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Why would Univision buy Gawker just to shut it down? | They didn't buy gawker, they bought gawkers offshoot sites which have not been shut down . The main gawker web site is going away but Gawker owned half a dozen or more extremely popular web sites that as far as we know are going to continue as is under Univision.They get the other 6 websites under the Gawker umbrella D... |
How do people escape from north korea. | > What routes do they take? A very common route is a very long one. Once in China, the North Korean refugees can stay in China but that can be quite precarious since there is always the fear of being sent back. The closest country which won't send back the refugees in Thailand. Once in Thailand, the refugees can go to ... |
Why do non-tame animals stop struggling when you hold them? | I think people are overthinking this one based on the answers. If an animal sees any possible chance of escape it will bolt. If you have a firm hold on the animal it will go limp. Evolution favors it because the animal that still struggles when caught will get killed/injured by the usually much bigger and overpowering ... |
What actually CAUSES inflation? Why not just keep all prices of everything the same? | There is a positive feedback response between prices and wages. Suppose the economy is in an upswing and people have more disposable income. They are richer, so they're willing to pay more for goods . In response, businesses will increase prices. When businesses increase prices, the value of money decreases . In respon... |
Why cable companies advertise their services to their own subscribers? | It's a chance to upsell more services like more channels or phone. It also helps to keep the brand to retain customers. It's much cheaper to retain customers than to replace customers. |
If we burn/cut off our fingertips, will our fingerprints look the same as before once healed? | It depends how deep you go. All of the superficial skin we see has grown up from a deeper layer called the basal layer, also called the stratum germinativum. This layer divides and makes new cells constantly, pushing the old ones towards the surface where they eventually slough off. Its a constant cycle. And it forms t... |
What did Bonzi Buddy do that was so evil, and how does it differ from the "legitimate" ad-serving, user tracking methods used today? | Bonzi buddy was pretty sketchy. Apparently one of the features was how it could open emails which looking into that reveals that the software has actual access into you personal emails, even if the company didn't do anything with that data the fact that it had that access so early on is pretty scary if you think about ... |
Why does Godwins law not seem to apply in the majority of the comments sections in reddit? | Well, most threads in reddit have an ending time. If Godwin's law holds true, we don't know how long it should take to reach the Hitler Singularity. On most of the few thousand comment threads though, it eventually happens. It isn't a real law though, just FYI. It is more of a comment on how internet society works.Part... |
Why can't other companies make their own versions of the Winows or Mac OS under different names with different tools? What is patented, or any other reason, to prevent them? | Edit: A five year old would not understand my last explanation. Let's try again.\r\rIn order to make something work like Windows, it needs to understand the same instructions as Windows and perform them so that the result is the same as Windows, but uses different code. This requires figuring out how Microsoft made eac... |
In 2015, US total Net Worth was $84,900,000,000,000 and there were 125,590,000 US households. Does this mean that if wealth were evenly distributed every household could 'have' $676,009? | If by 'have' you are accounting for houses and the cash value of pension plans then sure. The point of the discussion is of course how that wealth is distributed and transferred through generations. |
Why do people who work in an office who never leave the office and are never seen by anyone other than coworkers required to dress up? | Don't underestimate the value of dressing up for coworkers. You may all be working for customers, but the people in your office are the ones that give out the pay rises.Who do you know that never leaves the office? All workers have to travel to and from work, maybe to lunch or dinner, to meetings outside the office, et... |
Why is it uncommon for Americans to drive with manual gearbox and very common for Europeans? | There used to be significant economic advantages to driving a manual. However, with modern automatic transmission, the economy advantage is almost negligible for most drivers. The answer might seem a little cyclical, but most drivers education programs haven't taught driving a stick in a very long time . So, most drive... |
When two different countries meet for the first time (for example, when Europeans first landed in America.) how do they end up understanding and translating one another's language? | I've always thought about this! Like how Columbus communicated with the Indians. I'm assuming a lot of hand gestures and drawings |
Why does scratching feel so good, to the point of breaking skin and delayed pain? | At least according to studies I've seen itching is a evolutionary reaction to insects. When insect injects venom or buries to your skin your body tells that your arm is itching and to scratch the venom or the insect away. Also applies to dead skin gells that block your skin. Why some other things not related to these i... |
Why do we experience dry-heaving when we smell very bad smells? | Hi! Medieval Doctor here, seeing a lot of phony medicine. The demons that make you sick are actually carried by foul smells. So when you gag after smellin something, you're just getting sick off the terrible scent of evil and disease! Remember to get yearly blood lettings! |
Why does eating shortly after waking up make me feel sick? | When you sleep, the majority of your metabolic processes slow, and almost stop. Like a car going down a highway at 5mph. When you wake up, you eat and expect your digestive tract to work like it does when you're awake and active. But it hasn't gotten up to speed yet, thus cramps, etc. when you eat very early. |
why aren't people allowed the freedom to suicide? | On a national level, I'd say it's mainly due to the nature of compromise, and that very few ever advocate for suicide to be legal, so it makes sense to the government to maintain it's illegality. On a personal level, a lot of people's personal philosophies won't allow for such an action. It may be 'wrongsinful', or 'se... |
Is maths invented or discovered? | I'd say discovered, in that all the mathematical equations and connections etc have always existed, we are only just now extrapolating them. |
Why don't we build a 'sturdy' camera and throw it into Saturn, or Jupiter, and transmit what it records back to a space station? | There have been a few probes dropped into gas giants to explore their atmospheres. They generally don't carry cameras though because there's only a limited amount of time and bandwidth available for the probe to transmit data back out before it gets destroyed by the heat/pressure/etc. Photos and video footage use up a ... |
Do higher end cars really NEED premium gas over regular unleaded? | Higher end cars usually have more powerful engines and higher compression ratios which need the higher octane fuel or detonation could result which isn't good for your engine. |
why is Uruguay so much more liberal than any other South American countries? | Uruguay doesn't have a similar history with its neighbors. Here is what makes Uruguay different: - About 88% of the population is white - It's a very small country - Very low population - It's biggest industries are agriculture and tourism - Uruguay has been a progressive country for a long time starting in the beginni... |
How did Russians manage to quadruple their gold medal count and double their overall medal count compared to the last winter Olympics? | Canada did a similar thing in Vancouver, the funding was increased drastically in a program called 'Own the Podium; for 4-8 years before the Olympics. Resulted in 14 Gold medals and our highest medal count to date", 'Mostly due to increased funding/facilities in the home nation. Nobody wants to get totally hosed on the... |
What does someone like George Zimmerman do after their trial? | He'll probably live the rest of his life depressed. I'm pretty sure he didn't want to kill Trayvon. But anyways, his life is ruined.casey anthony still hangs out in Florida. people forgetHe could change his name to Hans and maybe get a few gigs doing film scores? |
Why don't subway stations put up barriers to make it impossible for people to jump in front of the trains? | There are glass walls and doors in some places. The glass doors align with the train doors when the train stops. They're very effective. _URL_2_", 'Korea has the best subway system in the world, in my opinion. The tracks are barred off with curved plexiglass. When the train arrives, the doors open up, you step in and c... |
How is our economy going to remain sustainable with many jobs at a high risk of automation in the near future? | A lot of people here are only focused on the US job market. The main victim of automation is actually predicted to be the global agriculture sector. It's predicted to destabilize the WORLD economy not just the US. Billions of uneducated farmers and the like are set to be replaced by automation. Many of the same people ... |
How are write-in names and absentee ballots counted given that election results are announced that same night? | Because there is no practical or likely case where a write-in candidate would ever matter. The only time would be if said candidate got a majority of the electoral votes, which would be obvious because the reported number of votes would be drastically lower than the actual number of votes, in which case they would have... |
How do refrigerants like HFCs and HFOs work? | Think of it like a cup of steaming hot water in an insulated cup. As long as the lid is on, the heat is contained, it stays in the cup. Not harming anything. But take the lid off and now the heat is escaping into the air. It's the same concept, the heat gets absorbed, then it wants to be released again, except these ga... |
How do trains make turns if their wheels spin at the same speed on both sides? | Here's a [gif] showing how. Basically the wheels are conical and the contact point with the rails change during a turn. |
Obamacare passed with only Democrat support. If Democrats by themselves passed it and they didn't need Republicans why didn't they go for Universal Healthcare. | Most of the Democrats don't want universal healthcare. Congress is corrupt to its core and they stand to make far more money off of this alternative than they would with Universal Healthcare. |
How come bottled water is such a hot commodity while other animals can still drink water from unfiltered lakes and rivers? | Marketing. No really, tap water is perfectly fine. Although don't try the lake thing if you are unsure.Some tap water got contaminated in Europe in the 1970s. Ever since then, the Europeans have primarily drank bottled water. In the throes of the revolution that swept across New York City high society in the 1980s, res... |
why Americans still have as much apprehension towards Russians? Isn't the cold war over? | It is difficult to justify spending more on our military than the rest of the world combined without having a bogey man out there to justify it. The MIC is big business as it the indirect input to GDP from the direct input of 4% that Congress set as a target. In my former state of South Carolina, the local paper did a ... |
After child labor was largely banned in the USA, how did the families of those formerly employed children survive with the diminished income? | actually, the social security really helped propel things forward because you didn't need to rely on your children to support you when you were no longer able to work. Other things, like minimum wage and guaranteed/mandatory largely secular education helped things too. |
How do good actors end up in flop movies? | First and foremost, if the movie has the budget to hire the actor, a lot of times the actor will take it. Being in a bad movie doesn't really ruin an actor's career because nobody will see it. That said, actors don't really know which movies are going to be flops. Movie studios have a much greater interest in a movie n... |
I leased a new model of my vehicle that now has a safety feature backup camera and it RAISED my insurance rates. How does increased safety raise my insurance rate? | Getting rear-ended costs the insurer more if they have additional items to replace. Cameras are nice to have, but they ain't cheap. Insurers are in it for the revenue, not your goodwill. |
Why haven't we gone back to the moon in 40+ years? | Have you seen Apollo 18? It said that's why we didn't go back, so it's gotta be real right?", '"Most people understood going to the Moon as a great adventure. And how many times are they going to pay for it when the plot's the same every time?" --James Burke, *Connections*It's expensive, and there's nothing that we "ne... |
What is the problem with police having military weapons? | The problem isn't so much that they have them, it's that they use them too readily. SWAT needs to exist, because sometimes criminals have serious weapons like machine guns or explosives and you need a response team that can effectively neutralize those threats. This means major police departments need full body armor, ... |
The significance of the new Star Wars film being shot on film as opposed to digitally. | First of all, it's not uncommon. American Hustle, 12 Years a Slave, Star Trek, Captain Phillips, Inside Llewyn Davis, and Wolf of Wall Street are all among many big movies that came out this year that were primarily shot on film. Now, it can easily be argued that film has superior image quality in regards to dynamic ra... |
Why is it generally assumed that any extra terrestrial species we contact will be vastly more advanced than us? | Its not so much the assumption alien life must be more advanced, but any alien life we come into *contact* with will be more advanced Because we're pretty sure that there's no life nearby, and so if its a passive contact that probably means they started to send signals out before us, since it'd take so long for the sig... |
How do certain countries end up having names so different from their native language in other languages | To expand on the question, it's not only the name of the country - often city names have different names too. As Germany is your example: - Braunschweig - Brunswick- München - Munich- Köln - Cologne- Nürnberg - Nuremberg |
If our normal body temperature is ~98.6 F, why does 98F temperature outdoors (regardless of humidity) feel like Hell's anus? Shouldn't it feel "perfect?" | Your body produces A LOT of heat through all the various processes like cellular respiration and digestion. You're comfortable at ~70 degrees because that's the temperature at which base metabolism will naturally keep your body at 98.6 |
Why is Chocolate so Dangerous to dogs? | Chocolate contains theobromine. They can't digest it. Side note: this is the 4th time in the last 3 days I've seen this question. -_- |
Why do other people's excrement's smell worse than my own? | Wasn't there an explanation that said because the act of shitting is accompanied by feeling better, so you've been conditioned that the smell is associated with your body feeling better, so it doesn't smell as bad? That's why when leaving the room, and then coming back later it smells bad because the physiological conn... |
What is so different about their pathways that causes aspirin to be useful in anti-platelet therapy and Ibuprofen to be a detrimental factor regarding heart disease? | I once had inflammation of my throat and since eating hurt too much without pain killers I decided to eat later when I'd arrived at school. I took 2x 400mg of Ibuprofen on an empty stomach and washed them down with a can of Redbull. 10-15 minutes later it felt like I'd taken speed. Did the Ibuprofen enhance the caffein... |
- Why do some people's faces turn red after drinking certain alcohol beverages? | The skin condition rosacea can also cause redness in the cheeks and nose after drinking alcohol, caffeine, or spicy foods. it's common in 30+ year old people with fair skin. |
why millions of dollars is donated to third world countries yet they are still so poor? | Because poverty aid doesn't fix poverty, actual investments do. And with most poor countries there isn't much to actually invest in. |
Why hasn't the current administration been able to appoint the 9th supreme court justice? | The relevant passage of the Constitution says > He [the President] shall nominate, and with the advice and the consent of the senate, shall appoint Judges of the supreme court. This means that the president appoints someone, and then the senate judiciary committee holds hearings to determine whether or not the nominee ... |
Why don't establishments which serve alachol all have breathalyzers so intoxicated patrons know they legally can't drive. | liability. if they provided a way to know if someone is too intoxicated to drive, there's some responsibility for them to prevent them from driving. |
How do asian countries type their language on a keyboard? | Korean only has 40 basic characters that are combined in a certain structure , so all of them can be assigned their own key . Here's a picture of the one I use at work. The button to the right of the space bar switches the languages._URL_2_ |
FAFSA/ Financial aid / Federal Student aid: Is it a loan? | FAFSA is an application to get a government loan. Financial Aid is the combination of loans, scholarships and grants you receive. In most cases if you have no money and your parents aren't helping, the bulk of the cost of college is going to be funded by taking out loans and you'll likely be in serious debt after you g... |
How do people get birthmarks? | One type of birthmark is a [Stork Bite or Strawberry Mark]. It's a type of vascular birthmark that's often associated with brain and spinal conditions like spinal bifida and other conditions like [Ehlers Danlos Syndrome]. I have [Chiari Malformation] and Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. Like many others with Chiari and EDS, I h... |
Why are we attracted to a pretty face in terms of mate selection? Physical features of the body show traits that are important to survival/reproduction but what do facial features show? | I think it's more related to health than anything else. I've seen some women who where strange in the face and still found them to be beautiful because of their health. If the symmetry is too far off, it's generally because of an accident of some sort or poor health. There are genetic occasions that are unattractive fo... |
Does a large college library even matter anymore? | I think you're underestimating how much of the libraries have been digitized. Yeah you can buy the latest James Patterson novel or Reece Bio textbook online, but most of a large university library only exists in print. Or, it exists behind a paywall. All those various journal issues the library has in print are essenti... |
How does evolutionary science follow the scientific method? | There have been thousands of predictions made in terms of transitional fossils. i.e.: where a species if found in a specific area, an earlier ancestor is likely to be found and will be found in older rock, but not younger rock. More than that, Darwin was able to predict the existence of an undiscovered species. Who kno... |
Why is it impossible to stop thinking? | It isn't. The only problem is, you cant catch yourself not thinking.Would you even know if you stopped thinking? |
What are there multiple ways to write in some East Asian languages. | As a Chinese person, I can only speak for the Traditional and Simplified characters. The usage of Traditional and Simplified Chinese depends on where you come from. Simplified Chinese is just a more easier way to write Chinese characters, which was created to promote literacy in Mainland China. Simplified Chinese was i... |
Maryland is the richest state in America. So why is Baltimore ranked one of America's poorest cities? | Baltimore lost a lot of its manufacturing base. Combine that with White Flight where anyone with money immediately moves to the suburbs and you have a situation where Baltimore ends up in a hole that it can't get out of. Meanwhile, the wealth for the state at large is concentrated in the counties close to DC. Montgomer... |
Why do foods like rice, pasta, or beans take minutes to soak up water when it's hot, but hours upon hours if the water is cold? | The mentioned food all contain one compound: starch. Since its 'outer layer' is quite hard, it will take a while for the cold water to get through this tough barrier. Heat breaks down some starch compounds which allows the 'outer layer' to become something like a porous membrane. This allows the grain to absorb water f... |
why do you get that feeling in your stomach when you go over a little hill in a car? | Lemme explain this from a physics/medical standpoint. Your limbs, back all contain bones. These bones keep you whole and prevent you from collapsing. The insides, on the other hand, are semi-fluid. Organs can slightly move, bend, even displace If enough trauma is inflicted. So this is what happens in your car. Your bod... |
Sometimes I see a tiny dog being a bully/ aggressive to a huge dog. Does it not realize that the other dog is much bigger and could kill it if it wanted to? | If the owners weren't always so close, this kind of behavior might have been worked out of a the smaller breeds. As it is now, it seems like people actually encourage this behavior. At least, it's a behavior I see too many times hanging around the dog park. I'm a big supporter of cute & fuzzies of all sizes and shapes.... |
How do military snipers "confirm" a kill? Can they confirm it from the site of the shot or do they need to examine the target? | When the situation permits it, a BDA assessment is conducted. After whatever situation has been handled, if the tactical situation is safe enough for the troops to walk the ground, search bodies, collect intelligence, and assess the overall situation for an After Action Report . This would allow for an opportunity to c... |
Why do the Japanese exchange 'r' and 'l' sounds so often and sometimes even in their own language? | Because in Japanese they are not distinct sounds; there is *one* sound , which is really a flap - that is the tongue touches the *alveolar ridge* for a short moment. If that moment is drawn out a little, you hear an 'l', but Japanese speakers don't hear any contrast - it's just the same sound held a bit longer. Think a... |
Why are Gawker sites "bad?" | Two reasons for me: 1. site design - tons of problems. the headline fades in? I can't read the top line. and embedded videos never work, I have to google the subject and find the video myself if i really want to see it. Also sometimes I can't scroll down on the page. 2. snarky, negative tone - most of the time, 100% fi... |
How do you learn to keep a beat? | Further to the suggestion of foot tapping: I have found that muscle memory can almost completely automate it. When I was learning piano, I was told never to tap my foot - piano is a percussion instrument after all so it was my hands playing the rhythm that should keep the beat. However, when learning guitar I would tap... |
How are pre amps for microphones or guitar amps programmed into digital plug-ins to accurately recreate the tone you'd receive from the actual device? | /u/Holy_City explains part of this in another top level post, but I thought I'd give a slightly different explanation. Physical devices have physical limits. Three of the big ones are non-linearity, frequency specific responses, and memory. Non-linearity is basically where if you gave an amp A in you get A *X out. You ... |
Why would injecting an air bubble into your vein be lethal and would it be a painful death? | There are two possible problems. One, if a sufficiently large air bubble in a vein reaches the heart, it breaks the suction that is pulling the blood along your blood vessels. No circulation, no life. Two, if it's in the artery, it can block blood delivery to wherever the blood vessel is going. This is called an infarc... |
Why do winners of American sports leagues call themselves World Champions? | They usually don't. If they have a world championships, like in baseball, there are foreign teams, mainly Japan. |
Why isn't the Supreme Court chief justice chosen from existing Supreme Court justices? | When the Chief Justice of the United States dies or resigns, the President may select any person to replace him. If the President picks someone on the Court, he's choosing the best option out of only eight people, perhaps none of which he really agrees with. If he picks a judge outside the Court, he's got hundreds of o... |
Could we find pi as a rational number if we had a different number system? | No. The properties of pi aren't dependant upon using decimals or base 10. Some comments are saying if you used base pi then pi would be rational. This is not the case. You could google for 'proof that pi is irrational' and see that the proofs don't rely on the base you're using. The proofs are a bit complicated for ELI... |
How were governments able to get away with testing nuclear weapons before Hiroshima and Nagasaki? | > Wouldn't the fallout have been a huge screaming issue? What happened to all that radiation? Wouldn't people have noticed the bombs going off? No. Nothing, it was in the middle of a desert testing range. No. Even since Hiroshima and Nagasaki there have been literally hundreds of nuclear weapons tests above ground . Th... |
How do mountain climbers keep themselves clean on large expeditions (ie: Mount Everest) | Climbing say Everest, is a mammoth task. If you ever find yourself at base camp, you'll be more concerned with altitude and the effect it is having, possible life threatening situations, pulmonary embolism for example is common. Personal hygeine is just not a priority.Baby wipes, poop tube, and different priorities, ma... |
Why do we still use landfills? Aren't there better options than throwing it in a big pile and burying it? | Even a waste-to-energy plant has slug or ash as byproduct that has to be taken to a landfill. In communities like the one I was a common councilman for, we have a trash bin, a recycling bin and a separate pickup for yard waste and furniture etc. Our system is a public garbage pickup system. The trash is taken to a city... |
The United States involves itself in many worldly conflicts like Ukraine, but why doesn't it intervene in the bad conditions in Africa? | Were there jsoc has operated in over 30 countries in counterterrorism operations.just because you dont see or hear it doesn't mean it isn't happening.some countries are just not ready yet,if we take one party out,another steps in and just starts all over,it would be like taking out the nazis and then jews start committ... |
Why is it quieter when it snows? | Think of sound energy as a tennis ball. If you drop it on a hard flooring it almost bounces back with same energy. Now if you drop the same ball on a sand pit , it hardly bounces. This happens because in a hard flooring the particles are tightly packed. They don't move . So all the energy that the ball carries transfer... |
How a human can physically eat 62 hotdogs in 10 minutes | From what I've read, they eat separately the bread, which is soft, and the sausage, which is harder, because the chewing would be different.In addition, some pour water on the bread so that they don't need to drink water during the time, which can get more time to eat more hotdogs and so on Plus I think some experience... |
Why does the United States tolerate human rights violations and terrorism links in Saudi Arabia but not in Syria? | There's always an element of hypocrisy in politics. Sadly it is fairly inevitable. We need Saudi's oil, so we don't officially notice their poor human rights record. I am pretty sure that it is brought up from time to time. |
This quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson: "If you fall into a black hole, you'll see the entire future of the universe unfold in front of you in a matter of moments." | He also said we'd died the most horrifying death.There are more grains of sand on the sun than universes in the solar system.It isn't true: _URL_0_does a good job of explaining the misconception here. An external observer never sees you fall through the event horizon but it happens in a finite proper time for you.So th... |
Why can't a website tell wether if its the password or username that is incorrect when I enter it wrong? | A lot of people think it's for security but actually it's not. Sometimes it just can't tell and other times it's for performance reasons. Imagine a database with a couple million user names in it. The user names User and User1 are probably both taken. If you try to log in as User with the password PASSWORD and that's n... |
Beginner Music Theory - Chords | Thanks for the help everyone. Actually has aided my understanding a lot more. Yes, I get hung up on the theory sometimes, but I truly believe that it's always beneficial to learn why you're doing something before you do it. But don't worry, I'm going to spend the next few days learning as many chords as I can and switc... |
What will happen when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? | Neither of those can exist. If the could, they would both be basically the same concept When they meet, since they can't affect each other, they will simply pass through each other. |
Why does Reddit hate Michael Moore? | He often fails to address intelligent criticisms by the opposition, and fall back on stories and emotional appeals. In a gun debate on TV, he dismissed the idea of a home invader by asking what color the 'imaginary invaders' skin was. He did not address the very tangible threat of home invaders, the difference between ... |
If calories in/calories out [CICO] is true, how can cows can extra plump from hormones? | > Couldn't this also happen in humans? Did this article specifically said that the cows eat the same amount of calories before and during the administration of the drug? If we don't know that, this whole conversation has no meaning. |
Why are there so many mass college/school shootings in the US? | Because in the US, gun ownership is legal there, so its easy to go get a gun and do a mass shooting. They go for schools because children don't carry guns and can't defend themselves, also if they are fucked up enough to even cause a shooting, then it is not too far fetched that they would want to kill children . |
Why don't we just use Faraday Cages for deep space travel? To save explorers from radiation? | A Faraday cage doesn't offer any protection from gamma radiation the most damaging and prevalent radiation in deep space. If the cage was made of gold and a solid sphere then it would offer some protection but would too costly and weighty for space travel. |
Why is it that smiling, in human body language, is a sign of happiness and acceptance, while in chimpanzee body language, it is a sign of fear and anxiety? | If I'm not mistaken it actually isn't. It depends on the culture you grew up in. In some countries such as America, Australia, or Brazil it's a happy/good thing. I remember reading that this was not the case in countries such as Russia or Pakistan. Apparently in those countries it's a sign that someone is a con artist ... |
What does it mean in layman's terms for the birth control Nexplanon to be 99.9% effective? | If means that 0.1% of the people on Nexplanon became pregnant. It's not necessarily a 1 in 1,000 chance it will fail; there could be physiological factors, or interactions with other medications, that reduce the effectiveness for some people. |
Why can we use WINRAR for free even though it constantly requests us to purchase a license? | Simple they hope we will but don't bother to secure their product. They have huge brand awareness at no cost. This link should explain it in greater detail. _URL_0_ |
Why buying lottery tickets is considered dumb, when someone HAS to win. | No one has to win in many lotteries. Similarly, even if someone were obligated to win, it's *still* very, very, VERY unlikely to be you, so the chances that you won't just lose money are very small.It really depends on why you're buying lottery tickets in the first place. If you're buying a ticket every now and then fo... |
Why is outsourcing a good thing? | As someone who works for a union, I can make a strong case for why it's bad for working people. To summarize: 1. Often companies outsource labor that they have little experience in managing well. For example, If a nursing home is run by an administration filled with ex-nurses who have no idea how to tell a cook or a ho... |
Why is is when I'm put on hold with customer support, the music sounds like it's being played through a damaged speaker? | Phone systems can't play high quality audio. On a CD, your music is probably sampled at 44kHz, 16-bit, stereo. In order to load that into a phone switch, you have to first convert it to 8kHz, 16-bit , mono. |
How different animals perceive time? | Without being able to get too deep into it - animals do have a built-in clock. I don't know if it's universal but many animals will adopt an approximately 24 hour wake/sleep cycle even in the absence of light. The circadian rhythm is driven by the brain. You can extend or shorten it to a degree by artificially controll... |
Why do law enforcement officials (on TV at least) wear bulletproof vests but no head protection? | I've never thought about this before but now it strikes me as funny that until very very recently, the only protective gear you would see a British policeman wear would be a helmet. I suppose that's because they would be more likely to get coshed or something though or hit in the head in the course of an arrest because... |
Why Open Source Software is so unique phenomenon? | I think what's unique about OSS is that it's given away for free full well knowing other people might use it to make money. That's where I find the biggest difference between it and anything else. When someone helps you out with your house - you may reap the benefits of that help when you sell, or you may benefit perso... |
What causes major ISP's (Brighthouse, comcast, etc) have frequent service outages? | The ISPs in America are super greedy. Their profit margins are huge , and they take most of those profits and give them to shareholders, CEOS, etc, rather than reinvesting in their companies equipment, infrastructure, etc. Since they don't reinvest, which is what any company concerned about competition does, their syst... |
Why is it easy for me to make eye contact with most people, but difficult with people I don't like or don't respect? | Eye contact is intimidating. It is easy to make eye contact with people you know really well and are bonded with, but holding eye contact with a complete stranger is difficult. This isn't unique to humans. It is not a good idea to try and hold eye contact with a dog you don't know. If you try to hold eye contact with a... |
Why has no law been created to enforce News/media outlets to fact-check their news before release? | Most importantly the first amendment protects free speach and freedom of the press. Any law passed along these lines would likely be rejected by the supreme court for violating the first amendment. Laws restrict freedoms. A law like this would restrict peoples and business' rights. The other major problem is that there... |
Why are people who handle pizza allowed to use their bare hands? | > every other place where food is handled, the employees are wearing gloves. That's not true everywhere. [In Illinois,] only ready-to-eat food can't be handled with bare hands, like ice cream cones, sandwiches, and pastries. Anything that will be cooked can be prepared with CLEAN bare hands. In my experience, most cook... |
Why are Human brain transplants nearly impossibe? | There's a lot of reasons. One, brains are really, really fragile. You can pull out a heart, shove it on ice, and heat it up and sew it in comfortably, because the heart is a tough peice of muscle. Brain tissue is extremely sensitive to lack of oxygen, and also has a lot of constantly running processes that shouldn't be... |
How does a sniper rifle shoot where the scope points even if its mounted above the rifle. | Most gun scopes are angled so that there's a slight intersect. But in the case of sniper rifles, you actually almost NEVER have the target in your scope when you make the actual shot. Because at the kind of ranges where snipers are used, by the time the bullet gets there it's veered off course due to wind, rotation, al... |
I got stabbed by a pencil in first grade. That piece of "lead" is still in my palm. Why? | I had a thorn stuck in the palm of my hand for like 10 years. Got stuck in there playing manhunt when I was younger. Skin healed over before I was able to get it out. I was in the bath one night and I noticed that spot had sort of popped up a little bit, so I bent my fingers back and the thing shot right out. Moral of ... |
Why do I shake my leg when I'm anxious, and why does it feel so good? | Leg shaking, or constant moving, has been associated with ADHD/ADD. Also meaning that the constant moving is a way to slow down brain activity when your mind is 'racing.' It's like a distraction. To people with ADHD/ADD it's soothing and I can't really do it intentionally, it just happens. |
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