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If heat makes car windows steam up, why does turning the heater on clear them? | When *you* are warm, your breath has water vapor in it, which condenses on the cold glass, fogging up the windows. When you run the car's heater, which blows warm air onto the glass, the *glass* heats up and no longer attracts condensation, so it clears up.Moisture needs something cold to accumulate on. When you heat u... |
How could Jackson Pollock's Number 16 painting sell for over $30M, when it basically looks like paint that fell on a canvas? | Because of the prestige associated with buying and owning a Pollock. Pollock was one of the first to do what he did, and his action-as-art schtick is visually interesting and engaging to a large audience. People value Pollock, his art, and his contribution to the art community, and the supply of his art is finite - thu... |
What would happen if a person somehow slipped into a blue whale's blowhole? | A blue whale's blowhole is only big enough to squeeze a toddler into, anything that big would become wedged, a full sized adult could not fit. |
Why do cookie dough packages say 'DO NOT EAT RAW COOKIE DOUGH', but everyone does anyways with no consequences? | Cookie dough has raw eggs. Raw eggs could have salmonella. It's rare, but it happens. The stuff you get in cookie dough ice cream most likely has pasteurized eggs in it. |
What happens to the bodies/caskets/plots at the cemetery, when their lease is finished | Cemeteries were often owned by churches, and caring for the cemetery was part of the church's mission. So as long as the church stood, the cemetery was cared for. Some religions believe that having a body that has not been desecrated after death is important to getting into heaven. I was actually surprised to learn of ... |
With all the sewer tunnels, subways and lost subways etc. How does New York city stay above ground? | Each of these structures is designed with a strong shell so it doesn't cave in. If they all caved in, yes, parts of NYC would collapse.All large buildings like skyscrapers have long steel shafts that go all the way down into bedrock. Sewer and subway are reinforced by columns or archways.Much of New York City is built ... |
Why do religions use stories and analogies to explain values and teachings, instead of stating stating them directly, which leads to misinterpretation? | Because stories and analogies are a powerful tool if you want to draw in a crowd and convince them of your words. Imagine you are an ancient preacher, standing on a market square somewhere, trying to tell people about your religion. Which do you think will draw people in more: just shouting random phrases and beliefs o... |
Adenosine is produced which leads to increased feeling of tiredness / need for sleep. Do sufferers of Insomnia struggle to produce this chemical or is there something else at work? | 'Twas oft asked about here. Ye may enjoy these: 1. [ELI5: Why do people get insomnia, and what is going on in the brain when it's happening? ]1. [ELI5: What causes insomnia? ]1. [ELI5:Why do people suffer from insomnia? ]1. [ELI5: Insomnia ]1. [ELI5: What causes insomnia and where/why does it occur? ]1. [ELI5: Insomnia... |
What would happen if the Earth started rotating in the opposite direction? (no slow down, just an instant switch) | So, /u/gm2 about seven years [ago] said that we would need about 7 trillion trillion trillion megawatts of power to stop the earth in one second . To start it up again, we'd need another 7 trillion trillion trillion megawatts, totaling about: 14x10^33 watts. Given that this amount is equivalent to the energy output of ... |
how are crime documentaries filmed without incriminating the production companies or subjects involved? | I suppose the type of documentary matters too: Can you give us some examples of what you're thinking of? |
How is an illegal immigrant able to pay taxes and have credit without getting in trouble? | A long time ago, undocumented immigrants would simply write random numbers on an application for employment in place of a social security number. The taxes are paid by the employer as withholdings from the paycheck and the social security portion is paid on behalf of the random 9 digit number. Even today, there are man... |
what's the purpose of having 87, 89, 91 type of gasoline? | There is no *benefit* for most vehicles. Your vehicle was designed with a specific octane in mind, most modern vehicles can run on other octanes, but may suffer inefficiencies for it . If you're not sure, look in your owners manual or call the manufacturer of the car, they'll tell you what the best octane to use is. Ol... |
Why is there such an embarrassment regarding sex and nudity among the majority of people? | sex discussions among adults are very rare too. It's probably the remnant of the influence of the christian church, which always taught to fear sex . This, combined with the well-demonstrated lack of self control in the average human also meant a very conservative stance on anything that could worsen the temptation, i... |
Exactly what do consultancy firms do? | Usually they find ways to save companies money. They can also find ways to save the owner time, so he or she can spend more time with family. They can also find ways to improve employee morale or employee production. Often the case, despite costing the owner or company money, consultancies will save the company more mo... |
How did Leicester City win based off of another game? | The Premier League is 20 teams, and each team plays each other twice. A win is worth three points and a draw one. The team with the most points at the end of the season wins. Going into this weekend, Leicester had 76 points, while Tottenham had 69, with three games left in the season. Leicester drew with Manchester Uni... |
How do people who live up north get through the cold? | We build our infrastructure for it. Insulated homes, insulated windows, furnaces etc. Our cities have far more snow plows then an area that doesn't see much snow and an entire response plan that goes into play when they are needed including over night parking bans, priority plowing based on major roads, bus routes etc.... |
Why is the largest bill in circulation $100? | The really big denominations began to be taken out of circulation in 1969. It's harder to transport and hide suitcases and duffel bags full of hundreds so it makes certain types of criminal activity more difficult. You also have less of a risk with regard to counterfeiting. Electronic funds transfers makes the big bill... |
How come water will break your phone, and how do companies make the phone completely water proof? | Think of the circuit board inside your phone as a complex system of roads, streets,and highways. In your car there are lines on the road to say where to go, stop signs, traffic lights, and such. Water conducts electricity which are the cars in this metaphor. Now imagine what it would be like if there were no roads ever... |
How come health insurance companies do not drive down the cost of health products and services? | Insurance companies do try to lower prices. Problem is that ones who pay too little or refuse to cover overpriced services get blacklisted by doctors. Horror story time: girl I was dating is on state medical assistance, which covered her premium to a private insurance company This insurance company was so bad that we h... |
Why isn't bread soggy when frozen and then thawed out? | Ugh, I hate thawed bread! Somehow it's both stale and soggy at the same time to me. To answer the question, bread doesn't have a lot of moisture in it to begin with so when it's thawed, there's not much 'wet' left to make it soggy. |
why are photos rectangular when camera lenses are circular ? | Basically because that's the size/shape that particular camera is designed to make the photo negative . There are many different 'sizes' of cameras - back when film was a thing you could get all different types for these cameras. Large format cameras can make negatives pretty much as big as they'll go. The sharpness to... |
Why do air conditioners on airplanes suck? | Are you saying they don't cool you down enough? I've always found them to keep me quite cool.Do you have non anecdotal evidence that they do? Planes spend most of their time so high in the air that the outside temperature is -50, so ensuring comfort, most of the time, is more about heating.They worked fine for me on my... |
Why do drug companies give some people placebos when testing a new drug? | When you want to do an experiment scientifically and have it stand up to scrutiny and arrive at real results, you follow the scientific method and testing practices. One of these is the idea of a control group. By having one group taking placebos, you have a control group that is unaffected by the actual drug, but is i... |
What US Healthcare being passed means for the income of people working and living on minimum wage, part time, or a general income of less than 20,000? | Congrats on receiving free healthcare! No, the government is not going to start stripping your income so you'll starve to death. People living near or at minimum wage will not be paying anything for the healthcare. In fact, you'll probably be receiving money from the government to help pay for it! That is assuming that... |
Who pays for airplane crash investigations such as the search for the Malaysia Airlines flight 370? | It's mostly being paid for by Australia since the plane crash was closest to its search and rescue zone. China and Malaysia have contributed though as well and I dare say other nations have chipped in in the form of sharing intelligence/data or providing search ships. |
the legality of Private Investigators | Laws very by state, but generally go as follows. PI's must be licensed by the city or state, have very strict rules about what they are and aren't allowed to do, and can face revocations if their licenses and criminal penalties for breaking those rules. PI's kind of operate as a lesser of two evils. Whether legal on no... |
Why are most of the top posts on reddit almost 2 years old, despite the sites popularity growing since then? | Changes in the algorithm for one. But I'd guess the growing popularity of subreddits has spread the upvotes across more categories than it previously had as well.A few reasons * The old algorithm for the front page let posts stay on top longer, so more people saw them, so they had more time to get more votes * Even tho... |
Would it be legal for me to open up, say, a bar and call it Apple? | Yes, as long as people won't confuse it, being you can't style it like an Apple Store nor have the trademarked logo. The Beattles record company is Apple Records, and since with Apple Inc. being in the music industry with iTunes and their iPods and what not, there were legal issues that had to be discussed. |
Why aren't all vehicles built with roll cages? | Most of it is because most accidents don't involve a rollover. If that was a concern of yours, buy a Saab. No really. Their engineers were safety crazy and those things can withstand being dropped upside down and the doors will still open. It's ultimately what caused Ford to sell them as a huge loss and it drove them o... |
Why do some people struggle to wake up in the morning after an adequate amount (say 8 hours) of sleep and other people spring up ready to go? | Take a look at sleep cycles. The brain goes through different types and levels of sleep throughout the night. Each cycle is deeper and lasts longer than the one before. If you wake up at the end of a sleep cycle, you will be more refreshed and ready to go vs waking up in the middle of a long, deep sleep cycle. If you a... |
How does my computer choose which of two network cards to use to send/receive traffic? | It is based on the interface metric score. Simply put, what is the cheapest way of getting data where you want to get it? Normally this will be your default gateway which is the first place you can send data to a destination which is not local to you. In the scenario you describe both have an IP address in the same spa... |
Why do books of lists usually have 1001 items instead of just 1000? | The lists all go to 1001. Look, right across the board, 1001, 1001, 1001 and Oh, I see. And most lists just go up to 1000? Exactly. Does that mean it's better? One more item? Well, it's one more item, isn't it? It's not 1000. You see, most blokes, you know, will be listing only 1000. You have 1000 here, all the way, al... |
What would happen if a country decides to start a war and break every single rule in the Geneva convention and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights? | Depends on how powerful such country is. US for example is I think already breaking international laws within their war against terrorism, but since they are powerful enough, other countries can't really do shit about it. North Korea then again does much the same, but they are not in active war against anyone. South Ko... |
- Why are printer drivers so large ( > 100Mb) and so specific to the model number and my operating system? | It's normally bs software, like supply meter gauges, updater services for the driver, etc, etc. That said, most any printer will generally function using an apple IIe driver . |
with modern technology that can locate a rock on Mars, how come we can't find Amelia Earhardts plane? | Finding a rock is easy, finding a particular rock, that is most likely under water, that's a bit trickier. |
Why has technology advanced so much in the last 100 years compared to the previous 1000? | Part of it is technology begets technology. By that, I mean as we develop better tools we can use those tools to make even better tools and so on. For example, even if we had the knowledge to make modern computer chips in the 1950s, we wouldn't have had the machines capable of working on the microscopic scale that they... |
Why shouldn't you clean your earwax? | Just think of your ears as a more sensitive nose. Your snot carries out bacteria, dust and the like and so does earwax but if you try to hard to blow your nose then it starts getting irritated as will your ears.Generally you shouldn't be forcing something actually inside your ear to clean it. Basically the parts your f... |
What is the difference between agnosticism and atheism? | Agnostic: I don't know, and don't think it's possible to know. There can be Agnostic Atheists and Agnostic Theists. The Atheist doesn't believe in god, the Theist does, but neither claim to *know*. As stated, Atheism is the *lack* of belief in God. That is the only common trait of atheists. Some are virulently anti-rel... |
How do your eyes blend together to form the same whole picture? | There's a cool optical illusion to illustrate that what you see, doesn't match reality. _URL_0_ In this illusion, your mind is trying to fill in what it thinks should be in your peripheral vision, with creepy results. |
Why can we not use giant air purifiers to filter the air in places where air pollution is an issue? For example putting them high up on towers? | There's a lot, lot, *lot* of air. You couldn't possibly hope to put up enough to even make a dent in the pollution and the energy required to even do that would be enormous.The energy consumed to run the air purifiers would create more pollution than they could remove . The cheapest thing to do would be to create fake ... |
Why are new mattresses so expensive? There's not much too them. Springs, padding, fabric, foam. Assembled by machines, $2000 please. | 1. They last long. Like really long. Last time I bought a new mattress was a couple years ago, when I moved in my new house.2. On average people sleep 8 hours a day. That's a third of your life. Buying a good mattress would help you sustain a healthy spine.3. Low demand elasticity. It's not like you can get around buyi... |
What does net worth mean? | It's the amount of assets left over after subtracting financial obligations . What a person or company owes is referred to as a liability and can be current or future obligations. |
Does cambering your car wheels actually have any benefit? | While negative camber is beneficial for cornering, it can be overdone. If it's to far negative like in stanced vehicles, it becomes worse than having no camber at all. If you have a 6 inch wide tire that only touches the pavement on the inside 2 to 3 inches, it would be the same as having a 2 to 3 inch wide tire with n... |
Psychologically, why do people take sports fanaticism to really far extent? | Vicarious conquest. Same as video games obsession. We're no longer tribal. We have an urge to dominate, but civilization won't allow it. |
Is there a reason to expect the same kinds of advancements in technology we had on the 20th century? | It's difficult to say. Who would have predicted in 1900, even 1940, that we would have a complete revolution in the way we utilize information? Who would have predicted in 1800 that we would hugely revolutionize the way we harness and use energy? It's really hard to gauge what we'll find out in the future, but a lot of... |
Why don't some museums or fancy churches allow flash photography? | I don't think the reason is complicated. It's because it's rude to the other visitors. |
How do Facebook videos have so many views? | Auto-play is on by default. Most people don't turn it off. One of the many tactics used to increase add revenue. |
If there's so many people who absolutely despise Comcast/TW for the monsters that they are, why can't we do something about their unethical ways of business? | I'll give you an example from Israel. We had only 3 Mobile providers that controlled the market. the prices were insane. for example, you'll get only 3GB per month, limited texts, and calls being really expensive. Each month would probably end with like a 86$ bill or even more. Than, the minister of communications made... |
If NASA own telescopes that can reach the farthest galaxies, why don't they use them to photograph surfaces of planets in our solar system? | This is from the official Hubble website. _URL_1_ The fact is that we are at our limit as far as telescopic imagery goes for bodies in our solar system. That isn't to say that we are incapable of making telescopes that would show higher detail. Rather, it is cheaper to launch a probe and get pictures from up close than... |
Why do some car engines move a little to the side when you press the gas pedal? | A car's engine is an assembly of reciprocating components that is capable of exerting a surge of torque in one direction whether if it is in drive or in neutral gears any time the throttle is opened. A motor is typically inclined to twist in one direction since many internal components can turn in the same direction. A... |
Why is it easier to make snowballs from some snow and hard from other? | Wetter, heavier snow sticks better than dry, light show depends on temps when it snows -- when it's warmer is when you get the better packing snow while when it's super cold is when you get the dry powdery stuff that doesn't turn into snowballs. |
why are germans so afraid of being proud of their nation? | I think you're assuming nationalism is a good thing. It's really not. What are the benefits of a bunch of people getting all prideful when it comes to political borders? It's easier to raise a draft. That's about it. What are some of the bad things it leads to? Well, take a look at Germany and all that bad things that ... |
Why does checking your credit score hurt it? | It doesn't, just so long as it's you whose doing it. If someone else checks your score, such as when you're applying for a credit card, the check itself gets included on your credit report, and will lower your score slightly. Your credit score is just a number that tells lenders how reliable you are, and whether or not... |
How can the United States have the highest GDP in the world, yet have so many financial troubles? | A) It doesn't. B) The median is very low. There are a few very rich elite that control everything and bring the mean way up where the majority of people are pretty poor. The wealth distribution is in the developing country range.The real reason the United States has economic problems is on perfect display in this threa... |
Why are ex convicts not allowed to vote? | It's part of the punishment for the crimes they committed. It just last forever, rather than for a set time. |
What exactly is the Large Hadron Collider and what does it do? | LHC is a particle collier. These come in all different sizes, with the smallest fitting on a desk, and the largest being LHC itself, which is 17 miles wide. Generally the bigger they are, the more powerful you can make them up to a limit. To increase the limit you have to build a bigger collider. The main body of the c... |
What is dogecoin mining and why do people need lots of graphics cards for it? | It's a fun new currency with a friendly vibe, unlike it older brothers. If you are thinking to start, enter here a nice new pool, still looking for it's first block! Come and be part of history. _URL_6_ Edit whoops link.. |
Why is it bad to end a story with, "And it was all just a dream"? | 1. Because it's an over done twist, everyone has heard it before. The fact your teacher has to tell you not to use it shows how unoriginal it is. It's like a joke where everyone groans at the end. 2. It means reading the entire story was a waste of time. Nothing actually changed. Half the people in the story probably w... |
How is work outsourced to other countries without massive outrage from the outsourcing country? | One thing to remember is that just because some jobs/industries are lost, doesn't mean others aren't gained. The US has a much larger service industry now than manufacturing. So people may have been laid off from their textile job, but there isn't much outrage if they can go and find another job without much difficulty... |
How do multiple musicians / producers split royalties? Is there a standard system? | I haven't read this in a while it was published in 93, but I remember Steve Albini breaking down some of that stuff in [this] |
Why are computers better gaming devices than gaming consoles? | Playstation 3 is on a GeForce 7 series from EIGHT YEARS AGO. Currently PC's enjoy the GeForce 15 series. That's 8 generations of computing upgrades, and remember that computing technology grows exponentially. In terms of raw graphical power, the difference between GeForce 8 and 7 is greater than the difference between ... |
Has a political or government ban ever worked? | Smoking bans seem to be working quite well throughout most of the places they're implemented.ask hitler or putin or kim-jong-un Each effectively banned all political opposition. Pretty much worked every time.Prohibition actually worked much better than people realize. While it's true that organized crime grew from the ... |
What is the point of life imprisonment? | It's for people's protections. The court and the public deem the offender to be unfit and unredeemable. Often times if they are not bad enough they take pity and give them a life sentence. So if you have a deadly virus and you put it in CDC lockup you don't release it 40 years later hoping it won't kill anyone. You kee... |
Why is there a limit on data and internet? | Because you need physical structures to store and transmit data. You can always add more, and perhaps some day we'll have the capability to make it *virtually* unlimited, but it'd still be *technically* limited. |
why are unicycles associated with circuses and not as a common transportation tool like bicycles? | Because the Unicycle does not confer any benefit compared to walking. It's not easier, nor is it much faster. Compare that to a bicycle that can easily reach and maintain much higher speeds than walking, while also allowing for more things to be carried. It is also much easier to learn than riding a unicycle. So the bi... |
Why don't planes fly straight to their destination on a map? | Look at the plane's route on a globe, rather than a flat map, and you'll see that it's usually a straight line. Then you'll understand that it's actually the *map* that's curved. Or, to put it another way, the map *curves the ground* that it's mapping. Because the actual ground that's being mapped is on the surface of ... |
Why is American Pharoah winning the triple crown impressive sports feat? It sounds like a horse just ran fast for three races (to me, at least) | Yeah and what's up with this Michael Phelps jackass? He just swam faster than some other swimmers a bunch of times. One horse won the three most prestigious events it was eligible to enter, that doesn't happen often, it's a big deal, no? |
Why did it take so long for anyone to figure out how to draw in perspective? Why was that so difficult? | There are a few types of perspective in ancient cultures. In some cases they just didn't want to paint differently. The ancient Egyptians thought it was bad luck to paint the dead without ever body part visible, hence the weird profile paintings. Greeks were painting on vases, and their methods of glazing were limited,... |
can doctors diagnose themselves? if not then are they allowed to be diagnosed by doctors from the same clinic/hospital? | Doctor. I've definitely diagnosed, accurately, myself in the past. I've also diagnosed myself inaccurately as well. Most physicians have a primary care doctor just like everyone else. However, our interactions with our doctors are different because we both share the same fundamental knowledge about medicine. My doctor ... |
Does the double-slit experiment violate the law of non contradiction? | Light is neither a particle nor a wave. It's a different thing with some wave-like properties and some particle-like properties . In most circumstances, you only notice one or the other so it's not that big a deal but variants of the double-slit experiment were created specifically to force light to exhibit both behavi... |
What does the Arkenstone actually do? | As in LOTR lore? The Arkenstone is basically the Crown Jewels of the LOTR universe. It's shiny, glowy, worth a hell of a lot, is the royal symbol of an entire race, etc. Who wouldn't want it? |
Why does U.S.A not call out Saudi Arabia on human rights violations? | Some of the comments glaze over a lot. Yes, Saudi has oil. The U.S. could change the game though since we have some of the largest untapped oil reserves in the world . Saudi has money, which is great, but the U.S. has money. The list continues so the question is what does Saudi have that causes the U.S. to actually loo... |
If I have a dream in which I'm being shot, stabbed, or otherwise physically attacked, why do I feel a sensation in my body as if it's actually happening to me? | Dreaming is an altered state of consciousness so your brain perceives the dream as real, hence why they're realistic. |
Why do we compare defence budgets between countries? | There aren't many things that are made in more than one place. You can buy a missile from a US company that's not at all the same as a missile you can buy from an Indian company. The US stuff is very deluxe, albeit very expensive. Defense budgets are about jobs, force projection, international relations, and fighting w... |
Why is the default windows disk letter C: ? | Old computer didn't have local storage, and they loaded everything from the floppy drives into their memory. The first and 'main' drive was a floppy drive, so it was labeled A. Later on, as things got more complicated, computers started to have a second floppy drive, which was labeled B. Then came hard drives and got t... |
In an episode of Seinfeld, Elaine gives out Jerry's NY phone number. It's KL52390. What's up with the letters and stuff? | Phone numbers used to be two letters and a number for the exchange, and then the four last numbers. The two letters were the first two letters of a word, so when somebody asked for your number you didn't say BU8-1234, you said BUtterfield 8-1234 . It was easier to remember Hollywood 6-1234 than 466-1234. The 555 exchan... |
When we form scabs that do not heal properly and turn into scars, why can't we rip off that scar tissue and try again to let it heal correctly? | You can kinda Scar tissue forms when there is a loss of tissue, or the tissue is simply to damaged. Even in a perfect situation there's always some damage so you're always going to have some scaring to an extent however the better and faster the wound is closed the less that will be.Which means after a wound has healed... |
Why do I usually forget what I was dreaming about minutes if not moments after I wake up? | Anyone ever drift off slow. Still awake, but dreaming. When you're asleep it all makes sense, but as soon as you wake up: Why was I taking a multiple choice test with a spoon? |
Why does such a massive airline company like Delta have to cancel all its flights because of a power outage near its headquarters? | They can't give out boarding passes, can't tell who is supposed to be on each flight, what seat passengers are supposed to be in or if they've paid. They also do their pre-flight checks on tablets/laptops and submit their flight paperwork to the FAA electronically. They've been on computers for so long that they don't ... |
Why couldn't the Arab states donate a piece of land for the Palestinian state? | The Palestinians see themselves as having a rightful claim to the land in Israel. They don't want somebody else's neighborhood: they want to go home. Also, if they took it, that would be really hypocritical. They can't be mad that another nation kicked them out to allow the citizens of Israel to move in, and then accep... |
Arrest warrants across multiple states | Cop here: Unless your warrant is for something serious, no one is going to be actively looking for you. Also some warrants are non-extraditable, meaning you'll only be arrested in the state it was issued in, surrounding states, or a certain radius. |
With the advent of 3D printers, what happens now to the China (producer) U.S. (consumer) global relationship? | In short, nothing - at least in the foreseeable future. A lot of technological development needs to take place before 3D printing can challenge the economic advantages of Chinese manufacturing. Even if you had a 3D printer that could print an iPhone in your own home , it would still be more efficient to simply outsourc... |
If the majority of people in the US are sickened by the acts of their gov't why hasn't there been any change? | Money. Powerful people and businesses want certain things, and they have enough money to essentially buy what they want from Congress. And, very often, what they want is not what the vast majority of the people want. This won't change significantly until we **get money out of politics**.It's not lack of organization. I... |
Was the 1980's a good time to live in? | Our media options in the 1980's weren't limited, they were amazing! We had some incredible stuff to enjoy, in the form of classic movies, cartoons, video games, and books. We had dungeons and dragons. We had VCRs. We had comic books and the Sunday funnies. We had classic Mad magazine. We had hilarious late-night tv lik... |
Why do some greys look blue to me, but not to other people? | Well, I don't know if there's a scientific explanation, but I can say for sure that the concept of 'color' is not a given at all, but both subjective and part of the cultural influence.. what it means is that different persons or different cultures can see the same color and call it different ways, since there's no spe... |
Why it's better to wash your hands w/ warm water | While the other answers are true in saying that it has no effect on the loss of bacteria, many soaps and handwashes are formulated and tested to have their effectiveness/area of effect increase with warmer water. Try it the next time you're by the sink: wash your hands with handwash and cold water, then again with hot ... |
What is "Reaganomics" and what major impact did it have on the US? | It's the idea that wealthy people invest in companies to create jobs. If you cut taxes on wealthy people they will invest in companies more and create more jobs. More workers are more people paying taxes to the tax cuts pay for themselves. The problem has always been with implantation. Cutting taxes today leaves you sh... |
How was Israel able to become so powerful in the Middle East within such a short span after WW2 ?? | The influx of Jews was from Western Countries, with many being from the leading nations in science and technology. In modern economies, skilled laborers are more important to an economy than anything else, and the Jewish tendency to be educated means that they had a very high proportion of skilled citizens. Also, a lot... |
Why is salt water so difficult to make drinkable/usable? | It's not difficult at all. You just heat the water, capture the steam, and condense it into pure water. The salt gets left behind. Whenever you boil a pan of salty water on your stove, such as when you're cooking vegetables, and condensation runs down your cold windows, you're doing it. That condensation is pure water ... |
[NSFW] Why us men feel the need to have our hand on our balls or dick while we watching TV in a non-sexual way? | I mostly just do the old 'cup-pinch-stretch' I guess i just feels good to stretch the wrinkles out of the ballsack once in a while..This is my educated guess, it may not be true. I have searched for a good 30 mins for a concise answer but none could be found. In this age we all wear very fitting clothing, rather then t... |
How could we terraform venus? | We couldn't. That's science fiction. Frankly, so is the notion of overpopulation. The Malthusian catastrophe has been so firmly discredited by now as to qualify as a bad joke. |
How do insurance companies survive disasters like the hurricanes in Florida? | Two answers: 1. Uncorrelated risks. Being national or global allow them to withstand a great deal of risk. While they take a loss, you need to remember that they're insuring people/organizations over such a large geographic span that large unlikely losses are almost inevitable and are calculated when charging insurance... |
Why would it/Why would it not be feasible for an established company to purchase a city (i.e. Detroit)? | The city isn't for sale. It consists of many thousands of parcels of land owned by thousands of different entities/groups/companies/individuals. And then there's a bunch of public land owned by the city government itself . While the government can sell pieces of public land in certain circumstances, they're generally n... |
How does the volume on a TV work? | You are only controlling the internal amplifier of the tv, which basically acts by adding power to what's coming into it. The volume range is the power range of the amp. However, certain shows are broadcast more quietly, so that is why you have varying levels of sound when switching channels. However, certain tvs have ... |
How can a whole country go bankrupt? I don't understand if they make their own money. I'm 5. | This can occur because of Inflation and Hyperinflation, which are explained here: [Explained like you're five!] Essentially, while a Government can print all the money it likes, that money only has value insofar as people are willing to accept it at a certain rate. Printing more money makes that currency worth less, an... |
Where did the thought of mice loving cheese come from? | Because of the long shelf-life of cheese. It was one of the few food products in the Middle Ages that could be stored for a really long time. Since mice will eat it if it's available to them, and since the cheeses tended to hang around longer than other foods, the depredations of the mice were more obvious. People just... |
How does RIAA, ESA, etc. prove that illegal file sharing happened on a specific machine?? | They don't. They need a court order to link an IP to an ISP account name. They then need a warrant to obtain all computers from that household. They then need to prove that one of those computers downloaded it. I'm not sure if the last step can even be done, I don't think there's any metadata to tell the difference bet... |
Why do you need a separate app to view Facebook messages? | it makes it easier for them to steal your data. there's no technical reason that they can't let you do it through the main app, or even the browser |
How did humans end up on islands in the middle of Pacific? How did they know there was land hundreds if not thousands of miles away? | The vikings brought ravens along when seeking new land. Those fuckers bail on the boat the minute they see land. I suppose that is how they found Iceland, Greenland and Newfoundland. All places that they didn't know were there. |
Why is my reflection upside down when I look at the back of a spoon? | It's not. It's upside down when you look into the bowl of the spoon. See the diagram /u/SquaresAre2Triangles posted.Photosynthesis engaged. Countdown to convergence t minus 62930173 |
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