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Why is Irish language not widely spoken in Ireland? And why are Irish "letting the language die"? | Ireland was controlled/occupied by the British for several centuries. They suppressed the teaching of Gaelic and encouraged English, to try to assimilate the often rebellious Irish. It had an effect. Gaelic was still spoken, buy you needed to speak English to get ahead. Scholarship and literature suffered, until fewer ... |
Why do Native Americans own so many casinos? | Founder and mod at /r/IndianCountry reporting in. The answers here are solid and I would place an emphasis on the compact negotiation process. The [National Indian Gaming Association] is [a great resource for learning about Indian gaming generally.] You'll probably get more nuanced and anecdotal answers to your questio... |
Why someone on call can't hear music being played from the phone speaker, but can hear me talk | The phone uses two microphones to enable *noise cancellation* -- removing any sound that is present in the room, leaving only the sound that's coming from the area near your mouth. So it can remove music coming from the phone, as well as other sounds surrounding you. |
Why does travelling make people tired? | Travelling on a plane is tiring. Although your body is just sitting doing nothing, it isn't relaxing. It is also normal practise that just before you fly you run around packing and organising things and so are tired from that. Travelling in bus or train gets tired because its just the physical act of traveling. |
Why is the price of an EpiPen climbing so rapidly? | EpiPen's manufacturer has openly declared that profits are more important to it than saving people's lives. Without a more affordable competitor on the market anymore, they're free to charge whatever they want. The US drug market has incredibly expensive barriers to entry, so it's unlikely that an approved competitor w... |
Why is Jill Stein the one requesting the recount? What is she expecting to get out out of it? | Cynical explanation: If she doesn't spend all the money raised, the Green Party gets to use it in other elections. Other explanation: It raises the profile of the Greens. |
The common cold / influenza. How does our immune system not completely block them after fighting them off once? | The common cold isn't actually a single virus, it's a category of hundreds of viruses. They produce pretty much the same symptoms, but they're different enough that even if your immune system has encountered some of them it doesn't immediately recognize the others. |
Why are escorts able to work legally? | Prostitute means you pay for sex which is illegal while escort means you're paying to spend time with someone which isn't illegal. Then if two grown people who are spending time together happen to have sex then that's a clever side stepping of the law. The the key thing is that money isn't being traded for sex at least... |
Aids, Receiving, Giving, side affects and why exactly its so difficult to find a cure | AIDs is a condition. You don't catch or give AIDs. You first get infected with HIV somehow and then you may develop AIDs over time. AIDs is a condition where your immune system is extremely weak due to the virus destroying it over time. If you have a weak immune system you can easily dye from simple infections that wou... |
As a non American person, please ELI5 if Comcast is such s crap why just some rich company won't start their own buisness? | > I know it would cost a lot but hey, I thought this was America? I don't think you understand just how much we're talking about. Hundreds of billions of dollars, easy. Last I checked, nobody has that kind of cash laying around, certainly not for an investment as speculative as this. |
Why do some men last longer in bed and some only last 5-10 mins? | I would say it's also to do with the personality of the guy. I don't feel like I've done my job properly if I'm the only to climax, if I feel like I'm close I'll slow down or even stop and continue foreplay for a few moments. If I wanted to I could easily finish in less than 5 minutes every time lol |
Why are college institutions like Sororities popular in American and some Canadian universities but unknown in other countries? | American/Canadian colleges are a different experience in that people tend to go further away from home to go to school, live in dorms instead of living at home with family or getting apartment, have more of a self contained world on campus, plus the fact that most college students can't legally drink/get into bars. All... |
Why are maps not on globes always off? It seems like with computers and PhotoShop we could easily fix them? | Take a ball, cut it open, and try to lay it flat without wrinkling it. You can't . |
Why is 32 bit sometimes referred to as x86? | x86 is one particular 32-bit architecture. You see that often because that's what virtually all PCs use, but there are others. |
Why does anyone take losses on stocks? | Often people do hold on to stocks in those situations, hoping that eventually the price will rise again. However, there are several reasons turn a paper loss into an actual loss: 1.) **Taxes** - taking a loss on a stock position offset tax liability, since it counts as a loss. If you don't expect the stock to rise soon... |
How cold does it get in a man-made vacuum chamber? | Vacuum doesn't have a temperature. Objects in a vacuum could be hot or cold. Overheating is even potentially an issue in something like circuitry because vacuum functions as an insulator. |
What is the origin of the '@' symbol? | at the price of". The wikipedia arcticle is actually pretty simple, i would recommend that you read it, hope i was of help! ps: almost forgot the link_URL_0_ edit: added extra info |
Fingerprint scanners on phones? | In addition to pressure, the sensor also detect fluctuations in electrical field, that's how it reads the ridges on your fingerprint. |
Why do we weigh less in the morning? | All night, your body is burning energy keeping you alive. When it burns energy, what that means is that it's taking sugars in your body, and using oxygen to break the sugars apart to make carbon dioxide and water, creating energy. You exhale the carbon dioxide, which weighs more than the oxygen you inhale. Every breath... |
Why do my pubes stop growing at a certain length but the hair on my head doesn't? | Follow up question: I've had hair on one of my knuckles for as long as I can remember. The hairs were about 0.8mm in length and they stayed that way for over 10 years. How come when I cut these hairs do they grow back LONGER than the 0.8mm within DAYS? I just recently cut them for about the 20th time yesterday and toda... |
How did the Norse religion become part of the Marvel universe? Do marvel now have copyright over a set of Gods? | How it came to be was that Stan Lee wanted to make a new superhero that was stronger than the Hulk. So who's stronger than the strongest one there is? A god. Duh. Readers were already familiar with the Greek gods, so instead he used Norse mythology. Thor's original artist, Jack Kirby, is the master of insane-looking sc... |
Why does the periodic table split around 57 and 89? | It's actually just so that it's easier to display. The number of elements per row increases every two rows . Row 1 has 2 elements, rows 2 and 3 have 8 elements each, rows 4 and 5 have 18 elements each, and rows 6 and 7 have 32 elements each. The periodic table would be really awkward to print if they actually put all 3... |
How do free softwares like VLC Player make any money? | Maybe not VLC specifically, but a lot of them are side projects. Get the producer's namde out there with a free product, and maybe the consumer will look into their paid products |
Why do boxers hug eachother? And what makes the referee break up the hug? | Another word for this is called a clinch. As others have said, this can be done when one or both fighters feel fatigue in order to prolong the breather period, or if one fighter was trying to prevent any subsequent hits. . Clinching is also used in other martial arts, like Tae Kwon Do sparring. In that case, it's usual... |
How does the UK's policy that people should "stay put" when their building is on fire make any sense? | It is the policy for tower blocks, the reason is the buildings are supposed to be flame retardant, I believe the Grenfell Tower was covered in a highly flammable coating, for some fucking reason. What should happen; Fire starts and the Fire Service come to put it out. Fire Service enter the building, find the fire and ... |
Is turning your cell phone off "good" for it? | The only thing I can tell you is that if you're running an Android phone it will sometimes prompt the phone to update the software on board like the Google Play Store for example. So in my opinion if you want the latest version of the software you should turn off your phone every once in a while. On the iPhone the upda... |
If dinosaurs were truly extinct before humans came into being, why do so many mythologies tell of dragons/wyverns/other beasts that totally sound like dinosaurs in retrospect? | I think it's because we've been finding their bones everywhere for centuries. Huge skeletons that resemble our current birds and lizards than anything else. The magic and fire are just products of a long era of fear-mongering and superstition around the unknown.The word Dinosaur wasn't even invented till 1842 and befor... |
why does pollen irritate humans so much? | I take immunology in college. So I might be of use. The human immune system randomly creates sensors, on some immune cells that detect random foreign materials based on their molecular shape, think of it as a Lego piece fitting with another block. If an immune cell has a sensor that is sensitive to the molecular shape ... |
Why I should tip on carry-out? | I do 5% just so I don't feel bad but it's true that they haven't done anything to earn it. Coming from someone who has worked in restaurants for years. |
Why do supernovas do so much damage if shockwaves can't propagate in a vacuum? | When a star goes nova or supernova, it's not sending out shockwaves. It's ejecting its physical mass. That mass sweeps out the area near the star, making it look like a shockwave blew through.A supernova unleashes a lot of particles traveling at high speeds and very intense radiant energy. These bombard nearby star sys... |
Why don't use use power line towers for windmills? | Efficient wind turbines tend to be very very large. They often have blades in excess of 100 ft long, positioned on top of a tower twice that height. When you go to smaller wind turbines you give up a lot of efficiency. You also have to put the wind turbine somewhere that gets good wind, while you need to run power line... |
Why does butane gas apear to be liquid in disposable lighters? | Butane lighters work by releasing liquid butane, stored in a pressurized chamber, in a narrow stream of gas. A spark, made by striking a flint with steel or by compressing piezoelectric crystal, ignites the gas. Because butane turns liquid quickly when compressed, and just as quickly returns to gas with reduced pressur... |
Why is the label 'African-American' applied to people who are not personally from Africa? | Italian-American", or whatever the country of their ancestors may be. "Person of color" has come from the inversion of "colored person" to put more emphasis on the person rather than the color. The problem of the attempted use of all these different terms is that many groups within the US don't agree on which is more a... |
How on earth do parking garages underneath skyscrapers support themselves? | Parking floors aren't that different from all the other floors from a structural perspective. Maybe they have bigger columns with wider spacing but that's about it; the total amount of support is the same. Other floors with many smaller rooms look stronger but it's almost all drywall which is in no way structural. The ... |
American lottery taxes and fee | In the US, all lottery winnings are taxable income . In the US, any income in a year beyond about $200,000 is subject to the a federal income tax rate of at least 30% . This is in addition to any state/local income taxes. So for a million-dollar lottery winnings, a good chunk of that money is taken off the bat in incom... |
How did soldiers in WW2 not constantly have hearing problems and or go deaf? | There is a lot of hearing damage from war. Stress can protect the ear from noise damage though, so in real combat situations the ear is protected to some extent by the body's stress response. _URL_0_ _URL_1_ But there are plenty of times in war when the body isn't under sufficient stress to protect hearing, but you sti... |
If feminists are fighting for gender equality, then why call themselves feminists? | It doesn't. You can fight for women's rights without having to demean men's rights. Equality is not a zero sum game. |
If light cannot escape a black hole, how was there a giant outburst of light from a black hole? [article in comments] | It's an oversimplification in the writing. The light is generated *externally* to the event horizon, but may be a product of the action of the black hole itself, as the strong gravitational and magnetic fields can result in a lot of heating that gives off bright electromagnetic bursts. So basically, since it is so clos... |
Why is there so much hype surrounding Fifty Shades of Grey? From an outside perspective it just seems everyone has a secret bdsm fantasy. | Some people are excited because it's a saucy book that sold a lot of copies, and they think it'll break down some barriers to talking about this sort of thing. Other people are upset because it portrays a very warped view of actual BDSM play and relationships. Some people are sympathetic to that, while others point out... |
how did medieval peoples make anvils? | The kind you're probably thinking of were forge welded from wrought iron billets. That kept the correct slag composition in the wrought iron to keep it strong. Simply casting them from molten iron in stone or sand resulted in brittle cast iron anvils that didn't hold up. That process was occasionally used for other thi... |
Why is sampling other peoples music allowed, but having similar jokes wrong? | Sampling isn't really allowed unless you pay licenses. Back in the 1980s, when hip hop was growing, there was a big court case that said you can't do it without paying the original artist. |
Why did Facebook take off but Myspace died? | I remember Hi5, it was cleaner than myspace but they updated it and allowed you to see who's been on your profile. Basically nobody wanted to be a creeper/stalker so everyone stopped using it. |
How can a mirror reflect different images to different people? | Because the light is bouncing of the mirror at different angles. Think of it like this: you and two friends are standing in a large room. Your first friend stand 2 meters away from you and the second stand 5 meters away. You want to throw rubber balls to them, but as a dare you're only allowed to do it by bouncing them... |
If we are not expecting nuclear war, why nuclear powers still keep their arsenal? | Because having nuclear weapons makes it less likely that the other guy will think about using his nukes on you. That's the crux of Mutually Assured Destruction . Nobody wants to start a nuclear war, because they know that doing so would result in a bunch of bombs falling in their backyard as well. |
Why, as a server, can my checks sometimes be for zero dollars? | Ex server of 20 years here who has waited tables in AK, WA and TX. In TX and most other states the minimum wage is $2.13/hr plus tips. The amount of tips you claim is calculated and submitted with your hourly wage as taxable income. So, for example, say in one pay period of two weeks you worked 70 hours and your sales ... |
Why is there different standard test (lower) for women in military? | 1. Women, on average, are a lot weaker than men. Very few women women would pass if they were held to the same standards as their male counterparts. 2. Not all jobs in the military require physical strength. A large portion of the military is devoted to logistics, administration and supply and it doesn't matter how fit... |
How do certain types of music sound good to some and unbearable to others? | It's harder for someone to enjoy a piece of music if they do not recognize the pattern. For some genres with very complex patterns, it usually takes someone who recognizes the pattern to enjoy it, not everybody does. Simpler patterns, such as in pop music are deliberately simple, so that most people like them to some d... |
From where do you measure height of moutains and depth of seas? | In the past it was measured from average sea level, but this proved inaccurate due to irregularities in the earth's shape and variations in sea level itself. These days there is a mathematical model called the geoid that represents a virtual sea level. The current standard used in most western nations is the World Geod... |
What it that feeling of horrible burning when water goes up your nose when diving into a pool or just taking a shower and reaching down for something? | I've never been able to jump into a pool without plugging my nose because of this problem! Never successfully learned to dive because of it. I always thought that I was just weird. |
Many countries place a high tax on alcohol, tobacco, fuel, etc. for their detrimental effects on society. Why isn't confectionary / fast food treated the same? | because those aren't necessity goods. ie things that you need to survive. you don't need alcohol, tobacco, fuel to survive. even though, Fast Food can be unhealthy, they can provide a cheap & quick meal for many poor people. placing a high tax like alcohol/tobacco will do a lot more harm than good. |
If everyone has different taste buds and smell receptors, why are there things that generally taste/smell bad or good to everyone? | I think your question is: how do i really know that X tastes the same to me as it does to Y ? And the answer is quite simple, it doesn't.But evolution has taught us all the same, regardless of our genetic differnces: Food that makes us sick will smell bad, not because it smells bad, but because it made many of us sick ... |
Could there have been a massacre in Bowling Green that was covered up for geopolitical reasons? | Very difficult to do in a western society. It's possible to cover up some things, sure. But a terrorist attack is not one of those things that are easily covered up. There would be news of it within the hour, complete with film crews of every major network. |
Why I can get 200 HD channels instantly over a coaxial cable yet streaming online video over the same cable is significantly slower | multicast IP streaming never really took off for consumer applications… But even for digital content, a tv channel is a stream of bits and your TV either gets them or it doesn't, but the computer on the other end doesn't care and doesn't slow down to let your tv catch up. If you miss it, you miss it. Too bad. By contra... |
Is "free X with purchase of Y" a legitimate loophole to sell things typically illegal? (e.g. Free moonshine with every purchase of $30 pen) | I used to work at a shop that sold questionably legal pieces of hollow glass. The police didn't like it but said that the store could give away its inventory but couldn't sell it. So the owner talked to a friend of his that made t-shirts. The owner bought all of of the misprints and screwed up t-shirts for $1 each and ... |
If clear pee means you're hydrated, then why does beer make my pee clear even though it dehydrates. | When your pee is clear, it means there's excess water in your body it's getting rid of. This is a good thing because dumping excess water is no prob, but having to make do with little water is unhealthy. However, when you drink alcohol, your kidneys have to do quite a lot of filtration work. Kidneys require a lot of h2... |
Why do some helicopters have two rotor blades and others have four ? And what exactly are the benefits of each type? | The extra weight from additional blades is neglectible. The problem is that more blades create more turbulences and the increase of drag is higher than the increase of lift. So a 2 blade heli is requires less fuel than the same heli with more blades. Because a 2 rotor head is also the easiest and most cost effective to... |
Why we don't have a computer processor that's can exceed 5GHz without overclocking? | To add, Milton Feng and Walid Hafez at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign built a single transistor that switches at 60 GHz. I think this is still the record. So it goes to show you it's not that transistors can't switch fast. A top of the line iCore 7 currently has 1,750,000,000 transistors, and it's a cha... |
When falling asleep on a car journey, how do I wake up just minutes before getting back home, without anyone waking me up? | I would say that you wake up several times but drop off again and forget about it, but if when you wake up you are close to destination you stay awake with the impression it's the first time you wake up. |
What is my half-brothers sister by a different father to me? | Not technically, AFAIK. You could call them you brother/sister half-removed. 😅 It's not technically correct, but it's as good as anything else. |
What happens when you renew wedding vows? | Whatever you want to happen. It's not a legal or religious service like a wedding. So couples who choose to do this make up their own rules. Mostly is a excuse for a party and they'll exchange vows to reaffirm thier love for one another. |
Why are old 90s PC games so twitchy and fast on current computers? | It's a blast playing CS 1.6 on a good PC now, especially on fun servers. You can turn up the FPS well past 200 and combine techniques like like airstrafing, groundstrafing, and ledging which allow a skilled user to basically become Neo. Add in a Logitech hyperscroll mousewheel and you'll have trouble convincing people ... |
Why do we keep using months? Wouldn't it be easier to just count days from 1 to 365 every year instead? | A lot of it has to do with how it's tradition. There is no need to change it when we are so used to it and it is so widely accepted. |
If there are sin taxes on items harmful to the body such as alcohol and tobacco products to discourage purchasing them, why aren’t there any on unhealthy foods? | Some cities have tried to do this , but in the end people do not want extra taxes on things. People protested hard and finally got it removed. People in general are more okay with taxes being put on things such as tobacco because the majority of people don't smoke. However the majority of people in America do eat unhea... |
I speak modern English. Would I be able to effectively communicate with speakers of earlier versions of English? | It depends on how far back you go. Middle and Early Modern, you could probably get by. They are, technically, the same language as Modern English, just really weird forms of it. You would have to be clever, and they would have to be clever, but mostly it would be a question of just vocabulary, especially considering th... |
Why do we "feel" when someone it's staring at us. | last i heard the ability to sense somebody that's just looking at you was bunk. Instead there might be extremely subtle cues, quiet sounds, air movement, etc. that clues us in. But simply looking at someone doesn't cause any meaningful reaction that can be picked up by human senses, and quite possible to stare at someo... |
what measures prevent scammers from establishing GoFundMe on false premises, and just walking away with money? | Saw some guy on Dr Phil who was raising money on line to due some crazy distance bike ride . Turns out he's ridden 5 miles and spends most days eating junk food in the hotel. Made me smile for humanity. |
How can ISP employees see that I'm torrenting GoT? What else can they see? | They have access to your incoming and outgoing packets and will be able to program their servers to recognize and flag/restrict access to BitTorrent servers. For that matter, they can monitor your data from both upstream and downstream . All of the data you send and receive via the Internet, by definition, goes through... |
How is Nintendo able to demand ad revenue for related youtube videos? | Fair Use doesn't technically apply to Let's Play content so Nintendo is under no legal obligation to allow that content to remain on YouTube, so they can hold it to ransom all it likes. Fair Use mostly applies to Review content |
Why do our ears "ring" | Audio engineer here. In a nutshell, the ringing you're experiencing in a quiet room may be a condition called tinnitus. Tinnitus is a constant ringing, buzzing, or popping noise that a Pearson hears when no actual noise is present. This condition can be caused by damage to the inner ear, head trauma, some medications, ... |
why does law enforcement need a warrant to search a suspects property? and why is evidence acquired without a warrant inadmissible? | It's not difficult to get a warrant, and sometimes [exigent circumstances] allow for entering a residence to secure the site to allow time for a search warrant to be authorized. There are likely very few instances where inadmissable evidence causes a case to get thrown out. On the plus side, it does prevent police from... |
How are actors/actresses under the age of 18 allowed to play adult scenes in films and tv shows? | He wasn't actually having sex on camera. Doing an R-rated scene and simulating sex is different than doing an x-rated scene in a porn shoot. |
How did early settlers, or indigenous peoples of the Americas deal with natural disasters? | You don't have electricity, sewage, or anything but a hut. Sure yeah the hut gets destroyed but you just take a week or so and rebuild it and continue on with life.Mostly they just all died. In per-industrial societies it was not uncommon for the death toll of a major disaster to be a significant fraction of the total ... |
How do scientists develop complex equations? | To physicists, the theory is the equation - the wordy form is useful for explaining the equation but ultimately it's the maths that is important . One of the most complex formulae I can think of is the Standard Model of physics, which was created by lots of people adding small corrections over time - [boggle] |
If water is so difficult to heat, why do we use it for central heating systems? | Water isn't difficult to heat, it has a high thermal capacity. What that means is the energy it takes to raise air by 20 degrees would only raise the temperature of water by about 1 degree. The amount of energy used would be exactly the same. The problems occurs when you need to transport that energy. For a house with ... |
Why are moths and other nocturnal insects attracted to bright lights? | I'm pretty sure it hypnotizes them, or something. They see a bright light, and it gets their attention, and they fly towards it. |
How exactly does a 401(k) work? | a 401 is administered by your employer as part of your benefits. They select a company to manage it -- an investment company like Fidelity, Merrill Lynch, etc. These plans typically offer a number of mutual funds in which to invest your money, offering variety in terms of risk, growth, stability, domestic/international... |
Why are loot crates in video games not declared as gambling? | The definition of a gamble is to play a game of chance for money. Generally the only thing you get in loot crates are in game items. Yes, you can sell them to the steam market, but steam wallet doesn't count as actual money because you can't actually withdraw it from your account. Yes, there are websites in which you c... |
How do car key-fobs work and why do we not see machines that can mass-spoof unlock signals like computer passwords? | modern keyfobs use a rolling code with trillions of possible combinations. even if you stood in a huge parking garage and rolled through codes at light speed youd take centuries to get even 1 car to respond. and then what? congratulations, you've unlocked the door, you could have managed that with a rock there are easi... |
Why is "making your heart work harder" by being fat bad for you, but making it work harder during exercise good for you? | So I actually have studied physiology and exercise physiology to some extent as part of my Bachelor's, I don't claim to be an expert .but I'll give you what I know and my opinion. So firstly, it isn't really about your heart rate per se in either situation although that is an element. As other posts have noted the impo... |
this statement about entropy confuses me. Kindly explain | Entropy can only increase. It's a basic law of physics. For anything to happen energy must be released causing the universe to move from a higher energy state to a lower energy state. *Anything* being meant quite literally - you can't spin an electron around an atom without increasing entropy. You can use up energy in ... |
Why does Costco sell a product that I like and the next week it's not there anymore? | Costco negotiates with suppliers for their inventory; and they basically have to meet two conditions - they have be able to supply enough to be worth Costco's time, and they have to do it at a low price point. So the muffins may have been a discontinued item by their manufacturer - they had one last batch to get rid of... |
Why does that "insert" key that deletes your text as you type exist? | It's largely vestigal. It's also relatively handy when working with code instead of say a word doc, since usually your code is separated by lines and you can just overwrite and not worry about trucking over your next bit of text. It's a feature that was handier and made more sense in the pre-mouse era. |
how exactly did Steve Irwin die from a stingray sting when there’s plenty of videos on the internet of people touching/handling stingrays? | Didn't the stinger puncture his heart? I guess the mistake they made was pulling it out in the field before he got medical attention. If they'd left it in, he may have lived.Because those people didnt take a stingrays barb directly to their heart. That is basically as effective as taking a knife to the heartHe spooked ... |
Why are Cigarettes and Booze legal when it's been proven both can be as or more dangerous than marijuana? | Well this is assuming marijuana was made illegal simply because it's it was considered unhealthy, and that it had not nothing to do with the paper and tobacco industries |
Why is cat & dog fur/ hide illegal in the USA? | Two things I can think of off the top of my head 1. Its not culturally appropriate to wear cat and dog in Western cultures. 2. Since we don't *typically* farm cat and dog here for the purpose of pelts all of these pelts are very likely imported, probably from countries with less than desirable animal welfare laws. I ca... |
How can the Market Basket supermarket chain go two months without selling products and still be a salvageable business enterprise? | Holy shit I lived right down the street from that Market basket and I watched it being built for months and I couldn't wait for it to open. Then it never opened. -.- |
The difference between equity in a company and royalties | Let's say you invent a revolutionary form of artificial guacamole, and you want to try to sell it to a restaurant chain. They might offer you a 5% royalty on all items with your product sold. You make 5 cents on every $1 guaco-taco sold, and that is it. You have no other say, no involvement, you just cash your check ev... |
why Reddit automatically generates down votes | It's so they can ban users without actually telling them. Let's say someone's made a bot or account which mass upvotes all posts relating to a certain product. If they just outright ban the bot or user, the person could just make a new account. However, if they can ban the user while giving every impression that their ... |
Why hasn't Kim Jong Un been assassinated or over thrown by the people of North Korea? | The short answer:1) People of North Korea have been innundated almost daily with propaganda that the source of all of their suffering is the United States, and the leader of the country is the only thing protecting them from certain death and horrific suffering. They don't have access to information that shows them wha... |
What’s the rationale behind not having the handbrake activate the brake lights on a car? | That's because you don't use the handbrake for braking, but rather to keep the car remain still once you've come to a standstill.There's no need to warn other traffic then.Because you’re not supposed to use it while driving. You’re supposed to use it for parking, and you probably don’t want your brake lights sitting on... |
how is that we hear that the world is over populated yet we have countries like Spain saying they need families to have more babies? | Both population and resources have to be seen in a global context. Developed countries have well established tax and welfare systems in place. These systems need a stable population level working at existing efficiencies to work properly for the coming generations. That's why we see countries like Japan and Russia tryi... |
How does eliminating zero calorie beverages from your diet help you lose weight? | Correlation is not causation. Diet soda has no calories, so consuming it over normal soda will not make you fat. The opposite is true. However, when looked at the aggregate of those who drink diet soda vs those who just drink water, people who drink diet soda are often fatter because their general diets are far worse t... |
Why haven't I ever see a commercial from a random person who decided to purchase air time? | It's incredibly expensive, especially doing it as a joke. If you want to ask your betrothed to marry you there's a good chance s/he won't see it/listen to it. People have been renting billboards to get their message out, though. |
How can poisonous predators eat dead prey that still contains the predator's poison without getting hurt? | These are some really useless and pedantic explanations. Generally venomous/poisonous predators have poison that denatures in stomach acid, or is otherwise unable to pass into the blood from the digestive system. Curare, for example, the stuff poison dart frogs have, causes your muscles to lock up and stop working, inc... |
Marx's view on religion and his analysis of it | I think it's important to understand that Marxism is a living ideology and what MarxISTs think is often more important than what Marx himself believed. He's not the holy prophet of communism, people can and have disagreed with and criticized him. The views of Marxists often vary, many have the sortof orthodox Marx beli... |
What is the cause of the initial neuronal firing in a thought or action? | Sam Harris has a great lecture on the subject if anyone can find it. In it he argues that humans aren't the philosophical free thinkers we think we are and actually still just a dolled up reactive creature using primal instincts. |
How can we estimate the likelihood of life existing on other planets if we are limited to a paradigm based on Earth life? | The way I think about it, it has nothing to do with planets that can support life like ours, but has more to do with just raw probability. In all the billions or trillions of galaxies, its pretty egotistical to think that we're the only ones out there. I firmly believe that alien life does exist, we just haven't identi... |
How is it possible to see what isn't directly in front of a mirror, in the reflection? | I did a poor edit of /u/RyanW1019's provided image. [This] is the way I've been able to understand it well. For each example, the viewing angle will create an equal angle on the other side . So, you can only see what's directly in front of the mirror if you're directly in front of it. Move to the side, you'll see to th... |
Why are large denomination currencies still in circulation? | Have you ever heard that Cash is King? Some people don't like to use credit cards at all, others would rather not deal with the interest that credit cards have , other people don't like the idea of handling transaction electronically. Then again, what you may be buying, the seller doesn't accept or want to take cards o... |
Why does getting an education cost so much? (tuition fees, text books, etc...) | Tuition is high because the cost of borrowing money is low. The cost of higher education has risen far quicker than inflation and other 'normal' prices over the last 50, 30, and 10 years. The reason education costs so much, is because schools prices are not based on their delivery/production costs, but instead on your ... |
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