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. Why do many employers give their hourly employees sporadic, weekly-changing, temporary schedules? | I also work in the industry and we use an app where we employees can just swap shifts as we need to, without having to go through the manager every time . We can also put in requests for shifts and requests for days off. This makes my life much more flexible and even though I still don't have a constant schedule it fee... |
What is preventing Toronto from acquiring an NFL franchise? | Too many cities wanting a team, too few franchises to fill them. Somewhere between 30-32 seems to be the perfect number of teams in a major sports league. For leagues such as the NFL the demand for teams and cities that want them exceed these numbers. inevitably some cities get left out, see Los Angeles who hasn't had ... |
Why can't magnets create perpetual motion? | My past experience with eli5 has been pretty bad. Try asking r/science. That's what the mods here told me to do. Probably get more complete answers there. |
Why are you sometimes more tired after sleeping more than necessary? | Yeah, none of these answers really gets it. Because you still feel tired even if you sleep in time with a sleep cycle. So if I slept like 12 hours, I shouldn't be touted because that's an exact number of 90 minute sleep cycles. Does anyone have another answer? Edit: Sorry I can't math.Sleep cycles. If you wake up in be... |
if the U.S. Government is supposed to separate church and state, why are politicians allowed to publicly state their religious views and act on those views while making policies or voting in congress? | It's a freedom *of* religion, not a freedom *from* religion. You are free to express whatever religions, or non-religious views you like. But that same freedom does not mean people cannot express their religious views to you. Similarly, the government cannot *be* religious, but that doesn't mean that people who are rel... |
Why is the Queen of England's husband not the King of England? | Because sexism. Since a king is above a queen, for Prince Philip to have been named King after marrying Elizabeth, would have usurped her birthright to the throne. She is the one entitled to reign, not him, because her father was the previous king . Prince Philip in contrast is some guy from Germany she married. So, si... |
Why do film directors always get so much more credit and recognition than the writers? | I'd say a director is probably THE most important element in the film making process. Sure they might not be the main forces behind the writing but they bring that writing into reality. Scripts can try and be as descriptive as possible but its the director that ensures every element of the script comes out just right .... |
Why does water taste differently based on the cup's material? (Glass is tastier the Steel which is tastier than plastic cups ...) | I don't think it's a matter of material migration from the container to the food. All containers are tested and certified as to their variability to contain various types of food without contaminating them, either on a level physical level or chemical level . I would put my money on that the human tongue and nose catch... |
Why does the United States have such massive military expenditures when compared to all other countries? Are there reasons to where the money is going? | It would take a book to properly answer your question. I think one of the most important reasons is this-Oil is traded in Dollars. Trade and Commerce must be protected and it must have multiple trading partners.The more traders the more products ,less monopolies, increased price stability and so on.There is an efficien... |
Why is Card Counting Illegal/Punished? | I'm not sure it's illegal but it just comes down to the fact that a casino has the right the refuse anyone from playing for anyway reason, or no reason. So they suspect you of counting cards, this gives you a bigger chance of winning and taking more money from them then normal. They don't want this to happen so they si... |
Is there any way for super-large companies to actually fail? What would have to happen for Google, Microsoft, Apple and the likes to actually disappear? | Here is a story with a bit of a personal note. I used to work for a company that made industrial fabric products. We eventually got into the business of making those arched fabric over steel buildings . We did pretty well with them, but our market was just western Canada. Our biggest competitor was another Canadian com... |
How does a vinyl record player even work? How does a needle produce words/music... The way a record player works fascinates me a lot more then an MP3 audio does... | drums", etc. The brain is literally trying to decompress this single waveform into multiple stand-alone waveforms of the different instrumentsAlso analog recording doesn't miss parts because its not data sampling and reproducing what it thinks the sound is it is literally the sounds in the room. Think of it as being ab... |
How is stepping on the flag illegal if any form of non-violent protest is allowed by the constitution? | It's not?Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 ; United States v. Eichman, 496 U.S. 310 . |
Why does it get greenish outside when a tornado is coming? | Good question, and nobody really seems to know. _URL_0_ _URL_1_ That's all I could find on it, and it just seems not to be studied. |
Why do cats almost always walk in a circle before they sit down? | One explanation I haven't seen yet is that the circle walk gives them a 360 degree scan of their surroundings before they lay down in a vulnerable position.Cats need to rotate the entire Earth, by moving it under their feet. This action recalibrates the center of the Earth, centered on them. This provides the cat with ... |
How can a high-wealth individual effectively drop their income tax rate to zero? | If I understand it correctly, and someone correct me if I'm wrong, but income is money you get as compensation, typically a wage or salary. I'm not sure what profits from self employment counts as, please someone comment on the matter in response to my post. But if you're wealthy, you have investments, and they generat... |
Why do places like India and China have such a higher population than the rest of the world? | Agriculture and culture. Both China and India have very large areas of relatively flat, fertile land, huge rivers cutting through that land, and and tons and tons of coastline, all of which are great for sustaining big populations. They also both have cultural norms that value large families, and in agrarian societies,... |
Is there a possible way to speed up the process of ridding a location of radiation? For example, after a nuclear accident such as in Japan or at Chernobyl. | I'm pretty sure they've made some advances using mushrooms to clean up some of it. here's an article _URL_1_ |
Why do companies design bottles in such way that you can't get all of the product (e.g. Ketchup or shampoo) out of the bottle? | There are some reasons: * Profit: You need to buy more bottles. * It is not possible to create bottles containing semifluids, which a) Release the semifluid in a reliable manner , especially upon first use. and b) don't leave any residue inside.It has a lot to do with marketing, a bottle that stands up and catches the ... |
What is the difference between a transgender person's brain compared to a regular person's brain? | It's not really known if there is a difference at all, neuroscientists don't study this. As a trans woman, I'm pretty confident in saying it's more likely that social factors as well as personality influence whether or not people are transgender. |
Why is Northern Ireland still controlled by the UK? | While there have been good answers so far, I just want to point out that 'controlled by the UK' sort of implies that it's some kind of a colonial holding, when it isn't. NI has its own government and gets representation in the parliament of the UK. |
What would happen if a hole 2cm wide opened in my submarine while at the bottom of the Mariana's Trench? | No submarine built can go that deep, it takes a purpose-built type of bathyscaphe whose hull can withstand that kind of pressure. The hull works because pressure is evenly distributed across every point on the hull, and the structure is kept in equilibrium. Punch even the tiniest hole in such a structure and the struct... |
Why is there a stigma/hate against Human Resource departments? | HR are typically the ultimate enforcer of labor laws in a company and are the ones ultimately responsible for ensuring the working environment complies with labor laws. As a result they're usually the ones who tell employees what is and isn't appropriate. Most western countries specifically have extremely strict regula... |
If cancer is due to damages DNA, how do children, with newer DNA, get cancer so often? | 1) Cancer is an accumulation of a series of random mutations, some of which can be passed down. So one child may need 5 mutations and another need 20. 2) There is no set rate at which these mutations happen - one child may get all 20 by the age of five and another child may randomly not get 5 by the time they die of ol... |
With all of the pyramid schemes, or simply scams disguised as a job (receive and resend packages, etc.), how exactly can you determine the real career opportunities to the schemes? | It's pretty simple, if you they make you front any sort of money to get a job with them or to begin making money, it's a scam. For instance, if they make you pay an application fee to apply, watch out. Or if their business is predicated on you buying a bunch of product to sell it yourself, watch out. If in doubt, just ... |
Why aren't all new computers sold with only USB 3.0 ports? | If I had 50,000 USB 2.0 ports in my warehouse, I'm not just going to throw them away even though 3.0 is the new hot thing. I'll use up inventory so that I don't waste my investment into these parts, then invest in 3.0 ports, AND THEN use up all of my inventory of 3.0 ports even though 4.0 comes out. |
Why copyright lawyers and legal departments don't just Google mp3s exactly the way we do, and shut down the websites where they are hosted? | Because most these sites aren't hosted in America, so they have to work with foreign countries if they want the sites shut down, and not all foreign countries have the same copyright laws for file sharing or want to work with America on this issue. It's also still not clear whether these sites themselves are breaking a... |
Why are most heavenly bodies spherical or nearly spherical? | Basically anything that's relatively large will collapse under its own gravity into the the most compact shape possible, which is a sphere. |
Why do the American, Australian and English accents sound so different? | Well in England the towns and cities would have developed over hundreds/ thousands of years, it wasn't often they would meet someone from another county. Australians and Americans would have gained their accents by the merging of various accents by the various settlers living together. English accents are also influenc... |
Why won't NASA just crowd fund their manned flight to Mars? | The shear amount of money they would need would be insane. Plus it's kind of a limited investment. I mean so much could go wrong and you wouldn't see the effect of your money for several years. It would take 2-3 years to get to Mars? I could be wrong on that but it wouldn't be like going to the moon where you'd see the... |
How does marijuana being legal in a state but still federally illegal work? | Here is the crux of the issue. The United States Constitution and bill of rights was set up to severely limit the federal government's powers. The last article of the Bill of Rights further cemented the idea of a limited federal government by letting the states decide any issue that was not discussed in the constitutio... |
What makes Messi and Ronaldo so much better than other elite footballers? | Touch, close control and thinking ahead are above all what these two excel at. Think about it, if someone passed a ball to me during a match id be so focused on controlling the ball that id not think about anything else, and id still fail. Years of footwork drills, passing drills mean they don't need to think about con... |
Did Occupy Wall Street result in anything? | Just from my layman observation, it really shifted the tone of the national conversation toward the issues that most occupiers wanted to discuss - the ridiculous power and lack of accountability of the super-rich, corporate corruption, lack of social mobility for the lower classes, etc. Those things became one of the c... |
Can you denounce your citizenship and be technically and officially a citizen of no country? | As signatories of several international treaties, most states won't let you renounce your citizenship if it means you'll become stateless. The United States is among the minority of countries that lets its citizens do it. |
Why do dogs sleep so much | I've always thought they rest a lot in order to be fully ready for the next hunt", 'you think dogs sleep a lot? cats man .cats. |
Why are western nations upset now that the Russians are bombing ISIS? | Syria is experiencing a three-way war between ISIS, the Assad-led current government, and a coalition of Arab Spring-style rebels. Each of those three groups is fighting against both of the other groups, and has serious ideological reasons why they won't join an alliance with one group to gang up on the third. Russia, ... |
Why is it fairly easy for large animating companies to create perfectly photo-realistic terrain and animals, but not humans? What really is the difference? | I assume that you're talking about games. [Terrain is often made from real images.] Humans are often handmade or reduced in quality, because most home computers can't handle photorealistic humans. A static surrounding doesn't require that much memory. A moving surrounding like a human face and human body however does. ... |
The TV show Cosmos seems to have caused a big stir in the US. Why is this? | Haven't heard anything about people being miffed by it, but it really made renaissance Christians look terrible. |
What/who are gypsies and why does everyone hate them. | I don't hate them i just don't trust them around me. Here in Croatia you would have a group of them come up to you and force you to buy a brick. Yes, a brick. So, you say no, and defend yourself with force when the inevitable attack comes. Next thing you know, there are 20 of them with knives and bats and whatnot. And ... |
Why are some games only released for a console (Xbone/PS4) but not on PC? Aren't all games written in a programming language that PC's can compile? | > it just seems like if the game is coded and designed on a PC, surely a PC can run it? Phone apps are written on computers as well, yet they can't be run on them. Consoles and phones use a different architecture than regular computers . So no, you couldn't just take a console game and run it on a computer. As to *why*... |
If cashews have to be steamed or baked to be safe to eat, how did someone discover that? | I think hunters, gatherers, and similar are endlessly attentive to their environment, and they think about it all the time. If something is food for animals, they'll delicately taste it, treat it with heat, grind it into meal and then rinse it with water , etc. |
Why do people bite their fingernails? | I'm almost 30 and I've bitten my nails for as long as I can remember. One theory I came across was really interesting. You know how one of the most common acts of aggression by little kids is to pinch people? According to this theory, you were subconsciously repressing your aggressive instincts, 'taking your weapons aw... |
Why do anti-depressants have such a terrible effect if you miss one? | ELI actually 5. Your brain is supposed to make happy molecules to be happy. Let's say a normal brain makes 10 happy molecules a day. A sad brain might only make 7, so they're less happy. You go to the doctor because you have a sad brain, and he tells you to start taking pills. The pills make extra happy molecules. The ... |
How does bullet sizing work? | Bullets stop being bullets when they have a calibre of 20mm and then they become a shell. 20mm is 0.79 calibre so anything slightly smaller than that would be the largest caibre bullet. A calibre of .50 means .50 inches across which is 12.7mm. Power isn't solely determined by calibre but also by barrel length and size ... |
How do lumens work when measuring brightness of flashlights? Ie. How do cheap flashlights have outputs of like 2000 lumens? | To explain it to a five year old would be this: think of your flashlight as a garden hose. Lumens is how much water it can spray out of the nozzle in a given amount of time. Real flashaholics would use an integrated sphere to measure lumens. So think of a bucket and your garden hose; how fast can you fill up a bucket w... |
How would less regulations on banks be 'good' for them? | No. Many customers don't have the financial knowhow to know when a deal is a bad one. Especially not when it is packaged in lots and lots of pretty words. This is especially true with many modern financial products which are very far from straight forward and wrapped up in loads and loads of bank legalese. A lot of peo... |
Why does GTA5 use P2P servers for their Online suite when it's the reason hackers are so abundant? What are the benefits of not using dedicated servers? | Also, having dedicated servers only means that if the company decides to shut down the game, that's it. P2P online can exist forever as long as there's people playing it. |
Why Kickstarter doesn't give any money to projects if they don't raise past a certain point | The have a section on this in their [FAQ] > It's less risk for everyone. If you need $5,000, it's tough having $1,000 and a bunch of people expecting you to complete a $5,000 project. > It motivates. If people want to see a project come to life, they're going to spread the word. > It works. Of the projects that have re... |
What is the purpose of terrorist attacks, if they only give the group a bad name? | Terrorists attempt to strike fear into their enemies' civilians. If a country suffers terror attacks, the civilians might think to follow what the terrorists want to avoid future attacks. |
Why should I buy insurance? Wouldn't companies not offer insurance if it was mathematically in my best interest? | Insurance is a cost/benefit thing. In theory, you'll probably never need, say, flood insurance. But the cost is minimal, and the risk of having a flood and losing everything with no way of buying it back makes buying said insurance a sane choice. Or look at car insurance; you'll probably never total your car. But payin... |
Why is it okay to eat sushi at a sushi restaurant, but it's bad to go to the store and get raw fish to eat? | It's a matter of trust about how the fish was handled and how fresh it is. If you flash-freeze the fish properly you can eat it as sashimi |
the "fake news" scandal, in as few words as possible | Half the comments are calling the 'MSM' fake news, and half are getting it right. Don't listen to the willfully ignorant trying to draw false equivalences between major news networks and alternate 'entertainment' news shows like Alex Jones or opinionated and poorly researched blog pieces. Breitbart is sensationalist as... |
what exactly is Short Selling? How does it work? | Short selling is borrowing something you don't own to sell with the intention of buying something identical back later and returning it to the person you borrowed it from. If you do this, you keep the difference if the price falls, and lose if the price goes up. |
Why don't animals such as deer/dogs run away when a giant car is coming towards them? Isn't that supposed to be a survival instinct? | There's a really good chance, too, that because a car moves in a way that is clearly not like an animal, it just looks like something getting bigger and bigger, not like something getting closer. |
Why is water so scarce in the universe when hydrogen and oxygen are so common? | > why haven't there been enough combinations of these two simple elements to produce water anywhere in the known universe that's not Earth? There is actually been PLENTY of water seen places other than earth. Venus has water in it's atmosphere. Europa has a whole ice covered sea covering the entire moon made of water. ... |
How on earth do TV stations subtitle a live-to-air show? | The answer is surprisingly low tech: someone types it as it's happening. Sometimes speech recognition software is used, but it's not as good as a human, so for major live events, they just have a fast, accurate typist. |
If we got in a time machine and handed an iPhone 6 to Apple in 1999, would they be able to figure out how each component works and recreate it? | No. Our design process was not small enough to recreate the iPhone. If they had the tech back then, they would have built it. There really isnt anything in the phone that didn't exist in 1999. The thing was, we didn't have a means of getting the components to fit, let alone have comparable power with the larger-at-the-... |
What is the difference between mental illness and psychological disorders? | To a degree there's overlap. If Dwight began suffering from depression because the altoids were the wrong flavor, he would need therapy to unlearn the reflex , however medication with the counseling and therapy may help restore the neurochemical imbalance that the depression caused similar to physical therapy for an in... |
Exactly what does a conductor do in an orchestra? Why is he so important? | One thing he does is keep the beat, which allows everybody to be in sync. He also gives feedback to the musicians - like, if the flute section is too loud, he might signal for them to tone it down a bit, or he might motion to another section that they need to be louder. In addition to that, there are frequently places ... |
Why Did So Many People Hate Windows Vista? | I work on and sell computers for a living. * Hardware manufacturers were slow on writing drivers for Vista. There was plenty of time for them to get on it, but because they hadn't had to since XP came out 5 years prior, they got lazy.* Its minimum system requirements were far too low: 512 MB, wheras Vista has performan... |
Why do banks give you money when you do a "note-passing" robbery? | Rule 1 of being robbed at work. It's not your money so don't be a hero. Rule 2. There is no rule 2. Follow rule 1. |
Why Do Humans Enjoy Being Scared? | Scary movies or stories are one of the few thing that's fully occupy my mind and distract me, so it's like a nice break from my crazy head sometimes. |
If we have many forms of clean energy ready to use, why don't we use it instead of complaining about how unclean our energy is? | Solar and wind energy are great, but they really aren't capable of supporting an entire infrastructure. You need to have a bigger primary power source like coal or nuclear power . |
How they know how many people watch a given TV show | The way they do it has been explained well so I'm gonna get a little off-topic. The thing about these 'rating counters' is that they are done for advertisement purposes only. Companies who buy advertisement time from TV channels need this data for a more efficient advertising. For example, if you have a women's product... |
Is there a correlation between poor penmanship and any other traits of a person? | Poor handwriting can be due to so many factors that judging someone on it is useless. Just as laziness or ignorance can cause it, so can being in a hurry, medications that cause shaky hands, diseases both neurological and not, and just never practicing because you type most things in today's society. |
Why do libraries let you renew items? | My mom's a librarian for the public US system, and for years she has been telling me that renewal used to require that you show up with the actual book in hand and get it stamped, proving you haven't lost or irreparably damaged it in the process. Not doing this incurs a fine as a means to deter theft. Sure you can take... |
Why aren't calories related to food weight? 1lb of broccoli is 154 calories, while 1 lb of ground beef is 798 calories. | Calories are how much energy you get from food. Your stomach burn your food to make you go, like a car engine. But not all things burn the same. If you try to burn a rock, almost nothing happens to the rock. If you try to burn a stick, most of the stick burns up. If you burn gasoline, you get a really big flame and alm... |
Why do most people become more aggressive on the internet? | Because most of the time they are arguing with complete strangers with completely different views, whereas in real life you aren't likely to argue with strangers over politics, etc.Really? Most people? The aggressive ones just pop out more. |
what are the requirements for time travel? | Travelling to the future is easy. Just get yourself something that can travel very, very fast, and time dilation will let the universe age faster than you. Travelling to the past is hard. There are several schemes for time travel, and the only ones that might possibly work theoretically rely on negative mass, which pro... |
The fifth of november. | It's the 309th day of the year, it comes after November 4th and before November 6th. Sometimes it's a Tuesday but this year it's a wednesday. I don't think it's ever been a Saturday though. |
why is it that we can see a light even if we stand beyond the range of light it casts | The range of light as you refer to is just a region near the light source where the intensity of the radiated light reaching the surroundings is high enough to be clearly visible after reflecting off surfaces. The light that is cast actually reaches pretty far, but you can't see it because it has much lower intensity a... |
"original streets" and underground cities | Sacramento, CA has an underground section, which was risen to circumvent frequent floods they'd experience back in the late 1800s. Having many residents situated in a disaster-prone area was a prominent reason for the construction of most old underground areas. Not the case today. Besides subways and shopping centers, ... |
What is the point of XML? | So imagine you have an object. That object has properties. Now imagine you need to transfer that object across a system that you can't literally pass the object itself--say, over the web. How do you pass that data? Do you turn everything into a string and send it like that? XML is a language designed to facilitate easy... |
Why exactly does McDonalds get a bad reputation for being unhealthy? | Salt, fat, and sugar are really cheap ways to make something taste better. So all junk food and fast food restaurant use them liberally. Same goes for a lot of other restaurants actually, even if we don't talk about them as much. The burger you make would almost definitely have fewer calories and less sodium than any f... |
How come so many documentaries are on YouTube? Are they not in breach of copyright, or have they not been found? | Documentaries very rarely make any money in theatrical or DVD release, so they're not missing out on much in commercial terms. The makers would probably have it out there as evidence of their skills than have it forgotten about. |
what actually happens in the brain when someone loses their sanity when they witness something traumatizing? What about those who are in shock? | Did you know studies have proven men's testosterone becomes elevated when they handle a gun? Why? The collective idea of what a gun implies. Now extrapolate that concept; that the body can create a physical response because of a stimuli, even if the stimuli is simply an idea. There has to be a program in the mind that ... |
If people say Dolphins and Orcas are as smart as humans, why have they not built underwater economies and cities? | I haven't heard many professionals say they are *as* smart as humans, although plenty of people say they are intelligent relative to other animals. I'd point out they do not have hands, so tool-use is difficult if not impossible. They also don't have access to the variety of building materials we do. And for that matte... |
How come the U.S doesn't use PIN-verification for card purchases? | Don't know if this fully answers the question; but for some reason our debit cards linked with checking accounts usually require a pin. Some banks require it over a certain amount like $25, while others require it for all swipes. But credit cards and credit accounts don't typically require anything but a signature and ... |
do people with mental diseases know they have it? | A student at the college I used to work for had a form of mental illness that manifested as visual hallucinations, usually with auditory components. I never met him, my friend was his teacher. Apparently he was completely non-violent, but prone to hallucinating people being mean to him and talking badly about him, and ... |
When im using big headphones (bose or beats) with a small device (iPod) does it use more battery than using a smaller headphone? How does this work? | Possibly, I'm not sure if it would draw more power or not but it could definitely make a softer sound at the same volume setting . The key of the headphone is the driver unit. Most headphones would use what is called a 'dynamic' type driver - an magnet attached to a coil of wire which moves a membrane up and down, caus... |
If in the US you are innocent until proven guilty, how come an accused criminal can be put in jail without bond prior to their trial? | First, a person is *presumed* innocent the don't become innocent until after the trial. That being the case, the vast majority of the accused are eligible for bail only when it can be shown there is a risk of flight or public safety is it denied. Also, a lot of accused criminals are on parole or probation. In the cours... |
What are spiders doing when crawling across the ceiling/wall and randomly changing direction? | Well to the Spider, it's random at all. We could say the same for just watching traffic, without context it's just nonsense. If we tried to impede/capture the spider, it would start behaving more reactively --but, only because we know the context. |
What's the technical difference between a green screen and a blue screen (besides the fact that one is green and the other is blue)? | There's an excellent video about the history of his technique here: _URL_0_ I found it fascinating, maybe you will too. |
How much does a captain on a cruise ship control? (Navigation, steering, etc) | I've only been on Naval vessels, but I imagine cruise ships operate in a similar fashion. The captain doesn't actually do any of that stuff. There's a Navigation Officer to chart the proper course, and the boatswains mate's drive the ship. The Captain is there to make decisions and coordinates between all the departmen... |
Why can't we "make" more water? | The Earth's surface is 70% covered by water. It's hard to imagine why we would want more. One of the big problems with climate change is the release of frozen water from Greenland and Antarctica into the oceans. |
Why is it always the US & the UK that intervene and send troops to the Middle East? Why not other countries such as Germany etc | well, you know, we germans have started two world wars killing roughly 70 million people in less than 30 years our fathers were deadlier than the spanish flu my father fought in ww 2, my granpa died in ww 1. we're not so attracted by the idea to take part in another war. and beyond this, our constitution forbids it.the... |
How does electricity work (ohms, voltage, amps, continuity, grounding, & watts, AC, DC, current)? | Please could visit [Khan Academy's youtube page] and watch the physics sub playlists { electrsostatics, voltage, electric potential energy, circuits, magnetism } It's all there, for basic DC circuits. Nice and slow, and you'll get the math. |
Shopping locally vs big business, LI5 please. | Local business keep a much higher percent of income within the community instead of shipping it somewhere else. It's trendy to shop local because it's better for your community but it costs more therefore it requires some sacrifice. That's not to say big business is necessarily bad for your community, but there needs t... |
why do movie computers/phones use fictional operating systems? | It protects the show-makers from lawsuits and, more importantly, from giving companies free advertising. Any brand-name product you see in a movie or TV show paid to have it's product in there pretty much all of the time. So if Google isn't willing to fork over ad dollars to be featured in a movie, the movie will use S... |
Why would a person downshift and use a lower gear to accelerate (or obtain more power)? | The force that accelerates the car is the torque at the wheels . Using a lower gear will give you more torque at the wheels assuming you aren't revving the engine above the point where it's making good torque of course. As another poster said, it's about leverage using a lower gear is like using a longer lever so the e... |
Why hasn't the Westboro Baptist Church been declared a hate group? | There's no official designation of a hate group. Many people I know do consider them a hate group.But .Jesus\' burritos **are** the best burritos! And what does it mean to be "declared a hate group"? There's no such official government designation. Even if there was, it couldn't mean anything. Hate groups have the same... |
How does annoying the Internet cost a million bucks in a couple days? | If this is in relation to the Valve paid mods thing, I think Gabe Newell said that he received so many angry emails that they had to build new servers to accommodate them all, although I don't have a source on this. |
why does backing every horse, or it's equivalent, not actually work in practicality in gambling? | You couldn't back every horse in the race and win money. Bookmakers have a profit margin in their prices The easiest way to explain this is with a coin flip. You would expect the odds of a coin landing on either heads or tails to be equal, or 1/1. However a bookie would make the odds of it being either result as 4/5. T... |
Why might somebody want to exercise Open Carry with their firearm? | Ever walked around in 100 degree had with 100% humidity while having a concealed weapon? It's simply more comfortable One issue is ccw rules require you to completely conceal. If your shirt rides up and people can see the gun, you just broke the law. Allowing open carry means you don't have to worry about that |
How does the French healthcare system work and why is it rated as one of the best in the world? | I quite like New Zealand's healthcare system, but it seems about 10% of my patients don't agree with paying 5$ per medicine per 3 months. Oi vey.for your viewing pleasure a YouTube playlist that give a brief overview of how different developed countries systems work. International Health Care Systems: _URL_5_', "Free, ... |
Why does Computer Science have one of the highest unemployment rate of all majors when the field has so many job openings? | Notice that the experienced graduates had half of the 8% unemployment. Going into computer science you have to specialize like medicine or have many specialties. Just because you got a degree does not mean squat if you can't prove it in the real world. I know many colleagues that apparently did really well in class but... |
What happens to money lost due to depreciation? | It evaporated. The money didn't *vanish* it just left your hands and went back into the system. Like a bucket of water left in the sun. We all just collectively agree it's not as useful or interesting as it used to be and the extra $5,000 you paid for it is off being useful and interesting elsewhere. The key to underst... |
What is the difference between Windows Operating systems 32-bit and 64-bit? Why do they exist and what are they used for? | In addition to what Nathan said, x86 and x64 are the architectures . ISA is kind of like a standard for what instructions and types of data the processor can handle. I'm not 100% sure about the exact details of why older games can have trouble running on a modern OS. I can only guess on a few things, but I am in no way... |
Why is "That's just the way it's always been done" an acceptable business model for large corporations rather than encouraging innovation? | Just yesterday, i had a longer talk about this with a consulting company about this. The problem is that big changes cause big effects. And it is really really hard to figure out what this effect will be. That's why companies tend to make small changes, small enough that it won't hurt if it goes wrong. And if this smal... |
How are multiplayer video games balanced before launch? | If you're referring to gameplay balance - usually the devs figure out balance by playing the game and tweaking it to their liking. |
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