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In the case of reporting the names and pictures of people infected with diseases such as ebola, is it not a HIPPA violation. | [Medical professionals and anyone named in the HIPAA act cannot release the information.] This does not stop journalists from releasing information once they have it. Journalists should balance privacy with public need-to-know information, but they are not required to keep names confidentialHippa isnt a gag order from ... |
how do directors of animated movie direct the movie? | They will, just like in a live-action film, oversee the film's broad vision—its style, its tone, its color palette—and tinker with every aspect of the production process. The main difference is that animation directors have much more control. |
Does Netflix pay movies/tv-shows to stream or do movies/tv-shows pay to stream? | Netflix purchases the rights to digitally stream movies and television shows and then charges their users a fee to access that content. I don't think a service/channel that relies on content-providers to pay *them* would be a sound economic model. |
Why does snails tend to leave their normal habitats and cross roads etc, under watery weather/conditions? | Snails just stay where it's damp. When the roads and whatever else are wet then the snails will go there. They can't see long distances and don't realise that it's somewhere dangerous. |
Why do professional sports have a draft? Specifically speaking, what is stopping a player from opting out from the draft and just choosing their desired team? | I know NOTHING about sports, so anyone, please correct me if I'm wrong but my thinking would be that each sport has a league/governing body that tells the member teams the ways in which they are allowed to get new players, trade players, etc. Therefore if the team one wants to join has to use a draft, if you want to be... |
How does a person/team design the arrangement of billions of transistors to form a modern CPU/GPU? | I am a retired ASIC Engineer. Before I retired I was considered one of the best in the world when it came to CPU design. If you've ever seen a close up of a CPU you'll notice what looks like blocks. Each block performs a specific function. Each block is designed by different teams that specialize in that block's functi... |
What is identity theft? How can someone become someone else? | Identity theft is a catch-all term meaning that someone has taken information that identifies you and uses it to pretend to be you. Usually, it involves going into your social media accounts and posting spam messages or opening up credit card accounts in your name. They generally don't physically present themselves as ... |
How does freezing something via CO2 differ than traditional methods of freezing? What happens differently at a molecular level. | The reason is that it's being frozen at much much lower temperatures, in a much shorter time. Dry ice has a surface temperature of 195K, while your average fridge freezes food to 255K. Also, you can flash-freeze things with CO2 in mere minutes, while a fridge takes many hours. The effect you see is called glass transit... |
How does a country validate the "complete denuclearization" of another country? Couldn't they just hide a nuke in a bunker somewhere? | Sure. But a nuke is useless without a delivery system. Missiles, bombers, and submarines have a much larger footprint that can more easily be detected. And, interestingly, nukes are *also* useless if *nobody knows you have them*. There really is no benefit to having a secret nuclear arsenal, because the whole point is ... |
Why was the housing bubble so bad for regular US citizens? | Many many americans don't have much wealth apart from their home. So people's total wealth fell dramatically because of the housing bust. This was especially true for Black and Latino Americans of any level of wealth. So on top of that, there's really not much point in keeping up on an underwater mortgage. Would you pa... |
The science behind déjà vu. | One theory that I'm familiar with suggests it's related to dreams. In dreams, your brain plays around with the ideas and memories that you're working on. It's part of how memories get transferred into long-term. So that guy you met at work today ends up in the movie you watched with you in the starring role trying to s... |
Why was former President Bill Clinton questioned under oath about his affair? | _URL_0_ It stemmed from a different investigation that dug up allegations of sexual harassment which he was questioned about, leading to perjury, which is definitely a crime, no matter what the topic of questioning was. |
Phone batteries and charges vs laptop batteries and chargers | Milliamp-hours are not a unit of energy storage. They are a unit of charge storage, but they don't say how much energy that charge has. Voltage tells you how much energy the charge has. You can only compare mAh to mAh *if* both batteries are the same voltage. In the case of the phone versus the laptop, the phone is goi... |
Butterflies. Like, from a darwinian point of view, how could the whole caterpillar/cocoon/butterfly be a solution viable enough? How did they make it to today? | Having your larval stage and your adult stage not have to compete for food, and live in a different environment, is definitely an advantage. For many butterflies/moths it splits the life-cycle pretty neatly. You get the caterpillar who basically has one job: Eat. Then it turns into a butterfly that pretty much has one ... |
Why does most food taste better baked than in a microwave? | Most of the time, if you see a food turning brown and tasty when it's cooked--think of bread becoming toast or a steak being seared--the Maillard reaction is taking place. The Maillard reaction needs a few things to proceed well: High heat, and low water at the surface. In an oven, the hot, dry air favors browning, so ... |
why didn't Hitler invade England after bombing it for weeks. | An army can march and invade a few feet at a time. Until they come to a 22-mile stretch of water. Islands are extremely defensible because troops on boats are highly vulnerable to attack. |
Why does skin turn pale when you apply pressure to it? | When you press on your skin, you are slowing/stopping blood from flowing to that particular spot temporarily. This causes the loss of color, then when the blood flows back into that spot, the color returns. This is actually clinically significant, as testing for capillary refill is a common "vital sign" indicator for c... |
Does a pacemaker keep working after death? | The pacemaker's only job is to regulate the timing of your beat. Death from heart problems is still common in people with pm's, once your heart tires and can no longer contract, it stops responding to the pacemaker but the pacemaker is still emitting electrical impulses. Basically, no amount of external electricity is ... |
Why do restaurants offer various types of bread before the main course if it serves only to full us up? Wouldn't this in turn make them less money? | To my understanding, it's cheap, it makes the patron feel like they're getting something for free - which always feels good. In addition, it keeps the customer preoccupied while busy servers and kitchen staff work to fulfill other orders. You're less likely to complain about service if you have a basket of bread in fro... |
Why can they make Vitamin C tablets taste like orange candy, but every other medication I know ranges from tasteless to disgusting? | One reason that I've seen suggested is that making medicine taste bad makes it more difficult to abuse. Children in particular would be less likely to injure themselves by consuming too much of something that tasted terrible. It would also dissuade people from trying to get high off of medicines, like how they add bitt... |
Why do you have to sign your name after using your credit card in some stores, and not have to in others? | Sometimes it depends on MasterCard or visa. You have to sign with visa if the purchase total is over 25$ with MasterCard you have to sign if its over 50$ |
Goals and methods of international cyber-warfare | No network is completely secure. The US Military as of 2008ish no longer allowed thumb drives onto their networks. Prior to this they were quite commonplace. Allegedly, all though this is just a rumor I heard a number of years back, this was because Chinese agents sprinkled a handful of thumb drives around the parking ... |
Faults and merits of fixed money supply | Such a system seems extremely constrained to me. If there is a finite amount of money in the system, there would be an incentive to hoard your cash to corner the market in money and squeeze the value of money higher. There would be no money creation in the form of mortgages and new bank lending, since this is a means o... |
How does my smartphone's step counter track my movements? | Your phone has accelerometer and gyrometer sensors that detect motion. It uses these combined with an algorithm in the software to determine your movement speed based on the rhythm of your steps when walking or running. It can also often improve the accuracy of this measurement by using street level GPS location and si... |
If radiation exposure can cause cancer how does it cure it? | A little bit of radiation damages DNA/parts of the cell, which in turn can lead to cancer if it messes with the parts of the DNA/parts of the cell which prevent uncontrolled replication . A lot of radiation tears cells to shreds, killing them. Even cancer cells, that normally reproduce robustly and are hard to target w... |
Why do our bodies have a mechanism to detect malnourishment (hunger) but not a strong one to detect overnourishment (obesity)? | Well for the majority of human existence being overweight was never an issue. That excess energy was needed to fight off predators. Sugars and foods high in fat contain a lot of energy which releases dopamine, these foods are not easy to come across in nature. Fat is just extra energy for survival or atleast it wasHung... |
Why does a mirror with an inner sphere reflect image vertically inverted? | What you're really asking is why concave mirrors invert images and convex mirrors don't. Convex mirrors reflect light rays inward towards a focal point that is in front of you. If you are behind the focal point, the light rays end up reflecting things inverted. See [picture] |
How the hell did any crimes get solved before modern forensics were developed? | Good ol' fashioned sleuthing. There's far more to detective work than forensics, despite what modern day procedurals would have you believe. Questioning and interrogation, for example, both of witnesses and suspects, is still very much a vital part of the process. So much so that police officers are put through specifi... |
What is the difference between all wheel drive and four wheel drive? Which is "better"? Why aren't all cars made with more than two wheel drive? | All wheel drive generally refers to vehicles that always have power to four wheels. Four wheel drive generally refers to vehicles that have power to two wheels with the option to switch power to all four wheels. Two wheel drive are broken down between front wheel and rear wheel drive. Front wheel drive means your two f... |
How can land be floating on gas? | It's not floating on the gas, it's more like a giant underground arch forming an open space that's filled up with gas. The weight of all the rock above isn't just resting on the gas, it's transferring down the sides of the arch and down into the rock below. Although the gas can be at really high pressure that does prov... |
How does a Bluetooth source device control volume? | Think of it as multiplication. If your volume on the source is at 50% and your BT headphones are at 100%, the resulting volume is 50%. If you turn down your headphones to 50% the resulting volume is 25%. |
why Mayor Bloomberg banned food donations to the poor | Aid organizations prefer donations of money to donations of goods in general, since they have a much better idea of what they need to do to serve the people they're trying to help than the general public does. Individual contributors, in contrast, sometimes prefer to buy goods than simply donate money, as this makes th... |
Heat-related deaths in countries with AC v. countries without it. | There are a few reasons. Part of it is building design. A building with thick earth walls is going to stay cooler in the summer than a building with thin metal walls. Also, people in hotter countries are more used to the heat, they know how to deal with it properly. Proper hydration, not being active during the hottest... |
[IT-security] What is the difference between direct and arbitrary code execution? | Arbitrary code execution refers to the ability of a 'hacker' to make a program execute whatever code it wants. If an exploit gains access to arbitrary execution, it can make the program run its own code, rather than the intended code. This is normally achieved when the host program 'let's its guard down' in a way and a... |
What is counting cards in blackjack, and why is it illegal? | This American Life recently did a show all about this. It's fascinating. [Listen Here]. TL;DL from what I remember of the show: 1. It isn't *illegal*. You can't be arrested for it2. The casinos frown upon it and if you are suspected/caught, you will be asked to play other games or leave. You may be banned.3. Counting c... |
How do airlines have accurate flight times months away from departure. | Mostly by maintaining a routine. Airlines reserve gates at airports for years in advance, so they can schedule as far out as they can handle it. Monday flights from DC to Denver on Southwest are all at the same time, barring an emergency. Same with pretty much every other airline and every other day of the week. The fl... |
Why is air a good insulator. How does it compare to other options? | The simplest way to think of insulators is to compare them to conductors. Good conductors are like a really fast bucket brigade, full of strong people who are good are moving buckets. An efficient bucket brigade will transfer those buckets very quickly. Copper is a good example. Copper atoms are the dudes holding the b... |
Why did the 16:9 screens ratio became a standard replacing 4:3? | Movies have generally been shot in a wider format because directors have liked the aesthetic. It also does help tell a story because as soon as you have two people standing side by side talking to each other your frame needs to be wider than it is tall. Anyways this really didn't matter in the days of tube televisions ... |
In the case of convicted hackers, the judgement might include life time ban on access to computers. How is this ban enforced? | It would be difficult to enforce an actual physical ban - what they mean is "if we catch you using a computer again then you go to jail"', "It's like a suspended sentence i.e. 'if we catch you burglarising houses again, you will go to jail' Is there a *physical* barrier to stop you from being a burglar again? Well no b... |
The National Incident Management System. (NIMS) | It's pretty much a set of guidelines on how to handle incidents that can be applied to everything and anything from a car accident to a large scale disaster. There are free NIMS classes online. ICS 100 does a much better job of explaining it than i can |
What is supersymmetry in particle physics? | It's the idea —\xa0as yet still speculative —\xa0that a previously unrecognized symmetry in nature gives rise to a whole set of elementary particles that have never been observed. Each known elementary particle — the quarks, the leptons and the gauge bosons —\xa0is thought to have a "superpartner" via this symmetry. Th... |
Difference between non-profit and not-for-profit organizations, if there is any. | There isn't any. Both are organizations who has a different goal other than profit making as their main objective. That *doesn't* mean they can't make money. In fact, many insurance companies are not-for-profit structures. In a context like that, that basically means they return their earnings to shareholders or custom... |
why does it seem that whenever there's an asteroid coming our way, it just whizzes by and doesn't hit our planet? | Because space is really big. Most things out there don't hit our planet. And almost all the ones that do aren't bug enough to cause damage. |
Why do the Romanized versions of Chinese words seem to make no sense phonetically? | Because the [official Romanization system] developed by the communist government in the 1950s isn't very intuitive. Partly they didn't try to make it user-friendly for westerners, and partly it can't be done any better. There are a lot of letters that they just hijacked for other uses. In no western language is the "Q"... |
Why isn't Washington D.C. a state? | DC is not constitutionally permitted to be a state. The whole point of cutting off an area 10 miles square for the capital was so it would not reside within the boundaries of any stateIt is not allowed to become one. It is specifically set aside to be the capitol city so that no State can have more power by housing the... |
why doesnt the metal already inside a microwave spark up? | Metal can be put into a microwave. There are even a few models of microwaves that contain metal racks inside that you can remove. The reason that you are told not to put metal into a microwave has to deal with electrical currents. When the microwave radiation strikes metal, a current starts to go across it. Small, thin... |
Why does the whole process regarding medical records and appointments seem so antiquated and slow? | Like most things there are several reasons. At the clear forefront, however, is regulation. HIPAA, and more relevantly the HITECH act place all the responsibility of protecting your information on your provider. If their online system isn't secure enough, the doctor pays the damages and fines. There are several steps t... |
What are and/or is the importance of sororities and fraternities in the US? | It's of course blown out of proportions, but they are still relevant. Some are just to make friends, some are just to have party, and some are about making connections and preparing for graduation. |
why do humans get brain damage from head banging for extended periods but birds (like pigeons) don't from bopping their heads all day? | Birds have special adaptations to let them do it. The most famous example would be, of course, woodpeckers, which slam their faces into trees *really hard* and don't seem to mind. Their brains have some special cushioning around, with thicker fluid. As well, their tongues are longer than you can see: they actually [wra... |
how does my vacuum recharge itself when not plugged in? | Batteries produce electricity using chemical reactions, thus the term "electro-chemical battery". A chemical reaction takes 2 chemicals and produce another chemical that is no longer part of the reaction. Let's call them reactive chemicals and resulting chemicals A "charge" in a battery corresponds to the amount of rea... |
Muscles. What actually happens when you work out and build muscle? | You can not grow new skeletal muscles cells. The ones you have just simply grow in size . When mr. muscle cell gets fatigued after a work out he recruits new smaller friends into his cell body to prepare himself for the beating he is expecting to take again and hopes to be ready for the challenge. If you look at the in... |
Why is New York humid and LA dry when both are on the ocean? | One is on the eastern end of a huge body of water, the other is on the western end of a huge body of water. Note the way weather in the US typically flows: west to east. This means that LA is getting the ocean's weather, and the water of the ocean is acting as a huge regulator for the air above it. NY is getting the No... |
Why are there lone railroad cars on the railway? | They're not "lost" by any means A single car is likely "about to be" transferred to a nearby company that ordered it with a felxible delivery date. The RR got it there when it could, which happens to be two months in advance of when they really need it -- but that's better than being two months late. Shipping volumes a... |
How do you count beats and bars? | Think of it as mathematics - the time signature tells you how many of what notes you can have in a bar. For instance, a 4/4 signature means this section or piece of music should have 4 quarter notes in a bar, whereas a 6/8 signature means 6 eighth notes in a bar. Just in case it wasn't clear, notes have values, so 2 qu... |
Why is there no such thing as a Universal Power Supply? | It has to do with voltage, current, and connectors. There's no standardization of any of those things for portable electronic devices, although there have been some positive movements in voltages and connectors. A lot of things can be powered over USB, so if you have a power supply that has all of the major USB connect... |
How exactly are nucleons (protons and neutrons) held together in the nucleus without repelling each-other? | There are four fundamental forces, and I'm assuming you're familiar with two of them; if it was just the gravitational force and the electromagnetic force, atoms couldn't exist, as all like-charged subatomic particles would repel. But there is a force stronger than the electromagnetic force, appropriately named the str... |
Why do bread items always heat up so quickly in the microwave compared to any other food item? | Additionally, bread doesn't have a lot of mass compared to its size. It is more like a sponge when you look at its structure. So when you compare its size and weight to "non-hollow" food, you need little energy to heat it up. |
Why does WiFi use less battery than 4G data? | The communication is two way, so not only does the phone have to pick up the signal from the router/tower, it has to send one back. The wifi router is maybe 20m away, the tower might be 2km away. The power of radio waves more or less falls off at the square of distance. So to get the same power of signal to the tower t... |
When global corporations lose a lawsuit and are required to pay millions of dollars, where does that money go? | A lot of these are class-action lawsuits which *basically* means a large group of people who were hurt by some action are suing the company for damages. So they get the money. Sometimes the government also is fining the company, such as the case with the VW cheating scandal that involved, in the US, $25bn in fines and ... |
Why are carpet floors so ubiquitous in some countries? Are they worth all the extra hassle? | I'd say the main two reasons are warmth and comfort. It's much more pleasant to walk on without shoes/slippers because it's soft, and warm. It also keeps your room warmer since it helps further insulate the air from the cold ground . Lots if people also find it a makes for a more pleasant environment since it helps to ... |
How does one not become severely injured when jumping from extreme heights into a small amount of water? | As the saying goes, it's not the fall that hurts, but the sudden stop at the end. The trick, then, is to make the stop *less sudden.* If you fall onto something soft, rather than coming to a stop suddenly, you stop more gradually as the thing you're landing on deforms or displaces under you. But water isn't all that gr... |
What is Coinstar and how does it work? | They're machines that count large amounts of loose change and let you exchange it for more easily spendable paper money. They're normally found in grocery stores and the like. You dump your money in, it counts it, you get a slip which you can exchange for money. The store takes a percentage of the money to offset the c... |
How come the pacing in anime and Western Animation so radically different? | It's because in Japan, the vast majority of cartoons are adaptations of ongoing comic books or light novels, while most western cartoons are original creations, or else adapted from sources with an almost inexhaustible supply of published material. Let's take One Piece. The OP manga is currently publishes one chapter a... |
The Pirate Bay's new server setup | For the VM part: When you install, say, Windows on your computer, then Windows uses all the computer's hardware: it reads and writes to the hard disk, it displays things using the graphics card, plays things on the sound card etc. That's your, well, real, non-virtual machine. Virtual Machine environment is a program th... |
Wht does variance tell us in statistics and analytics? | Throwing darts at a bar is a useful example. Let's say every time you throw, you are aiming at the bulls eye, but if you are like me, every time you miss. Variance is how much you miss by on average. Very broadly speaking, the more 'skilled' a darts thrower is, the 'tighter' the grouping of his shots will be - the vari... |
What's wrong with Materialism? And what's the alternative? | The philosophy about matter, or the lifestyle choice of hoarding possessions?I wouldn't know if there's something "wrong with materialism but I do believe the alternative, minimalism, to be a much healthier way to live your life. With minimalism you keep only what is necessary for your life. Fill your house only with t... |
Why does medicine, when in pill form, require me to take more than one at a time? Why not just make more concentrated pills so each one is one dose? | So I do not work for a big manufacturing company but I do work for a compounding pharmacy. Part of the reason is particle size/dosage amount being too much for one pill, and you are right to say that there is a lot of filler in the pill itself - however that filler is usually required for the pill to well for a simple ... |
Why do right handed people use their left hand for the chords on a guitar while their right hand simply strums? | The picking action is usually far more intricate than the fingering action. In addition it requires more dexterity. Fingering the strings requires the build up of calluses, whereas picking and strumming requires precise and strong wrist motion. So "simply strums" is a misnomer; it requires first of all wrist strength a... |
the gun controller for games like Duck Hunt. | The way it works is that patterns are displayed on the screen for a split second when you pull the trigger and the light sensor is able to figure out which one you are pointed at. Light pens work the same way.So the gun just looks to see if it's being pointed at the white square, if it is it registers a hit, if not it ... |
if a poisonous snake bites another poisonous snake of the same type will the snake that was bitten feel effects of the poison? | not an expert, but im going with YES -depending on the species- Some snakes have bitten their own tails and killed themselves. |
Injecting significant amount of air into the body | I hope you're not thinking about experimenting with this. ) Your blood vessels are of all shapes and sizes well, okay, mostly tube-shaped, but with many different diameters, so even a tiny amount of air can lead to a gas embolism. If you inject some air into a vein, it will be pumped along with the blood to the lungs, ... |
if luminol has the same sensitivity to animal and human blood, how do investigators prove if the blood is from an animal or a human after it has been washed off? | Luminol does not distinguish between the bloods. All it does is point out where it was. They then take samples of it and test it to determine what animal bled.If luminol detects blood, that means there is some blood left over, and so it hasn't been totally washed off. The residue can then be tested for its origin. |
Why haven't we made an acid-free soda? | For one thing, anytime you dissolve Carbon Dioxide in water you produce some Carbonic Acid ; you're never going to avoid that and still have a fizzy drink. You could carbonate it with Nitrogen, but you 'd lose all of your fizz when you first cracked the bottle. Some soda's don't use added acids, such as phosphoric acid... |
Why do all slow mo videos have this relaxing sound when stuff is slowed down. Like the background noise is relaxing or smnt. | Because it sounds good. It's entirely artificial. All sound is, on extreme slowmo, because after slowing the waveform to 1/1000th speed all we'd be hearing is ultrasound, which is not only meaningless but also extremely difficult to record . It's there as a pleasant way to inform you that things are getting slower with... |
What is the science behind using flour as a thickener for soups, etc.? Also, why does flour need to be mixed with cold liquid in order to dissolve? | Flour is made of starches. Starches are very long chains of molecules. Water interacts with the starches and then doesn't flow throughout the rest of the liquid. You mix flour with water to make a slurry before pouring back into the hot sauce to prevent the flour from clumping up in the sauce. It's not required that th... |
Why is it ~40% more expensive to buy a laptop/phone in England than it is in the US? (Trying to bring mom out of stone age) | There are a number of things to consider: * VAT adds 20% to the price of any taxable items, and unlike in the US, advertised prices have to include all applicable taxes. * Warranty coverage. Within the EU, consumers can make a claim for faulty/misdescribed goods within the first two years, and British law goes beyond t... |
Does putting food waste in a landfill help make everything else in the landfill decompose easier? If so, is it worth it? | In Metro Vancouver, food waste is now collected in separate bins, and then shipped to processing plants for re-use as fuel and compost. But I don't think putting food waste in a landfill will make everything else decompose faster. People put everything in the trash, so there would be plastics, metals, stone, ceramic, e... |
Why tattoos do not initiate immune system response? | They do. The needle penetrating the skin causes histamine to be produced, thats why the area being worked gets red and swells somewhat. For anything else to happen there need to be antigens present. Those are molecules found for example on bacteria that cause them to stick to certain immune system cells and activate th... |
Who or what decided what the months and days would be called? | The months, largely the Romans. The last part of the year still carries Latin numbers: Sept, Oct, Nov and Dec. Plus the ones named for Julius and Augustus Ceasars. The days of the week, strangely, come in part from the Norse: Odin's Day Thor's Day, Frigga's Day. |
What it is meant by saying "experimentally verified fact"? Is this more valuable than normal facts or anything else similar? | Let's say you want to see what temperature ice turns into water . You look out your window and watch to see if the snow is melting, and look at the outside thermometer. You now know the answer, right? Is it a fact? Well, you did perform an observation. But you didn't control for a whole bunch of possible issues wind ch... |
Why do things get cleaned better in warm water over cold water? | Hot water dissolves substances that could be solidified to what you're washing. Fats and greases, in abroad sense, remain solid at room temperatures. Heating them up will partially liquefy them and help them slide off.Simple answer i think is surface tension is reduced by heating the water so it help in easy removal of... |
Why are Intel processors stuck but mobile processors (Apple, Samsung, Qualcomm) gain plenty of performance each year? | The problem is heat. Intel could theoretically make processors that had faster clock speeds but they don't have a good way to cool them. There's a relationship between the speed of a chip and the amount of heat it generates and making chips faster means some kind of liquid cooling system which would be expensive and ve... |
Why are bugs in Australia so big? | Only way to survive. Have you seen our drop bears and crocodiles? Love this image, especially the surprised look on the shark's face _URL_0_ |
The unisex toilet situation in America | Nobody actually cares except a vocal minority for the purposes of misdirection. Nobody wants to report on the Panama Papers, CIA torture report mistakenly being destroyed, the situation in Brazil where we may have played a part. But people can be uncomfortable if a person doesn't use the proper restroom |
What is the strange language type thing under the definition of a word on Google? | This is done in IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet. Google IPA to find out how to interpret itThey are the phonetic spelling of the word. When describing the pronunciation of a word, there is a non-ambiguous alphabet which is used where each symbol stands for one sound and one sound alone. There is no ambiguity w... |
How did the elements that caused the Big Bang get their in the first place? | Elements did not cause the big bang. The Big Bang is a term for a period of high density in the early universe, but does not actually describe how the universe itself was created. If you're asking how all of the material that this density was comprised of appeared in the first place, then the only answer presently is t... |
The difference between Hardee's and Carl's Jr. | It's the same company. The different brands exist in different regions. It used to be 2 companies but Carl's jr. bought Hardee's. Hardees had significant brand recognition in their areas, which is valuable, so Carl's Jr kept the branding instead of changing the name. Today I'm sure their are subtle differences, but tho... |
What is actually happening when scissors are run really fast against a ribbon? | Someone may know for sure but I imagine that the heat from the friction of the blade against the ribbon causes that side of the ribbon to contract making the other side of the ribbon longer, hence the curling. I suppose you could try applying heat to the ribbon to see if it shrinks. Because you are making the ribbon as... |
Sentencing a criminal to one year and one day. | In New York its county jail vs state prison, up to 365 days is county, 366 or more is a state jail which is much more strict and violentIn Canada, a sentence of two years or more means you enter the federal prison system. Anything less means you are in the provincial jail system. It's fairly common to see sentences of ... |
What does America get out of allying with Israel as opposed to Iran? | The U.S. fell out with Iran after the 1979 Islamic revolution. The U.S.-backed dictator, the Shah, was overthrown and rabidly anti-Western Ayatollah Khomeini came to power. Hostages were seized from the U.S. embassy and held for over a yearThere are more than twice as many Jews in the USA as there are Muslims, and most... |
what does it mean when a person gets three or two life sentences? | In case one of them gets overturned or is reduced, they will continue to stay in jail for the others. It's an insurance policy for the govt to insure the criminal stays in jail, just in case. |
What's that weird smell before rain, and why does that weird smell happen? | When the barometric pressure lowers, volatile compounds in the soil etc become airborne, because there is less pressure on it. You're smelling odor particles that normally would have remained near the ground. |
Why does Pennsylvania have state-run liquor stores and what is the argument against privatising them? | It has them for historical reasons. The original reasoning was probably something about public morals, but it was also decades ago. At this point plenty of people have tried to privatize it and they just debated doing so last summer. The issue is that the government employees who work there have a union and are actuall... |
Why can there be such a delay between a music album release and radio play? | It's all about the major labels paying oceans of money to make certain songs 'popular' or get Airplay |
The current race issues at The University of Missouri | Some people did some dumb racist shit. Another group said its the administrations fault and wanted a head. Snowball. Administration says fuck it and quits.I live in Columbia.A while back the university took away healthcare for grad student TAs. These grad students are predominantly white. They walked out on classes and... |
BadUSB and how the everyday user can be attacked? | Read an article just the other day about bad usb. If you never use a usb from somewhere else you're ok. Ones from other people are suspect. There is no scan that will detect one.Obviously this has implications on file sharing. |
When companies say "a $96 value, now for $29.95!" are they actually selling at a loss? | Of course not. They artificially inflate the price to fool people into thinking it's a "bargain". Oldest marketing trick in the bookAs others have said, this is a marketing ploy. However > it doesn't make sense to sell at a loss Ever Is absolutely false. You may sell at a loss to clear excess inventory, avoid a tax pen... |
Why is google so much better than other search engines? Why have other search engines not been able to replicate google's search accuracy? | In short, it's not. Something like Bing could return results just as good as Google's. Google does have a bit of a tiny advantage because their data is connected to so many other places now, but something like Bing with microsoft's data could definitely be comparable. What we've got here is more a case of Google being ... |
Why are French car brands so uncommon in the U.S.? | Probably some part import taxes and some part perceived value; Americans probably don't have a great perception of French goods, but generally they love American cars. According to [this], a large part of the equation is regulatory differences; American safety standards were drastically different than French standards ... |
Libertarian Socialism & Communism; compare and contrast. | Well, there are many different schools of thought underneath "Communism," but all have them have in common a belief that the current economic system splits the population into two discernable classes: The workers and the capitalists, where the latter takes advantage of the former . Communism believes that this conflict... |
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