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Is catnip like drugs for cats? | No. It is a drug for cats. noun: drug; plural noun: drugs1. a medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body. So that's a substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced to the body . |
Why is there a stigma associated with being ginger? | That's always confused me. Personally, I think red hair is beautiful.I think in the US at least, it's a bit of an internet joke - I know I've never heard anyone call someone a 'ginger' IRL without a i-don't-really-mean-this-it's-just-funny-on-the-internet tone of voice. Growing up, I only ever heard people with red hai... |
What is the point of unmarked police cars if they are still very easily spotted? | Think of it as higher managers or an undercover store cop. By wearing the employee uniform, they would always be asked about where the toy section is or if they sell X stuff and by refusing to help, they would give the store a bad image. Unmarked cars don't have the letters so the cops can focus on other tasks than sho... |
Is it reasonable suspicion of illegal drug abuse when rappers/ hip hop artists mention the use of drugs in their music? | no, for the same reason that the police don't suspect actors using drugs if they do drugs in a movie. They're doing it for artistic purposes. |
What law(s) is preventing me from using physical force to evict a squatter from my residence? | Squatter's Rights! If it's a home you actually live in and have been present in, it's not exactly Squatter's Rights. It's even stranger than that! In your residence, it's often referred to as an 'unwelcome guest' or 'unwelcome resident.' An unwelcome guest is basically a person who is or claims to have an agreement wit... |
Why is our bodies reacting like it is to drugs like heroin. | Certain drugs also cause physical reactions - like how meth makes you feel like your skin is crawling, causing people to [scratch their faces]. This leaves the scars on people's faces. Apparently meth also affects the immune system, so that may be part of it, too. |
Trying to understand Brexit. What are the main reasons citizens wanted out of the EU? Is it likely France will follow? | I'd like to add a question if I can. What other countries are most likely to follow Brexit and leave the EU? |
How is Magic Johnson alive? | Expensive meds and luck. He's not going to be getting the basic level treatment that avg Joe is getting thru insurance. |
Why amount of transgender people is increasing so much | First of all, not a fad.The rate at which people regret transition is very low. The reason it seems there are more trans people now is due to spread of information and networking so information about trans is more accessible, and stories of trans folk are more often heard, vs 100 years ago where you were prosecuted sim... |
How to dougie (actually) | from what i understand dougie isn't actual dance moves its just your own thing. Your own style, so just dance any way you want to", 'I love pulling up "How to Dougie" videos at small parties so I 've seen a lot of people attempt to answer this question. The biggest takeaway for me was someone saying that everyone's dou... |
Why is it that people have a hard time getting out of stressful situations in dreams (including doing simple things like dialing 911, running away, etc.)? | You probably shouldn't call 911 because of a nightmare.I believe that dreams are a way your mind is working through something in your life. Whereas calling 911 is a solution to an attacker in real life, in a dream, the attacker is some aspect of yourself. You need to either understand the message it is sending you or f... |
Where did "Jingle Bells, Batman Smells" come from and how did it become so universally known among children? | The best iteration of this that I am aware of is the one we sang at my first school: Jingle bells Batman smellsJingle all the way.He lost his pants in the middle of France,and found 'em in Bombay.My theory is that in the early 1960s, while hiding from his father in a dark closet, Brian Wilson saw the first episode of t... |
Is there a biological explanation for spacing out? | Wish I had the attention span to read all these comments. I'd probably learn something about myself :P |
How do movie editors duplicate the same person in a shot at the same time? | Also, don't overlook the fact that, especially in older movies and TV shows, they just use identical twins for these kinds of scenes. This is still the easiest way to do it, whenever it is possible. |
Is it possible to catch a bullet, safely? | While wearing kevlar gloves, possibly. A smaller bullet fired at relatively lower velocity would be somewhat safer, but I still wouldn't want to try it. A bullet fired parallel to the ground would still have a lot of forward momentum by the time it fell to the ground. A bullet fired up in the air would be even more dan... |
How come we still can't make suits that can be washed normally? | We could and we do, but it wouldn't look exactly like a wool/cotton formal suit. And if you have a job that requires a formal suit 99% of that dress code is looking exactly like people expect you to. And those jobs pay enough to afford dry cleaning. If you can get away with not wearing a suit, if you're that important ... |
Texas is running out of lethal injections- how/why, can't they order/make more? | Other people have given the gist of why they're running out, but they could easily 'make more' by changing their formulations in theory. In practice it'd be a big hassle no doubt to try and work out legally that it's a sufficiently humane way to do it, sufficiently likely to kill everybody, etc. There's nothing particu... |
How much money do retail stores spend on credit card transactions? | Between 2.5 and 3%. The problem with grocery stores is that they are a very low margin businesses, 5-10% profit. 3% isn't a big problem in a mall store that's a 30% profit margin business, but it's a big deal at a 5% discount grocer. Of course, that's changing as Amazon eats the lunch of those 30% profit mall stores. |
Why does Scotland want to leave the United Kingdom? | Scottish Nationalists believe that Westminster governments have squandered Scotland's resources and they do not represent Scotland's best interests. It is not correct to say that 'Scotland' wants to leave the UK, as there has never been a formal vote by the Scottish people. On the 18th of September 2014 there will be a... |
The US Constitution and the Second Amendment. Why is a subsequent amendment so important that it cannot be revoked or rescinded? | There is a process that amendments can be made . It's possible and has been done before, but it requires, as one of the steps, for 3/4 of the states to agree. That would never happen to revoke the 2nd amendment. Considering your point about: > If the right to bear arms was so important, why wasn't it included in the or... |
Why do airplanes have to switch off the interior lights when they go in to land? | It's so that your eyes are adjusted to the light outside. Take off and landing are the times when accidents are most likely, but also most survivable. So having your eyes adjusted gives you the best chance of evacuating safely if necessary.In the case of emergency landing, people needs their eyes already adjusted to th... |
Why being a virgin is usually considered a bad thing in American tv. | The automatic assumption is that **everyone** is getting laid. If you aren't getting laid, you must be abnormal or in some other way socially deficient.Just some cultural observations: Men are taught women are "prizes" to be earned - a symbol of status and power, yadda yadda yadda. On the flip side, there's that mindse... |
If people having an education is good for the economy, why doesn't the government just make education cheaper/free | I'm assuming you're talking about college? Everybody going to college *isn't* good for the economy. |
Why do humans dislike the smell of feces yet animals, like dogs and rats, aren't fazed? | I think the only exception to that rule is mom's of new born's that breastfeed. All my kids poo smelled like fresh popcorn until they started to eat solid food. |
Why can't we just cut a cancerous tumor out? | cancer rarely has such neatly defined borders. it's important to remember that cancer isn't some foreign entity. it's you. your cells, doing their job wrong. so yes, you can cut out the most prominent part of a tumor, and that's what they usually do. but that doesn't mean are guaranteed to get it all. that is why treat... |
How did the United Kingdom, an area about the same size as Alabama and Mississippi, have the ability to colonize so much of the world? | East India Company _URL_0_ EIC was a huge company that needed a navy to protect its commercial interests in India and China starting from the 1600's. This kickstarted UK sea superiority. The industrial revolution then gave them an extra boost. All big countries in Europe became hungry for resources, and started pillagi... |
How did the drug cartel become so powerful in Mexico? | Not a historian, just read about this topic a few years ago. Cocaine was recently a product that came from Colombia. Pablo Escobar was on top of that up until he died in 1993. Once he was put out of business other cartels took up the slack. Fast-forward to nowadays and we have a cartel like Las Zetas. I won't go into m... |
Why do we hear so much about garbage islands, but can't see any on Google Maps? | VICE has a short documentary on it. There aren't many huge chunks of plastic but there is a large area with masses of small chunks of plastic. They'd just dip a net into the water and come up with trash. |
Modpost: ELI5 State of the Subreddit | I think the subreddit is great, though I think stricter moderation on non-serious answers should be a top-priority. Basically on the level of /r/AskScience They get rid of comments, sometimes entire strings of them, if they are off topic and don't contribute to the discussion. One wants to click on an ELI5 and look at ... |
Why do so many songs have,"La la la" and "Na na na?" | baby baby baby" and "ya ya ya"I can't find sources to back this up, but I believe "La" or "Na" are the easiest sounds to make at singing volume. I remember an Asian Religions professor telling my class that "Om" was a sacred syllable because it's the sound your mouth makes when it goes from all the way open to all the ... |
Why a war against North Korea would be so much easier to win now as compared to the fifties | During the Korean War, NK was definitely the stronger nation, since it inherited most of the industrial facilities after the North/South split, and it was receiving much more help from its allies than the South. For this reason, SK was easily overrun immediately at the beginning of hostilities. Now the tables are turne... |
Why does the price range for bicycles go from as low as $100 to as much tens of thousands? What makes the very expensive bikes so special? | Bicycle industry man here, its easy to say here that there is a big difference between bicycle prices and their associated quality, but what I think would be the best way to find out is go to your local bike shop, and ride a range of road bikes or mountain bikes, from $2-$6k, and you can feel the difference. They're li... |
If a movie has grossed more than its production cost, and many years have passed since its release, why don't they make it freely available on YouTube? | Because every time someone rents, buys or streams an old movie the studio still gets a royalty payment. Would you give away something that's still making you money?", 'Because they still have paychecks to write, rent to pay, etc. |
How can a single site, like YouTube, host such a ridiculously huge amount of content? | Here's an article about Googles data centers. I'd imagine something similar is done for YouTube. _URL_1_ |
Why did High School Grads look so 'Adult' back in the 60's, 70's, & 80's, but today they look so child-like? | I think another issue is that back in those days there weren't clothing lines manufactured for teens/young adults. Once you were adult sized, you wore adult clothes and therefore looked like an adult. |
Why do we have emotions | Emotions are the result of having higher-order brains. You asked why we have them, though, and while it's debatable, processing fear is thought to be an evolutionary advantage. Many higher consciousness pack animals have fear, some have more socially oriented emotional responses, like elephants showing reverence for or... |
What are DDOS attacks? | Imagine you're the one girl on Reddit. You think, 'Hey, I'd like a dick pic or two to check out because we chicks love that stuff!'. So you ask for a dick pic on Reddit. Bad move, you're about to get DDoS'd with every guy on Reddit's dick pic in your inbox! No matter how fast you try to view them you can't keep up! If ... |
Graphene, Graphite, and why one is an amazing super-material and the other is pencil lead and skateboard layers? | Graphite and graphene are technically the same thing. Graphite is just broken into lots of tiny pieces. It's like a peice of paper ripped into a bunch of pieces then taped back together. The unripped peice of paper is much stronger. Electrically its the same idea. Its a lot easier for electrons to jump between connecte... |
why is heating something on a low heat for a long time not the same as heating something at a higher heat for a shorter amount of time | At higher heat you allow some other reactions to occur which have the effect you don't want. For example, if you heat up bread enough you can set it on fire. This is not the same as the reactions for cooking it as you are combusting the carbohydrates rather than denaturing the yeast. |
If you are traveling Northeast at 100mph are you traveling north at 50mph and east at 50mph? | Neither you or your friend are correct. Your friend is correct about being able to break your velocity vector into components, but he's wrong about the values. You're wrong about not being able to break it into components. This video will help you understand how that's done._URL_0_ |
Why is lobbyism normal in the US? What's the difference to corruption? | Lobbying doesnt even have to be immoral. If I start a petition that the government should do something about the heroin epidemic or other real problem, and pester congressmen about it, that's lobbying. Like most things humans do, its not the act itself, its the people involved who turn it slimy. |
How did the USA become basically the 'world leader'? | Some excellent answers in this thread, yet no one has mentioned the Marshall Plan, the original 'aid' plan. In the late 40's, the US lent A LOT of money to help rebuild Europe. Considering that the mainland US was geographically impervious to much of the conflict, and played an enormous manufacturing role, it had the m... |
Which side is Turkey on? | To answer the last question first, Turkey is right up there with Israel as our most important strategic ally in that area of the world. They control the only sea route out of the black sea, and there is basically nothing that can possibly happen in Syria that comes close the the importance of maintaining the strategic ... |
What if I permanently decide to breathe using my mouth and not thru my nose? Any health effects? | All that hair and mucus in your nose? That's meant to catch airborne junk that could make you sick. It works as a filter to keep stuff out. It also moderates how much air you're taking in. If you breathe through your mouth, not only do you open yourself up a little more to getting sick, but you'd also probably develop ... |
what is practical about a 3D printer? | It's not very practical really. Mine helps me manufacture small pieces I wouldn't know how to have otherwise, when I try to fix the connection for a wire into a laptop, or to build a case that handles a small device, or something to help a lego-robot push a switch because I found no way to have this switch programmable... |
How can a company like Amazon never make a profit, and yet it increases in value? | Amazon loses money because it's investing in building out its infrastructure and growing its revenues like crazy once that's in place and it cuts back on the spending on data centers, warehouses, digital rights, etc. then it'll rake in HUGE profits because so many people have been trained to go to Amazon to get everyth... |
why does a 1080p movie, on a 1080p screen, have black horizontal bars at the top and bottom? | The shape of the movie does not match the shape of your TV. Most movies are shot in a very wide format, partly to create an experience that you can't replicate at home. So they can cut off the sides of the picture when showing it on your TV, or they can show the whole width and not make use of the top and bottom of the... |
How does a flat tax favor the wealthy? | The favor is in the size of the burden. Imagine a flat tax rate of 20%. A person who earns $1 millions pays $200K in taxes. A person that earns $25K pays $5K in taxes. So at the end of the day the millionaire is left with $800K to spend as she sees fit, while the pauper is left with $20K. Consider that $800K and $1 mil... |
I love that T-Mobile does this, but how is allowing unlimited data for music streaming not a violation of NN? | This has nothing to to with network neutrality. An example of a violation of NN would be if they, for example, wanted to make sure that you used their music service instead of iTunes, so they looked at every data packet you are getting, and decided to 'lose' or give low priority to the ones from iTunes. They are just s... |
how does US states go cashless when the federal government is spending so much in other countries? | The states have seperate budgets from the federal one and pulls taxes from much narrow pools of people. Alot of states decided to cut their taxes down to below sustainable levels. When this happens you don't have a balance budget partly from choice so you have to cut programs. There has been a theory state wise that if... |
If humanity knows nothing about aliens, why is it so important that we find water on different planets if we have never proven they need water to survive? | Look it like this. I want you to find me something in your city, I'm not going to tell you what it is or what it looks like, but I'll tell you when you find it. This is impossible right? If you don't set bounds on what you're looking for you can't ever find it. So even though it's quite possible that alien life might n... |
Why can't we just cover a proportion of the desert with solar panels to provide the world with energy? | Only one other person mentioned it, but why would we do that? Most of the world's deserts have incredibly fragile and ancient ecosystems. It is pretty interesting but read about the microorganisms that live in the sand at White Sands National Monument. I believe you are not allowed to stray from the path because of how... |
Why is there so much dishonesty and mistrust in auto repair services? | Well, for starters the consumers are at a disadvantage. Already when the consumer has pulled their car into the garage to have it looked at they have two choices: a) continue and get it fixed and get the hard sell,b) go to a different garage and have them repeat essentially the same thing. Most people cannot fix their ... |
Why aren't local weathermen doing more to explain the risks of climate change? | Tom Skilling talks about climate change all the time more than usual with this elongated Chicago winter. It's just subtle since he cant be official about it. |
Why do most animals, especially sea life, generally ignore / not attack humans? | We don't fit into their model. We don't look like what they are used too, so they are not sure what to make of us. Sharks, as an example, typically only attack due to a case of mistaken identity. A surfer on their board casts a shadow that is similar to a large seal. Otherwise they aren't sure what we are, much less if... |
Why has human evolution only gotten us to the point where well less than half of females experience an orgasm during vaginal intercourse? | I've read a number of articles which suggest that this is less a result of biological evolution than it is of societal evolution. Specifically, for hundreds of years we have been teaching women that their bodies are things to be ashamed of, and as a result many women have a kind of psychological block. Sometimes they w... |
Why it is more pleasurable when somebody caresses you than when you caress yourself? | Same reason why you can't tickle yourself, or why you can't properly punch yourself in the gut. |
If pain is the human body's way of preventing further damage, why does scratching get interpreted as a 'good' sensation, when it is destroying cells? | Scratching causes our bodies to create dopamine and serotonin, chemicals that help our brains feel good. They make the itchy area feel better, briefly. Unfortunately, we then keep on scratching if we don't think about it, and the scratching damages the skin so much that even a few extra chemicals don't do the job. The ... |
Who and what determines when and where a new (pop) song will be played on the radio? | A lot of people say that the radio is purposefully trying to change the tastes of people, but I don't think it's as drastic as people say it is. Songs get popular so they get played a lot. I don't think forcing people to like a song just for money would work.not exactly like what you asked for, but [this video] explain... |
When injured, why do kids instantly start to cry where as an adult you just scream (and or curse)? | I had a friend break his ankle by getting it caught in a tree root when he was running. Big tough guy. He didn't make a sound. I think it hurt so much, that he couldn't make a sound. Someone was shouting his name, behind the tree he was in and he didn't respond. It's not just all screaming and cursing. To answer your q... |
Is Halal Slaughtering less painful than normal ones? Or Are modern techniques less painful? | Modern techniques use an electric stun which is considered less painful. In my country though halal slaughterhouses use a temporary stun so the animal is unconscious before it's throat is cut. Edit: The stun isn't always electric but sometimes is bolt gun or CO2. |
Julius Caesar is by many considered the greatest man to ever live, but what did he accomplish? What was his direct impact on history? | I don't know if it can be called an accomplishment, but having your own month is a direct impact on history. |
Why Do Musicians Leave the Stage before Encores if They are Immediately Coming Right Back? | It helps us accept the ending is coming. The more musicians played an encore the more the crowd see it as part of the show - now it's a cultural thing to the extent that musicians who don't do encores have to explain they don't do them and that when they say it's their last song it really is. |
How does ISIS know who to kill in regards as to who is Sunni and who is Shia? | If you think about it, there have often been different groups fighting who pretty much looked a like. How did they tell the different ethnic groups apart in the Yugoslavian civil wars? How did they tell Tutsis and Hutus apart in Rwanda? How did they tell Jews apart from Gentiles in Germany? In many cases in other place... |
why do people go insane if they are in isolation for a long time? | I never understood the effects of isolation until I had to recover from surgery for four weeks. I was supposed to have a nurse come check on me everyday at my house, but I stupidly refused the service to save a few bucks. At first it was nice and relaxing But being confined to my home and not being able to drive slowly... |
Evolutionary purpose of clothing? | I'd imagine it was to keep the body warm in the winter, and covered from the sun during weather, shoes to protect the feet. Mostly environmental protection. There's probably a lot of historical speculation on this, but that's my best guess. |
If I tilt my head left and right, why do I still perceive the world upright? | Vision is calculated by the brain, not your eyes. Your eyes do send the sideways images to your brain, but your sense of balance corrects the image you 'see' |
Why do super famous actors/directors etc still hire talent agents and managers? Wouldn't their immense fame be enough to get them studios pitching ideas to them, let alone audition requests. | For me, the bigger question is why do studios hire famous actors at all? There are many, many great actors out there no one has ever seen before. Whenever I see a really famous actor in a movie, it just takes me out of the fantasy. It is not the person who is playing the part, but the concept of the movie that usually ... |
Why ministers (in the UK anyway) who have no qualifications or background in an area of expertise eg Heath/education are allowed to dictate how that area is run? | Yeah, the Minister of the Environment here in Canada pretty much has an r/spacedicks sized hardon for oil companies. You can imagine how well that turns out for the environment most of the time. I know in Canada ministers are appointed by the Prime Minister. So he can appoint anyone he choses. And every few years it's ... |
Why is the CIA Torture Report such a big deal? | We have not known for years that torture was being used by our armed forces. One could've safely assumed that it was as everyone's military does to an extent, but there was no official confirmation. It IS a big deal. If our country tortures people, then we're no better than the terrorists we're fighting |
How did "modern" disorders like Autism, OCD, and ADHD arise? | Psychology has grown to the point where we can identify, categorize, and diagnose these disorders. They didn't *not* exist beforehand. It's just that we were not able to properly attribute the symptoms to a cause. |
Why do humans cry or draw away when feeling pain instead of getting angry like a bull or boar? Why do we cry in general when sad or in pain? | The reaction depends on the intensity and the duration of the pain. A quick, surprise sharp pain is a lot more likely to trigger a fury response as part of the fight or flight system. If it's a less intense, more drawn out pain there's likely a more meta 'woe is me' disappointment self-judging overlay to the pain, lead... |
why was the invasion of normandy(d-day) important ? and why did we have to attack such a heavily fortified german base ? | There were good political and military reasons for Britain and the US to invade Germany. Most pragmatically, if they didn't, they knew the Russians would end up controlling Europe. As for the choice of the landing site, it was a very long coast line and there were many options. The Germans knew this too and defended th... |
What happens to Social Security Numbers after the owner has died? | I used a fake name and SSN to get phone and utilities all through college and a few years beyond. No one seemed to check, and if you memorize everything and rattle it off, no one ever checks. Why? It doesn't cost them anything to believe you. No one even noticed that the payment checks were coming from a totally differ... |
Why are satellites more powerful than wifi? | Actually, the oldest GPS satellites are 40 years old. But, as others have pointed out, your wifi system is only designed for very short ranges, and it would cause problems if the signal was too powerful. Also, your wifi antenna is *tiny*. Sending very strong signals isn't actually difficult. All you need is enough powe... |
Could a radio antenna be set up to broadcast in the visible spectrum? | Probably. But the antenna would have to be very very short; on the [order of 300 nm] . [Here's] a good Wikipedia page on the subject. As to the power, that would depend on how intense you wanted the light to be and how much power your very small, very inefficient antenna could handle. And to everyone replying that this... |
Now that Russia invaded the Ukraine is World War 3 inevitable? | I don't think it's inevitable, too much is put on risk. Nukes kill a considerably high amount of people, destroy a great deal of land mass so they could destroy cities and make it uninhabitable for centuries, I don't think any nation wants that. All of this would probably happen in minutes. Knowing that nukes can trave... |
Why is it that after a long night of heavy drinking, I wake up significantly earlier than if I went to bed completely sober? | When you sleep, you go through multiple cycles. There are three non-rapid eye movement cycles and then the rapid eye movement cycle. The REM cycle is when your body is completely paralyzed and the part of the cycle when you normally dream. The REM cycle is also very important for your brain because if you don't get eno... |
Why do storage devices have capacities that are multiples of 8? | They don't always. Digital language is in powers of 2. 8 is a multiple of 2. Anything that is a multiple of 8 is also a multiple of 2. If you want to specify a memory address in digital, you have to use the language which lends itself to powers of 2. Every digital storage device has a maximum addressable range that is ... |
Why does Westboro Baptist Church protest our soldier's funeral? | They're assholes and their opinion truly doesn't matter. They do not bother me because to me they are less than dirt. And who the fuck cares what dirt thinks. |
How could theatre patrons hear the actors on stage before modern electricity? If it has to do with room acoustics, then why are microphones needed now? | We are used to the more natural tones of actors who don't have to project. Think of how opera singers project, and how many people don't like them.Acoustics and projection as others have said, but also sometimes you just couldn't hear very well. Go find a totally unabridged version of a Shakespeare play . Shakespearean... |
; Why would a lawyer choose to represent someone that was guilty? | It's actually relatively simple. It's their job to defend their client. We do want to punish criminals, but we also want to have fair trials, and the way we get that is to have legal experts on both sides fight it out with arguments in front of an impartial judge. Now, defense lawyers do have certain ethical obligation... |
why did Christian slavetraders think it was okay what they where doing while the bible says God punished the Egyptians for enslaving the Jews? | God punished Egypt for not releasing God's people when instructed to do so, not for simply owning slaves. God's people are not considered the same as those who are not his people. This was true with the Jews, and continues with Christian mentalities. The bible neither directly supports, nor directly prohibits slavery. ... |
Periodic table: Why do elements in the same group react the same way? | The most important factor to how atoms interact with their surroundings is the number of valence electrons they have. Elements in the same column of the table have the same number of valence electrons, so they react in similar ways. Backtracking to explain valence electrons: because of quantum mechanics, electrons can ... |
Why aren't jobs generally rewarded based on their required effort? | First and foremost is skill. Any idiot can take out the trash. Hence why no one wants to. So you might get a little bump in pay if really no one is available to do it, but fortunately there are enough unskilled people in this world that people will line up every day to take out the trash. This sums up pretty much every... |
Why does musical theory define both sharps and flats? Couldn't we just define them all as sharps? Why do we need both? | A lot of it has to do with voice leading which is how a melody line well resolve. For instance a B-flat will resolve down to an A-natural. A C# will resolve to D etc. Another reason we have sharps and flats is different keys would be quite difficult to write if we didn't have both of them. For instance if we didn't hav... |
Why the ipv4 address are limited to 255.255.255.255 instead of 999.999.999.999 ? | Because it's in binary. Every number between the points has 8 bit, so you can only display 2^8 numbers. This means you can count from 0 up to 255.They are bits. Each octet can only use a combination of 128, 64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2, and 1. Max is 255. |
How does a presidential pardon work? | Legally, the President can pardon anyone accused/convicted of any federal crime for any reason. Politically it's a lot more complicated. Hypothetical example: President's father convicted of sex abuse of a minor. President pardons. President gets ridiculously bad press and can probably forget about getting anything els... |
Why do many Christians believe that drugs (esp. marijuana), even if used medicinally, are sinful, but prescription drugs are not? | As a Christian, I think I may be able to answer this question. I have never seen a fellow believer disagree with the use of prescription drugs. Only the reason for which the consumer uses it. To heal sickness? Why not? To use a drug for pleasure or a high? Not ok. This is because, as I've heard from my pastor, you are ... |
If you can survive weeks without food as long as you drink water, can obese people just starve their fat away? | You can survive weeks without food, as long as you don't mind severe malnutrition. Obese people burn their fat for energy, as well as any vitamins that are dissolved in it. All other vitamins are water-soluble and must be consumed every day to replenish the body's supply. Otherwise, malnutrition and other forms of unpl... |
How do cats communicate with each other? Do they have their own method of 'talking'? | I don't like watermelon, I want pears instead" or "The lightbulb is annoying me, turn it off." And in the wild, apes can make unique sounds for "WARNING! Predator incoming! |
Why does water have to be boiling in order to cook pasta? | It could cook at a lower temperature, but since boiling water has a consistent temperature it allows for precise and even cooking. If you simmered it in water, you would need to check it constantly to know when it was done, and the outside might get soggy on thick pastas. If it's a heavy boil, it will take the same num... |
Why people deny climate change? What are their arguments? | The biggest reason for me is the adamant refusal of climate scientists to release the raw climate data that they are basing their results from. If they are so sure it's real, why would they be worried about someone double-checking their work? |
Why was gold 'unanimously' chosen as currency and a representation of wealth? Why not something essential like food? | Some societies did use food as a currency. Most notably the Aztecs, who used cacao beans as money. Gold, however, was used because it's shiny, inert, easily transported, and most importantly, really hard to get more of, making it a stable currency not easily gained or lost except by trade. That means someone who trades... |
Why do skyscrapers always have lights on? | Sometimes people just forget to turn the lights off when they leave. More likely you're seeing cleaning crews working an overnight shift. You can't vacuum offices while people are working. The lights on the exterior are for aircraft to see. The red lights are requires on buildings over a certain height. |
How is a global economy based on the requirement of constant, infinite growth sustainable in a world with limited, finite resources? | I hope this doesn't get lost because [this book] explains exactly why it will never work . VERY interesting read about the limits of our growing population and ever expanding needs of consummers |
Why when I'm sick to the point of feeling like death can I get in the shower and almost feel complete relief until I shut the water off? | I suffer from a condition known as [Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome, or CVS] and have friends and family that also share either that affliction or a similar one -- crohn's disease, or other gastric-distress disorders. One thing that we all seem to have as a commonality is [the almost unwavering desire to take a bath/shower] w... |
How does a person find out their personal information is being used by someone else if the person who stole it can have calls and mail sent to themselves? | It shows up in your credit report. Most people don't even realize that their personal info has been stolen until they try to get financing for a big purchase. For relatively frequent checks into your credit, credit karma is good. |
Why is one underwear called a pair? | scissors", and "clothes". That rule, however, is really inconsistent. A "bicycle", for example, is made up of two parts, but we don't say "a pair of bicycles". **Sadly, there's no really satisfying reason why this is the case . It just is, and nobody is entirely sure why.** As a bonus answer, there are also words that ... |
how do we know what dinosaurs looked like if all we have is the bones? | we don't but I think from memory, besides what others have said here about feathers etc. scientist can apply the theory of evolution and the idea of adaptive traits etc that we use to identify animals today- to understand and work out what dinosaurs may have looked like. Ie dinosaurs that lived in aquatic environments ... |
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