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Why didn't either of the WTC towers collapse sideways? | The momentum of the planes hitting the towers didn't knock them over. It didn't damage the structural members significantly. All the momentum from the crashes was dissipated into the building. What caused the failure is that the structural members on one side of the tower were heated asymmetrically — which caused them ... |
If I adopt a child and don't like it, can i return it in exchange for a better one or ask for a refund? | > can i return it in exchange for a better one? No, but they'll swap an OK one for two real little fuckers. You could race 'em! |
How is the 21 year old drinking age in the United States legal? Isn't that some sort of age discrimination, assuming that one stops being a minor at age 18? | We tend to think that discrimination is illegal by default, but that is not the case. In the US, the assumption is that discrimination is legal, unless some speciffic law or the Constitution forbids it. The constitution prohibits repetitively few types of discrimination . Age discrimination is perfectly constitutional.... |
What are the differences between USA's healthcare system and the ones used by other countries? Is ours really so horrible? | Short answer: It's not horrible if you have lots of money. USA has plenty of highly skilled doctors, but with the way the healthcare system is set up -- more privatized care instead of public health care like many other countries, it's expensive for the individual.Ours is for profit, and theirs is to make sure that the... |
; if the human body requires calories (from food) for energy, how do energy pills like ProPlus and other caffeine and energy pills work if they're not providing us with calories? | To put it simply as I possibly can. Caffeine doesn't create energy, it prevents the *breakdown* of energy. |
On a donation site (ie:kickstarter) what keeps people from taking the donation money and running? | Nothing, since it's a donation & not purchasing a product. It's up to the backers to be smart about what projects they support. If you support a project with an unrealistic goal & they haven't shown that they're partway there & have the capacity to finish the job, you might get fucked. You really shouldn't throw money ... |
Why are lights standard in refrigerators but not in freezers? | Reddits making me feel old again. It's only in the past 20 years or so that I've seen freezers with lights.UK here, have a combine fridge/freezer that is brand new, no light in freezer. |
How has Stephen Hawking lived so long with ALS when other people often only live a few years after their initial diagnoses? | 1. He may not have typical ALS. His rate of progression has been remarkably slow. 2. He lives in Cambridge. Addenbrookes hospital in Cambridge is not only home to world class intensive care but is at the forefront of ALS treatment and respiratory disease treatment*. 3. He receives round the clock care from a team of ca... |
Why does every single company make you sign up with a credit card for a free trial? | It's basically because, once the free trial has expired more people tend to keep the service instead of going out of their way to cancel it, and that way they already have the billing information to charge. |
Why is Atlas from Greek mythology shown to be holding a round Earth, even though it was proven to be spherical only later on? | The greeks actually proved the earth was a sphere, using geometry and the shadows in a pair of wells. By knowing the distance between the wells, you can measure the shadows and determine the curvature of the Earth. If memory serves, they actually we're only about 4% when they calculated the size of the planet. |
What are the sets of black tubes I keep seeing across the roads and driving over and what is their purpose? | It's a tally meter. It counts how many vehicle's drive over it. Helping plan future maintenance or road extensions to existing highways. |
How did the believe that Earth is Flat manage to gain their root in this current modern society? | Your last question is actually a portion of the answer. There's 2 movements, there's the Flat Earth Society which came around as simply a group to improve your debate skills. If you can 'prove' the Earth is flat you can probably debate just about anything. Unfortunately some people thought they were serious. Then there... |
Those that don't speak English but can sing English songs perfectly, what is it about singing that allows them to form the correct structure of the words? | I listen to a lot of Japanese songs, and I sometimes sing the words even though I don't know what they mean > Senbonzakura yoru ni magire kimi no koe mo todokenaiyo", 'My explanation would be that people who sing have a "musical ear" therefore they perceive the words as musical notes I sing and because of my musical ea... |
Why are certain foods considered breakfast foods? | Last year after watching a documentary on how and why breakfast cereals are marketed as such, I thought I'd experiment for a week and eat dinner-ish food for breakfast and cereals and eggs and toasts for dinner. Wasn't that bad to be really honest. Just should've avoided the sugary cereals before bed. PS: Was single at... |
How does sandboxing (computer security) work? | Imagine that you have a huge playground with sand where all the kids play together. If a bully comes to that playground, he can come to you and kick your sandcastle or take a shit and ruin the entire sand playground for everyone. Sandboxing means that every kid has its own playground and cannot go to some other kid bec... |
If I sell stock, who buys it? | You don't just sell when you click the sell button. What happens is that the broker will look for a matching buy bid, if there is none, your order will wait until there is one. A stock is valued by how much someone is prepared to pay for it though, so if you place a sell order at it's current value there will probably ... |
How can human eggs be frozen? Wouldn't they die like every other human cell? | Human cells can survive freezing if you do it right. The most important consideration is that you don't form large ice crystals within the cells when you freeze them, which would rupture the cells and kill them. It turns out that you can minimize the breaking up of cells by doing the following: 1) Freeze the cells slow... |
Physics Question. Plane falling, jump at the last second, land fine? | I'd like to add a point that I didn't see here already. Assuming you mightily jump to save yourself, you will still be in the middle of an exploding/burning plane crash. Which may kill you anyway. |
What's the difference between blackmail and extortion? | Blackmail is generally inducing someone to give you money by threatening to reveal something about that person that they'd prefer to remain secret. Extortion is inducing someone to give you money by threatening to cause them harm in the future. |
The Donnie Darko movie. | There's also the theory that aside from tangent universes, Donnie Darko is Jesus Christ, and Frank is God. For example: Donnie does what Frank asks. How does Donnie have the strength to put an axe into a bronze statue? The sprinklers in front of Mr. Cunninghams house The tunnels at the party/telling Gretchen everything... |
Why are scientists attempting to clone mammoths, opposed to cloning something more practical such as tuna and other endangered animals? | It's really simple: mammoths are cool, tuna are boring. Just creating a couple in the lab won't revive the species. If the conditions driving the tuna to extinction aren't stopped, reintroduced tuna will just die all over again. Trying to reintroduce the mammoth and create a sustained wild population would just be stup... |
Why do you stop experiencing nightmares when you grow up? | As a full grown adult, I can tell you I have nightmares more frequently than regular dreams. It's largely to due with psychology. |
Why are Macs considered superior when it comes to editing for their CPUs when PCs have access to powerful GPUs? | Now it's just preference. Old school Apple systems used a different CPU architecture that was faster than their Intel equivalent processors of the day. Look up the difference between RISC and CISC. They performed very well for simple parallel operations like photo and video editing. Add that too a great interface desig... |
Why did unlimited data for cellphones/etc.. stop being a thing and data caps are now enforced? | Look at speed of the network. 2G EDGE data is typically [500 kbit/s], so assuming you had something to saturate that network, you would be pulling no more than [1.3Tb of data] which is a lot, but that is litterally downloading as fast as possible 24/7, which would never happen. Your phone would run out of batteries in ... |
Why do babies always try to eat their own fists when they're happy? | A couple of things. Babies stick everything in their mouths. That's how they see the world. Also, that is how they show happiness. If you are close enough to a baby after making it happy it will want to stick you in it's mouth. It's a compliment. |
How did they determine the weight of the Earth, and other bodies in the Cosmos without a scale? | Once you know the value of G, the gravitational constant, it is fairly trivial to calculate the mass of an object if that object has a satellite that revolves around it, and the orbital radius and period of the satellite have been measured. The [formula] is: M = x where M is the mass of the primary, G is the gravitatio... |
Did i do something wrong here? | r/relationships This is not a question for r/explainlikeimfive but there is no excuse for going through someone else's phone imo. Put a lock on your phone an move on with your life. |
How much does gasoline contract when it's cold? | Good answers here so far, but to actually answer the question, the contraction factor is about [0.1% per degree C.] As /u/bongsound points out, the gas pump applies a temperature correction to the volume it sells, so what actually appears on the meter is the volume the gasoline would have if warmed up to some standard ... |
Why is there so much more land mass in the northern hemisphere? | As a side question to this topic . Could it be related to the tilt of the axis and the moon have something to do with the position of some of the mass? For instance, if certain areas have more pull than others due to either the moon's orbit and/or the axis tilt toward the Sun. Just something to ponder. |
how can jets produce directional thrust | For a jet to work, it either needs a starter or it needs to have a fan. So ones like turbofan and turboprop all have fans. When you start the engine, it spins one way so that the air is pulled in from the front and pushed out through the back. At the back side of the engine, there are more fans, smaller though, that is... |
Shouldn't our stomach acid flow back up if we turn ourselves upside down? | I believe we have a sphincter muscle at the entrance to our stomach to prevent that from happening. Open to correction on that though because I'm not an anatomy expert. |
How much pain would a victim of beheading feel? | You'd feel serious pain right up until the point where the spinal cord was severed. Most extremist beheading videos, seem to wait til very last to severe it, making their victims suffer for as long as possible fucking good blokes. |
What exactly is graphene, what does it do and why is it so talked about. | It's a new form if carbon. The particular arrangement of carbon atoms is extremely strong but also incredibly light it will hopefully become a new building material like carbon fibre did. |
How do members of Anonymous remain anonymous? How do they get caught? | Anonymous doesn't really have a membership. It is just a brand.Anonymous is more of a movement than an organization. There isn't a fixed number of "members" behind Anonymous. In a sense, anyone can put on a mask and make videos on Youtube and claim being part of Anonymous. And that's what makes Anonymous so intriguingJ... |
Why do so many Americans seem opposed to unversal healthcare? | In this country, you have the right to remain willfully ignorant. People can't be bothered to learn the science behind the idea, or the empirical evidence the supports it. We have a strong voting population that is old and afriad of change, savage and selfish. They'll accept budgeting for a war so our children can go d... |
Why is Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback so eager to not expand Medicaid? | No. The federal government agreed to pay the vast bulk of the Medicaid expansion. The money that gets spent at the hospitals provides money to Kansas doctors, nurses, and hospital staff, and recycled back into the local economies. Poor people who can now get medical coverage will be more productive. More preventative c... |
What defines why cord plugs are made the way they are? Say for instance, why can't monitors be attached to the motherboard with an USB-plug? | The physical characteristics of a cable or connector result in a limit to the data rate that can be transmitted over that. The communications 'protocol' and the cable design are done together so the cable used is up to the job but isn't expensive overkill. Monitor cables have always required a very high data rate over ... |
What triggers the explosions of atomic and hydrogen bombs? | The proper term for the thing that starts detonation in any bomb is the fuse. A fuse can measure something or sense something and start detonation when a preset value is reached. Altitude fusing does what you'd expect, as does impact fusing. An altitude fuse might use barometric pressure or a small radar altimeter as a... |
How do developers protect their software's source code? | Reverse engineering is always possible because nothing is 100% safe. It takes time and dedication to filter through everything, sort and rearrange codes, and try hit and miss tactics. That's why a lot of games are very similar in the App store. |
What makes an iceberg invisible? | This isn't specific to the Titanic, but fog can reduce naval visibility to just few dozen yards. |
You're suddenly in a vacuum chamber with only 1 plant. How many extra seconds / minutes oxygen do you get? | You don't. Both of you are killed by the lack of pressure long before the lack of anything else even starts to cause a problem. Even if that was not a problem, nothing you breath out would reach the plant and nothing it outputs would reach you. They'd disperse into the air as evenly as possible. |
why does a wooden spoon prevent a pan from boiling over? | Two main reasons: 1. The rough surface of the wooden spoon will break the water bubbles, causing the foam to break around the spoon. 2. The contents of the bubbles is mostly steam, and when it comes into contact with the room-temperature spoon the steam condenses into liquid water. This hack isn't a complete fix though... |
Why are drug cartels not treated the same way as terrorist organizations when they pose a larger threat to north and south America? | They are. Perhaps you need to do some reading on the War on Drugs which was declared by Nixon in 1971. The federal government spends about $15B a year on the war on drugs and state and local governments spend about $25B/year. It's estimated that a trillion dollars has been spent since the war began. |
Why do we have curved feet? | The inward curve is called the arch of your foot. When you step down the arch flattens somewhat. It flattens more if you are say jumping off a chair or running than simply walking. The action of the foot flattening absorbs some of the force from whatever action you may be doing. This limits the stress put on your long ... |
Why are fights between players allowed in the NHL when it is very strongly prohibited in just about every other sport? | It's also a way of self-policing the game. I can't speak to it specifically but I heard a radio host describe it better than I could. Maybe someone who knows more about hockey could elaborate on it |
How are we still prone to sunlight radiation, given the sun was there our entire existence? | > the sun was there our entire existence? According to our current knowledge, when humans first evolved, everyone had dark skin. Dark skin is like natural sunscreen. It helps prevent you from getting sunburns and skin damage. However, a small amount of sunlight hitting our skin is necessary for the body to synthesize v... |
Why Shanghai and other parts of China are so polluted compared to the rest of the world. | China's air is polluted largely because of their reliance on coal as a heat source. When coal is burned for electricity it is burned at a very high temperature, over 1000 F. This causes a lot of the contaminants to burn off as well, and is very efficient. Residential and businesses use coal for heating and cooking, not... |
Why are there different blood types, and how do they work? | Thanks for this. The one question I always had was/is,Why can't you donate blood if you have high BP or high colestorol?I mean, if it came down to life and death during an operation or after a car wreck wouldn't any blood be better for a transfusion then none?I am O- and used to give blood all the time as I knew from t... |
what is embezzlement and why is it so bad? | The main difference between embezzling and stealing is that when you embezzle, you normally have a legitimate access to the money. And usually it's a larger amount. If you pull $5 out of the till at work, you are stealing. If you add 15 fake people to the payroll and pocket the money from the excess wages, you're embez... |
Is there really any difference between the seemingly infinite amounts of brands of shampoo, conditioner, soap, toothpaste, etc., or do they basically all do the same thing? | For some people with no specific needs they all do the same thing, for others the brand really do make a difference. For example people with dandruff can't use shampoo that dries out their scalp even more, or people with sensitive teeth would prefer Sensidyne. |
How come sometimes when one is extremely hungry, a sensation of almost needing to vomit occurs? | To staple onto this question, in case anyone has any insight I have been suffering from depression as of late, and one of the major effects is the near disappearance of my appetite. Simply put, I never actually feel hungry. However, if I don't eat at all, often my body will start to feel nauseated. Is this the same thi... |
Why didn't the major European powers just annex Germany after WWII? | Prior to the German surrender, the Allies had already agreed about how Germany should be divided up between them at the Potsdam conference. Russia got the occupation zone in the East and the British, Americans and French shared the West. Berlin was also split between the Allies though Stalin wasn't particularly happy a... |
at what point does a group of molecules become an organism that's alive or other (viruses, bacteria, etc.)? Where does that border start and end? | I'm sure someone here will answer this better - but at school I was always taught its when it exhibits the seven signs of life 1 -It should maintain some balanced conditions in its inner structure. This is called Homeostasis2 - Its structure is highly organized.3- It should be able to break down or build up nutrients t... |
How do people hire actors to do things that are basically making fun of themselves? For example hire a fat person then have them constantly getting jokes made about their weight in the movie | Because there's nothing inherently wrong with making fun of yourself, and the actors are being paid to do it. |
Why do snakes sometimes bite themselves? | Their vision sucks, and they get very excited near food or danger. I was introduced to a baby Macklot's, or Savu island python. The owner was trying to feed it a baby mouse, and it bit the mouse, the man, itself, the man, itself, the mouse etc. Just a hyper reaction. I took this animal home, because I knew it would hel... |
Why does it take so long for employers to reach hiring decisions? | They're interviewing a bunch of other candidates to see who's best.1) We have to go through whatever resumes we collect during that time period, and select from those which candidates we think are worth interviewing. 2) We have to schedule and conduct interviews of all of those candidates. 3) We have to do decide which... |
How do they cast obese and/or ugly children? | The children's parents would have paid a casting agency to profile their little money creature. A casting profile includes photos, a brief description of the little monster and working conditions such as the area they are available and what type of work they are willing to perform. A casting agent can then select a sho... |
How hackers are getting away with hacking banks? | As someone who worked briefly in cross boarder banking, transfers are done by swift. When these transactions are lost we started a wire investigation. One time I saw one where the money was suppose to go to Canada but ended up going to Bank of America, but not in Canada. It took 30 days to investigate and find the mone... |
What happens when a non-fully grown tattooe'd body grows? | I know someone who got a small tattoo on his arm when a young teen. He grew a lot in the years since then. His tattoo got a bit bigger, but it also rotated about 45 degrees so it's facing a different direction.They move as well. The only tat I have that I got 25 years ago on my upper left arm is about 2.5" back from wh... |
Donated human blood only has a shelf life of about 21 days, what happens to the gallons of un-used human blood if it never finds a recipient? | _URL_2_ A pint of blood is worth several hundred dollars and usually doesn't make it to the shelf life. It gets sold to other blood banks across the region it was donated. |
If I drink soda through a straw without it touching my teeth, would it still cause damage to them? | I ask my dentist the same thing, and asked about drinks with no sugar and she told me that, yes it still could because it's not the only sugar that is decaying the teeth. She told me that anything that causes a higher PH level in your mouth will start a decaying process. So, if you drink coke through a straw and it nev... |
Why does the United States spend OODLES UPON OODLES more on defense compared to all other countries? | The US took upon itself to maintain the global order and contain communism since it was the last remaining power after WWII. Obviously, throughout the decades since WWII how the US applies its military and economic power has been the subject of great debate. As others have stated, the US has basically been the defender... |
Why did Eastern armies prefer curved swords over the straight swords of their western counterparts? | There are probably lots of different reasons, and people have already posted a bunch of them. One I haven't seen as of yet is that the Romans adopted the straight, stabbing gladius as their primary sword, and I'd maintain that it is a safe assumption that later Western armies were at least in part indebted to this, sin... |
My 12 year old brother wants to know why the debt between all the countries in the world cannot simply "cancel each other out." | A lot of this money is owed not to other countries, but *people* in other countries. I might have decided that Greek bonds were a great place to put my life's savings. Cancelling that debt might be good for the Greek government, but it would ruin everything I worked for my entire life.To understand this, he must unders... |
How do native speakers of languages with many characters e.g. any of the Chinese Languages, enter data into a computer, or even search the internet? | Native Hindi Speaker here. Similar to the Chinese and Japanese language keyboards, Google also has Hindi keyboards which work through transliteration. If I want to type hello or namaste in Hindi, I'll use the Google Hindi Input keyboard and type in hello or namaste which it transliterates into Hindi. One gets a few opt... |
Why Greece defaulting on its debt would mean it would have to leave the Eurozone | Once you have royally pissed off the people who print your money, you had better be able to print some of your own. Whether it is legalistically required probably doesn't matter much. They might not force you to leave at gun point, but you can count on them to not do you any favors in the future. |
Why, as an American, have I been taught next to nothing about the extent of our involvement in places like the Philippines & Guam? | Well because those two events are blatant examples of America's hypocrisy. Becoming exactly like those people we declared independence from, sustaining oppressive overseas imperial colonies? Impossible! |
What is high functioning depression ? Is it real ? | It's a real thing, and it's also known as dysthymia. Kati Morton, a therapist on YouTube, made a great video on this earlier this year if you're interested. |
If a take-out delivery includes "arrives in x minutes or it's free". If it comes later than x minutes, who gets penalized? | The delivery guy certainly wouldn't have to pay for the pizza. The shop would just eat the cost. However if it happened many times he could be reprimanded or fired for his lateness. |
Why do you lose your appetite after a breakup? What actually happens in your body to suppress hunger? | Post break-up, if one's appetite and sleep patterns show a significant change, it's because of an episode of depression. Depression is essentially the 'sickness syndrome' one faces due to emotional inducers. Sickness syndrome is what happens when you get sick, like the name suggests. It could be because of cold, fever ... |
How is it that the same 5-10 companies seem to sponsor every podcast I listen to? | I always hear ads from:-Backblaze-Harry's-Fracture-Casper-Automatic I think because they will sponsor an entire network of podcasts, such as _URL_1_, and so all the shows get the add. Yet, I know of 3 other podcasts not part of relay that also get them. |
With so many animals we could be eating, why can't we chew past beef/poultry/sheep/pig for meat-stuffs? | > I just wouldn't know where to order said delicacies. Google for specialty butchers. Although some things nobody is going to carry either because there is no demand at all or because it is extremely difficult to import certain game . As to why you don't see all kinds of weird game meat at the supermarket, there's just... |
Why don't americans vote absentee? | Another reason - the race goes on until election day, and the candidates continue to campaign for themselves and against each other until the last day. The race can change up until the last minute, and to vote absentee, one would have to make one's final decision at least a few days before the polls. |
Why is marriage under control of the state, in America? | In short, 9th amendment. Powers not given to the national government are given to the states. It just isn't a national law yet.not how I would tell a five year old but it expresses my view best _URL_1_In what part of the world is it not?', "The central purpose of marraige is to provide the state with a way to do two th... |
What is Dark Matter, Can a big chunk of it hit me? | According to the most popular theories, dark matter is a type of matter that has mass and that interacts through the gravitational force and the weak nuclear force, but does not interact through the electromagnetic force or the strong nuclear force. As such, a 'chunk' of dark matter could pass through you and you would... |
Why eating Sushi is healthy and safe and why other raw meats can't achieve this. | eating raw beef is 100% acceptable as long as it has not been punctured exposing it's inner contents to Oxygen, and bad germs. E: i know someone who eats raw bacon. |
Why don't people just Google their ELI5 questions? | Sometimes it's nice to feel like someone is actually responding to your curiosity.Maybe a different way of saying the same thing. You can answer a question 5 different ways, but some people may not comprehend 4 of those. So why not ask a forum of laymen and skilled people instead of reading a blog written by someone th... |
Why aren't there thunderstorms in the winter? | Here in Utah occasionally we'll get blizzards with super dry air and will get lightning strikes. Lightning strikes and thunder during a snow storm are crazy cool. |
why do we feel so tired after getting too much sleep? | Most likely dehydration but I've seen another ELI5 and it's suggested that your entire sleep should be divisible by roughly 1.5hours. This is so you complete an entire sleep cycle.I think if you pass a certain state It wrecks havoc on your body making you feel worse than if you woke up before or just after completing t... |
The purpose of developing self driving cars. | Here's 3 reasons, there are plenty more too. Safety - human drivers are prone to errors. When you make an error while driving a car, it often doesn't end well. Efficiency - human drivers have to be cautious so they don't crash, this causes traffic build ups. Self driving cars could drive faster and closer to one anothe... |
How do people sell a house when the mortgage isn't fully paid off? | I'm not much help but I mean while someone's at it .what exactly is a mortgage and how does it work? I know it has something to do with loans and houses but beyond that I'm in the dark |
Why are we unable to defeat viruses like the Cold, Herpes, and HIV? | Viruses are not alive, and unlike bacteria their structures are very simple so there's not much you can break without damaging the rest of the human body. |
Monsanto and why everyone hates them. | Monsanto is only seen as evil because of smear campaigns from their competitors. Monsanto [supports LGBT equality] and [discourages child labour in India], and is also very charitable. Monsanto recently won an award from the Corporate Responsibility Magazine for [being a good corporate citizen]. Monsanto allows indepen... |
What is an 'automatic cryptocoin miner', and what are the implications of having one included in the new uTorrent update? | It's an opt-in checkbox when you install it fresh. You're not going to get it via an auto-update. It's dumb, but easy to avoid, so don't panic. This is a pretty common piece of opt-in malware. Digsby included it years ago. If you can't uncheck a checkbox when installing something you aren't computing right.I thought it... |
Why do animals like to be pet by humans? | I'd attribute it to the calming effect. Even most humans get it when being patted, or when being snuggled by an animal. Cuddles and touches that are welcome release oxytocin , which leads to the *fuzzy feels*.Cats like their smell on you. There are other reasons mentioned, but cats are pretty selfishProbably the same r... |
Can someone explain the differences between name brand and generic foods and drugs? | I don't have much to add to this discussion, but Freakonomics Radio did a podcast about this! I think it's worth a listen. _URL_0_ |
Why does my dog act friendly towards strangers but is nervous/aggressive towards other strangers without provocation? | I've yet to encounter a dog I couldn't win over. Just takes patience and repetition. From what I've seen with some friends though, 99% of the time, it's either the ones who don't like dogs or are terrified of them that get on the dog's bad side. |
Why is the deadline for all tobacco products to be removed from CVS stores on October 1, 9 months away? | Because it's actually time-consuming and expensive to make a sweeping stock change like that. They're not just going to pull the products off the shelf, they're going to decide what should go there instead, figure out what kind of displays or shelving should go there, and have workers make the swap. They also have to s... |
Why do computers struggle so much to "cancel" a task? | Two factors contribute: 1) It would be very slow to check between every operation to see if the user wanted to cancel. 2) Anywhere you can cancel you have to be able to unwind everything that you already did back to a sane state. For example, if you cancel an install you don't want to end up half installed, you want it... |
Why in 2014 does it still take 10 business days to clear a check? | , Are you sure it's 10 business days? That goes against the maximum hold times outlined in [Reg. CC] . Under normal circumstances, it should be fully released no later than the 7th business day. . As for the *reason* for the hold -- it's all about protecting the bank against fraud. In the past, it could take several da... |
Watching someone play a video game | sometimes it's to watch to get tips on the game, sometimes it's just entertainment. when i watch people do this, it's usually a group of people playing together and they are a group that knows each other and has their own quirks and all of that. almost like watching a performance or comedy routine with a game involved. |
our pupils change size but the amount we can see doesn't? | Our field of view is based on the distance from our eye lens to our retina, which does not change. Our pupils are more like the aperture of a camera lens, it lets more or less light in but doesn't change where that light is coming from. |
Why are people against retail stores being open on Thanksgiving, but it's okay for everyone involved in the football game to be working? | I have a friend who worked at one of the games. He's union and got overtime. The number of NFL and NFL-related jobs that work on Thanksgiving is a small fraction of the number of people who have to work retail. Also, the NFL-related jobs usually make more than retail. |
How does one make a random number generator? | I don't know how to ELI5, but a great explanation can be [found here]. Basically, random isn't random. It just appears that way. The idea is that each possible number is equally likely to occur on every iteration AND there is no dependency between successive numbers. I created a random name generator recently in Java. ... |
How does a person born on a ship in international waters gain citizenship? | Depends on the country but you usually gain citizenship in your mother's country, fathers country and the place you were born. |
How does The Pirate Bay get away with all the copyright? | Technically, since the piratebay isn't hosting any files, it's a search engine like google and protected by the same laws as them. However, companies like the MPAA and RIAA disagree with these laws and they sue them into oblivion. Because money. Piles and piles of money.The Pirate Bay doesn't actually host anything ill... |
why are doctor's offices the only place where you need to fill out the same paperwork at every office? Why isn't there a universal system? | Simply put, if they interconnect their systems then everybody is fucked if a breach occurs; if they don't, then only a select few are fucked when that breach happens. Minimizes risk on multiple fronts in terms of protecting electronic medical records in relation to HIPAA requirements. |
How does this beekeeper relocate this hive without getting stung, even though he isn't wearing protective gear? (see link in the description) | They largely calm them down with smoke, so they just sort of fall off harmlessly when shook. Beekeepers get stung by bees ALOT though. They just get stung so much they don't really pay it a lot of attention anymore. Source: have friends with honey farms. |
What is the difference between the U.S. Navy and the Marines? | For a *really* oversimplified answer, try this one that I was given many years ago: Sailors aren't soldiers, and soldiers aren't sailors. An awful lot of the men on a boat are there to *run the boat* -- i.e., they're not the fighters.Also what are the Merchant Marines? Is that still a thing? |
If water conducts electricity, how come when lightning strikes the ocean all the fish don't die? | From the PBS Nova website _URL_0_ > Q: What happens when lightning strikes a body of water? If you are swimming in the water, how far from a strike would be dangerous? Why are fish not electrocuted in large numbers? Norm Althausen, Hudson, Ohio > Dwyer: Dear Norm, > Electrical currents like to flow over surfaces, so mo... |
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