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Why do news anchors sometimes change which camera they look into during a broadcast? | Tangental information: how do they know which camera to look into? In a proper broadcast TV studio, each camera will have a light on the top of it, called the tally light . This tally light is linked to the console where the programme is being mixed, and the active camera's tally will always be on, showing the presente... |
Can someone please give me an explanation and justification of the Mens rights movement? What exact is it, and why don't they like feminists? | one issue: men don't usually get to keep the kids in a divorce. They usually go to the mom. I assume that's something they want to change.Men's rights movements are simply the male counterparts of female rights movements. Both sides are unjustly treated by the other in vastly different areas, and both are campaigning f... |
what insider trading is and how congress utilizes it. | Great explanation by blackcat. Just to add a few things: Insider trading is a horrible crime because you're stealing money from the public by trading on information that the public doesn't know. The owner of Megaupload KimDotCom did this during the tech bubble of the early 00's. There was a tech company that was on the... |
; Are parents legally obligated to name a child? If not, does the state appoint one? Can I name my kid nothing like "_________". Are numbers/punctuation allowed? | In the UK you also can't name a child in a way that suggests a title to which you aren't entitled. E.g. You can't call your child doctor, professor, princess etc. Princessanne would be allowed though. |
Why can't I buy a cow leg at the supermarket to eat, the same way I can buy a chicken leg? | Supermarkets don't carry cuts that big but the meat purveyors to hotels and caterers do. When done as a roast for banquet servce it's called a Steamship Round, takes 11 hours to cook.Talk to the meat manager. If you really want one, he might be able to special order it for you. |
What is the point of the Riemann sum if the integral renders it obsolete? | The Reimann series is the eli5 for integrals. It's just way to teach the concept of an integral to someone who doesn't understand it yet. It's also a good numeric approximation that's easy to implement. If you are computationaly challenged, it's easier to calculate a bunch of areas and add them together than it is to a... |
Why do children, teens, and young adults seem to share a common anxiety towards talking on the phone? | For me, the sticking point is that when you're talking on the phone, often times that's *all* you can do. I can't vacuum and talk, or poop and talk, or basically anything and talk on the phone. It ties me down. And, I'm not suggesting that my life is a non-stop roller coaster or anything, but it's annoying that when ta... |
Why is voting turnout in US Elections so low? | * American citizens are not automatically registered to vote, unlike in others countries like the UK. Registering can be a pain, especially for people who don't have an ID or have their IDs rejected, often for petty reasons. This is especially difficult for people who have changed names . * Election days are not holida... |
Why do scientists use high powered computer models to model something which they have programmed themselves? Don't they already know the outcome? | You use a model to confirm the work you've already done by hand. Science isn't just about discovery, it's also about confirming discovery and more importantly refuting it.A great deal of science can be performed by computer modelling and simulations. For example, in [dark matter simulations], scientists can demand some... |
Why do men and women's shirts have buttons on different sides of the shirt? | Back in the day, women didn't dress themselves. The buttons were on the other side so right handed dressers would have an easier time.Traditionally, men dressed themselves, while women had someone else button up their clothing. Most people are right handed, including the man in the example above, and the person dressin... |
Why do the "Red Shirted" members of an away team on Star Trek, always die? | In the original series, gold shirts we for command and helm personnel, blue was for science and medical, and red was pretty everyone else, including security. You aren't going to kill a main character, so if you do decide to kill someone, you need to pad out the away team. There easiest way to do that was to send some ... |
What would happen if I pissed into an electrical outlet? | electrician here..a solid stream onto an outlet that doesn't have a cover plate would simultaneously hit the hot, neutral, and ground points. You would get zapped, and start to fall. With cover plate, maybe nothing would happen, or the breaker would trip. 120 volts will normally not kill you , so go ahead and do it if ... |
Why can't I burn fat and build muscle at the same time? | There is a diet that's pretty well known on /r/fitness called Leangains that aims to address this issue. It's based around intermittent fasting and calorie cycling. The gist of it is that you aim to lift weights ~3 days a week, eat a caloric surplus on lifting days, a deficit on rest days, and maintain high levels of p... |
Does losing 500 calories on the treadmill equal to reducing 500 calories from daily intake? | Sure, but by exercising you increase your leg and core muscles and your heart and lung capacity. So don't just not eat if you want to lose weight! |
How does the fifth amendment work? | Let's say you were doing a drug deal, and you saw a murder happen across the street. You can plead the 5th when asked what you were doing that caused you to be in a position to see the murder, because saying you were present at the drug deal to witness the murder, could potentially incriminate you in said drug deal. It... |
If the body burns excess fat for energy, why can't obese people go weeks/months without eating? | They can as long as they take a few supplements to maintain levels of trace metals and vitamins. It's not very healthy to fast for more than a couple of days though, a strict reduced calorie diet consisting of slightly fewer kcals than required each day is a better way to do it. |
How do pain relievers relieve pain? | As one comment already mentioned bellow, ibuprofen's primary function is to reduce inflammation. However, opioids; drugs whose primary function is to relieve pain, bind to the same site as endorphins . Morphine, for example, binds to the same receptor sites as already mentioned endorphines, and imitates their function ... |
Why do wine glasses hum when rubbed. | I'm no physicist but I'll try my best to tell you what I know. When you flick a wine glass or rub the edge, the frequency you hear is the resonance frequency. The resonance frequency, I believe, is the rate at which the molecules within something vibrate and bump into each other. What's even more interesting, is that i... |
Why my computer makes weird staticy noises right before I get a text/call on my cell? | Mine makes more than just static noise. There is a definitly recognisable pattern to the sound. I wish I knew why but instead I'll just second your request. |
The causes of WWI. | Basically you have the following ingredients. A sick Ottoman Empire that is hemorrhaging land. A weak Austrian Empire desperate to conquer new land. An upstart German Empire eager to assert itself on the international stage. A Russian Empire fiercely defensive of Slavs. A French Republic humiliated by the Germans and e... |
Why is insider trading considered unethical, and subsequently so illegal(in the U.S.A.)? | It's considered a form of fraud. To have your company's stock publicly traded, you agree to allow the trading public access to the information. Insider Trading means that someone with access to information not generally available used that information to manipulate trades to their benefit. This is fundamentally decievi... |
Why do stimulants harm cardiovascular health but increased heart rate from exercise is beneficial? | Stimulants increase your heart rate by constricting your blood vessels and also increasing your blood pressure. Exercise increases your heart rate because your muscles require more blood, so your blood vessels open up. Your heart beats faster but your blood pressure doesn't spike as a result. |
Why do so many species enjoy being rubbed or scratched? | I think it's because they are covered in hair, my balls itch and they are covered in hair. Same thing.Mammals mostly. Part of being mammal is the social interaction. Lesser mammals like being groomed, which petting provides the motions and sensation, while higher mammals like being nurtured, which also provides the cod... |
When rockets go up, they can ice up. When rockets come down, they're surrounded by fire. How come? | The don't ice up from going up, they ice up sitting still on the pad because many rocket fuels are liquefied gases being artificially chilled to extremely cold temperatures. As they take off, the vibrations and air friction start to shake lose the ice, and eventually they burn all the furl so there is nothing cold left... |
What happens with people currently imprisoned for marijuana related charges when marijuana is legalized? | I'm fairly sure they continue serving their sentence. It was still illegal when they did it, so they still broke the law. |
If cold symptoms are signs of your body fighting off a virus, why aren't medicines that suppress these symptoms bad for you? | Like you said, they're signs. It doesn't necessarily mean that your body is successfully fighting off the virus. The real threat of viruses, and diseases in general, is the symptoms themselves. Nobody dies because they're infected with something that happens to be called pneumonia; they die because of the dangerous sym... |
Does the 5 second rule actually work? | I have a hard time believing a science teacher would say but if they did that's rather depressing. In truth such a broad statement has no meaning, it would depend on what you dropped it on exactly and what kind of food it was and what contamination was present which may or may not be visible and whether the food is to ... |
why Linux is so special among Unix flavors (Unices?) | Unix was first released in 1970; Linux started about 20 years later. Why is it popular? It's free, reliable, and supports a lot of hardware. *Free* separates it from most of the early Unix implementations. *Reliable* and *supports a lot of hardware* helps make it popular.Linux is: * free* runs on cheap PC hardware* lig... |
How do people reverse engineer software/programs? | Reverse engineering wont let someone see the source code it was written in , but you can see the instructions being sent to the computer, and stepping through them very slowly get an idea how some things are done. It's a long process and not something I can explain to a 5 year old, but if you're brave you can get more ... |
How is the brain - as a physical and tactile object - capable of 'creating' intangible thoughts? | While we do know some of how the brain works and what happens where, we don't actually know why some things happen. Similar to the ear, we know whays in it, but some things haven't had enough research to figure out why |
Why doesn't our body activate self-preservation mechanism when people have suicidal thoughts? | See onyourkneestexaspete regarding that it does. However, let's assume someone's life is so desperate, they feel they have no alternative. From an evolutionary standpoint, this individual is far more likely to 1) Not be well equipped to handle their environment, 2) Not be emotionally stable, 3) Not be attractive as a m... |
How do fans collect so much dust even though some are spinning almost all the time? | All these replies about static are good but a lot of the reason is that the top of the fan blade experiences drop in air pressure. This low pressure zone forces the dust onto the blade. The greatest pressure difference is right behind the leading edge, this is where you'll find the most dust.dust particles in the air s... |
If telomeres shorten with every cell division how is it that we are able to keep having successful offspring after many generations? | There exists a jellyfish, dubbed the immortal jellyfish, that not only stops cell aging, but at a certain point, reverses biological growth to become a baby again. Then it reverses once more to become an adult. It's not known if they can live forever or not, because we haven't has enough time to observe them. |
Why is it that we prefer another animal's breast milk over that of our own species? | From what I have inferred, human breast milk is actually sweeter and more rich than milk from our high - producing ruminant species . I don't think it's that we prefer milk from other species, it's just a culture we have become accustomed to over the years. So human milk is actually more tasty. Dairy from other species... |
High School in the U.S | As someone who was also born in England but moved to the States before Year 8 there was definitely a bit of a culture shock, which was something I wasn't expecting moving to another English speaking country. One of the biggest changes was seeing that school was based more on being a social experience than an academic o... |
Why Aren't Supreme Court Cases Always Filmed? | Basically, the court doesn't trust the media. They only started releasing the audio tapes after intense pressure in the late 90s. Good article on the subject: [TheWire] |
Why can bands use child nudity on their cover art, and not get slammed with a "child pornography" label? | In the same way that you can have a naked person in a statue or painting and have it be art and not pornography, you can have a naked picture of a child without it being pornography. Tons of parents have pictures of their babies naked - that doesn't make it child pornography. Still might not want to get it developed at... |
when someone transitions from male to female and changes their legal name and gender, how do they prove they were the other person before? | the process is different from state to state. some states allow for change of name and gender by court order, some by doctor's letter. some states will allow you to change the gender on your birth certificate, some dont, some allow you to change it only if you have had reassignment surgery. i live in california, so my ... |
How do mining companies know where to make mines? How do they say: "Hey, there's a lot of gold/silver/platinum/iron underground" without making a mine? | On the simplest level, they use machines to produce seismic or magnetic data to roughly figure out what's what. Then most of them pump that data through this [company's software] to map it out. Then they take best guesses and drill for samples. When they like the samples they've got, they build a mine. |
why does the sun seem to move faster when it is setting? | There are a couple reasons. Number one is, as many people have already mentioned, the lack of reference points in the sky. With nothing to see the sun against, your brain cannot judge its movement accurately. Number two is that your eyes tend to overexaggerate vertical motion and sizes. A prime example of this is the G... |
Why do our bodies think that when we're nervous or scared it's a great time to urinate? | Fight or flight, your body doesn't want to fight but it can't escape so if something was going to attack you in attempt to put it off you expell urine in the hope it won't want to eat you any more. Another view is to literally lighten yourself so you can tap dance yourself to safety away from the danger. |
How can we communicate instantly around the world via cellphone, however when news broadcasters communicate on TV there is always a delay? | All these signals travel at the speed of light. However, when you use your phone, it's connecting to a cell tower, which then transmits the signal into cables, underground or above ground. The signal here is slower than light but the distance is very short. A signal takes less than half a second to travel across the pa... |
EILI5: If Switzerland was 'neutral' during the war, why didn't the Nazis invade shit out of them? | The neutrals are a distraction from Nazi Germany's main war goals. Specifically, having Switzerland or Sweden doesn't really help Germany defeat the Soviets. Besides, having everything around Switzerland is good enough. The Swiss and Swedish have two choices - complete isolation, and trading with the Nazis. Either choi... |
Why do so many people regard the humanities as more or less completely useless? | It isn't a waste of time if that is what you enjoy. Just don't protest wall street when you cant get a job in art history. |
What would have happened if the US government had not bailed out the banks in the 2008 crisis? | It's tough to say. It would have been bad but probably not a complete collapse. What people don't realize is that the bailout was about stabilizing the system *quickly* and trying to minimize the damage. The institutions that were going to completely fail already had the rest would have stabilized out *in time*. So you... |
How does a person make themselves "sober up" a little when they try to act not look drunk, high etc. ? | A lot of the way drunk people act is just social conditioning. People drink as a way to give themselves permission/an excuse to let down their inhibitions. A lot of drunk people can force themselves to walk/talk normally, sit up straight, keep an alert expression on their face, if they simply use a little extra willpow... |
Why does food from restaurants taste so much better than food I make at home? | savoury", and "creamy". Regarding the last point, here's [a great clip] from Penn and Teller's "Bullshit!", where they use plenty of not-so-amazing ingredients to make so-called gourmet food. **EDIT**: One more thing. There's a bakery near me that has a chemist for their head pastry chef. The results are mind-blowingly... |
How can someone be overqualified? | If you're working a job beneath your skill/payment level, then you're probably going to be looking for another, better job. Once you find it, you'll jump ship. Companies don't want to waste months training a guy only to have him leave a few weeks later because his dream job opened up.Let me answer your question with a ... |
how someone can be sentenced for 900+ years? | For each of his victims, he got, pretty much, a life sentence - in technicality, these would all add up to 900+ years. Will he finish it? No, he'll die pretty much for sure. |
When, and when don't, antibiotics work? | Yes there is a huge problem with doctors prescribing unnecessary antibiotics. It's much better than it was even 5 years ago but it's still an issue. Bacteria are amazing at adaption and can do so quickly. They have such a short generation time but also because of horizontal transfer. Bacteria can exchange genes without... |
Why do some radio stations seem to go in and out of range when driving very slowly? | Radio waves start out expanding in a sphere from the transmitter. However as they meet the chaos that is the world, especially in a city, they start reflecting and refracting off things. This results in certain areas where the signal meets itself. Sometimes they will add together and make a stronger signal, others they... |
Why do most businesses have a 1-800- number? | Others have mentioned the point about toll-free/free phone numbers, so I will just add that having a 1-800 number helps to make a business appear larger and their number more memorable. Most small and local businesses don't have a 1-800 number. Not because it's particularly costly or hard to get, just because having a ... |
Why Are Nvidia's GPU chips ideal for Deep Learning while CPUs like Intel's are not? | The biggest difference between CPU and a GPU is that CPU is designed for general purpose computing, meaning it's supposed to be able to handle large amount of different tasks and change between them quickly. A GPU is more like a Chinese sweat shop, where you have tons of cores doing the exact same thing over and over a... |
How are Political Action Committees (PACs) legal in a democratic state like the USA? | It's a first amendment right. If people have a problem with the government, they have the right to assemble and petition it to change. I think you might be referring to super PACSs or large corporations lobbying the government. Well corporations aren't all evil, they're successful because people buy their goods and lik... |
Can you strengthen your vision? | Here's what I found. No. > Eye exercises will not improve or preserve vision or reduce the need for glasses. Your vision depends on many factors, including the shape of your eye and the health of the eye tissues, none of which can be significantly altered with eye exercises. The computer screen thing is a myth, address... |
What would happen if the US were to lose its power? | Do you mean it's power as in electricity? Or it's power as in place in international politics? |
Why does your browser put "20%"s in between your words when you type spaces in the URL bar? | Some characters are not allowed in URLs, or are reserved for special use. In order to incorporate these characters in URLs, they are replaced with unique character sequences, using a method called [Percent encoding]. Each character can be replaced with a 2-digit hexadecimal number preceded by a percent sign. So for exa... |
How come the Jewish Faith no longer present burnt offerings on the day of atonement? | Because in Judaism, sacrifices may only be given at the Holy Temple. While there is a very small contingent of Jews who believe that now is the time to rebuild the Temple, there are obviously tremendous problems with that. Currently, there's virtually no chance that the Israeli government would allow anything close to ... |
Does repeatedly hitting the snooze button in the morning provide any sleep benefit, or does it just prolong the agony of having to get up? | Just personal experience here, but I've found that setting an alarm for around 40 mins before I plan to get up, then sleeping that 40 mins, gives me more vivid memorable dreams. And I like dreaming :) |
How do they generate oxygen for astronauts on shuttles and the ISS? | It actually doesn't take much oxygen for us to breath normally either. Remember the air at 1 atmosphere of pressure is only a few % oxygen, the majority is Nitrogen which we respirate without interaction. IE N goes in, N comes out so you don't really need to replenish it. The problem in space capsules is CO2 which can ... |
In an airtight room, how many plants would have to be present to produce enough oxygen for one human to survive? | Quick back of envelope math: Normal minute ventilation is ~6-8 liters. Let's use 6 as a minimum. 6LPM x .21 is 1.26 liters of oxygen per minute, or 75.6 liters per hour. So we'd need enough plants to generate that amount. Quick googling shows that leafs produce about 1.2 mL of oxygen per hour per cm2 of area. I have no... |
Why time travel cannot exist | We still can't really say that time travel is impossible. We have a lot of suspicions that it is impossible and a lot of arguments for why it is impossible however we don't know. Firstly it is impossible to prove a negative. Secondly we don't have a really robust model of how the universe works that covers everything .... |
Why can't computers store data without fragmenting it? | Alright from what I'm seeing no one is touching on the subject on the Filesystem driver. Computers CAN store data without fragmenting the file. Its all about the design on HOW the computer stores the files. Now when a computer is writing data it goes through some layers of Software to get there. Something VERY basic is... |
What's the hold up with the ability for residents to text 911 for emergencies? Is it a technology-related problem? Jurisdictional? | It costs money by private cell providers to implement that system,. And there's no profit to be made. The only reason they would do it is if the law demanded it and the gov was going to pay to costs of it. |
What is the deal offers of Free Credit Checks? What is the scam going on? | A lot of them are scams trying to get you to type in personal information. However, by federal law, you are entitled to one free credit report every year from each of the major reporting agencies . I believe the site to access that is _URL_3_. Don't trust any other offers. |
Why does the human body continue to store fat to the point that it causes serious and life-threatening health problems instead of excreting it as waste? | It's an evolutionary advantage that's going overboard in the modern day. When humans had to hunt for food on a daily basis, it meant that some days you didn't get to eat. On the days when you got something extra, your body would store it for one of those non-eating days - your stored fat would then get burned off as ne... |
The difference between bees, hornets, wasps, and yellow jackets?? | Bees are your friends, they make honey and are awesome. If they have to sting you they'll die after. Yellow jackets and wasps are similar species that are full of hatred and malice. They revel in nothing more than causing you pain and agony. .. and they can sting a lot |
How do space agencies keep up with new technologies in their projects/missions? | Unless an advancement is revolutionary, or if it solves a critical problem that was not known before, its generally not worth it to change anything. Once you have equipment that will function, space missions are actually simple, and don't require the most modern technologies. |
Why is Australian Internet so bad and why is just accepted? | From an internet point of view ADSL or nothing comes from the fact that we have been on a copper network since forever. It hasn't been upgraded because it was never much of a political or business focus. We always got our media behind everyone else, all the major players in the field didn't see the value in investing ... |
why download speeds are always faster than upload speeds | I would assume it's because most people do more downloading than uploading? When you want to view a website, you send a very small packet of information. That's the upload part. It doesn't need to be fast super fast. The response you get is viewing the site and downloading all of the parts. This could be a few kb for a... |
What is the significance of having to list Mothers maiden name when filling anything out? | It's something that you will know, but most people would not so it's a uniform piece of data that can be used as proof of identification. |
If two notes are played together at equal volume, is their sound twice as loud as the sound of only one note? | Short answer: no. When two notes of equal loudness sound simultaneously, their energies will add together. But our ears do not perceive the energy of sound as its loudness in a one-to-one fashion. There is what is called logarithmic relationship. Let's assume audible loudness of a sound source to measure as 1. In order... |
Why can't my 10 year old notebook play youtube videos (in 480p) without heavily lagging anymore? | Because of bloated updates. Every software developer assumes you're going to constantly update your hardware and connection, so they keep putting unneccessary stuff in their software that means your computer needs to recieve and process a lot more data to get the same content. |
Why does your saliva taste different when you have the feeling of having to vomit? | Before vomiting your mouth will secrete a lot more saliva to protect itself from the acid that's coming up. This is a more basic solution to offset the acid so it doesn't burn any tissues. The basic property plus the amount of saliva that you aren't accustomed to will cause a taste difference", 'Maybe not the correct a... |
How does the "protected view" of Office applications protect from viruses? Aren't they already downloaded? | Even after a virus has been downloaded, it still has to find a way to run itself. For security reasons, your computer is designed to not run arbitrary code for no reason. In order to run and infect your computer, a virus has to first A) trick you into running it, or B) exploit some kind of security hole that lets them ... |
How do men make up for the lack of uterus in terms of internal organ space? | The uterus is much smaller than people think, the ones I've delt with are comparable in size to a hotwheels car. Source: I teach anatomy with human cadavers |
Why do people look away to the corner of their eyes when thinking or trying to remember something? | From *Why Don't Cats Like to Swim?* by David Feldman, page 490: > Direction \tThought Process > up-right\tvisually remembered images > up-left\t\tvisually constructing [new] images > straight-right\tauditory remembered sounds or words > straight-left\tauditory constructed [new] sounds or words > down-right\tauditory so... |
Why do some artists make alter egos of themselves (e.g, Eminem/Slim Shady, Beyonce/Sasha Fierce, Christina Aguilera/Xtina)? | For Eminem, it's because he was in a rap group which needed more memebers, so Slim Shady was born. The other two made alter egos because they wanted to, they wanted to do stuff which didn't necessarily fit their previous image. |
Filling your own taxes in the US | Our employers withhold estimated taxes from our paychecks, but annual tax filing is to settle up based on other income and deductions . For somebody who rents and doesn't have any extra income it's pretty quick straight forward to fill out the single page form. With the itemized deductions, multiple income sources, etc... |
How are 'concerts' produced (from concept to show)? | Well. . . it depends. Arena concert tours by top-level talent are so different tours by indie bands that it's almost hard to put them in the same category. Arena concerts are quite literally multi-million dollar projects, looking more like producing a Hollywood movie than just about anything else. They're *massive* log... |
What happens when you stand up to fast and get blinded or extremely dizzy? | Most likely it's due to low blood pressure. There's not enough oxygenated blood getting to your brain immediately after you change positions, which makes you feel faint/dizzy. I used to get this as well, until I upped my salt intake, on my doctor's advise, which fixed it. |
Why are so many people claiming that the NBA finals were rigged? | History of refs fixing games and the common sense that if you force a game 7, you double the money received for tv ratings than just playing game 6. There is a lot of money to be made, and any place there is money, there's bound to be someone, some people trying to take advantage of it in their favor. Just my two cents... |
Why are some subreddits private? and How do you gain access to these Subs? | I mod /r/nightaudit and /r/hotelemployees. They're private to ensure that only people who work in the industry can read and post. Getting in is as simple as messaging the mods with your proof and we add you to the list of approved submitters as soon as we can. **Edit: I think I've got back to everyone that requested ac... |
How are the brains of domesticated animals different from the brains of wild animals? | Not a full answer, but maybe something to start off with.There is an episode of Cosmos where they discuss how artificial selection chose for animals with lower levels of cortisol which made them less flighty around humans. It also discusses how some animals like the Zebra have never been able to be domesticated, althou... |
If America has a shortage in the Engineering and Health Sectors, why are there not more online programs to assist people to pursue these degrees? | Well, in the health sector, you are going to want people to have hands on experience. You can't get that from an online program. Nobody wants a doctor or a nurse whose only experience is a youtube video.In the health field, it's often not the number of people involved so much as it is the distribution of them. For exam... |
Why do so many people believe conspiracy theories ? | A shocking number of them turn out to be true. Not long ago you would be a nutter if you said that the US government had giant facilities that were secretly recording everyone's phone calls.It's a state of mind. Fox Mulder's "I want to believe" is their rallying cry; the desire to find a background force that is respon... |
White House's reasoning on Church Tax Exemption | Part of the First Amendment says that the state cannot sponsor, or be partial to, any religion. The fear is, if a church is giving the government money, it would be difficult to act impartially, and therefore violate the First Amendment. Also, since churches don't bring in an exceptional amount of money, and what they ... |
TV series, how do they do to run an entire season and keep it on schedule if every episode takes about six months to produce? | That's six months from idea to air. Starts with a writer's room, weeks to months before production begins. They break stories, work on the script, sometimes they work on the overall arc of the season . They are working on more than one script at a time. One might be in outlining, while an earlier episode is on a second... |
Why does x/0 not equal ∞? | If x were negative, should it not be −∞? Also, if infinity was a number, then: * 2/0 = ∞* 3/0 = ∞* therefore 2 = 3 so ∞ isn't a number. |
Why is Malware a thing? Are people just dicks? | It's the modern equivalent of putting a flaming bag of dog shit on your neighbors porch and ringing the doorbell. |
Why do we "warm up" the car every morning? | If you are talking about letting the car idle until it warms up, you shouldn't do this. It actually causes more wear than driving the car nice and easy until it warms. You only need to let it idle long enough for oil to start circulating which takes maybe~ 5 seconds. |
Why does everyone on reddit hate Bill O'reilly? | I don't hate him, but I have no respect for people who manipulate the facts so much. |
How did the sun become a big ball of nuclear energy? | > If that's true, wouldn't the sun be made of the same material as the planets? It is. The sun is ~75% hydrogen and ~25 Helium. The gas planets all have similar compositions. The inner planets are rocky because they don't a gravitational pull strong enough to contain hydrogen and helium. > How does the sun form differe... |
H.265 vs H.264, what's the difference? | I can't give you an in depth description on how each differs on the technical level , but I know a bit about them. They're both video codecs, both ways to take raw pixel data and turn it into a nearly equivalent video file but with a small fraction of the size through video compression. H.264 is the current standard fo... |
Why don't people buy tons of stocks when the market crashes, since it always rights itself eventually? | A lot of people do. But not all stocks come back up. Knowing which ones will is the tricky part. But that's part of the reason that the stock market recovers so quickly compared to other things like unemployment or spending.Most of the people who would take the risk just lost a bunch of money when the market crashed.A ... |
How can we know for sure elections aren't rigged/paid to win? | Vote counting procedures in properly democratic countries are designed so that multiple people with competing interests have insight into the process. In America, the poll workers are volunteers from the district, but the result is certified by a state official. Representatives of each party can go to a polling place a... |
Why does the splitting of atom(s) in an atomic bomb create such a destructive force? | There's a force that holds the nucleus of an atom together, it's called the strong nuclear force It takes alot of energy to overcome the electromagnetic force that would push the like charged protons apart. When it splits, that strong nuclear force is released. EDIT: yeah mixed up the nuclear forces. |
How does the iostream work? ( C++ ) | Like the other poster said, iostream is a library. When you call functions/methods in it, you are actually setting off a very long stream of potentially hundreds of other more complex, harder-to-read lower-level functions that are all executed in the blink of an eye. You think you are calling one function but really yo... |
What exactly is a 2nd mortgage? | Exactly what it sounds like, you're borrowing more money against your house. Usually out of equity you've built up from making payments. Example: you buy a house that's worth $135,000 and after a few years of payment you owe $115,000 on it. You have $20,000 in equity, so you could take a second mortgage in that amount.... |
Why are viruses not considered living, and why do antibiotics not work against them? | Virus have some key differences. They don't have metabolisms, cell structures, or reproductive capabilities like what is typically considered 'life.' Rather they hijack the cell structure of some other life form and utilize its equipment to assemble copies of themselves. Antibiotics which tend to target the structures ... |
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