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Why do so many people who experience sleep paralysis hallucinations seem to see the same things: the old hag or the shadow man? | When I was little, I had a reoccurring dream where a vampire was out my window. I would start to crawl down the hallway towards my parents room. But then I'd hear the window shatter and at that point couldn't move. Then the presence that I knew to be the vampire would engulf me from behind like a shadow. And then I'd wake up. That dream messed me up.Because they 've heard about it, and their brain is awake enough to remember that, but not awake enough to realise and do anything about it. For example I had various nightmares/night terrors without these scary sounding hallucinations for years - then I heard about them and suddenly they featured regularly because they're creepy and therefore stick in your mind. They're also common "scary things" in films/TV, with a similar result. I 've never heard of anyone having these hallucinations without previously hearing of someone else having the same: an even if anyone claims not to, I 'd argue that they probably have but don't recall it. |
How do professional and collegiate sports teams determine their playing schedule? | In college football the teams always play the teams on their side of the conference and then they use some of their open slots to rotate the other side of the conference in and they usually have a rotating system for this. As for the bigger non-conference games, these are usually scheduled a couple of years in advance for a home & home or neutral site game. The bigger teams also will pay the smaller teams to come fill up spots on their schedule. |
Can someone ELI5 how a no-fly zone is reinforced. | So one resource that pilots use to find out where temporary no-fly zones are established is Runwayfinder. I'm sure there are many other sites like it.If, for example, the President is traveling to Camp David, they'll typically establish a no-fly around it while he is there. Here's what the map looks like for the region around DC:_URL_0_ |
Why do we shit in clean drinkable water? | deepduck's right. the cost of having two piping systems, one for sanitized, another for non sanitized doesn't make it worth it. because water is so cheap. of course california might rethink that", 'I 've thought about ocean-front areas maybe using a saltwater plumbing system for their sewage, but again, it 'd be really expensive to build a whole second set of pipes. If you're concerned about water conservation, try flushing less. Remember, "if it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown, flush it down." No reason to flush if it's just pee in there, you're gonna be back in an hour to pee in it again, and that's two flushes where just one would have sufficed. Also, whenever possible, pee into grass or bushes or what not. That's zero flushes, baby.All the water you've ever drank has been drank and pissed out countless times by other organisms, and fish have had sex in it. |
Why are moths attracted to bright lights ? | Interesting tidbit. though not an answer I thought it belonged: there is a particular light, perhaps an led bulb, that will not attract moths or most insects due to its color spectrum or the light it gives off. Forgive me for the vagueness but if you sit outside and get bothers it's worth looking up and changing your outdoor lights. |
Antisemitism. Why has there been hate towards the jewish people throughout the time? | There are 3 accusations that were levelled at Jews in medieval Europe: - blood libel > Blood libels typically allege that Jews require human blood for the baking of matzos for Passover. It was often asserted that the blood of Christian children is especially coveted, and, historically, blood libel claims have been made to account for otherwise unexplained deaths of children. - well poisoning - host desecration [there's a bit in wikipedia about it] > the mistreatment or malicious use of a consecrated host— the sacred bread used in the Eucharistic service or Mass. In Roman Catholicism, where the host is held to have become the body of Jesus Christ, host desecration is among the gravest of sins. Intentional host desecration is not only a mortal sin but also incurs the penalty of excommunication. Wikipedia has a whole article on false accusations against Jews and Jewish conspiacies: _URL_0_ |
Why does it seem like every person I know with a "bad cold" gets prescribed anti-biotics. Are they effective or are doctors just trying to get rid of people. | Antibiotics do not help combat the common cold and I can't really imagine doctors prescribing them for these patients, but you are right that the abuse of antibiotics by doctors and veterinarians is causing a whole lot of trouble because bacteria are becoming immune to them. The more we use antibiotics, the quicker they become absolutely useless. |
Why aren't power lines in the US burried underground so that everyone doesn't lose power during hurricanes and other natural disasters? | Burial is expensive and not always practical. For instance, Florida is crisscrossed with waterways, so not only would you have to dig through the dirt you'd also have to sink the cables underwater, which is insanely difficult and expensive for every feeder line. Plus there are specific laws that cover underground burial, which are different from the laws covering aerial cables, because most people or businesses do t need the airspace but do utilize the land. |
in 1929 the empire state building was constructed in 14 months. It's estimated it would take 4 to 5 years to reproduce today. Why? | Local oversupply of capacity, + significant capacity in general for most of the resources required. Because they were building many skycrapers in the preceding several years, and including several at the same time in Manhattan you have a convergence of a great mass of building/construction talent and knowledge as well as resources. Need iron work done for a new building based on the same design used for the last 5? No problem, there's a company for that. Need 3000 workers? No problem, there are companies used to recruiting those sorts of numbers . If you wanted to build another skyscrapper in New York starting really soon you could pull in a lot of the people and resources that are being used on the WTC site as they finish. But a year ago that labour would be mostly occupied and 5 years from now most of it will likely be gone. In 1930 if you wanted just about anything in the US that was manufactured you bought it from somewhere along the US east coast or the southern parts of Canada. Today, if you want an Elevator you need to order it from Germany, Iron from Brazil, Glass from New York, Pipe from South Africa or Los Angles, etc. And most of those companies aren't going to hire 1000 workers for 2 months to make you all the windows you need or whatever. If you wanted to build the Empire State Building in Shanghai or Chendu or wherever is growing at a breakneck pace this week in China you probably could do something similar to 14 months. But in already developed places, with strained transport systems, limited production capacity etc. trying to get everything you need from where it is made, in quantity, to where you want it is not trivial. |
why did NASA send a probe to Ceres? | To be honest, NASA has wanted to send a probe to Europa for a while now, they just didn't get funding for it. [That may be changing, however]. Funding is always one of the big things for government programs. The scientists at NASA *want* to do all sorts of things, but what they *can* do is whatever projects Congress approves the funding for. If you think the priorities should be different, go bother the senators and representatives. |
Why does it cost so much to adopt children? | It doesn't have to cost much. Contact your county's Child Protective Services. In some cases your total adoption costs can be less than $500. And subsidies may be available to offset ongoing living expenses. College tuition, room, and board can be covered as well. |
If you finance a car, but no longer want it halfway through the length of the finance, how do you sell it? | You basically are being given a loan to buy a piece of property, if the value of the property decreases and you can't sell it to cover what you paid, you are in the red. It's the same as when someone buys a house and then the real estate market takes a dive.You sell it and use the money to pay the rest of your loan. Simple as that. Same with a house. |
Why is red the republican color in the US when it's the symbol of socialism in the rest of the world? | It was cemented during the 2000 election, as mentioned in other comments. Before that, it was all over the place – some people say red was challenger and blue was incumbent, but looking at TV broadcasts from that era reveals it to be a myth. It seems like there were a lot of arbitrary reasons for either. That includes red for Republican because both began with the letter 'r' – the reason given by an editor at the *Times*. [This is a nice article in Smithsonian about it.]", 'They won rights to it from the commies when Reagan knocked down the Berlin wall with freedom and eagles and then proceeded to plant the U.S. flag in the preserved corpse of V.I.I. Lenin. Unfortunately, and typically, for commies, the Chinese refuse to recognize the claim and continue to use it for themselves. Also the 2000 election colors just kinda stuck there, like the economyBecause they had two choices and the Republican party is already white enough as it is. |
Why do some people understand different accents better than others? | The only thing I have to offer here is that I grew up on a major military installation. There were people from all over in and out. Not only do I not sound like where I'm from, I tend to grasp accents easily.Many independent factors: * Some people, for whatever reason, seem to have a much better ability to determine, differentiate and remember sound than others. * People who are frequently exposed to multiple accents of the same language will develop an understanding for common "mistakes" that foreign speakers make. For instance, there are quite a few languages that do not have the "th" sound; French people often substitute \'z\' because they have no experience making the 'th\' sound, so you'll hear them say things like: *I zought I was supposed to push zat button* * Some people have an accent that is less distinct than others, giving them more common ground to work with when they try to understand a different, but similar, accent. E.g. Iceland has an utterly unique accent, whereas the Australian accent is very similar to much of the British Isles and almost identical to New Zealand.I'm assuming you're asking as an American understanding accents. I grew up with a parent with a heavy Tamil accent and a step parent with a German accent. I never knew that they had accents until my friends would say that they had a hard time understanding them. We lived all over the Caribbean as well for a while before returning to the US. Carib accents depend on the region and the historical colonizer. I think I'm pretty good at deciphering accents as a whole although some British accents that are IMO largely rural I find harder. I know French accents are also dependent on the region i.e.; Swiss French vs French Canadian. I'm not complete fluent in French but the French I learned in the Caribbean wouldn't pass muster I'm guessing in Paris. |
ELIM5: what causes some penises to be curved? | Does this affect a person's sex life negatively to have his penis curve to the left or right? |
Why does it take such a long time for doctors to call you in? | /u/Quasimodo1 and /u/littlenuggienug hit it right on the head. Documentation and review take up a majority of a doctor's time. A former CIO at a hospital I knew transferred to a instant log on solution for patient files and records and the wait times fell dramatically. |
Why do many athletic, body-building type people, and especially professional athletes, get so portly in their mid-40's? | In broad strokes, when you are young and exercising frequently your metabolism and all of the moving around you do burns through a lot of energy, keeping you thin but allowing you to eat a lot. As you get older, you are in the habit of eating a lot, but your metabolism slows down, and you stop working out as much and as hard, so your body doesn't require as much energy, and instead your body starts storing that energy as fat. To remain trim in your 40s, it's not enough to just workout. You have to workout and change your diet from what you ate in your 20s.A few factors. One would be lifestyle: while large calory intake is needed for athletic activities, when people slow down, its common to keep the same diet. Joints wear down, life gets busy, and when all those muscles are no longer as active, they can revert to fat. The body tries to balance itself out for our survival. So when you take it to extremes, it can respond in vast changes. |
Why Don't PC Monitors Have an Adjustable Backlight Like Laptops? | Some do: _URL_0_ Some don't. A lot of monitors are sold as stand-alone items. You need software to interface with monitors, and if folks don't install software to control their monitors, or if their graphics cards don't support this feature, you won't have it. Since laptops are built with all hardware self contained, it's easier to implement. |
How comparable is renewable energy, coal, and nuclear? | I'm not super knowledgable on this topic, but I'll give it my best shot. First off, there's multiple types of renewable energy. Coal is cheap and plentiful, but makes large amounts of CO2 and is not very efficient. Nuclear energy is technically clean, because the only emissions it creates is water vapor, however it does produce nuclear waste. |
Why is Google abandoning an established brand and creating a new company called Alphabet? | They're not scuttling the Google name. Google remains Google and it is owned by the umbrella company of Alphabet. Want to know why? Follow the money. Google was sitting on hoards of overseas cash . Where does that cash get shuffled through the umbrella company now? Which jurisdictions does the umbrella company fall under? Follow the money. For what it's worth, the stock is skyrocketing in after hours trading which means there is a substantial financial benefit to this move. |
A Train travels in speed of light, when i start running IN that train.. why am i NOT faster than the Light? | You do not specify a frame of reference for the speeds that you mention; the question is therefore meaningless. There is no way to answer a why question about relativity so that it makes sense to a five-year-old. I can explain that, if I am standing watching this hypothetical train go by: 1) The train is massive and thus, to an observer standing at the station, the train cannot go the speed of light, it can go slightly slower. 2) Speeds don't add up with simple arithmetic when they are near the speed of light. Instead a Lorenz contraction occurs, very simple math that 'corrects' the addition in such a way that no observer can ever observe a sum of speeds to exceed the speed of light.Special relativity. The faster you travel the slower time passes for your frame of reference. You also become spatially contracted and your relativistic mass increases. At the speed of light, time stops and you have infinite relativistic mass. Light can travel at this speed because photons have zero mass. |
Why do things become darker when they are wet? | Primarily due to the way in which light reflects off of the surface. Light which is scattered more or less uniformly from a dry matte surface will be reflected differently when wet. The same surface when wet, will tend to reflect light more like a mirror. Counter-intuitively this means that less light will reach your eyes. In order for light to reach your eyes when reflected from a mirror surface the light rays must originate with incident angles opposite of your eyes from the surface . Light from other angles will tend to be reflected away from your eyes. This is the same reason that you can't see your own headlights on a wet road, the road surface looks darker, and why everyone else's headlights appear doubly bright. |
Why does car cruise control not work under a certain speed (usually 25 mph)? | There is a reason the speed limit is < 25MPH, usually because there are a lot of driveways/side streets. At 60MPH, you don't have to worry as much about people hitting you from the sides. |
Why does my car A/C sometimes smell like ass? | Many replies explains it. It's the condensation that builds up on your evaporator. While this water dries up, bacterias and mold stick to it and grow with the next drive put back cabin filter. Repeat every week and soon enough it will be gone. If you have a car without automatic climate control, the way to prevent this is to turn off the A/C and blow your fan at maximum 1 minute before shutting the car off.Water from warm air precipitates onto the cooling fins as the air is cooled. This large surface area is ideal for fungal and bacteria growth. You can avoid it by turning of your ac for a few minutes before turning off the vehicle, but keep circulating air. The circulating air will help dry and warm fins. Also, you can try a Lysol type spray in your vent intake, let the vent circulate with widows open when you do thisChange your cabin filter, usually in the glovebox.Otherwise, you should change your undies.The same reason your neighbor's cat has been missing. |
why aren't news networks questioning the honesty of the extremely low official death toll of the Chinese explosion? | Mostly because there's no point in speculating right now. China will either come forward with the entire story or kick it under the rug. Regardless of what they do, they will get away with it.News reports on facts, not opinion. The shows on TV news stations that do speculate are opinion showsIndustrial areas tend to be quite sparsely inhabited, when an [oil terminal in Britain blew up] no-one was killed at allELI5: You know how we sometimes can't say what we really think so we don't insult or hurt others? Well, Mike, who works for the news, cannot say that Lou is a liar, because he doesn't want to hurt her feelings. What he CAN do is say that the numbers she is reporting might not be correct, in a very polite way. There is a difference between saying "you are fat," and "we should work out together." ELI15:Some news networks are. For example, NPR has been covering the story and they make it a point to say something about the fact that those reporting such numbers and information are state owned. Here is a snippet from a recent article:"They came from a warehouse holding chemicals and 'dangerous goods,\' the state-run Xinhua news agency reports." |
- The difference between using a computer as a server versus using a computer to complete everyday tasks? | Server and workstation are just descriptions of what the machine is being used for. There's no reason you couldn't turn a workstation into a server, and vice versa. In fact, a computer can be both server and workstation . In practice, a computer designed to be a server will be different from a computer designed to be a workstation. In a server build, you typically value CPU and hard drive specs . In a workstation, you'll put more value into GPU and will probably have something better than dirt cheapest i/o . It is possible to have a server that can only be controlled via network , which would make it unusable as a workstation.A server is just that a computer that erves. Other computers connect to the server over a network either the internet or just a local network these are known as client computers because they are the ones getting served. A client request some data from the server and the server sends it. The most common example of course being servers for websites. Your computers web browser basically asks the website for the data stored store at the location of the url and the server provides that data. It could also be as simple as you having a computer in your house that serves as a media center for the rest.The high school servers they were talking about were probably just an old pc that they connected to their router, and stored music, films etc on it. That way all the people living in a house can access it, and the stuff that's on it. |
Why is Nickelback so generally hated? | It's because they represent mainstrean sensibilities in music. And they have been unfairly blamed for being a corporate invention, whose whole existence is based less on pursuit of art and more on profit; but, that should be said about the majority of music produced.I was going to write out my thoughts on this matter but then remembered that Chuck Klosterman had written a great piece about the paradoxical reaction that surrounds two of the most popular yet hated bands of the last decade: Creed and Nickelback. Here's a great line: "It's hard to get inside the existential paradox of Kroeger's life on tour: Every day, he gives interviews to journalists and radio DJs who directly ask him why no one likes his band. Every night, he plays music to thousands of enraptured superfans, many of whom love him with a ferocity that's probably unhealthy." _URL_2_They're incredibly boring and horrible. If you like their music that's cool, to me they just sound like a really bad country rock band. I instantly hated their music before I even knew who they were.. A few years after occasionally hearing their stuff on the radio I eventually learned all of these songs I couldn't stand where all performed by the same band, and that dreaded band's name was "Nickelback."From what I read, there is in fact circle jerking involved. That, and these posts also remind me the circle jerk for Dragonforce. |
is it problematic or a character flaw to "not know what you want to do" as a young adult? | Your parents sound like they have a character flaw. You have to explore your passions and your abilities. What if you commit to a certain path, before you've given *something else* a try, but it turned out that *something else* would be your life's passion, your calling? By the time your 40 this idea is getting old, but in your 20s it makes sense to switch jobs, try sports and crafts, move countries, try different identities. Live a bit.Absolutely not. In many non-US countries, it is common to take a "gap year" between high school and college, in part to get some perspective, away from a school setting, to help you figure out what you want to do with your life. I didn't figure out what I wanted to do until I was three years into my college career and getting kicked out because I hated the field I decided to study. Once I was out, I took a number of different jobs, and finally found one that I really liked. I was 25 or 26 by that timeNot at all! As you say, the majority of people either don't know what they want to do or lack the qualifications for it. I think a large amount of people "fall in" to their career path through various different means. |
What's the big hurdle in getting people to Mars? Haven't the major obstacles to doing so already been solved? | The biggest hurdle is storage. Mars doesn't have many resources so you have to pack for the entire trip. The ISS sees constant supply restocks throughout the year, but thats not possible for a mission to mars. You have to bring enough supplies to last the 6 month trip, once on mars you would have to stay for another year before your in an optimal position to return home, and then complete the last 6 month journey. That means bringing more fuel to successfully lift and move the massive amounts of supplies you are bringing. The problem with fuel though is that it has weight, so you have to bring more fuel to lift all that other fuel. A round trip to mars requires too many supplies at the moment. |
Why are imported products that blatantly lie about features still allowed to be imported? | Online commerce is difficult to regulate. And since the vendor is technically selling over seas, there's a lot of loopholes in American laws. China has very loose laws on those things to begin with, so the chineese won't help. And American law doesn't protect you when buying in china (you might be sitting in your living room, but the vendor is in china, and so as far as the law is concerned *if* the transaction happened at any place, it happened at the vendor. So why can't they check *everything* that comes in? Well, that would be insanity. So much stuff comes in, and they do check a lot of it. But for contraband, not false advertising, and theyre already stretched too thin and cant do their job properly. If there was ever going to be a solution to this problem, imported goods would become much, much, much more expensive and take so much longer to arrive. |
Why is suicide so frowned upon? We all die, so why does it matter whether someone dies at 25 by suicide or at 75 by natural causes? | While the arguments people are making here are important, there's also the social and cultural aspect to consider. In the west we have a very Christian view of morality and in traditional Christian views, suicide is sinful because your life belongs to God, not to you. To take your own life is to defy God's plan for your life. Obviously religious dominance on public opinion has waned over the past hundred years, but the effects of it are pretty clear when you compare British and American views on euthanasia to those of European cultures that aren't as Christianity-centric. Other examples of things that culturally come from our socio-religious past are our views on what animals are suitable for eating, fear of the number 13, celebrations of Christmas and Easter , new years resolutions, even football fans sing songs to the tune of religious hymns. It takes a long time for those kinds of views to abate and shift. Just look at how long womens rights and gay rights took, and now we're in the fight for trans rights. Culturally we have a Christian heritage and those ideals pervade our society heavily. Almost all common names in the West are religious in origin, even now, and show no strong signs of changing any time soon. I agree that from a secular point of view, the fact suicide is preventable is a major reason for many people, but I think it's a little restrictive not to consider the historical context these ideas and belief systems came from. |
Can I "build" a server and give it whatever ip I want? | Use _URL_0_ and save yourself a headache with a free Dynamic DNS! I've been using it for a bit now and it works great, there are a few different ways to update your IP, luckily I have a router with DDWRT on it and it will update my DDNS whenever my ISP changes my IP address.No. IP blocks are owned and assigned. You can ask your ISP for a static IP that only you can useYou can, but you have to work with other ISPs to get Internet service |
Why isn't there one international sign language that all deaf people are taught? | There are similar gestures or at least that's my understanding. The problem is that there are cultures with important words, letters, and phrases that are not used in others. Deaf people I assume want to have a direct interpretation of what is being signed, the more languages you incorporate into a single sign language, the less accuracy you have.Not really. There are some words in other languages that do not translate so easily into other languages. "Toska" in Russian, "litost" in Czech, "Torschlusspanik" in German, "wabi-sabi" in Japanese, "dépaysement" in French, "ya’aburnee" in Arabic, "duende" in Spanish. All these single words represent very, very complex ideas that don't translate precisely into English, or other languages. |
How come the earth/ground isn't collapsing when we pump billions of gallons of oil out of the ground? | Porosity in rocks is generally what we call 'intergranular'. That is, it is space between individual grains. most oil reservoirs are things like sandstones. If you look at them under a microscope they look like this _URL_1_ That blue stuff is the porosity. It is empty space. *That* is waht gets filled with oil. So when you remove the oil the grains are all still in contact with one another. The rock doesn't collapse. There is no big whole or cavern left behind. |
Why are there hardly any green mammals, but lots of green reptiles and amphibians? Wouldn't they be more likely to survive due it being effective camouflage? | No one knows for sure. Mammals are overwhelmingly earth- colored- - mousy, you could say. A few sort- of- green mammals do exist: Tree sloths turn grayish- green when algae grows on their fur. Australia's ringtail opossums have bands of black and yellow on their hair that can look a grizzled olive drab. |
Why do horses need metal shoes nailed to their hooves? | They don't *need* them. They're used for the same thing your shoes are: To prevent wear and tear on the actual foot. Makes it easier to walk/run. |
When you bash your head, elbow or other body part why does the pain seem to dull when you rub it? | Gate control theory, if you rub you send messages to the brain that aren't pain, brain forgets about pain. It's a lot more complicated than this but it's my best version of ELI5.Rubbing the site of injury causes sensation mechanoreceptors afferent fibers to synapse with C-fibers inhibitory interneurons, which dampens that signal that goes to the brain. Known as the gate theory of pain.I actually learned about this in AP Psychology. It's called gate control theory |
How come the human body is so quiet compared to a computer? | If you take a stethoscope, press it to your abdomen or chest and listen to the sounds amplified by it, you'll find that there are a lot of sounds going on inside. They're all virtually muted by the skin, muscles, bone and fat adjacent to the organs and vessels. |
Why is the UK is slowly stopping using £1 notes | First of all, coins are generally cheaper because they are much more durable than banknotes are. Secondly, £1 just isn't what it used to be. As the utility and buying power of a £1 note decreases , it makes less and less sense to keep spending money to make them. Even in the US, using cash overall is rapidly declining. Pretty much everywhere takes debit/credit/virtual? . It just doesn't make sense to keep wasting money making cash. |
How do your eyebrows know how long it is so that it'll stop growing? | When you get into your late 30s to 40s, your eyebrows will forget to stop growing. It's fantastic.DNA tells all our hairs to fall of at a certain length. Cells basically self destruct |
How is Saudi Arabia on the UN panel, when they have beheaded more people than ISIS, in 2015? | Many countries/politicians support the death penalty. It wouldn't preclude you from sitting on any UN council.US does the same thing, we just use lethal injection. What makes them any worse?Next up : why did we have a 60bn arms deal with them also?! |
How can a wifi router transmit and receive multiple things at once? | Being in this profession there really isn't an ELI5 for this concept. I really depends on the type of data being transferred. Then there is the concept of Layer 2, Layer 3 and Layer 4 protocols that come into play as well. |
How were ISP's able to "pocket" the $200 billion grant that was supposed to be dedicated toward fiber cable infrastructure? | Come to Russia where I spend a month of my life yearly the internet is utter garbage and all the money is getting stolen, not 50% but literally ALL THE MONEY. ISPs here have promised glass fibre cables for the past 10 years and then realized that they wont be able to do it and just put phone lines all over the place . not talking about Moscow because the government doesn't even give a fuck about anything past the Moscow inner circle |
How do activity trackers and apps monitor sleep to tell you when you were in REM or light sleep? | Sleep IQ from Sleep number uses heart rate, breath rate, and movements. It is not a precise indicator of level of sleep, but it is a precise method of comparison. In other words, it will not be able to identify what is REM and what is delta, but it can determine that the heart rate/ breath rate/ movements were different at time x than they were at time y. Over a period of nights, it's a pretty accurate method. |
Why does the way back always feel shorter than they way there? | In my opinion it's just less anticipation. Now that you've experienced what you traveled to go do, you have to go back to your non special home, so you just kinda not care as much.You associate a much larger area with being "home". On the trip there you don't feel you 've "arrived" until you actually get out of your car. On the return trip you feel at home once you get back to your city, or even state if its a very long trip.I think it is like watching a movie for the second time: the first time, you have no idea what to expect and when certain things will happen, but once you've seen it, the second time around usually feels a shorter movie, because there are no surprises left The same goes for walking/driving/riding a certain distance IMO, because once you travelled it once, you know what to expect and you already know the route. |
How can trading in General Motors stock be suspended as they make the announcement that 8.4 million vehicles are being recalled? Isn't that cheating? | This is the first I'm hearing about this recall and I'm absolutely amazed. This is the same recall GM has made on a few dozen cars in the past. They use proper size wire for the ignition/starter, in the winter hold the starter longer to make sure their engine cranks, wire melts the insulation bit by bit, insulation catches fire. Just use a freakin relay or bigger wire GM! |
Why doesn't the US have an Ellis Island type inlet into the country at the Mexican border? | I think the answer to A might help you understand the rest. Until about 90 or so years ago, America had a labor shortage. We needed people, badly, because our industries needed workers. That's why we had open immigration. We no longer have such a shortage. |
Why is it that presidential elections' votes are done via points for each state rather than just total votes? | Short answer: It's really hard to count all those votes back in the 1770s. Also the system let the founding fathers tip the scales in-favor of smaller states. Back then the south was no where near the population of the north east yet was significant to the country. The electoral collage system provided a way to adjust that balance. Also provided a safety net in cases a highly undesirable candidate won a popular vote but was very-much unfit to serve. The Romans used a similar system and much of the constitution was modeled after the roman republic. One thing to note: Chances are the founding fathers never intended for you to have a vote: Not a land owner? Nope no vote, Woman? no for for you, Poor? Nope no vote for you this list goes on. |
Why there are like 8 different versions of every popular song in the 1950s? | Also, all of the Christmas songs you hear are from the '50s. Baby boomers like the songs they grew up with. |
Is there anything smaller than a planck (ℓP)? 1 ℓP = 1.616229(38) × 10^-35 m | A Planck is actually just a very small unit. Your question I think, just has some concepts mixed up. It's sort of like asking if there's anything smaller than an inch. |
Why does the film industry claim piracy reduces profits when revenue seems to have been unaffected by piracy? | People are approaching this for strange realms, and not thinking of why they claim this. They can *claim* anything they want. They don't have to be right. They can just claim it. They can twist facts and numbers to their whim. None of it needs to be legit. They can do pretty much whatever they want in their claims and there isn't much anyone can do about it, they have freedom to say whatever they want. |
if a company has a labor strike, why can't they just fill their positions with temporary workers and let the strikers just continue to strike in perpetuity? | Typically the guys who train the replacements are in the union too. If not then it's a really weak union. The white collar guys often have no clue how to operate the machinery and even if they did, they'd be striking too if their bosses told them to operate the machines. So then if everyone who has the knowledge to keep the plant running walks out, there really is no way for the management to produce anything during the strike.There's real life experience to what happened. Ask your friends who are 50 and above who tried to fly in the 80s after the [PATCO strike.] |
Has there ever been any major evolutionary shift (in any species) in recorded human history? | Since the start of human history, Wolves have evolved into pugs, poodles, chihuahas, greyhounds and St. Bernards. Weirdest thing is they're still all the same species. ", 'The flu virus evolves once or twice a year. Which us why you need a different flu shot every yearYes, there is now a strain of gonnorhea that is incurableI think the real question is, how many examples would you need to accept that evolution is responsible for the variety of life on earth.Aren't some of these adaptation though? Is there a big difference between adaptation and evolution? |
Why do our bodies take a while to become fully functional when we first wake up? | And why does my four year olds come to 100 percent energy and life the moment she's off the bed? |
what happens when the student load "bubble" bursts? | Not as much as you would think. It's impossible to get rid of student loan debt unless you can prove that you are permanently disabled and will never be able to work and pay off the loan. Unless the laws change they will just garnish your wages and since some loans are federal they'll just take your tax return too. Have a house or car? It's theirs now. Part of the reason the housing bubble burst was people defaulted on their loans and filed bankruptcy, It ruined their credit but they were out of debt. As long as they have virtually unlimited power to get their money back the bubble wont burst.How would it pop? Can someone with an Economics degree explain whats going on here? I havent learnt anything about loans being bubbles. Students take out loads, students can still pay them back, banks make money. Whats going to pop? This question makes no sense. The value of an individual loan isnt being traded at increasing values above what its worth. As far as I am aware this is completely different to a bubble in every waywell technically it shouldnt, the new students taking on loans with decreasing time value of money would mean the ponzi should be perpetualDo you mean "loan"? Or is this the bubble of students taking too many classes in one semester?Student loans are different than mortgages in that the government guarantees the lender that you will pay even after a bankruptcy. So, in the long run there is no way to walk away from them without paying. This reduces risk to the lender and theoretically leads to a lower interest rate for the borrower. This is not going to change. Student loans will never be "forgiven". That is not a proposition that either political party in the US is seriously considering. I just want to remind people of this so they do not take on an unmanageable amount of debt that cripples them financially after they graduate . |
How would I go about starting a business? | First you need to decide if what kind of business. Bar or restaurant? Combination thereof? Then you need to research specifics of the business side of it. How much should you charge for your wares in order to be competitive in the market while buying food/materials, paying overhead like rent and utilities and possibly franchise costs, paying your employees, paying yourself a salary, and still hopefully cutting a profit? is going to take a LOT of capital. Think large fractions of $1000000 at a minimum. How are you going to get that money? You'll either need trusting and loaded private investors or enough good credit and downpayment to get what you need from bank loans. How will repaying that money figure into your business plan? Finally you need to be prepared to work your ass off for very little money for a long time to get the thing off the ground you're going to need to love what you do to make it through the tough parts and build your business to the point where it can sustain itself and you comfortably.Good luck! I really hope it works out for you. |
How do chicken eggs not crack inside their body? | Well for an egg to crack inside the chicken it needs to receive a certain amount of pressure. And the inside of a chicken is not applying that amount. Thats why it's not breaking", 'Take an egg in your hand and, applying as equal force all the way around it rather than digging in with your fingertips, try to break it. The spherical aspect of the egg imparts strength to the shell, much akin to how an arch can support large amounts of weight.Part of the reason is the structure of the egg. It is very hard to crack an egg if you apply equal pressure to all sides of an egg at once. [Check out this science experiment to learn more.] I'll just include a quote from that site to for the lazy: > The egg’s unique shape gives it tremendous strength, despite its fragility. Eggs are similar in shape to a 3-dimensional arch, one of the strongest architectural forms. The egg is strongest at the top and the bottom . That’s why the egg doesn’t break when you add pressure to both ends. |
If cancer is just cells randomly mutating, why do we hear a lot about lung or breast cancer, but not so much about leg or hand cancer? | The reason is that cancers are classified by the specific type of tissue they are affecting, not the body part. Lung cancer grows in lung tissue, breast cancer in breast tissue, etc. You could have a cancer of the leg, but it wouldn't be called that. It would be classified as a bone cancer located in the bone of the leg, or a skin cancer on the skin of the leg, for example.A hand, leg, and foot are made up of different building blocks like skin, muscle, blood vessels, and connective tissue. Your whole limb cannot "get cancer" rather one of your building blocks has cancer. It is certainly possible for that said cancer to either become metastatic or invasive to move to another tissue. Either way it is still the original cancer and not a new one because it is made up of the same cells. We say lung cancer just to say the tissue that has become cancerous is in the lung, not because the whole lung is cancer riddenIn addition to what others have said, sometimes when you get a small cancer lesion in your skin/soft tissue, it's significantly easier to deal with than a more internal cancer like lung cancer. If you're lucky, you can basically just cut it off and be on your merry way . Plenty of people have "had cancer" but if they didn't go through chemo and radiation they might not have made a big deal about itWe usually refer to types of cancer by the organ or types of tissue they affect - "hand" or "leg" isn't really a type of cancer. If someone had cancer in their hand or leg, it would most likely be skin cancer or bone cancer and it would be referred to as that rather than "hand cancer." |
How are child actors not traumatized in horror movies? | If they chat to the guy that's about to dress up as the moster/serial killler then they're hardly going to be afraid of him as they know it's just a guy in a suit. Also, you have to remember that they're surrounded with adults with boom-mics, cameras and clipboards. |
If the more i ejaculate, is my body spending more protein to "recharge" thus inefficiently using the protein I consume? | Absolutely. More than you know. This is why you should ejaculate into your protein shake that way you don't lose the protein but still get the orgasm. Problem solved. |
How come deleting a 60gig game off Steam is almost instantaneous, when deleting a bunch of small documents takes a lot longer? | I'm late, but I feel like I can add something. A lot of responses talk about removing the address of the game on the hard drive. That's completely true, but if you don't know a lot about a hard drive, then this might not make a lot of sense to you. Hard drives can't be 'empty', at least, not the way you implied in your question. What happens is when steam downloads a file, it installs that 60 gb game to a chunk of memory that is free, and makes the filesystem recognize the chunks as apart of the tera game data. What gets actually put into a filesystem is very small. So when you go to delete tera, it only deletes the pointer to the tera game data. that 60 gb of stuff is still on your hard drive, but now your filesystem doesn't care. When you put something on your hard drive that would require the chunks that tera's game data is already occupying, the drive overwrites it and gives a new pointer to that new data. When you delete files, youre deleting all those pointers. If you have tens of thousands of files, you perform a delete operation on all of them. So while there may actually be data on your drive, that doesn't mean your filesystem cares. Changing a chunk of null data to actual data takes the same amount of work as changing a long string of data to different data. |
What's the obsession with Americans suing whenever the opportunity arises? Or is it all a myth? | In America, you can sue anyone and everyone for any reason. Whether or not you win, that's another story. In America, courts generally dismiss frivolous lawsuits, however, the deterrent for bringing up such a lawsuit is usually paying the other sides legal fees .It is blown out of proportion by the media. There are some ridiculous lawsuits out there, and it sucks to get caught by one, but in reality most people make it through life in America without suing anyone or being sued.The US, unlike most other western countries, does not have a loser pays system. If you can find a lawyer willing to take your case on contingency, there's no downside to suing. If you win, you get some money. If you lose, you're out a little bit of time. In other countries, if you lose you'd be responsible for the legal fees the other party spent to defend themselves. That sort of forces someone to have a high degree of confidence they'll prevail before bringing suit. |
Why do women get so bad-tempered and difficult before they menstruate? | There actually isn't solid proof what specifically causes PMS as there are so many different symptoms between women. The general consensus is that different levels of sex hormones mess with the chemicals in the brain, which can cause mood swings. And not every women gets bad-tempered as the symptoms do differentiate from each individual. |
How are buffets profitable? | Food is cheap. Entrance is expensive. Most people can't eat enough to make it not worth it for the restaurant |
If humans are genetically programmed to find healthy looking people more attractive, why do we find sun-tanned people attractive, when its essentially just skin damage? | A long time ago *white* skin was considered to be beautiful. Having tanned skin was a sign you worked outdoors; IE you were a farm laborer or something. Pure white skin meant you were rich or even aristocratic; women would therefore go to great lengths to maintain it such has parasols, gloves, veils, large hats, etc etc. Some time around the 40's and 50's when mass transit went global and the rich started jetsetting and going skiing and hanging out in coastal resorts, suddenly a tan was a sign of wealth. It meant you were rich enough not to be stuck in an office all day working for someone else; possible even rich enough to travel internationally for your holidays. |
Why can I read comments on reddit for hours and not get tired, but the second I start reading a book on the kindle I can't make it through a chapter? | It's because of the lighting. Your computer screen is a bright white light, similar to what you'd see from the sun during the day. You brain tells you that its daytime and keeps you awake. When you switch to your kindle, the screen mimics a sheet of paper, producing very little light at all. Your body recognizes it's not daytime anymore and starts producing melatonin which will help put you to sleep. This can be seen with the program 'flux' that you can put on your computer. When the program is running it dims the screen to a more natural sunset-like color that will let your body believe it's night time and you will get tired as you spend more time on the computer.Reddit offers a kind of simplified version of a book . The title of the book becomes the heading of the topic in Reddit. Few things follow that. . Pro Comments/Anti comments. . As you progress past the heading and index.You get better understanding without thinking too much. In contrast to a book on Kindle you have to start from the beginning and join the pieces of the puzzle straining your brainMake sure you have adequate light and can see the print clearly. On a kindle you can increase print size if needed. I have noticed as my eyesight has faded with age that I sometimes seem to find it difficult to take an interest in books I expect to enjoy, only to realize rather belatedly that the real problem is I am struggling to see the wordsIn addition to the short attention span problem, the light from your computer monitor could play a part in it. |
Why does it seem like there is a disproportionately high number of pedophiles among priests/religious figures? | Think about what type of man would sign up to be a lifelong virgin. Who is going to be okay with never getting married? The type of person who is attracted to something other than monogamy with a woman. We don't know what percentage of Catholic priests have sexual encounters with consenting adults . Since that's legal, it doesn't get publicized. I don't necessarily think that the percentage of predatory pedophiles is higher among Catholic priests, than it is in the general population. The priests just get more news coverage. Still, lifelong celibacy is entirely unhealthy. These poor men, having committed to that lifestyle, will eventually crack and seek some release. I just hope that they choose to do so with consenting adults. Pay a prostitute if you have to, just leave the kids alone. |
Why is a two weeks notice considered 'professional'? | Better than nothing is a good way to sum it up. If you have found a job good enough to quit your existing job for, chance are they want you to work right now. They don't want to wait around for a month or two, especially if there are other candidates who can work right away. Two weeks is a balance between tying up loose end at your old job and starting your new one ASAP. Demanding more would just result in the employee leaving immediately. Also, employees who have given there notice know they are bulletproof and are not particularly productive and get less so as time goes on. At some point, you are just wasting money. Finally, two weeks is short enough that you only have one, maybe two paychecks in arrears, you have less at stake if your employers decides to mess with you. |
What actually happens that can cause women to die during childbirth? | Another thing that can potentially happen that doesn't necessarily involve bleeding is eclampsia. It's a pregnancy disorder that causes seizures, high blood pressure, and organ failure. It's caused by the placenta making the rest of the body incredibly sensitive to vaso-constrictors- what your body uses to raise its blood pressure. When the blood vessels in the brain are affected, it causes convulsions due to loss of blood flow to the brain. Very nasty. Downton Abbey fans will remember that the character Sybil died from it after having her daughter. Edit: Apologies for not putting a spoilers alert earlier. Since it's not Star Wars of Game of Thrones, I thought it'd been long enough that it didn't need it. |
Computers are capable of near impossible calculations. Didn't somebody have to program them? | The other answers are correct, but I see from your replies that you don't quite get it, so I thought I'd chime and see if I can put it differently for you. Imagine that a calculation takes several thousand steps. However, each of these steps is the same - we have to carry out the same step several thousand times. And imagine that each step would take a human an hour or so, but would take a computer less than a second. To program the computer, we only have to describe the step once, then tell it to carry out that step several thousand times. Describing the step to the computer might take a couple of hours or a couple of days - but it takes far less time than carrying it out by hand several thousand times.What he really means is "Computers are capable of doing calculations we couldn't possibly dream of doing BY HAND". Computers can't solve any problem the programmer couldn't solve by hand if they had a very very long time to do so. But almost anything worth having a computer solve would just take too long for a human to ever want to try to solve it by hand . |
Why do humans enjoy drinking hot and cold water, but find lukewarm water unsatisfying? | I'm not so sure about hot water, but I do know that cold water sends the same signals to your brain that says that it is quenched. When you drink cold, salty water, the cold quenching sensation will actually overcome the thirsty sensation that people feel when you drink salty water.Another question I have always wondered. Which, Hot vs. Cold hydrates better? I am assuming hot since it has less surface tension? I understand temperature has other significance as well. This is just about hydration.Hot dulls the senses. Cold dulls the senses. Hence why many hot drinks don't taste nice when they've cooled down/reached room temperature and coke tastes best cold. |
If Voyager 1 has entered interstellar space (currently at 135AU), how can the theoretical Planet IX orbit the sun at upto 1500 AU? | It is a definition problem. Interstellar space means space outside the star system. Let's suppose we know a star gas his last planet at 100 UA for that star the interstellar space will start at 100 UA. Now we discover a new last planet at 200 UA. The interstellar space will now start at 200 UA. |
Why are Asian/Indian people left out of discussions about race? And how are they doing so well for themselves when all you hear is about how racist the US is? | Because East Asians are what you call model minorities , whose members are most often perceived to achieve a higher degree of socioeconomic success than the population average. Basically, they're not lumped in with those 'lazy Mexicans' or 'welfare queens' because they have good jobs, or their own businesses, so 'no one's worried about them'. It's also important to note that parts of China, India, and Africa were British colonies at one time, so certain 'model minorities' may have a leg up on the speaking English thing. |
Is there a way for magnetic energy to be used to create some different kind of energy that could be harnessed as electricity? | Magnets are how we generate electricity already. What you're describing is a principle we use every day to generate electricity called [Electromagnetic Induction] A spinning turbine uses magnets to generate electrical fields which generates the current we use. Using magnets to turn a turbine, alternatively, is how an **electric motor** works and requires a power input to operate. That power input is turned into kinetic energy and heat, so as you can imagine, energy is lost in this transaction and so it would have no benefit for further generation.I think you just described an alternator. Though you are going to need to input energy and what you get out will be less. |
If a store is on the corner of the street, how do they determine the address? | My SO works for county government, and actually is one of the people that figures this kind of thing out . This question came up in a conversation we had recently. Basically, the organization responsible for determining the address will have a policy in place; usually it will depend on where the front door is, as others have said. However, these policies can change and have weird little corner cases- I was told about a particular case where a homeowner paid to have a new driveway put in, on the other street of the corner lot. They moved the mailbox as part of this . Only problem was, the house number was the same as another house on the other street. As a result, the house's address number was now confused for the other house . It was a mess because the county couldn't go to the person who moved their driveway and renumber their house unless that homeowner asked for it. Policy was, once addressed, you don't change the address without a request from the property owner. Moving the mailbox is against the rules that the postal service has, and they could tell him to get his address changed, but the local postmaster wasn't interested in enforcing things. Meanwhile, the person who didn't move his driveway was complaining, since all his mail went to the wrong house, and the only thing the county could do is change his address- which considering he didn't cause the problem, was unfair. |
- if there is no oxygen in space how is the sun burning? | It doesn't actually burn There's a process called nuclear fusion that is responsible for the sun's energy", 'Nuclear fusion which powers the sun is a different process that a fire burning on the Earth. A fire requires oxygen to burn. Nuclear fusion does not require oxygen to function. |
What happens financially when a concert is cancelled for medical issues? | As others have said, it depends on the contract, but usually if a band is unable to perform, they're liable to repay the promotors costs already out of pocket, such as venue rental, advertising and so forth. Most large acts will have insurance for such things. Smaller bands are usually fucked. |
What happens at the borders of different time zones in large countries like the U.S? | I had a friend that went to a college that was right on the Eastern Standard Time and Central Standard Time border, and the first week of school she set her alarm on her phone. Her phone was switching towers a lot due to the two main cell towers being in either timezone. She either got up late or early, so she bought an alarm clock after that IIRC people there just used one timezone and it was just implied they meant that one timezone |
Why is the best tasting food usually unhealthy? | It's more like you overeat what tastes good. I don't think good tasting items are inherently unhealthy |
How does one get a headache? | Headaches can be sorted into two general categories: * Secondary headaches, which are caused by conditions like trauma , infection, tumor, poisoning, vascular abnormalities, etc. * Primary headaches, which aren't caused by another condition such as those listed above. The cause of primary headaches remain unknown. They seem to be caused by the interaction of environmental factors with inherited genetic factors. I believe all headaches, primary and secondary, whatever their cause, share part of their causal mechanism, namely adenosine, an endogenous neurochemical. I believe excessive activation of adenosine receptors causes headache pain. I believe anything that causes excessive adenosine receptor activation in the head causes a headache. I believe, for many good reasons, that all primary headaches are caffeine withdrawal headaches. I believe headache hurts in the head because the head is the location of the major sensory apparatus: the retinas , olfactory bulbs , vestibular apparatus and semicircular canals , lips, dorsal surface of the tongue, and tooth pulp. I believe the dense concentrations of neurons in the major sensory apparatus of the head release a lot of adenosine during a headache, and adenosine, I believe, is what causes headache pain. |
Why do some (Cessna 172 for example) planes need a fuel mixture which is adjusted by the pilot, but a cars fuel air mixture is automatic? | The technology used in older piston powered aircraft is archaic. The engines require excessive fuel at high power settings in order to stay cool enough to keep internal components from melting down. During takeoff, the mixture is set to full rich. After climbing to a safe altitude, that extra fuel is no longer required. So for efficiency's sake, the pilot is given a means of leaning the mixture to provide for maximum efficiency at any particular cruise altitude and power setting. Overly simplistic answer. |
Why do we find accents sexy? Is there a scientific or biological reason for this? | I would imagine it's just because of cultural associations we have with accents. A British accent might sound refined or intelligent, a French accent sophisticated or sexy, American accents rugged etc. etc. Mostly there are class connotations to accents, with some associated with 'rural' areas, and then simplicity, a 'country bumpkin' kind of thing. It could be that some accents are more [euphonic] than others, which might have some hard-wired element to it, but I would be surprised if it wasn't culturally determined. . |
Why can’t/don’t ATMs give you money in denominations smaller than $20 these days? | There's a PNC Bank by my house and the attached outdoor ATM dispenses anything from $1 bills - $20 bills. |
CAPTCHA - How is it possible that one computer can generate something which another computer can't recognize? | [Some text CAPTCHAs] are actually scanned words from physical books. They use your input to help digitize the book. Once enough people have responded with the same word to a certain image, that word is then assigned to that image's place in the book, and the CAPTCHA picks another image. |
How is it that countries can safely test their nuclear weapons without causing permanent damage? | There's been a lot of damage. For example, the Bikini Atoll tests om 1950 have so badly irradiated the area that the islanders, who were told they were just being moved for a short while, still aren't back more than 60 years later. All of the nuclear weapons let off on the planet in the past 70 years have messed up things like Carbon-14 dating, because the amount of radiation in the atmosphere is different now than it was before the bombs. Countries try to minimize damage nowadays by doing things like underground testing. The nuclear tests that were performed above ground in the US in the '50s have likely caused an increase in radiation in that area, too. |
Why do large and already established companies feel the need to advertise their company in general? | To help retain existing customers. Everyone knows who McDonald's are, but people may easily forget about them if some new exciting fast food brand starts advertising their products. |
Why are Canadians accepting the big rip-off from the telecommunications companies/internet providers? | What can we do about it? It's a giant oligopoly with insane barriers to entry. The little guy will either be sucked dry financially by the large companies or acquired and dismantled. |
How was the exact speed of light discovered: Was it derived from an equation or simply measured in a lab? | It was measured by observation and experiment. The earliest attempt involved the moons of Jupiter. We are able to predict where they should be with great accuracy, so great they are a little early when the earth is close to Jupiter, and a little late when we are far away. These differences allow us to make a rough estimate. Later, we were able to measure it directly with spinning cogs. A shaft of bright light was pointed at a mirror far away, to it would visibily be reflected back. Then the shaft was interrupted by the teeth of the cog, so the light going out would be blocked by the next tooth when it came back. Then you increase the spinning until the light made it through the next gap, and used the rate of the spinning and the distance to the mirror to compute the speed of light. > Wouldn't that mean that all equations that depend on c are slightly wrong? Right now the speed of light is accurate to one part in 10 trillion, which is good enough for just about anything you want to do. In the early 20th Century, the speed of light was less certain, and allowed for the possibility that certain theories, like luminiferous aether, could be true. Much of the early effort to measure the speed of light accuractely was driven the the desire to figure out which theories about light were true. |
Why does it always seem like the dialogue volume in old movies is much lower than everything else? | Also because microphone quality has improved greatly, so old boom mics couldn't capture sound as well as they can now. I think now it's much easier to mix the music tracks with the dialogue and find balance. |
If the USA strongly believes in the right to bear arms as well as strongly disbelieving in socialism, why do you bother with a publicly-funded police force and not a system based on vigilantism? | Because people are not perfect/always abide by law. What will people do to gangs? It just won't work. |
What is a "1099" job? | In the US, a 1099 means that you're not a legal employee rather the legal structure is that you are a contractor or you are/have your own business and employ yourself. You'll generally be responsible to pay for all of the following: * paying self employment tax * quarterly estimated tax payments rather than withholding* any benefits and any other employer paid or subsidized employee benefits. * you will be able to write off business expenses associated with your business on your taxes. There are also usually different rules about employment terms and legal rules for contractors vs employees you'll want to be clear on for your jurisdiction.1099 means you are technically a self-employed independent contractor or a freelancer, not an employee of the company. At the end of your contract they have no obligation to continue to employ you. You have to do your own taxes, and you are not entitled to benefits through the company. There are many corporations that run this way for many of their employees. Usually, freelancers have a higher wage at the cost of employment stability and benefits.Also, you're not going to have any taxes withheld from what you receive, so you need to make sure you have some money set aside to pay taxes. If you make enough through 1099 work, you may also need to file Schedule C / SE forms for self employment and profits. |
How did so many children around the world come up with the "floor is lava" game individually? | I've seen this mentioned on reddit several times in the last few days, talking about it like it's extremely common. I never played this game and I don't recall any of friends ever doing so either. Which doesn't mean anything, of course. |
Anonymous is a leaderless decentralized organization. Hen the media reports that Anonymous has issued a statement, where do these statements come from? | There's an amazing podcast called Stuff You Should Know that did an episode on how Anonymous works. I would recommend checking that out.Anonymous is not your regular group of people hacking stuff. What I mean by this is they do not hold meetings or anything like that, imagine Anonymous being like Reddit, an internet community with something you might call "a collective mind" in which happens that its members are hackers or people with access to privileged information and that have made more impactful activities. So when people say "Anonymous is not happy with ISIS attacking Paris" its like saying "Redditors think puppies are cute". Them being decentralized also means some of its members may or may not agree with Anonymous\' "official" statements, just as some redditores may think puppies are not cute. tl;dr Think of Anonymous more like a community instead of an organization, just like any other internet community When the frontpages of major "news" networks are covered in dickbutts with an enclosed message- you can probably be sure that hackers did it. However I'm just taking a shot in the dark, so don't believe anything I say, including that last statement . and this oneGenerally if its something credible the larger Anonymous twitter accounts will pick up on it to spread the word. If no major Anon Twitter account is talking about it you can generally just ignore it. |
How do cartridge style video games work? | A cartridge is a circuit board containing volatile , and non-volatile memory. The non-volatile memory contains game data. It's written at the factory and is permanent. The non-volatile memory can be changed by the end user. Older consoles had very simple firmware included on the console itself. For example, if you turn on a Game Boy without a cartridge in it, you see a black bar roll down the screen just like the Nintendo logo would if you had a cartridge plugged in. When you turn on an older console with a cartridge inserted, there's enough intelligence in the console firmware to load the data from the cartridge into the consoles memory, and it then begins to execute that data, which loads the game. From there, the software contained on the cartridge is in charge. This is similar to your computer, where you turn it on, and you see the manufacturers logo, then it boots Windows, or OS X, or whatever. The computers firmware checks your hard drive, loads a bit of code from it into memory, then begins to execute it, which is how your computer boots. Newer cartridge based systems like the DS, 3DS, and Vita treat the cartridge more like a flash drive. They run their own operating system that is contained within the console, and then load and run software from the cartridge. Some cartridges could also contain auxiliary hardware, such as an additional CPU that could improve the consoles abilities. |
if double jeopardy doesn't allow a person to be tried twice for the same crime even if there is new evidence, why are appeals allowed? | I'm not understanding where you see a correlation. Double jeopardy was instituted to keep the courts from just trying someone over and over until they got the result they wanted. There are exceptions to the rule, such as a kidnapping/murder case where the perpetrator took the victim across state lines; in that case they could be tried both on a state level and a federal level. It is a good thing for our system in a lot of ways. Not only does it help to stem abuse as I mentioned, it also means that the prosecution needs to do their jobs the first time. The burden of proof is, and SHOULD BE, on the prosecution. If they're going to imprison someone or worse, then the burden is theirs to prove that it is justified to do so. Appeals are a completely different entity. You're not being charged again or tried again, you're getting a chance to argue that something was done incorrectly or didn't happen the way it legally should have. You are asking a higher court to review what happened during your trial and ascertain if it meets the standards set forth by the justice system and the constitution. ONLY the defendant gets to appeal. The prosecution does not get any appeals. They get one shot to convict you for any one crime. Unless you were sentenced to death, appeals are not automatically granted. You have to show there was either an error or some sort of misconduct that had a serious impact on the results of the trial. You can argue that the state did not meet the standard for evidence to support a conviction, but those appeals are rarely won, partly because the appellate courts only read transcripts and review the case, they don't hear any first hand testimony from witnesses at the original trial unless there is some new piece of evidence being allowed in. |
Why does turning Airplane Mode on and off to gain a connection work? | Do you have another device you can test this on?", etc. If they can't fix it over the phone, they will most likely check to see if the company has maintenance access to the cell sites near you and if so, escalate the issue to the sort of group I work in. Next, the engineers will try and pull data from the MME and BSM that the sites are connected to and see if they can identify the issue for your handset. If they can not find the issue from the data, they might do a drive-test in the area and try to replicate the issue and make antennae direction adjustments if they can identify a better direction. Cellular carriers are more than happy to fix issues like this, especially if it helps out a business. It could take several weeks if you reach this point. |
What causes some people to be "Toe Walkers"? | Took karate when I was 12 at the local community centre. My sensei said to try walking on the balls of your feet to help with balance or sometching. Tried it and didn't stop. I never knew it was a thing tho. |
Is it legal for a Gaming company to ban someone after they payed money on micro transactions? | > I've heard that people with leases on apartments can't be kicked out after they paid because if they could then the landlord could wait for them to pay then kick them out. Yeah, and that did used to happen a lot. But there's a big difference: apartments are very finite, kicking someone else immediately frees it up to rent to someone else. Copies of videogames aren't finite in that way, the publisher doesn't get to sell another copy because they banned you. There's no motivation for them to do this. They're motivated *not* to, because if you're banned you're not going to be buying any more stuff. |
Why is there no universal outlet for home fixtures (ceiling fans, sconces, etc)? | Direct wiring is cheaper in terms of material cost and means one less potential point of failure. Home builders have less work to do with direct wiring. And for the aftermarket, I'm sure electricians aren't eager to see their work eliminated with products anybody can plug into an outlet. |
Why isn't it considered corruption when politicians grant access to lobbyists in return for financial gain. | If it isn't it should be. I would say it is considered corrupt, but just not a lot of attention is brought to it. But corrupt unfortunately doesn't always = illegal. Corrupt =/= illegal |
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