query stringlengths 8 249 | answer stringlengths 45 7.8k |
|---|---|
How does off-brand products not get horribly sued? | As others have mentioned, you can't patent recipes, etc. But in many cases, some generic and store brand products are literally the same product. The same factory produces both, just with different labels. Sometimes even two brand name products are the same. There are canneries in Samoa, for instance, that package tuna... |
What impact does all the chemicals used in clothes washing liquid have on the environment? | They're just surfactants, the make water wetter and disperse particles. They're all biodegradable nowadays and they have maximum concentration rates that are like 1 part per thousand for the most common ones. Actually surfactants are commonly used as wetting agents in agriculture so that stuff is intentionally put into... |
How is communism effective with the economic system of China? What makes China different from USSR, where China was able to avoid economic collapse? | The communist economic system is not more effective in China than in the USSR. The Chinese had actually abandoned the communist economic doctrine decades before the USSR did, in the 1970s. In fact, the Chinese economic system, before the reform, was actually far worse than the Russian's, which is what prompted the Chin... |
So if outer space has no gravity, how can NASA be 100% positive fuel is going to travel to the correct parts of the engine? | Not claiming to be a rocket scientist. I do know how those [space pens] work though. Traditional pens use gravity to make the ink flow down as it is writing, but space pens use pressurized nitrogen to force the ink to the tip, allowing the pen to be used any any direction and under water. I'm sure their fuel lines use ... |
Why is the Coroner an elected position? | I wonder this as well. In our area, there are signs for one of the candidates everywhere. The signs also make it clear that he's running as a Republican. Why in the name of God does that matter? |
Why does it feel so much better when someone else touches rather than you touching yourself? | You can't predict what's coming next. Feels good man. Also why you can't tickle yourself. |
why can pro-divers hold their breath long? Is it the lungs? How are the lungs different than non-divers? | Contrary to popular thought, it is not the lack of oxygen forcing you to take breaths. High partial pressures of CO2 in your blood stream activate chemoreceptors to trigger breathing reflexes. Your body wants to blow off the CO2 to avoid acidosis. Also disclaimer low partial pressures of O2 can trigger breathing, but o... |
Why does God of the Bible get called the god of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob? | Been a while, but IIRC Yaweh made his covenant with Abraham, that he would make Abraham's descendants into a mighty nation, although as /u/Cometsight notes, it's only the children of Abraham's grandson Jacob that became that nation . |
Why are humans the only animals who cook? | We can eat raw meat and survive just fine, it just doesn't taste good to us anymore. This is partly because we developed taste partly as a way of distinguishing what is/is not good for us to eat. There are exceptions to this of course, but its also partly why sugar tastes so good to us, it requires almost no digestion.... |
Why do YouTube videos load faster while playing than they do when paused? | Last I heard they limit the video buffering up to about a minute in the future. So if you pause at 1:05, it'll load until 2:05-2:10 and stop. As soon as you hit play, it'll start loading again, 1 second's worth of video every second ", 'YouTube uses DASH playback to "break" the video into smaller parts. It will then lo... |
The allegorical meaning of Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" | The ending in the book is very different. It's a lot more straightforward while still being mind-blowing. I don't really like this weird metaphysical ending in the movie. |
What does it mean when my boss tells me that we can’t get paid more or offer more for new hires because of “fair market value”? | It means that they can't give you or new hires more money because they've already allocated that money to themselves. |
What does it mean that New Jersey & Maine government has 'shut down'? | Every year, the state government has to pass a budget in order to authorize the various government entities to spend money. If the politicians cannot come to a budget agreement, money cannot be spent, state workers don't get paid, and the government stops providing services. Typically, essential services, like police a... |
What happens to kinetic energy after it is used? | If on level ground, the kinetic energy of those 5 steps have been turned into heat energy from friction with the ground. If your 5th step was onto a frictionless surface, you'd keep moving at the speed you'd built up. Another example - you have a car traveling on level ground accelerate up to a certain speed and then s... |
Why do they not put parachutes in commercial airplanes. | Developing [this] for a commercial sized aircraft would be more useful than attempting to get individual passengers out in 'chutes. If the plane is controllable it's safer if they land, even if that means a crash landing. If the plane is uncontrollable it'll impact the ground long before many people get out - they can'... |
(NSFW) why is it that men "get back to their senses" after ejaculation? | There is a really good bit in Cryptonomicon about this. Graphs and everything. Someone find it? It's /r/dataisbeautiful -worthy. |
How does the brain store memories, and why do we remember/don't remember certain memories? | 1) Nobody really knows, but think of it a bit like this. Alright you have a file in your computer. You can find it via: tags, looking through folders, and by name. So you can go user > documents > school > essays > file. Or maybe you remember the name. Or its in Recent. Or you have a specific tag like free write and co... |
Why haven't we seen significant advances in battery technology? | You obviously didn't have a cell phone in the late 90's/2000's. My first cell phone had a 1 inch LCD screen, the battery took 6-8 hours to charge and the stand-by time was about 9 hours and talk time was about 60 minutes. They really have gotten consistently better every year. |
Why in Japanese pornography do the women always sound like they're being raped? Is this cultural? Is it a put-on affectation that really gets Japanese guys off? I don't get it. | Somebody explained this a few months ago, so from memory, Japanese culture sort of says sex is inherently unpleasant for women. It then becomes the man's goal to push past this unpleasantness and make the woman actually enjoy it. |
Why does NASA not have manned missions to to the moon anymore? | Politics and money. It's expensive, and widely believed by many that there's not value in it. |
What is a "Season Pass" for a game? | It's essentially paying for all DLC at once with a discount. Whereas they might release 4 pieces of DLC for $15/DLC, you can pre-pay for it all on day one for $50, and it usually comes with some extra stuff like an in-game item. It does two things. 1 - It lets them know how much people like the game and the series 2 - ... |
Why does helium make your voice high pitched when you inhale it? | Sound travels in waves, waves that go up and down. Helium is less dense than air, so the voice waves that are generated by your throat move faster up and down . This faster speed makes the voice sound higher. The opposite is also true. Very related YouTube link [here] |
Why do students need to use a #2 pencil on standardized tests? Why not #1 or #3? | It's a compromise between hard leads that the earliest scanning systems couldn't detect, and softer leads that are easy to inadvertently smudge. |
Milk - Good or Bad? | Horrible, for those with lactose intolerance. Other than that, there's probably ways to get the nutrients found in milk without getting the fat and sodium in it as well. It's true that humans are among the only mammals that are capable of digesting milk past infancy. I've never heard of people claiming that drinking a ... |
Why does everyone hate lawyers? | Because they make their money off people's troubles. Getting divorced? Get ready to pay a lawyer. Hit by a car? Lawyer. Fired for discriminatory reasons? Lawyer. Abused? Lawyer. The more problems there are in the world, the better the lawyers do. There's also the common stereotype, which does have quite a strong basis ... |
when a news story says something like "the fire caused $50 million in damage" how are they calculating the dollar amount? | It's not really accurate, it's just an average. If you assume every house is worth $1,000,000 all in, and 50 houses burn down, then you can assume there was $50m in damage. It gets more difficult when things like roads, cars and parks are destroyed, but same principle. |
What exactly are headaches, and what causes them? | The pain from migraines is caused by blood vessels dilating and putting pressure on the branch of the trigeminal nerve that innervates your orbital area . This is why a strong black coffee can sometimes abort a migraine before it develops fully -- caffeine is a vasoconstrictor and reverses the dilation in your blood ve... |
How do game shows continuously give away cash and prizes? | They make money from sponsorship and advertising. The products they give away are provided by companies that sponsor the show, and they even pay money- because it's advertising. There is also money from the network who owns or buys the show, which is no different than the money for non-gameshows that need to pay for ca... |
Why is Canada and other Commonwealth countries considered independent yet it's still under Britain's sovereignty? | The answer is it isn't. The UK doesn't rule over the other Commonwealth countries any more than they rule over the UK. The Commonwealth evolved out of the British empire, but now it is a sort of club of equal, sovereign nations. *Some* of those countries have the same person as their head of state, Queen Elizabeth II, ... |
How do insanely successful people manage to or so productive on only 3-4 hours of sleep? | Some people function perfectly well on less sleep, and this is an advantage they have over the rest of us that we really can't do anything about yet.By violating social customs concerning politeness. I kid, partially.The vast majority don't. a few people can function with under 6 hours of sleep. The rest of us need bet... |
In a world where we have devices the size of a deck of cards with enough computing power to launch the Space Shuttle, why does it still take an hour to update software? | While that computer is far more powerful, the software running on it is *also* far more complex. That shuttle computer had a few hardwired switches, LED displays and a single megabyte of RAM. Today's computers have 200MB *mouse drivers* and countless thousands of files to check and update when you do an upgrade. |
Why is China still considered Communist despite its embracing of Capitalism? | Because the Communist Party of China is still running the country. The party hasn't followed any actual communist principles since about the 1970s, but the party also hasn't changed its name so yeah.Who still considers China to be Communist? Other than the Communist Party itself, of course, and their boot-lickers? |
Why do we assume other dimensions exist? | In math 4 dimensions *does* exist, in real life we don't know. In real life we also have 4 dimensions, as research would suggest that **time** would count as one , ) Short answer: No, nothing has been observed to have more than 3 dimensions.Yes we have never seen anything that is more than 3D and will never because we ... |
How do home coffee makers move water from tank to pot without a pump? | Ever see a geyser? Think Old Faithful. The water at the bottom gets hot from the heating element, becomes steam which not only is shot up a small tube, but forces other water in front of it. The water boils over and pours out over the coffee grounds, then gravity does the rest. That gurgling you hear as the coffee is b... |
How can someone die if they commit suicide from jumping off a bridge since they land on water? | Remember that time you tried to do that weird jackknife jump into Grandma's pool, but you spun out, and then landed on your belly? You cried for 10 minutes and your brothers sang that song about you being a sissy, it hurt so bad. Now imagine doing that belly flop from 600 feet in the air. |
What is the limit of space travels for humans right now? | Right now, the current limit is the ISS, which orbits at an altitude of 400 km above the surface of the Earth. The furthest humans have ever gotten was Apollo 13, which got over 400,000 km from the Earth, but we no longer have any spacecraft capable of carrying humans that far. There are new spacecraft that might be ab... |
What happens to a graveyard when it runs out of space? | The short answer in the US is that for every grave sold, the cemetery is required to put money into a trust that will maintain the cemetery in perpetuity. There are state mandated monitoring processes. Does it always happen? Of course not. I appraised one that was run by a family and the books were really messed up . T... |
What is overclocking a computer and is it worth doing? | CPUs at different pricepoints aren't created by making a new chip for each bracket, but are merely differentiated by clockspeed changes to a same chip. Secondly, since not all chips are created equal, some chips have to run slower than others even when they are sold at the same specifications. Thirdly, the engineers al... |
What is Pope Francis' position on Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden in light of his recent statement regarding evolution? | What I find quite interesting on reddit is how many people don't believe in religion but continue to believe that if one adheres to a Christian faith, it must include literal interpretation of the bible. They may be more aware of some biblical ideas than many faithful but they are very lacking in awareness of how peopl... |
What does x% of chance of rain really mean? | Actually, while many of the other explanations seem feasible, it is my understanding that when the computers run simulations based on current conditions x% of the simulations had rain given the initial conditions. The simulations are fairly intensive, and the NWS has a *lot* of supercomputers, and they've got really so... |
Are historical events recorded in the time zone that they occur? Wouldn't an event that occurs in the United States given the right time occur on a different day in for example Australia? | Time zones are a new invention. In the past, travel was so slow and clocks were so inaccurate, it didn't really matter exactly when things happened. Historical event implicitly are set to local time, and while technically an event in the US might have happened on a different day in Australia, but it is seldom important... |
Why do we always talk about USA having a "rape culture" when places like Sweden, New Zealand, Belgium, etc. are ignored and have higher rape rates? | 1. We do? I, for one, think of rape culture as being a fairly global phenomenon.2. I live in the United States, so *if* I talk about the United States having a rape culture, it's because I live here and have experience with this culture.3. Rape culture is about a lot more than just the number of rapes. I'm not an exper... |
In Mafia type movies, why does the assassin drop the gun at the crime scene? Isn't the wise thing to take the gun with you so there's no evidence? | In addition to the good answers about possession, those guns often used to commit these murders were either stolen guns or didn't have serial numbers, making it even more difficult to trace its origins back to them", 'Guns are actually bulky. It might be 5-10 pounds of metal. If you happen to bump into a cop after the ... |
LI5:why can't I remember anything from my infant years? | I don't know how true this is, but in my senior year in high school Physiology the teacher went off topic one day about this and said our minds make a mental block so we don't remember things that would potentially effect us emotionally, like feeding from your mom, being born, ect. The development of this block makes f... |
Why does the man tend to have to pay the woman in the event of a divorce? And what are the payments going toward? | When the woman earns more money, then she might have to make payments to her ex-husband. It's more common that the husband makes more than the wife, especially if she takes time out of her career to raise children . |
If I were to instantaneously teleport inside the sun, would I feel any pain even if only for a fraction of a second or would I be obliterated before I could even notice it happen? | You'd be dead before your brain could get any information of pain.You would be obliterated before you had a chance to notice. The temperature is so high you would be vapor before your synapses could fire to register pain. |
Although we use our dominant hand/arm/legs for 90% of tasks, our muscle definition seems to develop evenly on both sides. Why is this? | Because most of the things you do with your dominant hand are fine motor skills , while more physical activities are done with both arms. It doesn't really matter which hand you pick up your suitcase with . Even if you're an athlete in a sport where handedness matters--say, baseball--there is usually an equivalent acti... |
How do I invest in a business that I think is going to do very well, but is still privately owned and pretty new? | You'll need to contact the owners directly and see if they are looking for investors. They may or may not be. |
Why are certain paintings worth millions even though they might look less appealing to the average person than a $50 painting might? | I should start by saying I'm no art expert and am very far removed from the art history courses I took in college. The posts that write it off as, basically, it's a market driven by the rich choosing who is best is painful to me. What makes lots of art meaningful is the skill and the context. The time it was made and w... |
Why are signatures still used when they can be forged so easily? | There's also about 500-1000 years of case law history, common law, and about 60 years of Uniform Commercial Code that has clearly defined, and standardized the validity of signatures. In that time frame, court cases involving forgery of signatures have come up, and the validity of a forgery on a contract, promissory no... |
Why does the US use specialized drugs for lethal injection. Wouldn't an overdose of morphine suffice? | The cocktail of drugs is specifically designed to provide the most humane death possible with the least suffering and least likelyhood of failure. An over dose of morphine would work but morphine has pretty extreme side effects during the overdose like euphoria and hallucinations. They want alter the person's mental st... |
Ex insomniac redditors who have learnt to sleep well: how to do it? | I think what helped me most was to go to bed earlier and be more consistent about the time. I set an alarm on my phone at 11PM, and then me and my wife wind down whatever we're doing and get ready for bed. |
Why do "ghost hunters" and paranormal investigators only "investigate" at night? Are we to believe that ghost only are able to be seen at night? | Ghosts in most cultures come out at night. People in the old days feared the night because it was dangerous. Thus it became the realm of ghosts, fairies and things that go bump in the night. Paranormal investigators are pretty much people who like scaring themselves with the power of suggestion. Look at any ghost hunti... |
Who are the Kurds and what is their role in the current Middle Eastern conflict? | Kurds are an ethnic group whose traditional territory is in northern Iraq, Iran, Syria and southern Turkey. Their role is mainly in fighting ISIS, although this is as much about defending against encroachment as anything else. They of course would like an independent state, which Turkey hates the idea of, as that would... |
Why do the wives in animated sitcoms often have unusual voices? | Stereotyping working class wives as nagging and husbands as idiots seem to just be the recipe for succesful tv shows. It's not entirely, but mostly an American phenomon, and is perpetuated somehow through the institutions in the media industry. In short, networks don't want to take risks, as there's a lot of money in t... |
Why are fossil fuels distributed unevenly around the globe? Why is there more oil in the middle east than some other places, etc.? | There is oil all over the world, the problem is it's quality and the ease of getting to that oil. |
Why can't we insist on nobody touching anything else from the Malyasian Ukraine flight shoot down without international press and civilian oversight? | We can insist. But since Reddit doesn't have direct physical control over the area in question, that insistence would not have much effect. |
How and why pilots use oxygen when going at high speeds | Can't answer your question. But are you Jewish? Edit: Come on, people, look at his username. I was just making sure. |
Why some of websites is not available in some countries? | There are databases that match IP addresses to locations. This website is explicitly blocking access from your country for some reason - the web server looks up the location of your IP, and serves a different page. You can bypass this by routing through a proxy server in another country. Another possible reason why som... |
How did people cut their finger/toenails when they got too long before nail clippers were invented? | what do great apes do for their nails? At what point did homo genus start 'clipping' their nails?, I wonder. I really doubt at was always simply nail biting. What if your teeth are jacked? |
How do people make money/benefit from claiming bankruptcy? | Wealthy people usually don't claim personal bankruptcy, their businesses claim bankruptcy. The whole purpose of a corporation is to protect your personal assets if the business fails. If you run a successful business for years, pay yourself a big salary and sell stock, if your business runs up big debts, you get to kee... |
How do people become cross-eyed or lazy-eyed? | I was born with strabismus . It happens when the muscles in your eyes aren't aligned. I had corrective surgery when I was three or four and you would never know I had it by looking at me today.A friend of mine also had strabismus when we were kids, but she never had it corrected so it developed into a lazy eye. Here's ... |
How do the OSI and TCP/IP relate to each other? | The ISO/OSI stack is a model that describes how to break an end-to-end communication system into a discrete set of functions. When one starts to develop a comms system, we first think about the layers in the model and how they are represented in the real world solution we are building. For example, 802.11, GSM/GPRS/UMT... |
If bad taste is our body's auto-defence against bad/unhealthy food (eg. poisonous/rotten), why does junk food taste so good? | Because in the quantities found in the wild while our physiology was developing as a species, sugars and carbohydrates were not a danger at all, but in fact, were excellent sources of nutrients. We have made it *so* easy to get these things now that we overeat them, which is the issue, and we have only had a tiny handf... |
How did Nintendo manage to fit full episodes of shows on the GameBoy Advance? (Advance Video) | The primary source of file size reduction was do to the predictable and very small screen size - both physically small and small in terms of total pixels. At 240x160 you've got significantly less data to store than at 640x480 . |
Why is it easier to imitate someone who has a voice with a higher pitch than your own, rather than lower? | You are describing a falsetto voice technique. A falsetto uses harmonics of your vocal cords to produce higher pitches, while your normal speaking voice uses the entire length. Since you physically can't get lower than the entire length of your vocal cords there is a limit to the low. The harmonics however use whatever... |
What is special about Japanese engineering that makes their cars so reliable and inexpensive? | > Why are American cars historically unreliable and generally expensive? Capitalism? You don't think Japan is a capitalist country? |
How is "Bait Car" legal? | Entrapment is convincing someone to do something they wouldn't normally do, like actively pursuing someone and convincing them to buy drugs. A bait car no different from any other car for all intents and purposes. Normal people wouldn't jack a car just because it was unlocked.They are just leaving a car out in the open... |
What's this whole Zoe Quinn BS? | Nothing important, a crappy game that nobody knows about got good press because the developer slept with people from the press. Of course this is only speculation, so mods started deleting posts about it because naming and blaming people is something they don't want. And everyone started going crazy ~ > She must have s... |
How can I have all these wireless signals around me and it isn't dangerous? | Wireless signals are just light of a frequency that is outside of the visible spectrum. And the frequencies used aren't high enough to cause any damage . So they're not dangerous for the same reason that having lots of lightbulbs in a room isn't dangerous. |
Why aren't movie statistics counted as viewers instead of dollars? This would remove the effect of inflation which now makes Avatar the highest grossing movie instead of Gone With the Wind. | Why would they want to remove the effect of inflation? It's a great way to twist numbers.Counting revenues lets producers know how much money they made. If a movie makes 8 million but cost 30 million to make, they want to know that. Sure, they could easily convert that to tickets sold, they are obviously related, but t... |
If the US Government raises the minimum wage, who will absorb the extra costs? | They'll have a larger customer base with cash in their wallets. Even their own employees could afford to shop there. |
How can some insecticides be labeled as safe to use around humans but at the same time are lethal for bugs? | Caffeine is a pest repellent made by plants so bugs won't eat them, so is cocaine from the coca plant. These substances produce diffrent effects in humans. Bugs n people are diffrent and compounds in plants effect us diffrently |
Why are there literally millions of porn movies on the internet for completely free viewing, but so few regular movies? | So the problem is you are comparing Pornhub with Hollywood when you should be comparing Pornhub with youtube. Youtube is full of free content made by people who just wanted to make something and put it out there or to rake in a little revenue from ads / merchandise / exposure. It's also a dumping ground of stuff that n... |
Creationists using the 2nd law of thermodynamics to try and disprove evolution. | The way it was explained to me by a mild creationist is: the 2nd law means that the Universe should be slowly moving toward a more evenly distributed mass of matter and energy, a big cold taupe soup, not getting more organized into things like the human brain. So only God working against thermodynamics can explain the ... |
Why do so many people enter the United States as illegal immigrants rather than going through the normal channels to legally be here? | Two big reasons: 1. We do a poor job of enforcing our rules on illegal immigration. Deportation is relatively rare, and we don't police our visas all that closely, so it's not too hard to enter the country legally and overstay. Our border is also huge nad relatively porous, so you can just skip the visa altogether and ... |
What is happening when something gets "sun bleached"? | The sun machineguns high energy charged particles, or waves, depending on how you are observing them . Those rays break down molecular bonds of things such as paint, some plastics, or the wood grain on your expensive hard wood floors. Solution: keep expensive things out of prolonged direct sunlight and/or slather every... |
Why do operating systems crash on computers? | firstly murphy's law comes in to play a lot, the guys that make OS go to great lengths to make sure the program will never conflict with itself but no matter how hard they try the smallest things can cause unknow repercussions even something as small as a misplaced . in a billion lines of code most commonly it happens ... |
How do Radio Jammers work? | You and I are in a restaurant having a conversation. The information encoded in our speech is sent by one, and received by the other to relay the information. Even with general background chatter, we can usually error correct and understand what is being said. Radio jamming would be like somebody standing next to us pl... |
"Greece controls 16.2% of the word's total merchant fleet(2010)" This sounds important for just one country!How the hll did Greece fail economically while having this? | The reason a lot of companies register their freighters in Greece is because it's cheap and/or the laws are lax. So even though the merchant fleet is big, Greece's government isn't benefiting a lot from it. |
How can Wal-mart sell so many items for cheaper than other big box store prices? | Several people have already mentioned that due to Walmarts size they have a lot of purchasing power. They can buy items for cheaper due to large orders and sell for cheaper due to the high volume of sales. However Walmart wasn't always the massive retailer it is today. On its way to the top WalMart had other ways to cu... |
On 9/11, why did schools all turn their TVs on and force kids to watch the footage when we don't do this for any other disaster/catastrophe that occurs? Why was this so common? | I was in .fifth grade when it happened. I remember we turned the TV on and our teacher was like in shock. But us being kids we didn't really understand the significance of what was happening. Just that something bad had happened. They let parents come pick kids up out of fear that there might be a follow up attack. I t... |
What would be the effects on the earth and life here when betelguese goes super nova. | Betelgeuse could have already gone super nova. it is 450 light years away and we won't see anything different for 450 years after it makes it's move. |
Why is the standard dose of just about all medicines two tablets? Couldn't they just make one that's twice as concentrated? | As part owner of a vitamin/ supplement distributor I can tell you that it all comes down to capsule/tablet/softgel size. We'd love to have all one a day serving sizes but many raw materials have fills that necessitate multiple daily doses to achieve desired end dosage. A one a day in these cases would be far too large ... |
Why is Mongolia, a sizable nation that borders two empires, never even mentioned in news reports or international relations? | Quite remarkably, Mongolia has very good relations with both China and Russia. China's Xi Jinping visited Ulaanbaatar last month, and Putin is scheduled to arrive in two days, both want a decent stake in Mongolia's natural resources. Mongolia's economy is pretty fucked presently, but there has been only one full-scale ... |
Why are boobs and butts attractive? | It's really just sexual selection. This is a bit of a tough concept, but pretty much so long as a given feature is not a significant detriment to passing on your genes, practically any feature can become grossly exaggerated by a runaway self-perpetuating cycle. This is why female peacocks think ridiculous long tails on... |
ELI5: If "yellow" colored urine is a sign of dehydration, why does the body get rid of that liquid instead of using it to hydrate me? | EMT here. Your body IS holding onto fluids, so while the amount of waste is the same, the amount of water in the urine is proportionately less. Imagine you are making kool-aid or lemonade. It's a gallon of water and a bag of mix every time you have body waste to flush out, and that's where you should be at. Now, you ar... |
Why do Grocery stores require you to have a club card to receive a discount? | The main reason is to encourage customers to buy more items with the specific store most loyalty cards at least in Australia give you better discounts the more you spend the customers will buy more than they needed to get the discount. At Woolworths they give you 4 cents a liter off petrol when you spend $50 or more in... |
Why can I copy music, but not movies? | You have to remember that the compact disc technology was invented in the 70's. They originally designed it as a format for storing music and didn't envision how future computers would be able to interact with the format. It wasn't until '85 when they came up with CD-Roms for storing data. Making your own CD's at a rea... |
Why don't monkeys utilize inferior animals? Why do monkeys not ride goats around? | I'm not going to link to the video because it is somewhat NSFW, but there is at least one video of a chimpanzee using a frog as a masturbatory aid in a similar manner to a Fleshlight. I don't know if you would consider that utilizing an inferior animal, and I don't know how widespread it is, but it happened. |
Is there a reason running shoes only come in bright, gaudy, ugly colors? | I'm actually a bit sad they don't come in *enough* interesting colours. You look at women's shoes and there's all greens, reds, blues, pink, whatever. Mine? black or blue. YAY.Better question - why do you find bright colors ugly and gaudy?', "Runners got tired of getting hit by cars and wanted their gear to be more vis... |
Why do high high court government positions (President, Supreme Court Justices, and etc) get sworn in on a bible when we have separation of church and state? | It's up to them on what they want to use. There is no legal requirement for the separation of church and state. The government cannot **establish** a religion which mostly means you cannot require people to learn or practice any particular religion. |
Why is it that the wrist I had surgery on always pops and cracks after its been still for a while? What is going on in there as a result of surgery to cause this? | Doesn't just happen to breaks. I tore my labrum in wrestling practice and had to get surgery. Seven years later and it pops every time I rotate my shoulder. |
Is it better for me to sleep 10pm - 6am (8hr) or 12am - 8am (8hr)? | To me, it's all about what you do when you're awake. If you're working pattern dictates that you need to be in for 7am, then you get up based on that. If you work random shift work, then you're fucked. |
The differences between a teaser, a teaser trailer, and an official trailer for a movie. | A Teaser is generally introducing the subject of the movie, not so much the plot. It's used for much more recognizable brands, like Superheroes and established series . It'll contain elements that are obviously tied to that subject, that fans will recognize. Without knowing much about the plot from the teaser, people w... |
Aside from sensational journalism, why do conservatives frequently refer to President Obama as a dictator/"dictator wannabe"? | It is a common charge but both parties act like they didn't say the same thing when the other party was in office. Some Republicans make those statements because of the Executive Orders and Obama circumventing congress. You are right that he has issued fewer than the last two presidents. However, many feel that his are... |
Why gambling is illegal in most places? | gambling is an addictive habit, and tends to bring in other undesirable businesses. Casinos want people to be intoxicated because they will be looser with their money, so the area begins to be known for having large crowds of drunk people with money to spare. It generally isn't a positive atmosphere for anything beside... |
Why does different kinds of alcohol provide different affects to the drinker (whiskey,wine, tequila) if the ethyl alcohol is the same? | It's almost entirely in your head. If you think that tequila makes you start fights, you'll start fights when you drink tequila. If you think that wine makes you slutty, you'll be slutty when you drink wine. |
Why does paper not burn when put in the microwave? | A microwave only produces heat in objects that contain water molecules. So items that are completely dry like paper towels won't heat up. |
The concept of slipstreaming in racing | Kinda dissatisfied with the other answers in here, so here's mine: When a car is going fast, it has to push all the air out of the way from in front of it. The faster the car goes, or the bigger it is, the more work it has to do to push the air out of the way. As the car moves along, the there's a gap behind without mu... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.