>Is it to avoid potentially overloading some kind of power or data connection? Or is it something else?

Sort of. The biggest factor, like everyone has alluded to is price, but a second bottleneck is the number of PCI Express lanes your computer has. Peripherals like USB, networking ports, GPUs and hard drive controllers talk to your processor on PCIE lanes. A modern AMD AM5 motherboard has up to 28 gen 4 PCIE lanes and an Intel LGA 1700 can support up to 20 gen 4 PCIE lanes. Motherboard manufacturers need to divide these lanes up between things that use the most amount of bandwidth like NVME SSDs, things people think need lots of bandwidth like GPUs and things that really don't need that much like your keyboard or PS5 controller. To utilize the full performance of a USB 3.1 port you need to dedicate an entire PCIE lane; a USB 2.0 port is 10x slower than a USB 3.1 port, so you can theoretically support 10 USB 2.0 ports at full performance on just one lane.

A turbojet is a type of jet engine that uses a compressor wheel connected to a turbine wheel by a shaft with a combustion chamber in the middle. Jet fuel is burned and spins the turbine which in turn spins the compressor wheel which sucks in more air into the combustion chamber.

A ramjet is an engine that forces air down an intake, through the aircraft's forward movement through the air. The air being forced down the intake compresses by way of the aircraft's speed, then fuel is injected and ignited and exits through the exhaust creating thrust. It's essentially a turbojet without the turbine or compressor; but you need to be moving first before it can work. Instead of the compressor compressing the air, the aircraft's forward momentum compresses it.

A scramjet is a ramjet, but airflow through the engine is supersonic; whereas it airflow slows down in a ramjet.

Yeah, but the snow accumulates when it stays below freezing all winter. I remember when I lived in Alaska working on an Air Force base; plows and snow removal trucks would pile up the snow all along the side of the taxi ways. By the end of winter it would be over 15 feet tall and wouldn't melt until the middle of spring. They'd also dump literal tons of salt weekly until they found that it attracted moose. There was so much salt it killed off enormous patches of grass. Don't cities that have to constantly salt the roads have to deal with the ecological effects of dumping all that salt that eventually makes it up streams and waterways? I get they plow it off the streets but if it snows for 2 or 3 days straight, most people underestimate the enormous amount of snow that generates, especially if it stays frozen; where do they store it all?

Sugar is significantly heaver than water though which would only increase the density of the cola.

A small sticker is placed on or hidden inside high theft items. Older systems used a strip of metal that can be magnetized and demagnetized. The cashier swipes the tag across a special spot on the counter and it demagnetizes it; if they don't demagnetize it it sets off the alarm at the store's entrance when you walk past it.

don't drink it? I don't get what's so hard. If someone hands me a thing I don't want then I politely decline. No one is forcing you to drink it.

A few companies do this with Prius batteries and sell them as refurbished batteries. The cells aren't too hard to disassemble and a dead cell is pretty easy to isolate. A refurbished battery is much cheaper than a brand new one from Toyota, but the batteries don't last very long before another cell eventually dies since they probably have 150k+ miles on them and Toyota, in my opinion, provided inadequate cooling for them and should have told consumers the battery's cooling system required regular maintenance.

It's called tip share; there's some inequities between the "back of the house" and "front of the house" when it comes to every restaurant. No matter how busy you are, the back of the house (along with some front of the house like bus boys and hosts) gets paid the same amount of money regardless of how hard they work. The wait staff gets paid more the busier they are since they are tipped employees, and more customers means more tips. To incentivize all employees to be more efficient, the restaurant takes some of the tips and redistributes it to all employees. Often they just take a percentage of credit card tips.

Because the FAA is not sure if your particular phone emits the same RF signals that the plane's systems use. Your phone probably won't interfere with the plane's navigation system, but the only way to be sure is to have the FAA certify every single device which is probably not going to happen given how often new models come out. The rules have been changed for quite a while now to allow you to use them in flight, that's why onboard WiFi is available now.

So literally about an hour's worth of profits.

Woah woah woah...how was the cop supposed to know he wasn't supposed to do that if it wasn't specifically outlined in the department's rulebook? His actions were consistent with the department's policies!

It'd be pretty complicated and be bad for emissions. It's just easier to pump in fake engine noise to whisper sweet nothings into your ears about how massive your cock is through the speakers. Or you can buy aftermarket cams and exhaust for your car.

Because it's a other thing to break and if the engine is expecting water and methanol to be injected and it fails to do so you will shoot engine parts out the side of your engine.

That would make them drive like shit at low RPMs. Cars essentially do something similar by pumping in fake noise through the speakers.

The science of building engines has advanced significantly. Engines are mass produced at nigh higher tolerances these day. If an engineer wants a hole with a diameter of 4 inches today you get a hole with a diameter of 4 inches +/- a few thousandths of an inch. This means pistons of the cheapest mass produced engines today seal up much tighter than those built 40 years ago leading to less exhaust gasses escaping the combustion chamber that reduces efficiency. These tighter tolerances also allow you to run lower viscosity oil which is easier to pump.

Cars are now all fuel injected instead of carburated which means a computer can precisely deliver the exact amount of fuel into an engine, measure how much excess fuel is in the exhaust, how much air is going through the intake and make adjustments depending on throttle position and engine load. Engines also can make adjustments to advance or retard timing of the spark do adjust and when the intake and exhaust valves open in relation to each other. While at low RPMs the air flows slowly through your engine which doesn't promote swirling of the air fuel mixture leading to a less efficient burn. Modern engines can open the intake valve later or open them less to speed up the movement of the air then at higher RPMs it will gradually open the intake valve more and earlier when the air flowing through it is moving faster. The same principle applies to the exhaust side to harness the inertia of the exhaust gasses flowing through your pipes in order to clear out more air from the cylinders through a process called scavenging. At high RPMs you can leave the exhaust valve open during part of the the intake stroke and open the intake valve earlier. This means both valves are open at the same time which allows the inertia of the exhaust gasses to help draw in fresh air through the intake valve into the cylinder allowing the cylinders to have more air and fuel in it. Early muscle cars operated in this mode all the time leading to the distinctive burbling sound at idle which was basically the engine having trouble getting enough air to keep running make it inefficient at low RPMs. Modern cars can adjust valve timing so they operate efficiently at all engine speeds.

It depends on where you're coming from and it's basically to ensure that you will be able to support yourself as a tourist and not get kicked out of a for non-payment.

Fast chargers talk to the device its charging to see what it's capable of accepting and will only supply what the device is capable of.

How do I know my vote counted? I'm in the military and registered to vote in Texas and have voted in every federal election since 2014. During the 2020 election, I got a mailer from the DNC stating they saw I was registered to vote on 2018 but did not vote. I did vote and I mailed in my ballot with more than enough time. How do I know why it wasn't counted? How do I even know if my 2020 ballot was counted?

The end game is to find a bigger idiot to buy the property you bought for a higher price.

Soap by itself doesn't kill all germs. Cell membranes are made from a phospholipid bilayer. They are made from a molecule with one end attracted to water and one end attracted to oil. The molecules are arranged so the ends attracted to water are pointed towards each other. Soap with a little bit of agitation will rip these membranes apart, but some bacteria and viruses have a hard protein layer that protects them.