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It wasn't a tactical decision so much as something that just happened. To understand the tactics of WWI trench warfare on the Western Front, you have to think about the situation and the objectives of the combatants. The initial phase of the war, right after the invasion of France by Germany, was very dynamic with batt... |
A militia is a group of armed civilians organized to protect a city/region of a State from an external threat. A militia is under the control of the State government and can be nationalized by the Federal Government as an additional line of defense for invasion. A gang is group of armed civilians who actively participa... |
It's (probably) a coordinate singularity on the way to the true, gravitational singularity within the horizon. It's a (changing as the hole gains or loses mass, spin, charge) region which defines the point of no return, where spacetime curvature is so extreme that all directions point inwards to the singularity, and ev... |
With the grandma scam you link, she is sending a money order, which is pretty much cash. It isn't like a wire transfer between banks. So what law is being broken and who should be enforcing it? With a foreign bank it becomes a jurisdiction issue. Different countries have different rules and laws. Money orders are over ... |
There are quite a few reasons for this, but what it comes down to is the balance between how often those things need to be accessed vs costs of construction and the routing of plumbing etc. I have a lot of experience building homes and believe me, there are lots of variables to consider when building a home. Here are s... |
Simpler explanation: I write you a letter that says "This letter was sent from < my address > on < date > and < time > . Please send me a letter back as soon as you get this, with the exact time and date you received this. You follow the instruction and send the second letter back to me. When I get your letter, I know ... |
Many of the competitive industrial players are in the West so the best and brightest Asian students are drawn there. Likewise, a huge majority of scientific research and funding is in the West, so their scientists and STEM people are drawn there. However, the number of power global firms based in Asia is growing and th... |
The same way we do now. The invention of AD and BC was popularized by scholars to make the birth of Christ an important part of history however how we actually track time (24 hours in a day, 30(ish) days in a month, 12 months and a year) did not change. Different cultures used different starting points as their "beginn... |
The cell phone is built for the OS that was out when it was released. As a result, newer OS will not run as well as the one that the cell phone was built for. Also, the newer OS usually is more memory-intensive, so the phone naturally runs slower. Think of it like trying to run Windows 10 on a computer meant for Window... |
I think the reason is that we seem to have regressed. In other words we've gone from free tuition 20 or so years ago to £9000 a year. Couple this with the possibility that more than 50% of students may never pay back their loans, thereby leading to a loss to the taxpayer (when the measure was meant to save money), and ... |
Muslim immigrants to Europe were primarily unskilled labor, while Muslim immigrants to the U.S. were primarily professionals. So what happened is that Europe developed large, lower class Muslim communities while the U.S. tended to have scattered families of Muslims with a few middle-to-upper class Muslim communities. I... |
The emulator has to translate the CPU instructions of the console and game you're emulating into something your own computer's CPU can understand. Then, the emulator also has to take your input from the computer and turn it into something else that the emulated CPU can understand as well. This all requires a TON of pro... |
Humans actually can't digest a wide variety of plants. Our stomachs cannot break down cellulose, which means that there is no plant we can truly digest. The edible ones are just plants that we happen to be able to get nutrients from without needing to break down cellulose. Grass would require cellulose digesting to get... |
Complex numbers can be written using two notations. Polar which is a magnitude and an angle, and rectangular. Rectangular gives the magnitude along the real axis and separately the magnitude along the imaginary (i) axis. If you took both notations together, you'd see that the magnitude and angle in polar form exactly m... |
souls meaning living persons. which is passengers and crew airliners carry corpses too and they're held as cargo, not passengers. when you have a crash and you end up with 100 bodies, you need to know how many actually died in the crash. Airplanes during distress may be asked to "say your souls" in order to provide an ... |
confessions made under torture (any torture, not just waterboarding) have been deemed unreliable because there are way too many false positives. people say whatever it takes to make the pain stop [CIA torturers themselves]( URL_0 ) admitted this, but continued(s) to use it anyway, because torture is fun i guess Yes. Th... |
Because they do the final rolling with two thicknesses. The inside surfaces are not as highly polished as the outside surfaces. See this [video]( URL_0 ) "Frequently Asked Questions Which side of Reynolds Wrap® Aluminum Foil should I use, the shiny or the dull side? Actually, it makes no difference which side of the al... |
As mentioned before, the colour green is associated with sickness. Many people may also think about Chlorine when they hear "poison" - which was used for its poisonous properties during World War 1, and is a green gas. The substances used as rat poisons ages ago were also green. Modern poisons aren't necessarily green ... |
In the case of hypoglycemia one of the symptoms is nausea so you eat something , your blood sugar goes back up and you feel better |
The sound wave [amplitude]( URL_0 ) increases. Sound is composed of compression/decompression waves in the air (or water, or whatever). If you change how rapidly the air gets compressed/decompressed, you change the pitch of the sound. If you change the intensity of the compression/decompression, you change the amplitud... |
This is exactly the reason why the founding fathers ensured that citizens would be able to make screen shots and have the right to retweet I have no idea what you mean by "on record". There does not exist any record, or any requirement of keeping a record, of everything the president says. The President has a right jus... |
Those faucet are aerating the water. This spreads it out by putting a bunch of air in between it. Older faucets sometimes don't do this and the water is clear. Almost any clear substance with a different refractive index than air will look white if broken up into a lot of small bits. Take water, foam a bunch of air int... |
The production of dopamine has to be regulated. If it weren't, it would defeat the purpose of having dopamine. Dopamine is there to reward you for doing something *good* that increases your chance of survival (or at least, something that looks like something that increases your chance of survival to a brain that's been... |
The interviews segments are just as chopped up and manipulated as the rest of the show. They'll even mix and match portions of interviews from different episodes, completely different situations, to alter the story as they see fit. |
Well it helps to look at species that have various forms of reproduction between asexual and our form of sexual reproduction. For instance prokaryotes can't go through meiosis but can incorporate new DNA from other prokaryotes. Then there are some yeast cells that can reproduce asexually or sexually when under great st... |
Snake charmers actually aren't really taming the snakes at all. The snakes aren't taught anything. What's going on is the snake is basically scared and is responding as it would to a threat. It lifts up it's head to look threatening, and if its a cobra it flares out its flaps (which is what they do to intimidate predat... |
GDP is calculated as Consumption (total spending in the economy) plus investment (things like homes and equipment businesses use, goods which generate future income) plus all government spending (except for transfer payments, like social security or welfare) plus the trade balance (Exports - imports, which is currently... |
The crab-eating-frog is the only known saltwater amphibian. However, it cannot live in saltwater permanently and can only tolerate 2.8% salinity, which is less than the oceans'. They live in mangrove swamps in SE Asia. amphibians cant remain in saltwater for any extended period. Amphibian skin is permeable, water and e... |
Because we don't need to. Hibernation is something that animals do to survive conditions that they couldn't survive normally. This largely only happens for mammals that live near the poles. In the winter, there isn't enough food to eat, so they hibernate to conserve energy until there is food. Humans evolved near to th... |
You've never *consciously* learnt it. But neither have you *consciously* learned where to put your tongue to pronounce "sh", or the difference between "the cat" and "a cat", or the very complex tense system that English has developed. All of these things you learned as an infant by listening to people around you. Even ... |
We can, it is just it takes a lot of study and the language isn't in the same form as human language so it isn't just like learning German or Spanish and it comes with body language, scents and other non verbal cues URL_0 The other answers here are correct, but the question is actually much deeper than it might seem, a... |
When sleeping, the brain releases a chemical that prevents the body from moving, so that actions taken in dreams will not cause you to for example, lash out your arm and break it against something. Sometimes, you come to Consciousness before the brain releases the chemical required to enable movements. That's all that'... |
Its kind of cool, but its also probably wrong. The idea is that all electrons and positrons are actually the same particle, just going back and forwards in time. If you go back in time there can be two of you at once, say one of you in English class, and one of you in math class. Then the two of you go back in time, an... |
No one else owes their debt except the wife or husband. Sometimes not even then. It is part of why interest is charged. When a mortgage is obtained life insurance is also bought for the outstanding principal. |
Wind chill doesn't actually freeze anything. Its called a wind chill because the wind blowing makes the air "feel" colder, not actually be colder. Despite how windy it is, the air is still whatever the ambient temperature is. |
It's not exactly that they grow even, they get polished by asperities and thus they acquire a smoother edge. That's also why we have fingernails in the first place, to take care of friction on behalf of our fingers. |
Because the government is pushing to defund them. You don't read news, right? Because there is a GOP run Congress, Senate, Presidency, and soon to be Supreme Court who have made Planned Parenthood one of their targets in their rhetoric for the past few years (most notably by trying to take away their ability to receive... |
They definitely notice the white lights they use for full color images. On the other hand, a slow-moving spotlight isn't very threatening, so animals will still drift up and investigate or take bait. To record more naturalistic behavior, they use red lights, right at the edge of the visible spectrum. Most deep-sea crit... |
A Universal Basic Income is a system where the government gives everybody a certain amount of cash every week (or month, whatever) which is enough to live on (there are debates about exactly what the appropriate level is). It could be useful in an increasingly automated society because as robots do more and more jobs, ... |
A lot of hormonal stuff happens that I don't know enough about to explain, but basically, you damage your body and your body goes "well shit, I gotta be stronger if this is gonna keep happening." So then it gets stronger. Note that if you do the same exercises forever, you won't keep getting stronger, you'll just maint... |
Imagine that you're just drawing something black and white, like text. At low resolution a particular pixel at the edge of the letter is black. But at 4x that resolution, it's a 2x2 square, of which 3 pixels are black, and one is white. These pixels are then averaged to a dark gray, which is what's displayed at the low... |
On the spectrum between what you are asking about and a "normal" distribution of three meals per day, there is an increasingly popular approach to eating called Intermittent Fasting (IF). One variation of the practice is to not necessarily reduce daily caloric intake at all, but to ensure there is at least a 16-hour wi... |
We're large enough that even a bear might get injured before it kills us, especially since it doesn't know what nasty tricks we may have up our sleeve. Since any injury can get infected and be fatal, the predator will not take that risk unless it is very hungry and has no other, more familiar prey available. And that's... |
So first off, and this is extremely important to understand, you haven't already paid for your own social security. You've paid for your grandparents' social security. The whole system kinda works on the honor system where you pay in and in exchange the next generation will pay for you. Now the problem comes in that th... |
In general, radiation doesn't kill you quickly, unless the dose is extreme. Harm from radiation comes in two types: Stochastic - DNA is damaged, and it just so happens that a gene is corrupted which helps prevent cancer, leaving that cell more susceptible to turn into a tumour in later life. The risk of getting cancer ... |
Copying and editing my response from another, similar thread: Yes, the past and future do exist, and we can prove that with causality. Causality is part of the fundamental nature of the universe, and means that something cannot happen unless the thing that caused it happened before it. And since causality "moves" at th... |
Area codes were assigned very carefully. Back in the day you had to wait for that rotary dial to turn all the way and they weren't quick. Therefore the "short" area codes - 212, 312, 215, etc - were all assigned to large cities, in this case NY, Chicago and Philadelphia. Meanwhile Alaska got 908, West Texas got 806. Ar... |
There would be no real benefit. The money you pay for your car and home insurance premiums doesn't go in some account with your name on it. "This is Yolo20152016's unused insurance money" It goes towards the profit and operating costs of the insurance company. Most importantly It pays the claims of other people that al... |
They make their own most of the time. There are way too many to list, so I'm going to list the 2 most popular ones (going to skip the ones from UE and Unity): - Radiant: used in every single id Tech 3+ game and games based on that engine (the most popular one being of course, Call of Duty) - Hammer: originated from an ... |
Interestingly enough, this question also makes sense if you phrase it as a "cool ass-tail." Also, evolutionarily it tends to get in the way of bipedal motion. Interestingly enough, we (and all vertebrates) are part of the phylum Chordata, and all chordates have a tail (and gill slits!) for at least some part of their l... |
In some cases it's because the drugs fuck around with your neurotransmitters, which can affect when you feel hungry vs. full. In other cases, the drugs make you retain water. Pharmacist-in-training here, hoping I can provide an answer to this question. Weight gain purely from medication isn't exactly a "definite" fact,... |
modern day full color printing presses are basically flow thru laser printers. your image is split into 4 colors, cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. or sometimes 8 colors, cmyk and light cyan, light magenta, light yellow and light black. each of those single color shade images are electrostatically imprinted on a drum b... |
The brain remembers far fewer details than you might think. It compresses and discards unnecessary information all the time. Unless you have a photographic memory (which is pretty rare), you just remember the things that stick out, and your brain reconstructs the rest based on how things like that usually looks. It use... |
I don't think that they are denying that it's happening, but they are more suspect to the cause of it. Some people think that it caused by human influence. Some people think that it is a natural fluctuation that we just so happen to be witnessing. Then there are people who are in the middle, who see facts like cow fart... |
He was kind of a sleazy guy in real life. He tried to disown his own daughter, as in denying paternity. URL_0 He was abusive to employees, and had little regard for the working conditions of people who made Apple products. URL_1 It's not hard to find reasons why people think he was good at some things, but not good at ... |
Firstly, you would find it hard to eat that many green beans - green beans have about 300 calories per kilogram. Secondly, you would be missing out on loads of nutrients, whereas meat is nutritionally complete, so your friend would do fine. Your friend would undoubtedly put on more muscle than you - and that's likely t... |
Not everyone watches it for personal friction time, aka fap. It's audience is intended to be for people who can appreciate the intricate plot, character building, and dramatic dialogue. People normally watch over multiple sessions so they are longer to provide multiple scenes to watch. You also have to realize that the... |
An oven works by heating the air around the food with the element or burner inside the oven. A microwave works by vibrating the water molecules inside the food, not by heating up the air. The microwaves directly heat the water and oils in the food. the waves don't affect the metals, glass, ceramics and such in the oven... |
Because bacteria are fully-fledged living things. They do all the work needed to exist themselves - they make all their own proteins, do their own metabolism, use their own proteins to replicate their DNA and make RNA, and build their own cell walls and cell membranes. And because we're so distant from bacteria in an e... |
People have different tastes, but they tend to fall into patterns. Most people prefer food that isn't microwaved, or is fresh. A critic might also tell you how well this restaurant makes a certain type of food. Not everyone likes Indian food, so there are some people who wouldn't go to an Indian restaurant. But if you ... |
A web page will try to load everything before it shows on your screen. Sometimes tho it gets stuck somewhere and you only see blank screen. When you press back button all the loading gets stopped and it displays what was loaded while your browser starts loading the previous page. Not an expert, just an experienced user... |
Presence is a deterrent. Just having someone around watching does a lot to keep people honest. Some companies hire one for insurance reasons. The other can be to hire a guard company for a low wage and then get him to check freezers all night for a lower cost than hiring or paying one of their own a higher wage. |
The lenses in your eyes aren't good enough to properly let the strong light through without some light spreading randomly as it enters your lens, causing some light to "bleed" outwards from the bright spot. Your eyes' lenses are pretty transparent, but not perfectly transparent, so bright enough light is still able to ... |
I work in the industry and in the US we are regulated by the FDA. Toothpaste is what's called an over the counter drug. This means that it has some claim that has been substantiated by a study, and an active ingredient that works toward that claim. In the case of Toothpaste it might have an ingredient like Sodium Flour... |
We know from the wave picture of light that there are two ways you can increase the energy you are delivering to a system if you shine light on it. You can either: * Increase the amplitude of the light wave i.e. the height of the wave, making it brighter. * Increase the frequency, i.e. the number of wave peaks packed i... |
Because the human body perspires, and drinking cold water cools down the body, which is why we enjoy it so much. |
They both would make less money—per sale, at least. Steam takes a cut of all sales for providing the distribution platform (I think it's around 30%) so if the studio decides to put their game on sale, Steam gets the same cut percentage but the amount of money they're taking their cut from is less. |
The most common way is a proof by contradiction, which is a style of proof where you assume the opposite and then show that doing so results in something that trivially cannot be true, so we assume that pi is a rational number and then show that that would require that two mutually exclusive things be true. In the case... |
Same reason why the planets are in a relatively horizontal plane around the sun. Angular momentum is conserved, so as orbiting materials collide, they eventually settle into a disk. What conservation of angular momentum means, is that the total sum of each particles momentum, must but equal to their ending momentum. So... |
Not really. A lot what you're tasting is actually the changing in flavor of the oils as they pick of contaminants, and the loss of the strongest and most aromatic flavor notes which are composed of very volatile molecules. In short, coffee just doesn't last long, even as a bean. Once you brew it, the clock is really ti... |
When microwaves are running they are essentially pumping the small space full of energy in semi-random interference patterns, which leads to hot spots and cool spots. Inside the metal of a fork or a piece of foil this energy gets turned into random electrical potential as electrons get excited and this leads to things ... |
As far as my studies have gone, it's instinctual. Some birds use the earth's magnetic field, some use their parents and follow them and learn the path, others are genetically engineered to just know where to go. There's a term in ecology that we borrowed from German - zugunruhe. It's basically how animals exhibit anxio... |
It's hard to know exactly because it hasn't happened yet, but a [conservative think tank estimated that Donald Trump's plan would shrink the US economy by 2%.]( URL_0 ) The US economy would shrink by about 400 to 600 billion dollars. |
It sends them one after the other... and really, really fast. What are wondering about specifically? Edit: read the following answer |
Why *wouldn't* they be allowed? There's no law forbidding the printing of a suggested price on a product. In fact, lots of companies do it, including many different brands of potato chips, [like these]( URL_0 ). Generally, the company that produces the food item will only sell their product to retailer who sign a contr... |
Windows systems change over time, with new versions. Even if a program's code is still executable on a new windows version, an older program might depend on other files that older windows versions almost always had stored on the system, or it might depend on some windows features that have now been abandoned. Compatibi... |
Mastering spaceflight (i.e making it cost and time efficient) has several benefits to it. Being able to travel to other planets and moons would give us more living space when the Earth gets too crowded, not to mention it would give us the capability to save our species from extinction in the event of a disaster like a ... |
The amount of power an engine produces is a product of how much exploding it does. One way to increase exploding is to make bigger exploding chambers. That makes the engine bigger and bigger engines are heavier and limited in how fast they spin. If i want to make a smaller engine that does more exploding I need to find... |
There's something called an electromagnetic field that is everywhere. When you put energy into it, it ripples. These ripples are light. Light consists of particles called photons. A photon is an excitation of the electromagnetic field, which exists everywhere in all of space. Photons can also exhibit wavelike behavior;... |
The dose makes the poison. A little bit of sunlight helps your body make Vitamin-D. A lot of sunlight causes skin cancer. A little bit of potassium sorbate keeps fungus from growing in our food. A lot of it might cause cancer. You'd have to eat about 20-60 times the amount of food you usually do to reach the potassium ... |
When they slice open the fish to pull its guts out they pull out the bones too since they are all connected. |
I take it this means "What's happening when someone overdoses on meth, and starts self-harming?" Meth abuses a brain chemical called dopamine, which is "encouraging". It makes us feel interested, motivated, encouraged, to do something. But it's part of normal psychology, and we can resist impulses if we have a reason n... |
In general, simple crude oil derivatives are long, straight chain carbon chains with just hydrogen attached. For example, butane (like in camping gas) is 4 carbons with 10 hydrogens around it. A heavier, longer carbon chain of 8 carbons (octane) is a liquid. The longer the chain, the stronger the interaction between ea... |
Human's perception of temperature is relative. You can only tell if something is hot or cold relative to something else. The air-conditioned room will feel cooler because you're comparing it to when the room was warmer. The opposite is true for the room being heated. There is a simple experiment you can try to prove th... |
They do on Europe. Americans are resistant to the change and they don't wanna risk losing customers over forcing them to have a PIN to use their card. Ruh roh, I hope this answer isn't so small it gets autobaleeted. In the UK all cards have a pin attached. Newer cards will also have a contactless option, but that only ... |
When we speak out loud there are 2 signals that the brain receives: the internal monologue and (assuming you are not deaf) auditory feedback from our speech output. This may be why we tend to think we are speaking louder than we actually are. Your brain also receives a 3rd feedback signal from the articulation/speech m... |
Thiomersal is a compound that is used to increase the shelf life of vaccines. When people started claiming that vaccines cause autism (even though there's no evidence of this), they pointed to thiomersal as a possible culprit because it contains mercury and they've heard that mercury is bad for you (even though there's... |
From my understanding it's just one of those things really paranoid people freak out about. Fluoride can be harmful to humans in large doses over long periods of time but brushing your teeth with it is never going to hurt you. Kinda like how some people think vaccines cause autism in kids. It's not backed by medical sc... |
You are correct, the metal becomes brighter as temperature goes up due to highly energized photons being expelled. Also the automoderator can go choke to death on a bag of dicks. As it becomes hotter, they turn yellow, orange and then finally white, you can see that phenomena in the gun barrels of the M134D Gattling gu... |
Almost as soon as the planetary model was created, scientists recognized a problem with it. If the model was correct, why don't electrons gradually lose energy as they revolve around the nucleus? But initially, no one had a solution to this puzzle. It wasn't until quantum mechanics that it was recognized that electrons... |
Because many of them tie their internal timing to the speed of the cpu clock, making the game run faster the faster your cpu is, not unlike how many console games on PS2 and earlier were coded. Not all games were coded like this, however. |
A sunburn is literally your skin being burnt by the sun. More specifically by the UV (ultraviolet) rays which carry more energy. A tan is a defensive response from your skin which secretes more melatonine and goes darker. Why ? Because the more dark your skin is, the more radiation it can absorbs, converting ultraviole... |
I'd imagine it'd be for clarity when blowing up images. the additional megapixels allow for images being scaled up to maintain their sharpness. As other people are spectating is correct; For clarity and zoom. A good example is this link here, URL_0 , you can still read license plates from 8 blocks away with this 320 gi... |
Think of the cup and water as two different objects. You are providing forces for the cup(object 1) to move, buy you are not directly involved in the moving of the water(object 2). The water is moved by a coefficient of friction from the cup. As cups are usually quick smooth, the effect of friction is very low resultin... |
They are checking your id against numerous databases to see if you have outstanding warrants for your arrest, if this is a repeat offense, if your license is up to date, if your license has been revoked, etc. I would like to point out that there is an /r/AskLEO subreddit, where you can directly ask law enforcement offi... |
Blood sugar levels, the brain runs off of sugar, so when you are hungry or when you have low blood sugar, this is your brain telling you to refill the stores. |
Kicked in the face, punched and kicked in the face, thrown down on your face, bent in a postion where you can see your face Karate is a Japanese art developed originally in ancient Okinawa. It's become a blanket title for many empty hand combat arts. Many different styles have diverged from the original Okinawan line, ... |
Think of an SD card like a piece of graph paper. You can fill in squares and erase squares to create block pictures. You're never physically adding squares to the paper, you're just drawing and erasing sections of the already existing papers. So you're limited by whatever size of paper you have. To make a bigger pictur... |
Let's use humans as an example. Most of our cells have two complete sets of 23 chromosomes (46 in total). One of those in each set is a sex chromosome, that exists in X and Y versions. In females, both sex chromosomes are the X version, in males there is one X and one Y. Sperm and egg cells, however, have only a single... |
Physician here. Hemorrhoids are veins that have becomes swollen In the rectum. Occasionally they may bleed which leaves an open communication between the blood stream and the colon but they don't often get infected. Why? Think of it as a small weak fish (bacteria) trying to swim upstream against a fast current. It does... |
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