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Why is the toyotoa pickup present in many wars and insurgencies in Africa and the Middle east? Is Toyota intentionally producing old models and selling them in the middle east and africa? | Globally there are quite a few exporters who resell older but still serviceable vehicles to African countries. My mum literally got an e mail from a Nigerian who found her name card in her car. I'm not sure if he was a prince though.They are not "making old models and selling them" there. Those are old trucks that have... |
how does a plane seem to float during executing a vectored thrust. If there is no lift provided by the wings, how is the engine keeping it in the air? | the engine is VECTORED. meaning it doesn't only point backwards. it can point downwards, upwards, left and right.Flying is a matter of opposing the force of gravity. [Vectored thrust] means that the jet engine has nozzles that can redirect the air downward instead of just straight out the back. Some jets have [side noz... |
Since it takes more muscles to frown than smile, why does our face defaults to a frown instead of a smile, as it would use less energy? | An active frown isn't the same face as the slightly downturned neutral position, which requires minimal muscle movement. Using more muscles doesnt mean more energy anyway. Some muscles are very large and powerful and will use significantly more energy than numerous smaller ones. |
Why sea water can't have the salt removed in order to make it drinkable? | It can. But it's very expensive, and there's not enough money or resources to desalinate water in very large volumes. |
If our brain works with electrical pulses, why does an EMP not shut our brain down? | It's worth pointing out that the 'movie' depiction of EMP is fairly incorrect. EMP on small electronics would actually probably have no effect. EMP fields induce current when absorbed into conductors, similar to an antenna. Since the energy wavelengths are fairly long, this means that the greatest danger from EMP comes... |
Why do CGI use the color green for their background? | Because green is the farthest color away from any natural hair or skin tone. If you were to use another color, it'd cause really bad clipping. So, using green is the safest bet. |
Why do I never see non-English posts on Reddit? | I do all the time, you're not looking in the right spots.Maybe time of day that you browse? Also, you can frequently see posts from /r/Sweden on /r/all. |
Why is Chinese food that is made at home terrible in comparison to stuff ordered from a restaurant? | Sugar, salt, fat, and MSG. Most restaurants use unbelievable amounts of all of them, particularly the first three, but many Asian restaurants make liberal use of the latter as well. Also because the ingredients you're using are probably not the same thing as the ones the restaurant is using, the above ingredients aside... |
How do women know when its time to change a tampon? | When the string has blood on it. The tampon is no longer absorbing so the blood moves down beyond it to the string. Also it feels heavy and loose. When it's a new tampon and you've inserted properly above the muscle, you shouldn't be able to feel it once it's in place. |
What are those black/white things that people snap before recording a scene to a movie/commercial/tv and what are they used for? | As far as I know, it helps with editing. The snappy thing is very easy to identify when looking through said film to edit, both in sound and visually - it is important to note that the audio and video are recorded separately and you may even have more than one piece of audio, and additionally if you have no clear refer... |
Is urine pushed out or "siphoned" out or what? Sometimes things just seem to keep flowing out on their own, as it were. | It's held in by a sphincter muscle, and though you can push it out, once you've relaxed the appropriate bit there's nothing to stop it just running. After all, if you insert a catheter you don't have to push as well. |
How do snow plows stay on the road when operating in low visibility conditions? | There are also many guides to help them on habitually snowy roads. Snow poles at the start/end of guard rails, around fire hydrants, etc. help guide them. Plus, it really has to be bad before you can't even see the side of the road.How does the guy who drives the snow plough get to work??? |
How can they tell how much oxygen is in my blood by putting a clothespin from Tron on my finger? | Those are [pulse oximeters]. They work by shining a couple of specific wavelengths of light through your finger, and measuring the amount of light from each that makes it through. Hemoglobin in your blood carries oxygen, and it changes color depending on how much oxygen it carries. Since oxygenated hemoglobin and deoxy... |
Why is it not likely that black holes would appear in our galaxy/solar system ? | Black holes don't just appear out of nowhere. They are super dense balls of matter. If there is not one in our solar system now, there will not be one any time soon. It is believed that the center of our galaxy, and most galaxies, is a supermassive black hole.As noted already, we already know of black holes in our gala... |
Why thing's suddenly swim into focus sometimes? | It could also be that you are talking about 'Floaters'. These are various deposits that are found in the 'vitreous humor',which is the fluid inside the eyeball.These floaters tend to swim freely in the vitreous humor and can often be perceived as they pass across the visual field. Just trying to help:)", 'Serious quest... |
What is double moral hazard? | The double moral hazard referred to simply means that there is simply twice the amount the amount of moral hazard. So Party A has a moral hazard in their relationship to party B, but Party B also has moral hazard in their relationship with Party A. So double the amount of moral hazard. In your landlord tenant example y... |
Why do we use the order of operations and why is it necessary? | The reason why we have operator precendence is to disambiguate expressions. Without a defined order of operations, the expression 2+2x2 could be interpreted as either 6 or 8 and you wouldn't know which was meant. The alternative would be to use a grammar that is unambiguous, such as polish notation, in which the operat... |
How is someone "Gender Neutral"? | I'll explain it in the context of toys, its a toy that kids of either sex can enjoy e.g. a tamagotchi as opposed to say a barbie or action man which are gender specific. |
How is winrar's company still in the business while nobody buys it ? | It's not a company, it's two brothers. Not a whole lot of overhead, it basically just gets updated once whenever a new OS comes out. It's got ads on the page and in the installer, hasn't it? I'd imagine that pays the server bills. Plus somebody's gotta feel magnanimous and pay for the full version once in a while.I bou... |
redshift, how do we account for our own relative movement? | The universe isn't expanding from a single point. Space itself is expanding, dragging stars and galaxy with it. So every point in the universe is getting farther away from every other point in the universe . |
What are the core differences/characteristics of various types of beer? | Lager: usually brewed by yeast fermenting on the bottom of the beer during production, these are usually lighter in color, fairly carbonated, lighter drinks. Most of the very common canned beers like Budweiser, Coors, etc are lagers. Pilsner is usually a stronger, hoppier lager. Ales: top fermenting beer brewed at room... |
why do humans brush their teeth even tho no other animal does it. | Our diet is rich in sugars, which bacteria love, because most our foods contain complex carbohydrates: think wheat, potatoes, fruit. Our food simply leaves a buffet for bacteria to feast on behind in our mouths. Second: we learn. We've discovered that certain foods do this more than others, and we've learned that fluor... |
How bad is soda for me? | Sugared soda isn't great for you. It's a lot of calories, hitting you very quickly . There's a lot of arguments about artificial sweeteners, always have been. One thing to realize is that they're generally hundreds of times sweeter than sugar, so really the quantity of substance in diet soda that *isn't* water is surpr... |
What's so great about a Swiss bank account? | Holding your own lunch money is dangerous! Bullies could just come take it anytime they want! You could give it to your teacher to hold. That's a fine option! But your teacher works for the school and if the school closed or got fired, you might not get your money back! What if you let your mother hold on to your lunch... |
Why are employees expected to provide 2 weeks notice when quitting, but employers don't give similar notice when firing people? | it's by no means a requirement, it's just considered good form if they're quitting for a non-work related reason, because it's predictable. So, if you find a better job, it's good form to tell your employer that you will be leaving and tie up loose ends so that whoever takes over your job and/or your employer doesn't h... |
Why are terrorist still killing the citizens of Iraq, even though American troops are withdrawn? | Imagine there's 2 sides of the playground, gangs if you will. One is called the Suns, the other is called the Moons. These two gangs have been fighting for months. One month, a new teacher named Mr. Sam comes along and tries to stop the fighting. He somewhat succeeds but has to leave a few months later. After he leaves... |
How Will The Update to the Final Rule of the FLSA Affect My Salary? | That would be a big jump to $47k, so most likely they will convert you to hourly. I imagine you really should've been non-exempt all along. As for OT, they have to pay you according to the law. It is possible they would not let you work OT to keep cost down, but the work needs to get done so maybe limited OT. I don't s... |
Why don't wolves, coyotes, fox, etc. constantly die from things like heartworms and parvo? | Wolves, coyotes, foxes, etc *do* constantly die from them. Ferrets and other rodents, even cats, can get heartworms as well. If you've ever seen a coyote up close, they're mangy and nasty, not usually in pristine health at all. |
Why the hell don't cell phones let the user lock their phone and play YouTube videos simultaneously? | They designed the youtube app like that on purpose because youtube makes money off of showing you ads. If you could lock the screen or minimize the app to the background ect it would cost them money because then they wouldn't be able to get as much money from the ads. Recently they have introduced youtube red though wh... |
What is going on inside the brain of a person with a speech problem? (stutter, stammer, etc) | I believe that it will be different for each person.For my stutter when I was younger, it felt as if the connection between my mind and mouth was sending info too fast, or deciding to say something different, or at the same time once I started to speak, that my mouth/tongue couldn't handle it. I learned to think first ... |
What are stem cells and what is all the hype about it? | Stem Cells can turn/be turned into every other type of cell in the body. At least, Embryonic Stem Cells can, which are stem cells from an embryo. Adult Stem Cells can be taken from Bone Marrow but they can't transform into as many types of cell. |
What goes on in my brain when a song gets stuck in my head? | I don't know the exact answer to this, but if you try to imagine the ending of a song it helps to remove it from your head. I'd imagine that the song functions as some kind of a neurological 'sequence' of events, and usually it's interrupted before the song itself can finish playing within your head, so as /u/thrownep ... |
Why aren't there any decent major news outlets although there is great demand for unbiased and factual news, and there is strong hate for biased media? | fear mongering", and sensationalism.In America, that unbiased source is the BBC. They're not unbiased, but more so than the news stations we have here.US media is entertainment, not news. The BBC and Guardian are good. AlJazeera is probably the best out there right nowBecause everything is biased. There is no defined "... |
Did women in the past have big breasts like most today, if not, why did they evolve that way? | Really all you have to do is look at societies that are still in the preindustrial stage such as tribes in south america etc. They have just as wide a range of breast sizes as we do so no we haven't recently evolved large breasts. I think large breasts as something to aspire to with surgery is very new just like being ... |
What are the negative effects of marijuana? | When used by young people, it can significantly damage brain development, especially in terms of thinking and memory. Your IQ also drops quite a bit, as studies have shown. It's also an irritant to the lungs and causes respiration problems. Studies have also shown that marijuana users have a 4.8 fold increase in the ri... |
How does my dogs flea medicine (frontline) really work and what does it due to ticks to keep them off? | When you apply the medicine, it is absorbed into the skin and released by the oil producing glands all over the dog's skin. This medicine is toxic, but at such a low dose it has no effect on the dog. the fleas however are poisoned by this medication and die. |
Why don't software developers & engineers have a national union that helps with collective bargaining and benefits? | I'm pretty sure collective bargaining in that industry would force more outsourcing, since code is pretty much language independent. I can't send my kids overseas for school every day, or go overseas for medical care when I break my leg, or call India for a plumber. I absolutely can get someone overseas to code for me.... |
Why do mouth ulcers and canker sores swell when cuts anywhere else on the body simply get red and heal up? | From Wikipedia: *The cause is not completely understood, but involves a T cell-mediated immune response triggered by a variety of factors.* T-Cells are big part of your body's response when you have an allergic reaction or are fighting an infection. So it makes sense that, since canker sores are caused by that action, ... |
Do world leaders bring their own security when they visit other countries? Is this different depending on who is visiting and who is being visited? | The US president brings his own guys. Which posed a problem when he went to visit NZ as our gun laws forbid his security guys from carrying weapons.They had to do an odd work-around to solve that one, can't remember whether they made all the US security personnel NZ citizens or sworn NZ police officers. |
How is child porn handled by the authorities and the court system? | In the US at least, the vast majority of child porn cases end with a plea, even more so than other crimes. The reasons best I can figure are two-fold. #1 Since it's a strict liability crime with only minimal defenses, it's very difficult to come up with a defense. #2 Since it's so embarrassing, the accused would rather... |
Why does it seem like we're driving faster on smaller roads than motorway's, even when going at the same speed? | Because smaller roads may have narrower lanes, tighter corners, and more frequent junctions. The speed limit might be 60 or 70 mph but the road wasn't always really designed for that. You may be regularly slowing down and speeding up, especially for roundabouts, so you don't get used to the high speed in the same way y... |
Why is "suspension" from school a punishment? | From a sociological standpoint, this kind of punishment both stigmatizes the student in the eyes of the adults involved , but also in the eyes of peers. The idea is that students who become stigmatized feel guilt and then strive to achieve better results in school. The reality is that a self-fulfilling prophecy occurs ... |
If gravity has an infinite field (sorry if thats the wrong term, I'm refering the the equation f=m1m2/r^2) why isn't everything collapsing on itself? | > since gravity is a force which means it can deaccelerate masses moving away slower and slower until they reverse course, right? This is where the concept of escape velocity comes in play. If you have enough kinetic energy, you can travel until the end of time and not have gravity slow you to a stop. In other words, w... |
Why do legal charges get dropped in certain situations? Example: I was recently reading about a rape and murder but the rape charges were dropped. | Prosecutors need to make sure they marshall the right evidence against the right person for three key reasons: * **Malicious/wrongful prosecution.** If the prosecution can't build a facially sufficient case against you, but they prosecute you anyway, you may have cause for a lawsuit against the state for wrongful or ma... |
Why does culture need to be preserved instead of it evolving/merging with/assimilating other cultures? | The Western world has had a bit of a troubled past with cultural acceptance; we thought our culture was *right*, darn it, and we were willing to civilize everyone else to prove it. For that reason, we're hesitant to say that cultures should merge with others. |
how do babies know to drink/eat | They are not cognizant of the fact that a nipple will nourish them, it is just an involuntary response. When a nipple-like object is brushed against their lips they'll open up and attempt to latch on after which they will begin sucking. It is all instinct. |
Why do spiders curl up once they die? | Their legs are hydraulic. Basically their blood is hydraulic fluid that they walk around on. So a spider is a terrifying death machine propelled by eight erect boners essentially. EDIT: You gave me gold for this? This isn't even one of my good comments! |
What happens when 911 callers don't speak English? | There are 3rd party translation services that medical staff use all the time. You call them on the phone tell them the language you need, and put it on speaker. Management doesn't like it when you overuse this service, so you often learn to make due. But rare dialects come up and this service proves invaluable. My favo... |
Is It Worth My Time To Check For Certain Coins | not entirely, depends really if you just look for different faces, like wheat pennies, mercury dimes, and half dollars. generally those are the most common that are cool but still not worth much. you can find specific years but its very tedeous and doesnt happen that often. the most common most valueable finds are just... |
Why is it that when you experience heartbreak there is an actual physical pain in your chest? | I can imagine really any kind of stress makes that area painful, even if you aren't heartbroken. I used to work at a really really shitty job and my boss was the biggest egotistical asshole I have ever met. He didn't feel empathy for ANYONE and would drill you like a fucking sergeant if you made the tiniest mistake. Af... |
Why salt makes ice cream freeze faster/better, but defrosts roads. | It's the same effect. By lowering the freezing point of water, that means that ice on roads can melt when it's below 32F/0C . And like you said, ice cream turns out better when it's frozen quickly, so the lower freezing point with salt is a good thing - you want the water doing the cooling to still be liquid, but as co... |
What stops electricity from traveling straight through a wound up coil of copper wire? | that type of wire is known as enameled wire or magnet wire. It has a very thin layer of insulation on it that keeps the electricity from doing what you describe. But if you removed the insulation, say by going down the wire with some sandpaper, it would go how you'd expect. |
Why do some dogs enjoy playing fetch so much? | Prey drive. The instinctual yearning to chase/hunt/kill prey. Some breeds naturally have more of it due to generations of breeding but it's a personality trait like any other. I have two dogs, an 85lb Doberman and a 10lb mutt. My big dog loves chasing things and has a good prey drive but my little one's prey drive is t... |
How was wolf taming in it's earliest stage? | I'm not 100% sure what you're asking, OP. I *think* you're asking about how humans domesticated dogs. This happened many tens of thousands of years ago, so we can never be sure, but prevailing theory says that it was the wolves that figured out that being near humans was beneficial and started moving closer, and closer... |
What determines your blood type and what's the difference between positive and negative? | Blood type is determined by genetics, but is slightly different than dominant/recessive traits because it can be co-dominant . People that are A would have either AA or Ai . People that are B are either BB or Bi, people that are AB are exactly that- AB, and people that are O are ii. Whatever blood type you are, is the ... |
Why did the hivemind just lose it's shit about andrewsmith1986 being POLITE_ALLCAPS_GUY | I've heard that andrewwsmith1986 became one of the more hated redditors. I seem to have missed that drama, when/why did that happen?", 'People don't like being fooled, and this is the same as pulling an elaborate practical joke then ripping the mask off yelling "Ha ha!!! It was me all along!" Also, people think karma p... |
why women are more likely to develop dementia than men. | Estrogenic compounds protect against mitochondrial toxicity of amyloid-beta, which is the main component of the amyloid plaques that build up in the brains of people afflicted with Alzheimer's disease. The drop in estrogen due to menopause is one possible explanation of the sex differences in frequency and progression ... |
Why does inbreeding only cause disadvantageous mutation? | Inbreeding *doesn't* cause mutation. Mutation happens all the time, at its own pace. What inbreeding does is prevent new genes from entering, so mutations get to have it all their own way, by drastically increasing the odds of any negative mutation being passed on to the next generation. |
Why when I swallow a pill it sometimes feels as if it is stuck in my throat | I have a very narrow part in my esophagus and I get stuff stuck all the time. It was diagnosed by eating marshmallows covered in barium whilst being x-rayed. Normally I can push the stuck food through by swallowing a massive gulp of water at the same time as tucking my chin tight in against my chest but it has also res... |
What is the law on using a brand name product in a movie/show? | Where you see a brand name, it's been cleared and indeed the brand probably paid or at least supplied stuff for free. We had a scene with a family eating breakfast, we got sent a palette of things people might have on a breakfast table - all from the clients of a product placement agency. Every vehicle was from one man... |
What happens to a rich person's money if they switch banks? | From past experiences, banks communicate with each other and will transfer the money in your checking/saving accounts through their networks. Of course this takes a long time because the old bank doesn't want to let you go so they delay the process. For lesser amounts, it is recommended that one just go cash it out a b... |
How does Netflix stream movies in high quality smoothly while YouTube can't even stream a minute long video without buffering? | The main problem is the video player. In order for YouTube to keep better tracking of who is watching what everytime you click somewhere else it has to re buffer. If you recall the pre-Google era of YouTube you didn't have to worry about clicking around the areas of the video that had already buffered. The video player... |
Why do TV UI's suck so much? | Company didn't put a lot of money into it. A few programmers made something with minimal testing and they sent it out. That's the best I can say.TVs have minimal hardware. Same with my "Smart" blu-ray player. Its slow compared to something like the Roku 3. I want my TV to last longer than my Roku. If the "smart" is bui... |
What happens if a computer has more than 26 drives? | Plenty of computers have well more than 26 drives, however they're usually combined to become a much larger virtual drive. However this very much depends on the host operating system, and actual hardware. As such this is really a tech support question. Try r/windows r/techsupport or whatever operating system involved. |
Candidates raise tons of money during election camapigns. But after the campaigns are over, where does the unspent money go? | There usually isn't much unspent money ). If a campaign ends in the black there are [certain rules about what they can do with the excess]. In simple terms, the easiest thing is to give it to the national committee and while they can make donations to other politicians, those donations are subject to relatively small l... |
The closer I get to my homes door, the harder it is to refrain myself from peeing, why ? | Our minds prepare us physiologically for things we realize are about to happen. When we are anticipating food, our mouth waters and our digestive enzymes are prepared. If you are a heroin addict, when you do heroin in your usual location more metabolizing enzymes are produced. In fact, it VERY dangerous to do heroin in... |
How come a movie can cost hundred of millions to make ? | Actors: If you have, say, 5 well-known actors getting paid $5 million each, then another 5 making $500k each, then a ton of no-namers making $50k each Transport: Flying out entire crews of hundreds to various locations around the world; that's ~$2k per person per location Sets: Renting out houses, buildings, airports, ... |
Why does japan continue whaling while the rest of the world has abandoned it? | Weren't they fucked over by Americans on agreeing to ban whaling, and now use 'research' as a loophole, while people give no fucks about Norway.In WA state a tribe hunted whales a decade or so ago. It was there tradition, I was fine with that. So they get in canoe and practice for months. Then they the hunt begins, the... |
Why do so many passenger planes use the Deakin method (dragging the nose and then lifting off suddenly) instead of allowing the plane to naturally lift off and having a slower initial climb? | Sometimes it's related to the pilot's background and training. A friend of mine who's a pilot always said you can tell if an airline pilot was former Air Force or Navy. Air Force trained = long shallow takeoff / climb out, long gradual descents to landing, easy braking that uses up the entire runway. Navy trained = qui... |
How do photographers or anyone with a camera for that matter get pictures of the stars in such great detail? r/earthporn related | 1. Photoshop. It happens, it's art not a documentary so it's not a big deal.2. Stacking. They take multiple exposures and stack them together to get the fainter stars to show up.3. A long exposure, aka leaving the shutter open for a long time. Depending on where on the Earth you are this might have a maximum time of 20... |
What is the reason for films not using 'Google', 'Facebook', 'Youtube' etc. | Movies get a lot of money through product placement. If companies see that you will use them for free, they won't pay as much in the future. > Google isn't going to sue the film studios They can if they want to, if in a horror movie there is a murderer using Google to find out ways to kill people, Google wouldn't be ha... |
Why are 9mm bullets less dangerous than 7.62 or even 5.56 ones? Shouldn’t they deal more damage with bigger size? | I think the ELI5 would be that the size of the gunpowder charge behind the bullet is what makes the difference. I could take any of those bullets you listed and throw it at you, and it's not gonna do much damage. Rifle rounds have a much bigger gunpowder charge behind them, which makes a bigger boom, which moves the bu... |
Why isn't there a non-invasive/non-surgical test for diagnosing endometriosis? What's wrong with ultrasounds, MRIs, pelvic exams, etc? | It has to be physically diagnosed via biopsy. Other methods don't work as you can see cellular structures. |
Why has the style of male formal attire remained relatively unchanged for the past 150 years, while casual clothes have changed dramatically? | Because men's clothing became utilitarian. And once something works, there's no need to change it. Women's clothing were and still are about fashion and looking good, and since the standards for looking good constantly change, women's styles have to constantly change.One of my first jobs was working for an outfit that ... |
How come in dreams, I psychically get stopped from hitting someone else? | Who knows? Why do my teeth rot and fall out in mine. It's all in a *dream book* somewhere |
How did a phone connect to another phone overseas pre-1950's? | The first international phone line was between key west and cuba. It's something like 90 miles. There's a tourist attraction there. |
Explain (like I'm five) Tienanmen Square | China is communist. People in China don't have a lot of say in how their government runs. In 1989 people in China started protesting because they wanted a democracy. The government did not want a democracy. Chinese people flooded the streets and started gathering in Tienanmen Square. All of China was in protest. The go... |
What exactly are snipers doing when they adjust their shot for distance, wind, elevation, etc.? | The elevation means that you may need to compensate for bullet drop, but giving you placement and their placement, the bullet drop would mean that you wouldn't need to compensate much since the bullet would drop the same as the elevation. If the winds are blowing from the southeast, you need to aim towards the southeas... |
OK so I'm not as with it as I thought. Can someone explain what the prefix "Cis" means when describing gender or sexuality? | standard", or "common". A person who is cisSomething is the common type of Something. Cisgender means your personally identified gender matches the sex you were assigned at birth. So if your birth certificate calls you male and you consider yourself male you are "cisgender", same with being born a female and considerin... |
How did the U.S., a country only a few centuries old, become the world's largest economy so quickly? | ITT, no mention of how slavery, war or the extortion of it's people has thus far helped the economy. One pretty good answer but it is far too pc. I'm not saying that the reason the u.s does so well is all bad, but it certainly isn't all rainbows and butterflies either. |
Why is voicemail technology still so terrible? | Google voice. I'll never go back. Emails a transcript of the message that's just coherent enough to get the gist of the voicemail, but it includes the voicemail recording in the email and there's also an Android voicemail app to let you manage your voicemail similar to how you're describing.You can do all of that on vo... |
How can pension schemes actually pay out despite demographic time bomb? | Private pensions are mostly closed to new enrollees and also are mostly more well-funded, because laws and regulations force them to be, then public pensions are. So the shift in working age adults won't be so much of a time bomb for them as they are not heavily built on the assumption that future workers will pay for ... |
why are Muslim women so okay with their religion? | Muslim here . Muslim women are not a male person's property. Modesty is enjoined on both males and females. Women are equal to men. Edit: yea, noticed you are getting info about ISIS. They are barbaric terrorists, they don't follow Prophet Muhammad or the Qur'an. They have nothing to do with Islam except for that they ... |
Why are computer monitors designed so that their heights are not ergonomically correct when placed on a standard work desk? | because the user's eye is not soley dependent on the height of the desk. but by the height of their torso and the height of the chair. the chair should be set at ergo height depending on length of the user's lower legs. |
How are clubs and other social gathering places allowed to have "Ladies Night" without people pulling out the discrimination card? | In general it is because 'ladies night' benefits both groups. Yes, men don't receive the monetary discount that women do, but they gain the benefit of there being more women in the club/at social gathering that would not otherwise be there. Therefore no one complains. |
What is a flame made of? | generally speaking, i believe flame is a plasma. it's too energetic for its atomic constituents to form atoms as we know them. |
Why was the concept of time and clocks created? | We didn't invent the concept of time. Even animals know what to do when the sun rises, and when it sets. Humans just got more and more precise with measuring it. |
How buying a phone in USA works. | What gets me is when I traveled to Thailand for a couple months and needed a local phone I went to a giant mall, bought a phone and then bought a SIM card and that was it. No contract or social security number or any of that bullshit. Just simple as shit. This makes me think it's just a scheme to confuse and suck money... |
Why does stretching "cut off" hearing? | Close your eyes really tight. You hear that rumble? That's your muscles contracting. Stretching does this with your whole body. |
serious question, why isnt Flints water problem being fixed by fitting each house with a adequately sized purification system? | $$$$ is a big one, keep in mind the Flint was going bankrupt before this all happened. In fact them trying to save on water by stopping the purchase from Detroit started this whole thing, although there were many subsequent failings by officials and municipal and state governments that ultimately caused the lead in the... |
Why people criticize the Susan G. Komen foundation | -- A small percentage of the sales of many of their items goes to cancer research -- They're jerks with their trademarks -- A few years ago, they stated they wouldn't offer grants to Planned Parenthood. This really ticked off a lot of liberals, women, and liberal women._URL_0_ |
how does the scam from the Producers work and how is it illegal? | Normally to fund a movie or play the producer sells shares; e.g. you give me x dollars and in return you own y% of the movie's profits. Obviously the investors hope that their share of the profits ends up being worth more than what they invested. The scam relies on selling more shares than can exist. You normally canno... |
How does spinning a turbine make power? | There are these tiny things called atoms, and they make up pretty much everything. They're so small we can't see them. But an atom is really a collection of even smaller things. Some of these even-smaller-things are called electrons, and they spin around the outside of the atom. Electricity happens when an electron jum... |
In the age of HDTV and DSLR Cameras, Why are CCTV footages like 1980's TV resolution? | I'm the director of business development for a small security equipment manufacturer and distributor, you folks hit it right on the head. The biggest constraint is cost. Cost of higher resolution cameras, and the cost of hard drive storage. IP or network camera systems and larger capacity HDDs are getting more inexpens... |
Why is my WiFi slower than my phone? (Frontier FiOS vs. 4G LTE) | What's the actual speed of your internet connection? Your WiFi router might be limiting it quite badly for a reason or another. |
Why do we feel stupid around people we like even if we're not acting or doing anything stupid? | It's kinda a self esteem issue and usually goes hand-in-hand with however you grew up, especially if you had siblings or even somewhat emotionally abusive parents. No matter how smart you are or aren't, you think of yourself as stupid because you really want to impress this person, but they might be smarter in one rega... |
If access to clean and safe drinking water is basic human right, why are water companies allowed to charge? | In the US it's not a basic right. In fact, there are complex laws that govern how water is shared between and among states, and within states. These vary all over the place. Many of these laws go back 100 plus years, especially in the west, before it was heavily populated.Housing, clothing, food are basic human rights,... |
How have we not been to the moon again (any country) since the U.S did, and how is it such a difficult feat for other countries to achieve? | I've played Kerbal Space Station, so I'm pretty much an expert on this topic. First, it's expensive to get to the moon, even more if you want to bring anything back from there. Second, there's not much left to learn from the moon. Third, profits vs cost. And finally, it's really hard. Countries spend lots of money on m... |
How does a small bullet that doesn't pass through the brain or heart kill a person? | Your body and organ systems are inter-related, especially your blood and circulation, kidneys, heart, brain, and lungs. Any failure of one of these organs typically results in subsequent failure of the others either one-at-a-time or all at once. Additionally, there are at least 10 or so spots that you can be stabbed wi... |
Why is it that most of society is clearly eating too much on a daily basis, yet no one seems to be doing anything that's remotely effective at addressing the problem? | It is an individual problem. You can't legislate those away. It might be possible to create an advertising campaign and make over eating unpopular, as they did with smoking but we are doing that already. Trying to limit what people eat for their own good, is too dystopian but I'm afraid it may come to that.What exactly... |
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