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"The internet" is just a bunch of computers connected across the world. The content of the internet is provided by the computers which are owned by millions of different people and organizations, but the infrastructure which connects them together is owned by businesses that operate and maintain them.

Someone who starts their own ISP isn't "creating internet" like growing corn or something, they are just running the communications lines necessary to connect their customers to a larger communications backbone relatively nearby. The companies which own and operate the big, high volume communications lines don't want to bother trying to deal with individuals so only collections of users under the umbrella of an ISP are worth providing access.

There are tons of examples of this strange changing of language. For example today "OK" is used for acknowledgment or agreement but most people don't know its origin. It is actually an abbreviation of "oll korrect", a deliberate misspelling for the purposes of humor in the 1800's of the phrase "all correct".

I can only imagine how bewildering these idiosyncrasies must be for someone trying to learn the language.

"Head over heels" actually began around the 1700's as the more literal "heels over head", and then later on in the 1800's took on the figurative "heels over head" form which doesn't make much sense. The evolution of language is strange that way, for example how "literally" has been changing to mean "figuratively" somewhat recently.

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Good CEOs don't need to work for failing companies. A failing company is a lot of work to make successful, or even just to fail less hard. If their compensation was based on how well the company they run does then good CEOs would want to work for companies that are already doing great, concentrating their skills on companies that don't need them as much.

The Board of a failing company needs a good CEO. A good CEO might be able to save the company, and it doesn't really matter how much money you save if the company continues on a downward spiral ending ultimately in their going out of business. But you aren't going to attract a lot of talented CEOs by offering them a crappy job with a relatively low chance of success while only promising to pay them a bunch if they succeed.

CEOs generally have their pay composed of two parts: A baseline pay they get no matter what, and additional tiers of compensation for if they do well. For example a company might expect 5% growth and agree to pay the CEO a certain amount, but if the CEO can get more than 5% up to 10% growth they get a bonus, and if they can exceed 10% they get a huge bonus!

In the case of a successful company a CEO might be willing to accept a lower base pay because they think it is more likely they can get those extra bonuses. But in the case of a failing company those bonuses are probably much less likely to obtain so the CEO will want a higher base pay (since that is likely all they will get). The offered bonuses might be higher too considering if they can take a company losing money and grow it 5% then it is way more of an accomplishment than the company that did that normally.

Finally, just because a CEO doesn't succeed in saving a company doesn't necessarily mean they are a bad CEO. Turning a company around isn't a guarantee, and there are even ways of relatively gracefully managing the failure of a company such that shareholders lose less money than they otherwise might. This is why a CEO might preside over a company going under and then be hired away by another company wanting their talents.

> Russia has something like 1.3 million active personnel with 500k in Ukraine currently so they would have the military manpower to deal with a power struggle Belarus

It is important to realize that not everyone in the military is a grunt with a rifle. There is a bunch of supporting apparatus behind the front line military troops so you can't just say "1.3 million - 500k = plenty left to suppress a rebellion". You aren't going to send the logistics department to go fight rebels.

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> Where does the water come from?

Uphill. Water soaks into the ground and flows within it, on top of the bedrock which is impermeable. When the terrain allows it can emerge from the surface lower down as a spring.

> Can it run out?

Yes, the same as any river if it doesn't rain enough uphill from the spring then it will run out.

> Can you increase the amount of water coming from them?

Not exactly? The water is flowing through the ground so you would need to affect a fairly large amount of ground to increase the flow rate.

> Springs seem to just be an infinite source of clean water

No, they aren't. Unless your mind is blown by rivers.

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> Jury members aren’t allowed to vote guilty or not guilty based on vibes, or reputation, only on the admissible evidence of the case.

But impeaching the character of a witness is allowed because making their testimony untrustworthy is relevant to the claim. In this case the prosecution would be trying to show that the testimony of all the ex-cons at "The Alibi" is not trustworthy to provide an alibi, and that would be pretty easy.

Sounds are vibrations in air, which can be thought of as waves of varying pressure. Air can only be one pressure at a given time and place, which means that multiple sound frequencies merge together through something called "interference". There can be destructive interference where a peak of a wave encounters the trough of another and cancel each other out to some extent, or constructive interference where two peaks or two troughs encounter each other and combine to form a higher peak or deeper trough.

Multiple sound frequencies then all combine to form one complex sound wave which a speaker can then produce.

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Most of the time people who die from being inverted is not due to asphyxiation or blood pooling in their brain. Instead it is heart failure.

Blood is mostly water, and water is fairly heavy. Most people have around 1.5 gallons of blood in their body which would weigh about 12.5 pounds. This is constantly being circulated around the body by the heart, day in and day out, but for much of the time people's bodies are oriented vertically. Blood must move down into the lower extremities (legs mostly) and then be pushed back up by the pressure of more blood being pushed down. Blood coming directly from the heart is in arteries which are at relatively high pressure (the ones that do the pulsing spurts when punctured), while the return to the heart is through veins which are relatively low pressure.

So there is a significant weight of fluid that needs to be pushed up from the legs to the level of the heart, but from a heart that only pushes some of the time and using pressure that has filtered through leg tissue reducing it significantly. It needs some help! To aid in this the body has specially adapted one-way valves in the veins, basically flaps that prevent blood from flowing backwards down into the legs. Blood can sort of ratchet its way back up to the heart, making the flow much more efficient. Another factor is that the legs have large muscles which when they contract will squeeze on the veins and actually push blood out of the tissue, increasing pressure aiding the return of blood back into the torso. This is why you are told not to lock your legs when standing up such as in military formation, marching band, choir, etc. Locking your legs will relieve pressure from your leg muscles but this means they aren't pushing blood which causes blood pressure to drop and potentially cause someone to faint.

Now if you flip someone upside-down they don't have any of those valves to prevent back flow of blood. The body just isn't adapted to having the head on the bottom and legs on top, Also things like your head simply don't have muscles capable of helping out with blood circulation either. Instead to keep blood circulating properly your heart needs to just pump harder. Which it will, until it cannot anymore. At that point the heart failure occurs and the person dies.

For babies, there just isn't much difference between their top and bottom. The distance doesn't change the necessary pressure that much.

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Download speed depends on a lot of factors, not just the speed of your connection. It also matters how quickly the server can send the file to you, and the speed of intervening links in its path to you.

Think about it like a big road network. Your computer is like a warehouse with a big loading dock and several lane road coming to it. Even if you can accept and unload 10 trucks an hour, if the supplier can only send 5 trucks an hour that is how much you will get. Different suppliers can send different numbers of trucks but it would max out at however many your road and docks can handle. It might also be the case that road work between you and one of the suppliers slows traffic so only 3 trucks an hour get through, so neither you or the supplier is the real limiting factor.

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