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Ivan Seeking
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They did 177 episodes at about 40 minutes per. With 4076 miles of film, they ran at about 35 miles of film per hour.
Yeah, you missed the point.WWGD said:I may have missed the point of the show ' House' but it seemed pretty contrived to me often.
Which is/was?Ivan Seeking said:Yeah, you missed the point.
Well if you don't know by now...WWGD said:Which is/was?
Any good refs?Ivan Seeking said:Well if you don't know by now...
LOL! What do you mean by contrived? It was a TV show. Of course it was contrived!WWGD said:Any good refs?
Well, if read of many who had it in high esteem and believed in it at a " meta level", but never went into detail. I understand there is plenty of fluff on tv ( though I don't own one nowadays any more) but , still, shows that last as long usually have something substantial to them. Fluff only takes shows so far for so long.Ivan Seeking said:LOL! What do you mean by contrived? It was a TV show. Of course it was contrived!
Contrived: deliberately created rather than arising naturally or spontaneously.
I always thought that House was a medical version of Sherlock Holmes.WWGD said:I may have missed the point of the show ' House' but it seemed pretty contrived to me often.
While there are also political issues, the fundamental question is at which point do the unintended consequences of increased spending outway the direct benefits.Ivan Seeking said:We are looking at a $3.5 trillion spending bill. Some people are objecting. They can see spending a trillion or two but at 3.5 trillion we are talking about real money!
You can't make a show based on appendicitis.WWGD said:Well, if read of many who had it in high esteem and believed in it at a " meta level", but never went into detail. I understand there is plenty of fluff on tv ( though I don't own one nowadays any more) but , still, shows that last as long usually have something substantial to them. Fluff only takes shows so far for so long.
Actually, I know someone whose appendix went bad and a cyst formed around it. The person did not feel bad until ~1 year later when it cracked and started leaking. It took a couple of months to figure out what was happening at which point the person was rushed into emergency surgery. While they found gangrene, the person was basically back to normal within a couple of weeks.fresh_42 said:You can't make a show based on appendicitis.
The real solution is to just hand out large sums of money to people my age. :)caz said:While there are also political issues, the fundamental question is at which point do the unintended consequences of increased spending outway the direct benefits.
As usual , it seems we're being orthogonal to each other. This is not intended as a medical documentary. This is a vehicle to convey a message, not the message itself.fresh_42 said:You can't make a show based on appendicitis.
No, and I do not appreciate word parsers. There are known fiscal negatives to high taxes and high government spending. I believe that most people also recognize that there can be negative societal consequences as people become more and more dependent on the government. There can be positive unintended consequences, but I ask you to name one government spending program that should be increased without bound.Ivan Seeking said:The real solution is to just hand out large sums of money to people my age. :)
So you only want to compare direct benefits to unintended consequences? How about unintended benefits? Clearly you assume that all unintended consequences are negative.
Not without bound , but government does certain things right. And private sector has its share of nepotism and other flaws. It may sound trite, but there is a valid middle of the road here.caz said:No, and I do not appreciate word parsers. There are known fiscal negatives to high taxes and high government spending. I believe that most people also recognize that there can be negative societal consequences as people become more and more dependent on the government. There can be positive unintended consequences, but I ask you to name one government spending program that should be increased without bound.
The medical issues are the show's major means to create tension and arguments.WWGD said:As usual , it seems we're being orthogonal to each other. This is not intended as a medical documentary. This is a vehicle to convey a message, not the message itself.
WWGD said:Not without bound , but government does certain things right. And private sector has its share of nepotism and other flaws. It may sound trite, but there is a valid middle of the road here.
caz said:While there are also political issues, the fundamental question is at which point do the unintended consequences of increased spending outway the direct benefits.
True, but allegedly at least, there is a larger meta message. It's not intended, afaik, as a medical documentary. It would not have been popular if it had been.fresh_42 said:The medical issues are the show's major means to create tension and arguments.
I only said that you need more far fetched cases than everyday surgeries to create an interesting case.WWGD said:True, but allegedly at least, there is a larger meta message. It's not intended, afaik, as a medical documentary. It would not have been popular if it had been.
My bad. I misread you again.fresh_42 said:I only said that you need more far fetched cases than everyday surgeries to create an interesting case.
Adobe ending support for Flash — its once ubiquitous multimedia content player — last year meant that some of the news coverage of the September 11th attacks and other major events from the early days of online journalism are no longer accessible. For example, The Washington Post and ABC News both have broken experiences within their September 11th coverage, viewable in the Internet Archive. CNN's online coverage of September 11th also has been impacted by the end of Flash.
That means what was once an interactive explainer of how the planes hit the World Trade Center or a visually-rich story on where some survivors of the attacks are now, at best, a non-functioning still image, or at worst, a gray box informing readers that "Adobe Flash player is no longer supported."
I can do that without even turning on the computer!WWGD said:when you do a search, answer to query is displayed in search results without the need to click. I just looked up a word and was able to see its definition in Wikipedia without the need to click on it.
Sneaky!Tom.G said:I can do that without even turning on the computer!
I use something called a 'book', of type 'dictionary.'
LOL! Relax.caz said:No, and I do not appreciate word parsers.
Who said anything about spending without bound! WOW! It sounds like you don't need me to discuss my views. ;)caz said:There are known fiscal negatives to high taxes and high government spending. I believe that most people also recognize that there can be negative societal consequences as people become more and more dependent on the government. There can be positive unintended consequences, but I ask you to name one government spending program that should be increased without bound.
Did you ever watch Fantasy Island?WWGD said:I recently saw someone with a two tattooed on them. Now I want a two tattoo too.
WWGD said:I recently saw someone with a two tattooed on them. Now I want a two tattoo too.
Desmond told me, when he drinks too much tequila, he likes to wear his pink tutu. Tutu's tutu covers his two Tatoo tattoos.Ivan Seeking said:Did you ever watch Fantasy Island?
You could get a two tatoos of Tatoo too.