Category: Philosophy

Why did TiVo fail? Literally for years after launch, people still didn’t know what the product was or why they would want one. TiVo failed to license their technology/UI for wider adoption. TiVo failed to disrupt the cable set-top box industry. $15/mo is too much for this feature, and cable providers sold their DVRs for […]

Can you legally kill a beaver? Beavers are most active at dusk or dawn and best shot when they are out of the water. Using a small caliber gun or shooting a beaver while it is in the water will just end up in a slow dying, suffering beaver. Land owners can shoot beavers without […]

What is a synonym for pleasure? pleasure comfort. contentment. enjoyment. gratification. joy. luxury. satisfaction. thrill. What does pleasing yourself mean? To do that which fulfills one’s own desires, expectations, or ambitions, especially when failing to consider those of anyone else. What is the root word for pleasure? pleasure (n.) “to please,” from Latin placere “to […]

What is a climate of fear? Culture of fear (or climate of fear) is the concept that people may incite fear in the general public to achieve political or workplace goals through emotional bias; it was developed as a sociological framework by Frank Furedi and has been more recently popularized by the American sociologist Barry […]

What genre is a true story? Realist: works that are set in a time and place that are true to life (i.e. that could actually happen in the real world), abiding by real-world laws of nature. They depict real people, places, and stories in order to be as truthful as possible. What genre is Ed […]

Why is my boyfriend not expressive? 1. Accept the way they are. If you are sure about your partner and know that’s just a part of his nature and how he is as a person, you should probably learn to live with the fact that your partner might be less expressive or communicative but that […]

Who is Lisa in PT? Lisa is a ghost that appears in P.T.. She was murdered with a rifle by her husband, shot in the right eye and in the stomach while pregnant. A message in the game implies he regretted murdering her as he claimed there was a “monster” inside of him, and he […]

What is the Mach band effect? Mach bands or the Mach effect refers to an optical phenomenon from edge enhancement due to lateral inhibition of the retina 2. This is an inbuilt edge enhancement mechanism of the retina, where the edges of darker objects next to lighter objects will appear lighter and vice versa, creating […]

What is GIF short for? The Graphics Interchange Format, or GIF, was first developed by computer scientist working at CompuServe back in 1987. And while it has swelled or dipped, the debate over how to pronounce the acronym for those minute looping animations became a thing once the GIF really took off. Can a GIF […]

Was the Queen of Sheba a jinn? According to the scholar Al-Hamdani, the Queen of Sheba was the daughter of Ilsharah Yahdib, the Himyarite king of Najran. In another tale, she is said to be the daughter of spiritual creature (Jinn) and a human. Who is Queen of Sheba in Islam? Queen of Sheba, Arabic […]