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How similar are microwaves and wifi? Can wifi microwave my balls when my laptop is sitting on my lap, or am I just feeling the heat radiation? I swear there is a tingling.
it's almost certainly not wi-fi. it's likely a combination of heat and just the fact that your skin is touching something for a long period of time. it's not normal for a warm object to be resting of the front of your legs. try putting a heating pad or warm blanket on your legs, i'm betting it will feel the same.
Why in some countries people just wipe but in some countries they use a bidet and wipe?
It's a cultural thing. I can't imagine how anyone can feel clean just by wiping. When I can only use paper I feel gross for the rest of the day until I get home and wash properly.
Why is it people like IS shame us for not being Muslims and having casual sex but then feel it's okay to rape women?
Easy answer? Like everything else they do it's because they are a bunch of hypocritical wankers. The sooner we wipe them from the earth with high explosives and bullets the better.I wouldnt consider these people humans, think of them like assholes full of shit. I believe the same groups leader comdemned western culture whilst wearing ray-bans. Tl;dr there full of shitrape is not always about sex. in war soldiers raped the women of their enemies to show their power and dominance.
What makes a safe crackable or uncrackable?
You should google 'defcon lockpicking' there are a lot of really great talks about the subject of locks", 'Safes that are advertised as “uncrackable" often have some sort of mechanism that will simply break the unlocking mechanism if it is tampered with.
why do we have sketch artists in the court room when we have cameras?
News media is primarily a visual medium. TV news shows and newspapers like to have pictures to show the audience. Courts don't allow videos or photos, so courtroom artists are the only way to get pictures of a trial.Here is a link to a story the BBC did on a courtroom artist in the UK which might be of interest. _URL_0_ For the UK, cameras are not allowed . Main note - there is an act of parliament stopping them drawing in court. They have to make notes and do the drawings outside the courtroom.
How is Comcast and Time Warner not considered monopolies
As a TWC employee, what we've been told and seen is that because the Comcast and TWC markets don't overlap, they would not exceed parameters that dictate marketshares. Comcast and TWC both actually forfeited and traded some of their current markets in order to ensure they don't take up too much share.
Are modern humans pure homo-sapiens?
In addition to the neanderthal mix in Europeans mentioned above, there are also variations in certain subpopulations in wisdom teeth formation. Some people of European descent are born without wisdom teeth at all, which is progress because wisdom teeth are usually vestigial. So I would not say that the modern human is a pure homo sapien. We are constantly evolving. Having said that, it seems unlikely that we will ever call ourselves anything except homo sapiens. I think it's more likely that one day scientists will just come up with a new name for people who had wisdom teeth.
If girls are born with eggs already in their ovaries, can they theoretically become parents through IVF before puberty?
No. Her eggs wouldn't be mature, so therefore couldn't be fertilized. All eggs aren't mature, even in adult women.
How can Marvel and Lucasfilm be bought for $4 billion each, when Activision just bought Candy Crush for $6 billion?
Activision bought out King Games, which brings them into the mobile gaming market. It's a big move for them, and King was probably valued higher than if they had been some AAA studio Activision snapped up. Candy Crush is also valuable as shit. King makes a killing from it
When candidates refuse to obey the moderators in election debates, why don't they turn off the candidate's microphone?
It is very rude to turn off a speaker's microphone in a debate, and breaking the rules of debate is assumed to reflect poorly on the speaker. Even in a parliamentary assembly like Congress, where the president of the assembly traditionally has a very strong role in enforcing the rules, the president would rather speak over someone than turn off their microphone. The rules debate originate from well before microphone technology, in any case.
Why does my dog prefer to eat his food from my hand, when his dog bowl filled with his dog food is sitting right in front of us?
I honestly can't answer this, but my dog used to do this pretty much every single time she ate dinner. I LOVED to feed it to her from my hand because her little snoot tickled my hand with her whiskers. I miss that ol' pup
Why do sons get named after their dads, grandpas etc. and become "Jrs" or "The Thirds" but daughters/women don't??
I'm going to take a swing at this here and say that it's because societies that use this practice once favor males over females, and favor patrilineal descent for matters of social standing, identity, property ownership etc. If you live in a society where women are thought to become part of the man's family after marriage it doesn't make a lot of sense to bring attention to her ancestors in that way.
What happens when you see a tiny flash of one commercial, only to have it cut off by another commercial?
It's called Channel Substitution. At least here in Canada. I worked for the largest cable company up here and did this for a living. Part of the Community Programming's responsibility. Stipulated by the CRTC. As long as a Canadian network is airing the same program at the same time as an American network, their station get substituted over top of the foreign one. This infuriates people who hear so much about the extravagant Superbowl commercials from the U.S., but are unable to see them.Your cable company, satellite company, etc. is allowed to preempt some of the commercials that otherwise appear on any given channel. If you were watching the same channel on separate TVs on Time-Warner , Dish, DirecTV and broadcast at the same time, you could potentially see a different ad on each TV when one of these preemptable slots comes by. The flash you see is an error in the timing of the preemption.I'm so glad I finally have an answer for this! I've always wondered this too. When I was a kid, I always pictured a TV station guy behind a panel of buttons pressing them for the next commercial and he fucked up.A couple possibilities- Cable companies insert ads over existing ads per agreement. Computers run the automation and it could be timed on a clock or sent by "tone" well, sometimes it takes a second for the playback to get up to speed, so you see the top of the underlying commercial. At a tv station, the MCO may be running his break a split second late, so you see the underlying commercialI always used to imagine it sucked at the network was like FUCK IT THIS IS BORING, NEXT.
why are my allergies or cold symptoms always at their worst right before I go to sleep and right when I wake up?
If your pillow is old, it can accumulate a tremendous amount of allergens over the course of its life that you inhale while you're lying in bed.[This] is a very similar post from a year ago, and I think should answer your question.
Why do some words in different languages sound so similar?
grandmother", or "grandfather", tend to be similar in languages all over the world. This is probably because the first sounds that small children can make are similar all over the world, and these sounds tend to become used as words for main parental figures, i.e. "ma
Is it scientifically impossible to travel through or pause time?
Lightspeed is the ultimate speed. You have mass. To move mass, you need energy. To move at lightspeed, you either need infinite energy or no mass. When you move at near lightspeed, you perceive other slower things to slow down. When you move at lightspeed, you won't perceive shit. When you move faster than lightspeed, you would perceive things going backwards. Just going fast isn't enough for time travel, because you couldn't go fast enough. But if you could rip a wormhole to somewhere farther than where light can make it in x amount of time, and then use less than x amount of time to go trough the wormhole, and get back to where you left at lightspeed, you could arrive before you left. It is very likely that creating such a wormhole would require more than infinite energy. Time is completely perceived, and so is time travel.
What is it that makes carnivores only able to eat meat?
Plants are very hard to break down, and are not the greatest source of nutrition, unless you can break does cellulose, the main sugar. No animal, by themselves, can do this. For a very long time after cellulose, or plant walls came about, *nothing* could. dead trees just piled up and up. This was during the carboniferous period, and that's where out coal comes from. Finally, some bacteria figured it out, and some animals have formed symbiotic relationships where they have special organs these bacteria live in to digest the plants for them. Carnivores don't have this, or they could live off plants.
Why can animals drink water that sickens humans?
Animals that drink bad water do get sick and die from it, and that's part of nature, along with being hunted by predators, dying of hunger or thirst, etc. For humans, getting parasites / sick is not acceptable; we use the technology we've discovered to prepare the food and the water and make it safer.
Why can you never see race horses' penises?
You probably mean 'while in the act of racing.' Anyway, anytime I wear a jockey, you can't see mine either.
Why do "experts" and "pundits" go onto obviously biased news shows to be badgered and berated?
Because it allows them to market their show/product[/book to millions of people that they otherwise wouldn't.] Also, they will probably get paid for their time, and, if they get a really bad haranging then other media will pick up on it and their product will then be marketed to people that are more likely to purchase it.People will do ridiculous things to simply be on TV.
If WW3 were to break out with Russia, who would be on who's side?
I wonder where ISIS would fall in all this. Maybe they'd take advantage of the weakened major world powers to expand.
What exactly is the "deep Web"
Whatever you do, don't go there. The absolute worst scum you're ever going to find on this planet frenquents that place, and it shows. edit: pedophiles downvoting me, keep it coming you sick fucks", 'The "deep web" is anything you can't get to directly with a browser or other appropriate type of Internet client without "tunneling" through some other protocol, such as TOR, or somebody's VPN. Technically, this could include content that you can only view through in-browser terminal servers like CitrixITT: People who think Silk Road and the deep web are the same thing.First rule about Deep Web. You don't talk about Deep Web.
Why did the Hostess Unions keep striking until their company went out of business? Isn't this bad for the company, workers, and the union itself?
10 years of shitty financial management ran them through bankruptcy twice. The strike is nothing more than the final straw. It's poor management that led to this mess.Is this another example of a company blaming its fortunes on the workers? How is this "it's the unions\' fault" meme being spread?[Here.] [The upper management will be getting their $1.75M bonus in spite of the company going bankrupt.]', "Hostess was loosing market share & profitability due to change in peoples snack habits and awareness. Instead of making changes to their product line to accommodate the change in consumer habits they tried to decrease costs . Problem is the situation didn't improve , so they keep loosing money -- > they did more cost cutting. This approach reaches a point where working for the new wages will be less beneficial than be on unemployment and look for a new job. So the unions decided to strike to the end. For Hostess investors & management, it's still a better option. They milked it all they can, and with the liquidation they will try to cash in on the brand names, machinery, real estate. . TL;DR; Employees- better to look work elsewhere than work for penniesInvestors & Mgmt: Sum of parts is more valuable than the whole.I may be missing something, but this seems simple to me. The workers were not getting paid enough, so they went on strike. The company didnt want to pay them any more, so it chose to collapse rather than do so. This type of situation is sometimes necessary in order to preserve workers\' rights. Imagine: You work for a company, being paid a barely acceptable amount. They say, "work for half salary, or we will fail". You would not accept this ridiculous proposition. They would fail. simple as that.Nice job with the edit, bbqturtle. It'd be good if more people summarized ELI5 threads this way.
How can Las Vegas charge two different ticket prices for clubs depending on whether you're Male or Female without being sued for gender discrimination?
Do note that some states and more progressive European countries have already banned this. In a few decades it'll likely be banned in Vegas as well, assuming the US becomes more progressive and less conservative .
Why can mice be inbred?
Being inbred isn't intrinsically detrimental, inbreeding a pool of genes which are healthy will result in healthy mice. The issue with inbreeding wild animals is that you lose genetic diversity and recessive traits which are otherwise masked can become detrimental. Also, many of the mice which are used as animal models are genetic clones and their genes are well accounted for. Some mice are inbred specifically to maintain a trait, even if it might be deleterious.
Why are airplanes partially controlled by the pilot?
Regarding take offs, there are critical portions of the takeoff where the pilot has to make a decision whether to continue with the takeoff or abort. One reason that a human needs to make this call is because they may be able to see or hear issues that could affect the flight, which the computer can't
Why aren't underwater internet cables, THE BIG ONES, targets for terrorist attacks?
They're very difficult to get to and you'd have to hit quite a few of them at once to really have any widespread effect.
if I can see the moon and the sun in the middle of the day, does that mean that the other side of the world can't see either?
Think of it this way. The lunar calendar is pretty consistent around the world . When it's a New Moon , then the moon must be on the other side of the planet, which happens to be where the sun is. Of course, there are cases where you can see the moon on one horizon, you can see the sun on the other, and someone over either horizon can see one but not both.Actually, atmospheric refraction allows you to see the sun after it's already "set" , and I 'd assume the same for the moon. Therefore, just before apparent sunset, you should be able to see a full moon rising and the people at your antipodes should see a rising sun with a full moon setting.you just shrunk. you're on a basketball and somebody is beaming a flashlight at you. they're also holding a golf ball. now, if you move to the opposite point on the basketball, would you be able to see the flashlight or golfball?", 'Think of yourself as being on the moon. You can only see, at most, one half of a sphere at any given time. Same with the Sun. Half is in light, half is in darkAnd don't forget, the "dark" side of the moon in this instance is the side facing us, because the sun is behind. "There is no dark side of the moon. It's all dark, really."
Why would an automaker choose an inline 6, V6, or horizontally opposed 6 cylinder engine?
Sometimes it helps fit the car's design (for example, a horizontally opposed engine could be mounted lower, resulting in a lower hood. Most carmakers choose a design type and stick with it, perfecting the design to get better performance from the engine.
Do battery powered cars work just as phone batteries work?
Yes, it is an issue. Now, although both care, cell phones have *extreme* space and weight requirements, and use exceptionally high-performance batteries that wear out quickly. Electric cars use somewhat bigger and heavier, but longer-lived batteries so the very expensive battery pack doesn't wear out quite as fast. They're still high-performance lithium-ion batteries, but not quite as bleeding-edge.
do any other animals use a “baby voice” when interacting with their young?
of a sort. animals don't have language the way we do, but they do have whole sets of behaviors around dealing with their young and this includes vocalizations.Mares nicker to their foals. It's that very deep, gentle "wub wub wub", llike a super cuddly quiet dubstep sound. Adult horses still do this if they're really happy or in the presence of someone ~~they love~~ who has snacks.
Why do people believe cracking/popping knuckles causes arthiritis?
Because people who crack their knuckles get arthritits. Of course, people who don't crack their knuckles ALSO get arthritis, but that's not as much fun to talk about. It's called selection bias.Totally had to crack my knuckles after readong this.
How is auto stop-start on modern cars more fuel efficient? Growing up I was always told that turning off and starting your car burned more gas than just idling.
Older cars up to the 80s sometime, they used carburetors and low pressure fuel pumps when ever you turn the engine off the carburetor had to meter out some fuel to restart the engine. New cars use high pressure injection to run the car when you shut it off and restart it the injectors spray a very small amount of fuel to start the engine. The difference is maybe a few cc's of gas and you probably would not notice it unless you were to keep very accurate records
(UK) With obesity rising in the uk and with over 64% of adults being overweight or obese, why do 90% of clothing retailers not sell clothes that are larger than xxl?
Plenty of obese people can fit in XXl. You don't have to be unable to fit XXL to be obese. It doesn't require you to be all that large to be obese.
What makes certain wine unbelievably expensive?
People. People put value on things according to supply and demand, cachet and prestige, in order to make themselves feel superior over other people. The rich are so fucking rich and stupid and wasteful these days, that vinters could put out total plonk and charge an exobitant amount of money for it, and rich idiots will still pay for it just because it's the most expensive on the market. That's the real reason, but vinters and professional sommeliers will invent all kinds of bullshit to make people think they're actually getting value for their money. They're not. Source: Grew up in Tuscany drinking the best wines in the world with people who are now world-renown oenologists, who themselves have total contempt for their own industry. They'd never admit this in private.
Why do we bury the dead 6' under and not 2', 3', etc.
Where I live, the frost line is at least four feet deep, and can be more than that. It's my understanding that rocks and anything else that are above the frost line will come out eventually, due to freezing and thawing cycles as seasons change.
What is a DDoS attack and what does it do?
It's where a network of computer, usually autonomous send a massive amount of data to a certain address. The goal is to overwhelm the victim's servers with so much data that is slows down or becomes unreachable.
what privileges and advantages has a person when is entitled as "Sir" by the England's queen?
John Lennon speculated that it gave him immunity from the police for most illegal activity that wasn't specifically harmful, i:e, drug use. He returned his MBE in protest, got busted a few months later for drug possession, the police planted drugs in his home and everything. Probably just his paranoia, but it's an interesting thought.
Why are DDOS attacks so devestating? What's bad about a website being offline for a few hours? Or is there more to it?
Some websites can generate large amounts of revenue per minute. Every minute that a site is not up means that that's X amount of revenue the site is not getting. I used to work at a web company that actually had meters to show how much per hour different segments of the site were earning for the company. Another thing is that the company wants the trust of the consumers. You're not going to get the trust of the consumers if your site is down. The consumers are going to be angry and will use every social network they can get their hands on to complain about it. Then you have your IT people inside the company. They'll be pulling their hair out while the CEO is shouting at them and the developers are all going out to get a cigarette since there is nothing to do anyway. I can offer you other anecdotal tidbits, but I hope this is enough. There are lots of technical issues, but I can tell you that my informal observation of several web based companies I have worked at indicate that you do NOT want any kind of cyber attack aimed at your site.
How were older (pre-computer) cartoonists (e.g. Looney Tunes) able to fill in characters without noticeable brush strokes or pen strokes?
One thing cartoonists would do is draw and ink the original strips at many times their print size, so that when they were shrunk down any small imperfections would get smoothed out. Don't have a source for this, though.
Why was the Conan-Leno issue in 2010 such a big deal?
Not exactly. After Leno left NBC, other studios were trying to hire him, so NBC gave him a 10pm show before Conan's. This basically resulted in poor viewership for both shows, partially due to both shows being very similar in concept. NBC decided to push Leno's show up to 11:30, and push Conan's show later to midnight. Conan was furious at this and refused to do the show because he thought it would be unsuccessful if it was after midnight . This resulted in Conan leaving the network.
Can I share my sushi with my kitties? Why or why not?
I often see cats chowing down on dropped/discarded/forgotten fish at the docks - often fish that have been there a good day or two even. If it hasn't been salted or marinated I can't see why it wouldn't be fine.
If news agencies don't want to promote suicide attempts due to it encouraging others, why do they continue to report on mass murder?
Mass murder causes anger, which promotes reaction. It stimulates the economy. Suicide is unsexy and depressing and doesn't generate hits / views / likes / shares / upvotes.
Why do I get these grand aspirations to become more productive at night when I'm about to go to bed but then the next day I just slouch around and do nothing?
Because in the future you are a wonderful person, but in the present time you're out to get the most benefit out of what is right in front of you. Dan Ariely's talk is quite informative on this matter: _URL_1_ Edit: after reading other answers, it appears many folks are at least unconsciously familiar with Dan Ariely's work .My sister-in-law and I were just discussing this in regards to her kids. Studies have shown that creative people tend to be night owls. [Study finds morning people are “logical”, night owls are “creative”] [If you want to get ahead, be a night owl]Suggestion: break down what you want to do into concrete steps. Do only the first step in each of these things you want to do tomorrow - that will help create a sense of suspense and desire for next-day closure.this is totally how i think most nights its so frustrating; whatever i'm aspiring to do, i see so clearly at night and see all the details and then in the morning its all gone like a dream
Why are people bothered / feel threatened by others not vaccinating? If they and their family are vaccinated aren't they safe?
It's not wrong, but there are several reasons why vaccinated people should be worried and vice versa. * An unvaccinated child can get sick, which will weaken the immune system, meaning other sicknesses can come in, such as getting the flu, which then allows that child to get a stomach virus, the vaccinated child goes and visits the sick child, doesn't get the flu, but gets the stomach virus, which only got into the vaccinated child because his immunity were weakened by the flu, which he was not vaccinated against. * Also, unvaccinated children can get sick with something like the flu, and host it while it mutates which then infects the vaccinated child with a strain he is not vaccinated against. * And finally, a vaccinated child means he will not get infected by whatever he is vaccinated against, but he can be a carrier eg Big Bro had chicken pox at age 3, 4 years later, in the second grade, Little Bro gets the chicken pox, Big Bro helps Little Bro and then goes to school without cleaning up thoroughly he doesn't get chicken pox but he still carries the virus, he then goes to school, plays with his friends, puts his hands in the finger paints and trades food at lunch, if his friends have never had chicken pox, they were all just exposed to it, and now they can get it.You are *probably* good to go. Vaccinations are not 100% efficient, and it would really suck to find out you could still get measles after the disfiguring scarring. Just because of some loon. Not to mention the children you might have, with a compromised immune system that prevents them from being immunizedBecause it almost seems neglectful to not vaccinate a child, IMO. Not doing so makes them susceptible to so many things that can be simply mitigated early on. We already have enough to battle with as we progress through life, why add something stupid to the potential shit pile like measles?
Who protects countries with no armed forces in wartime?
There is no standard answer to that question. It would depend on the country and on the aggressor. I'm not sure about the others, but Costa Rica does actually have a small paramilitary force. It's not officially a military, but it performs some military-like duties. Additionally, it's pretty likely that militias would form if someone did attack Costa Rica.
Why are people so proud of other people who have lost weight?
The ability to maintain a healthy weight comes easier to some people than others. There are many genetic and environmental factors that can contribute to weight gain. For some people it actually is very difficult to lose weight it for others it isn't difficult at all. Losing weight can be a result of very significant diet, exercise and lifestyle changes - which is really hard to do! These people deserve praise for making healthy changes.
Why do roller skates have such a negative response from people?
Your probably just not doing it right. Roller skating is still bitchin, but without a fanny pack and some cut off jean shorts you're just asking to be made fun of. Cruel world we live in.I don't know that it is considered negative still. New things just came along and other alternatives were more popular. When I was young all I did was roller blade / roller skate. Later scooters became a big thing, and I eventually decided skateboards were the cool thing. I also wouldn't take any negative connotation to fruit boot. I mean I used to say that as a skateboarder, but I also called myself and other skateboarders "wood pushers" it's just a name. Also the other things gaining popularity can have a lot to do with media. For example, how many tony hawk games are there? How many skate games are there? Now how many rollerblading / rollerskating video games are there? I can think of agressive inline and jet set radio. The only scooter game I can think of is a razor scooter game on the N64. Also movies. Tons of skateboarding movies, not as many rollerblading / roller skating movies> they were the shit in the 90s Uhhh are you confusing roller skates with inline skates ??Fuck what's "cool" and what's not. Roll if you enjoy. Mostly, what follows rolling is always enjoyableWhat places are you riding them around that are full of homophobes who hate roller skates?
What does "Cunt" mean that makes it so much more offensive than other slurs?
The word cunt in and of itself is no more or less offensive than any other word. It's the associations and emotions that we attach to that word that determines whether or not it's offensive. Or basically, a word isn't offensive unless the person you say it to decides it's offensive.
How does Photoshop have a monopoly on image manipulation software and why doesn't it have any notable competitors??
I'm surprised to see all these answers about a natural monopoly. They are only half right. Photoshop is arguably the most well developed/evolved software in existence. The feature set is unbelievable. It took adobe 23 years to create such a highly developed tool. It would be a near impossible task for another developer to catch up to them.Also - professional printing. Does gimp even support cmyk?
WHAT'S WRONG WITH URL shorteners on Reddit linkposts?
> Say there's an upper-limit for the amount of characters that can be in a link for a Reddit linkpost Your entire question is based on a false premise - I don't think there's any limit on link length. Link shorteners break a lot of things. For starters, links might actually expire or the shortener can go away. People can't tell where the link is actually taking them by looking at the domain. The system can't tell where the link is going & detect reposts and related discussions.
Independent Scotland joining the EU
The problem is that the most likely scenario would be that they would need to apply for membership the same as any other country which would want to join. This is a very lengthy process that can take many years. As you say they already qualify on most aspects, so it would certainly be faster than some other countries, but they would still need to qualify on some they currently don't. As part of the UK they were granted a number of special exceptions that the UK got because they are a special bunch. As a single country they are unlikely to get those special exceptions again. There is also the problem that some economic criteria may be fulfilled by the UK as a whole but not by Scotland separately. Finally there is the problem that all the other EU members have to agree. While it doesn't seem that anyone has a problem with Scotland for being full of Scots, there may be countries who are troubled by the more abstract idea of regions of a country being allowed to get Independence and being greeted with open arms by the EU. Some fear that making this too easy would set a bad precedent for their own regions with separatists movements. Finally there are all sorts of practical details to work out. The EU tries to regulate things like fishing to prevent overfishing and make sure that everyone gets a fair share of the catch and that enough fish are left so that there can still be fishers tomorrow. Fishers who are not doing well financially may have different ideas about fairness and don't think that the future is really as important as the present. There are also problems with the whole border thing and how you would deal with the fact that people from England and Scotland are fairly mixed in some parts and all the other problems that politicians now have to deal with along the Irish and Gibraltar border as the UK leaves the EU. It is complicated and would take time to work out and it is to be assumed that the UK would try to make the whole thing as hard as possible
I have psoriasis. What does that mean?
just like ccnova said, your body is attacking itself. There are various auto-immune disorders, psoriasis is one of them. I have psoriatic arthritis. It attacks both my skin/soft tissue and joints. If you are curious i can tell you what works for me and what i've learned over the last 3-4 years.
Why do hit radio stations, who have access to thousands of songs, seem to always play the same exact playlist all day, every day?
Remember that radio stations are in the business of selling ads, not playing music. If they could get people to listen to ads all day, every day, they would. But they have to put some songs in between to keep people listening. They do extensive callout research to see what people want to hear, and then they play that. They plays the current hits simply because that's what the most people want to hear currently, which gives them the largest possible audience so that their real customers will buy more ads and spend more money for the higher reach.Because they generally make money one of two ways: I) they take money from record companies to play their songs II) they make money from ad revenue Both these conditions require them to maximise their audience so they play the most popular current songs that they know people like. They do this because they know what songs work right now, and then when the song stops working they swap it out with something else until they find a new hit.Because in their experience, they select the song rotation that maximize the number of listeners they have. What ou say you don't like is what people measurably DO like .
Why can a computer only uninstall one program at a time?
Most un-installs are handled by Microsoft Installer, which will only allow one uninstall at a time. That's *most* of them. Some use a propriety program/script to do this uninstall, so if one un-install was using MSI and another a custom component, one could in fact un-install more than one at a time. Hope this helps! Peace!
How do search engines decide which websites to display first?
The gist is search engine's have programs that crawl a website's contents and read them looking for key words and indexes them. Then when someone types in a word or phrase the search engine will return the most relevant links that contained those key words. There is a complex algorithm that the engine will use to determine what is most relevant and there is a whole industry around trying to work the system, it's called [Search Engine Optimization]. But like /u/tragluk says the actual algorithm is kept secret to prevent people from faking the relevance and hitting the top of the front page on terms that have nothing to do with their site.
How does rabies make it's victims 'afraid' of water?
There was an excellent Radio lab podcast on rabies. One of the theories mentioned was that it is in the virus' best interest that you do not swallow - that way, when/if you bite someone, there is a maximum concentration of the virus in the bite
Why do I always see Asian people wearing surgical masks?
In Japan, masks are worn when you're sick to stop others from getting sick. In America, you would probably just stay home from school or work to stop others from getting sick, but in Japan where things are more performance oriented, missing school or work is less acceptable.
what is surgery bathroom etiquette?
Some surgeries I've been in have lasted 32 hours the anesthesia team and nurses work 8 hour shifts with usually 2 potty breaks and 1 lunch we hold it And if we really have to go, we hold it I've trained my bladder to hold for 8 hours It hurts, you get used to it
Why would anyone need a 1 Gbps Internet connection?
As quality improves, file sizes inevitably increase. My grandparents still have their PC with Windows ME on it. The thing has a 20 gig HDD, and we couldn't at the time imagine why we'd need more. But think about it if you had that kind of storage now. As other people pointed out before me, 4k movies are going to start taking over albeit in quite a few years still. 4k TVs are incredibly expensive, but remember back when Plasma TVs were only for the rich? It's all about streaming, I know a lot of people who use Netflix in place of cable. Some services let you rent movies but you have to download the entire movie first. Game consoles have been offering their blockbuster titles as downloads, and these are usually in the realm of 5-15 GBs. In case you don't know also, 1 Gbps internet does not equal to downloading at 1 Gigabyte per second. It means that you can download at a maximum of 1 Giga**bit** per second. That's about 125 Megabytes per second, and you still probably won't reach those speeds due to hardware limitations. Expect to download things at roughly 30-50 Megabytes a second. So if you're downloading a 15 GB game , you're looking at something like waiting 8-10 minutes download time if you're literally doing nothing else on the internet. Some people might not care about waiting that long, but trust me when I say that people with money to spare do.
Why doesn't the windchill affect my thermometer?
Imagine you have a bowl of hot soup. You go to take a sip but it's so hot it burns you. Now, you scoop some of the soup onto your spoon and let it sit in the air for a little bit and try again - still too hot! Finally you decide to put it on the spoon and blow on it, and the next sip is just right! When you let the soup sit on the spoon without blowing it, it's losing heat to the air around it, which makes a pocket of warm air that is slowly being replaced with the cool air around it. Eventually, it will cool down, but it will take much longer than blowing on it - that's because when you blow on it, you're moving the same temperature air across the soup, but *really fast*, so you're constantly removing that warm pocket of air, which was trapping the heat in. The same thing works with windchill - a thermometer measures whatever the temperature is outside. Your body is a much higher temperature , and the temperature you *feel* is really how fast you are losing heat. If there is no wind, you'll feel whatever temperature it is outside because you're losing heat at a certain speed. If there is wind, you'll feel colder because you're losing heat *much faster*. If your body was the same temperature as the outside, you'll feel the same temperature whether there is wind or not because your body won't be losing heat anymore.
Why are weightlifters fat?
Because you'll never be at your strongest when totally lean, most likely. These guys lift and eat like crazy to ensure their muscles are growing at a maximum, ensuring max strength. This requires a lot of calories, and even if you're eating super clean, you'll gain some fat. Essentially you saturate your body's caloric uptake so that you are your strongest, with some fluff being added as collateral damage.
How did the AK-47 become so widespread?
I remember hearing an interview on NPR's Fresh Air about the AK-47, which was really fascinating. Have a listen! _URL_2_
Is there a website that explains laws like I'm five?
Depending on what specifically you are looking for, you may have some luck turning to one of the Restatements published by the American Law Institute. They are published every thirty years or so when pre-eminent legal scholars get together and hash out a way to summarize the current state of the law in various fields . You should be able to find them by googling your topic with 'Restatement'. It's important to note that the Restatements are not binding law in any jurisdiction but that courts often turn to them when making decisions and sometimes legislatures will selectively enact various portions of them. They should help provide you with a fairly plain statement of generally accepted law. Additionally, you could turn to one of various commercial supplements that are available on many topics. The briefest and probably most affordable are the 'Nutshell' series . The 'Examples and Explanations' series published by Aspen Press is also quite helpful. Good luck!", 'law students study using outlines that lay out the laws on certain subjects. some outlines are professionally produced, but many are just made by students themselves. if you google around for "privacy legal outlines" and "student" , you might find some helpful material. you might also want to include "constitutional law" or something like that, since privacy is an area governed by the constitution.The [ACLU's Privacy and Technology Project] does a great job of explaining current issues. They reference all the major federal statutes etc. I don't mind answering some specific questions you have. I've been told I have a knack for explaining legal issues.
Why do some people think Ancient Egyptians are Sub-Saharan Black?
While Afro-Egyptian theories are mostly bunk using Egyptian art or any ancient art to prove racial identity is not reliable. Many cultures represented themselves as much different color then they may have actually been. For example in Etruscan art and Mycenean Art they both represented themselves in art with much pinker or darker skin then what we actually believe they looked like. Similarly in Egyptian art only gods, priest, and monarchs are portrayed with lighter skins. Slaves in Egyptian art almost always depicted as dark skin even when they are not depicting Nubians. This Egyptian art suggests a racial idealism and racial caste system where lighter skin was seen as more holy or connected to the gods. Art always exists within the context of the society it comes from and it's never wise to strip it from that context to try and defend or reject some modern theory. Also again the afro-Egyptian theory is bunk. Ancient Egypt was always a multi-racial and multi-ethnic civilization.
Why does something become less valuable as time goes on?
It's because they become accustomed to having it. When your brother first got it, it was like a luxury to him, but now that he has been using a lot he has become used to the idea of being able to use it. I don't think it has become worthless as, if you were to take it away from him he would be upset that it's gone. He just doesn't show it's worth through his actions any more.
why are church's not taxed in the United States?
For the same reason Elk's clubs, political campaigns, credit unions, some insurers, and lots of other non profits aren't taxed they choose to forgo profits for a mission that provides some benefits that the government values.
Why is Taiwan considered an independent country and not Hong Kong?
Imagine the North lost the American Civil War and fled to Puerto Rico, the South was about to go there and finish things up but the British said that's enough stop fighting now. Now the Northern government in exile has hung out in Puerto Rico for 60 years and are more Puerto Rican than American.
If countries in Europe have unemployment levels of up to 25%, why is an unemployment rate of 8% in the U.S. such a catastrophe?
> We were told this in our high school Econ class, but it was never discussed or explained. So a few things 1. How countries count unemployment is different. 2. Europe is actually fairing worse as a whole than it did during the great depression. . 3. Europe - even the countries in bad shape, have reasonably strong social safety nets, and particularly Spain, Italy and Greece have different cultures than the US where it's not unheard of to have people live with their parents until they're well into life. This means the absolutely huge unemployed youth in europe are living off their parents and participating in underground labour markets. 4. The problems europe faces are reasonably well understood, the problem is political paralysis and it's very very difficult to do much about it. Either they need a much stronger central EU government responsible for much more spending, or the Euro needs to break up. Absent those the EU needs to be willing to target more inflation . None of those is particularly easy to accomplish politically, germany is against inflation, political integration failed and dismantling the euro would be admitting defeat on a project that need not fail.
Why do you get a tingling, uncomfortable feeling when you stick your finger in your bellybutton? Is there a name for this?
I don't know but does anyone know why, when I press hard in my belly button, it causes a sharp pain in my urethra? It's done that since I was like 4.My fiancé does this to me all the time. My reaction to it hysterically cracks her up every time. I fucking hate it', "It's because of that creepy bug that crawled into that dudes belly button on the matrix. It subconsciously on your mind.
Why is ISIS destroying archaeological sites and artifacts?
They're trying to get a response. Trying to get people to attack them, as it will help further their goals. If we attacked them, it would in their mind legitimize their existence. They're trolling us, basically. Its just that instead of sending people links to youtube videos of dubious value, they use bombs. _URL_0_
has gun violence actually gone up in the U.S. or has the media just been covering more?
Gun violence, along with all other forms of violent crime, has been steadily declining in the US for nearly two decades. Violent crime as a whole is at its lowest point since the late 1950's. However, although overall gun deaths are down dramatically, spree shootings have increased. Media coverage of these makes it easily to assume gun violence as a whole is on the rise, although the opposite is the case.Gun violence has gone down in the US. Just google it. You probably have heard that Chicago is a dangerous city full of gangs. While that is true , the number of murders is almost half what it was in the eighties and nineties.
Why is pregnancy designed by nature to be painful?
Development of the human fetus stretches the mother's body, sometimes past the breaking point. The trade-off is that babies successfully born have very powerful brains. You can see that human babies are still incredibly weak compared to, for example, a baby deer or horse which can walk very soon after birth. So really the baby might be better off if it got to stay inside the mother even longer, but this would often kill the mother.
Can I get malware without actually running a bad EXE?
It's possible and this usually happens when the virus targets a vulnerability in how your browser/OS handles new files. Without getting into the technical reasons a virus can cause it's own execution without you having to actually run the EXE. The most common way is when it's a file type that automatically runs when you download it . Another is on that exploits a vulnerability in your antivirus so that scanning it causes it to run . The most common one is similar where when the file is indexed for the search feature or to render the icon it exploits itself to run, but this has mostly been patched in newer windows' versions.You can hide executable code within Word documents, pictures, PDFs, things that say Invoice with an icon of a piece of paper, pictures/ads on web pages Tldr; yes, have a trusted antivirus installed
Why are Adobe's (and other popular but prohibitively expensive developers') programs so expensive?
> Wouldn't it benefit Adobe to lower the price of Photoshop or its other programs , to the point where buying it becomes a feasible option for the less-wealthy? No. People who don't know how to use it won't pay more than two bucks for it. But if it's *free*, people who don't have a clue will buy it because it's the best. It's Photoshop. And then there are people that don't know how to pirate or don't think it's a good idea , which is a larger number of people than you might think. They can sell these products, and they do, so it's just supply and demand at that point. Educational institutions, graphic designers, periodicals, etc. don't pirate programs.
How much should I be worried about the sudden temperature increase due to global warming?
Depends on where you live primarily, and how kw•h per capita your society has at its disposal. Say you live in Canada, where your extreme wealth will allow you to pay more for alternative food growing, air conditioner, heat in the winter . etc. This kw•h consumption is basically akin to geo engineering the climate around you. If you live in Mozambique, not so much I imagine. Keep in mind as well that the planet will be fine. Earth has gone through 5 or perhaps six mass extinctions. Megafauna disappears wherever humans go , we were on this course before anyone you've ever known knew anyone. Remember it is not the strongest who survive, but the most adaptale to change.
Why are kids who ARE vaccinated at risk from kids who aren't?
There are people who can't be vaccinated, they rely on everyone else being vaccinated in order to protect them. It's selfish to forego vaccination if you can but just don't want to.
- Why are Muslims OK with naming their children Mohammed, but not with depictions of Mohammed?
Mohammad did not want his followers to end up worshiping him. He wanted to make sure that this was not done so no pictures or drawings of him were made. This ensured that Islam didn't become a religion of the worship of a man. It stayed as a religion for the worship of God. Naming a child Mohammad is not done as a sign of worship to the Prophet. It is a sign of respect. Unless of course the intention is otherwise.
Does every human have the same capacity for memory? How closely linked is memory and intelligence? Do intelligent people just remember more information than others?
Intelligence is more than the ability to recall things. I'd say that more intelligent people are just better at cross-referencing information and correctly and quickly drawing solid conclusions from it. I've known some real dumbasses with impressive memory capabilities, and I've known some forgetful geniuses.
Who is actually falling for internet "one weird trick" ads? What happens to those people who do fall for the scam?
I can shed some light on this for you. I work in internet marketing, and we deal with a lot of these offers. We call them rebills. I think you'd be surprised to learn that quite a large number of people are satisfied with these products whether they work or not. They aren't necessarily scams. They usually do some portion of what they claim to do, but not nearly to the extent they claim to do it. Garcinia Cambogia for example absolutely works for controlling your appetite, but it doesn't magically remove fat. Also many of the skin care products are legitimate products that work, but are overpriced with the subscription model. I can personally attest that many many many many many thousands of people sign up for these trials every day. A LOT of people do this knowingly, while some do not read the terms and conditions. In the world of CPA performance marketing these things are gold. In our case, between 50-90% of people will resubscribe for 2 months or more. If you have any more questions I will try to answer them, but I cannot disclose my employer.
Why is Amazon loved and Walmart hated?
Around my area Walmart is disliked because of the types of people that hang around there so amazon is liked because then you don't have to go to Walmart.I think it's three part: * Amazon isn't brick and mortar, not visibly driving the store down the block out of business.* Amazon has 3rd party sellers and "fulfilled by amazon" resellers, feels more like ebay blame-wise* People don't have to deal with being around "undesirables" in a physical store, it definitely is a different class of people than Target for instance Amazon most definitely is not "held up as the beacon of how business should be done" , at least not in Europe. They are frequently criticized for bad working conditions in their fulfilment centers.Amazon's customer service is great as is the whole customer facing experience. I think that's where Walmart is slightly lacking. But then again I don't hate Walmart
Do our brain consume more energy during complex mental tactics similar to our muscles during a workout?
I wouldn't expect the brain to need more energy when it is doing complex cognitive tasks. Honestly, since virtually every bodily function is routed through our brain, it's got an enormous task just keeping things running. From just what I've read about the brain, and from some research that I saw from a friend who was medical director of a real-time brain imaging center, conscious cognition is not a particularly taxing, nor important brain function from the perspective of the brain itself. We only think that cognition is a big deal because it's the only brain function that we are even partially aware of. There is a whole raft of brain functions that are needed just to create the framework that allows you to be aware of any brain function.
ELIM5 Why eating 5-6 smaller meals a day is better then 2-3?
Supposedly, it's because it psychologically makes it easier to control portions. Nutrition is unaffected, and evidence even for the psychological effect is sketchy at best.
What are the sounds before an emergency broadcast?
Sorry to piggyback onto this question, but I've been listening to those tones and the message for 50 years, and can someone please explain to me why we even have this system when the one frigging time since it's inception that it SHOULD have been used it wasn't? I'm referring of course to 9/11.There are devices that listen for those particular tones. At least back in the 70s, the system worked by chaining from on radio station to another, using those tones as an alert.
Why different species have different lifespans
In summary: Just because. There is no objective evolutionary benefit to any one trait, this includes intelligence, sense of hearing, echo-location, laser vision and life span. In some animals its worthwhile, in others its not. Shit loads of things contribute to life span, there is some speculation that humans live so long because the rearing of the young is so resource intensive that it takes two generations teaming up to do it. All in all the simplest way to think about it is that there is a trade-off between fecundity and life span. Rabbits, which have babies like rabbits don't live very long, and humans, elephants and whales who cap out at a baby a year live much longer.
Why is there an indented space that is lower than the other buttons between "caps lock" button and the "A" on some keyboards?
I am currently at my school's annex, a building I have never been in before today. I found a computer to check my email. And for the first time ever, I've seen one of those types of keys. I'VE JUST PUSHED IT. AND again. That is all.
What are music critics listening for?
Honestly, there really isn't anything special, it really only comes down to personal taste in music, and what the critic expects and can easily over look. Honestly the only thing that really makes a critics voice special is their music literacy, their hopefully diverse range of music to compare the album in question to, and the ability to voice their opinion accurately and coherently. As far as the Yeezus thing that has less to do about Music critics seeing something that you're not and more with the accessibility of the album, and the general music literacy of the average listener, as far as their understanding of song writing, production, instrumentation and technical skills on display. Though, I have pretty wide music tastes, and I thought Yeezus was and still is the most overrated album of the year.
Why do employers ask you to resign instead of just firing you?
Depends on the place. A lot of places do it so you can't later sue for wrongful termination. Others still do it so you can't demand severance pay or a severance package.
Why can I rent a new movie on Redbox for $1.50 but a digital rental still costs $4-5?
That $5 is a square tax because renting movies instead of pirating them is strictly for squares; And you don't wanna be a square do ya?", 'Because digital bits are way more expensive than a physical item.
Why do dogs lick us?
To add a question; Most people train their dogs not to lick humans. How does this effect the dog, if at all? Since you're basically telling it not to show a type of affection?
The mass migration to the credit card chip. Why is the chip considered so superior now to swiping?
The mass migration is because the US congress passed a law that both required card companies to issue chipped cards, and holds merchants responsible if a stolen card is used in their store and it's swiped instead of put in the machine for the chip to be read. The current chip implementation, without a PIN to back it up, is only useful in making it harder for a thief to use a cloned card Which I feel is not worth the aggravation of having to deal with temperamental chip readers that can't read a card if it's even the tiniest bit dirty
How does Hollywood cast for roles with a specific physical requirement (e.g. the person is extremely obese/unattractive/weasel faced)?
They make a casting call on reddit? There aren't so many roles like that to begin with, and there are character actors of all shapes and sizes.
Why are humans most comfortable at room temperature (~22°C) but not at body temperature (37°C)?
For the same reason your car engine runs at 107C but it wouldn't work with an outside temp of that.
Why do teachers use clips/documentaries for classes that are 15+ years old in comparison to newer material?
Teacher here. Schools don't have a lot of money to buy new instructional materials beyond the textbooks. I can go to the library and borrow some videos, but they have the same problem. Educational videos are really expensive and I can't pay $99 out of pocket for a 15 minute clip about any given topic. Also some teachers just get set in their ways and prefer not to change things. Hope that helps.Teachers need to embrace modern media. Youtube videos cover almost every subject. Crash Course or TED Talks would supplement any program
Why Do People Get Depressed?
Usually it's a chemical imbalance in the brain, frequently made worse by what the person is dealing with.
Why aren't there any more big new rock bands?
Explaining like you're five: things usually seem like they were better in the past.I don't know where you're from, but i'm guessing it's the USA, and i get that theres a lot of autotuned music and all that, and we have it here too . But there are plenty of big rock bands, Foo Fighters, Muse, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Blink182, Coldplay, Kings of Leon, Arctic Monkeys, The Killers, System of a Down, Queens of the Stone Age, And this is just my taste in music of "recent" bands. Ofcourse thanks to the uprising of more electronic music styles lots of people just started listening to other genre's, but rock is not at all dead. Mind you that when all those bands you mentioned were playing, there were also different music genre's. And lots of people were probably wondering why people started listening to rock instead of classical music.Perry Farrell from the [Fishbone documentary]: > You had crazy people like Jane's Addiction, Fishbone, Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love, all these people. They start to like wipe out. They either die, they overdose, they go and join a cult. So the record company looks at it all and says y'know what? Screw it, no more freaks. Let's get a little girl and give her a song, let's put her in a video and let's make a ton of money without any headache. No offense, but compared to the freaks roster, most of the 'bands' that exist now, are really just little girls with studio songs.
How does NASA still have signal with Voyager 1 and Voyager 2?
Also to add to the other points, the frequency they use for communication is not one subject to any significant background interference. It's a naturally quiet part of the spectrum, meaning that if the dish filters for only Voyager's transmission frequency, it will be pretty much the only thing in the direction they're looking. This picture is how it's signal was seen by a radio telescope as recently as 2013._URL_0_
Why is ceramic a good material for body armor?
Ceramics are an entire range of substances, and can be composed of a wide variety of different elements. Tungsten carbide, for example, is a ceramic. So the ceramics used for body armor would be made of much sterner stuff than simple clay. Although in answer to your question, yes ceramic body armor would be brittle. It's just that the force required to bend/break it would be more force than your average bullet imparts, and thus much higher than you'd get from, say, tripping while wearing it.
Why is Queen Elizabeth's husband not the King?
Queen Elizabeth is the actual daughter of the last king. Her husband is the son-in-law of the last king. When a ruler in England dies, his next heir gets the crown. Usually it's a male heir. If it happens to be a female heir then she gets to decide weather to give her husband the crown, or to keep it herself. It's actually not a new thing as you would think. That's been how it has been all along.I highly recommend you watch _URL_2_ by CGP Grey, who does an excellent job of explaining this question. To the person who deleted their post before I could respond: Getting rid of the monarchy in England would be such a bad move on so many levels. It is apart of the history of that rightly or wrongly people look upon with great reverence and romantic affection. The world as a whole would be a less special place. That is a major reason why the monarchy makes so much tourism money.Being the Queen's Shagger is not a bad title.
How is it that you can by cocacola in almost any shop or restaurant in the world but you never see a factory?
There are only a few factories around the world which make the coke syrup, this is shipped off to franchises who bottle/can the drink. They take the syrup and produce the drinks for consumption, the factories will then ship the finished goods to its own distribution centres or to customers who have made orders. Depending on the franchise depends on its setup, in the UK the central office team is in Nottingham and coordinate which factory makes what based on demand and where to send stock to best suit it's customers. You won't see the factories just anywhere as they are generally in industrial estates which have good communication links and specially for manufacturing plants need good access to reliable water.