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Why Time Warner Cable customers can't access HBO Go (when Time Warner owns HBO)? | Time Warner owns HBO, but Time Warner [no longer owns] Time Warner Cable. HBO GO is offered free to cable providers who carry HBO. The main problem is that cable providers have to develop systems to authenticate customers and make sure they subscribe to HBO. Then they have to create links to HBO GOs site such that only... |
If there is lead in solder are solder joints dangerous to touch? | No, it is not toxic to touch solid lead. Lead poisoning results from **ingestion**, **inhalation** or **dermal contact** **TL;DR**: *No, but wash your hands afterward anyway.* You wouldn't want to eat it, but generally the solder locks most of it away, and even if is some "loose" lead, it has to be ingested for it to a... |
How do cops detain and handcuff somebody with one arm? | They either: * cuff their hand to their belt* get a belly chain* if they appear to be of little threat, let them go uncuffed', "Cop here; Handcuff to the belt. If no belt, use a rip-hobble as a belt and handcuff to that.There are a variety of restraint devices that can disable a one armed person . For example. one hand... |
With all the breakthroughts we've seen in cell phone and car batteries why hasn't the household batteries like AA, AAA, D's life been extended as well? | They use different chemistries. Your standard batteries are alkaline cells. They aren't that dangerous in the sense that they don't explode but because of that they are less energy dense. Most modern phones and electric cars use lithium ion cells. These are way more energy dense but have the tendency to become very hot... |
Why are people Shy or not shy? | It's just a difference if how you approach situations. I 've often been called shy when I'm first introduced to someone, but the thing most people fail to realize is that the reason I'm not more "out there" is because I don't really speak unless I have something to say. Unless I'm continuing a conversation previous to ... |
How does the "neutral" wire work in cars? | In the car, you're dealing with DC, in the house it's AC. The wavy voltage you get in AC is the difference between the "live" and "neutral" lines, but importantly, neutral is not ground. It's usually relatively close, though. The earth line is the emergency exit for power when it's all gone wrong, and is very handy whe... |
Since energy can never be created nor destroyed, but only be transfered - then where did it come from in the first place? | Answer:Absolutely, Positively no one knows, or even has the foggiest idea, if you did you would win every science prize till the end of time. we are pretty confidant the big bang created OUR universe, but that's a very small piece of the _URL_0_ would be like if you fed a goldfish and the gold fish wondered where the f... |
what's the difference in the technology between a pair of beats ear buds and a pair from gas station? | BeatsByDre spends millions on advertisement, that is about it. Beats is much more about image and a fashion statement than sound quality. I'm not saying Beats are terrible, just that you will get much better sound for your money with other brands. |
What exactly happens when you get that heart wrenching feeling in your chest, like when that Semi truck almost ran me off the road today | [Adrenaline baby] > Adrenaline is a hormone produced by the adrenal glands during high stress or exciting situations. This powerful hormone is part of the human body's acute stress response system, also called the "fight or flight" response. It works by stimulating the heart rate, contracting blood vessels, and dilatin... |
What is the deal with reddit and Wonderwall? | Today is going to be the day that someone'll spell it out for youRight now you probably realize that I'm not gonna be that dude |
What happens to an unborn baby that is going to have a nut allergy (or any other type of allergy) when the mother consumes nuts? | It doesn't hurt the child because the mother is processing the food for the child. You mostly want to avoid things that get into the blood or can be passed through the placenta to the baby and have a harmful impact . Studies have actually shown that mothers who eat nuts during pregnancy have children who are less likel... |
What would it take to bring back the automobile industry in the United States? As in, the ending of outsourcing jobs overseas for vehicles. | US workers would have to be cost competitive with machines and foreign workers. That's really the long and short of it. |
When an actor drops weight (like Chris Hemsworth, from "Thor" to "In the Heart of the Sea"), where does all the muscle go? | Most of the time it is lighting and camera tricks that make them look as big as they do. Now that doesn't mean they don't have to put on size when playing certain roles it just means they don't put on as much as what it seems. As for your question, the body uses the muscle for energy same as fat in someone losing fat w... |
Why do doctors and dentists seem want to get patients out of the recovery room and home so quickly after a surgery? | Hospitals are not a place where you want to stay but need to stay. You're surrounded by sick people and the bacteria there are much more dangerous and immune than outside of hospitals. You want to get out of there as soon as possible. Sure it sucks to puke at home, but doing so at a hospital is of no advantage to you, ... |
Why do people often lie for seemingly no reason at all? | This is difficult to answer with fact, and is more based in personal experience and observation. People with philosophy major/minors would be better suited to describe the more complex parts of the human for this one. However here is my 2 cents. As someone who is a compulsive liar it stemmed from childhood. Often I wou... |
what are the meanings behind the " & co.", "unlimited", "limited" "incorporated" etc. additions to different company names? | Some countries, and some states within countries, have requirements about naming companies which may require them to state the type of entity the company is. This is a holdover from a time when corporations had to be chartered for a specific purpose. They were not supposed to do anything outside of that chartered purpo... |
How are those giant prize winning vegetables, like the 150lb zucchini, grown? | they are purpose bred to be that large because competitions for large veggies exist. Vegetables dont have a very long lifespan, so if you are mindful, you can breed specific traits in plants pretty quickly. Those zucchini and the popular giant pumpkins have been selectively bred together for a few decades to be just re... |
How can dentists tell if you haven't been flossing? | One word: [Plaque!] This is a sort of biofilm that has been building up around your teeth's enamel. It's usually yellowish & brownish type of tartar. The wiki link I just gave you up there will explain it WAY better than I do. |
Can't remember what it's called | This is [the bandwagon fallacy] in which someone holds an idea to be true/valid because a majorityof people feel the same way. Also, the idea that global warming *causes* tornadoes and other natural disasters is [the false cause fallacy] in which one claims there is a *causal link* between variable A -- > B.> What is t... |
Other than making room for other patients, why don't dentists fix everything in one appointment? | You may try to find a different dentist. Mine, for example, will try to only schedule an appointment if she can preform two procedures during one appointment. Like cleaning and an exam, or a filling and x-rays, or some such like thatNot sure in your case, probably for insurance money. I have done multiple cavities at o... |
Why do the fastest runners tend to be black? | A couple of speculative answers, in addition to /u/MrAloha808's point. "Black" and "White" aren't really groups, as there's as much variation between as there is within. Nonetheless people with black skin outnumber people with white skin, so their best runners are recruited from a larger population. Also, if you're usi... |
Hostels. How they work and how they differ from hotels. Also why they are so popular in Europe? | They are very cheap hotels, usually with multiple beds in the same room. The are popular in Europe, because combined with Europe's well developed mass transit system, it makes for a cheap and flexible way to travel. Hostels typically exist in city centers where regular rooms are very expensive. In the US, without the s... |
why do snakes slither instead of inching like a worm? | Because their physiology is completely different. Worms are invertebrates, meaning they don't possess a single bone in their body. Snakes are reptiles . That means there are numerous evolutionary steps between them. IIRC, snakes do stretch their bodies a little but because of their spine, they have limitations on how m... |
Why do male testicles sometimes retract up into the abdomen? | Testicles need to be kept at *exactly* the right temperature to make healthy sperm. Unfortunately, that temperature is colder than your body's natural temperature and is too specific to regulate normally. Thus, the balls moved out of your body to keep away from your heat, but they can be moved closer or further away de... |
I see flies and moths in my house all the time. Why don't I see a whole lot of dead insect bodies everywhere? | Spiders. The house spiders that you share your space with are eating them, and the left over bits are broken down reasonably quickly by bacteria or chemical reactions and they turn to dust. |
How do the authorities have dental records to identify people? | The government does not have this information. If authorities believe that a missing person may be person X, they can request their dentist for the dental records, but until that request is made, the government doesn't have them. |
Why intervention is Libya considered a failure despite successfully saving human lives and toppling a brutal dictatorship? | Critics point to the emergence of a largely lawless Libya which is in the control of various militias. This had led to the state becoming a prime breeding ground for radical groups to base themselves out of as well as create a hub for the international trafficking of weapons. |
Why do I get motion sickness when I read in a car? | Your body tells your brain that you're moving. But your brain tells you're still and reading a book. That makes you feel bad. |
WHy is it that if i smoke while i have a bad cough i stop coughing for a good 5-10 minutes? | tobacco cigs have chemicals in them that numb your throat, cannabis cigs don't have the chemicals that numb your throat. |
If shadows are the absence of light, why do you get different coloured shadows with different light sources? | A shadow is generally not the total absence of light. It is simply an area where there is less light because a light source has been blocked by something opaque. |
What is the difference between cabbage and lettuce? | The main difference between the two is that they are from different plant families. Cabbage is a leafy vegetable, from the 'Brassicacea' family, whereas Lettuce is from the 'Asteraceae' family. The difference can also be seen in nutritional values within each of them. Most lettuce types have less calories and more vita... |
I'm having a lot of trouble wrapping my mind around the concept of 'Cinematic Excess' | My understanding from listening to friends is basically as follows: When you go to the movies, you *need* a certain level of detail to understand it . But there are other details that you *don't* need to see . Now, while you don't *need* to see the trees or the rest of the garden, it *does* provide a richer, more enga... |
Being sued for money when you have none | First step is the court awards a judgment against you that says you owe the money. It's good for 20 years and will show up on your credit report. What happens next is up to the creditor. If you have a bank account they can file a garnishment and take it. If you have a job they can garnish your wages provides its own ru... |
how can small cellphone carriers (metropcs, criket, etc...) charge less for the "same" service? | It's because they rent the towers they use from the majors and do not have contractual subsidies for phone contracts that drive up costs. They also are not accountable for maintenance of the hardware and towers which keeps the costs lower.Because the real costs to cellphone providers is much smaller than what they char... |
What's happening when I make that thunder noise inside my head? | What you hear is the sound of thee [tensor tympani muscle] vibrating in response to being voluntarily tensedWhat "thunder noise inside my head" are you talking about?', "Don't worry, I know what you are talking about. |
How is the VR experience of a phone with an attachment like Galaxy S7 different from that of Occulus Rift? | There are several different aspects to this as of right now which may change in the future. The first is that phones don't have nearly as much processing power or storage space as a gaming PC, this means games are often short or re-use the same content throughout the game. Graphics are often simple and use low resoluti... |
How does a U.S. Destroyer, a vessel equiped with advanced technological systems, that is supposed to engage in tactical naval warfare, collide with a cargo ship? | Massive and systemic watch-keeping failure on the part of the Naval Vessel's crew. Heads are going to roll here. Court-martials, possibly criminal-negligence charges. There is no excuse for this. None. Navy Ships have multiple people in the pilot house, lookouts all over the ship, people in CIC monitoring surface conta... |
Why sometimes when I sleep, in my dreams I try to get out of bed but my body refuse move, and gets harder to breathe but felt so real? | When you sleep your body turns off its motors so you don't act out your dreams. But sometimes your eyes wake up before the rest of your body has restarted its motors, so you cannot move, all you can do is stare ahead. Your dreams may continue at this point, though they will warp to adhere to the environment your eyes a... |
Why do we clap our hands as an act of cheering? | There's no real reason really. We could have chosen any gesture to represent cheering such as snapping fingers or stomping feet. However, clapping makes a lot of noise, doesn't require another surface nearby, and takes barely any technique to be effective. Some people just started doing it, and it caught on because the... |
why does the human body need O2 in oder to get rid of Carbon? Why cant it just release the carbon as a gas or something? | The body doesn't just take an O2 and stick a carbon onto it. The body has a very complicated set of chemical reactions, called the [Krebs cycle], that it uses for energy. The Krebs cycle is how your cells turn your food into usable energy to do stuff and stay alive. It takes your food nutrients, like carbs and protein,... |
Why do different foods of the same mass have different amounts of calories? | Your body isn't converting all the mass of a burger into energy lol. Only some of the energy bound up in food is utilized by your body, and **none** of it comes from converting mass into energy. Your body takes chemical potential energy from bonds between atoms in your food and utilizes it to drive all the processes th... |
Why is your throat so much more sore in the morning than any other time when you have a cold? | Because you've been lying down and not swallowing, the extra thick mucus your nose is producing during your cold has been dripping down your throat all night and irritating the crap out of it. During the day you swallow, drink, and eat which helps clear the mucus out. You're probably also blowing your nose instead of j... |
How does alcohol by volume work? | Depends on the volume. Two 5.2% abv beers at 12 fl oz a piece. Would equal one 10.4% ABV 12 fl oz beer. The volume is very important.It's complicated, but yes. If you weigh the same and one of you consume double the volume but half the percentage over the same time, you both end up with the same alcohol content in your... |
How do companies discover that they've been hacked? | If a good hacker didn't leave a footprint then the company wouldn't know about the leak, and you would never hear about the company having a leak. The Sony hack wasn't noticed by Sony. It was the hacker group that publicly exposed the hack. |
How come not everybody sees the same colours when looking at Benhams Disk? [Repost] | You can't look at Benham's disk on a monitor and know what color you "would" see on the real thing, ironically enough for almost the exact same reason we see color there in the first place. With a real-world disk, we see colors because some of our eye's receptors fire faster or linger longer than others - So a rapid wh... |
why does my body decide that post shower, after I'm all nice and clean, is an excellent time to take a shit? | I know what you're talking about, but I think its a false equivalency. We don't really give much thought or complain during the day when we need to take a shit. But after showers, we put more significance into our shit urges, because we just showered, and remember them. There really isn't a correlation I don't think. |
What exactly does the UK mean by "killing encryption"? | All information transmitted over the Internet could be decrypted at government request. Things like private Facebook groups, stored email, online transactions, that C4 you bought from a Tor store, you know, stuff terrorists might do. It's government trying to harm everyone, not just the very unfortunate very few that h... |
how does quartz work in watches/clocks? | The quartz itself is sliced into a very thin tuning fork shape, and is then connected to an oscillator circuit, which takes power from the battery, and starts the quartz vibrating. The miniature quartz tuning fork vibrates at exactly 32,768 times per second . Because of the nature of quartz, these vibration emit their ... |
Why is it that whenever I'm nervous, I always tend to need to take a piss/dump? | I have no idea, but whenever I enter a library or a bookstore I immediately need to go and I love books. |
Why do most porn sites not use HTTPS? | If you were to submit your credit card information on the internet, the information needs to go from your computer to the server. What hackers can do is to "sniff" the traffic, and decode the information that is sent, consequently getting your credit card information. What HTTPS does is encrypt the information on the c... |
If various species naturally went extinct even without human influence in the past, why is it still important that species are going extinct? Is it not just nature taking its course? | Regions in which humans have developed habitats saw a massive increase in the rate at which megafauna started going extinct. This is WAY higher than what ecologists refer to as the background rate of extinction . Mass extinctions that don't open up very many new niches , such as the ones that we are causing, only hurt ... |
Why are valve amps so much more powerful and louder than solid state amps with the same wattage? | Valve amps produce a subjectively pleasing sound when they are driven past their "clean" limits. Among other reasons, they tend to distort in a more gradual way than solid state amps. So first off, you're intentionally exceeding the limits whereas you're staying within the limits of a solid state amp and using some sep... |
Why is there a little wall in the gas container of a lighter? | A longer, thinner cylinder is stronger than a shorter, fatter one. Alas, the short, fat shape is more desirable in a lighter. The result is that a long, thin cylinder is folded in half to get the desired strength in the desired shape.It helps keep fuel in reach of the dip tube and keep any air inside away from the exit... |
How inheritances work and why people covet them so much? | How they work: Relatives leave you money in their will and when they die you inherit that money Why they're coveted: Free money |
How does the nonprofit tobacco control organization known as Truth Initiative have a revenue of more then $957 million? | Oh, the tobacco industry pays for them to advertise against tobacco. Ironic In the 1950s, there were the first studies coming out that stated tobacco is quite bad for your health. Over the next half century, this fact became more widely known and the first lawsuits against tobacco companies came up. In the 1990s, this ... |
What makes you so sleepy after a heavy meal? | It's all about blood flow; blood, after a heavy meal, is directed towards the stomach to help aid the process of digestion. In this, blood is taken away from the parts of your body that make it "feel awake." |
Why do guitars have 6 strings? Wouldn't it be better if they had 5 because we have 5 fingers? | It has nothing to do with number of Fingers, you can use different methods of strumming and picking that are way more efficient than assigning one string to each finger. Its more a matter of Sound, the more strings you have, the higher the amount of notes when you play a chord. Or since you thought about picking it see... |
why we can't see the streak of the Milky Way the way in cameras capture it? | Light pollution. If there's too much ambient light in the atmosphere, the stars aren't as easily seen. When people take those awesome shots of the milky way, they're either in *very* isolated places, the picture was edited to make the stars more visible, or both. I live in a very rural area, and on a clear night I can ... |
how is the common cold still a thing? | For one, the cold virus mutates constantly. To come up with any sort of cure/vaccine would require a lot more work than it would for other diseases. Considering that the cold is rarely a deadly or debilitating disease, the amount of research that would be needed to eradicate it would be a huge waste of money. |
How do collision prevention systems on cars work? | Usually, there is an IR range finder, which attempts to find how far from the nearest forward object you are. The car takes this distance, runs a calculation based on the current velocity to determine the minimum stopping distance. The system will do this kind of math quite frequently , in order to determine if the obj... |
Why is American Express widely not accepted at many retail stores? | Merchants have to pay more to accept American Express. While they may only pay 2%-3% for that Visa purchase you made, it would be closer to 5% for AmexCredit card companies make money in one of three main ways: * By charging interest on unpaid balances* By charging merchants a percentage of sales as a transaction fee* ... |
Why is breathing in faster than breathing out? | This might be a better fit for /r/answers but there is some physiology involved in your answer that might be good for eli5. Imagine you had a straw that you could suck water out of a glass with but you can only suck, you can't blow into the straw. You can very quickly pull water through the straw by sucking harder. But... |
What's up with sloths? | They just chill up in trees away from most predators that would otherwise be able to hunt them. By being super lazy, they don't use as much energy, so they don't have to process as much food. They only need to leave their tree every week or so to poop. As long as they have a readily available food source that they don'... |
Why are there always sales just before the financial year ends? | In ye olden days of business, stores would keep a ledger of their sales. Until they turned a profit, all sales were written down in red ink. Around the fourth quarter of the year when the Holidays were fast approaching, they 'd start to turn a profit and write their numbers down in black ink. Hence the terms "have red ... |
Why are batteries (Such as AA, AAA, D, ect.) so expensive? | Because people need them and will pay the prices charged. The price has stabilized at the highest point people will accept.They aren't that expensive [if you buy them from the right place] in decent quantities. If you buy brand names, however, you're paying massive markups for convenience & the massive advertising camp... |
How come people are not experiencing discomfort during highspeed train rides? | These high speed trains accelerate quickly, but not that quickly. I don't know about the Japanese Maglev but the German one named 'Transrapid' had a maximum acceleration of 1.3 m/s² which is faster than normal trains but not really much different from acceleration experienced in cars. The German ICE highspeed train has... |
Why does my head hurt when I get a headache? | It depends on what is causing your headache. Stress headaches, for example, can be caused by excessive tension in the muscles around the head. Many headaches are generally thought to be the result of the blood vessels surrounding your brain either opening up or clamping down . These actions can cause pain receptors abo... |
Why does the US have so many mattress stores? | That's like asking why there are so many brands of toilet paper. Given the sheer number of people who use them, multiplied by how often you replace them, there is definitely room for profit. Also mattresses have a very high profit margin. They are essentially cloth, padding, and a small amount of metal and wood, sold f... |
Why do I feel like I haven't really slept if I have vivid dreams during the night? | It's not that the vivid dreams make you tired, it's the fact that you are waking up during a dream - waking out of REM sleep tends to leave you a bit groggy. Most of the dreams during the night you don't remember, which explains why this happens only when you remember the dream. |
Explain the argument that the color pink doesn't really exist. | A color is a certain wavelength of electromagnetic radiation. The "color" pink does not appear on the electromagnetic spectrum. Instead, it is how we perceive a certain combination of wavelengths, and therefore itself not a cookie. Of course, this is all just arguing semantics. As far as anyone in the real world is con... |
The right to abolish government | You're right, it isn't. The Declaration holds no rights for Americans; those are found in the Constitution. |
Why is it that when people in very prestigious positions lose their jobs, they have to tender a resignation, but in everyday jobs, you just get fired? | Most jobs in the USA are at-will; this means that either side can terminate the relationship at any time. You can quit whenever, and you can be fired whenever, for nearly any reason or no reason. Most upper management positions, however, are on contract. This means that the employee and the company sign an agreement th... |
Why is it in companies like Twitter's interests to allow other people to produce clients like Tweebot? Wouldn't it be better for them to allow only their own app? | People like choice. If Tweetbot can provide a better Twitter client, then Twitter is able to get more users. More users means more money, and more money is the meaning of life. |
Why can't you put a cast on a horse's leg instead of killing it if it breaks it's leg? | Horse limbs are quite complicated anatomically. They also do not tolerate casts in the manner a person can. Broken legs in horses would also require a body sling to reduce the weight on the injured limb. This requires very intense care as well as costTwo reasons really. 1. The cost. Most animals are less valuable than ... |
why is alcohol accepted in many places where Cannabis is not? | Man I want to know this one too! As far as I understand, it’s all about marketing. There’s a great episode of Stuff You Should Know that touches on this topic I think it’s called ‘How marijuana works’The man responsible for this is Harry Anslinger. He was an official at the Department of Prohibition. In the 30s when th... |
How to people string up these super long zip lines? | One method is to have the high point tied off and then you toss it down and drag it out to the low point. The other would be to tie off the low point and then have a free climber carry the high point up to the higher tie point. Shooting them with some kind of grappling hook gun is common in movies, but not in real life... |
How does having sickle cell protect against malaria? | We don't know exactly, but it has something do do with the fact that the Malaria parasite lives in the red blood cells for part of their development. There are different theories, but they basically come down to one of two things: * Either the red blood cells of people with sickle-cell disease are just more difficult f... |
Whats happening in the brain that allows me to instantly recognize that song i hate on the radio and scramble to change the station? why can't shazam or sound hound work that fast? | The difference between something like Shazam and you is that Shazam is browsing through a library of songs that is over 11 million deep. assuming each song is 3 minutes on average, that's over 64 years of continuous music. Quite literally, you would die before you could listen to every song Shazam has to browse through... |
How is Morgan Freeman's voice so 'compelling' and 'powerful'? And what can one do to learn to have an authoritative voice? | He has a deep voice, which is relatively difficult to develop. Far easier to develop is his manner of speaking, which is slow and distinct. He pronounces each word in sequence rather than slurring them together and pauses for emphasis where needed. The impression such speech gives is that your words are considered - th... |
How does UV light cause colors to fade like flags outdoors. Also why does it happen with colors like red? | The dyes in the flags are made of chemicals, and UV light causes these chemicals to degrade into colorless ones. Each dye has a different chemical makeup, so some dyes, like red, degrade quickly into white, while others, like blue, just turn yellow |
how does smell stick to clothes? | Smell is stuff - little bits of it. So your clothes capture said little bits of stuff within the fabric. |
Why does the House "always win" in gambling? | The odds of winning any gambling are set out so the house always has an advantage. This is usually just a few points of a percentage but over tens of millions of dollars pouring through a casino, this leads to millions in profit. You basically have like a 49% chance of winning, so over thousands of plays, the casino AL... |
Why is glass so inert to acids? | Dat silicon dioxide. Acids react by having a weakly held hydrogen that the other part of the molecule doesn't care for much, and would really rather have a metal in its place, as metals are much more likely to give off outer electrons to a non-metal than hydrogen is. Silicon dioxide, however, is already in a really goo... |
Why do you get veinier when you work out? | When ya run around or workout, your cells need more energy to keep going at the heightened rate. That means your heart has to start pumping faster, and \'cos your body's doing more work, you get hot. When you get hot, your body has a few ways of cooling you down, like sweating, or hairs standing up. One of these ways i... |
If I open a can of Coke while skydiving, does the liquid stay in the can? | The ISS, along with everything and everyone in it, is falling freely towards earth at all times. Thus, the situation on the ISS is analogous to your question, without all the side effects of atmospheric drag. There are a few really cool videos made by the crew of the ISS that show how things behave in free fall. [This]... |
What are the benefits of having private internet access (for personal use) and why are people obsessed over it? | Specifically, PrivateInternetAccess, if you are referring to that brand/company, is a provider of an anonymous VPN. Their VPN allows one to mask where their traffic is originating from by sending it through a third party. In addition, they accept forms of payment which reduce the paper trail behind their identity. In a... |
Can someone please explain to me what is so bad about Tesla's intended direct-to-customer sales models and not going through dealers? | "Eliminating the middle-man? Never as easy as it sounds. About 50% of the human race is middle-men, and they don't take kindly to being eliminated." --Malcolm Reynolds, *Firefly*It's because they are cutting out the major car dealers. There is nothing wrong with them selling like that. The states that have banned them ... |
The economics of a chinese buffet. (how do they make enough money?) | I could think of some reasons why but they may not be the whole truth: * You don't need as much staff because you aren't serving people at their tables * You have a set menu so you can make things in bulk and have less chefs required for cooking * You can order food in bulk since you will have a pretty good idea of you... |
What makes the Leatherman multi-tool so good that everyone recommends it? | Leatherman multi-tools contain lots tools useful for everyday stuff, are convenient to use and carry, have generally very good build quality, and have a good warranty. |
Once a President is in office and installs his government, how does the federal government (continue to)investigate him? | The Congress does the investigations, just like they did with Bill Clinton for over six years. This is the check on Executive powerCongressional oversight can investigate through subpoena power to produce testimony, documents, other evidence. It is limited in prosecutorial power and dependent on the DoJ to issue legal ... |
Why do we say "I'm getting on the bus/train/plane?" Yet say "I'm getting in the car?" | Why do you park in the driveway and drive on the parkway?if i had to take a guess id say that a bus/train/airplane are all public transportation whereas a car is private in most cases. But I have no ideaI think it mostly has to do with method of ingress and egress. You walk onto a bus, plane, train. You do not walk int... |
How do all of these companies that claim to "consolidate your debt" work? | It's a loan. They make interest. Since pretty much every debt has interest, they can charge a little more interest , and sometimes even cut the amount owed. Even with a high but not completely unreasonable interest rate, can still be lower than credit card interest rates, or old loans issued in times of historically hi... |
how do the bacteria in probiotic yogurt survive stomach acid and populate the intestines? | Most of them don't but a few will get through and once they are within the gut they will start multiplying if they can find a niche there. The intestine already has a huge bacterial population and they have a habit of killing their neighbours which is why probiotic* yoghurt etc needs to be taken repeatedly to establish... |
Where the superstition of walking under a ladder being bad luck come from? | It's dangerous for both you and the person who may be at the top of the ladder. Something could be dropped on your head or you could possibly knock over the ladder. Don't walk under ladders. |
UV light in public conveniences. | Your mum is correct. Under UV light you can't see your veins to inject. It also works with blue bulbs I think but is more effective with UV. EDIT: Missed a word |
What is the subreddit "wheredidthesodago" about? | It's making fun of infomercials. In a certain kind of commercial, , a certain set of tropes are always present. Most universal among them is a video, often in black and white, of someone utterly failing at a simple task, intended to demonstrate to the viewer why the new product is necessary. It's funny, because the new... |
The chemical reactions that go on in my cell phone battery and how to make it last longer | It's like a really big game of red rover. When the battery is brand new all the kids line up on one side of a football field. This is the + team . When you use the battery kids run across the field to the other side to join the - team . Some kids can't keep running from team to team so they stop in the middle, and play... |
Why couldn't T-Rex have been both predatory AND scavenging? | Language like this is usually used for disambiguation. It *can* lead to confusion in the process, but mostly it's to try and *avoid* it. There's often some overlap between behaviour. In fact, *most* carnivores will scavenge when given the chance. There just wasn't much hard evidence of this specifically existing for T-... |
which is the "Good" side and which is the "Bad" in Syria? | GOOD: all the innocent population of Syria, all the thousands of 'immigrants' forced to leave their home BAD: the government, the rebels, the terrorists, the US lead coalition, the Russian lead coalition |
If mushrooms are made of chitin, a protein, why is the amount of protein listed in the nutritional information so low? | Chitin is a form of sugar - not protein. Since your question is still valid if you switch those words though, it is a type of sugar that our bodies cannot use. It acts just like fiber and passes right through so to speakFun fact, chitin is found in insect shells, and other animal parts. |
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