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What is the point of internet contests, does anyone actually win? | I won an Xbox 360 with Connect from an internet contest about 5 years ago, Mars candy corp I think. I entered like 20 times. It was legit, they just emailed me, I signed a form and they just mailed me the the Xbox. Then I sold it to my sister for $300. Best deal ever. |
When countries with different currencies trade with each other, where along the line is the currency actually switched? | Generally when they agree on a price they include in what currency. If a German company wanted to be paid in euros then the American company would have to trade USD for euros at a bank, currency exchange business, or other businesses who offer the service and then pay. Countries do have reserves of foreign currency but... |
Caisson disease (the bends) and why the reverse doesn't happen (an astronaut going from low to high pressure) | They're in a pressurized environment so there's no pressure change. Submariners don't get the bends either, for the same reason. Anyway the difference between space and sea level is only one atmosphere so it wouldn't be an issue anyway. You've done a one atmosphere change at something like ten meters underwater, to com... |
What happens when people fall asleep on their arm and it becomes unmovable completely numb? | A nerve is getting pinched, blocking signal from reaching the brain. It's relatively harmless, but is uncomfortable Be careful with this. I did it at university and now have a blood clot in my shoulder for life.So there are a couple of factors at play, related to both blood supply and nerves, and in fact the microvascu... |
Why do german and scandinavian languages use different letters for ö/ø? | swedish and icelandic use the ö/Ö however, a likely explanation is that Ø came from latin Œ , and that the slash was just a different way to write it. as for why the difference, it's theorized that the Ö was used in old norwegian texts in order to distinguish between the short Ö/Ø sound and the long Ö/Ø sound. related ... |
how the show moonshiners works and how it is legal | * All they show is people hauling clear liquids around that is not sufficient proof of a crime.* Large portions of the show could very well be staged.It's a docudrama - think of the individuals on the show as actors playing the part of moonshiners. ", '[anwer from last time I saw this] I dont mean to sound rudeI 've no... |
How "clicks" become a legitimate form of profitability for websites | Advertisement. The general theory is that ads are worth more if more people see them. An ad seen by 1,000,000 people is more valuable than an ad seen by 1,000 people. If an ad on your medium is going to reach more people, you can charge more to take the ad, so you make more money from ads. Of course, it's turned out to... |
Why do we call illegal immigrants undocumented immigrants? | No drivers license, no SSN, no finger prints, no shots, etc. Things required to have for work permit, green card, citizenship. |
Health Insurance for those that have not elected in 2015 | If you want to get coverage for 2016, the exchange should be open til December 10. The cost of coverage really depends on how much subsidies you're eligible for. |
How does countries calculate its land area? | These days the most accurate answer comes from GIS data. This basically describes the shape of the country as a polygon, i.e., a shape made up of a sequence of straight lines connected together. There's a simple [mathematical formula] to determine the area of a polygon. There are some minor complexities involving islan... |
why isn't hunting lions and other endangered animals banned world wide? | Well, first off, lions are not an endangered species. Important to draw a line there. What makes a lion different than a deer, duck or elk? Sport hunting of animals is a pretty common behavior and there is nothing intrinsically different between any animal we choose to hunt for sport. The truth is that we kill animals ... |
Why don't snakes choke when they devour large prey whole / is it ever possible for a snake to choke ? | Yes, snakes can choke. Sometimes they start to swallow a prey, and when startled or find that it is too big, they reverse the swallowing process. It's usually not healthy for the snake to do repeatedly, and can hurt the snake. Also, snakes have a special extendable tube trachea they push forward to the front of their j... |
How metropolises such as Phoenix, Tucson, Las Vegas, other southwestern U.S. cities, get enough water to supply the huge population with no lakes or rivers near. | All these cities share water from the Colorado River under an agreement called [the Colorado River Compact]. it is carried through the area by pipelines. |
How does Cadillac's "Super Cruise" autonomous driving work? | The car looks at the road and it looks at you. If it understands what it sees on the road, it stays in it's lane and a safe distance back from the car in front of you. It both steers and controls the speed. If you stop looking at the road, it slows to a stop in its lane. It does not change lanes, or follow directions, ... |
How reactors don't melt if stuff going on inside them hit millions of degrees? | What's going on here is they keep the stuff that's millions of degrees from touching anything else, and they only use very very tiny amounts of the stuff they're heating up. The most common way of doing this is to trap the little wee cloud of hot hot stuff within a very strong magnetic field. Because it's not touching ... |
Why can't your phone use wifi and 4G/3G together? | [You can do it on Android] In general it's undesirable because mobile bandwidth is far more limited. Something like watching youtube in high quality could easily use up all your limit in very little time if you fail to notice. It could also result in you being charged a lot of money, and people tend to hate this kind o... |
What is the dark web vs. deep web? How exactly do you get there? And how dangerous is it if you don't know what you're doing? | the dark web refers to the part of the internet that requires using the TOR routing service to gain access. Once you have access it is much like the rest of the internet only generally targeted towards much more shady things and conversations that people want to remain anonymous for. the deep web refers to all parts of... |
why do we move our arms while walking? | The real reason is balance. Unlike most animals, we're bipedal. Try running with and without your hands and arms behind your back. I think you'll be able to tell the difference. Basically you have to use your torso to balance without your arms helping you. It's possible but less energy efficient. > Arm swing in human b... |
How do people keep "discovering" information leaked from Snowdens' documents if they were leaked so long ago? | The documents were given to journalist/lawyer Glenn Greenwald. Snowden did this because he trusted Greenwald not to release any documents that would put anyone's life in danger. Greenwald is going through the documents and publishing them slowly to ensure this and to only show documents that implicate government wrong ... |
why do collegiate athletes from military schools (Army, Navy, Air Force) need permission to play in pro sports? | When a person is accepted into a service academy, they don't pay any tuition but they make a commitment to serve a certain term of years in their chosen military branch after graduation. If that player is drafted by a pro franchise, they can ask the military to defer or waive their service requirement which in this cas... |
What causes us to wake up right before the alarm goes off? | Your body has proteins that act like grains in an hourglass. When they run low your body knows it's time to go to sleep. While you sleep the hourglass fills back up until it's full enough that your body starts to wake up. If you keep a regular schedule, your body's natural cycle will start to sync with your artificial ... |
What causes red-eye in pictures? | Side note: most noctural animals have a special part of the eye called the [tapetum lucidum] which helps reflect light onto the retina. The color hue reflected by the animal's eye is commonly used to classify the organism or determine types of creatures present in a biological night study/survey. |
Why does notebook power supplies have no vents? Would`t it be more efficient if present? | Laptops are portable. They're constantly getting stuffed inside bags with other shit. If you had vents on the power brick, it would open up opportunities to "stuff" to get in there that could be worse for heat transfer than the plastic casing. Even worse, if a paperclip or staple got in there, you 'd be looking at an e... |
What exactly is happening when I put a cup or bottle to my mouth and suck the air out? | You aren't creating a perfect vacuum, but you are reducing the air pressure inside the cup, causing the ambient air pressure outside to hold the cup to your face.You're not quite creating a vacuum, but you are decreasing air-pressure within the cup/bottle by sucking air out. Since the air-pressure inside the bottle is ... |
How can my iPhone emit any sound it wants? | Information is stored as a series of 1s and 0s in a iPhone. This is called binary data and you can represent virtually any piece of information as binary data including sounds. To recreate these sounds from the data this data has to go through a series of electronic circuits. The first one being a Digital-to-Analog Con... |
What does a CPU do when it's idle? | Nah, that would keep the CPU busy in the sense that it 'd draw power, dissipate heat, and spin the fans as if it were doing real work. Well, perhaps a bit less, since it doesn't need arithmetic, memory, etc units to spin a nop loop and it will power them down, but nop loops still aren't the "right" way to do things the... |
Why can't web services simply scale up by buying more servers? | Think your way through a simple example, tickets to a concert. There are 10,000 seats in the auditorium, and some algorithm that says which seats are "best". You make a web program that accepts how many seats the customer wants and shows them the three "best" options for seats of that group size. With one server, this ... |
Could the supreme court end birth right citizenship without a constitutional amendment? | It's pretty doubtful, since there's not much wiggle room in the 14th Amendment. The only exemptions are to people who are not "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States. At the time, that referred to most Indian tribes. But since all Native Americans have been US citizens since 1924, that clause now applies onl... |
Why were animals SO much bigger back then? | When you say back then I'm going to assume you mean millions of years ago, and more specifically the Carboniferous period . The reason organisms were much bigger then is due to the increased oxygen levels within the atmosphere allowing much larger organisms to be supported. An example of this that is quite interesting ... |
Sarepta announced their new drug, Exondys 51, will cost $300,000 a year. How can patients afford the treatment? Who pays for this? | Insurance companies mainly are the ones who pay. Drugs are expensive, especially new drugs there's a lot of cost involved, and this is a rare disease if they're going to be able to make back the costs of development and testing they need a big price tag. |
Why does antisemitism refer only to the Jewish people even though the term "Semite" encompasses both Arabs and Jews? | Because the term was coined by people who used it to refer to groups that specifically hated Jews , not groups that hated Jews and/or Arabs . _URL_0_ |
Why don't we breathe in fully (deeply) with every breath? | At rest the body does not require a lot of oxygen. It would be a waste of energy to expand the lungs fully each time we took a breath. Also try taking multiple deep breaths at a time, you'll start to feel quite light headed!", 'There are a lot of ways to breath and male / female breath different. E.g. men tend to use t... |
Why can time be dilated or compressed but never go backwards? | Yarr! Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [ELI5: Why time moves forwards, not backwards. ] ^1. [ELI5: Why is time travel backwards not possible? ] ^1. [ELI5: What causes time to move forward? ] ^1. [eli5: How can we know if time travel is/isn't possible? ] ^1. [ELI5: Why we cant travel backwa... |
What is the psychology behind competitiveness? | Dominance. Usually being the best puts you in a leadership role. Leadership means success. And humans usually tend to strive for successIt is definitely a tribal mentality that typically benefits everyone has a whole. If you are more competitive and "assertive" you typically are more successful at obtaining and maintai... |
Why do we rely on donations from the public for disaster relief? Isn't this the government's responsibility? | > Shouldn't the government be able to fully fund disaster relief without relying on contributions from the general public? If you want to fully fund disaster relief, that means convincing voters to raise taxes, or cut spending elsewhere. getting Disaster funding is notoriously tricky. No one wants to pay for it until i... |
the "Super Congress" | The Debt Ceiling bill that was approved by Congress and signed by President Obama today created a special joint committee of Congress. The committee is to be made up of members from both the House of Representatives and the Senate and will have a total of 12 members, 6 Democrats and 6 Republicans. The job of this 'supe... |
Why are non nicotine electronic cigarettes illegal for minors? | The are thinking that it may be a gateway back to the time when smoking really did make you look coolMost likely because they dont want to receive phone calls from angry mothers that think its as harmful as real smokingit probably falls under paraphernalia. Just like bongs and pipes are not allowed to be bought by kids... |
What criteria do ingredients need to meet in order to be classified as "active/medical"? | It needs to enact a physiological change on your body, as opposed to simply being processed like normal food. The change has to be noticeable and measurable, and often directed towards a specific medicinal goal. |
Why does it sometimes feel like time slows down and and I have enhanced reflexes? | Everybody here is correct, apart from the Witcher guy, and the bug dude, but nobody has explained why time seems to slow down. Our bodies measure how time passes by the amount of information it processes. The more information the brain is processing, the slower time goes, and the less information the brain is processin... |
How come humans need to eat three times a day to sustain good health? | Eating three times a day is a relatively new thing. Eating once a day was quite common throughout most of civilised history, and before that eating once every couple of days may have been quite common. Humans are warm blooded mammals with a high basal metabolic rate . We much eat quite a lot of food in comparison to ot... |
What's the problem with loaning money for college in the states? | Our education system is in complete meltdown mode. So here's the deal - all college students have to fill out a FAFSA . The FAFSA tells you how much you can get in government grants and how much of a federal loan you qualify for. Here's the issue - until you're 24 ~~~~, you don't qualify as an independent student, mean... |
why does chilled water taste refreshing and sweet but warm/hot water taste disgusting? | Have you ever tried room temp kool-aid? Different temperatures have an effect on the sensitivity of different receptor cells on your tongue. [Here's a good article on the subject]", 'Is your question about acquired taste and personal preference? |
How do we determine the directional source of a sound? | I think it has to do with the time difference between one ear hearing the sound first, then the otherAudio engineers began working on this problem when they began generating stereo music. They learned to produce a pleasing stereo effect using two sound tracks going to separate speakers. They did not work on vertical di... |
Where did the phrase "1 Mississippi 2 Mississippi" come from? | The idea is that it takes one second to say Mississippi. So if you want to time something in seconds, you count it out while saying Mississippi. |
How can companies make food taste so consistent? | I actually found ketchup tastes very different in different parts of the world at McDonald's.TL;DR: they make a lot at once, the same way every time, and they test it to make sure it is the same. Most companies have very specific recipes they use to create the taste of their food. Additionally, the food is created in l... |
Why does the body store fat (or so much of it) if we can not realistically live off what the fat cells provide, why not have a cut off point? | Too much body fat was never a health concern for 99.999% of human existence. It is only a concern now because of how much food we have access to and the sedentary life the modern world has made. Evolution only kicks in to traits that affect reproduction or survivability *until reproduction*. Evolution does not made thi... |
; Why do two headed snakes seem so common? | It does happen with other animals, and they tend to not survive. Snakes are basically a tube with a digestive system so they deal with issues pretty well. When you only have to eat once a month, fighting with your other head isn't as life-threatening. |
The difference between mutation and evolution. | Mutation is a naturally occurring phenomenon within DNA. As mutation occurs, certain traits change. If a new trait makes survival more likely, this trait is likely to become more widespread throughout later generations of a population. This is an aspect of evolution. TL;DR: Mutation that leads to beneficial traits is a... |
Why people keep saying that banks/bankers are bad? | If you're referring to the banks that helped cause the financial crisis in 2008: * Many took the money people put in the bank and used it on investments they didn't understand and still didn't understand because some ratings agency said they're okay, winding up losing a whole lot of the money people put in the bank.* M... |
Why does my body get covered in goosebumps and why do I feel light headed / relaxed when I'm really enjoying a piece of music or song? | There are two competing theories on this. One, listening to music triggers the same reward pathways as addiction and reward, coating your striatum in dopamine. Your brain can predict what's going to happen next in the music, so it's anticipating the dopamine shot before it actually gets it, and it's that moment between... |
Why was Super 8 film such a popular format at its time and even when it was already outdated? | It was cheap. The projectors were cheap, the cameras were cheap, and the film was cheap. As a kid, I had an 8mm camera and projector. No sound, but I made a lot of movies with it. Before the Hunt Brothers tried to corner the silver market, it only cost a few dollars to purchase the film and have it developed. |
Why would an asteroid collision wipe out life on earth? | > but would it stay there for so long that we would all freeze to death? Your bigger worry is starving because all the plants have died out due to lack of sunlight. But yes it would stay up there for months AT LEAST. Assuming you weren't caught in the blast or any of the earthquakes or megatsunamis such an impact would... |
Why should we drink ~2L of water a day if most of it just goes straight through us? | It doesn't go straight through us. Water is used by many of the bodily processes we go through on a daily basis, and in addition the water that we don't "use" is used to wash out waste and transport waste away, as well as help act as a heat sink inside our bodies. Water is useful in many functions and very little passe... |
How does Tiger Balm work? | It has capsaicin, which is the same chemical which makes hot sauce spicy. Capsaicin mildly irritates the skin, which basically distracts the brain from whatever else was hurting in a process called counter-irritation. With the brain distracted, you don't notice whatever was hurting quite so much, so it hurts less. |
How to drive a car with manual shift. | You can write pages of text explaining how to work the clutch or how to pick the right gear, but you wont learn much without actually trying it in real life. Very much like learning about riding a bicycle from a book. There are two additional things you need to worry about while driving manual. First is picking the rig... |
What's the difference in a violin and a fiddle? | _URL_0_ > A fiddle is any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin.[1] It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music. Fiddle playing, or fiddling, refers to various styles of music. All violins are fiddles, but not all fiddles are violins. Basical... |
Why is it considered embarrassing to get an erection in public? | The same reason it would be embarrassing if you sneezed and got snot all over yourself, if you had sudden diarrhea, or vomited. These are all normal bodily functions but are perceived as embarrassing by our culture. Also, anything related to sexuality is inherently perceived as embarrassing. It's the same reason it's c... |
Why do cars have blind spots (dead angle)? Can't we design side mirrors that would help eliminate this problem? | You actually can set up mirrors on a regular car to eliminate blind spots. Most people just set their mirrors up incorrectly.You can get a blind spot mirror to put on your mirrors: _URL_1_ Some cars have blind spot enhancements on their mirrors where the outer rim is a wide angle mirror: _URL_0_ This can be clunky. The... |
Why do most people sneeze in groups of three? | I disagree with your premise that most people sneeze in groups of three.I'm with NC_Law on this. Most people DON'T sneeze in groups of three. I usually only sneeze once, on rare occasions maybe twice. In fact I don't think I've met too many people that do this either. |
Why do redditors watch 'my little pony' | Hahaha, this question again. The answer is pretty simple: The show is *actually good.* So far in Season 2 they 've had - a fight with a god of chaos - Two big musical numbers - temporarily turned evil and beat each other up, - shot-for-shot recreated a Star Wars scene - set off a rainbow-colored nuclear blast - snapped... |
Why do we still have daylight's saving time? | Daylight savings time is actually what allows you to get more sunlight in the evenings after work. Now that it's the end of year, we're done with daylight saving's for this year, so it seems to get dark earlier. Supporters of daylight saving's time like it because it shifts the time when it's light out to later in the ... |
Why the sound of a thunder can be heard for a couple of seconds, although the lightning strike itself takes much shorter time to happen? | Ever wondered why sometimes you hear a super loud crack that's quick? Other times a rolling boom that goes on for awhile? Some of it is echoing, but a large part is the orientation if the lightning itself. If the lightning bolt is entirely parallel to you , then once it strikes and generates the sound wave, the wave hi... |
What does the word "dank" have to do with memes? | "Dank" in this context literally refers to good-smelling marijuana. It's a pretty popular term amongst stoners which caused it to become popular amongst some teenagers, who probably used the term "dank memes" non-ironically at some point. Because it sounds so silly the term "dank memes" became a meme itself.To my knowl... |
What are ACH transactions, and how is it a bad system? | I wouldn't call it a bad system, just an outdated one. ACH is the system that US banks use to transfer money to each other. The system is run by the Federal Reserve Bank. When you request to send funds to an account at another bank, your bank sends the cash to the Fed, and the Fed then sends the funds to the receiving ... |
I get how prime numbers work, but why are they important? | For a long time, they really weren't important. The study of prime numbers was seen as "pure mathematics": the rules about them were consistent, but couldn't really be applied to anything "real world". Relatively recently , prime number have been found to be useful. It is very easy to multiply two primes to create a "c... |
how did humans clean their teeth before toothpaste? | some didn't like most parts of Europe, like a lot of poor people don't. other places used to use tooth powder and their fingers. a bit like charcoal, like in india they call it monkey powder. but in middle east and Muslim country they used to use miswak due to the prophet pbuh recommending it. and still do. it's the tw... |
Why do sunsets look incredible after nasty thunderstorms? | The refraction of light from all the water vapour in the sky due to cloud cover and high humidity means brighter and more dramatic colours for us as the sun sets. Each water molecule acts kind of like a prism, distorting the light into different colours. A similar thing happens after a bush fire, with a smoky sky makin... |
What are the steps to becoming a Professor? | - Get a bachelors degree, get a masters degree, get a doctorate. - Fill out lots of job applications and then go on lots of interviews. - Publish papers, write a book or two. - Fill out lots more job applications. Go on lots more interviews. - Get hired at a community college as an adjunct professor for 25K per year. -... |
why video games are always released on Tuesdays | I honestly have no idea why games are released the way they are, but I'd like to point out a few things. As far as I know, the Tuesday release is North America only. Europe is Fridays, and I think Australia is Thursdays. I'm not sure about Japan. And it seems to me that releases for Nintendo systems are always released... |
Why isn't there an affordable working printer out there yet? They all suck. | Most printers these days use the "razor blade business model". They sell you a printer for the least amount of money they can, then make their profits on the consumables . This exploits the fact that most consumers are sensitive to the initial price of an item, but not so sensitive about the ongoing cost of operation. ... |
Where are all of the foreign domain names? | Generally, they're used by people who speak that language, and you presumably are reading English content. If you're making English-language queries on _URL_1_, for instance, you'll be shown results that are in English, which are far more likely to be hosted on English-language domains. If you were to search _URL_0_ fo... |
Why on some mornings it is a struggle to get up, but others I am jolted to begin the day. | This can be the result of being woken at different stages of your sleep cycle. If you're woken during stages of deep sleep, you will feel very tired and sluggish. If you're woken during the lighter stages of your sleep cycle you will feel fine. Most adults have sleep cycles that work in approximately 90 minute interval... |
The difference between a capacitor and a battery? | A capacitor stores energy in the form of an electfical potential difference between two metal plates. A battery stores energy in the form of modified chemicals which can easily release the energy at a later time. Capacitors are cheap but lose their charge quickly; batteries can store energy for extended period of time ... |
How did milking a cow first come to be? When did someone decide that drinking a cows milk was a good thing? | Nobody is really sure and it happened a very, very long time ago. Way before we have any surviving records. In fact drinking milk from animals may have predated cows even existing. It's likely some clever prehistoric dude saw a young animal drinking milk and figured there might be some food there. People are pretty cle... |
Why is California experiencing such a horrific drought? | !!! ITS THE LIBERALS !!!!! j/k There has always been times of drought in California. Northern California isn't as bad as southern, but historically there has always been drought. If Abbott Kinney has looked back more than 100 years, our water delivery and retention systems would have been different. Regardless, this on... |
The difference between breathing ‘through your chest’ and ‘through your stomach’. | Breathing through your stomach: Mainly by contracting your thoracic diaphragm , which increases the volume of your thoracic cavity and draws in air. Breathing through your chest: Mainly by contracting the muscles between your ribs , which again increases the volume of your thoracic cavity and causes air to be drawn in.... |
. Why does food packing say "Use by" a certain day rather than "Consume by" a certain day. How else should I be "using" my cheese wiz? | "Use" takes many fewer letters. Since the message isn't essential marketing to get you to buy the product, the less space it uses the more is available for MarketingThe date you use a food product and the date you consume it might be different. For example, I might use an egg to bake a cake one day, but I might not con... |
How do tabloid papers like The Globe get away with running obviously made up stories about public figures? | One way is to word everything as a question. So if your headline reads "Is Kim Kardashian a Hobbit?" then nobody can sue you because, hey, you're just asking questions. Another strategy is to use so-called weasel words. Instead of saying "Kim Kardashian is a Hobbit", you say "Some people have claimed Kim was a Hobbit".... |
Why are people's political opinions mostly based on emotion rather than reason, facts and logic? | Here we go with the facts and logic arguments. Not your fault. If someone believes something, the sheer fact they believe makes it true to them. It may be true to you, but it's true to them. People can base their beliefs on any basis they want. It's called democracy. Now when we are all required to have the same belief... |
How would the davson+danielli model of membrane structure look after freeze fracturing was performed on the cell? | Frozen? No really Membranes are not identical. They differ in thickness and the ratio of proteins:lipids.Membranes have distinct inside and outside layers Other than predicted by the model, the membrane proteins do not have a very good solubility in water - in fact they are amphiphatic, meaning they have hydrophilic an... |
Why do the majority of Americans believe that Henry Ford invented the automobile when in fact he did not? | Give it a few decades and you will have kids that think Steve Jobs invented cell phones. While Henry Ford did not invented cars, the model T was the first mass produced model that was affordable to the regular people. Basically, he was a great marketer.Because in THE UNITED STATES, we're the center of the world. For on... |
The plot of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas(movie) | It is the story of a journalist who goes to cover a story about a motor cross race. He gets distracted by his drug use. The movie meant a lot to me but the message is more up to you. To me it seemed like the message was finding yourself, even if you have to fail along the way. It is based of Hunter S. Thompson, famous ... |
ELI 5: How can it thunder and lightning without raining? | Lightning is a static electrical discharge between the clouds and the ground. Thunder is caused by the expansion And contraction of air superheated by lightning. Neither of these things are in any way dependent on rain falling at the time. |
Does the principle of confidentiality between a doctor and a patient also holds in the other direction? | As an MD the answer is no. This allows the patient to attack the doctor, not only in the courts, but also in the press. The doctor can not refute the publicly aired allegations. This is not uncommon. |
Why do numbers come first in Alphanumerical order? | Because they are traditionally sorted by the ACSII code and special characters and numbers have lower values than letters. _URL_0_ Some systems may sort by different rules. |
why do churches get freedom from taxes | Not just churches, but all non profit charitable organizations can have tax exempt status. There are certain legal guidelines that they must follow.In the United States any non profit organization is exempt from paying taxes, because they don't have ownership that is pocketing the profit, instead the profit is either r... |
Why do liquid detergent and fabric softener bottles use such small print when labeling what they are? (Image examples in post) | Because the manufacturers want you to be brand-loyal: to wash your clothes not with "detergent" but with **Tide**, to soften them not with "fabric softener" but with **Downy**.Well they do sometimes. With larger brands like your examples, they are basically printing the minimum requirement for product identification, w... |
Is there a "best if used by" date for Nuclear Bombs? | Yes, well it's not really "used by" it's more of a "change oil after X years". The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration , which oversees the U.S. nuclear stockpile and production complex, is funded at $8B per year. Most of that money is spent on NNSA’s Life Extension Program where the stockpi... |
What happens when you're in the navy/army reserve and your day job interferes with your ability to do the navy/army job? | Legally almost all jobs have to give you time off for military service.If he has to go then he goes, and his next in line takes his spot till he comes back. |
If heat rises, why do mountaintops often have snow in places like California and Hawaii? | Hot air rising is the exact reason why there is snow on mountain tops. Imagine a little cube of air at the ground surface. There is some amount of water vapor in this cube. The air is hotter than the surrounding air , so it begins to rise. As its rising, the pressure of the air is decreasing, so it begins to expand. As... |
Why do people/things feel significantly heavier when they relax all their muscles? Otherwise known as "dead weight"? | Somebody answered this last time but basically: A person who is awake will always center their weight automatically, and it makes it easier to carry them and more comfortable for them to be carried. When theyre limp and unconcious then their weight is just left flopping around.It's really just because they become unwie... |
How is the worth of a person or company determined? | If you're asking about financial worth: * A person's net worth is the sum of the market value of their assets less the sum of their liabilities. So someone who owns a $300,000 home, with a $200,000 mortgage and a $10,000 auto with a $5,000 loan has a net worth of $105,000. * When governments make decisions they use an ... |
How bad is alcohol for a teenager? | At 15 your body is still developing, so it is generally not advisable to meddle with your body chemistry too much before it sorts itself out. According to [wikipedia] heavy drinking will mess with your brain and make you stupider, i.e. your memory will be crappier and learning will be more difficult. Besides, alcohol c... |
What is meant by a Marxist reading of a novel? | In brief, a Marxist reading of a text is one that focuses on class conflict. For example, when you read Oliver Twist, you don't have to think about class issues at all, but if you do, there's a fair amount there. |
What caused the division of Czechoslovakia? | Probably a number of things, although the division was quite peaceful -- it was known as the Velvet Divorce. Most people in the country didn't want it to separate; but eventually Slovakia declared independence, the Czechoslovak government agreed to it, and everyone worked to make it a peaceful transition. Czechoslovaki... |
How do people test the intelligence of A.I? | It depends really what the AI is built to do, a chatbot is an AI that helps you when you have problems with something on a website, when you start looking at other AI's such as IBM's Watson which was put onto the game show jeopardy, it absolutely destroyed 2 previous winners, it was a very intelligent AI. The chatbot t... |
Why is _URL_0_ telling me that a person whom I know is deceased has viewed at my profile in the last two days? | Thinking logically this can be either of two things. 1. His website profile is obviously not him but a collection of data on a website, so any number of people could have his passwords and loved ones could be going through his things looking for loose ends. 2. The website lied or glitched for whatever reason. |
If your neurones make a new connection when you learn something new, would it be possible to run out of space in your brain for new connections to form. | No, basically a neuron is capable of thousands of potential connection to other neurons, your brain is formed of trillions of these neural pathways and they do strengthen and weaken over time. Your brain cleans out old or unused pathways as it develops more. The potential for creating new pathways is always extremely h... |
What is Asbestos and how do people die from inhaling it? | It's basicly finely shreded naturaly occuring fiberglass. When you breath it in, it attaches to your lungs. You're breathing in glass. Breathing in glass tends to kill you. _URL_0_ |
In the UK, How did the recovery from the recession 2007-2009 happen? | To be honest, I didn't see any knock-on effect from that "recession" in Scotland. By all accounts, we actually seemed to do very well during this time. Most of the impact was corporate and over-played. I don't really identify this in the traditional sense of the term "recession" where people are actually impacted. Sinc... |
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