Why the hell do people drink alcohol?
loads of people are drinking alcohol! wtf?? i don't know why they think it's so great, because I for one, think it smells and tastes like. . .urine, petrol and some other bull :) i told my father that alcohol is yucky, but he told me "It has an aquired taste. . ". . .WTF??? :D so, why do people drink yucky alcohol?? xxx
Why did Communism inevitably lead to dictatorship and totalitarianism?
The central communist tenet demanding that private property be relinquished to the State necessitates violence."From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs," rapidly gives way to its echoic distortion, "From each according to his virtues, to each according to his flaws." Why would a Russian or Cambodian farmer yield his well-tended 40 acres to be held in common trust alongside the weed-choked drunkard neighbor's lot, except by fear for his and his family's lives? In this specific instance (which is a historical fact) his ability (to grow food and feed his village), not won through heritage or capricious fortune but through conscientious effort and ethics, is sacrificed to meet another's needs, which befell him not through ill fate but through poor choices. Do not interpret that to mean that in all instances, poverty is the result of poor choices. I refer only to the expropriations (and death) which have begun all communist regimes: Cuba, China, Cambodia, Russia, North Korea. My point is specific to the fact that many productive farmers and workers were forced to "be equal" to their less dedicated countrymen, destroying their incentives to continue to strive. In order to have a centrally-planned economy and destruction of the principle of private ownership, "despotic inroads" are the means. The authoritarian use of force is innately repressive, giving undue and unrestrained power to those who wield it: if they were not already corrupt by dint of their attraction to the opportunity to employ violence, then they are certainly corrupted by the power to abuse it. The peacelover does not wish to bully his neighbor and take his land, for himself or for "the State."That is how tyranny is born. The vaunted ideals of abundance, comradeship and common property inevitably becomes the reality of an unbalanced and unjust system, with grandees living in the party's inner circle, protected by a cruel regime of fear, while serfs abound, forever oppressed.
How does autopilot works in ship use?
Auto pilot on a ship is driven by the gyro compass. The gyro compass is not magnetic but works on the principle of gyroscopic inertia and points to true north. Once set, the gyro compass will steer the ship in a straight line until turned off. It has adjustments for sensitivity in case it's too windy. You don't want to over work the steering engine in a storm.
If you were a Democrat, would you vote for Hillary Clinton knowing about all the corruption during her stay in the White House?
I don’t know who’s writing all these questions about Clinton, but there’s some really dirty pool going on here. “knowing about all the corruption”, clearly hoping that the reader will take it for granted that suggestions of “all the corruption” in the Clinton White House have been proven, when in fact research into the news published at the time shows this is false. Some have tried to claim that the Clintons stole from the White House. All that actually happened, of course, was some confusion over the rightful ownership of certain things that had come to the White House during their stay. There were a few things they had taken with them that turned out to belong to the White House: they were returned.Her resistance against corruption, on the other hand, impressed me as presidential, such as when she faced yet another (Republican-led) Benghazi committee session in which it was later admitted that the committee had falsified CIA-obtained evidence to try to defeat her. She never complained, never whined, and never submitted. Even though in fact a lot of us would have liked to see her tear a strip off the committee for its grotesque misbehaviour.The same goes for many other false allegations, such as that as a young public defender she laughed about a client getting off on a rape charge (which isn’t what happened), or that her superior (which he wasn’t) fired her from the Watergate investigations committee (she was never fired, none of its members were) for unethical conduct, or quite a few other invented offenses.It’s going to take a lot of investigation before this can be proven, but according to intelligence agency testimony to Congress (CIA or NSA or one of the others), evidence they had obtained about the Russian hacking shows that it was trying damage Clinton and promote DT. This is at least logical to consider, given how badly Putin resents the sanctions that were placed on Russia as punishment for its actions in Crimea and Ukraine, and the fact that Clinton was instrumental in placing those sanctions. We’re already seeing what a great advantage it is to Putin to have DT in the White House.
Why is the Internet seemingly filled with BJP supporters?
A lot of beautiful answers. Some have credited reasons to awesomeness of BJP, while some have given credit to awesomeness of fan base, while others to the ridiculous alternatives. Balaji's answer covers the psychological part, but all the answers have missed one very very important aspect- the personal bashing done by fan base to dissenters.If internet was a thing of 70s it would be filled with followers of Indira; but as history teaches us, neither she, nor her fans could be characterized as awesome. It was the same "my way or highway" rhetoric then as it is now. Do you really believe that the likes of Ravish Kumar or Rajdeep Sardesai, or Amartya Sen can't logically debate with these arm chair intellectuals of internet? Forget apolitical figures, let's come to parliamentarians, do you really believe apart from Jaitley anybody from cabinet can logically debate with Shashi Tharoor or Jairam Ramesh or even Sitaram Yechury for that matter? How naive can you be?? Personal attacks are made against dissenters. Amir khan's history, geography and philosophy were dug up & put to display by NRIs, over a remark about his wife's wish of leaving India. Apparently they believe, they are more patriotic than Amir. No offence, if anyone here belongs to the category. Yes, we should be free to mock Amir, but shouldn't the mocking then extend to government as well. Why should they be protected in the name of nationalism. The cynicism has extended to levels where these intellectuals of internet have mocked people of Bihar and Delhi, and the concept of democracy for not choosing a BJP chief minister. BTW this isn't nationalism, this is sheer jingoism, which is easier to propagate through propaganda, which can be easily carried through internet
Topless beaches in Egypt!!!!!!?
It is sad that such things are allowed in Egypt. But, what else do you expect from a corrupt governement? They see that without having such things in the countries, Egypt will be backwards. Yet it's the other way around. May Allah guide them.