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Why isn't blood pressure a determining factor in defining whether if someone is dead or not? | The way blood pressure is measured based on the heartbeat: measure how much pressure is needed to cut off the heartbeat/blood flow to some location. So a blood pressure of zero would suggest somebody is dead, but we wouldn't be able to *measure* the blood pressure under those conditions except to observe that the heart... |
What does Diplomatic Immunity actually mean? | Let's say the US normalizes relations with North Korea, and you get to be ambassador. How safe would you feel, going to an unfriendly country like that, knowing that if you upset the dictator, he can legally have you imprisoned or even killed, merely on his whim. Do you think you could effectively represent the United ... |
What's the difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes | Type 1 Diabetes is caused by immune cells attacking insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. The cells die and people can't produce insulin anymore. Insulin is responsible for smuggling sugar from the blood into your cells. If it's missing, it leads to hyperglycaemia, which can lead to nerve damage and so on. Other sym... |
How do metal detectors not detect themselves? | They do, it's just ignored. When they notice a change compared to what they always detect that's when it beeps |
Why is pubichair always curly? | My pubic hair isn't. It's weird. It's also sparse, which doesn't help it look any less weird. |
Why do web developers still use Flash instead of using HTML5? In tandem: Why hasn't Flash been deprecated? | Flash has awesome developer tools, hordes of developers that have been using it for over a decade and high performance runtime environment that just works on every supported platform. For many simple things, you don't even need to do much programming at all. HTML5 forces you to build your own toolset and constantly wor... |
how a Ponzi scheme works | I tell you that if you give me $100 I'll give you $10 every month. And then when you want to pull out, I'll give you $100. It's an appealing got deal. So I do what I like with your money and then when it's time to pay you I present to offer to someone else, and get another $100. The cycle repeats until I either run out... |
Is every event that ever happened and ever will happen already predefined? | free will and predestination are not the only options. Although both have very large followings from philosophy, religion, and science. A third option with a similar following is of chaos. That we don't decide anything, and yet nothing is knowable in the future due to random chaotic action of subatomic particles. This ... |
How are babies dealt with during movie productions? Do they just wait until the babies start crying to get proper footage, for instance? | If the baby is supposed to be a newborn, they'll usually use a 3-month old . They are typically used more as a prop than actually getting them to do something. Sometimes, they'll even just use a doll. eg. [the infamous American Sniper scene] If they need the baby to do something like spit up food, they'll usually make ... |
From a business standpoint, what are the benefits and disadvantages of paying employees weekly, biweekly, twice a month, and monthly? | I've noticed that places that have a lot of hourly workers tend to pay biweekly, vs. places that only have salaried workers tend to pay semimonthly. This is just how I think of it, but it seems as if the salary places can simply schedule the same fixed payments twice a month, but you wouldn't want people filling out ti... |
Why are people so upset about Arkham knight(a game made for consoles) being only comparable on PC? | They outsourced the PC version, and didn't realize they weren't ready until it was too late. From the footage online, it's unbearably choppy. |
Why does moving files between disks take so long and use barely any resources? | Your transfer speeds are bottle-necked by your, I'm assuming, hard disk drives. Files are broken into blocks on spinning disk drives. These blocks are spread throughout your hard drive meaning your disk needs to spin, not just to read the information, but to find each block. Multiple files means many different blocks n... |
Why are tech giants vastly overcharging Aussie's for their software? | Considering how many people in Australia aren't flying to the U.S., buying software and going back makes me go on to the side of they aren't overcharging them. The transaction costs of dealing with the situation to leave the country and return to make a purchase are very high, it seems these may be priced appropriately... |
When I scratch a cat or dog's "sweet spot," am I tickling them or relieving an itch that they weren't able to scratch? | It's a social instinct. The same way grooming is for apes.It makes them feel good, so they seek out other members of their social group to indulge with. Sometimes it's places they can reach, but usually they prefer someone else to do it, in a way it's like tickling yourself. |
How is it that some people are completely unaffected by police tasers? | I don't know about completely unaffected, but I know them not to be totally incapacitating. I've been tased. One barb hit me in the chest and the other on my upper left arm. Both went through my t-shirt and embedded in my skin. I was unable to use my left arm, but I could still walk and use my right arm and move my hea... |
Why is it that I MUST finish my course of antibiotics? | Antibiotics don't kill bacteria, they prevent them from multiplying, which lets your body take care of them rather than being overwhelmed. It takes a certain amount of time for the antibiotics to reach the necessary concentration in the blood, then you need to maintain that level to keep the bacteria at bay. If you sto... |
Why is your imagination much more vivid as a child than as an adult, even though the brain is less developed? | The brain is more active and spongy. The imaginative nature kids typically have is one where the brain is trying to find creative answers for everything. In adulthood, you're conditioned to not always give creative answers for everything, so you stop thinking of creative answers. Kids haven't had that happen yet. |
What makes a stick shift different than an automatic other than manually shifting the gears? Is there anything better/worse about it? | PROS: Can downshift to slow down very quickly. Can manually shift when you need instant power, such as on-ramps. Good theft deterrent as many thieves cannot drive manual! Better gas mileage unless you've modded the car. CONS: Unless your friends can drive manual, you are always the designated driver It will give you a ... |
Why couldn't China "fix" its coming demographic crisis by just forcing the population to have more children? | At what point do you need to have 2+ children? What if you aren't able to conceive for whatever reason? Do you HAVE to marry if you don't want to or no one else wants to marry you? How does the country save face when they instantly flip their position? Giving preferential treatment to larger families might work somewha... |
What happens if a DNA test is done to test who a child's father is and the father has an identical twin? | Currently available DNA tests cannot distinguish between identical twins, however, it is possible to do so in principle. And the law is pretty clear on twins, if you know it is one of two twins, but can't prove which one, you can't move forward with any legal action. |
Why is "Google Video" still so shitty? | Just curious, this question wouldn't happen to have been brought on by [my comment], would it? To answer your question, Google Videos is still shitty because Google hasn't updated it. Why? * Google tried to shut down Videos earlier this year, to much outrage by people who already had lots of videos on it. * Google deci... |
Why is philosophy relevant in relation to the facts of science? | Basically, philosophy asks questions, and science answers them. They are independent entities, but they put each other into context. Some philosophical questions are irrelevant without scientific answers and running a million scientific tests is irrelevant if you don't understand the results.Oh sweet jesus. Philosophy ... |
Why are our voices deeper in the morning when we first wake up? | I've always wondered about this because my vioce is 3 times deeper when I wake up I wish I can maintain the voice. Can one train the voice to be deeper? Clearly I can make a deep voice but somehow it I can't make my voice deeper at any other time of the day. |
Why can Police shoot your dog, but if you shoot a police dog it is the same repercussions if you are shooting a human officer? | A Police K9 is essentially an officer. In fact, in the military the dog is higher rank than its handler to ensure the handler doesn't mistreat the dog. |
What are the side effects of having a currency with a real, fixed value? Is such a thing even possible? | > So, what's the harm in having a stable dollar? That isn't possible even with backing the currency with something of real value. If you used gold for example then your currency changes in value as more gold is found. Also if you want more units of currency you need to get more gold which can be problematic. > I seem t... |
What is anxiety and depression? Are they related to eachother? | Anxiety and depression are two of the most common mental health concerns in our society. Both anxiety and depression are both very common. In fact I would go as far so to say everyone in their life will experience both anxiety and depression. What may vary is the severity of the symptoms. Anxiety may be a normal reacti... |
What is the gold star on people's comment? | To answer my own question: Oh wow! Someone just gave me a gold. I don't know what to say honestly. I don't deserve to get this one just for asking what it is. But to answer my own question, I discovered it's an upgrade to your account and you get some site features like seeing which ones are the new comments, filtering... |
Is there any, AT ALL, even if its just an idea in science, a way to REVERSE ENTROPY? | Not with the current understanding of physics. The universe will be around for several trillion years iirc. Entropy is not a big concern for humans. If we are alive in a thousand years I'd be quite surprised. If we do survive for billions of years we won't really be humans as we presently think of them, anymore and we ... |
the American high school system, specifically the AP system | One thing I'll mention that no one else has: whether or not those AP credits count for college credits is up to the college you end up attending. Some schools might accept only a 4 or a 5, while other schools might accept a 3 as well. It's been awhile since I was applying for college but I don't recall any school sayin... |
. Why is the mustard pack at most fast food restaurants see through in the back when the mayo and the ketchup packets are not see through. | Maybe to see if it's yellow, Dijon, or Brown mustard?", '[The ketchup packets are foil. The mustard and relish packets are plastic. Foil is not transparent.]Guys we need someone who makes these packets to tell us. We need an expert', "I asked our head chef this very question some months ago while we were enjoying a blu... |
How does a voltage divider actually work? | A family of electrons wants to visit their friends. Their journey will take them through the Wound Wire Wood, and over Metal Oxide Mountain. They wake up in the morning and drink too much coffee, but that's okay because they will tire themselves out along their journey. To make sure nobody gets lost, they must all line... |
The TurboTax hack and how it may affect someone who has filed through them recently. | What would be the effect on someone who hasn't filed yet because they anticipate owing a fair amount of money? Does this mean we have to hold onto our payment until it all shakes out ? Or some other unspecified thing? |
Why when we become self-aware of something, such as blinking, we have an increased urge to do it? | Because blinking, breathing and a host of other functions are involuntary actions. But you can also do them voluntarily. When you read about them or otherwise think about these actions, you are then voluntarily doing them because you're thinking about them. When you think about them or read about them, the power of sug... |
why do you need to have water sitting at the bottom of the toilet? | Hygienic reasons! It's the water in the U-bend, which is basically a big plug of water that keeps nasty smells from drifting back out of the toilet. It also keeps out bugs and anything else that floats.For both. The water helps prevent waste from dirtying the bowl. And, when the tank empties creating a pressure differe... |
Why did the western world make such a big deal about helping Libya but not Syria? | Extremely simple breakdown here. Not quite like you're 5, but I'll gloss over the nuances and make some gross generalizations to give you the big picture. Historically, Syria has had very close economic and military ties with Russia, in addition to Iran. Russia has continued to back Bashar Al-Assad, the president of Sy... |
Why did so many men VOLUNTEER to join WW1/2? | Today, our image of war is influenced by photographs and film of the horrors of the World Wars, Vietnam, etc. In 1914, people wouldn't have that image of war. Their image of war would be influenced by grand romantic paintings of the Napoleonic Wars and such. |
Are any non-human animals known to have allergies? Are certain species sometimes allergic to people? | Yes. Animals have immune systems too, and like us, their immune systems can sometimes be over zealous and react to something that isn't harmful. Dogs and cats can develop skin allergies just like people, and this results in scratching, scabbing, even black heads and pimples like people. My cat ended up being allergic t... |
How come Google, Apple, or Microsoft can't stand up to the government like Scientology? | We don't protect corporation's rights to believe whatever whackadoo shit they choose, nor do we protect their right to lobby to force those whackadoo ideals onto others. TL;DR ~ Freedom of whackadoo is protected. |
Why are urbanized birds such as pigeons and geese not scared of humans, but birds such as seagulls and crows are? | That must be a city thing. I live in a small town and when I go out walking the pigeons fly away the same distance as any other birds around here. Generally can't get within 30 feet of them. |
Why do judges sentence people to, for example a 10 year sentence, when the criminal will often be released earlier than that? Why not just set a shorter sentence? | If you check the details, a standard sentence gets applied based on the charges of which the offender is found guilty. From there, unless we're talking about a life sentence/death, any time spent in jail while waiting for trial and going through trial tends to be applied and subtracted from the full sentence. Known as ... |
Why is it that man is the only intelligent species on Earth? | Its not. Its just that animal intelligence is so different and alien to ours that it doesn't fit our definition of the word.Douglas Adams would disagree with you on that one. |
Why are movie "trailers" called "trailers"? | It used to be that films were preceded by smaller films, and 'trailed' by advertisements for upcoming films. When I was a kid we would get to the theater early to watch 2-3 short clips, usually The Little Rascals, the Marx Brothers, Buster Keaton, the Three Stooges, Laurel & Hardy, or Charlie Chaplin. Almost always bla... |
Why is Internet Explore a terrible web browser? | Someone can explain it better, but essentially Microsoft can't change Internet Explorer too much because many companies use it. That's what I got from the last time this was asked in a different thread. Basically enterprise depends on software and if Microsoft changes Internet Explorer so much to be fixed things will s... |
What is the net lifetime advantage to working out? | Former fat guy, now gym guy for 1.5 years .and trust me I know where you are coming from. I'm 40, smoker, and thought anything was more fun than walking on a treadmill. At first the diet was pretty strict, because I was fat. I started lifting, and running . I went from a 40 waist to a 30-32, from 19% body fat to 12%, f... |
How a death metal frontman is vocally capable of performing more than one song at one show | Ok only half responses here.I'll try be brief about it. Diaphragm support its essential for singing, don't matter what technique you're using. From Opera to Death Metal. You're not using your vocal chords to produce this kind of sound. While you're producing the note with the vocal chords, it is the false chords that t... |
What exactly is happening when a side ache happens when running? | That's a lactic acid buildup from muscles that aren't getting enough oxygen, this goes away the more you run and the more efficient your cardiovascular system gets |
What's it like to trip on LSD? | I'd like to see someone's description of a bad trip everyone so far has only talked about good experiences but bad experiences do happen. |
If weed is so much less harmful than cigarettes on what basis was it made illegal and where does all the negative stigma about weed appear from? | Here's a clip from Adam ruins everything. It does a pretty good job at explaining it. _URL_1_ |
Why do we have a permanent human presence in ISS, and want one for mars, but not for moon? | There is water on mars so it's easy to imagine a future where humans can live and thrive on that planet. The moon doesn't offer that. ISS is basically the same as a moon base would be only it won't take three days of space flight to get there. |
Who was Henrietta Lacks and why are her HeLa cells so important? | She was a Black woman who got cancer and had a tumor biopsied in the 1950s. Her doctor decided to use the biopsied cells for research without her consent. This is, of course, fucking terrible, but it was normal at the time. I'd like to imagine that we've all grown a lot since then. Anyway, it's easier to order an exist... |
Why do radio stations change by region?? And how come XM is the same across America/the world? | XM is satellite based so anywhere on Earth that has a line of site to the satellite can receive the XM signal. Normal radio stations broadcast from tall towers using a massive amount of power. The height and the power allow the station to be heard over a wide area but like all electromagnetic waves, the radio signal lo... |
what happens when you knead bread dough | [1] It's not about incorporating air at all, but rather facilitating a reaction that allows the water and flour to bind and form gluten. Without this, the gluten in the dough wouldn't be strong enough to contain air to rise, and would then collapse. You don't knead something like banana bread because it's unleavened an... |
Why is English the default language in the world? | First of all, [there are more native spanish speakers than there are English], and secondly, these other fleets would tend to set up smaller colonies overseas whereas the british expansion was much larger. Also, i'd say America and it's role in the world plays a huge part in English being so wide spread |
Why do some companies rely on sweatshops, wouldn't automation be cheaper and more consistant? | It makes sense in the USA, but doesn't in many other countries. Labor is *insanely cheap* in China and India. Ridiculously cheap. Far, far cheaper than complex automation machinery required to do the job. This is the reason why companies outsource manufacturing to China, and outsource labor jobs to India. I don't know ... |
Why is Daylight Savings Time still a thing?? | The real question is: why do we make the transition every fall and spring instead of just sticking with the DST hours? It's the transition, not the hour difference, that screw all of us up every spring. Besides, it's always dark when I wake up in the winter. It's dark when I go to bed too. If one of those hours gets sh... |
How do the ads next to porn videos know where I am? | they dont. It's actually real live local girls waiting to hook up. It's posted by your local ISP.they use your webcam then ask millions of mothers who is jerking it in the video, and then they find who it is and ask for the address |
Why are teachers paid so poorly when everyone seems to agree they are deserving of much larger salaries? | People are generally paid based on their market value, even if everyone agrees they deserve more in some abstract sense. School boards aren't allowed to just spend twice as much money as they need to on teachers. |
Why is Fentanyl being cut into heroin? | Something else to note is that as a recovering heroin addict I have seen a progression on the part of the dealers, they are not cutting the heroin as much, they are now mostly selling pure fentanyl, and as that continues the epidemic continues. I'm from new Hanover county nc which is or was the overdose capital of the ... |
What is the objective reality? | It's absolute truths regardless of your own belief system - the rate is xxxxxx miles from earth = objective reality |
Why do concept cars always look way better than their production model | there's a whole host of reasons but these are the biggest ones safety features: concepts aren't driveable so things like bumper height, headlight placement, etc aren't fully followed manufacturing costs: wild body panels, more creases, lines, more swooping looks etc are harder and more expensive to produce. funcionalit... |
Why do we find accents attractive? | Probably for the same reason we like music, i'd imagine- something in our brain tells us that their elocution is; soothing/intriguing/generally interesting etc etc |
Why do dreams feel like they are an hour long when only a few minutes have really passed? | Because time is relative and the speed at which your synapses are capable of functioning is much different to the time at which the world around you plays out. The speed with which you observe the world around you is almost entirely made up of your perceptions of the interactions of stationary and moving objects, which... |
How come whenever a company looks at your credit, your score drops? | There are two types of credit inquiries. One is a hard inquiry, which would be what you'd get when applying for a loan or a line of credit/credit card or something of that nature. Hard score inquiries affect your credit because it is presumed, usually rightfully, that you're seeking to take on more debt. In other words... |
What are finger nails for? | Their vestiges of when humans and other primates had actual claws. They're still useful for prying things open or even inflicting wounds if the need arises. |
My doctor just told me that I shouldn't eat Subway because their food is highly processed, especially their bread. What does this mean? | This is a shorthand that is, indeed, not very clear. Processed food is food that has gone through a lot of steps since it was a raw ingredient. There's nothing inherently good or bad about that, so your doctor's comment is confusingly worded. However, when people talk about processed food, usually they are referring to... |
Unless there is a manufacturing defect with a product causing it to injure someone, why would someone sue a gun manufacturer? | Usually when this happens, it's when a victim of a shooting has no one else to sue, and their lawyer wants to get paid by **somebody**, they don't care who. In these cases, it's not really the victim who decides to sue; it's their lawyer. |
Why isn't the forest as full of dandelions as my garden is? | Dandelions thrive best in areas with plenty of sunlight, which forest floors don't have. You will often see dandelions in forest clearings or meadows, but there the dandelions have to compete with native plants, which are a lot harder for them to defeat than your lawn. A nicely trimmed lawn is easy mode for dandelions,... |
How did WW2 planes with machine guns behind the propeller not shoot them off while firing? | They didn't shoot them at all. Instead they scared birds with umbrellas in to flying in to the planes to crash them.The funniest bit is someone/people definitely shot their propeller off before they invented this! |
Why is it considered inappropriate to ask someone how much their home is worth? | There's always Zillow for a rough estimate. I got Christmas cards from my boss and the CEO of my company last year, both from their home address, and the first thing I did was check Zillow on each. 2 and 15 times the estimated value of my home |
How can US be $18 Trillion in debt (above GDP) and gold prices be falling like a rock? | Because it's not raw debt that matters, its debt relative to GDP + assets. Imagine you make $20,000 a year, and rack up $200,000 in debt gambling. You now have a very high debt to GDP ratio , and it would be very risky for me to lend you more money. However, if you buy a house with those $200,000, you have some collate... |
what exactly did nature equip humans to do? | We're equipped to track and kill food over very long distances. Our eyesight is detailed enough at range to pick out a moving target, and has binocular depth perception to assist in closing the deal at close range. Our minds are advanced enough to learn target behavior, pathfind over rough or twisting terrain, and buil... |
How does Internet/bandwidth "cost" an ISP money? | Think of the internet as a series of pipes that data goes through. Netflix for example would have a BIG pipe so it could send out data. This big pipe is connected to another BIG pipe which would be your Internet Service provider. From there the BIG pipe would be connected to smaller pipes, say a pipe that service your ... |
What exactly a "deductible" is when it comes to health insurance. | You pay up to the deductible and the insurance pays the rest. It isn't feasibly for someone to just pay a million dollars for an expensive medical bill, but they might be able to pay a thousand dollars. If so, they can just insure everything past that, lower the cost of their insurance, and not have to worry about havi... |
Why do broadcast TV stations limit streaming? I thought they wanted more viewers. | European reporting in, hi :) The situation on our side of the pond is much the same. In some cases they may not have the rights to stream something via the net, only to have it on TV. Examples include English Premier League football/soccer, network premiers of Hollywood blockbusters . We are also really big into playba... |
What specifically is so bad about the tax bill passed by the senate? | The tax cuts are all for the wealthy. The theory - tested in the past and failed - is that if you give money to the rich they will spend more and improve the economy. This never works. Trickle down is not real. Rich people save the money and get richer. So the vast majority of Americans will receive no tax cuts and end... |
With as advanced as graphics seem to be in video games, why are characters in RPGs always stationary and practically inanimate? | The long and short of it is that animation is expensive. We have brought down the cost of animation to an extent with motion capture, but it is still wildly expensive to motion capture hours and hours and hours worth of RPG dialog. Instead most games just play some looping animations and proceduralize the lipsync. If y... |
How do statisticians know that 70% of domestic abuse cases go unreported if no one reports them? | You can collect information like this through surveys. For example, you ask people whether they have experienced domestic abuse, and then ask them whether they reported it to the police. That gives you the reporting rate. However, it's important to critically look at how such surveys are performed, e.g. does the study ... |
is sitting too close to the television really bad for your eyes? | It's a myth, but there's some truth to it just in the sense that you shouldn't stare closely at any one thing for too long. Distance doesn't matter. _URL_0_ |
Why are cats so terrified of water? | [All these cats disagree] [Also these breeds have a tendency to like water] Clearly there's some that play and / or swim in water. Mine merely play, and only occasionally swim. So clearly not every cat is the same, which is in-line with the fact that cats have a wide set of personalities. |
How can we estimate the age of a star based on its size? | You can't get age just from mass. You need some other variable. A star could conceivably have formed at any mass, so for any mass it could be 1 year old. |
Why is pedophilia considered a psychiatric disorder and homosexuality is not? | [A mental disorder or psychiatric disorder is a mental or behavioral pattern or anomaly that causes distress or disability, and which is not developmentally or socially normative.] Mental disorder's don't have some deep scientific definition. It's not physics. Homosexuality is not defined as a mental disorder because h... |
Why is human milk safe for consumption right away, even if you store it in the fridge, while cow's milk needs to be pasteurized? | Because human milk doesn't contain cow bacteria and cow milk does. Human bacteria isn't that dangerous to humans mainly due to the fact that human milk often contains antibodies to bolster the immune system of the baby consuming that milk . Even then, any bacteria found in human milk is bacteria a human would have litt... |
Why don't nations focus on paying off their debts? | One of the reasons debt increased is that global wealth increased and this new wealth went looking for places to invest. There's only so many physical things in the world that can be invested in, like high rise buildings, and these had all been bought up with new ones not meeting the demand. So that new money started b... |
Why do other countries NOT have something like the European Union? | You're right, the EU is a very unique entity. The only other union that comes to mind as comparable is the African Union; I believe they were debating a single currency this summer. This is probably because Europeans have seen first hand how damaging nationalism can be. A united Europe was the perfect antidote to the n... |
If a country is at war and another government blows up your property, what is your remedy? | Basically your homeowner's policy does not cover war or riots. According to [_URL_1_] these are the exclusions: > * Ordinance or law: such as demolition or construction required to bring your house up to code. > * Earth movement: such as earthquakes, shockwaves, sinkholes, landslides and mudflows. > * Water damage: suc... |
How can Ted Cruz run for president when he was born in Canada? | Rafael Cruz's mother is an American citizen, so he is an American citizen. It will be funny as hell to watch all the birthers on the Right contort themselves to explain why it's okay for Cruz but not Obama, though. Especially when Obama never held citizenship in another country. |
Why can't I see the north pole on maps? | Other posters have answered what's at the north pole and why you can't see it on a map, but there are a couple of map projections that show the north pole: * [Peirce Quincuncial Projection]* [Transverse Mercator Projection]* [Azimuthal equidistant projection] |
Why do we pay for internet connection? | theres actually WAAAY more going on when comparing it to radio waves. Wifi is indeed like radio waves, but the wifi comes from the router in your home or office. the internet is actually all transmitted on a series of wires switches and whatnot. If you have a router you can connect to stuff on the same network since yo... |
Why are bone marrow transplants so painful? | The bone marrow transplant itself is not painful. It's the conditioning treatment you get before the transplant that causes the pain. You receive very high dose chemotherapy and radiation before hand to deplete your marrow and this has very painful side effects the most prominent being mucousitis where the lining of th... |
Is there a reason most fast food places have the colors red and yellow? Like McDonald's, Carl's Jr, In N Out Burger, etc. | From what I've heard red has been observed to cause feelings of hunger in people. This is why almost every restaurant and even gas stations use it in their logo. |
What will they do with the Royals World Series Champions shirts? | As others have said, they end up in poor countries. This hasn't always been true. Not too long ago, they were shredded. Some activists basically shamed the companies into donating them. |
How does the naming of marijuana strains work? | You make a new strain and name it whatever you want. If you want your strain to be called Dildofuck Dogshit, that's what it is. |
How is Bernie Sanders' free tuition plan a success when all of the affected citizens are currently below the voting age? | You don't have to be a 20 something to attend college. People change professions many times during their adult lives. Free college can help a 50 year old or a 19 year old. |
When someone has their identity stolen, why is their responsibility to fix it and not those of the banks/organizations who allowed the thief to do so? | There are a few good answers here already, but I'll delve into one more aspect of it - it's hard to determine liability in these situations. Did the bank lose your information, or did the identity thieves get that information through multiple sources? Was there active negligence on the part of the bank, or did the thie... |
How do "non-profit" organizations have some of the highest paying internships / job positions? | Non-profit just means that instead of the company paying out profits to employees or to investors as regular corporations do, non-profit organizations instead re-invest all the 'profit' they make back into the company to improve its products and services. It basically just means the organization is committed to only sp... |
Is politics in the US actually more gridlocked, extremist, and partisan now than it has been in the past? If so, when did it start, and why? | Actually and surprisingly Democrats and Republicans aren't all that [partisan on issues of public policy]. Politicians don't radically disagree about things like guns, for example, as much as one might think. However, parties *really* [don't like each other anymore]. Simply put, if you don't trust someone, you probably... |
How do nurses not get sick all the time if they're working long hours, likely stressed, and constantly around sick people? | I've been an RN for 10 years. I have spent all 10, until recently, working in the MSICU. I would get the common cold occasionally, but not often, until I had a child. Once I had a kid in daycare, I get sick frequently. He brings home more little viruses that I cannot avoid. As far as serious diseases and infections, I ... |
How is Comcast still in business? | Because a lot of people buy what they're selling. Large areas of the US have very little competition in the broadband market, which is one reason why people are pushing to consider that service a public utility. It's difficult to say how many people would switch away from Comcast if given the opportunity.Well it's quit... |
How do Doctors predict how long someone has left to live if they are terminally ill? | They use population statistics for large groups of people with similar states. These estimates are very accurate *on average*, but they may not predict the individual's ultimate course. Since the numbers are based off of distributions, they can be quoted with a certain confidence limit. For example, rather than 'six mo... |
How do those multi-image 'shiny' cards work? | shiny pokemon/magic cards use holographic foil pressed into shapes to get the 3d look, but they only show one image. i think i know what you're talking about though i can't remember the names for them so i can't find a picture, but they are made out of plastic that is made of a bunch of tiny triangular prisms. dependin... |
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