Moonrise

NEW COMMENT IN: What cars have the best resale value?

Moonrise: Good point on the American Volvos. For some reason they just run into a slew of engine and electrical problems once they get around 100k on them.

NEW COMMENT IN: What is your favorite free-to-play PC game?

Moonrise: ...Being based on java doesn't mean that we should be wowed by a boring game with bad graphics.

NEW COMMENT IN: What is your favorite free-to-play PC game?

Moonrise: I'm not sure that games you're legally supposed to be paying for count.

NEW COMMENT IN: Do you think we should have a character limit for giving points to answers?

Moonrise: No one's saying those answers aren't allowed, the question is whether or not they should be awarded a point towards contests. >_>

NEW COMMENT IN: Which type of heatsink would have better heat conductivity: Aluminum or Copper?

Moonrise: Aluminum is one of the most useful metals out there. =/

NEW COMMENT IN: Do you think we should have a character limit for giving points to answers?

Moonrise: That's quite possibly the lamest "protest" I've ever seen. The logical solution would be to actually say something if it bothers you, instead of waiting until the last month of every day to spam the hell out of every question you can find so you can win the monthly contest. That&...

NEW COMMENT IN: Do the Mac commercials make you want to purchase a Mac over a PC?

Moonrise: It would be better if like...they were at least making valid points. Now they're pretty much using "scare tactics" on people to get them to not buy PCs.

NEW COMMENT IN: Does anyone know about Anti Viruses?

Moonrise: It's really tough to just say "delete this, delete that" and be done with it.

If your computer has a serious infection, I recommend you download the following programs:

DrWeb Cureit
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
ComboFix

Once you have all three programs, start your computer in Safe ...

NEW COMMENT IN: How much does someone have to drink in order to get alcohol poisoning?

Moonrise: One drop of beer doesn't cause addiction. Poisons don't have to be addictive either.. Iron and Zinc poison you in small amounts, much like alcohol does. The only difference is that they're only found in incredibly small doses in food.

Most people survive just fine lacking a lot of vitamins and n...

NEW COMMENT IN: How much does someone have to drink in order to get alcohol poisoning?

Moonrise: If you're really going to say that your first drink causes "alcohol poisoning" then let's just go ahead and call vitamins poison as well, and iron, and zinc, and selenium, and pretty much anything else you put in your body.

Your body isn't really "poisoned" by small amounts of alcohol. The only le...

NEW COMMENT IN: How much does someone have to drink in order to get alcohol poisoning?

Moonrise: A hangover is dehydration and withdrawal from lack of alcohol. Small quantities of alcohol are good for you.

NEW COMMENT IN: How much does someone have to drink in order to get alcohol poisoning?

Moonrise: Well "black out" doesn't mean someone passes out completely. It just means they have no idea of what's going on, or at least won't remember the next morning.

NEW COMMENT IN: How much does someone have to drink in order to get alcohol poisoning?

Moonrise: ...Yeah, that's not "fine", that's blacked out and the odds are his liver's functionality dropped to around 15% for a solid two or three weeks afterward.

NEW COMMENT IN: What causes migraines?

Moonrise: If you've actually done research on migraines then you would know that there are several triggers for them. You definitely haven't researched enough if you think it's only stress. I'm not talking about my personal experience when saying these other triggers, I am speaking out of research as well.
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NEW COMMENT IN: What causes migraines?

Moonrise: ...Being on CNN doesn't mean you know what you're talking about. =/

That said, stress is generally the cause, yes. Partially explains why my chronic migraines are accompanied by the fact I have high blood pressure. However, stress is not the only trigger, unless bright lights, fasting, an...

NEW COMMENT IN: What's some good software for the mac?

Moonrise: Close to Mac OS9 as in...what, exactly? I'm using Windows 7 and it runs as well as any Mac OS I've ever seen.

NEW COMMENT IN: What does Ipod stand for?

Moonrise: It could be the case for the guy that originally created it, but it holds no meaning at all to Apple when they bought the name.

NEW COMMENT IN: What Are You Expecting From Google Chrome OS?

Moonrise: I'd much rather have a mobile workstation instead of an overpriced netbook, that's for sure.

NEW COMMENT IN: What do you think of Myspace?

Moonrise: Does Gex have an adult friend finder page?

NEW COMMENT IN: Is .8 a rational number?

Moonrise: Anything that can be expressed using fractions (that contain integers) is a rational number.

NEW COMMENT IN: How much longer is the exclusivity contract between Apple iPhone and AT&T?

Moonrise: ....I don't see how a lawsuit would even happen.

NEW COMMENT IN: Is it bad to be on the internet while burning a DVD?

Moonrise: Since when does burning a DVD imply piracy?

NEW COMMENT IN: Why does your body need sleep?

Moonrise: ...I'm not sure that really answers the question.

NEW COMMENT IN: What is the cable that allows one to connect a computer to a television?

Moonrise: ...and most tv's don't have a VGA slot, period.

S-Video is actually pretty common in computers the past 5 or 6 years.

NEW COMMENT IN: Why does Lysol only eliminate 99% of germs?

Moonrise: These days they advertise more like 99.9% anyways.

NEW COMMENT IN: Alcohol yields 7 calories per gram. But, my question is: Is it possible to digest and use the energy exclusively from the alcohol?

Moonrise: The question is if your liver can handle 14 pints of Guinness a day every day.

NEW COMMENT IN: Why does looking at the sun help me sneeze?

Moonrise: It tightens up the muscles in your face, which may force the sneeze through. I really don't know either, but it works.

NEW COMMENT IN: How dense does a group of atoms have to be do be considered a black hole?

Moonrise: No, we can't observe black holes because of their nature. We only "assume" they exist because of what they do to the space around them. We can say they exist, but we really don't know anything about them other than what we can observe from the space they warp.

In that sense, b...

NEW COMMENT IN: What steps can we take to help prevent another Hurricane Katrina from occurring?

Moonrise: Global temperatures are no higher than they have been historically. They have increased an average of 1 degree (Fahrenheit, if I recall) over the past 100 years. 100 years ago, global temperatures were .7 degrees Fahrenheit below the Earth's historical average. Likewise, the amount of...

NEW COMMENT IN: What function does a spark plug serve?

Moonrise: If your car is running and you can feel engine dying a bit when you idle, it very well may be the spark plugs. You'll also have issues starting, of course. The issue with trying to make a determination based on issues starting the car is that it could also be an issue with your ignition or bat...

NEW COMMENT IN: Why is Pinnacle Studio doing this?

Moonrise: Oh....well, I can't help you there then, as I've never used it before. I can generally figure out what the problem is, but can't fix it if I don't know the program. D=

NEW COMMENT IN: How many days can you live off of water, alone?

Moonrise: I should try that sometime. God would my stomach ever hurt though.

NEW COMMENT IN: If I have someone blocked on Facebook and write on someone else's wall, can they read my wall posts?

Moonrise: No, they can. I know because I posted a comment on my friend's wall that the kid I had blocked also posted on and he was able to read it (I was able to read his comment too). It just didn't show a picture for him.

NEW COMMENT IN: How many days can you live off of water, alone?

Moonrise: Answering the wrong question, unless the OP worded it incorrectly. =/

NEW COMMENT IN: How many days can you live off of water, alone?

Moonrise: Uh, the question is with water, not without.

NEW COMMENT IN: How many days can you live off of water, alone?

Moonrise: That's probably unlikely, to be honest. I imagine it has more to do with how much fat your body is storing than how "healthy" you actually are. When your body isn't getting the calories it needs to survive, it breaks down your body fat for sustenance instead.

NEW COMMENT IN: Do you think Bill Gates knew how big Microsoft and Windows was going to get?

Moonrise: PCs can do more than Macs. I can't stand all this "<3 Mac" crap I see everywhere. The components make the computer.

NEW COMMENT IN: How hard is it to type text messages on the iPhone?

Moonrise: Lol, those tips are kinda useless. The problem with touch screen phones is that using your thumbs results in a metric shitton of errors. Otherwise, they're primarily common sense.

NEW COMMENT IN: What is the number 5,356,693 in Roman numerals?

Moonrise: I've never heard of the double bar actually being used by the Romans...In other words, never heard of it. I guess it's the only logical answer, of course.

NEW COMMENT IN: Is there a way to automatically simplify a shape in Photoshop?

Moonrise: Yeah, I've never used Elements before, just 7, CS2 and CS3. Not sure if I can help you regarding your issue then.

However, your programs will generally not automatically do things such as that for you, presumably in case you need to mess with an anchor point.

NEW COMMENT IN: What program can play .avi files?

Moonrise: Media Player Classic >>> VLC

NEW COMMENT IN: Is there any proof that black holes exist?

Moonrise: Die quickly as in distance they travel. Speed makes them more damaging (gives them the energy they actually have). The point is that we're able to detect a mass amount of gamma rays coming and can prepare, especially if we take preventative cautions.

NEW COMMENT IN: Is there any proof that black holes exist?

Moonrise: Trolling?

Lead is capable of shielding gamma rays. Thickness depending on the sheer amount of rays may be an issue.

Life of gamma rays was mistaken, however. I was thinking of beta particles.

NEW COMMENT IN: Is there any proof that black holes exist?

Moonrise: Gamma Rays die incredibly quickly and are shielded easily as well.

NEW COMMENT IN: What's the best way to cool off my laptop?

Moonrise: CPU certainly contributes but with the way computers are designed these days they really aren't worked that hard unless you have low RAM or are using very intensive processes.

NEW COMMENT IN: What's the best way to cool off my laptop?

Moonrise: Ok,it's likely radiating off the RAM but it could be the video card too. Problem is that I can't get any views of the HP G60 from the bottom so I can't really tell. Furthermore, it seems I can't even get an internal design diagram of it. Hmmm, it was much easier with my Dell. =/
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NEW COMMENT IN: What's the best way to cool off my laptop?

Moonrise: You think you could tell me your computer make/model and specify where on the computer it's getting hot? I could look around to see what it is.

NEW COMMENT IN: What's the best way to cool off my laptop?

Moonrise: Hard drives don't get very hot at all, so that doesn't seem quite right. The processor or video card could be near the hard drive though, I suppose.

NEW COMMENT IN: What's the best way to cool off my laptop?

Moonrise: 4GB is all you need, yeah. You may have RAM that just runs really hot, though. Do you know where the ram is on your laptop? Mine is right under the keyboard. If you know, check the area around the RAM when your computer's running hot and see if that's the source.

NEW COMMENT IN: How dangerous is it to put your face against a microwave while its on?

Moonrise: I think the radiation would be projected horizontally at the very most, so your reproductive organs should be safe.

NEW COMMENT IN: Will the iPhone ever move to another cell phone network?

Moonrise: Yes, I have, and it sucks. I've also had experiences with about 5 other people that can't stand the phone itself (that's 5 out of about 7, by the way).

Nearly everyone I've spoken to (and in my own personal experience) is that the phone is a hassle. Everyone love...

NEW COMMENT IN: How can you or is it even possible to overdose on water?

Moonrise: See for some reason I thought it was the opposite, and the ecstasy made you not think you were thirsty and you died due to mass dehydration and high fever gone unchecked, again, due to lack of water. I must be thinking of another drug, or simply getting things backwards.=/

NEW COMMENT IN: What is the roman number VIII in real numbers?

Moonrise: ^yeah, that's correct.

NEW COMMENT IN: Is glass a liquid?

Moonrise: Hm, I've never heard that explanation (the German misreading). It certainly adds some insight as to where people got the idea.

NEW COMMENT IN: How does deodorant keep you from sweating?

Moonrise: Heheh, yeah everyone loves it but there's a little something a lot of people don't know about (mostly because it's speculative right now).

Currently, the effects of the aluminum zinc compound on the human body are under question. There exists debate that it is bad for your he...

NEW COMMENT IN: Is glass a liquid?

Moonrise: Those are inaccurate. There are glasses from Roman times that have shown no difference in thickness at the bottom than the top. Same thing with stained glass in old cathedrals. Any "sagging" seen is due to the manufacturing process.

Another example is telescope lenses that are over 1...

NEW COMMENT IN: Could a black hole ever attack a planet?

Moonrise: Now see here's the thing: I don't think there's anything to really suggest that "light cannot escape a black hole". The way I see it, the matter itself simply does not produce light and does not reflect it (it absorbs all light). While you can try and say that means t...

NEW COMMENT IN: Will plugging two external speakers to the back of an lcd tv work without a transmitter?

Moonrise: Well reasonably speaking most stereo speakers come with their own power cord or amplifier.

NEW COMMENT IN: What company makes the best quality plasma flat screen TVs?

Moonrise: Yes, Pioneer are simply amazing in quality, but you are definitely going to pay for it. Still definitely the best TVs I've ever seen in a store.

NEW COMMENT IN: What company makes the best quality plasma flat screen TVs?

Moonrise: That's completely aside from the point. If you get a piece of crap TV its going to suck no matter what you do. Whether or not it's plasma is irrelevant.

240Hz is seriously no better than 120Hz with Blu Ray; I've used both. With some they're even problematic because not all Blu ...

NEW COMMENT IN: What company makes the best quality plasma flat screen TVs?

Moonrise: 240Hz is absolutely unnecessary at this point in time. Hell, even 120Hz tvs have had issues with jagged motion because of the way some HDTV and movies are recorded. The only time you risk burn in on a plasma these days is if you get a crappy one like a Vizio or something along those lines. Plasma...

NEW COMMENT IN: What company makes the best quality plasma flat screen TVs?

Moonrise: There is no industry standard for contrast ratio. A company could literally make up any number they want for their contrast ratio and no one could say boo-hoo about it because there, well, isn't a standard. Most companies just keep ramping up the number without actually changing much.

NEW COMMENT IN: What company makes the best quality plasma flat screen TVs?

Moonrise: You left out Pioneer, though they're top end only.

LG is a solid brand as well, to be perfectly honest. I have a Sharp Aquos and it's gorgeous. By the way, Plasma TVs are by no means dead. LCDs are simply more versatile and lighter in weight. However, the only real issues with plasma ...

NEW COMMENT IN: What company makes the best quality plasma flat screen TVs?

Moonrise: You should know those numbers mean nothing, Ecto.

NEW COMMENT IN: What is better an Ipod or a Zune?

Moonrise: It's not stupid at all, that's just how it is. People don't fill their iPods up with podcasts and other crap like that, nor do they just fill them up with videos and photos (not to mention videos cost money).

Point is, Apple makes the iPod with the intent that people are goin...

NEW COMMENT IN: What is better an Ipod or a Zune?

Moonrise: Depends on the encoding. MP4 video files are compressed pretty well. =D

NEW COMMENT IN: Is it safe to be in a car during a thunder/lightning storm?

Moonrise: Yeah, you're safe as long as you're inside because of (I believe I've got this right) Gauss' Law. Essentially it states that the charge of an enclosed object is evenly distributed among the outer surface of the object.

NEW COMMENT IN: What expansions to Questional would you be interested to see?

Moonrise: Allowing video tutorials may not be a bad idea, but it would require a dramatic increase in server space.

NEW COMMENT IN: What expansions to Questional would you be interested to see?

Moonrise: Questional Maps is a joke, btw. :(

NEW COMMENT IN: What kind of cell phone do you use?

Moonrise: I was fine knowing nothing, but yes muscle therapy is a good plan.

NEW COMMENT IN: What kind of cell phone do you use?

Moonrise: "Sometimes" is just vague enough not to worry me.

NEW COMMENT IN: If you could be stranded on a desert island with 3 objects, what objects would you want to have?

Moonrise: Stranded on a desert island means you're the only person there. I think that makes the "natives" question pretty ridiculous (and by extension, the demographic one).

How you got on the island and having amnesia would have little effect on what you chose to do.

NEW COMMENT IN: How do I get the best gas mileage?

Moonrise: Not really. It actually uses more gas unless you're on pretty much flat surfaces without any traffic.

NEW COMMENT IN: Who thinks Questional is going to succeed?

Moonrise: I DON'T WANT TO TAKE A LARGE RISK.

NEW COMMENT IN: How many of you want to be mods/supermods on questional?

Moonrise: You probably need like 5 admins/moderators for everything (in terms of regulation). That's the benefit of the Q&A style.

NEW COMMENT IN: If it were possible to alter the space-time continuum without consequence, what SINGLE invention would you prevent from ever existing?

Moonrise: That's incredibly vague and ridiculously hard to believe. Methane gas produced by cows' flatulence actually pollutes a lot to the environment by itself.

NEW COMMENT IN: If it were possible to alter the space-time continuum without consequence, what SINGLE invention would you prevent from ever existing?

Moonrise: A meat cleaver? Kinda hard to uninvent a sharp edge, lol.

I would hate that, btw. I can't get by without steak...or burgers.

NEW COMMENT IN: Does this happen to your brain?

Moonrise: One thing to note though (which may help actually bring some legitimacy to the point you're making) is that less knowledge means you have less information to sort through. In essence, what you know can be acted upon almost immediately with less thought because you have less information ...

NEW COMMENT IN: Why do your ears ring when you've been around loud music?

Moonrise: The thing is that there really are thousands of frequencies that the human ear can hear, and for permanent damage to take place for one particular frequency it really won't go noticed. The problem, of course, is that too much noise and you will have permanent damage to your ear drum and hearing...