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Your standard SATA harddrive doesn't need to be turned off. Unplugging is fine if they're going back into the same system. If not? They contain data for another computer that doesn't apply and isn't corroborated by tables.

If you mean why a computer must be turned off, there's a high risk of data loss when a machine is running and there's also a higher chance of frying hardware through touch.

You eject them to make sure nothing is being written at the time. If you pull the cable out while writing you could corrupt the data.

This was too complicated for me to understand, explain like I'm two!

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CPR will not save anyone from dying on its own. What CPR does is basically manually force blood through the body. It's not as good as a real heartbeat, so you'll still die from lack of oxygen getting to organs eventually. What it DOES do is it serves to slow down the process of dying until real help arrives that can hopefully address the real problems.

In terms of your question, it depends. If the pacemaker is still firing but out of rhythm (called an arrhythmia) and you can keep somebody alive until a defibrillator arrives and it arrives pretty quickly, then yes, they have a decent chance. If the rhythm has fully stopped, no defibrillator in the world will save them, unfortunately.

And why separate gay and lesbian when both are just as homosexual, why lump transgender with them when it's a different thing altogether?, bisexuals are also technically homosexual that also happen to be part hetero but, as that is the default state and heteros don't seem to wave flags because of it, they could be grouped with the rest of homosexual community. Thought people hated labels but turns out they love them and keep coming with more and more niche ones in a ridiculous effort to differentiate from the rest.

>I can do a deal with that last guy. I buy up his dollars, and now the low offer is 140. If I want more I’ll have to pay 140 for them. The new price is 140.

How does this kind of price-changing happens in reality? I suppose it is all instantaneous, so... Does each organization have their own software that automatically gathers data regarding current global prices (including the most generous offer across the network) and sets 139, 140, 141... accordingly as their offer price at that point in time?

You have the only woman on the planet?

People have answered how the actual process works, so let me answer your other question:

> how would someone be able to tell that the money wasn’t legit?

They can't, directly; cash isn't stamped with a "DRUG MONEY" mark or anything, after all. What they can tell is that you don't seem to have a reasonable explanation for how you legally acquired it.

Say I sell drugs or whatever and make millions of dollars in cash. I can use it on groceries and restaurants and the like, and I can use it to pay other people for illegal things (like more drugs to sell), but at some point I will want to use it to buy a house or a car or whatever large purchase. Buying expensive things with physical money is super weird and looks suspicious, and people will probably report me to the government if I try.

So I want to pay electronically, right? Well, how do I get my big stacks of drug money into the system? If I just take a million dollars to the bank, they'll report it to the government (they have to by law), and the government will have a lot of questions about how I got it and I won't have a good explanation. I could break it up into smaller amounts and deposit it over time in an attempt to evade detection (a process known as structuring), but banks know about structuring and I'd have to deposit it over an enormous amount of time in order to not looks suspicious.

So instead, I start up or purchase a business that operates in cash - something like a laundromat, for example. Now I have a perfectly plausible reason for depositing thousands of dollars in cash each week: that's how my "customers" pay me. This gives me a way of getting it into the banking system, and once it's in the system I can buy my house or car or boat or whatever just like any normal person. Sure, I lose some of the money in the form of taxes and whatever I have to spend actually running your business (having a front does require some actual cash outflow), but that's a small price to pay compared to having an enormous amount of money sitting in a warehouse that I can't use on anything.

Now to be fair, there's a second alternative. If I simply don't spend or deposit very much of the money, or if I use it as cash over a very, very long amount of time, nobody will have any way of figuring out I got it illegally; the problem is that what's the point of doing risky, illegal things in order to get money you can't use?

Ah a pointless tiny hill I’m willing to die on.

The only reason viruses are called not alive is because of our elitist view that alive things have to do anything other than self replicate.

A tiger has its claws and speed and muscles to do one thing. To make another tiger. It uses its assets to get food and mate and makes another tiger and incidentally during that time “lives” by doing other stuff that does not involve making tigers.

Now if you condensed being alive to its purest form. Making more copies of yourself. And then you went even further. Ditch any self replicating mechanism, just have a way to take over someone else’s. You get a virus.

Imagine you officially don't have a job, yet you deposit a certain amount of money to your account every week, or you buy a fancy new car every 2 months. Something's fishy about it. How do you obtain the money? Are you paying taxes on it? Internal Revenue Service (IRS) won't be happy if you are not...

So, how do you launder the money? Saul Goodman did a great job explaining that in Breaking Bad to a 5-years old Jesse Pinkman (see link below). You open a car washing business. Let's pretend an imaginary person (Mr. Invisible) comes to your business to wash his car, total is 30$. He pays for it with your "dirty" money which you are hiding somewhere. You register the transaction and issue a receipt of payment. These 30$ are now clean and you can deposit it in your bank account. You are gonna pay taxes on it, so it won't be 30$ after taxes but a lower amount, you lose a bit of money in the process. Nevertheless, now it's clean money, you have a valid reason (and a proof) for having such money on your account, which is the issued receipt and the registered transaction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez6xH-su2xI&ab_channel=VincenzoCortino

Does this mean an electric shock victim where the heart has been “disrupted” has a fairly good chance of survival if you keep up CPR?

Multiple cleaning.

A business receives a shit load of unexplained cash. It then proceed to "receive it" along with other legitimate customer deals. usually slightly bloating the numbers. This causes any fast looks to turn up as "yeah its legit, just bad accounting"

The business then spend or transfer the money to another laundry, and through multiple layers, the money essentially becomes untraceable.

Your heart beat is regulated by your natural pacemaker, which generates small electric voltage. When you induce a small voltage, this fuks up the pacemaker, and in severe cases, causes fibrillation. The whole reason your heart works is through a steady rhythmic beat, its the different contraction that causes the blood to pump and create a flow.

Higher current causes the entire heart to contract at once, which also fuk up the rhythm.

If you do not bring the rhythm back (usually through a defibrillator), your heart fails to pump blood and you die.

Electricity also generate heat, the higher the resistance, the more heat is produced. Flesh, is not exactly conductive, so when a very strong electric shock passes through you, it will cook along the path.

Umm ... yes there is? https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/heteronormative Then again, this is just Cambridge University, the second oldest university in England and one of the oldest in the world. What would they know about English, amiright?

There's no need to be hostile. Heteronormative simply means the belief that there are just two sexes/genders that are immutable and that sexual orientation is immutable as well and naturally only directed towards the opposite sex/gender. Anything outside of this both in terms of sex and sexual orientation including intersex is not considered a separate category but is seen as simply being born out of a biological anomaly. So anyone who identifies as not being within the heteronormative frame may refer to themselves as queer as an umbrella term.

2 possible ways. The first, for lower levels of current, it can disrupt the electrical signals of the heart. This is usually how people die from household current. The heart is regulated by electric current, and an outside current can make the cells contract and not stop contracting, preventing it from beating normally.

The second way, usually for very powerful current, is by destroying internal organs and other body tissues via heat damage. This is how lightning bolts, high power lines, and electric chairs work. That's also how that guy in that one awful "wrecked" video is able to crawl after grabbing the wire inside a high voltage transformer. It cooked half his body, but missed his heart, so it took him a couple of minutes to die. Don't play with electricity, kids.

A brief shock can lead to heart arrhythmia which might be fatal.

A continuous shock prevents the muscles from relaxing which isn't good for things like breathing.

And if the power is great enough, permanent damage to the nerves and internal burnings are definitely fatal.

Well when you complete a circuit or are shocked. You do so because of

1 you're the path of least resistance. Meaning your Ohms is less than AIR and EARTH. So it is easily passing through you. Not to mention blood being full of iron is a pretty good conductor. Unless you can make yourself separate or not a ground. This is why distilled water is used around electrical components it can't pass through it nor will it short out, as well as Faraday cages/suits, that equalizes you to the potential trying to ingress. So if it's 1 million volts you will be equal to it and thus not harmed. Granted it is amperage that kills you voltage at a certain point has an enormous amount of pressure and can also kill you if it explodes. This is how tasers work... high voltage low amperage... it hurts but won't kill you (typically).

2 Electricity wants to disappate because it's polarity, be it negative or positive charge it cannot stay so close to other like charges so it pushes in any direction it can easily travel to earth. Thusly you being the conduit. You suffer from it.

Most things besides earth/ground do have what is known as an avalanche point or breakdown. Air is 1 cubic inch per 1000v. So at 1000v electricity in normal air conditions (normal humidity) will jump 1inch of air to another lesser potential as a means to get to earth.

Legal word of the day: Fungible - Commercially interchangeable with other property of the same kind. In other words, you put dirty money with clean money, do a few transactions (wash it) and then take out the now clean money. Usually in small amounts. Perhaps the most recent example of this was the Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan theft of billions of dollars worth of bitcoins back in the 20teens. Might also apply to the current fiasco with FTX.

The business makes up a fake customer type deal (or many) and then it just looks like a person spending money, hence is clean