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Why did many UN countries deny the vote of Crimea to secede into Russia? | The biggest reason is that it was just Crimea voting on an issue that affected the whole of Ukraine. None of the citizens of the rest of Ukraine were given any say in the matter. So if any of them had family in Crimea, or did business there, or were otherwise vested in being able to access the region as a citizen of Uk... |
Due to the Angle's Share effect, 2% of a bottle of whiskey evaporates each year, but if it's in a sealed bottle, how does it keep evaporating? | When being aged, it's not in a sealed bottle but inside a wooden barrel. Wood is porous so it evaporates through the wood. |
Why does yelling, or shouting prior to a heavy lift fire up your Central Nervous System? | IIRC: Something about releasing air out of your diaphragm for more power. It's similar to when you hear boxers exhale when the strike. |
Can you get DNA from Dust (Seeing as dust is meant to be dead skin)? | > If it is true that dust is mostly dead skin It's not. This is an old wives tale. Dust is mostly dirt, pollen, soot, fibers, and things like pet hair. However, there certainly *can* be skin cells in it, and they can contain DNA. |
If the human lifespan were somehow greatly extended, how would we deal with the ensuing increase in population? | The world is certainly overpopulated for the resources we consume. If the average person were to significantly reduce their footprint, then the globe could handle the current population and much more . That being said, if we got close to immortality i think you would find, in general, lower birth rates. Many people wou... |
Biologically, what causes cat pee to smell so much worse than dog pee? | Ammonia It's sometimes super concentrated they use it to mark their territory and because they evolved from outside cats it has to smell very bad. Other cats, lions, tigers, etc. are the same way. You can tell when a lion marks its territory. Go to Disney world and they talk about this in detail. |
How do stores and restaurants that dont get many customers stay open? | They really don't. Oftentimes, restaurants open and close within a year - because they can never build a strong customer base, either because the food is not great, the service sucks, or the place is in a bad location/poorly marketed. You can usually float if the owner wants to continue investing into a losing effort h... |
Why does it seem like CPUs haven't kept up with Moore's Law? | Because it's really really hard to make small things even smaller. Moore's law won't hold forever. Additionally: adding more cores doesn't *necessarily* make things faster. |
Hello i'm from Argentina, can someone explain why a black guy eating a watermelon is racist? | Iama black person who really hates fried chicken and watermelon. Seriously, they're not appealing. Although I love bananas < 3. |
Why do places from your childhood seam so much smaller as an adult? | You've changed in size, it hasn't. Example:Little Timmy is 3 feet tall. He goes to a swimming pool that is 50 feet long. The ratio of Timmys to pools is 3:50Timmy goes back as an adult and he is now 6 feet tall. He goes to the same swimming pool and it is still 50 feet long. The ratio of Timmys to pools is 6:50, which ... |
Why don't we produce agriculture in large greenhouses? As opposed to how farming has been traditionally done with large fields, and the hopes that something will be produced. | There are almost 100 million acres planted in corn alone in the US. There just aren't enough buildings for all that acreage.Outside is free. Inside is really expensive. Any hypothetical gains from working in a greenhouse is more than offset by the costs of building and maintaining the greenhouse.We do in some places. [... |
What's the difference between normal gas and diesel? | From what I understand, It's the way that the engines are designed to combust. Basically, they have to ignite the fuel in the right place in the right way, and different fuels' chemical makeup affects that. |
Post hoc ergo propter hoc | The best example I can think of is rain dances. If you were in a dry period, danced to your gods and asked for rain and then soon afterwards the rain came you *might* be inclined to think it was the dance that caused it to happen. It didn't, it was just a coincidence. |
Why do we still get dark eye bags after a night of insomnia even though, for the most part, we just lay there motionlessly with our eyes closed? | No one explained it like you're 5. Even though your eyelids are closed, you're still flexing the small muscles that support your eyeballs. |
O.J. Simpson was found not guilty in murdering Goldman and Brown, but was later found liable for the wrongful death of and battery of Goldman/Brown. How is that possible? | It's the difference between a criminal and a civil trial. The rule of evidence and jury instructions are different for a criminal case , compared to a civil case . Certain evidence was ruled inadmissible during Simpson's criminal case that was allowed in his civil trial. I believe there is also a different burden of pr... |
How can Matrox Millenium G550 GPUs still be for sale new, more than 16 years after release? | There are plenty of institutions, such as underfunded government agencies or small businesses, who have not upgraded their computer systems since 2000, if not earlier. The operating systems these ancient computers use are unable to work with modern GPUs or other modern computer parts. Alternatively, the computers in qu... |
Why do we sometimes forget how to do something when we think about it but then remember when we're not concentrating? | I'd also like to know this I was walking into work for a weekend shift and i was talking to the security guard while swiping my ID. When i tried to put in my pin i literally couldn't remember for the life of me no matter how hard i tried to remember. It was pretty awkward. The following Monday i walked in half asleep a... |
When countries like North Korea spend money on war supplies like missiles, nukes, guns, planes etc. who sells it to them? | Whoever does it, I'd probably not see it as 'evil' thing to do, it's just bussiness - if I don't sell it to them, there're 5 other guys waiting for this opportunity. I mean if they get these missile heads from Pakistan instead of China, what it's going to help? NK will end up having more or less what they need and I'll... |
What are one way functions? How do they work? | Take f=x^2 . If I tell you that I have some *x* and f=1, you don't know whether x=1 or -1. |
How do animals actually get put down at the vet? What happens biologically? | The same method is used for cats and dogs, yes. If your pet is very ill or infirm, they may not need a sedative, but if they're visibly distressed or nervous, they may be given a sedative before the euthanasia drugs are given. The sedatives themselves can cause pain, so they're usually only used if there is good reason... |
How do companies like Spotify allow playlist to be offline but still keep the songs safe from pirating? | It's not really worth the time to do so given how relatively cheap it is to access Spotify files legally by subscribing. |
Why are time periods (e.g. 50's, 60's, etc.) written with apostrophes? | It's mostly a stylistic choice. To start, let's review two rules about apostrophes. Apostrophes are used to form possessives . In most examples, the 1950s do not possess anything, so there is no need for an apostrophe. Some could interpret trends as belonging to a year, such as 1960s' artist Jimi Hendrix, or 2015's bes... |
Why are you not allowed to use a mechanical pencil on standardized tests even if it's the same #2 lead? | They are allowed, at least by most administrators/teachers. The machines have advanced enough that it can pick up most types of lead marks, I've heard that they can even read ink now too. |
What does a restaurant do to stop you from Dining n' dashing? | It is a crime, and not a very profitable one. You might be able to get away with it nine times out of ten, but when you do get caught, it will wind up costing you a whole lot more than the $20 of food you stole. That's how a lot of property crimes work. I could come to your house, throw a brick throw your window, steal... |
Why is gold so valuable to the world? | It looks pretty and doesn't oxidize like a lot of metals do. It can be found pretty much pure, so it was ancient cultures found and used it. It didn't have much use in the past, as it's quite soft so it was no good for making tools or weapons. But because it looks good, it was used as jewelry and for coins. Recently it... |
Why aren’t more major electronics companies making video game consoles? | There is almost zero profit in consoles. They are loss leaders. For a while, Microsoft was losing $100 for every XBox sold, but they try to make it back with games. So unless you own a crapload of game studios, it's not worth it to make the hardware.For a console to be successful, it has to have a large following, and ... |
When a nuclear bomb is dropped, how does the aircraft escape the explosion relatively unharmed? | It's not very complicated; they just drop it from a great height, or shoot it forward several kilometers on a rocket. Then they turn away at high speed. In some cases it falls slowly on a little parachute to buy them extra getaway time.The aircraft is far away by the time of the explosion. It’s dropped and takes a whil... |
Why do humans desire revenge? | not an expert, but hating what had damaged you or your loved ones seems natural. so you seek Revenge to make sure that it won't happen again. consider also that most people only seek vengeance if they can actually do something about it, like nobody swears revenge against nature for a tornado or for their grandma dying ... |
Why do airplanes and other aircraft always disintegrate upon impacting the ground? | Due to design, planes have to be as lightweight as possible. That doesn't stop larger passenger planes from weighing almost half a million pounds when fully loaded. That's a whole lot of stored energy moving at a rather high rate of speed. When a plane hits the ground, that energy has to go somewhere. And since the pla... |
Why is marijuana supposedly so much stronger today than what it was in the 60s,70s? | Because some people in the 60's would dry and smoke all the leaves of the plant, not just the buds. Some smoked ditch weed, wild hemp that grows all over the Midwest that had little to no THC. Others were terrible growers that harvested the flowers too early or too late. Thanks to tolarant countries like the Netherland... |
The chaos theory? If you wouldn't mind, thanks | Chaos Theory is the Butterfly Effect. It's a topic in math that basically says very complex systems can have VASTLY different outcomes with only a very small change in initial conditions. |
How come there aren't more dinosaur bones? | To add to /u/GermTheory 's comment , think about how few bones there are of some existing animals. IIRC scientists have yet to find the complete skeleton of a snow leopard, which is not only rare but also very elusive. There are a few other animals that fall in the same category. So obviously their bones are in some ha... |
Why does everyone hate windows 10? | Lots of initial issues with drivers that manufacturing companies are not updating to work with Windows 10. Makes for a lot of little bugs and errors. If your drivers are good though, it works just fine. Also could be the fact that they're nearly forcing Windows 7 and 8 users to upgrade. |
where the terms 'port' and 'starboard' originated. | Starboard comes from the old english word 'steorbord,' which is derived from old germanic terms referring to the side of the ship that the steering was controlled from . The predecessor term to 'port' when referring to a ship was 'larboard.' Its roots aren't certain, though its old english form of 'laddeboard' is thoug... |
What caused the shift in the general taste of music from classical in the past to the pop songs of today? | The introduction of the portable transistor radio allowed a new generation to listen to music that was different than their parents listened to at home. Before music became 'portable' everyone listened to the same music as the parents since the radio was a piece of furniture or the adults bought the tickets to the thea... |
If I drink a Coke and eat a Mentors, what will happen in my stomach? | As a lover of both Diet Coke and Mentos- You'll burp. Spectacularly. Time to practice the ABC trick. |
Why is a 'C' grade in American universities around 70-80%, where a 'C' grade in UK-based universities are around 50-60%? | In the UK, well in my experience, we don't use A, B, C etc. you either Fail , get a 3rd class honours , a 2:2 , a 2:1 , or a first class honours |
What does peanut butter taste like? | I don't LOVE pb, so I can assess the flavor with no bias. Its a very rich flavor so you can't eat too much of it, I know some of u can but idc. Its a very thick texture - creamy but sometimes chunky. But in general its a little salty, not overpowering, it tastes similar to other nuts, the ones you are not allergic to. ... |
Why do different countries have different kinds of plugs? | Once there were many different private companies providing electricity. Each provided their own voltage and their own frequency, and of course, their own plug. Nobody was very happy abut this, so lots of people got together in England and designed a standard. And lots of people got together in France and designed their... |
Why are people so angry when low-status men date or marry attractive foreign women? | If you're talking about a mail order bride situation, it's because those women are being exploited, which is awful. If you're talking about some random well off fat guy who marries a hot chick from the baltics, and she's more exploiting the guy, who is ok with it because he gets to marry a chick who would be out of his... |
Is it possible to 'put out' a volcano by pouring the necessary amount of water? If so, what would the effects be? | I'd imagine if you could pour enough water to cool it down and harden the lava it would just break through again. Volcanoes are like vents that release pressure underneath. This is pressure that is already strong enough to push through the earth's crust in the first place. Imagine you have a pipe and you crimp one end ... |
What are the side effects of the Great Barrier Reef disappearing | The Great Barrier Reef is literally a barrier - a fact which most people are unaware of. The Pacific Ocean on the reef's eastern flank sits slightly higher than the waterway between Australia's mainland and the reef. Should the reef continue to decay it will eventually, and in one fell swoop, collapse. As the two water... |
If my dryer has a setting that's called "optimum dry," why the fuck does it need any other settings? | Imagine you are tossing something in there to get out light wrinkles or you are using the part that acts like a shelf so the item is not actually tumbling. Or hell, you have a family member who just likes to put on warm clothes so they fire it up for that reason. The dryer would assume the articles are already dry and ... |
Why Americans have certain style of handwriting. | [There are cultural differences in handwriting], you're not imagining things! For those reading this thread who might not have seen handwriting from another country, a couple of examples of Italian handwriting: [one], [two], [three]. Essentially, what's going on is very similar to accent variation. People learn to writ... |
Why is it safe to buy exposed meat at Asian wet market with ambient temperature of over 30°C, when supermarkets are wrapping them air-tight and keeping them in refrigerators? | Often it's not, and you could get sick. However in most cases the animal was slaughtered very close by and very recently, possibly on site and just moments ago. While in the super market, the animal was slaughtered in an industrial slaughter house that's quite some time and distance away. So they needed to take steps t... |
Why people on shows like Intervention don't get arrested for having illegal drugs. | Arrests for small-quantity possession aren't generally cops' first priorty; in most jurisdictions in North America, cops are looking for the people selling rather than the people buying, as that's the only way to put any measurable dent in the drug trade. There's also something to be said for leaving these people on TV... |
why must I sneeze uncontrollably every spring? What haven't we figured out about curing allergies? | Insufficient information: We haven't figured out what causes allergies in the first place. Additional variables: Human beings keep putting things into food, water, and air that might cause new allergies or worsen already-existing ones. |
How much credit (or blame) can be assigned to film directors for the overall quality of a film? | Well, the director gets most blame. Director's jail is when a movie bombs so thoroughly that the director can't get hired on another movie of equal size. The grips, for instance, are below the line workers, which means they aren't the artists. The director has to communicate to the others what he want. When a corporati... |
why is it that dogs can eat their own feces and seem ok but when humans ingest feces (hopefully by accident) it gets us terribly sick? | I'll admit it. I was a young kid, and I was curious as to what it tastes like. Taste tremendously depends on the tint, and as I recall brown is quite bitter, but not quite disgusting, more like the bitter part of the sweet and sour sauce at a Chinese restaurant. I never got sick, and I don't think anyone would get sick... |
Why wouldn't a "sit-down" restaurant offer a discount to take out orders? It seems like it would increase take out orders tremendously. | All the packaging are not free, and probably cost more than it does to wash a dish. So it's not necessarily a savings.> Are they worried people would choose take out over sit down service and cannibalize profits? Alcohol profits are huge, and you get more alcohol sales when customers are eating in than taking out. Plus... |
Why do minors who work still pay income tax? | Someone under the age of 18 does have representation. They just can't vote for their representation. You can talk to your state legislators to try to change this, but there's not a lot of momentum to do so.There is a lot of examples of taxation without representation in the US. If you have a green card you have to pay ... |
The difference in Coca-cola, Diet Coke and Coke Zero, and if that's the same for Pepsi, Diet Pepsi and Pepsi Max | Coke uses corn syrup for sweetener. Diet coke uses aspertaim as a sweetener. Coke zero uses a different artificial sweetener and other ingredients meant to simulate the original coke flavor better. There are probably some other ingredients different between each in order to keep the flavors similar but the sweeteners a... |
The economic situation in Cyprus and why it's attracting so much attention. | * Cyprus bases it economy on being a tax haven, largely for dirty Russian money.* Cypriot banks makes bad investments in Greece, lose money, can't cover current deposits.* Cyprus tries to get a bailout from the EU, EU not enthusiastic about bailing out Russian tax evaders and money launderers.* EU demands $6 billion or... |
Why are you not supposed to clean DVDs in a circular motion? | Because the correction codes can't correct circular scratches as easily as straight scratches. Straight scratches are almost never an issue, but an unlucky circular scratch can make the disc unreadable. |
The NSA data mining scandal | **Time span** This has been happening since before you were born. **Implications** If you're a bad guy and you're thinking of doing something bad and hurting other people, they won't know. You can't get in trouble for thinking about being bad. But maybe you start calling some other bad guys to see how to get bombs, and... |
When looking at the nutrition facts on a food, what am I supposed to be looking for that would indicate it as a healthy food? | One cool thing I just learn is 4 grams of sugar equals a teaspoon of sugar. If you are eating something that has 16 grams of sugar think wow there's 4 teaspoons of sugar in that serving. This helps for quick reference on healthy versus unhealthy. Also, if it's in the middle aisles of the supermarket it's usually highly... |
Is it better to leave a car running while idling or to turn it off and on when you need to move? | It depends on the engine and the time. Starting the engine uses more fuel for a short time than to keep it running for the same time, especially with older engines. But this is for something like 5 to 10 seconds. If you know you'll be waiting longer, turn it off. |
Why does our leg shake when we try to stand on something narrow? (like a slackline or a gymnastics beam??) | Not an answer to your question, but some relevant advice: Do not copy paste anyting off this page because your teacher is gonna go through three or four pages of google search before she decides that you have a valid answer When using stuff from the internet, always read -- > interpret -- > write down. That way it's no... |
How can Amazon/online shopping shut down so many brick-and-mortar businesses, only for Amazon to now open their own physical stores? | Amazon has only opened a small number of physical stores so far. Additionally, part of how Amazon squeezed other stores out of the market had to do with good supply chains and wide selection of stuff. Just being an internet store alone isn't why they won. |
Why do humans have baby teeth? | Yes, I am no scientist or dentist or master of teeth knowledge, but I would think it is because they are too big for a small head. Here's an an even more perplexing question: We have baby teeth and grow adult teeth so why can't we RE-grow the adult teeth second time? Our bodies grew them once, why not again? I think de... |
Why doesn`t Britain get rid of it`s Monarchy? | It's more of a cultural aspect, and it's not really causing damage in any way.They objectively make more money than they cost to maintain. |
Are psychopaths born with the illness? And how could socialization "cure" the illness? | Since no one else brought it up, I'm going to throw in that there's actually a brain scan that can be done as it seems like psychopaths tend to have a smaller/deformed amygdala. You could make a better confirmation this way : _URL_5_ > Another brain study, published in the September 2009 Archives of General Psychiatry,... |
Why can other mammals such as bears hibernate but humans can't? | They're able to regulate their metabolic rate. Over the winter hibernating animals greatly decrease body temperature, heart rate, and breathing rate to conserve energy. They do this because food becomes too scarce and they'd be unable to survive if they remained active. Humans don't have the ability to do this, we evol... |
How can CSI tell the exact time of death | Basically there are places like the one in the link that take bodies that are either donated or have no one to claim and they lay them out in different conditions. Over time, they take pictures and perform autopsies at different times to see how the body changes during decomposition. This can tell forensic investigator... |
Why did women never take to gaming like, or even more than, men did? | I'm not entirely sure this is correct, and I'm far too young to give an opinion based on experience, but I'd say that maybe early games were just surrounded by violence and cars, things even today that seem more masculine than feminine. |
Getting sick from a 'bacteria' vs. 'virus' | What /u/RhynoD/ said. Also, antibiotics are specifically against bacteria, and don't do a thing against a virus. If you have the flu/a cold, antibiotics won't help at all. |
why does water evaporate when it's nowhere near 100 degrees? | /u/LupineChemist is close but an additional reason is to do with individual molecules achieving 'boiling point'. While the average temperature of the water may be less than 100C, there will be molecules that have a greater kinetic energy due to random collisions within the water. Because temperature is just a measure o... |
When sworn to tell "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" why don't lawyers ask if the defendant committed the crime? | A defendant never has to take the witness stand. The prosecution can't force them to testify. If a defendant does testify its because their lawyer believes it is in their best interest or because they did so against the lawyer's advice. In either case, if the defendant testifies the question of whether or not they comm... |
Why are there no countries which recognize the existence of both Chinas? | TL;DR, Nobody wants to piss off China Well the only Republic of China that exists today is Taiwan. Taiwan's status is very complicated. I work for a company in The UK that deals with Taiwan and it's quite strange. We basically trade with them as if they were an independent state but don't formally recognise it. There i... |
If US Supreme Court Justices are suppose to be impartial, why are their personal beliefs and politics talked about so much before being appointed? | You've misunderstood the situation. Their personal beliefs and political stances are not discussed. Generally speaking, these things are not widely known. What is discussed is how they have ruled on past cases, and those cases are what people extrapolate out to guess what they think a judge's personal beliefs and polit... |
How some gifted humans are able to perform extremely difficult calculations in their head? | I used to do human calculator tricks, nothing at that level, but I was pretty good. It is a matter of practice and technique. Not that what she did wasn't remarkable, or that just anyone could do it but with the right technique, a reasonably bright person could multiply two 6 digit together in 28 seconds without too mu... |
How do the self defense laws work regarding weapons and just general defense (in the USA)? | As /u/Gyang193 says, in the first scenario you would have to establish that you were acting in self-defense. Usually, witness statements and forensic evidence will go a *long* way towards establishing this. In the second scenario, some states have established principles called [castle doctrines] which basically say tha... |
According to the Space Engine program, we have data on stars and bodies out in the unfathomable reaches in space. How is this possible? | > How could we possibly deduce that there is an asteroid orbiting a gas giant in a galaxy far, far away from just light?? We can't, I imagine the vast majority of celestial bodies in Space Engine are randomly generated based on what we think we know about the universe. SE allows you to find planets with life on them, w... |
What are the different factions of Islam, and why do they seem at odds with one another? | It was a matter of succession. Some believed that Mohammed died without an heir, and so the 'community' elected his successor, Abu Bakr. Another group believe Mohammed's nearest blood relative, a cousin , should have inherited. In a grossly simplified explanation, Sunni backed Bakr, and Shia backed the son-in-law. Ther... |
What is the difference between a burka, niqab and hijab? and why do some women choose to wear one over the others? | If I answer this like i see it I'll sound like a dick and I can speak for all Muslims.Here in Dubai most of the women have no choice of who they marry, if they marry anyone other than and Emirati they lose their passport. I have been to a few local wedding, not something most westerners would be comfortable at.The fami... |
What is the difference between accuracy and precision ? | Not the same thing. Accuracy is an indicator of how close you're able to get to the correct answer, precision is an indicator of refinement in your measurement. For example, a meter stick without centimeter or millimeter marks is relatively imprecise. You can still measure the length of things accurately , but you can'... |
How did pilots know where their airfields were prior to the advent of GPS? | Others have mentioned manual methods which are still used today. But also prior to GPS aircraft used variations of radio direction finder systems. There were and are a variety of ways these were implemented but basically radio transmitting antenna were positioned in locations and your receiver on the aircraft would tel... |
What's the most plausible way for us to time travel and how would it work? | Do nothing; you're already moving forward through time. That is literally the easiest way. The non-troll answer: moving really, really fast while just above the atmosphere would let you go a little into the future. It wouldn't be that big of a difference. |
Does every single car in the world have a unique key? | No, they repeat keys. My sister and I accidentally stole someone's car after we had just had an argument with the person. Her key worked to open and start the car. I think they were both 99' Toyota Camrys. We figured out a couple miles down the road when we noticed a backpack in the back seat and went straight back. He... |
Why does airconditioning in my car consume gas but the headlights/radio does not? | Most cars have an auxiliary belt/ drive belt that powers accessories. Accessories include power steering and air conditioning.You may have noticed when your car isn't running the engine, your AC doesn't work. This is because the pulley connected to the AC is free running all the time from the belt and not actually turn... |
Why do actual downloads (music, games, etc) never go as fast as a speed test shows my speed? | Your actual speed isn't determined solely by what the ISP advertises you. The actual amount of data that can be served is limited by a few things: * Route. Your data actually makes several stops on the way to its destination and quality connections on them all are key.* Limitations on the service. Some services do cap ... |
What causes parts of the body to spontaneously itch and why does scratching the spot immediately make the feeling disappear? | A lot of the times an itch is from dead skin cells detaching from your body. You'll notice you're itchier more often if you haven't showered for a couple of days. Thats the most common cause that isn't external from your body. |
If you're not supposed to microwave metal, why are there metal racks in some microwaves? | Microwaves cause water molecules to bounce around, which generates heat. It also causes electrons inside of metals to bounce around too. Metal racks are thick and smooth, which allows the electrons inside the metal to bounce around freely, and the rack won't get hot. If you stick metal in the microwave that is thin or ... |
why does RAM not have the same issue of limited write cycles that solid state drives do? | Two different types of storage. SSDs use a type of transistor called a Floating Gate MOSFET, which is really weird in the way it stores bits, but it works. However it seems that over time, these floating gate MOSFETs degrade in terms of their write capability. The big thing here to note is that transistors are not real... |
Why are we still flushing toilets with clean, drinking water? | > Why are we treating and cleaning water which will essentially be used to flush down the toilet? We're not treating and cleaning water *just* to flush down the toilet. We're treating and cleaning water, *so that we have treated and clean water*, some of which is used for toilets, because it's already piped to the hous... |
Why is Ethiopia in its' current state even though it was the only African nation to resist colonization? | There are likely people who can answer this question here , but you may get better results from /r/AskHistorians . |
why is Times New Roman, size 12, the most commonly used text font? | Fonts and typefaces are legally protected intellectual property. You can't use a font in a publication or graphic design project unless you have a license to use that font. But the Windows operating system includes a license to use Times New Roman for commercial purposes. That means publishers can use it without having... |
if racism is bad then why is black only or women only scholarships allowed but white only or men only scholarships not allowed? | Because people still have the ill conceived notion that white men are given everything in life. In the past that may have been true, but it's an outdated view, much like racism itself. |
How has the steering wheel/accelerator gone basically unchanged throughout the automobile's history while most everything else in a car has been updated or changed? | I'd say the steering wheel actually has changed a lot. Think of all of the technology now present in a steering wheel- first it connects to a power steering system that assists you in turning the vehicle, rather than using brute strength. Next, think of all the buttons for things such as cruise control, and media cente... |
Can anyone explain why housing costs so much? | There is a big demand for it- everyone needs it, but there's a limited supply; there isn't an infinite supply of for sale homes. If more than 1 person/family is interested in buying a home, the seller will raise the price until only one person is willing to pay that amount. |
Why are younger children so picky about the foods that they eat? | For the same reason they cry bloody murder at the slightest startling noise or pinch / physical pain .because they lack experiences to compare it to. a pinch on the arm wouldn't make an adult flinch, but for a small child, thats likely the most pain they have ever felt. |
Why do Islamic fundamentalists hate the United States? Does it have anything to do with religion/religious teachings? If so, where in the Quran or the Sunnah does it necessitate hatred of Western culture? | First: It is important to remember that this only applies to the EXTREMEST and very, very few Muslims violently hate the US more than the average person. **[CHRISTIAN AND JEWS GO TO HEAVEN ACCORDING TO THE QU'RAN]**. So it has nothing to do with religious teachings. Second: It is a matter of information control. If you... |
For the average user, why would you not want to upgrade to Windows 10? | Windows 10 has numerous privacy issues, basically Microsoft is spying on what you have installed. However if you don't care about that, then know that by default Windows 10 will allow Microsoft to use your computer and internet connection as a patch server. They'll upload patches to other people on the internet from yo... |
What does net worth of somebody means? | It's their total assets minus their debts. Unless their assets are incredibly diverse, it's probably an easy estimate. real estate value + bank account + stock portfolio are probably the biggest assets, then minus what is probably owed on the house.If you take all of their positions and sold them, how much would you ha... |
Why do filmmakers use different framerate cameras in the same movie? | How could you tell the framerate was changing? The distribution was at a constant framerate. I suppose the source could have sensed a slow connection and changed to a lower resolution. Filmakers do change camera framerates to speed up or slow down action, but after editing it all comes out the same rate. They could hav... |
How is cryogenic freezing supposed to work? How does freezing a body not immediately kill someone? | It definitely kills them which is why it is only done after death. There is no known way to revive such a meat popsicle but that doesn't stop people from hoping. |
If silent movies had screens of dialogue inserted between scenes why couldn't silent movie makes insert this text dialogue underneath scenes in a fashion not entirely distinct from modern subtitles? | Subtitles are overlaid on the film of the shot scenes, and it's with a transparent background, and the text is small enough to fit on the actual film, so it had to have been somehow reduced after being initially typeset or hand-written. I don't know the details, but it sounds complicated. Compare this to old dialogue s... |
What is the difference between cryogenic freezing and simply freezing to death? Why is one reversible and the other not? | Cryogenic freezing is done on people who are 'technically dead' with the intent to preserve and restore them at a later date when the cause of death can be corrected. So far, it hasn't been reversed. No one has been brought back to life from being cryogenically frozen. A big part of the plan hinges on being preserved '... |
Why do some structures (Radio towers specifically) have Red lights but, others use White Strobes? What is the difference between the two | I'm guessing you know already the purpose of these lights is to make structures visible for aircraft? As long as the lights meet the FAA requirements colour doesn't really matter. White strobe is better during the day, red are better at night. A lot of places use both but some settle on one or the other or various reas... |
3D Printers.. how exactly do they work? | Normal printer goes dot by dot on a piece of paper, carefully marking places where image should be and skipping ones where it's blank. 3D printers work similar, only with ~~LAZORS!~~ SPACE TECHNOLOGY! . Basically, there is a flat layer of plastic dust and printer glues it in places where the object should be. Then it a... |
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