people aren't the movers and the shakers in society. The wealth, the power, and the influence flow from those in the upper class. But it goes even deeper than that When you're a politician, you have to plan for what you're going to do when you're no longer a politician. If you aren't a former Presi... |
How antidepressants really work, and how they help you beat depression? | It depends on the antidepressant but the most common work by preventing your body from reabsorbing neurotransmitters that help regulate mood - norepinephrine, seratonin, dopamine. That way they stay active in your body for a longer amount of time to stave off biological depression. They all react differently to differe... |
Where does the marijuana taboo come from? What happened to make it separate from other comerical drugs like tobacco and alcohol? | Marijuana was initially perceived by the public in the 1920's as the exclusive domain of jazz musicians. Enough said. |
How do baby birds "know" when to hatch out of their eggs? | The egg contains nutrients for the bird. Once it's expended, it will seek more food, by hatching. |
What does your mental illness feel like? | Mine feels like i'm eating cotton candy while do a insane backflip with my bike, life's so happy, but sudenly, it just starts feeling like when you've lost your granny.It feels like wanting to go home and crawl under your covers but you’re already there and home is a fantasy and you don’t own a bed or covers |
Why is Caitlyn Jenner prized for choosing to identify as a woman, where Rachel Dolezal is criticized for choosing to identify as African American? | [This is a very commonly asked question], so it has been removed. /r/asktransgender may also be helpful. It's fine to re-post questions, but please indicate that you did a search and that previous questions/answers didn't help you understand. |
How does the Old or New Testament explain extinct animals such as dinosaurs or mammoths? | Unless you count the great flood, I don't believe it does. The Roman and pre-Roman era didn't understand the concept of extinction as well as, say, the Native Americans. |
Why are doctors offices and diagnostic clinics constantly behind schedule? | Speaking from a physician's point of view, the biggest issue is insurance limitations and patient demand. The insurance companies only pay for certain amount of time and the patient demands more because any less and they feel like the doctor isn't attentive enough. Medicine has become more about patient/costumer satisf... |
Can someone explain the difference between dwarf, elf, gnome, goblin, and troll please? | Dwarves are short human-like folk, generally good-natured but gruff and aloof. They live deep in the mountains to preserve their secrecy. They're stocky, bearded, ugly and industrious. They often have complex societies, but they keep to themselves so we don't know much about them. Elves are miniature people . They're m... |
How do restaurants make their fajitas sizzle so much? | It's because they are still ON the heat. Fajitas are served on cast iron skillets. Cast iron, which is heavy and dense, retains its heat a lot longer than thin steel or aluminum metals or ceramic plates. So your meat is still cooking as it's being brought to your table.At a restaurant I worked at we used orange juice. ... |
Why does Milka-Orea commercial calls it "European candy" instead of Milka chocolate, even though it says Milka right in the packaging? | Maybe because it's European exclusive and proud of it? I'm American and have no idea what you're talking about. Never hear of the candy or chocolate. |
How does one use the three sea shells in 'Demolition Man' movie? | I don't know, but a friend once told me that in the UK army they were issued 1 single square of toilet paper for an overnight march, and instructed on how to wipe completely with it. It wasn't pretty.Scraping is so 20th-century. The seashells are sonic cleaning devices of varying power. Left is for phantom poops, middl... |
what is TTIP, and why should be be against them? | The negotiations are secret, so nobody really knows what is going to be in it yet. However, there have been numerous allegations that the EU was planning on relaxing some European regulations to match the American ones, which isn't popular. Also, many people suspect that the EU wants to implement an investor-state disp... |
Why do we use hot water when doing the dishes? | [Things dissolve quicker in hot water], so whatever's crusted on your dishes will rinse away quicker if you use hot water.Substances resolve easier in hot water than in cold water.It's better at disloging grease, as the heat makes grease less viscous and thus easier to clean.On the flipside, how is hot water bad for th... |
How does an explosion cause death? | I'm assuming you mean aside from whatever shrapnel or debris might be flying into one's body. The impact of the shock wave on the body can be jarring enough to stop the heart or cause other life threatening internal damage. |
Hot/Cold bath and Shower taps | Imagine a rod with a hole through it. The pipes from your water source flow to that rod and stop when the hole is perpendicular to the flow. =|| As you turn the knobs, the hole in the rod begins to allow water to gradually continue its flow to the output = then == Sorry, I can't manipulate the slashes better. The middl... |
Why havent any species developed wheels? Surely its the simplest and most efficient way for something to travel. | Its not, wheels are only useful on flat terrain with very few bumps or obstacles, obviously this does not occur often in nature and legs have many advantages over wheels in terms of turning, stopping, jumping that wheels can't really give you. |
The difference between $300 Ray Ban sunglasses and $20 mall kiosk sunglasses | About $180. More seriously, there might be some qualitative differences in manufacturing, or the $200 pair might have a better warranty, but more than likely there will be no major differences other than the name and the price. Practically every brand of glasses and sunglasses are made and owned by an Italian company c... |
how would an entity be able to determine if news is fake or not in real time, and how would this not turn into outright censorship by the 'gatekeepers' | Also helps if you have a knowledge of history, geography, sciences, Law, politics etc. 'You won't believe this shocking new treatment ' That's because it's bullshit. 'Scientists hate him ' Because he's a con man. |
Why do people who jump off bridges over water die, but there's a lot of people who cliff dive everyday at greater heights and live? | The cliff diving record is 58 meters. The golden gate bridge is 225 meters. So not really in the same ballpark! Neither of these heights are larger than the about 450 meters a human needs to hit terminal velocity, but we can be sure that the golden gate bridge jumper is moving a lot faster. Additionally, much of what h... |
Why when some stickers are removed an item's warranty is voided? | The sticker prevents you from opening the item. It's holding a door shut or covering a screw, removing it implies that you've opened the item and fiddled with the insides, voiding the warranty.Some stickers are put there to show if unauthorized servicing was performed. [If so, the cost to fix is thought to probably be ... |
When saving a document on Microsoft Word "A file name can't contain any of the following characters: \ / : * ? " < > |". Why? | a", or "an". Those words are reserved for very specific other purposes in the English language, and don't function very well as namesFun fact, the NTFS filesystem does actually support some of those characters, but Windows often has to interface with other filesystems and OSes, so this helps maintain compatibility.Thes... |
Why doesn't the UK use Euros? | The Pound was, and still is, an important currency in financial markets. Lots of payments are denominated in it that aren't directly to or from the UK. For this reason, among others, changing to the Euro was unpopular in the UK, and so they chose not to |
Why are there 6 sides to nuts and some screws? | [Four-sided nuts actually exist]! They're more rare than the six-sided version , but I encounter them pretty often. They are a bit more wear-proof due to being less close to a circle, but have the drawback of needing to make 90° twists. |
Why can't I get sleepy at night even if I'm tired throughout the day? | I'm no doctor, but maybe your experience is similar to mine. I used to feel tired all day, but couldn't let myself sleep as well. I discovered that my problem was that I wasn't really tired. I was stuck in this constant cycle of not sleeping enough to get rest to have motivation to do things during the day to make me t... |
for shows like Drake and Josh that have the audience in the background that laughs and makes sounds appropriate to what's going on, what exactly are they? | In some cases, the audience is a live audience. These audiences may or may not be told when to laugh. In others, the sound of an audience laughing may be dubbed in. Specifically for Drake and Josh, all my sources suggest it's prerecorded and added in later. |
Why do some people sweat a lot when they exercise, but others go red in the face and don't seem to sweat as much? | my face gets reallly red when I run for awhile. To me, it seems like the pores on my face do not open so my face has very poor temperature regulation and thus get bright red..? I don't know its just a guess. I would like to know an answer to this! |
why obama gets so much hate from people..what did he do in his 4 years that was so bad? | Just consider there are hundreds of millions of American's and many more people outside of the country who form opinions about the guy. Now put imagine how impossible it is to satisfy all of those people's desires, especially considering some of them are only happy if they are wealthier than others or think that other ... |
How are dictator or totalitarian run countries/regions not easily overthrown by the majority of the non-supporters? | Combine the regime's control over the security forces, policing that makes it incredibly difficult to organize opposition, and backers who are invested in and benefit from the status quo and an unpopular dictatorial regime can stay in power for quite a while. |
Why does it takes a year or more for a movie to be released after filming, but a TV show can be released within two months after filming? | I think the initial process of release a TV show might be just as long as the post production phase of a film. Before a film is released, and before a TV show as aired, there are lots of commercials and other advertisements. So while both mediums are completed, they have to build up a following before releasing it. But... |
Would it be possible to bring charges against public figures who have encouraged the anti-vaccine movement? . | In short no. In long you can't charge them due to any deaths would be due to a persons choice of whether or not they vaccinate themselves or their children. You also cant arrest them for preaching this or atleast under current circumstances as they have freedom of speech, and no CLEAR OR PRESENT DANGER will come from t... |
How does my brain switch between being conscious and unconscious? | When you fall asleep, your brain activity changes massively and a single, strong wave begins to pulse slowly across the entire thing. We know what these waves look like, but we have no idea what they mean. We don't know what consciousness is or how it works, and we don't know how anesthesia even works or why it fails t... |
why do men orgasm faster when women have more nerve endings in their genitals | Most of the female nerve endings are in the clitoris, not the vagina. Penis in vagina sex results in an orgasm for about 1 in 5 women. It's not about the quantity of nerve endings, but where these nerve endings are located. |
How could being gay possibly be genetic? | > Don't they by definition not reproduce? No. By definition, they prefer gay sex to straight sex. |
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