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How pirating is not stealing | If I steal something from you, I now have it and you don't. That is, I deprive you of the ability to use or enjoy the thing I have stolen. Obviously piracy doesn't do that, you can still use or enjoy the item I pirate. What I *have* stolen though is your ability to sell that to me and, if I distribute my pirated copy, I also take away your ability to sell that to someone else. That bit is stealing. However, this is a grey area because while you may have the *ability* to sell to the entire population, in practice you will not be able to do so. One of the main reasons has to do with your target audience. Basically, not everyone will want to buy your product. Now, if someone pirates a product but was part of the target audience who would not ever have wanted to buy your product, how is anyone harmed? In that instance, many people view it as not stealing and the resulting word of mouth on the product may even be positive. Like I said, it's a grey area and depends immensely on how much value you place on the ability to sell a product.The same reason manslaughter is not murder: The terms "pirating |
Why does the body allow us to sleep in positions that cause us pain in the morning? Such as waking up with sore necks, arms, etc.? | Something that I do not think has been mentioned and is based on science and not conjecture or anecdote is the fact that the brain releases the equivalent of a paralytic when humans sleep, particularly during REM sleep. It was initially thought to be caused by the neurotransmitter glycine, but is now thought to be two types of GABA . Basically, they effect the muscles, preventing movement during sleep. This is probably a large part of the answer you are seeking. Sources: I'm a neuroscience student |
If cartels are illegal, how come OPEC can still function and decide about the prices and quantities of oil produced? | OPEC isn't governed by US business regulations for the simple fact they are not American. As a group of state actors, OPEC pretty much behaves in its own best interests. |
Why do 'Entry-Level' jobs all require 3-5 years of experience now? | It's because while college is hugely beneficial, it's easy for experienced workers to look at new hires and realize how useless they generally are. I'm talking about general office stuff that isn't taught in college that these guys have no idea how to do like use a fax machine, make copies, formulate a presentation for a meeting, etc. It's expensive to train these guys since a lot of people end up being fairly useless in the work place so they prefer someone who's been in an office and knows how to do all of these random tasks that have absolutely nothing to do with what their major is.Because "entry level" does not mean what 90% of what people thinks it does. Entry level is the minimum experience or education that a particular company hires for Not a position that requires no experience. For instance entry level for McDonalds is different than entry level for Google, Apple, etc. It's a relative term. So, when a company says they are hiring for entry level positions it means you are the bottom of the totem pole, not that they require little or no experience.Same as everyone that posted regarding the high requirements caused by insane numbers of overqualified applicants. Just a side note, I have found all my jobs through staffing agencies. It might be worth your time to check those out too. I think Chipton Ross and a few others staff for Engineers too. I'd do a Google search for you, but I'm at work and I don't want my employer to think I'm job searching on the clock. Good luck! |
How can mice fall the equivalent of a ten story building to humans and just walk away? | Wind resistance. If you tried this in a vacuum, the mouse would splat quite nicely, because it accelerates at a steady rate according to gravity and Newton's laws. In air, however, the mouse stops accelerating quite soon, because the air resistance builds to a level where the upwards force of the air balances the downwards force of gravity. This is called the terminal velocity, and for humans it's about 120mph, depending on position and altitude and stuff. For a mouse it's very much less because the mouse weighs so much less for its area than a human does. |
Why does it feel pleasant to touch fur? | Back when we were cave dwellers, fur kept us alive by being a good insulator of warmth. Through evolution, we're conditioned to like the feeling of fur because fur = warm and helps us survive the cold. |
If I have 600 MB of storage left on my phone, why do I get a warning for "insufficient storage" when downloading a 15MB app? | It's how phone manages partitions. I've run into same problems on old cyanogen roms. There is some apace reserved for apps and it's sometimes like 150-200Mb if you have core apps that go over it you get this message. These space is small because its made of other, faster memory chip to launch apps from and on original roms this space is reserved for system apps. I don't know sadly any fix that would help. TLDR; Blame developers. |
Why are pickup trucks so expensive now? | Good answers so far, just want to add a few more prices:1. More expensive due to sheer size of body, engine, transmission, etc2. Built for higher stresses even for their size 3. Higher profit margin due to simple fact that they're more expensive. 4. Less competition - every automaker has a cheap mid sized sedan and demand is very price sensitive, but there are only a few quality truck series and branding is typically more important than price |
Why does it seem like NASCAR is for red necks but Formula1 is a high class sport? | Because you're preconditioned to believe that only southerners watch NASCAR and that all southerners are rednecks. I found the most recent study I could find and it states that [1 in 3 adults watch NASCAR or 75 million people and broadcasts in 150 countries.] |
When particles and their antiparticle counter parts interact and destroy each other, how come we don't see this destruction more? | We don't see this more because there are VERY LITTLE antiparticles here. And yes, what little antimatter that is produced do get immediately annihilated. That's the basis of a PET scan. |
Why do GIFs(from a reliable host) take longer to load than Videos? | This is frame three", which, makes it huge in size. For more info, check this out:-_URL_2_ |
Why can you sometimes taste a smell? | Your senses of taste and smell are interconnected. Neither would work properly if you didn't have the other one. If not for the sense of smell, an apple and a pear would taste exactly the same. |
What limits spaceship's speed in space, i.e. why can't we travel (much) faster to Mars? | Light manages to travel the speed of light because it has no mass. Anything with mass cannot travel that speed, as it's mass increases as it approaches such speeds, reaching infinite mass to go the speed of light, and requiring infinite energy to push that mass. Yes, we can travel much faster to Mars than we do, however gaining speed in space requires fuel, and most fuel is used to simply escape Earth's gravity. Any more fuel you bring up increases your weight, requiring even more fuel. The more fuel you need to take means the less food, cargo, etc you can take. They need that stuff so it's worth it to take it instead of more fuel, and just suck it up that you have to fly for a year to Mars. |
Where does the money to pay off a loan come from? | The $20 goes into paying those that work at the bank, who then end up loaning from the bank for what ever reason. Additionally the ability for banks to loan in the first place is what allows businesses to expand quicker and individuals to buy a house or other such things before they would otherwise have the liquid to buy them. Additionally the bank is taking on some risk so part of that $20 has to be considered in that too. By the end of all the slices of the $20 being taken, yes the bank is making a profit but its not as large as it may seem.The bank makes new loans, pays salaries, buys pens on chains and brochures, pays dividends to shareholders, so that $20 goes right back into circulation |
why are bathroom doors pull to leave? | LPT: after you dried your hands with a paper towel, don't throw it away instantly, use it to open the door and then throw it away", 'Not really relevant to the question, but relevant to the door handle issue: If the door handle is metal then it will actually be fairly clean despite people not washing their hands. This is because bacteria need to feed on something to survive, but there is nothing to eat and they die relatively quickly.Hrm. My office's bathroom door is push to leave. |
Why do people in movies take off their bulletproof vests after only being shot once or twice? | Because the vest can indent where the bullet impacted, making it difficult to breath or cause increased pain . Also, depending on the vest, if it's got plates in it, chances are, the plates are broken and the vest is no longer useful anyways - meaning it's just dead weight.Movie do it for effect. To show "Wow, he would have been dead if it wasn't for that vest" IRL once shot, they loose their effectiveness. |
Why are banks, which service mostly people with jobs, only open when the people that need to use them are at work? | This question comes up pretty regularly. Basically, the vast majority of the bank's business comes from businesses that operate during business hours. The amount of money banks make from large corporate and business accounts makes the tiny amount it makes from personal accounts seem almost paltry. That being said, there are some banks that are open late, or are open on Saturdays and/or Sundays. But more often than not, they are keeping them open at a loss on those days for customer service rather than profit. |
Why the moon follows me? | Comedy break: Red meat has a series of comics based on this gag. Here's one: _URL_0_ |
Could you detonate a grenade by shooting at it? If yes, would the type of gun and bullet matter? | Mythbusters did a segment on this if I remember correctly it all mattered if the round penetrates the detonator inside the grenade if it didn't penetrate the grenade went off if it did then the grenade didn't explode but even with a shotgun that did penetrate it deflected the grenade away from its target |
Seeing as penises are viewed as the bigger the better, why do muscular sculptors of gods have ridiculously small wangers? | Maybe they were portrayed as being growers? I have what I figure is a very middle of the road dick when erect, but man when I'm not, you'd be hard-pressed to even find it. Borders on being a large clitoris when I'm not ready to roll. |
How do deaf-from-birth people understand language when they regain their hearing? | There's hearing, and there's understanding. Easy way of explaining it: She heard the sounds of the woman talking, but that's not where the understanding of the words was coming from; it was coming from seeing the woman's mouth move. The understanding of the words by the sounds themselves will come later, if at all. |
Why does holding hands feel weird when you and your partner's fingers are in the "wrong" order? | The same reason a cold room *feels* cold, or a new shirt *feels* different, or that beef stew you bought from the farmer down the road tastes *off* compared to your mother's stew. Namely, you're not used to it.Our bodies are very connected to our psychology. If you study body language you learn that there is a direct correlation that is often subconscious between how we feel and how we position our bodies. If we are forced out of a comfortable body position it literally effects our mood and perception. So holding hands is a signifier of a lot of things: comfort, dominance, intimacy, and a host of other things. When your hands are held "wrong", you're throwing those things out of whack in your relationship.I'm shorter than my boyfriend, so my hand goes in the back, otherwise it doesn't work. There's not really room for having a preference. Or am I not understanding the question correctly? |
Does being under anesthesia "count" as sleep to your body? | I've had anesthesia several times for various procedures . I often wonder if dying is similar to anesthesia. In almost all my anesthesia experiences, it's like someone is closing the lights around you, you get tunnel hearing/vision and you can't stop it from happening. Everything starts to go dark and then bang - No thought, no nothing.While anaesthesia is not sleep it does share a number of similar characteristics with it and patients that have been sleep deprived before surgery report that they feel far more rested after surgery which does to some extent imply that being anaesthetised is similar to being in a sleep state.How anesthesia works isn't completely understood. Observations indicate that while anesthetized the hemispheres of your brain don't communicate with eachother. All of the individual parts of your brain are still on and working, they just aren't communicating with eachother. This interrupts consciousness and the transmission of signals like pain. |
If a nation were to create a space combat cabable force, would it initially be controlled by the Air Force or the Navy? | I think it depends on the size of the spaceships. If they are quite large and accommodate a large number of people then it would most likely be controlled by the navy due to similarities to boat life. If we're talking small crews that only fly to targets and return within a 24 hour period then it's more of an air force gig. basically if you sleep on it then it's navy and if not then it's air force.They 'd probably make a "space corps" and then that Fleet would be long to that rather than the airforce or navy because it doesn't exactly fit with either. Just spitballin\' though ', "That's a quality question, for some reason I feel like it would be navy. |
What causes people to cringe when watching bad acting? And, what makes this reaction different across time and cultures? | The Finnish word for this is myötähäpeä, which might translate as with-shame or along-shame. I always found it funny English didn't have a word for it. I however find bad acting not a very good source of the feeling. If you really want the cringe, go into open mic stand-up nights for beginners until you see someone freeze or otherwise tank their performance badly. The worst I had was some dude trying to go with very black humour, like baby-raping stuff, failed and just ended up coming off as a creepster himself. I was twisting and squirming in my seat. |
Why is it that if you kill a police dog it is considered the same as murdering an officer, but if you kill someone's dog, you simply killed an animal? | Obviously, because it costs the town or city money to train police dogs. Your dog doesn't cost them anything at all. |
Why we needed a consitutional amendment (the 18th) to ban alcohol rather than just a Federal law | The 18th Amendment didn't ban alcohol. Possession and consumption were both legal: > Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article **the manufacture, sale, or transportation** of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. |
Why is Chicago so violent compared to other major U.S. cities? | Obviously there is no one clear, inarguable answer. Some of the theories include: - Redlining: which caused Chicago to be very segregated - Police distrust: residents of dangerous neighborhoods won't cooperate with police because a history of police misconduct that included routine use of torture - Guns: there is a pipeline of guns from Indiana which has lax gun laws.Chicago is not more violent, it just has a lot more people. Per capita, there is more violence in St Louis and Baltimore and New Orleans. |
why is it considered dangerous to use your cell phone near an operating gas pump? | I'm told it is because of static electricity, though I am not an expert and it may not even be true. Signs at gas stations also warn against leaving the car running g while pumping gas, something that is not dangerous at all. Your gas tank always has fuel in it while the engine is running. How is it dangerous to add more fuel while the engine is running?", 'Snopes has [this] to say on the topic. The only risk I can see is that the phone battery might fail but the odds of it failing in such a way that it could cause a fire are pretty small. |
Of all animal species, why do only humans need cooked food (and clothes) to survive? | Another aspect of the clothing question is the location of our evolution. We evolved from Africa where we still often see tribes wearing very little clothing. In order to survive in environments we haven't evolved for we need clothing. |
Why does it seem more offensive to mimic a chinese accent rather than a british accent? | Don't forget, mocking can go both ways. The Chinese probably laugh themselves stupid at English. The Brits can and do laugh at some aspects of US accents. It's the context that makes things racist. |
Do those cell phone battery apps really do anything? How do they work? | You are right, they don't. Your phone is better at managing battery more than anything, modern ones are capable of shutting down processors and just run low energy ones that maintain cellular connection and other related things. When you want to play a game or browse on an app it fires up a big one only for the time you are using it. A battery app wouldn't have access to any of those features, and the only thing they used to be good for was tracking what used your battery. IPhone at least has that feature not, not sure about android but that it has the same features.I use a Windows Phone and the "battery saver" mode on it works very well - because it has low level access to the OS to shut down processes that aren't always necessary. I would be very wary of giving any 3rd-party app that level of system control, just out of general security principles. Leave that kind of control to the OS itself. |
Why do our brains go into autopilot mode? | Attention is a faculty of volition. Brain does not do anything it's you that is willfully abandoning attention. |
The reason why restaurants serve celery with buffalo wings. | It's a vehicle to eat blue cheese or ranch which helps take the burn out of your mouth. Same for carrots ", 'Buffalonian here. Worked in a pizzeria as a kid. We put celery in the boxes with wings to-go because they help absorb the steam from the hot wings from the fryer. This helps prevent the delivery orders from getting all soggySemi relevant: Not a fan of celery, but love the carrots- so for years I would eat the carrots and discard the celery. A while ago, it finally dawned on me to simply ask to swap celery for just carrots. Now, I get to enjoy double the carrots and not waste celery that others enjoy Could even be LPT ;)', "Because it's the traditional accompaniment, just like the blue cheese dressing. They both provide a complementary counterpoint to the salty and spicey chicken wings.My heart sank when I read this I had a friend that asked this one night out. And he said "I think it's for the color", like thinking it was just garnish, for whatever reason we found it all funny, because he didn't realize it was a palate cleanser. We put it on a shirt that we made in memory. Passed away a few years ago now miss that kid.It's called the basket. You eat the celery and carrots first and the fibers mesh together in you stomach. This holds the spicy hot wings in until you can safely make it to a bathroom and shit comfortably without hesitation. |
Why can't pc players play online with console players? | iv only played FFXIV , it's on PC , PS3 and PS4, all 3 play together on the same servers. the reason it's not on Xbox is MS have a policy against it. just remembered SF5 is also gonna be PS4xPC again no xbox , but thats coz sony helped budget the game. back to FFXIV, PS3 has been a limiting factor for the devs with some things being tuned down just for it. so i guess balancing is also a massive issue with cross play. |
What's all the ruckus in Istanbul about? | I could be wrong but I believe people were protesting a new development that is to be built where and existing park is. More people joined the protesters and the Turkish government got police in to reign everything in. They started to become violent , and CCTV cameras were shut down to allow police to be as brutal as necessary. Can anyone confirm if I'm right or wrong?", 'Not so much a "ruckus" as a social uprising, isn't it? |
How is Germany still an economic powerhouse while still paying the debt of the World Wars? | Germany has always been an industrial powerhouse in Europe. Good resources, good terrain, large population, and an industrial tradition made it easier for them to recover after WWI, Allied help made the WWII recovery easier. France, Italy, and Spain just aren't industrial enough to become economic powerhouses. Germany is the largest economy in Europe by a fair amount, supporting the EU isn't going to pull them below France who is also supporting the EU |
Why is it popular to dream about your teeth falling out? | Mine crumble and break off, rather than fall out, in my dreams. I only have these dreams when I'm incredibly stressed/anxious and feeling guilt or worrying about decisions/situations. I'm glad to see others have these types of dreams as well *phew |
Why does facebook need two apps, one for messenger and one for general use? | And one to track pages. One as their own photo messenger. One for selfies. One for one type of video. One for another. One for work chat. One for work. One for the list of all 17 Facebook, inc. apps in just the iOS app store, 16 not counting F8 which makes some sense. Back to 19 adding Instagram's 3 apps. They have a problem.Also it allows you to deactivate your Facebook profile whilst maintaining access to Facebook messenger and all of the contacts that go with itApps on the Google Play store are only allowed to be so big . By having two apps, Facebook can use twice the space. |
How did ancient peoples make it to Hawaii and other geographically disparate islands centuries before reasonably modernized shipbuilding? | They used outrigger canoes like [Hōkūle`a] and the ancient discipline of wayfinding. There's been some recent resurgence in studying this discipline. |
Why do we see "shadow people" in sleep paralysis? | I've never seen anything, when my S.P occurred. I woke up and it felt like someone was holding me down. Then something jumped on my bed, and started walking toward my upper body. At first I thought it was my dog, but after looking around I could see him. Then this crazy tingling sensation went from head to toe. Almost like I could feel every nerve firing off. And that's when I started flipping out. Tried to move couldnt, screaming didn't work. Then it stopped. I see the dog chilling on the couch, giving me this Wtf look. S.P is some crazy shit. Oh and mine occurred during the day .**I am not a doctor, or scientist, or sleep researcher** Our brains are especially trained to pick out faces and people. We are extremely good at it, and are doing it constantly. I 've heard it theorized that with sleep paralysis our brains are interpreting our dreams, and our fear , and adding a figure to that. Once you "wake up" and all the circuits are reintegrated, you are able to see that there is nothing thereI have experienced sleep paralysis a few times. When I am sleeping in the dark, I have the typical scary creature hallucinations, however when it has been daylight, or just being being in a brightly lit room, there are no hallucinations. Anyone else have this experience?What about the shadow people that create noises? One woke me up as a kid by banging on my window. And he had glowing eyes |
How is it possible to show racism / sexism / ageism when you were never actually hired? | It's very hard on an individual basis, you often need the hirer to have made some sort of comment that evinces bias. On a macro level though, it's very possible to collect evidence of bias in hiring. Civil rights groups, academics, and government enforcement agencies will often conduct tests in which they send actors with comparable qualifications to apply for the same job. If they do this over and over and actors from one race/sex/age group continuously get preferential treatment you have some pretty solid evidence of discrimination.As someone that works in HR, unless there is a latent comment about a "protected class" from the interviewer, it's impossible to prove that as the reason you weren't hired. It usually becomes more pronounced when firing/laying off someone. |
Are predators that stalk their prey aware of whether or not they have been seen, and would this constitute a theory of minds? | I've read somewhere that some deer lift their tail up when they know where the predator is that's stalking them. The white bum is a quick signal to the predator to not try it and waste any energy chasing the deer. Probably another reason for the white bum too. |
Do animals associate the names they are given as an identity? Or do they simply recognize the word as something used to grab their attention? | Is there a certain number of syllables before a dog is not able to discern its full name? I've heard it is two.Explain me like im five, what is the difference between a name as an identity, and a word used to grab attention? |
Does all the money in the world really exist physically? If you added up all the bank accounts, would there be physical money to equal that? | Not by a long shot. Most of it is the idea of value. For example, I live in a house. let's say it's worth a hundred thousand dollars. I didn't give anyone a hundred thousand dollars in cash to get it, I just gave them a few thousand and then I pay them every month . That money doesn't exist. More importantly, that money doesn't *need* to exist. The paper is worth nothing. The only reason it had value is because it represents something I did or had. I gave you a car and you gave me paper representing what you think the car is worth. I worked many hours and my boss gave me paper that represented the value I put into the economy .If there was a crisis and lots of people went to the bank to withdraw their money it would not work. Right? |
Why is Israel pissed off with the Iran Nuke deal? | First of all, Israel doesn't believe Iran will adhere to their end of the deal. Specifically, Israel thinks that Iran will still make nuclear weapons. Secondly, Israel and Iran are still enemies, and nuclear power is a huge empowerment for Iran, since it is very viable and relatively cheap for them. |
Why dogs can drink from rivers and we have to boil the water first. | Dogs drink from rivers relatively often compared to us, so they don't have an immune response to the usually harmless microrganisms in the river. Although in all honestly, as long as you live somewhere where rivers are relatively clean, you should be able to drink from them without any adverse effects if you really wanted to. It's just you don't know what's happened to that river upstream. |
What is the deal with Sriracha sauce? Is it any good? Is the ban for a real reason or is California just being a dick? | California didn't ban the sauce. The company that *makes* the sauce has not been filtering the process properly, so the neighbors get to live with pepper fumes all the time, which sucks. California has been going after the company to correct the pepper release problem the the neighborhood doesn't have to live in pepper spray.Sambal Oelek is way betterer. More chili, less sugar. Neutral taste makes it more versatile.It's hot sauce some people like. Yes. Probably. I made homemade hot sauce from Tabasco peppers I grew over the summer and basically pepper gassed my kitchen in the process.Mayonnaise, sriracha, garlic, salt, lemon juice. Spicy garlic sriracha aioli. Burger. Yum.It's basically ketchup made from chili rather than tomato. And it is to cheap not-overly-flavorful Asian food exactly what ketchup is to French fries—it gives it a nice little boost.Is it just me, or did a whole bunch of white people learn what Sriracha was within the last year?Concerning the ban, residents near the Huy Fong factory were tired of the odor. _URL_0_', "It's good, but it is also way over-hyped. I think it is great in just about every Asian food that I've had - especially Thai. It is also really good in most Middle Eastern/Greek/Moroccan food. It is pretty good on a burger and not bad on eggs. I don't care for it at all though in Mexican food. I just don't find the balance right. That being said, in most of the places where I do like sriracha sauce, I'd rather have their chili garlic paste instead. |
How are dinosaurs made? | As in how it's they're supposedly made in the movies? Just tell the child that there's a thing called DNA, and explain to them that DNA is a set of instructions like in a cookbook for making any living thing. When things die, these instructions are sometimes but not always preserved in fossils. Now normally, every living thing only has instructions to make others of the same kind , but sometimes this can be cheated by science. Then tell them that the scientists in the movies were able to use the DNA from the fossils and put the DNA into a living thing like a chicken and allow the chicken to hatch a dinosaur instead of a chicken.Dinosaurs are not made. Jurassic Park is a film and what they done is not possible. I am struggling to believe that you are actually serious in asking this question. Most if not all of them would have hatched from eggs when the dinosaurs were here millions of years ago.A hundred million years ago, there were mosquitoes, just \tlike today. And, just like today, they fed on the blood \t\tof animals. Even dinosaurs!\tSometimes, after biting a dinosaur, the mosquito would \tland on a branch of a tree, and get stuck in the sap! After a long time, the tree sap would get hard and \tbecome fossilized, just like a dinosaur bone, preserving \t\tthe mosquito inside! This fossilized tree sap -- which we call amber \xad waited millions of years, with the mosquito inside \xad\tuntil Jurassic Park's scientists came along! Using sophisticated techniques, they extract the \t\tpreserved blood from the mosquito, \t\tand - - Bingo! Dino DNA! |
Why do cars fall nose first when dropped? I thought weight didn't matter with respect to gravity. See this video from tonight's Mythbusters (link in comments) | Weight doesn't matter with respect to gravity when there are no other factors. There are always other factors, wind, air pressure, etc. |
The relationship between heat and time. | The Second Law of Thermodynamics says that entropy increases with time. If you see entropy increasing, that means you're going forward in time. The reason this is an issue is basic physical interactions are invariant under time reversal . Nothing in the basic laws of physics would be violated by the pendulum gradually absorbing energy from Brownian Motion collisions and gradually rising higher and higher with time, except that the probability of this actually happening is vanishingly small, as reflected in the entropy decrease. |
Why is scalping illegal in many places while many websites do the same thing, legally, on a much larger scale? | Less than honest scalpers can also create problems for the venue by selling fake tickets, or selling duplicates of the same ticket which then results in pissed off customers. Although this is still possible through things like stubhub, I'd imagine it is at least reduced compared to just buying tickets off someone in front of the venue for cash. |
If you go small enough, even a line drawn on a paper has depth. Does true 2d actually exist on our world? | The only thing i can think of being 2D is a shadow It doesn't have a depth since it's not made of matter and it can be considered as just a surface. Am i right? |
why electric cars are STILL considered inefficient by our market economy? | They tend to cost more, most people don't know how to fix them, and they need to charge often.Tesla is a good example. The comparable Tesla I can buy costs over $80,000. A Mini Cooper costs about $23,000. If I drive 15,000 miles per year and get 30 MPG from the Mini , I would be buying 500 gallons of gasoline per year. Let's say $2000 per year in Gasoline. It would take me about 24 years before having a Tesla was less expensive using fuel as the only factor in the cost difference. edit: Cheapest tesla is $63,000 after federal tax credit. a more realistic longer range 85 Kwh tesla is $80,000. Changed "cheapest to comparable"Just about every top-level post ITT is wrong. Electric cars are primarily constrained on the production side. Tesla is [selling cars faster than they can make them], which is why they're planning a battery "gigafactory" to ramp up production. |
Why has the price of higher education skyrocketed in the US, and who is profiting from it? | I'm a professor for a state university. Here's what I've been able to observe: * The cost of supporting materials keeps rising. If universities were just desks and classrooms, costs would be low. But universities try to make their classroom experience have top notch research equipment. Those things aren't cheap, and they seem to be getting more expensive every year. * Increasing costs of comparable salaries. STEM instructors often leave for industry, so they need to be paid more. * Budget cuts due to the recession. States are footing less of the bill, so you have to foot more. * The quality of buildings have gone up, dramatically. That isn't free. Most universities tear down anything old and replace it with ridiculously bigger and nicer ones. * Cost of health care and other benefits. Every time the state gives universities more money for teacher salary, it goes straight towards our health care, and we rarely see a raise in salary. * A lack of trying to do things cheaply. My wife worked as a librarian at our university. The stories she told of wasted supplies and wasted salary drove me insane. Recently our department was donated money and we wanted to use it for remodeling several rooms. We had ambitious plans, but the costs made us scale back, significantly. For example, painting costs were obscene. So we offered to spend a few days in the summer in old clothes painting the rooms ourselves. We were told that is prohibited. We had to hire painters from a small list, and all of them charged ridiculous rates. None of us would have guessed that a six digit donation would have done so little. We were embarrassed showing off the results to the family that donated us the money. |
Using a Primary Key as a Foreign Key | Name" as other attributes. - A table "Car" can have "SerialNumber" as the primary key. Attibutes like "NumberOfSeats |
Is everything covered in germs? | Not everything is covered in germs, but nearly everything is. But that is irrelevant. We don't get sick regularly, as most germs are harmless, and although a lot of stuff is covered in the harmful ones, our bodies have a lot of mechanisms that defend them from harmful germs, ranging from mechanical barriers such as the skin or mucous membranes, through chemical weapons, even getting sick is a defensive mechanism that prevents the microbes from killing you most of the time at the cost of also causing damage to the body. Yes, there are germs that can bypass or survive all that, and they can kill you, but you are extremely unlikely to encounter them. Most of the time, serious illnesses require the immune system to be already compromised, e.g. because of a wound. Also, getting sick regularly is often caused by the immune system overreacting to a stimulus. The five second rule is BS in my opinion, but I'm not sure. I'm not a doctor, so this may be factually wrong. |
Why is it (or was it) so hard to navigate at sea? | ELI10: how to tell your position at sea. You need: 1. An instrument for measuring the angle between the sun and the horizon: a [sextant].2. A clock that shows the accurate time at 0 degrees longitude.3. The correct date of the year. You know this this by keeping a ship's log or diary every day of your journey.4. A book with some precomputed tables that you need for the calculations. This is called an *almanac*. Once you have these, you do this: 1. Keep track of the height of the sun through the morning.2. When it reaches its highest point , record the angle between the sun and the horizon, and the time on your clock.3. Look up the current date in the almanac.4. The almanac entry for that date will have the correct table to convert the sun-horizon angle into your latitude . 5. The almanac entry for that date will also have a number called the *equation of time*, which is a positive or negative correction of the time for that day, based on the season. Add or subtract that number of minutes to the time you measured on your clock.6. Now, with the corrected time, one degree of longitude = 4 minutes of time. So if the corrected time is 2:32 PM, that means you're 152 minutes behind the time at 0 degrees. 152 ÷ 4 = 38, so your longitude is 38 degrees east. This has two parts: the latitude and the longitude calculations. The latitude part was figured out very long ago, though not necessarily with the Sun . However, as other people have mentioned, there were no clocks good enough to do the longitude part until the late 1700s.Because the sun is almost never perfectly in the west. _URL_2_ |
how does a credit card work? | Smaller payments. I think he or she doesn't like the thought of taking a large chunk of money out. One thing you can do op is create a budget and put money in savings from that budget for big purchases that you know you're going to make in the future. Then, when the time comes to spend that money you will of Already had it saved up and it won't feel like a big spend because you've been budgeting my money. So for example with your yoga classes you know that is going to be a recurring expense if you plan to continue taking the class. So if I don't like spending $260 all at once I can save 25 or $30 each paycheck budget that and then when the time comes to spend another 260 I will have already had it saved up. I do this with all major expenses and planned large future expenses. Scuba diving is one of my passions and I want to further training in that. Since I don't live near an ocean I know it will be a major expense to both take the classes and courses and to travel to complete the portions of classes that require me to be diving. I estimate each class will be around $1000-$1500. But instead of just spending that all at once or putting it on a card I am saving up over time and paying for them as I go with cash flow. That way I can take one course and start saving to cash flow the next course. As far as day-to-day expenses I do use a credit card but I live in the States where that builds credit and my Credit card gives me cashback on every purchase ranging from 1% to 5%. If it were not for the cashback I would just be using the debit card as I just pay off my credit card at the end of each billing cycle. |
How does the US grading system work? | Every school/professor is different. In my school, the professor can decide their own grading scale. A 97+ is a A or 85+. Or one of my previous professor decided to curve the grades, so in a class of 30, he'll only hand out 1 A, 4 Bs, 10Cs, 10 Ds, and the rest Fs. I got a C with a 85, but one of my friend got an F with 75 which in most class will be a passing grade. |
How does mental fatigue work? | Was about to jump into an explanation of dislocation movement through a lattice until I realised it wasn't about metal fatigue! |
How is a bullet "too close to the lungs to be removed"? | If they tried to remove the bullet, then there would've been a high possibility that they could've caused damage to the lungs. |
Why was the ps2 backwards compatible but no other system has been? | Because Sony thought that was important for marketing the PS2. Because it turns out that it wasn't important enough to be worth the additional cost. |
How graduate school works. | In undergrad, you're taking classes in a variety of areas as well as classes specific to your specialization/major. You will generally have to have some basic understanding of math, science, literature, history, foreign language etc., in order to graduate. The proportion of general education requirements to major-specific requirements varies based on degree and program, but you're required to take at least one or two classes in each discipline. In graduate school, you're taking classes that are only meant to further your knowledge in one field of study, and are not required to learn anything outside of that. Of course, you can still take other classes as electives, but the goal is that those electives are supposed to enhance your understanding of your specialization in some way. You take what you learned in undergrad and push it further without having to deal with general ed requirements. People get into grad school the same way they get into undergrad: they have to send a statement of purpose detailing why they want to go to that school, along with test scores , grades, and recommendations. Depending on your program you may also be required to send in samples of your previous work, like a thesis or portfolio. |
Why do mosquitoes 'attack' certain people more than others? | In addition to all the other factors pointed out by others in this thread, there's also a factor of being bitten but not knowing it. The itchy welt we get is a histamine reaction to the anti-coagulant used by the mosquito: essentially it's an allergic reaction. It just happens that the overwhelming majority of people have this allergic reaction, while a small percentage have no reaction. They get bitten, but never get a welt, and so never actually know they've been bitten. I wish I was one of those. |
Why can you get shots to cure outdoor allergies (e.g. grass, pollen, mold, etc), but not for food allergies? | While it may not be as effective for certain allergies, I believe it was found a couple years ago that peanut allergies can be treated with small doses of peanut. Eaten, not injected, but same basic idea. Of course peanut allergies are relatively common and relatively serious, so a cure seems like a big deal. Why hasn't this progressed quickly or been recommended by your doctor in particular? Well, these allergies are sometimes more severe and dangerous. Without careful medical supervision, somebody could die in an effort to desensitize themselves from this dangerous allergy which is counterproductive. The cynical view on it is, it's gotten less attention and had less backing to get it tested/approved because there's little money to be made on it, being more of a procedure than a specific drug. I'm sure somebody could make a liquid or pill micro-dose of peanut for this therapy but it might be harder to patent. I don't believe in the government trying to cover up or restrict medicine to make money, but it IS true that in other circumstances, pharmaceutical companies would be throwing resources behind a treatment to get it past bureaucratic obstacles and into use. Less so here, perhaps. |
How do filming companies film in busy cities like NYC? Do they shut down roads and reroute traffic. | They shoot a lot of movies here in Toronto. It's cheap to film in and works as a great generic North American city backdrop. Film companies will buy a permit and arrange with the city to close down roads and reroute traffic. They usually shoot on side streets or during off peak hours to avoid disruptions. Sometimes they will shut down main roads though. Those few weeks they were filming Suicide Squad, traffic was an absolute nightmare downtown. |
Zeno's Paradox, The Grandfather Paradox, Searle's Chinese Room, Hilbert's Hotel, Einstein's Twin Paradox and Schrodinger's Cat all explained like you're 5 (YouTube link) | [I saw this a few days ago] when it made it to the front page. Very nice video. Can't go wrong with British narration. |
How Are CNN and Other Major News Networks Biased? | Each news network as an owner and if the owner of a network doesn't want something aired it won't be aired. This can show a bias based on the stories they report/don't report. Some news networks have even lost court cases about reporting false information, like the BBC and world trade center 7. |
Why don't overworked Japanese workers quit their jobs before dying of fatigue (karoshi) or committing suicide (karojisatsu)? | If the Japanese needed to just put in the hours to appear like they're working hard, can't they just dick around at work like go on Reddit, etc? I think spending long hours in the office but not actually doing anything productive or hard is less stressful, no? |
Why are gay people more prone to getting HIV than straight people? | It's not that gay men are more prone to getting HIV, it's just that HIV is more common - in North America - among gay men. This used to be even more true in the 1980s. Part of this might to do with anal sex but the main reason is that patient zero, one of the first man to bring HIV/AIDS to North America was gay. He was a flight attendant and rather promiscuous and as a result he unknowingly spread the disease quite widely. At the time, casual sex played a big role in gay culture and condoms weren't commonly used because there was no risk of pregnancy. These factors caused the disease to spread quickly in the gay community and still have an effect today. If you look at different places, like sub-Saharan Africa, AIDS isn't in associated with gay people at all. There, it's a disease that affects everyone.Anal sex is more risky, as other's have said. Even though statistics show that straight couples are as likely to have anal sex as gay couples, the gay couples tend to have it more often, compared to straight couples where it's usually just "for special occasions". So, the more times you spin the drum on that revolver, the more likely you are getting the loaded chamberAs my mother once explained it to me:Rectal tissue is like Jello. It tears very easily and is hard to stitch up.Anyways, because it tears so quickly and is extremely vascular, HIV is easily transmitted there. Tear the booty, jizz in the booty. HIVI asked this very same question when I started donating blood. I was told that it was because gay men are far more likely to have the disease, and because gay men have more sexual partners than straight men.More risk factors. Butt sex specifically. Rips the skin, causes bleeding. Gay men aren't somehow better at contracting it, but the way they have sex is a greater risk factor. |
How i easily can hold my breath under water for 60 seconds, but can't hold my breath in the shower for more than 10 seconds | Not entirely sure, but could it also be to do with the fact your standing so you're using some more oxygen in your muscles to keep you standing, whereas in water you are not really having to use the oxygen in your muscles as much? |
Why isn't nicotine (or cigarettes) a schedule one drug in the USA? | Tradition. There really isn't any more to it than that; if tobacco, white sugar, or distilled alcohol were discovered today, there would be moral panics in the newspapers and a rush to pass laws against them. Instead, they're the three drugs that fueled European expansion into the western hemisphere. Much of the land rush into the western hemisphere, especially in the Caribbean and northern South America, was about European nations trying to find places where sugar cane would grow, because they were going broke importing it from China; rum distillation based on molasses from the Caribbean was what funded all of New England; tobacco was Europe's first profitable export to Asia, then America's first profitable export to the world. The natives might have had time to recover from the great plagues of the 15th through the 18th centuries if it weren't for the profitability of western hemisphere exports of molasses, tobacco, and rum. |
How do the food industry determine the expiration date on their products? | use by" or expiration date does not relieve a firm from this obligation. A product that is dangerous to consumers would be subject to potential action by FDA to remove it from commerce regardless of any date printed on a label. -[Source: FDA] |
Why do some people get personal offended if a woman says she doesn't want kids? | I think a lot of people feel that one of the responsibilities of a woman is to bear children, and that to not do so is to go against what it means to be a woman. I'm sure many also take the view that by choosing not to have kids, you are 'denying life', or something to that effect. In either case it's ridiculous that anyone should be offended by that. Society seems to be getting better at recognising that women have different ambitions and that not all of them are going to have a maternal instinct, but as with many things it will likely take a while. |
Why can't you measure position and velocity at the same time? | Imagine you're looking for a ping pong ball endlessly bouncing around a dark room. You can feel around for it and find its exact position, but as you feel around for it, you'll hit it and change it's velocity. You could also stay quiet and listen for the sound it makes when hitting a wall to measure it's velocity, but that only gives you a rough idea about position. It's sort of like that; the act of measuring one changes the other.A free particle travels as a wave of probability. The wave of probality is a [wavepacket] structure. To create a wavepacket requires adding different wavelengths together to form a location spike. The wavelength is related to momentum. When the wave packet collapses the particle has a position and momentum based on the wave probability. To make the wave packet more confined requires adding a greater range of wavelengths. The opposite is true too, fewer range of wavelengths means the wavepacket spreads out. |
Why is it illegal to flip cars without a dealer's license, but you can flip houses without a real estate license? | A real estate license allows you to help someone else buy or sell property and, IIRC, gives you access to post on the listing database. You can always buy and sell a piece of property you own. By contrast, a car dealer's license allows you to buy and sell cars for the purpose of making a profit. In my state at least , you are allowed to buy and sell as many cars as you want if the intention is not to make a profit, but you must obtain a dealer's license to buy and sell a single car for profit. So if you are a contractor with a fleet of 100 trucks, you can buy and sell as many as you want without a license because the buying and selling is ancillary to performing work. However, if the same company bought a truck only to resell it for more money, they would need a license. It's worth noting that people like to say things like you can buy and sell x amount per year without a license. While this may be useful information to stay under the radar, the law is clear in my state that any car sale for profit requires a dealer's license. It also worth noting that it is only legal in my state to work on a house you live in without a contractor's license. Even if you own a house, if it's not your home, the law requires a contractor's license to do work. Certain work always requires permits, too. I'm not going to speculate the chance of getting caught, but I suspect many home flippers break these laws. |
Is optic fibre internet really that important? | The big buzz about Google Fiber and FIOS isn't so much about it being based based on fiber-optic connections as it is about them being *fast as fuck*. For the last 30 years or so, the only wires coming into homes have been electric, telephone & cable. Power line networking was never really seen as viable. DSL, over phone lines, sort of hit a wall around 10Mbps worth of bandwidth . This left cable as the only way to get high speed data into the average American home. If you've been following things - net neutrality, FCC rulings, monopolistic mergers, etc - it's pretty obvious that the cable companies are happy to rest on their laurels and just keep selling what they've got. Right now, most people's options top out at around 50Mbps . Fiber is a new 'wire' running into the house. It opens up the possibility of reaching speeds 10x or more of what's being offered on cable *at the same price cable companies are charging*. The catch is that it takes billions of dollars & years of planning and work to lay out cable in a mid-sized city. So, yes, fiber blows the socks off cable but the real excitement is because it's modern technology & represents an era where Internet access is becoming as basic of a service as power, phone & water. It also represents new blood & competition in a market that's been abused by the old, monopolistic companies that have been running it & milking it like a cash cow. |
How far does the 2nd Amendment go? | You can have a tank, but don't think your going to get away with arming it without some serious red tape in the way. I know plenty of people who own tanks here in Florida. Restoring them is a rather popular hobby around here. They just stick air soft guns on them and call it day when it comes to arms though. You can have a jet, but i highly doubt you are going to get away with arming it.People can and do own tanks and jet fighters, but they have had their *ordnance* removed or disabled. |
Why is everyone worried about EA games developing the new Star Wars games? | Because EA has a long track history of doing everything possible to maximize their profit, and of not making decent games. Such practices include: * Excessive Day-1 or Pay-To-Win DLC* Rushing out unfinished games* Excessive DRM schemes* Attaching a brand-name to a game that it has little resemblance to.* Poor customer service* Buying/closing the competition rather than competing on quality* Re-releasing the 'same' game |
What exactly is an economic bubble, and how does it burst? | it might be a little high-level for a five-year-old, but read the very first story in *Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.* The Wikipedia article about that book is here: _URL_2_ and the actual text can be easily found free of charge on the internet because it's public domain. Read about the 19th century tulip bubble in The Netherlands and it will all begin to make sense. |
Why do we enjoy spicy food, when it's supposed to be a deterrant? | I used to hate spicy food, even mild salsa was sometimes too much. Then my uncle told me he used to be the same way, but now gets everything spicy, he just had to train himself. He was usually right about most things and I didn't like limiting the dishes I could order, so I started ordering things with a bit of kick, more and more, and now when I eat Thai food I order it at a 10. Crazy what you can condition yourself to like. |
night vision and shadows? | The nightvision cameras use a light to illuminate the subjects. The trick is that the light shines infrared light, not visible light. The camera, unlike our eyes, can actually see this infrared light. The reason we see a shadow is that the infrared light is not perfectly aligned with the camera's lens . Since the light is, for example, just slightly higher and to the right of the lens, we see shadows in the image which are slightly low and to the left. Think about when you see a [picture with flash]. The shadows are there for the same reason; the flash bulb, which in this case emits visible light, is in a slightly different location compared to the lens. |
How much of (Breaking Bad Spoilers) Hank's investigation in the final season of Breaking Bad was actually legal, and provided evidence which could be used in court? | Considering how big of a catch Walt would be on a global scale at this point and what the DEA are actually able to get away with anyway I'm pretty sure Hank would be pretty much a hero |
Can sports at an early age effect testosterone levels and how does this effect the physical appearance of someone who didn't play sports at all? | Here's a real ELI5 answer for you: Both of these play a role, and it depends on the individual as to which one plays more of a role. |
When a country gives financial aid to a poorer country, how does it guarantee that it is used for its intended purpose? | The intended purpose is almost always to buy influence, so strings are generally not attached and it is accepted that the people who's influence you are buying will take a fair portion of the money for themselves. Financial Aid is bribery at a national level. |
The German Pirate Party. | Not an ELIF article but this piece from Der Spiegel does give some info: [Germany's Pirate Party has gone from a tiny group of hackers to a significant force in an astoundingly short amount of time. Its growing pains are obvious to all, but the party could succeed in fundamentally changing German politics. First it must agree on what it stands for.] |
why do some people not remember their dreams? | The study of dreaming is relatively new and needs research, but based on popular explanations, here why we might see such a difference: One popular explanation of dreaming is that it was somewhat of an accident, and it's just the brain trying to interpret the signals it gets while it repairs itself during sleep, including the connections it's trying to forget. If that's the case, it'd be evolutionarily disadvantageous for humans to believe and remember the things they experience during a dream. Another explanation, though, is that it helps us to practice facing stress and danger but without any of the negative consequences if we fail. It also allows us to find creative solutions by freeing us from the usual rigid rules we self-impose. If that's the case, then humans would evolve to remember their dreams. If these are true, then these opposite forces may be the reason we see such a range of dream recall ability in humans. |
A quick announcement on the direction of this subreddit. | LI5 is currently experiencing a massive influx of excited people eager to participate. When I created /r/favors it went to 4,000 people in 24 hours; that's nothing compared to LI5's 30,000 but you have to remember Reddit was about 1/10th the size at the time. The same thing happened to /r/Favors - a whole bunch of people jumping in and adding and a whole bunch of people jumping in and subtracting and a massive, primal urge to **organize things.** I've been watching this subreddit closely and adding where I can. I think it has a lot of promise - but it also has a lot of Inglip. The novelty *will* die off in a week and the people who are left are the ones who will *truly* build this community. Consider the input granted in response to this post, cogitate on it for a week, and then next Monday, see how many of your changes are necessary. With barely 24 hours in existence, you don't really know what you have; with a week in the saddle, you'll have a pretty good idea what you'll become. Good luck. I think this place has a lot of promise and I think if you give it time to blossom you'll end up with prettier flowers than if you try and force the bud. |
What would happen if I was in a foreign country and missed my return flight home, but didn't have enough money to book a new one? | I once did the opposite. My friend and I arrived a day early, we ended up waiting in the airport for 26 hours. This was in 2002 so we didn't even have the luxury of a smartphone. It was one of the most boring and uncomfortable times in my life. |
Why are private prisons bad? | Just like any other service business, they charge more for the service than it costs them to deliver it. However, they also have to appease stockholders with ever-increasing profits. That leads to some unpleasant consequences. They cut back on food quality, training for guards, medical care, anything they can. Ultimately, it turns out that private prisons almost always wind up costing the government MUCH more than state-run facilities. But by the time that news sinks in, the government has already signed a multi-year contract, which frequently includes a clause that requires the government to maintain a certain percentage occupancy, or they have to pay a fee, so the government comes under pressure to lock up more people, whether they deserve it or not. Private prisons are mainly supported by conservatives, who do everything they can to privatize government services, because that means more profits for their corporate masters. They'll tell you it's because a private company can always do things more efficiently than the government , but that claim has little basis in actual reality. Private prisons are a serious threat to society. More than one judge has been caught taking kickbacks to sentence people to terms in private prisons longer than the circumstances warrant. A couple of years ago a report to stockholders of the GEO Group, one of the world's largest private prion companies, actually came out and said in black and white that anything that resulted in fewer people being incarcerated--like ending the war on drugs--would be BAD for business. These guys employ truckloads of lobbyists, I wonder what they do all day?", '[They are bad because things like corrupt judges on the payroll happen].Some private prisons also charge prisoners out the ass for being in prison for pretty much everything they need, from meals to visitation to phone calls. Prisoners leave these prisons in debt to them, which only componds to their difficulties adjusting to the outside world and makes them more likely to end up back in prisons. The government also makes a shitton of money off the prison industrial complex so public prisions aren't much better really. |
Why can't we just fall asleep whenever we want? | I'm a teacher. I can sleep on command but I have way too much shit to do.You can fall asleep whenever you want with enough shots of whiskey. |
How famous companies, corporations and businessmen escape from big amount of taxes? | The tax code has thousands of loopholes, some that were passed with good intentions of stimulating business and investment, others that were basically giveaways to the rich. If you have very complicated finances and the money to hire tax accountants and lawyers, it's often possible to take advantage of these loopholes in a way that normal people cannot. Also, in the US, taxes on investments and corporate profits are much lower than taxes on individual income. So, a billionaire who makes all their money from investments will almost certainly pay a lower tax rate than anyone who works for a living. |
How come Venezuela is in such a poor state if it has nearly 300 Bn barrels of proven oil reserves? | It's all about supply and demand. Imagine you find a really pretty blue stone, and everyone likes it. People are actually willing to pay for your blue stone, so you go and look for more. On the best days, you can find 5-10 blue stones, and are happy selling them for $10 a piece. You can pay your rent, bills, buy food, because you now have $50-$100 per day. There's probably a lot more blue stones, but it takes time to find them, dig them up, clean them, etc But just the same, you don't worry about running out either. Now a new guy comes to town, and he's discovered a hidden stash of blue stones in his back yard, and promptly starts selling them for $2 a piece. Nobody's going to buy your stones at $10 a piece, because the new guy has plenty to sell at $2 a piece, and they're just as good. So what do you do? You sell yours for $2 a piece. Now you can't afford to pay your rent, or your bills you get hungry. Life sucks. You've got plenty of blue stones, but all that would do is add fuel to the fire, because finding more blue stones would only make the price drop again, just like when the new guy found a hidden stash If you dig up twice as many as he has, they'd just be worth half as much. |
I'm a music venue manager that books only original music not represented by music licensing agencies. Why am I forced to pay live music fees to BMI, ASCAP and SESAC? | Haven't you asked these companies this simple question?", 'I want to start a campaign against these agencies. Young people need to know to NEVER be a member, and every venue ever should just refuse to pay. These agencies are destroying local music scenes and live music in general with "legal blackmail." Why can't we fight back?Now performing songwriters can actually get paid for playing their own works, so you are contributing to their fund. They are, in effect, "covering" their own songs, and all three PROs have programs. Edit: saw that you noted none of the artists are with PROs, but that can change if they start getting seriousBurning Man has repeatedly been sued for acts playing covers in the main stage in center camp. They now have people who pull you immediately if you begin a cover.I hate these companies. They are essentially hired goons for the big corporate labels. They're like the mob guys you see in movies muscling local shop keepers for protection. Back in the 80's, the punk rock scene was extremely anti-corporate. Independent music is basically music that isn't created or owned by one of the major labels. Since the labels are almost literally a mafia, they control the distribution of music like a drug cartel. Before Nirvana came out and went mainstream, many musicians were against corporate music and there was a thriving independent music industry. The labels weaseled their way in and made the music mainstream, wiped out the anti-corporate message, and controlled the industry for another 20 years. _URL_1_ With the quality of digital recording nowadays versus analog studios which cost a fortune in gear, people can crank out their own demos & mixtapes that they can produce, distribute, and play themselves without having to pay up to a bunch of guys in suits. |
How do the homeless and ex-convicts find work? | I think the system should focus a lot more on this problem for ex-cons. Rehabilitation is a lot more than punishment. As for homeless from other reasons, we have to work a lot harder on this for sure. Don't assume they want to be that way; I would guess almost no one wants to be homeless. Suggesting that they get minimum wage jobs is simplistic -- for example, an older person may not be physically able to stand on their feet all day. May the government needs to subsidize wages for some people and maybe for the rest of their lives -- we spend money on worse things that. Have compassion for the homeless you see -- There but for the grace of God goes thou. |
How did most Americans know the same elementary school tricks and inside jokes growing up in a huge, diverse country before the age of the internet? | Before there were Fax machines, jokes would get passed around the office on a sheet of paper. People would copy the joke and continue to pass it around. Many times it was a copy of a copy, of a copy etc. I took a joke on a sheet of paper that went around the office and gave it to my mother a week later. She lived 200 miles from me. She had copied the same joke for me. I was amazed that this would travel so quickly. The joke was a frog setting in a nice chair at a desk saying I'm so happy here I could just shit! Yes times were simpler in the 70'sSo things get passed around quickly. |
How did Jesus' death cleanse the sin of mankind? | The idea is he was the perfect, sinless, being living amongst man as a mortal. That in his last moments, he thought not of what was being done to him, so much as forgiving the sin that brought him to that point - *son* of man. It's one of those things you take or you don't. |
What is the "Science" that is being shown in this XKCD comic? | If you ever miss a reference or don't get what the comic is about, this site might help. [Here] is an explanation for #54. Also it transcribes hover text which doesn't work on my mobile device from the main site. |
Why do some YouTube videos, particularly music, have a long silence at the end? | Unrelated fun fact: During the early days of radio, FDR was campaigning against someone and the radio station ran a program where he would give a half-hour speech and his opponent would then give a half-hour speech. He gave a 25 minute speech, followed by 5 minutes of silence during which many people turned off their radios and never heard FDR's opponent. |
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