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why do we put animals down when they are sick and dying instead of letting them die naturally like humans | I've had dogs all my life. I've done it all three ways: let nature take its course, had the vet put it down, and put them down myself. All three ways hurt me terribly, but letting nature take its course hurt the dog terribly. So, I've decided the same thing applies to me, when its time, I'm gone. Don't get in the way.T... |
Why are periods painful? | Cramps are the black hole of pain. This black hole begins in your uterus. It's the feeling of that beginning of contraction you get from diarrrhea, except stretched into time. Your muscles are contracting very consistently and slowly, like twisting a rag of water at the very end, but the twisting doesn't stop. Your ute... |
How can you hear yourself speak in your brain? | You hear yourself speaking when you read? In your own voice? I can kind of do it if I try, but it's not what happens when I read normally. |
Why are apps like Discord, Teamspeak, Mumble etc inherently better than in game voice chat or the steam voice chat and is something like skype/hangouts on the same level? | I cannot attest to whether the technology is better, but standalone servers using like Discord/Muble/TS/etc foster community because the social scene is still there even if the games aren't. I can hop on a discord server and chat with people even if I don't have the time to boot up and play a full game. |
Why do modern shows like The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men look so bad? | It's two problems. First given the dynamic nature of multi-camera shows the entire set is evenly lit as opposed to optimized lighting for each shot. Secondly, the good looking shows are shot on film with one camera while 3 camera comedies are shot in tape . CCDs record light differently than film. This is also why they... |
What exactly is predestination? Why do followers like Calvinists believe it? Why do they ideally try to be good people? | called" and "predestined". So, Calvinists believe in predestination because the Bible discusses it in detail. Why do Calvinists try and be good people? The Bible turns on its head the conventional wisdom that we should be good in order to earn God's favor. Instead, we should be good because of God's favor. "It's God's ... |
Why do viruses kill or weaken us if they need living hosts to spread? | Evolution isn't trying to achieve anything, it's simply random. Successful replication is all it takes to keep the system around. |
Why should an ex-husband/wife have to pay alimony to their former partner? | The idea is that a married couple operates as a team, so one might concentrate on earning money, and the other might maintain a house and raise children. The homemaker is sacrificing their ability to earn money in doing so, and is entitled to legal compensation if the marriage ends. This goes back to a time when women ... |
Why do grape flavored things not taste like grape? | Actually the vast majority of grape flavored things do taste like grape. Just not the kind of grapes you're used to. The type of grapes used to make grape jelly/jam are called concord grapes. Look for 'em some time and try one and you'll be blown away at how much more they taste like grape flavoring than an other fruit... |
Does the placebo effect prove that our minds have a lot more power than we can directly utilize? | No, that's a hypothesis you are making based on the observation of the placebo effect. The placebo effect only proves that our expectations or beliefs can impact our body in some way or another. Transforming this into your hypothesis requires additional assumptions such as what is power and what means being able to uti... |
Does my dog understand that I'm putting cream on her foot to help it heal, or does she just think I'm am asshole for rubbing weird stuff on her open wound? | She sort of thinks you're an asshole, but a well-intentioned asshole, and one who happens to be the boss. She sees no point to this foolish stuff you're putting on her wound and even less point to your ridiculous insistence that she not be allowed to lick it properly clean but she also knows that you are the pack leade... |
In regards to gas and water pipes, what determines the width of a pipe? Why are some large and some incredibly small? | Gas or liquid, aka any fluid transported by pipe, the pipe size is usually determined my flow rate, GPM, liters per second, standard cubic feet per minute etc Lets start with any sized pipe can flow any amount of fluid, so why choose a bigger pipe when you could just use a 1 inch diameter pipe for everything? As flow r... |
Why do kindle versions of books sometimes cost more than physical copies on Amazon? | What books are you seeing more for Kindle? Everything I've bought was cheaper as long as I didn't but the audiobook with it. |
whats the deal with haikus ? | 5-7-5 is only the most popular form, there were others. The same way that English sonnets were most often written in Iambic Pentameter of 14 lines consisting of 3 quatrains followed by a couplet. The schemes aren't that important really, it's more about convention. |
Why do taxpayers front the bill for sports stadiums ? | When people say this, they're kind of oversimplifying it. Cities, and less commonly states, often give tax advantages to private businesses that intend to relocate there. In the case of sports teams, it can be very generous, because they expect it will be a big economic boom for the city. Sometimes they even offer to p... |
How can a public University ban smoking everywhere on campus? | It's private property, they can tell you not to smoke for the same reasons they can eject you from the premises. The constitution grants you no right to smoke, never mind to smoke on private property.> how is this seemingly unconstitutional policy constitutional? Where in the Constitution does it give you the right to... |
What, exactly, are the advantages of having the Euro as currency? | Well, economically, it's more stable because more than one country is financially supporting the value of the currency. However, as an everyday person, the biggest advantage is travel. Before, you'd have to exchange money everytime you entered a new country. This was an exhausting process, not to mention you could pote... |
Why do we feel nauseated when we try to read in a moving vehicle? | In order for a brain to estimate your location, the brain combines information from a variety of sources, including sight, touch, joing position, and inner ear, along with it's own expectations. The inner ear is particularly important because it contains sensors for both angular motion and linear motion. Under most cir... |
Why is it that insurance is worth more than the car itself in UK and in many other countries? | The actual value of your car is only one of many, many factors. Here in the US, insurance covers a lot more than just the cost of repairing your car. Insurance covers many of your medical bills if you get injured in an accident, it covers the cost of property damage if you damage someone else's property, and, most impo... |
Why does the US have such lax policies against ILLEGAL immigrants? | Our policies aren't lax *on paper*, but there's just so many illegal immigrants that the policies can't be enforced effectively. We can write a law that no raindrops are allowed to hit the ground during a storm, but .. |
Alternating Current. Do electrons keep going forwards and backwards in a wire when AC is flowing? | Also, my own personal eli5, what happens when you take diodes to turn ac into DC? Not a diode bridge, but just say a single diode in a rudimentary rectifier that creates a half wave that's only active half the time. Does everything just stop for that reverse portion? Surely the electrons on the anode side of the diode ... |
The concept of a mortgage when buying a home | You want a house, but have insufficient cash to buy it outright. BigAssBankCo has mounds of cash, but they really don't have a whole lot of interest in property. They want more cash. So, follow me here they agree to a little trade. BABC buys the house on behalf of the person who wants to own the house. In exchange, the... |
Why the name Adolph is so universally shunned, but first names of other tyrants e.g. Jozef/Joseph, Robert, Vladimir, Nicolae/Nicolas etc. are still common? | My gf was surprised someone was named Cain. I'm not religious so it made no difference to me. It's probably just because Adolf lived so recently. In 100-200 years people probably will use it. |
Can we tell up from down deep down in the ocean where light doesn't reach? | Hypothetically if you were able to swim at 3000 meters under the ocean there would still be one easy way to tell where the surface was. Hypothetically if you're down that deep you also have a means of breathing and every inhalation will increase your buoyancy and buoyant objects travel toward the surface. Breath out an... |
Why is the computer arrow slightly tilted? | On a similar note, how can people change their arrows to something else? Like a circle or something. I've seen it before and just assumed it was, like with all technology, magic of the dark arts. |
If one "died" and their life insurance policy were paid out, and then they were found alive...do they owe that money? | historically there have been cases where the company just ate the cost. unless it's written into the contract somewhere, a claim and payment made in good faith can be legally binding. |
Why do we care about the national debt? | The thing is that there's absolutely no reason to not be in debt. We constantly pay it back and get more. When people talk about raising the debt ceiling, that means paying back what we borrowed. So that's not an issue, we do it every year just fine. But another reason is because except for about a year in the 1800s, t... |
How do we not "run out" of jobs every year if there are so many graduates? | Well, that does happen. There are plenty of parts of the job market that are absolutely glutted with new graduates that can't find a job because A, the market isn't growing as strongly as they anticipated and B, people are retiring later and later. Mostly those people end up either unemployed for a long time, or having... |
Why should I care that the NSA is "spying" on me? | Power corrupts. You cannot assume the NSA will just leave your data alone because you are not a terrorist. The NSA could easily [rationalize] making you a target for intrusion and do much more than just read your metadata. If you target sysadmins, why not also target lawyers? Doctors? Stock brokers? Journalists? Altern... |
How/why does a show like Futurama with such an avid and wide fan base get [repeatedly] canceled? What is the logic behind it from a network standpoint? | It was extremely popular and had a massive viewer base in a similar demographic to Reddit. In the rest of the country, it was not nearly as popular. It's viewership dwindled to about 2.9 million viewers an episode, while other Fox shows of the era, like the OC, was averaging 6-10 million depending on the season, or eve... |
Why do people censor their eyes when they post pictures of themselves when you can still pretty much tell it's them if you knew the person originally? | It's not enough to hide the identity of someone you already know well, but it would still be enough to keep a stranger from recognizing you if they saw you again. It would also be enough to prevent facial recognition software from identifying you.If you point to a picture of a person, with the eyes covered, and are tol... |
Why do we always talk about the "Queen" of England? Shouldn't the King be playing a bigger role? | There isn't a King of England right now. The throne goes to the first son, if no son exists then it goes to the first daughter and if there are no children at all then it starts going down to brothers/sisters of the former sovereign & their families. If the daughter marries then her spouse is the Prince Consort not the... |
Why is citing 20 year old books encouraged while citing Wikipedia is frowned upon? | One major reason is that the book will not have changed if someone checks the cite in a year. The Wikipedia page could be completely unrecognizable, with different info and links. Makes it useless as a citation. And that's not even getting into the fact that anyone can edit the thing, so you could write your own source... |
Explain ADD to me, as you would my 8-year old daughter. | This comment I'm linking to is a reply to this same question about a year ago. As an adult diagnosed with ADHD, it's the most accurate post I've ever read. _URL_0_ |
Why do you wake up early and energized on days you don't have to get up to work, as opposed to normal workdays that you can't get out of bed? | You don't like your job. Congratulations on liking your weekends though. A lot of people don't wake up early and energized on weekends. That's the healthy part of your week. Go find a job you like. |
Why is it that nebulas or certain parts of galaxies are pink, blue, green, etc... | They have no visible color up close. The images you've seen are false-color images composited from infrared, visible, and ultraviolet of *huge* gas structures many hundreds of light years across. The gas is denser there than the typical interstellar void, but only a miniscule fraction of what a planet's atmosphere woul... |
Why do we get disgusted when we see a strand of hair in our food ? | Mostly because you've been told it's disgusting, so that's how you feel about it. Now of course there's good reason to be told it's disgusting because if there's hair in your food who knows what other dirt is in there, but reacting with disgust to it is a learnt reaction. It's like how in some countries the *thought* o... |
How do certain medications evoke a physical change in the body such as reducing inflammation? | more activity" or "shut down completely".So when a prostaglandine docks on one specific receptor on the inner layer of a blood vessel, this cell lets more water though. When this barrier gets less tight for water, the water will flow into the muscle which is on the outside of said blood vessel, and the muscle will swel... |
Why do rappers wear the largest clothes they can find? | This reminds me of a question my dad would ask when I was a kid. Anyway, it's a little outdated though, that's not really the style any more. Some currently popular rap artists: Kendrick Lamar: _URL_0_ Drake: _URL_2_ Future: _URL_1_ Kanye: _URL_3_ There's plenty more, but you get the idea. |
Why do Universities invest money into Fossil Fuel Companies? | Why fossil fuel companies in particular? It's possible that the fund managers believe that we will rely on fossil fuels for quite some time, and that the value of their investment will grow as a result. On the rosier side, traditional energy companies are responsible for some of the greatest investments into renewable ... |
Why can't the whole world use the same shape power plugs? | Everyone would have to choose the same standard. Each standard had problems that were fixed by later countries. The US standard allowed plugs to be inserted upside-down, which can be a problem, and the earth pin was an afterthought. The UK chose a really bulky plug with an in-built fuse, but this was soon seen to be ov... |
How are people trained to withstand torture? | Withstanding torture is all mental. Questioning is different from physical pain being inflicted upon your body to reveal information. You have to shut your mind off. Remove your psyche from that physical location to another one. When I was in the Army, someone told me agents are hypnotized by a team of psychiatrists, w... |
Whats so great about USB-C and why are people saying it is the "connector of the future"? | It's thinner than standard USB, symmetric, and supports multiple high speed protocols including USB, thunderbolt, and video. The MacBook Pros only have USB-C ports but still allow power, video, Thunderbolt, and USB3 using only USB-C ports. Phones are also replacing micro-USB with USB-C. Within a couple years, almost ev... |
Why you "don't pass on the right"? | It's difficult to see into the right hand lane until you're pretty much all the way merged. If there happens to be an obstruction in the road then you wouldn't be able to see it until it's too late. Slower traffic should always be in the furthest right lane anyways, but not everyone does this. |
What exactly happens when gas is pumped into a running car that causes a fire or explosion? | I've been pumping gas with the engine running for over 20 years. Nothing ever happened. If you really want to die, fill a gascan in the bed of a pickup with a plastic liner. You will easily generate enough static electricity to ignite the vapors trapped in the bed. |
why is the demographic in the emergency room the way it is? | If you are in immediate danger of death or serious injury, the emergency room is obligated to treat you until you have been stabilized, regardless of your ability to pay. Also, if you don't have a regular primary care physician, where are you supposed to go for medical treatment other than the emergency room? |
What do the 5 large flags with differing star counts hanging from the White House during the inauguration represent? | Off the top of my head I'm gonna guess they're all the different variations that the American Flag has been through history. |
Why reddit loves Ron Paul? | Reddit doesn't. A minority of Redditors do, and the fanbase is more unified and vocal than any other specific presidential candidate . |
Why doesn't America get rid of the electoral college? | > It doesn't effectively make candidates care about smaller states so why can't we abolish it? Do the math, if it was purely a popular election, the people of Wyoming would matter even less then they do now. The reason we don't get rid of it is because it isn't a problem and the people that think it's a problem don't u... |
How come you can't localize fat burn when losing weight, but excessive alcohol consumption leads to a "beer belly"? | To mirror the answer already posted here: I don't think different calories go to different places. The expression or term '*beer belly*' is more in reference to someone who has gained weight due to drinking as opposed to other usual causes such as eating too much. It is more a slight on that person's method of gaining ... |
Can you cure strep throat by drinking enough alcohol? Why or why not | The bacteria causing strep throat live throughout the tissue that's infected. Applying any treatment topically is of limited use for most infections, because you're not penetrating through the entire infected zone. |
How do we have images of our own galaxy? | We don't have those pictures.Real pictures of the Milky Way are all taken from within the galaxy and look more like this _URL_1_ |
What happens to America when it can no longer pay off its debts? | The debt ceiling is always raised, so the US will always be able to pay its debts. However, when the republicans refused to raise the debt ceiling this year we got a taste of what would happen, which is the country's credit rating would slip, we are currently rated high and like with a person, as a perfect credit holde... |
Why is the Mona Lisa considered such an artistic masterpiece? | What I can't understand is why all the flash photography is allowed there at the Mona Lisa. At El Prado in Madrid, for example, there is absolutely no flash photography allowed so the paintings are not damaged. There are ushers in every room to ensure this. However as anyone who has been to the Louvre can tell you, the... |
How does Costco make money? | If you're referring to wholesale as the price they pay for the product, they don't charge that price. Not even close. Their markups are just lower due to various cost cutting measures and a lesser profit margin. |
What is, and how do you create a long exposure | If you have a digital camera with a manual shutter setting, you can see if it allows you to set it to 'Bulb'. This means that for however long you hold the shutter button down, the shutter will stay open. Release the button and the shutter will close. Shutter is like a window. Closed it lets no light through, and open ... |
In roulette, why do the chances of a red lower if it lands on a red and vice-versa. | You are correct, each spin of the wheel is independent of all others, and so they don't affect each other. The idea that red is more or less likely to come up again is a misunderstanding that many gamblers have. |
Why has the Dow gone over 25,000 but we only have a GDP growth of 3.22%? | The Dow only looks at 30 large, best in class companies so it's not a sufficient indicator of the economy as a whole. Just as there is concentration of wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer, so too, have business revenues and profits become more concentrated in the hands of a fewer, larger companies. |
What causes a drug addict's veins to deteriorate when I've been donating plasma for months with no deterioration? | You're getting a needle from a phlebotomy nurse who knows what they're doing. You aren't randomly sticking yourself so that you can get high. Drug addicts have other concerns than giving themselves a safe injection.Repeated use of the same vein, injection of drugs that irritate and damage tissues, improper technique, a... |
There are times when a one-way airplane ticket will cost 3 or 4 times as much than a return airplane ticket. What stops people from simply purchasing a return ticket and not returning? | That's called 'throwaway ticketing'. It is against the Contract of Carriage and the airline is within their rights to charge you the difference. Realistically, they won't bother pursuing it unless you are flagged as a habitual offender. If you try to work it in reverse and miss the first leg, they will definitely [rese... |
How does netflix make money from an original series like Jessica Jones, enough money to justify the production costs | For the MCU shows, it's entirely likely that Disney and Marvel are also pitching in to eat costs . Furthermore, these shows still do/will eventually have bluray releases and other ways to recoup their losses. |
Why is it painful to get another erection after orgasm? | TIL my dick is broken, I don't even stop or slow down and I've never felt anything that would make me do so.I mean I have orgasmed 3 times back to back and only got worn out after me and the ladies 3rd time going at it and never felt any pain in the process?', "I've never experienced this. Are you sure there isn't a me... |
why do games have loading screens? | The load screen is there so that the program has time to load up libraries, bins, functions, etc. before launching the playable portion of the game. The load screen was put in so that when you hit start you didn't go to a black screen and wait for the game to load, because if it takes long enough the user might think t... |
Why is 320kbps the standard bit rate for music and not higher? | 320kbps is not a standard anywhere.320kbps is a CBR encoding methodSo even parts of songs made up of low activity, you're still encoding 320kbps - which is a little inefficient It's seems to generally accepted that encoding using a Variable bitrate method is actually an improvement over 320, as it has been intelligentl... |
When websites that illegally stream movies can easily be found on Google, why are they not immediately shut down for copyright violations? | _URL_0_ is hosted in Tonga and it's difficult for a US company to get a foreign host to shut down a site. |
"Unincorporated" Small Town | It means there is no formal city level government, all services are provided by the county or the state. It is not a negative, a lot of unincorporated towns don't have the tax base to pay for city government. They put that on the signs: * the signs are often made to the state's standards* to let you know it is a smalle... |
When a body decays, where do those white maggots(?) suddenly come from? | In the past there was actually a theory of spontaneous generation because they didn't know maggots morphed into flies etc. Look it up, it's pretty interesting.Flies. Flies lay eggs, those eggs hatch, and fly larva is what we refer to as "maggots." |
Why aren't backers on kickstarter treated as investors with a cut of the profits? | They just aren't. That's not the service that Kickstarter provides. The whole idea is that you contribute money to get something made that you want to see. You could offer to invest in a kickstarter project but I doubt they would sell you shares when there are people perfectly willing to contribute for nothing in retur... |
Why does the paper not burn in this "gunpowder painting"? | It doesn't appear do be paper. It looks like it has a significant thickness to it. Are you sure it isn't a slab of something that isn't flammable? |
How can dashcams record long lengths of HD video without having that much memory? | They don't save everything, they record just the past couple hours and you press a button to save it if you get involved in a crash or something. They use highly compressed HD video which is very space efficient. |
Why does the US have a major problem with Iran getting a nuclear weapon but seemingly not as much with North Korea? | It's simple, Iran has the money, tech, and scientists to actually build a working long range nuke. North Korea is just stomping it feet to get more supplies. |
why I should vote in a presidential election (US) if I don't live in a swing state. | Let's say you decide to not vote because you don't think it matters. In fact, you tell all your friends about it, and they agree. So now there's 10 people not voting. Now imagine how many other people like you don't feel like voting for one reason or another. Could there be 100? 1,000? A million? If enough people choos... |
Why do some smokers live to be 90+ and some don't make it past 40? | Tobacco use doesn't mean you *will* get cancer, but it increases your risk. George Burns famously lived to be 100 years old despite smoking cigars all his adult life. If you take the life expectancies of a million smokers and a million nonsmokers, the smokers will have a shorter lifespan on average; of course there wil... |
How can you store baked goods at room temperature for days when they contain things like butter and dairy? | Butter doesn't really need to be refrigerated if you're going to use it in the next few days. It's all fat. Refrigeration keeps the quality high over time. Bacteria--at least, the food poisoning kind--don't thrive in low moisture environments, and most baked goods are low moisture enough for this. Also most bacteria al... |
How does the flame not spread backwards from a gas stove and cause an explosion in gas pipes? | Fire is the combination of heat, fuel, and oxygen. Outside the pipe you have all three so you get fire. In the gas pipe you don't have oxygen so you can't get fire. Those few times you hear of a gas pipe explosion something caused a breach in the pipe |
Why do people like or enjoy things which are painful or scary? | We need to be scared just like we need to be happy. It exercises the mind. We live in a society where fear is somewhat of an afterthought. We have a roof over our heads and locks on our doors. Fear has kept humans alive for millions of years but it is not used as often in today's civilization. However, fear still needs... |
What's the big deal with watching sports? | With sports , anything can happen. In a movie, it is too 'on the nose' if the hero wins the Super Bowl in his home town in the last year of a long hall of fame career. This after almost giving away the game and the team's shot by fumbling on the goalline When this happens in sports , it is better than a scripted narrat... |
Why doesn't Ukraine force Russia out of Crimea? Furthermore, why hasn't the EU stood up with military presence to defend Ukraine? | There are 20K+ Russian soldiers in Ukraine. With [ > 1,000,000] troops in reserve. Ukraine cannot possibly win a head on fight with Russia. This isn't even taking into account technological advantages. |
When investigators find a computer's IP, how do they then locate the computer the IP belongs to? | IP addresses don't belong to a computer. They belong to an Internet connection. They're assigned to the ISP, who gives them out to their customers when they connect to the Internet. It's trivial to look up which ISP was assigned a particular address, and then the police can get a warrant for the ISP's records to find o... |
How exactly did Yoko Ono "break up" The Beatles? | She didn't really, at least not by herself. The cracks were already there as John and Paul both were starting to have major ego problems & felt they were the only one that mattered & the Beatles success was their doing & the other 3 were simply tagging along. This was causing resentment from George & Ringo as they were... |
Why is out of school suspension used as a punishment for students when getting out of school for a long period of time is almost generally enjoyed? | School suspension puts you behind in classes, separates you from your friends, and can potentially lead to being held back a year. Not to mention you're probably in trouble with your parents, are grounded in some way, etc. Getting out of school for a long period of time is enjoyable when your friends are also out of sc... |
How do casino slot machines work? | They have a computer in them that determines what result it's going to give to the player. Long gone are the days of pulling a lever, you just press a simple button. I can't speak for other states, but in Nevada , there are people who go around auditing slot machines to make sure they actually work correctly and do giv... |
If moths like light so much,why don't they just fly towards the sun or the moon? | They do fly toward the moon, that's how they naturally navigate. The problem is that the moon is basically fixed at a point in the sky, while your porch light isn't, when a moth moves 20 feet the light is in a completely different spot in it's vision so it has to compensate, thinking it's made a bad turn somehow and th... |
How Can Sense When Someone's Behind you/ Staring at You? | You can't, sometimes you might feel like you can because your subconscious picks up on cues that where present at a time that made you feel watched. We have no direct way of sensing when someone behind us is looking at us though.Or, check out research on the subject by Rupert Sheldrake: The feeling of being stared at. |
How does one "waste water" when using it in your home. Doesn't it just get added directly back to the water supply? | What makes you sure it goes back into the water supply? Or if it does, is it going into your water supply or someone else's? Some waste water treatment plants use open vats. There will be loss due to evaporation, and while that could turn into rainwater somewhere, it might be some place useless. Some just clean it enou... |
How can we measure the velocities of the redshift of stars? | Okay, so with my limited physics knowledge , I know that any frame of reference is as valid as another because motion is relative. In that case, how are all these discrepancies in observation vs calculation that most scientists attribute to dark matter/energy found? Aren't the observed effects of dark matter on a point... |
On older televisions, why was there a static feeling when it was shut off? | Everytime I come near one of those TV's I hear a really sharp sound that no one else around can hear. ELI5 please. Edit: Thanks for the explanations, thank god we have flat-screens now. |
If 0.33333....×3=0.9999... and 1/3×3=1. How does 0.3333....=1/3 | To start with, 0.9 is equal to 1. Let's say that: 1. x = 0.3 1. = > 10x = 3.3 1. = > 10x = 3 + 0.3 1. = > 10x = 3 + x 1. = > 9x = 3 1. = > x = 3/9 = 1/3 x = 0.3 using step 1, and x = 1/3 using step 6 And the transitive property of equality means that steps 1 and steps 6 give us 0.3 = 1/3 A similar argument is often use... |
12 years ago an IT guy tried to overclock the CPU on my PC to install a new graphics card. What does overclocking have to do with whether this graphics card would work or not? | To run a graphics card you only need the right port on your motherboard, and enough power from your power supply. He probably just didn't think it would be worth your money to have a weak CPU with a new graphics card. But it definitely would have worked regardless.The card may have worked but the cpu could have been a ... |
What exactly is dry cleaning? | What I don't understand is, how are dry cleaning solvents gentler on clothes than water? It seems like they'd be harsher. |
If a woman under 18 gives birth, do they legally have custody? | EMT here. What's crazy for me is in LA county, without a parent or guardian present, minors can't deny treatment, BUT they can if they're emancipated or PREGNANT. Which blows my mind. Seems like if I got on-scene to a pregnant minor for something minor your still want to transport them to check everything out. I know i... |
Does stirring your hot-drink make it cool down faster? | You are allowing more of the drink to come in contact with the air, and also some of the drink's heat will be transferred to the spoon, so yes, it will cool down quicker. Coffee before 2pm, tea thereafter. |
If people keep dying and we keep burying them, won't we run out of land eventually? | eventually figure a 4x10' plot, double depth . 55million people die each year. if ALL of them are buried, thats 25,000 acres. For reference there are 172million acres in texas. Which means that globally, we would have a texas sized graveyard in about 7000 years. In reality, a good chunk of people are cremated. and birt... |
Why is getting up early considered such a virtue? | What soulreaverdan said, and also remember that in the past after sundown it was expensive to light your home/workspace enough to get anything done, so not only would you be less productive if you didn't get up early, you would also be wasteful. |
Why are girls supposed to shave their legs/armpits, etc? | This is a concept that is heavily tied in environmental conditioning and evolutionary psychology. For this topic you cannot touch on one point without tying it to the other. Taking evolutionary psych into perspective, it is more attractive to males when a female is displaying signs of youth, health and good reproductiv... |
How Google Map gets up to date traffic information. | Google uses location services to determine where everyone using a google product is at all times. If too many of them are located moving very slowly or not at all on a roadway, then there's obviously a traffic problem there. Big brother is watching you. |
Why is sexuality taboo but violence is not? | There isn't one single thing that really is going to explain it, but here goes a completely un-researched theory. Part one is how America was founded and by whom. The Puritans were really the fundamentalists of their day. Second when America was formed as the United States we did so rather violently. Couple this with t... |
What can my generation do to improve the economy crisis in America? | Two things: Work hard and spend your money. Moving money around in the economy will help stimulate multiple areas and bring capital to the businesses you support. Don't go in to debt unless you are 100% sure you can pay it off quickly. When you can't pay off your debt, it scews over everyone in the equation. You end up... |
How do waiters and waitresses remember what dish goes to what table, when they are not numbered, in a large restaurant? | As noted, tables are numbered on a chart somewhere. Also, most waiters and waitresses are assigned specific sections for their shift; they aren't working with the entire restaurant at once. |
Do I have to eat 1 pound of food to gain 1 pound? | More, part of that pound of food is water you will pee/breathe out, part you will poop out, and you will use some of the energy in the metabolic process of your body doing it's thing to keep you alive. But in the short term, you'll gain a pound, but an hour later you would weigh less. |
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