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Uni debt in the UK vs College debt in the US | I can't speak for American college debt, but I can for UK debt as I begin Uni in September. In the UK, we have tuition fees just like in America, and just like in America, unless we have rich family who can pay for us, we take out loans to pay. However, in the UK we don't pay back those loans until we start earning a c... |
how can they take a square (not widescreen) video and make it into widescreen? without stretching? | It may have been filmed in a larger frame, and what you were seeing on broadcast was a crop. Then when they remaster it for Netflix they use uncropped. Otherwise, they can zoom in to fill in the gaps. Most things are shot on a wider format than NTSC TV broadcast. |
Why has aircraft technology (seemingly) stagnated in the past 30 years? | On top of all the current comments: It happens to be that the current lineup of aircraft design-wise is the pretty efficient for its given purpose . There have been changes to aeroplanes since the 80's but most of them aren't immediately noticeable from the outside. For example the use of digital controls replacing mec... |
How do rockets move through space if there's nothing to push against? | They move by pushing rocket fuel out. Essentially the fuel is what the rocket is pushing "against" in order to move. If you were in space, you could propel yourself in one direction by throwing a rock in the opposite direction. It's the same idea.There is something to push against: the spaceship itself! When the engine... |
Why are Chinese and Japanese translations on products and international signage so inaccurate? | > in a world where you can just use a free online translator Many of these errors happen *because* someone used a free online translator. Computers aren't actually very good at translating all the subtleties and intricacies of language. Tone and idioms vary wildly from one language to the next. Phrases like "the coast ... |
How do Landline phones work when the power is out? | A standard landline has -48V DC power included with the signal. The phone company central office also has a bank of batteries to operate when the power is outThe Central Office for the phone system supplies power down the lines for the phones. It's DC and the voltage varies based on what the phone is doing. When the ph... |
What's the difference between regular batteries and rechargeable batteries? | Both batteries produce energy through an electrochemical reaction that involves an anode, cathode, and electrolyte. When the battery is discharging energy, the anode is the negative terminal and the cathode is the positive terminal. These two components, referred to as electrodes, occupy the most space in a battery and... |
Why do female dogs hump objects like their male counterparts? | Dogs actually mount and hump each other as a sign of dominance. The one on top is in charge. Both figuratively and literally. This action is an act of dominance in both male and female dogs. It has nothing to do with sex or being turned on. |
How high does your property line go vertically? | The full answer is quite complicated with numerous caveats and provisions, but the simple answer is a person owns the airspace up to 500' about their property. Above that is public airspace .In the United States the Supreme Court ruled that your property extends into the sky only as much as what is used in connection w... |
Why are heavy metal,death metal and black metal bands considered Satanic ? | That's the way that some bands marketed themselves back in the 1970s and early 1980s. It was mostly a sales gimmick, and it worked. Beginning in the 1960s, teenagers really started rebelling, and for heavy metal bands, what better way to earn their fandom than to tempt them into engaging in the ultimate taboo: flouting... |
Is there a difference between Sample-Rate-reduced playback, and slowing down a vinyl record? | The difference is only audible in frequencies that were originally higher than the human range of hearing. The sample rate is chosen so that all sounds that humans can hear are exactly reproducible, which means the sample rate is at least twice the highest frequency we can hear. We can hear up to around 20,000 cycles p... |
Latest episode of Epic Rap Battles of History | It was [Rasputin] vs. [Stalin], then [Lenin] showed up, follwed by [_URL_3_] followed by [_URL_4_] Basically 5 major character from Russian history. |
Why do feathers on an arrow make it go straight? | They create a little extra wind resistance if the back end starts to swing out. This drags the back end backward until it's straight again. |
Why is the Coast Guard considered a branch of the military? | In peacetime, they report to the Department of Homeland Security. In wartime, they're subsumed into the Department of the Navy.Because they are. They were established for the defense of our coastline and waterways, not simply the policing of them.Coast Guard actually deploys overseas. PSU routinely protect US naval por... |
Why are we still unable to reliably and accurately predict the weather? | Have you ever seen a double pendulum before? If you drop it twice from pretty much the exact same height, due to extremely tiny differences that add up over time, the outcomes turn out completely different, making it extremely unpredictable. Same thing goes for weather. Really minute details can cause huge changes late... |
Why are internet browsers and websites ditching Flashplayer for HTML5? | Because Flash is an aged, proprietary, memory-hogging, bug-ridden security nightmare that should have died a violent death long ago.cause html5 runs better and causes less issues plus you don't have to have a plug in to download and install for something to work which causes secuity issues. |
Why doesn't declaring bankruptcy get rid of student loans? | Because otherwise students would walk out of graduation straight to bankruptcy court, especially legal and medical studentsBecause Congress made a special exception for themBecause student loan debt is incurred to improve yourself and your earning potential. A recent med school grad with 250k in student loan debt can d... |
How Do People Create Images Like This On Photoshop? | People have tablets which can accurately measure position and pressure with a stylus, thus replicating pen/brush strokes. From there it's just standard painting/drawing techniques. [Here's an example of one in action]. |
Why does Google Drive default to 11 point Arial instead of 12 point Times New Roman | Probably to match Word, which uses 11 point Calibri as the default, which is pretty similar to Arial. 12 point Times New Roman hasn't been Microsoft's default for eight or nine years now. |
What is the point of making surveys that determine "which (pop culture reference) are you?" | They make money from traffic and ads. The more clicks the more dough. If you don't know what they are selling it is probably you. |
Why cigarette companies bother putting in so many additives? How is it lucrative for them? | They don't according to /u/TheMastorbatorium. Water is the only additive to an unflavored smoke. The lists of chemicals is primarily composed of the chems in the ink, paper, filter, etc and may or may not be more of a scare-tactic than anything else. Just read his post . _URL_0_ |
How do we communicate with deep space probes/satellites/etc... | Radio waves basically. Just more powerful transmitters and more sensitive antennas.They use the NASA [Deep Space Network]. It's a series of dishes on different parts of the world to provide continuous coverage of the sky. |
Why can't we use cloud seeding to fight the current droughts in the west? | Cloud Seeding only works on already existing rain clouds, encouraging them to rain on command. It can't make new ones from scratch. The drought means that there isn't enough water in the air to make rain clouds. |
What are the rippling lines on my phone screen when pointing its camera at a light source? | Basically your phone is probably from the US where the frequency from AC is 60hz and your phone is recording at 30fps or 70fps syncing perfectly with US light sources. In Europe the frequency desyncs and you see that effect This video explains it better_URL_0_ |
What happens to particles when they dissolve? | If the solute is an ionic compound such as salt, then the crystalline lattice is broken up by the polar solvent and each ion is held in the liquid by inter molecular hydrogen bonds. So you are correct, the molecules split at the microscopic level. If however, you are referring to, say, sugar, which is not an ionic comp... |
Why does eating peanut butter or chocolate make me crave milk? | Habit. Imagine if you didn't like, or never tasted milk. Do you think you would still crave it then? |
Why will spicy food burn my mouth, lips, eyes, or genitals (if touched) but not my hands or other body parts? | If you dice hot peppers with your bare hands and don't wash them immediately, you will eventually feel a tingling burning sensation that might take a few days to go away. The difference is the thickness and type of skin tissue being exposed to the capsaicin . Your eyes and mouth are mucus membranes which quickly absorb... |
Exactly how Beijing won the 2022 winter olympic bid? | Well, both countries have authoritarian regimes. So it was just a matter of who gave the IOC a bigger bribe. All the democratic nations pulled out because it makes no economic sense to host the OlympicsChina's guaranteed to put on a show. They did it with the summer games and did a great job there. So the choice is eit... |
How do free online bank make profit ? | They take your cash and lend it out to other people/institutions and charge them interest. They pay you a small portion of this interest and keep the rest.Most banks, online or traditional, earn their money from the interest on loans that they make. Because you and all the other customers have given the bank you money,... |
Why Does Cold Air Hold Less Moisture than Warm Air? | The temperatures we like are very close to the temperatures where water condenses from a vapor to a liquid. Colder temperatures, like the ones outside now, are below the temperature where water condenses and even below the temperature where it freezes. When the water freezes, it falls out of the air. When that air with... |
How would extraterrestrial life forms be able to decipher a message in binary? | It's not so much that we think binary is a universal language. We think that *numbers* are universal, and that binary is the simplest way to communicate them. We 'd do something like sending sequences of prime numbers, effectively communicating the message "there is intelligent life here". |
Why do I hear that "woosh" sound when I drive by cars? | When you drive, you're forcing all the air in front of your car out of the way. It flows over your head and out to the sides of your car. This makes a whooshing noise, but a quiet one - it's probably drowned out by your engine. But when there's a car by the side of the road, the air trying to escape that direction can'... |
How does an inhaler work, how is the relief so quick. | Inhalers can have different types of medications, all of which have an effect on the airways in the lungs. The typical rescue inhaler prescribed for quick and short-term relief contains albuterol. Albuterol binds to receptors on the surface of smooth muscle cells lining the small airways in the lungs causing the muscle... |
Why do airplanes still have ashtrays ? | Boeing and Airbus sell planes to countries and airlines that do not ban smoking. It is cheaper for them to have that feature default than to make an entirely different plane for those countries.Because there are always people that break the rules; people smoke on planes all the time, most people don't get caught. So ev... |
At what point of dilution (using some kind of solvent, such as water) do bodily fluids (blood, urine, saliva, semen) become completely useless in a DNA test? | I haven't done forensic testing, but I do have experience with amplifying DNA, so I'll give it a shot. If you have even a single strand of DNA, it's possible to choose a small section of it and make zillions of copies of that section, using a technique called PCR. It's actually very easy. Once you've made those copies,... |
If I go to bed at 2:00am and wake up at 6:00am, I feel great! If I go to bed at 11:00pm and wake up at 6:00am, I feel awful. Why? | It could be in and out of sleep so say every 1.5 hrs you're in a deep sleep and then you're in a light sleep you might be waking up on your light sleep and feel good but if you wake up on a deep sleep your body takes longer to wake up.. there is a doc that explains it much better than me but it's something like that.. |
Why do space heaters trip fuses and surge protectors only after 'warming up'? | Many circuit breakers and fuses are "slow blow" by design -- they won't trip instantly over a slight overload, but they will if it persists. |
How is it possible to instantly develop feelings for someone when you dream? | same way that it's 'possible' in a dream to very convincingly feel that you're weeks behind on a certain class' homework and the final exam is tomorrow - your brain draws on what it remembers feeling.If you try to think of a dream like a TV show, stuff doesn't make sense. Think of them more like a random collection of ... |
Why are members of congress allowed to accept money from organizations such as the NRA? | Still- I do not think it is the NRA money that gives the NRA power, but the solidarity of their voting block', "The people who make laws are Congressman. Why would they make a law that inhibits their ability to make money? They're also the people who make laws regarding their own salaries, and can vote to raise their p... |
Why do you get worse hangovers from cheaper vodka? | Vodka is a special type of liquor. The better, higher priced vodkas have more things removed from them, so they are closer to being just alcohol + water. Whiskeys, rums, and bourbons are higher priced due to things being added by a process, like aging in barrels. More distillation removes other chemicals from the vodka... |
How is it that Mayonnaise, which is made out of whole eggs and egg yolks, have absolutely ZERO protein? | It has some protein, yes. Nutrition facts are essentially rounded, though: that's why you can have things with "0 calories." They still have calories, but if it's like .4 calories, they can say it has 0. A serving of mayonnaise is very small since it's a condiment, so if it has like .3 grams of protein or whatever, the... |
How does short-term memory loss happen in the brain with old age ? | Imagine brand new pipes after 80 years being all rusted and not connecting anymore like they used to leaking and such. That's the easiest way to see it", 'The connections that create memories in your brain gets worn down over time. Just like any machine would. |
What exaclty does an IQ-Test tell me? | Your IQ tells you how well you did on an IQ test, which means next to nothing. It is SUPPOSED to measure how smart you are relative to the rest of the population, but there are so many flaws with IQ tests that most people with any sort of understanding of the situation doesn't take them seriously. I can go into some of... |
What is the proper way to begin a sentence: One space after the period or two? | They used to teach using two spaces, but one space is the correct way now. Two spaces were leftover from typewriter days. |
What is the SS7 hack / why is SMS insecure? | You're going to have to be more specific. Your question is similar to asking "What is the TCP/IP hack and why is email insecure" Theres a sea of possible answers to such a vague question. SS7 is just the signalling system 7 used by telecom networks to switch and route calls. It's similar to TCP/IP but uses point codes ... |
Saudi Crude vs US Shale. | If the Saudi Arabian oil market fails, the Saudi government will too, so it could have major geopolitical consequences. If US oil producers, it would mostly be a short term economic slowdown. But when oil prices go back up, companies will start drilling again. Unlike Saudi Arabia, where it's just one state-owned compan... |
Why do fit people not sweat as much as people out of shape? | Sweating depends on the number of active sweat glands you have, fit people don't necessarily sweat less than fat people but normally fat acts as an insulator which keeps the body hot. ELI5: fat acts as a blanket covering you all the time. Fit people have a thin blanket and fat people have a thicker blanket |
Why has college tuition outpaced inflation by such an exorbitant rate? | There have been some good answers but I think the big reason has been overlooked. Going to college is no longer just about education, but has become almost a cultural right of passage. It's a period of our lives and people desire certain experiences from it. This has resulted in universities competing not just on acade... |
Why does the DMV not accept cash or credit cards | Cash is very easily stolen by people and credit cards cost fees to accept . Businesses accept both because they want to be as convenient as possible for their customers to spend money with. The DMV doesn't care about that - you have to spend money with them regardless so they go with the least risky, cheapest way to ta... |
Why does it feel so much easier to fall asleep on my couch than on my very own bed? | Change of location can do that. When you associate sleep to a location it feel refreshing to sleep else where. you can also get this by putting you head at the foot of the bed some times.-citing my sleeping prowess 28 years experience', "If you do other things in your bed a lot , or if you toss and turn for an hour or ... |
How are two converging drive-through lines quicker than a single straight one? | Theoretically placing the order takes longer than swiping a card and passing it through a window. From an efficiency standpoint taking orders simultaneously may be the only thing you can do to speed up the process. |
Why do businesses spend money to make their own job applications? Seems like a generic one does all the same stuff? | It's so it's standardized. It makes it easier to read theough them if they're all the same. |
When trying to select Street View in Mercury, NV; The mascot of Google Street View suddenly turns into UFO. Can somebody explain why is so? | Mercury, NV, as indicated by the array of results in Google when you search for "Mercury NV aliens", has been heavily involved in alien conspiracy theories, Roswell, and whatnot. Every once in a while, I see a question on here that irks me because it can be easily answered by Google. This is one of them. Put in a littl... |
Why is drinking distilled water good or bad for you? | controversy by non scientists = people making shit up. water is water. the minerals that you don't get from drinking tap or spring water, you get from eating food. cause veggies are watered with regular water. cause animals that provide you with meat are drinking regular water |
when you use a coupon at a grocery store what does the grocery store do with that coupon? Do they get reimbursed? | If it is a coupon from the manufacturer of the product, they collect and send them in, and the manufacturer pays them. Large companies use coupon clearing houses to process the coupons, so the manufacturer actually pays more than the face value, to reimburse the store and the coupon processor. In the case of coupons is... |
What purpose do vegetables and fruits their color have? | Fruit and flowers are there to help the plant reproduce - normally with the help of other creatures. These creatures are attracted to colours, smells and taste. It is an evolutionary advantage to the plant to be attractive to creatures that help it propagateSpecifically talking about plants that make a food stuff like ... |
If it's really bright outside, why does closing one of my eyes help me see better? | Your brain perceives brightness as the sum of the light entering from both eyes. If you think "oh man it's bright out here", closing one eye will usually alleviate it because the brain thinks it's now half as bright as it was before, and it won't try to force you to look away or squint any longer. |
Equation of motion according to newton | There are three really simple rules for Newtonian motions: 1. If nothing stops it, a object will continue doing what it was doing forever.1. The heavier an object is, the harder it is to change its current motion.1. Every time you put a force on something, there is an equal and opposite reaction. This means that if you... |
How can you go to bed hungry but wake up fine? | Your metabolism and digestive sytem slow down, and almost halt when you sleep. It takes a while for it to start back up again once you wake up. |
None Singular or Plural. | None can be either singular or plural depending on context ). I 'd tend to use the singular when the opposite would be "one of", and the plural when the opposite would be "some of". I 'd lean towards "none of the teachers are competent", but definitely say "none of the teachers is my father" because "some of the teache... |
Why are there still no antivenoms for a large number of venomous snakes? | It short, it's extremely hard to make, and yes each kind is unique. These past posts will tell you lots more: 1. [ELI5:How is Brown Recluse antivenin made and why is it not produced in the United States? ]1. [ELI5: Antivenom ]1. [ELI5: How do we make anti-venom from venom? ]1. [ELI5: How do they go about creating snake... |
Why is all of Reddit angry with Comcast right now? | Because people pay comcast for internet access. One would expect them to have internet delivered to them at the speed they pay for. But comcast see a avenue here to make more money, and made netflix pay them money to ensure their data is delivered to their users at a decent speed. It's a joke. |
In football/soccer, what do people mean when they say that one club has history, while another one doesn't? | It's like having a pedigree. Liverpool are a good example. They were one of the best teams that dominated the game for years but in the last two decades have become very mediocre. Liverpool or Man United earned there reputations through hard work and success. Man city is viewed to have bought their success. Rather than... |
Why is it possible to receive multiple life sentences? Is there any actual difference based on how many one receives? | There are two general reasons. In some countries, a life sentence is actually a certain amount of time, something around 20 years. So, multiple life sentences keep someone in jail for more than 20 years. Secondly, and most importantly, multiple life sentences are given just in case some of the convictions are overturne... |
What is the difference between the United States Code (USC) and the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) and how do they relate to each other? | As you may know, Congress is the legislative branch of government, and passes laws, in the form of acts of Congress. The executive branch is charged with carrying out those laws. To carry out a law, it must be interpreted; executive agencies publish their interpretation of the law, and what people must do to to follow ... |
Why is heartrate inversly proportional to a creature's size? | Oh! Ooooh! I actually know this one! Basically, the cell of every living thing has a motor in it to produce energy . Bigger animals have a much bigger surface area, which means many more cells, which means a lot more motors producing a lot more energy. So to keep them alive their heart rates must change in order to adj... |
Why are we supposed to bury our poop after pooping in the wilderness. | Its not that its more dangerous people just aren't all that fond of stepping in their own waste. |
Why does electricity hit you through the air if the voltage it high enough? | The voltage of an electrical current is like the pressure of flowing water. If the voltage is high enough, it can create a connection between the current and something near it; this is called an "arc," and it's when current flows across some gap between current source and current sink. |
What is actually happening when a CD or DVD is burned? | A laser is shined onto the surface to cause a small burned spot on the disc. This is done very rapidly as the disc spins, giving a dot pattern in a very tight spiral from the inside of the disc to the outer edge. Later, a lower-powered laser can be shined onto those spots and a detector can look for a reflection. Seein... |
Why 64GB phone is $100 more expensive than 32GB phone but diference between 32GB and 64GB microsd is only $22. | It's called price discrimination. Usually the 32 gb phone is actually exactly the same as the 64 gb phone but with half the memory disabled. Some people are unwilling to pay so much for a phone but instead of not selling to them at all, the company can instead sell them a cheaper phone and still earn some profit.As my ... |
why do dudes wiggle when they pee? | It's called a "frisson" and is a result of the physical sensation of being relieved coupled with a satisfied mental state, albeit brief. Typically lasting only a few seconds, it is often accompanied by "goosebumps" or piloerection. There is actually a subreddit for frisson.If I recall correctly, there's a lot of body w... |
Why do you have to manually crack programs on your computer? What keeps people from just creating a "cracked installer" that does all the work? | This is not the same level of responsibility. In a lot of places, this is not the same level of legality. There are tons of places where it is fully illegal to distribute something you don't have the copyright of, yet it is fully legal to distribute a way for people to modify it if they can get it somehow. Legality asi... |
; Why and how does wind affect how you hear far away noises? | Sound is a bunch of pressure waves. Let's imagine the energy from those waves is like a flock of dogs; there are ones as big German shepherds all the way down to tiny puppies, and every terrier in between. When you call them, they all sprint to you as fast as they can. The bigger the dog, the lower the note you'd be he... |
Why do ice cubes have bubbles in the middle? | Have you ever made rock candy? You heat up some water and pour in a lot of sugar and stir it until it's all dissolved. You put in more sugar than the water could have dissolved if it wasn't so hot. When the water cools down, it can't hold the sugar any more, and all that sugar forms crystals for rock candy! Well sugar ... |
What's the deal with anal bleaching? | The area around the butthole is darker than most of your skin. People who show off their butthole a lot, notably female or gay male porn actors, want it to look nice and the dark skin is associated with being dirty, while light skin that matches the rest of your skin is considered attractive. |
Why do adults snore louder and more often than kids? | The same way an old engine makes more ticks and clicks than a brand new Honda engine. Older age means more respiratory disease, wear and tear in respiratory tissues, medication side effects ect. All of which reduce respiratory function and efficiency Edit: a wordA lot of it is because there are a lot more fat adults th... |
Why is it that when you're gaming, you don't look at your keyboard while typing or moving, but when the lights are off or it's dark, you have difficulty typing? | In my experience, I just have trouble because I don't know what my base point of reference is. If I shine a quick light and orient myself to where I am on the keyboard, I'm good to go from there.Just an opinion but it may be because when we are typing/gaming with a light we can see our hands move in our periphery. When... |
Why can cheese age for years but get moldy after a week in your fridge? | when hard cheese ages, the outer layer could grow mold. but it doesn't penetrate into the inside. soft cheeses are coated in a wax layer to protect it from random elements. |
Why the cars from USA have bigger motors compared to the European/Asian models? | It's pretty simple. Post WWII gasoline was really cheap and readily available. The US was enamored with going faster as we were in "the jet age." The easiest way to do that was to increase engine displacement. Cars got bigger and heavier and engines kept up. At some point they did get more efficient but the marketing k... |
Why are camera crews allowed closer to scenes of disasters/scenes in other countries, but not in the U.S.? | Because the U.S. Has more safety rules and regulations, due to previous accidents that may have happened to a camera crew that was to close to a disaster, like the people from storm hunters, they got to close and died as a result. |
Why do we bleed if our blood is contained in veins? | Son, the veins you see are like the highway. Large and full of cars that in turn are full of people . Sometime they lead off the highway onto streets, and from those stress onto driveways and then smaller pathways called capillaries where those red blood cells stop to leave off goods like pizza to keep you alive!', "be... |
How do AC/DC adapters work? | An AC/DC converter is pretty much two simpler parts hooked up together. These parts are called a "rectifier" and a "capacitor". First, let's review what AC power and DC power are. AC stands for alternating current - the current alternates between going one way through the wires and the other. DC stands for direct curre... |
If waters boiling point is 100 degrees celsius, why does it still evaporate at room temperature? | Rate of evaporation is depends on temperature.At 100 C, evaporation is very fast.At Room temperature, evaporation is slow.At freezing temperature, evaporation is extremely slow. Tl;DR: Water evaporates at all temperatureAnother thing to consider is that temperature is a measure of the average kinetic energy of a substa... |
why are some people multi-sneezers (3-8 times) and some people only sneeze once? | 3-8? Please For me it's either 2 or 15+. My record is somewhere in the high thirties and those times it feels like an elephant sat on my face afterwards. |
If you hire a prostitute and don't pay is it theft of services or rape? | Legally speaking this varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Precedent is still very much not established on this issue, particularly as definitions of rape also vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. If you want to know which jurisdiction has the 'most correct' view of rape, that's not really an ELI5 question.Thef... |
How is a zero vector a vector? | Because that's not really the definition of a vector, but more of a useful way to picture a vector. In reality, a vector is something that has to exist in a space. For example, in a normal 3D space, a vector is something with a coordinate in the x, y, and z axes. You can easily see that something with a value of 0 for ... |
Why do lights seem to move or blink when looking at them from far distances? | Obstructions in your view such as water vapor, dust, heat, cause the lights to appear to flicker. I'm sure there are probably several other reasons as well.Yarr! Yer not alone in askin\', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [ELI5: Why do lights flicker from a far distance ? ] ^1. [ELI5:Why do some lights flicker in t... |
Why most world religions, or most Abrahamic religions, seem to involve doom and gloom, and obsession with the apocalypse? | Because there are only 3 major Abrahamic religions, and only 2 have "End Times" as part of their dogma. The most recent one borrowed a lot from the previous 2. Judaism, the original Abrahamic religion does not feature an "end times" in their belief. They have a Messiah that will lead their people to prosperity and safe... |
How do emergency numbers work? | Really, all a SIM card does is tell the receiving end who you are. If the receiving end is an emergency number, it puts you through right away. If it isn't, it can deny access. Most phones block standard usage without a SIM card, in any case. As for the transmitter, they probably could, since the main purpose would be ... |
How did the patriot act pass with so much opposition? | The fear of another terrorist attack led the public and their representative government to accept the loss of freedoms for "greater security."', "It was: * Rushed quickly through congress so lawmakers didn't get a chance to read the entire huge bill.* Able to catch citizen opposition groups off guard since it was rushe... |
Why is the '1' on a phone keypad at the top left, while at the bottom left on a keyboard? | The phone's keypad originates from the old fashion [rotary telephone], which has the 1 at the top and the 0 at the bottom, so they kept it that way to make it as similar to the old layout as possible. The [calculators] in the beginning used to work the same way as the [old cash registers] did, with 10 numbers in a colu... |
The differences between Sunni & Shiite and why they aren't getting along | They both have different perspectives on who should be the Caliph . Sunni believes the caliph should be chosen for thier great dedication to Islam and how they can successfully act the role of caliph. Alternatively, Shiite/Shia believes the caliph has to have a direct bloodline to Muhammad himself, this, obviously, cau... |
How can you use hydrogen as energy? | As with many other fuels, you can just burn it. It's a useful clean choice of fuel because burning it produces water with no other nasty by-products. You do need a lot of electricity to make the hydrogen in the first place though, so how clean it is comes down to how you generate the electricity. You can also use a hyd... |
Why do we call 'w' double u, but 'm' not double n? | because the original symbol was. UU and then became VV. M predates N as a letterThe Romans didn't have "U" or "W". To oversimplify "W" developed as a variant of "V" before "U" didThe w or "double U" is actually a pretty new and replaced a literal double u. As in uu. Which in turn replaced the [wynn] in the 12 century E... |
The purpose for so many variations of American football facemasks | The need for lines of sight and vision combined with stresses. There's a lot of difference in how much view you need. Ideally, you'll always have the best field of vision, but when someone is at the bottom of a pile of linemen, there's more fingers and feet and other things to get into a facemask than for guys who play... |
What/Who are the Lizard Squad and the Finest Squad? | Well the lizard squad are a bunch of dicks. They caused the server overloads on xbl and psn and claim to be hackers but they mainly just ddos so it's not really hacking as it requires almost no skill and essentially just overloads servers making them think that they have way to many people online but they are normally ... |
Why do cats sometimes kill smaller animals for no reason? | Think of the cat as a wild hunting machine that just so happens has been domesticated over hundreds, thousands of years, by man to be very good at doing one thing : kill things that eat our grain. If it is a small rodent, cat's got it. Bird? cat's got it. This behaviour is taught to kittens by the mother at an early st... |
How do server farms work? | Usually there is one or more boss computers who hand off tasks to the worker computers. Sometimes there is a big boss computer handing off types of jobs to little boss computers who then decide which worker computer will do each joba server farm is basically a big building with lots of server computers inside. the comp... |
The probability of an event happening in a specific moment. | The probability of a specific time is, in fact, zero. But here's the quinky dink: zero probability does *not* mean impossible, and you 've stumbled onto a pretty classic demonstration of why. The problem is that probability is only required to add up for certain "nice" kinds of events. If your number of events a large ... |
If taste was meant to protect us from poison or things we shouldn't eat, why do two "good" tastes sometimes taste horrible together? | False positives are far less damaging than false negatives . Given that, there is no big evolutionary advantage to weeding out excessive false positives, so it didn't happen. |
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