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What the Chair of the Federal Reserve actually does. | In a nutshell, she speaks for the most important central bank in the world, the US Federal Reserve. She report to Congress regarding the Fed's monetary policy objectives and coordinates with the Secretary of the Treasury in order to take actions aimed at achieving the 2 fundamental goals of the Fed's policy:1. Maintain... |
Why are there so many Republican candidates, and only three Democratic candidates? | Clinton has been the frontrunner for the 2016 nomination since approximately January 2009. Because everyone knew that a well-organized, well-funded candidate with high name-recognition going to run, long-shot candidates didn't want to sink a lot of time and money by challenging her when they had maybe a 1% chance of be... |
What is adrenaline, how does it work, why is it linked to my emotions, and why do I feel so exhausted afterwards? | It is a hormone, and like all hormones, it triggers a chemical reaction to your brain. All your emotions work like that. You feel exhausted because what adrenaline does is prepare you to dire situations where you need to be alert : Your pupils dialate, your heart starts to race, tunnel vision, things like that. The mos... |
How did the US become the military powerhouse that it is? Has it been a military force since it's existence? | I will explain like via the medium of pictures! _URL_1_ German factory in 1945. _URL_0_American factory in 1945Very ELI5: During and after WW2. Before that their army was not particularity big compared to many other "important" countries. But when they entered WW2 they assembled a massive army to fight the axis, and by... |
other than the cost, (which will pay for itself the first time it's used to dismiss a bogus claim ) why are people against body cameras on police? | Cameras only give one view of a scene and, although definitely help put certain things into perspective, sometimes skew the perspective in other directions. So if a cop shoots someone because the cop thought he saw a gun the jury might review the camera and see, very clearly, that the person shot did not have a gun. Ca... |
What is that pain in your stomach when you run? | If I understand you correctly, you mean "Side stitch":The pain comes from the splen, after heavy physical exercise the increasing blood flow in the slen causes the painNo one actually knows for sure the exact cause of a side sticker, but a number of different theories have been proposed including increased blood flow t... |
Why there does not seem to be a protected right to bear arms for any major country except the US? | Many other countries do not consider the population to have the right to determine the rules that the country operates under, instead reserving such powers for a privileged class such as royalty or a dictator. Even countries which have moved toward incorporating feedback from the population into law making did so from ... |
How is Apple avoiding anti-trust laws in the E.U., while Google is under scrutiny for making their search engine the default? | I'm not sure what you are asking. Apple doesn't run a search engine so I can't understand how they would possibly be considered to give it an unfair advantage. |
Why do we get those "scabs" in our noses and what's a good remedy for them? | it's dry skin that's why you get them during allergy season or the winter. i'm sorry i don't really have a good remedy. I'd be interested in that as well |
how can an illegal immigrant be put on probation? | If the police deport illegal immigrants, anyone who hangs out with illegal immigrants will not want to talk to the police, for fear that their friends might get deported. So many local police departments have a policy of not dealing with immigration issues.Because local authorities aren't interested in dealing with imm... |
How do CDs, Hard drives and other disc formats hold data? | There are two basic types of storage, optical and magnetic. If it's optically stored like say a DVD there are literally tiny pits carved into it. The areas where there aren't pits are 0s and the pits are 1s and from there it's up to whatever is reading it to decode the binary. Magnetic storage like hard drives or VHS t... |
how to decide to have children. | It really depends. So many people I know in your same situation had kids anyways and they always say "life just has a way of figuring itself out." I will say, in those cases, family as a support system has helped tremendously. My parents never had extra money, and sometimes we lived with friends until we could find a p... |
How can a company like Amazon that loses money have a stock that continually rises? | Amazon only loses money in the sense it doesn't show a profit. It reinvests money back into itself making it more valuable they just don't take money out. Its like if you had a business making cakes and had $1000 of sales of which it cost you $800 in supplies, rent and paying staff, so you have an extra $200. You could... |
What determines the "shape" of the glare of a star has in a picture? (usually a "x" or a "+") | They are caused by the aperture or support beams and are called diffraction spikes. _URL_0_Most telescopes used in photography consist of a large curved mirror that focuses the image onto a smaller flat mirror that redirects it to a camera. That [secondary mirror] is supported by a set of thin legs called a spider. The... |
What is black ice and how does it form compared to normal ice | Black Ice is simply regular ice on top of a black material, usually asphalt. It does the same things, apply pressure and the top layer becomes water causing you to slide. It is considered dangerous because you cannot see it, as easily. edit:GrammarIt’s just a name for a thin layer of ice that forms over the road. The r... |
Why does confetti make the video quality go waaay down in a video? | video compression works by identifying portions of a video frame which stay the same between the previous frame and current one, or by identifying portions which haven't changed in appearance much but have moved over a few pixels. taking advantage of temporal features like this is why videos are much smaller than a mil... |
What is this whole deal with Net Neutrality and should I be concerned about it? | Imagine you get your internet from comcast, when net neutrality existed, your internet access cost didn't change. If you went to _URL_1_ or _URL_0_ it didn't matter. All sites are equal. Now Comcast could, say, charge you $10 for access to netflix because they can slow down netflix from going through their servers . |
If a power line runs from one hill to another, how do they connect it? | Every trade has it's tricks. If they had enough opening in the woods they could have just walked a rope to the other side and pulled it up between the trees. From there depending on the weight of the line you either pull an attachment cable or just the line itself. If the tree growth is to thick they might have tried w... |
Why is taking an aspirin before the surgery harmful? | It prevents your blood from clotting properly! Hence, if you want to walk out of the surgery without blood gushing from your wounds you shouldn't take an aspirin right before it :) EDIT: words |
What is the science behind the feeling of butterflies in your stomach? | It's caused by a reduction of blood flow to the stomach. This is a result of the release of adrenaline which causes increased heart rate and blood pressure, consequently sending more blood to the muscles.Hund1es explanation is good, but one more thing.All of your internal organs\' blood supply is affected by the autono... |
What can happen to a person if they lie in bed for an extended period of time (they are not ill) (Personal Issue involved) [Serious] | Although I don't know the specifics of the situation and you seem to be asking about the effects of lying in bed for too long, I feel like there are some things that should be clarified: If she has depression, then telling her that lying in bed for too long is bad isn't going to get her out of bed. If it does in fact w... |
Considering my understanding of the term only goes so far, what would a movie or video game played or filmed from a "second-person" perspective look like? | The only thing I can really come up with is the old school text-based games. **You have full health** **You head toward a clearing in the east** **You are eaten by a grue**', "Interesting thing about second person is that it's *someone's* first person. To make a second-person movie, the shots would all be from first-pe... |
The link between autism and vaccination | Most parents of autistic kids start noticing the signs of autism right around the time their kid gets their second MMR vaccine, which tends to make them attribute the onset of the behaviors to the vaccine itself. That suspicion gets validated when they go online and find all kinds of conspiracy sites proclaiming the da... |
Why do people hide their license plate when selling their vehicle but not always their VIN? | The VIN number only shows who manufactured the car and what model it is. The licence plate tells you what state the car is in and, if someone is thorough, it can reveal the location. You don't want randoms knowing where you live.If someone get someone else's license plate number they could use it in a false 911 phone c... |
How does a computer know to turn back on after you tell it to restart? | When a computer turns on, it is hard wired to check a small memory chip on the motherboard for instructions. Those instructions are very basic and tell the computer where to look for things like memory and hard/solid state drives. The computer checks out everything attached to the mother board and eventually checks the... |
Where do governments borrow money from? | There are a whole bunch of entities that lend governments money. The major ones are: * Themselves. One of the major holders of US government debt is the US Social Security system, for instance.* Other countries. You can simultaneously owe money to someone and be owed money by them, and there are a few countries that ar... |
What does our music sound like to our dogs/ cats, can they comprehend it beyond "sound"? | "Soft melodies" like classical music or easy listening *can* be soothing to most animals because it's a soft sound that is persistent, but dubstep and bass-and-drum heavy music are less likely to be soothing, just like they are less relaxing to us — but with the fact that they don't know that human music is not actual ... |
Where do cities store those big concrete traffic barriers they put up during construction? | [They're called k-rails, or jersey barriers.]. Nope there's a municipal or roadworks depot somewhere where there will be a big stack of them. They could be owned by the road construction company or the municipality, or the regional/highway police. [They bring them out on trucks that have built in cranes and place as ne... |
How many bowel movements a day should an active physically individual have? | Rule of 3s. Any more than 3 times a day seek medical help. Any less than once every 3 days seek medical helpBetween 1 and 4. If you have more than that you are having some kind of stomach or intestinal issues, and if you have less than that you are constipated. |
How will the economy still function when automation takes the majority of jobs and nobody has money to purchase anything? | Automation taking the majority of jobs will quickly lead to an economic situation called [post-scarcity], where the majority of people's needs and most of people's wants will be satisfied at little to no cost. The capitalist economic system you're familiar with, with free markets and money, is fundamentally incompatibl... |
What happens to all the single-use throwaway accounts on Reddit? | They don't get recycled--there would be no point and it's not worth the risk since it could be a security issue if someone used their real information to register for a throwaway. |
Prior to modern technology, how did humans know the Earth is round? | The ancient Greeks famously knew it because ships leaving their nation would disappear bottom first on the horizon. Therefore, Earth cannot possibly be flat.Eratosthenes of Cyrene knew the radius and axial tilt of the Earth within 10%. He presumed the Earth to be a sphere, because that's the best shape according to the... |
why do people cover up the license plate in pictures when selling cars | Quite simply they don't, it's just that some people belive that with their number plate they can find out more personal information about them, which is true but doesn't go beyond the persons name and wether or not their vehicle is taxed, insured and so on. At least this is the case in the UK |
why is the Grand Canyon so wide if the river that carved it out is so small? | Well, the thing is that the river probably wasn't always a river. The true history of the canyon is the subject of some debate, and the most extreme data sets put its age somewhere around 70million years old , but it's very likely that the canyon was carved by several forms of water erosion. There is evidence of swamps... |
how do we estimate the number of people in crowds? | A very simple way in which you can do this yourself is visually, from pictures. You look for elements for which you know the area, for instance delimited square sections of available standing space. You estimate how much of it is occupied purely visually with people, and then you estimate the density of people per squa... |
How do magnet links for torrents work? | Basically, a magnet link for torrents is that something you download in one place by a particular name, will be the exact same thing as if you downloaded it somewhere else by the same name . For example, if on Pirate Bay you downloaded a torrent named Example1234, a torrent on Demonoid named Example1234 would be the sa... |
How is time considered an illusion? | An important thing to note is that time is just the process of change, which exists instantaneously through the fourth dimension. Think of yourself as a centipede moving through time, linked only by the fact that you're one static form. That's how time actually is. As we perceive it though- through stored memories and ... |
Why do sandwiches taste better when someone else makes it? | Because you're not very good at making sandwiches, apparently. I don't agree that a sandwich made by someone else is better, all ingredients being the same I always prefer a sandwich that I made myself over one made by someone else. |
Why do clocks sometimes tick one second backwards? | I'm at work too ;) Is this a real thing, I have experienced it but I don't think they generally tick backwards?", 'I have observed this for multiple reasons. 1) The batteries in a battery powered clock are going low and sometimes do not generate enough power to completely push the gear to the next increment and the gea... |
Why do people put a shirt or towel in the window of their abandoned cars on the interstate? | It means your car broke down and wasn't abandoned. Your hazards will only work until the battery dies. It let's the police know your intent to come back to retrieve the car. As long as it's off road, or not on private property you may buy yourself a few days without getting towed.This is actually to signal that the car... |
What does DJ Khaled do? | He's a producer, but a particularly obnoxious one. Many rap producers use "producer drops", which are basically little sound loops and samples they repeat in all their songs, kind of like their signature. One of the more obvious examples I can think of is "la musica de Harry Fraud" or that really squealy "Young Chop on... |
How does control of internet domain names work? | Assigning domain names, much like the telegraph, post, and telephone, are regulated through treaties which are negotiated through working groups at the international level. Although this was originally done by engineers, since 1998 the major international domains have been regulated by policy through the Internet Corpo... |
Why do most alcoholic products not list their nutritional information? | Because they are not considered food. They are regulated by a different federal agency than what food is regulated by and so they have different requirementsAssuming you are in the US, alcohol falls under the regulation of the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau , not the FDA. Nutritional info is an FDA requiremen... |
is it really true that cockroaches find humans repulsive? | Cockroaches don't have the neurons required to feel revulsion, or much of anything, really. They're little machines with a bunch of hardwired responses and little to no ability to actually make decisions. That said, one of their responses is to remove foreign smells from their bodies. The oils on your finger qualify, s... |
Why does this can seemingly walk across the table, and then mysteriously stop? | You're watching fluid dynamics in motion. The fluid in the can is perfectly centred on its side if the can is stationary. All cans have a [ridge] which they can balance on. The fluid will shake back and forth in the can if disturbed, and while it's balanced on the ridge, the can will rotate continuously based on the fl... |
How can "mediums" like John Edward advertise themselves as real psychics when there's no evidence for their claims? | There is no official accreditation required to offer one's "psychic services". Would also have a hell of a time "proving" that a medium did not contact your deceased relative to make a claim of false advertising or failure to provide services. There's also a lot of parallels to religion here. Minimal hoops to jump thro... |
Why is it that when your hands are cold, it feels like your joints are stiff and hard to move? | When our bodies are cold, our muscles tighten up causing stiffness in joints, that is way when you plan on doing work in the cold, it is recommended to do a "warm up" On a related note, barometric pressure also can play a role in joint stiffness and pain, so when you grandfather would say "My knees hurt, must be a stor... |
Physics behind survival of falcons / other dive-bombing birds of prey. | Falcons and similar birds that rely on high-velocity impact rely on a few things: Most notably, they have crumple zones: the impact is spread over their entire body over time. Most of this is the claws: they impact prey at full extension, and by the time the impact is over, they are dragging the prey behind them. These... |
Why does the human body have trouble digesting corn? | Inside of corn is digested. Outside of kernel is not. Because its hard thick cellulose. Its equiv of tree bark. |
If hipothetically around the world, we all lower 10% of the cost of everything, will we effectively lower 10% of global inflation? | Someone who studies economics might be able to tell you better. As far as I know, the closes you can get to what you're suggesting is a currency conversion. A government could change currency and say, all US dollars are going to be replaced by U coins at a rate of $1 = 0.90 Ucoins. Then, tell everyone they have to trad... |
What is going on when you are driving in a car with only one window down, and there is a reverberating echo noise? When you open another window, that echo sound goes away. | With one window open the air in the air in the car behaves like a spring moving in and out of the open window and getting compressed and expanded as it does so. It's like the air hole in an acoustic guitar. With 2 windows open the energy just leaks out. |
How do solids dissolve in liquids? | Everything is made out of molecules, which are little "pieces" of something. Dissolving usually occurs when the pieces of the solvent like the pieces of the solute much more than the pieces of the solute like each other, so the molecules are taken away until they are mixed in with with the solvent. |
Why when it’s dark can I sometimes see things better by not looking directly at them? | Your retina has two types of cells for detecting light -- rods and cones. Cones are used to perceive color and fine details, while rods are bad at color and details, yet very sensitive to low levels of light. Those two types of cells aren't evenly distributed in the back of your eye. Since we'd want to have our best HD... |
How the boundaries of the continents were decided and when? | The definitions of continents are just conventions. Different cultures actually define them differently. They are loosely based on landmasses, which came to be that way because of tectonic plates. But not always. Europe is the really odd one out. Europe is clearly part of the same land mass as Asia, and it's on the sam... |
Why do we wake up in the middle of the night even when not triggered by dreams or external stimuli? | You cycle through different stages of sleep, ranging from lightly asleep to hardcore asleep to dreaming: N1, N2, N3, REM. N1 is light sleep, the transition between awake and asleep. During the night, you move up and down these stages. Sleep isn't an on/off switch--it's a super complicated system. A lot of different thi... |
Why does metal make a "ringing" sound when you hit it, but stuff like plastic doesn't? | Its because the metal you are hitting is is very elastic. When you hit a piece of metal, you are bending it in some way. THe metals eleasticity makes it snap back towards its neutral state, and over corrects making the metal vibrate. Stuff like some plastics wont make a sound because they will just absorb the impact. |
What do surgeons do or rather, what happens with the extra fat off someone whose had lipo or skin removal surgery? | If there's skin attached, say from a breast reduction or pannectomy , it is sent to a pathologist for gross examination. Basically, they say, "Yep, this is 2.5 kg of breast tissue" and it gets documented for record keeping purposes. Then it is incinerated. For liposuction, the adipose tissue is measured in the operatin... |
how civilizations kept track of years before what we consider "year zero." What reference points did they have/use? | **Person Based** In many ancient societies, they named years after people. For example, X many years during the Reign of King Bob the First. Sometimes each year was named after a different person. Examples: * Assyria picked a new, appointed king each year. That year was named after that king.* Years named after Roman c... |
How are terrorist groups able to post execution videos on YouTube without being tracked? | Vanderlinden, First most videos aren't uploaded to YouTube. It is an American company and naturally subject to oversight and warrants and such. In the past most have used .ru sites and even hacked accounts of unsuspecting people on various other services. Why can't we track them? Well there are several ways to defeat s... |
How does light pollution prevent us from seeing stars? | The light from the stars is very faint. The light from cities, streetlamps, and so on, washes it out. While you may not be looking directly at the light source, it is scattered in the atmosphere. This means that, similar to the blue sky during the day time, wherever you look light is coming at your eyes and fainter sta... |
Why does a house smell different when it hasn't been occupied for a while? | Like you're five: Your nose has little traffic lights in them. These traffic lights send signals to your brain to tell your brain if the smell is good or bad. When your nose finds new smells the traffic lights turn green, and new smells start to move in. After smelling a smell for awhile your noses traffic lights start... |
What the different URL means | They're just supposed to denote what kind of organisation is using the website. The usual .com was originally intended for commercial sites, .org for nonprofit organisations, and .net for networking technologies , but they ended up being unrestricted so anyone can use mostly anything . There are also country-specific o... |
How do Hollywood auditions really work? Do movie producers and directors still give big name actors and actresses auditions? | All depends on funding If I approach investors and say "I 've got this movie, directed by holomntn, written by holomntn, produced by holomntn, starring holomntn, I need $100 million" they will tell me to go away. But if I get Tom Cruise to star, they know the money pull of Tom Cruise. If I get James Cameron to direct, ... |
How can skateboarders jump from tall places and not get hurt? What's the highest you can jump from and not get hurt? | When a person takes a voluntary fall and can get their feet underneath them, they can flex their legs on impact to absorb and distribute the force, essentially using their muscles and tendons like a set of shocks. Skateboarders use this when they take their boards on a jump, and you can also see parkour atheletes doing... |
What's that clicking sound in your ears everytime you yawn? | It is your pharyngoltympanic tube opening. It connects your middle ear to your throat. Opening it is also how you "pop your eardrum" or equalize pressure within the middle ear.Often, the bones in the jaw's joint, which is right near the ears, is not a nearly perfect sphere like it should be. The rubbing and catching of... |
Why is it depicted on film and TV that when someone is kissed, their foot comes off the ground? | > Why is it depicted on film and TV that when someone is kissed, their foot comes off the ground? The body language being used is that the woman is going up on the tips of her toes to be kissed. Of course she could do that with both feet but by raising one leg it highlights that she is being supported by the man and dr... |
Why does stress cause headaches? | Stress can cause tension in your body causing muscles to tighten in your neck and shoulders causing headaches also if your not drinking enough water while busy dehydration causes headachesTo summarize it and simplify it, stress causes the body to release substances that cause blood vessels to constrict. This constricti... |
Why are you asked not to look in the camera when doing interview ? | It's an editorial thing, speaking to an interviewer off camera = "this person is saying this", speaking towards camera = "We are saying this" |
How are IP addresses assigned internationally to avoid conflicts with different providers and users? | In short words, every isp buys a range of ip adresses and is responsible for distributing them in that range. Compare it a little with phone numbers. Your mobile provider owns a range of numbers like starting with 0497 xx xx xx nobody else is going to to have this start. Same with ip adressess. |
What is Copay and how is it different from deductible? | A copay is what insurance companies make you pay so that you aren't just frivolously going to the doctor Basically, you have to pay a small amount, say, $50 per visit, and your insurance company pays for the rest. The difference with a deductible is the deductible is what you pay first, before your insurance company st... |
Why waiting tables is the preferred profession for aspiring actors? | It requires little to no qualifications and doesn't necessarily require you to work 9 am to 5 pm. Meaning you can go to auditions and such during business hours. |
What could happen if a government stopped printing money? | Rules say please don't speculate so what DEFINITELY would happen is that the dollar would become stronger over that period of time. Manufacturing costs would effect consumerism and things like taxes on imports/exports would drastically change as well. I'm 100% positive there are tons more ramifications due to banks ins... |
how did this twitter account manage to give news on the Paris Terror attacks (14.11.2015) three days before they transpired? | Have a read of the rest of the feed - it's just mashing together different headlines. It seems that it just happened to do it right with the Paris attacks, but there's plenty of other things on there that make absolutely no sense. If you keep spouting semi-random gibberish, once in a while you're going to be correct ju... |
Why does our ears hurt when the earphones are at max volume in a quiet room, but sounds ok outdoors/at a noisy place? | Since it hasn't been mentioned already when exposed to loud noises the complex series bones separate from the ear drum by some distance. This has the effect of reducing the apparent intensity of sound. When in a loud environment, the bones being already separated from the ear drum, any new loud noise doesn't have much ... |
Why did almost all videos on news sites start autoplaying in the last few years? | Professional web developer here. It's a grab tactic. Years ago, usage metrics for a lot of sites on the internet were showing that people really weren't engaging with video content, unless they were on a site that provided a video-centric experience . It's been a while, so the name of the study escapes me, but, an inte... |
If my brain is a fixed size, why can I gain and develop more and more knowledge throughout my life cycle? | Edit: Someone else needs to come up with a better ELI5 answer than mine, I know its not perfect. Current models for memory have it that memory is simply the way the neurons are wired together. Forming new memories involves chaining the electrical and chemical connections between your brain, not growing new cells. And y... |
Why does it take more power to increase from say 170-180mph than it does to increase from 50-60mph in a car? | Drag from rolling resistance increases at a linear rate to velocity. Drag from aerodynamic forces increases at the *square* of velocity. The larger the velocity, the bigger the square. Just to give some rough numbers: 60^2 - 50^2 = 1100, 180^2 - 170^2 = 3500, over 3x as much', "Please guys, if you don't know exactly wh... |
why do flash drives increase in memory like 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, etc, but a hard drive can have odd numbers? | hard drives increased in this fashion too back when they were this small. Part of it is how they are made, flash drives use multiple blocks of a common size, which is going to be a multiple of 8Flash drives are created with the same types of circuits as your computer is; so flash drives are rated in sizes that are powe... |
Cern's new Particle Discovery | It's actually two new composite particles that are in a group known as baryons. Basically, there are a list of fundamental particles in various groups known as the standard model. One of the groups of particles are known as quarks. Three quarks bound together form a baryon. In working with quarks and another particle k... |
Why is it that when you're falling from really high up, your arms and legs start spinning around all over the place? | Personal experience, I hope not? It is the person trying to remain upright. By moving their arms around, you are able to adjust your angle. Humans aren't very good at it, but we are trying to do what a cat can do very accurately._URL_0_ |
Why do kids fall out of the bed/why don't we fall out of the bed? | I would say that it's because their proprioceptive senses are underdeveloped. This is the sensory capacity that allows us to perceive the movement and positioning of body parts related to other parts and external objects . The reason adults don't fall out of bed is because we have more solid mental maps of our bodies a... |
Why did the UN need to pass a resolution to gain access to the territory controlled by Ukrainian rebels, and how does that make the rebels comply? | Not a UN expert, but this is my understanding of it The UN passed a resolution because to do so otherwise could be construed by Russia as an unwanted/unwarranted/illegal intrusion into their supposedly perfectly legal annexation of Crimea. The UN wants to make sure the law is on their side because they're trying to mak... |
What is insider trading, and how is it prosecuted? | Insider trading is someone that trades stock that has more than "public information." Public information is anything that is released to the public through SEC filings and the like. Say if the CEO of a major company calls you and says, "next week we are going to go out of business, sell all our stock." You sell the sto... |
Could investigators go back and test the dna evidence from the O.J Simpson case using today's DNA techniques to confirm if it was truly Simpson's DNA? | There's zero doubt that it was OJ's DNA. OJ's defense was that it was possibly planted by a racist detective as part of a systematic culture of racism in the LA Police Dept. Whether or not it was actually his DNA was not in question. Also the murder weapon was never located, so you couldn't test that. |
Why does is take so long to get a college transcript? | Depends on the school. Some can deliver it to you electronically, but most I've encountered do it by mail, and always with a charge. Why hasn't this changed? colleges, and big state schools like mine , use old ass systems and don't want to pay the money to upgrade. Our entire registration system looks like it was devel... |
Why doesn't the IOC just buy an island somewhere and hold the Olympics there every time. | For one, the Olympics are about international community, and isolating the games goes against that. The Olympics are also a huge draw for tourists. Cities that host the games are counting on the idea that the tourist revenue they make will offset the cost of building. Also, anyone traveling to see the Olympics would wa... |
Why are so many countries aiming for 2% inflation? | Economists generally agree that around 2% inflation is a rate that is desirable for an economy. Basically the reason this number is chosen is that it provides a balance between goals the government hopes to achieve . The 2% rate of inflation is chosen as: 1. at this amount , inflation is high enough to encourage consum... |
What's so special about Swiss banks? | Generally, many Swiss banks use a numbered account system, not obviously attached to an actual person. Using numbers makes it more difficult to know who is doing what. [_URL_0_]', "Actually, these days, Switzerland has stricter laws against moneylaundering than many other countries . Read up on how Apple flees taxes - ... |
Why is mileage better on highways? | Two big reasons: * Starting and stopping at lights and intersections hurts mileage. * Cars tend to get better mileage at the speeds you travel at on highways relative to speeds you go at on city streetsCars have a sweet spot when it comes to fuel consumption vs speed. For example, if you are driving really slowly, you ... |
Why are there so many $5 fast food boxes all of a sudden? | Oddly enough, they seem to be disappearing. Taco Bell and KFC in my area no longer carry them. |
what happens when someone objects to a marrige when the priest asks if anyone objects to the marrige and should speak now or forever hold your peace? | Despite popular conception, the purpose of this part of the ceremony is **not** for some lost forsaken boyfriend to yell out "I disapprove!" all romantic-like, and embarass himself and have to be escorted out by security. The purpose of this is to find out if there was any previously-undisclosed reason why the marriage... |
Why do we feel sick? | The symptoms of a cold/flu are all your bodies response to fight and get rid of the infection. Sneezing, runny nose, vomiting, and coughing are all ways for your body to expell the virusIt's your body's way of saying, "get out of here" and you should listen!! The more you resist your body's natural ways of healing/savi... |
Why can't my DVD/Blu-Ray player override the disc so I can skip FBI warnings, etc.? | The first to do that would instantly lose their license to produce Bluray players and would be sued into oblivion. It's not an open format. |
Why are European cars in general much smaller than US cars? | European roads are, generally, much smaller than US roads. That's historical, the buildings in European city centers constrain the size of the roads. American cities are hundreds of years newer.Gas is more expensive in Europe. People don't drive as much or as far. Roads are generally narrower and more winding. In the U... |
Would lubricant significantly increase the muzzle velocity of a bullet? | No, because the lubrication would stop the bullet from being as effected by the rifling. You might have some minimal increase in speed, but it would be far less affected by the rifling, causing accuracy issues. |
What happens when a female astronaut has her period while in orbit, or zero gravity? | Women can take medication to avoid having their period for a long time. Dont worry they got it coveredUterine cramping expels period material. In low/no gravity, the process is hampered a little, but still works with a little assist from "wicking." |
How did former leaders like Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin justify, to their constituents, literally killing off entire demographics of their citizenry? Or did they bother justifying it at all? | In Hitler's case, a lot of the public didn't know the full extent of what was going on. But you have to remember that your average Joe hated the Jews at that point in history - Hitler actually offered them to the U.S. and Britain, both of whom *declined to take them*. So while they might not have supported full-on geno... |
Why does the elapse of time seem proportional with aging? | I don't know for sure, and I'm not sure how you'd test the theory, but I always believed that we perceive time as sort of a percentage of existence. For instance, when you are 5 years old, 1 year is 20% of your life's experience. However when you are 50, you need 10 years to make the same 20% of your life's experience,... |
How does daylight savings time affect people working the graveyard shift | I said this in another thread earlier: For those of you working tonight, make sure you get paid for the extra hour, I've had to get it corrected before. You should always be tracking your own hours and checking your pay stubs anyway, but keep an extra close eye on this one.I worked in a job that was on shiftwork, a 24 ... |
What are "brain zaps"? | The only context I 've ever heard brain zaps mentioned in before was in regards to withdrawal from certain anti-depression medications. As in when someone suddenly stopped taking their medication, they experienced extremely unpleasant and disturbing sensations apparently best described as "brain zaps" that one individu... |
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