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- The TI-89 Calculator has been around since 1998, still costs $200, and has yet to have been replaced as the standard... why? | You don't even have to replace it with an APP or anything smart like that. But you cannot fucking tell me in almost 15 years we cannot cut that damn calculator in half, make it twice as powerful and 10x more memory, with a bigger and better screen. |
with the existence of OSHA and uman Resources, what is the point of unions? | Because safety is just one of the things unions fought for. They also fight for better benefits and wages, overtime pay, due process in firing, and a number of others things OSHA doesn't have anything to do with. Also, Human Resources departments are there to benefit the company by ensure they comply with labor laws an... |
Why do people shrink as they age? | Doc here. There's a few different reasons why. The discs between your vertebrae thin as you age, resulting from in height loss. Many elderly will develop excess curvature in their neck and back, which leads to height loss. Some elderly patients lose height through a common injury known as compressions fractures, a comp... |
why is the Vatican City it's own country? | barc0de gave a pretty good answer, to put it slightly more detailed: For about a thousand years, primarily the middle ages, [the Papal States] used to be an independent country, with the Pope as its king, which held a sizeable portion of what is now Italy. In the 19th century the other Italian states joined together to... |
Why aren't mental health checks a standard part of the gun purchasing process? | Because it's useless. 1) Being mentally ill does not mean criminal. 2) People can be sane during a purchase and later in life become mentally ill but not a criminal, or 3) People can be sane during a purchase and later in life become mentally ill and a criminal 4) There are sane people who commit crime out of passion/a... |
Difference between a manual car w/ clutch VS manual w/o clutch (not auto). | I had a '72 Bug that had a semi-automatic, that is a clutchless shifter, you just lifted your foot off the accelerator while you were shifting. As far as performance, it would do 0-60 provided your trip was long enough. |
Why is it that I can get a 10 gigabyte thumb drive for $10, but there is a $100 price change from a 16 gigabyte iphone to a 32 gigabyte iphone. | Prices are not set by the seller, they are set by the buyer. Whatever you'll pay for it, the seller will charge for it. |
Why do people forget nouns more often but not verbs or adjectives? | spoon" or "lovely" means, but not everyone knows the meaning of words such as "derivative |
Why is it that upgrading a phone or a computer to a newer operating system typically results in the device performing worse or slower? | Newer software is usually designed with newer hardware in mind, which means it often uses lots of memory and lots of processing power . Put that into a somewhat older model with less memory and a slower processor, and it doesn't work out so well. |
Why are Americans so offended by nudity, sex and porn? | Most Americans aren't offended, it's just that it's been a social norm for a long time , and any thing that deviates is going to get extra scrutiny. |
If Hemp produces paper and and other products cheaper, which means more profit, why hasn't the Tree Cutting (Logging?) Industry pushed for legalization? | Simple answer - it's not that great. Hemp is actually cultivated in many countries. France and China especially. It's useful but the advocates would have you believe that it is practically a magical material. It's really not. |
Why do humans require more diverse foods as we grow older, rather than relying on breastmilk? | When we were babies, we have no teeth or ability to masticate. Only by drinking nourishing liquid can we get nutrients and energy, strengthen immunity. As time goes by, we grow up, have teeth, own the ability to masticate. We can just masticate diverse foods to get nutrients and energy. At that moment, we'd like to ind... |
Can dogs remember their siblings? | All I have is anecdotal evidence that seems to indicate they can remember relationships they have with other dogs. I've seen siblings rush to play with one another, but I've also seen a father and son play like they were both puppies, and totally unrelated dogs who just grew up together be excited to see each other aga... |
Why do white races have multiple colors of hair whereas others only have a single color? | Well I'm always curious as to how people strictly define race, because I check a box that says caucasian, but I know I could have any combination of ancestors from different climates and regions where these people evolved traits like hair color. The hair color just comes down to the pigments that give your hair that co... |
The moon is bright enough to be seen from 240,000 miles away even in daytime, how could astronauts look directly at it during the lunar space landing? | The Earth similarly can be seen from that distance, however it is not too bright for us to land on and exist in. As everyone else says, the level of brightness doesn't change as you get closer. |
Why does Microsoft give Windows 10 away for free to Windows 7 and Windows 8 users? | Upgrades have never been a large portion of Microsoft's revenue anyway. Most home users never upgrade, and most enterprises are on software assurance contracts. So it doesn't actually cost Microsoft all that much. It does, however, mean that all Windows 7 and Windows 8 users get access to the new features. That makes i... |
How can having bad credit can affect your chances of getting a good paying job? | I think it would be worse to have bad credit than no credit. Employers can assume you are unreliable or make bad decisions if you have bad credit. I don't know how widespread the practice is, but it seems pretty shady. Unless you are looking for a position in finance, your ability to maintain a good credit score seems ... |
If the earth travels, why do sounds on the Earth not naturally experience the doppler effect? | Because the atmosphere is *also* moving at the same rate. Sound is vibrations in a medium relative to the medium. It's the same reason you don't fly off at 8000 kilometers per hour whenever you jump. |
Why can't big ships just go faster? | Moving a ship the same distance at higher speed uses more fuel. The amount of fuel used by a cargo ship is *immense,* so even a few percent increase is a huge amount of money they don't want to spend. ", 'In addition to increased inefficiency at higher speeds, full displacement hulls actually have a "maximum" speed. Be... |
Why does Japan have such a low birth rate compared to the rest of the world? | Culture. Women are expected to stop working and be stay at home moms if they get married. They are expected to not work at all if they have kids. They'll actually be shamed into quitting by their coworkers and supervisors if they get pregnant or face termination if they don't abort. Well, many women want autonomy and t... |
Why do Windows drive designations start at C? | Back in the day, computers didn't have hard drives. You had floppy disc drives. When you turn on your computer, you inserted the disc that had a copy of DOS on it and the computer booted from that, loading the operating system into memory. You then removed that disc and put in what ever program you wanted to run. That ... |
Do our bodies naturally toss and turn in our sleep to subconsciously avoid pressure ulcers/sores? | Wow that's scary I didn't even know we could get these bed sores from just laying in bed. It must be a very long period in order to get one but still very scary. |
Why do musicians and authors seem to do their best work when they're younger but their work seems to become "stale" as they get older? | As well as the comments before this one, it also goes along with what the current generation wants. Take Aerosmith, for example. When they started out, the generation wanted the sweet sounds of rock, but when times changed, the people's taste did as well. The band tried something new to fit in with the times and the de... |
How do banks refund fraudulent purchases on your credit card? | Correct, but most banks/credit card companies decide it's better in the long run to simply forgive the fraudulent charge and maintain you as a customer than insist the debt be paid regardless and liekly lose future business with you. |
Why does NASA and other space agencies launch their rockets pointed straight up, at a dead stop? (MIC) | You're trying to get through the draggy atmosphere as quickly as possible. That's the dominant thing holding the rocket back from achieving orbital speed. If there were no atmosphere, then you'd be right to launch it horizontally. |
Why do men on OKCupid rate the average female user as average, while women on OKCupid rate most men as below average? | I erhm urge you to make a female okcupid account. You won't even need to put in a picture. You`ll get why.I dont okcupid but my experience of datingsites says woman post pictures of their faces in attractive manors, and men post thier dicks in unattractive manors.Women are genetically programmed to be pickier than men,... |
Why does our sense of taste generally prefer unhealthy things (pizza, burger etc.) over healthy ones (broccoli etc.)? | It's not necessarily our sense of taste. It's more our minds desire for what releases endorphins into our body. What gives us pleasure or is comforting can also be a way to describe our brains reaction to the stimuli we introduce to our brain. It's also learned. In an environment where healthy foods are consumed regula... |
If a single dose of meth makes people high for days at a time, and it doesn't cost a lot, why do meth users go broke and sell everything? | That's a generalization. I've known successful high function meth/coke addicts. But to answer your question tolerance and dependency. You can be high and up for days but the longer you're bingeing the more you have to do to chase that intial rush. Also it's fucking meth. You're up for 14 days tweaking out and you have ... |
What's the situation with the Falkland Islands? | The reason Argentina's government is harping about Las Malvinas at this time is because the country is once again headed towards collapse or at least a recession. Import duties have gone through the roof, hindering companies from producing, inflation is insane and foreign currency reserves are more or less depleted", '... |
If anger is considered such a negative and bad emotion that brings trouble and we need to avoid it, why do we have it in the first place? | Avoiding it isn't helpful in the long term. The full range of emotions we experience is what makes life what it is. As much as we sometimes hope for a rosy, fluffy existence, I'm afraid it's the hard times that help us grow. You meet people through your life and notice that those who've had a protected, sheltered upbri... |
Bilingual speakers who switch languages mid sentence (ex: Spanglish/Hinglish), how do you choose which words to say in which language? | For me it's called Texmex it's a blend of Spanish and English so words like truck that would normally be said camioneta we say it as troca. |
Why do stomach bugs like the Norovirus appear to spread rapidly amongst passengers on cruise ships? | The number one reason is that people don't wash their hands, or wash them poorly. The virus is present in feces and vomit of infected individuals. Because of the lack of hygiene in small areas that contain many people, it ends up in your mouth very quickly. |
Why do I start crying when I'm angry? | In my experience, anger is really just frustration, helplessness, fear or a feeling of betrayal. When you think about it that way, it's not so different from sadness, grief, etc. Maybe you're normal after all. |
What is the evolutionary explanation for homosexuality? | An evolutionary explanation for homosexuality really comes down to an evolutionary explanation for sexuality overall. If you've taken Anthro 101, you've probably been shown the creepily pornographic film on Bonobo Chimps. If you haven't, let me sum it up for you: Bonobo Chimps, the species genetically closest to Homo s... |
Why can't kids pick which classes that they want to attend in school? | It's so that children get a well rounded education. If you only chose what you were good at, you wouldn't work to improve what you were bad at. Avoid Maths completely and you would lack basic skills and understanding. Skip English and you'd find it difficult to post on Reddit . There are elements of choice for some peo... |
Why don't we have all politicians announce publicly which lobbyists they receive benefits from? | because politicians are the ones that pass the laws and it's not like they're going to vote for one that would hurt them?", 'Believe it or not, California requires annual reports of donations, gifts, and incomeIn France and Sweden you have to declare it. |
If we were able to teach gorillas sign language, would they be able to teach us the structure of their language of vocalizations? | Someone is cataloguing their calls. I wouldn't expect a structured sort of language. While Koko's skills are pretty amazing, even she seems to merely make gestures that correspond with a memory or idea. The comprehension of abstraction required to employ what we'd typically think of as a language has yet to be observed... |
Growing up in the Philippines, I have never met anyone with a nut allergy, yet it seems to be very common in the US. Why is that? | as someone who works at an elementary school with kids aged 4-6ish, I have observed a pattern with nut allergies. They came about, parents got anxious and kept their kids unexposed, which in turn lead to an explosion of nut allergies . I've seen nut allergies kind of slow down a little at school more recently.Another p... |
Why is pizza (and other dairy products) so popular if lactose intolerance is so prevalent? | Lactose intolerance isn't prevalent in the Western world. Even if it somehow came to be, I would eat pizza anyway. :) |
Why are testicles stores in a thin, sensitive sack outside our body instead of a protective casing inside our bodies? | What's lacking in body armor has been compensated for by higher motor skills and the intense desire to avoid that type of pain. |
Why is the Millenium Falcon's cockpit so far on one side of the ship? | the millenium falcon is a freighter class vessel. guess what it's designed to do? haul freight. long loading ramp. spacious interior. great for loading more cargo! guess what it's not great for. space dogfighting! |
Why do companies insist on telling the public there's "scheduled maintenance" when a web site is clearly broken? | Sometimes it is actually scheduled maintenance and they weren't expecting any issues maybe a little slowdown while they checked and changed/modified the code. Then someone fucked something up or something unexpected happened because something didn't preform as expected and poof a whole mess that no one anticipated. |
Why are men so attracted to breasts? What makes them so sexual? | Everyone loves breasts, not just men. They are a sign of having good genes and the being able to feed their young. It's primordial and ingrained on the genetic level really. |
What a person with depression goes through on a daily basis | That's almost impossible to describe, because every depression is different. A lot depends for example on the disease's severity. |
Why after eating the same food everyday does it start tasting disgusting? | I don't think that eating the same food taste disgusting as a general rule. I do think that if you're missing some vital nutrients you will still feel hungry . And if you're eating something that you need, but too much is toxic when you eat a good source of those nutrients your body says 'enough', so you feel like it's... |
why fashions go in and out of style | You think it's bad now? If you were wearing 1977 fashions in 1982, you'd have been laughed out of town. If you'd been wearing 1964 fashions in 1970, people would have thought you were going to a job interview. Since the mid 90s, the cultural phenomenon that has most stood out to me is the stability of fashion. It used ... |
Why didn't the Ent, Dwarves, and other races help in the battle for Middle Earth in LOTR. | the rest has been answered .so i will comment on the releasing of the dead the dead in the books caused no physical harm to the people manning the ships .they were just scary .and all the people jumped over board to escape the scary mr boogity zerg it's likely the sauron army would have not been afraid of a bunch of ha... |
When moths sit on the wall completely still for days on end without moving at all. What are they doing? Why aren't they compelled to search for food, or a mating partner. | Fuck moths. There was one in my son's room when I was putting him to sleep so I made a concious note to get a paper towel and remove him THEN HE DIVE BOMBED MY MOTHER FUCKING EYEBALL. What a bastard. Got moth dust in my eye and I almost shit my pants. Fuck moths. |
why doesn't the president live smack dab in the middle of the united states rather than on the very east edge of it. | 1) it tends to be a better idea to keep capitols / power structures AWAY from the most populated areas. This is why the capitol of a state often isn't the most known or popular - I.E., Washington state and Olympia, New York and Albany, Texas and Austin, to make it easier to conduct business and prevent angry mobs arriv... |
Why hasn't the world try to create a unified global currency? | Remember how the EU's economy was sent reeling because of Greece and Spain? Remember how those problems stemmed in part because neither could control their currency to react to macro-economic trends? Yeah that's why. No country is really comfortable with surrendering the control they have over their currency by joining... |
North Carolina's bathroom situation | NC passed a law saying this person would have to use the men's restroom: _URL_1_ And this person would have to use the female restroom: _URL_0_ Because you should only go to the bathroom that matches the gender on your birth certificate. Major companies have disagreed with the law and pulled contracts that would requir... |
Why do women's nipples come in a variety of shapes and sizes compared to a man's? | Don't understand why so many people are debating saying that women and men have the same nipple size on average. I don't have a study to back it up cause I don't know who would ever do that study, but they are clearly different sizes. I have read that pregnancy can increase the size and also the amount of melanin and t... |
Would I gain the same amount of weight if I ate 5,000 calories one day and 1,000 the next compared to 3,000 calories both days? | Yes, either way you have 6000 cals over two days so if your energy spent is equal in both scenarios you will gain or lose the same amount of weight. Of course some things can offset, like you might have diarrhea or otherwise expel some of the excess food on the 5000 day so you lose calories before you ever took them in... |
Why salt kills slugs. | Slug is a pretty funny word isn't it?", 'Does it work the same way on leeches? |
Why are there different blood types? Have they always been around? Could a new blood type surface? | Our biology class did a blood test in high school. I thought I was cool because 38/40 people had O type and I had A. Now I learned it's because A types die easier : closely resemble sugars in bacterial cell walls your body makes antibodies which target these groups that would not be found normally in the blood. An anti... |
The psychology behind ruining public restrooms. (potentially NSFW). | This isn't going to be a standard eli5 answer but I used live with someone like that. Yes, he left his toilet at home like that. He literally pissed on the floor around the toilet in the middle of the night instead of aim. No he didn't care. No he wasn't drunk, it's just how is. Needless to say, no longer living with o... |
Why do car dealership always seem to exist in pairs or even groups of three? | People are willing to drive to a car dealer, so it's not as if moving 1 mile closer is going to get you exclusive access to a whole set of customers. Instead, dealers locate in optimal locations, which are the same for most dealers: places with high visibility from the street, yet affordable land , and legally zoned to... |
why do modems and routers require to be turned off and on again and how does this (usually) repair slowing speeds? | There are a bunch of tables in the router that describe which computer gets what data, depending on how the data is labeled, but the tables have a limited size, and there are only so many ways the data can be labeled. When a table is full, or all the ways of labeling the data are used, the router becomes unable to rout... |
The advantages and disadvantages of WEP, WPA and WPA2 | The only disadvantage I can think of is my DS doesn't connect to WPA or WPA2 :/ First world problems |
What is a OSI model? | transport layer", and "whatever's above transport layer". It's like that example I gave with the postal system, where for writing a letter you only need one super-simple protocol above the postal system, but for absentee voting you need two layers and both of them are significantly more complex and less freeform. So, t... |
Why do major brands like Gucci, Versace or Louis Vuitton (and others) do not advertise their products on tv (except some perfumes)? | Something not mentioned is that *they actually don't want to advertise*. Luxury brands want to maintain *exclusivity*, which means *they don't actually want the average person to buy them*.because its a waste of money. 99% of people cannot afford these brands. the people who can afford them buy due to the exclusivity. |
Why do toxicology reports for drugs take such a long time after death whereas if you're tested in the ER for drugs the results come within minutes/hours? | Because they're doing more extensive testing during the course of an autopsy, and they tend to release the information all at once after everything has been done and they have definitive answers. |
If Netflix offers unlimited movies each month, why does Audible cost more and only offer one audiobook each month? | An audiobook is often 12-20 hours of entertainment . When you buy it from Audible, you own it. You don't have to maintain a subscription to maintain access to it. If you prefer to subscribe and read books free, get Kindle Unlimited. Netflix is a tertiary market for movies and television. By the time a show or film gets... |
Why does it take so long for a movie to come out on DVD after leaving theaters? | To answer your other questions most studios will create their own home video masters, there are a lot of people working in departments solely for home video sales. I assume you're quite young judging by your question. When VHS was around it took far longer for films to be available to buy, I think it may have been up t... |
The legality of The Pirate Bay | The Pirate Bay is just a search engine for torrents. In the same that Google is a search engine for, well, everything. If you find illegal material on Google, who's to blame? Google or the person who put it up there and made it public in the first place? However, yes, truth be told, TPB is mainly used for illegal torre... |
How do some people get "innies" and some people get "outties" for navels? | A lot of it is up for debate, but some say it's because of excess skin that grows around the umbilical chord in the womb. Others say that because your intestines develop outside the body then go back in the scar tissue around the belly button doesn't heal all the way and becomes an outie. _URL_2_ _URL_3_", 'From what I... |
Why isn't Mitt Romney releasing his tax returns? | I wish liberals would stop picking on Romney. I mean, it's not like republicans ever hounded Obama to release any sorts of things. |
If humans are omnivores, why do we have to cook food? | It is a common and thoroughly debunked argument. Humans don't need to cook meat. Freshly butchered meat is reasonably safe raw, unless it has parasites. And that is the same risk other animals take when they eat raw meat. Meat is only dangerous if you let it rot. Humans cook meat because: * it kills parasites and micro... |
How exactly is the westboro baptist church Still able to go and blatantly slander and picket Funerals without legal prosecution. | The entire Phelps family is stocked with lawyers And very good lawyers, at that. Interesting fact: Fred Phelps is a very, very decorated civil rights lawyer, helping to take down many anti-discrimination laws. He has an award from the NAACP. Not trying to say he's a good guy, but he was a VERY talented lawyer in his pr... |
Why do programmers hate using "GOTO" so much? | So you know those choose your own adventure books? Goto is kind of like that, except at the end of a piece there could be a page number to flip to or it could just give you a chapter title, and there's no index for the chapter titles. You would probably spend more time flipping pages than reading the book. It's a big p... |
What makes Nuclear bombs so much more powerful than 'normal' bombs? | There's a force that keeps atoms bound together . It's powerful enough to overcome the electromagnetic forces that would otherwise push protons away from each other. When a nuclear warhead detonates, a number of the molecules are split, releasing the nuclear binding energy that was holding them together. Once one molec... |
Why do African-American women commonly wear weaves/wigs? | As someone who moved from Africa to america, I usually find that is mostly a social aesthetic reason. Many individuals of African descent have very course, curly, unique hair. It also has different oils and growth rates. The hair can be very dry, and tangle easily . Because of many social standards, the long sleek hair... |
why does the stereotype "the middle child in a family is often times the least favorite" exist? And where does it come from? | Parenting is a learning curve for most of us. As new parents we make a lot of mistakes with the first child that we as more experienced parents try to compensate for with the second child. As each new child is added the relationships in the family change and the resentments begin. When the first child is born, the husb... |
What is the safest way to look up potentially illegal things out of pure curiosity? | Nobody is going to come knocking on your door for googling how to cook meth. Go ahead and research whatever you want, the govt isn't going to know or care. |
is America getting themselves into a world war or another Vietnam? Will young men be drafted? | No. Don't always believe how the news/media portrays things going on. I remember people here in the UK saying the same.thing after 9/11. |
- why do trains care what you charge in their power sockets? Does it make a difference if i charge my laptop or my toothbrush? | ultimately because it comes at their expense. whilst it's put there as a nice perk, honestly they'd prefer you didn't use it at all. the intent of them is that some business people would travel by another means if they cannot have access to either their phone or laptop, so allowing them to keep those devices running ma... |
How did Crocodiles survive the extinction of dinosaurs? | They did not really survive as a whole. Only a really small part of the crocodile family survived till today. There were a lot oif crocodile relatives in dinosaurs' time, but the vast majority of them went extinct. It's also false that they didn't evolve, they just are a lot more similar to what they where then that a ... |
How do people develop bad eyesight over the years? | If you live in Alaska and you are always looking far across the snow rather than what's on the ground in front of you. Over time your eyes will be more prone to farther sight. And as you get older the type of sight you rely on stays better than the secondary type. |
Why does masturbation feel better if not done for a long time? | If you masturbate frequently the constant rubbing can desensitize the area. If you don't do it for a while the feeling can start to come back. |
HIV/AIDS and why can't we kill it. | HIV is a retrovirus. Retroviruses keep their genetic information is stored as RNA which is then translated to DNA by reverse transcriptase when the virus infects the host cell. This conveys more survivability to the virus because reverse transcriptase is extremely error-prone compared to an enzyme like DNA polymerase. ... |
Are very expensive watches significantly (or any) better at keeping time than a cheap watch? | rare materials notwithstanding, you're paying for the expertise that can create a mechanical object that CAN compete with a battery-operated object in terms of accuracy, and certainly longevity.not so much that it would make a difference. in other words, no. |
Why is wine considered upper class, while beer is considered lower class? | * Anyone can make beer, using whatever additives that they want. It doesn't take very long to make, and it doesn't require as much skill. * Wine requires grapes which are better grown in specific regions. Certain grapes creates different kinds of wines. Takes a large amount of skill and time to create some of the best... |
Why don't we put "windmills" under water to use the endless currents of the ocean to generate power | We do. They're called Tidal Power Stations. Here's the [Wiki list of tidal power stations] There are only a few because they cost a lot. Tidal construction costs around $2/W; but only produces about 4-5h per day. Nuclear, for comparison, costs about $5/W; but produces 24h per day; about 1/3 the cost of Tidal. |
How do we know that any one actually wins the contests advertised by companies. | 1. It's against the law, and if they were caught, there would be criminal charges, and it would be a huge loss of reputation for the company. 2. It doesn't cost that much. Most of the time, the advertising campaigns for these contests cost more than the actual prizes that are given out, so it wouldn't be much of a cost... |
Why didn't the Nazi's just kill the Jews instead of keeping them alive in Concentration Camps? | The Nazis tried a number of methods for killing Jews, but in the end they found that concentration camps were the most effective method for doing so. First, though the goal was the extermination of the race, putting a bullet in the head of a Jewish person is using a bullet that could be used in the war effort. Second, ... |
My neighbor recently gave me their key, and it looks just like mine. So, what's the difference? | Why is it obvious? Did you try your key on her door, or her key on yours? If they are identical, each key will work on your lock. If it doesn't work, then you are not noticing the differences. |
Is Bottled Water a Scam? | Most of the world's population have a hard time finding clean drinking water, bottled water solves this easily. I have lived in lots of places where you couldn't even brush your teeth with the tap water or you'd be on the toilet for 12 hours.You can buy your own water filter system, they have the desktop variant which ... |
What exactly was the benefit of dodos and other flightless island birds losing the ability to fly due to a lack of predators? | If you aren't flying, you can be heavier. If you can be heavier, you can store more nutrients as fat. If you can store more nutrients you can birth higher numbers of more robust offspring increasing your genes at a faster rate than those dumb fuckers that are still flying around for no reason. That's one possibility, a... |
How bad is it to keep your cell phone in your pocket? | I personally keep it in my backpack if I can but it has nothing to due with radiation. I just don't want to accidentally sit on it I can't answer scientifically but I work off the logic that *millions* or maybe billions of people keep their phone in their pocket. Why aren't they all getting cancer or radiation sickness... |
Can a partner who owns 20 percent refuse an acquisition if the majority owner wants the company to be acquired? | No, although the partnership agreement may give the minority partner the right of first refusal -- that is, the right to purchase the equity at the price the outsider is offering. Outside of that, no, there's nothing a minority owner can do to prevent a majority owner from selling their stake in the company. |
Why does America use a comma to indicate a thousand instead of a dot? | It's a completely meaningless & arbitrary choice. It doesn't matter which way you go, as long as you're consistent in your usage. There's no real logic to going either way. |
Grading on a curve. | when designing a quantitative test, it can be hit or miss whether you have balanced the difficulty to the class's skill level. you expect a C average, but you might get all A's or all F's, which means the test was poorly designed, or poorly taught. So with a curve, you can make the tests more challenging, get some diff... |
How can Tamir Rice's shooter not be indicted? | I'm curious as to what crime you would like the officer to be charged with. From what I know, the police were called because reports of someone with a gun were made. The cops showed up, Rice reached for the gun in his waistband and he was shot. This is a tragic accident and disciplinary action may be warranted, but I'm... |
Why does my brand new, all singing, all dancing windows 8.1 equipped laptop not have the ability to play some of my old favourite pc games? | I don't have an 8.1 workstation in front of me, but in W7 and before, you could enable compatibility mode in the properties. Find the .exe file that starts your game, right click it, hit properties, and look for the Compatibility tab and set it to run in compatibility mode for an earlier OS until you find one that work... |
Why only the Republican and the Democratic parties participate in the debates? | Try this documentary, who's afraid of an open debate_URL_4_", '[Here] is a good explanation by CGP GreyBecause only Republicans and Democrats win and winners set the rules. |
All of a sudden I randomly remember dreams that I had years ago? | I've had this on occasion, but I have no way of being sure if they are actual dreams I had, or just random imagination acting up, and then being randomly connected in my mind with some point in my past. I suspect you don't either.I had a similar incident shortly after smoking marijuana in high school. |
What the Glass-Steagall Act is and what it has to do with speculation | The Glass-Steagall Act was put into place to try to reduce the risks that led to the Great Depression in the United States in the early 1930s. In 1999 another act, Graham-Leach-Bailey, was put into effect by a veto proof Republican led congress. It reversed some of the aspects of the Glass-Steagall Act. At the time the... |
Why do we still work 8 hours a day? | People are not unemployed because of technological advances. In fact, technological advancements in the past have shown that people adapt and find alternative sectors for work. There are complex socio-economic issues that lead to the decline of employment; there are just too many to list. Even if robots become super ad... |
How is magnesium, an easily flammable metal used in flares, used to make products such as car parts and computer casings? | _URL_3_ For reference, here's an accident involving a car with a high-magnesium-content alloy bodywork. However, nowadays, alloys are much safer. |
What would it take to make 4K HD mainstream? | 4k requires lot more bandwidth agreed, but we're always getting better at making higher speeds available, so the problem will solve itself. 100 MBPS a decade back was like a wet dream for all, a lot of people have it now. Same with manufacturing costs, technology gets cheaper and cheaper by the passing day.The factor w... |
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