What is the newest installment of 'Random Thoughts' on Physics Forums?

[Ivan Seeking]

They did 177 episodes at about 40 minutes per. With 4076 miles of film, they ran at about 35 miles of film per hour.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

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!

 

[WWGD]

I may have missed the point of the show ' House' but it seemed pretty contrived to me often.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I may have missed the point of the show ' House' but it seemed pretty contrived to me often.

Yeah, you missed the point.

 

[WWGD]

Yeah, you missed the point.

Which is/was?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Which is/was?

Well if you don't know by now...

 

[WWGD]

Well if you don't know by now...

Any good refs?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Any good refs?

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.

 

[WWGD]

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.

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.

 

[Frabjous]

I may have missed the point of the show ' House' but it seemed pretty contrived to me often.

I always thought that House was a medical version of Sherlock Holmes.

 

[Frabjous]

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!

While there are also political issues, the fundamental question is at which point do the unintended consequences of increased spending outway the direct benefits.

 

[fresh_42]

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.

You can't make a show based on appendicitis.

 

[Frabjous]

You can't make a show based on appendicitis.

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.
Sounds like a House story.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

While there are also political issues, the fundamental question is at which point do the unintended consequences of increased spending outway the direct benefits.

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.

 

[WWGD]

Besides the fact that many medical problems found today that would not have been with previous technology, would not create ( serious) problems if they were just ignored.

 

[WWGD]

You can't make a show based on appendicitis.

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.

 

[Frabjous]

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.

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.

 

[WWGD]

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.

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.

 

[fresh_42]

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.

The medical issues are the show's major means to create tension and arguments.

 

[Frabjous]

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.

Which was part of my original point

While there are also political issues, the fundamental question is at which point do the unintended consequences of increased spending outway the direct benefits.

 

[WWGD]

The medical issues are the show's major means to create tension and arguments.

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]

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.

I only said that you need more far fetched cases than everyday surgeries to create an interesting case.

 

[WWGD]

I only said that you need more far fetched cases than everyday surgeries to create an interesting case.

My bad. I misread you again.

 

[WWGD]

A new criterion for preferring a website: 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.

 

[nsaspook]

I saw this while looking back on 9/11 on the web.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/10/tech/digital-news-coverage-9-11/index.html

Some of the most iconic 9/11 news coverage is lost. Blame Adobe Flash​

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."

 

[Tom.G]

There is a fix are several fixes for that!
https://www.google.com/search?&q=transcode+adobe+flash+movie

 

[Tom.G]

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.

I can do that without even turning on the computer!
I use something called a 'book', of type 'dictionary.'

 

[WWGD]

I can do that without even turning on the computer!
I use something called a 'book', of type 'dictionary.'

Sneaky!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

No, and I do not appreciate word parsers.

LOL! Relax.

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.

Who said anything about spending without bound! WOW! It sounds like you don't need me to discuss my views. ;)

 

[WWGD]

Need to be more delicate " I lost my granfather last night".
" Well, he's got to be somewhere nearby".
Oops!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Back when I was a moderator here and running S&D, I contacted a good number of people connected to something interesting and being considered. At one point I came into contact with Edgar Mitchell - United States Navy officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, he earned a second bachelor's degree in aeronautics from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in 1961 and an Sc.D. degree in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1964.[9][7 ... and NASA astronaut. As the Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 14, he spent nine hours working on the lunar surface in the Fra Mauro Highlands region, making him the sixth person to walk on the Moon.

I met him through his website. Eventually he gave me his personal email. He told me that he had never seen an alien (ET), but he knew people in the defense industry who had. He also said private contractors control this now, not some secret government agency.

Turns out you can find similar public statements by him on you tube.

 

[WWGD]

Transcripts sent to a school in Mexico. Art 101 becomes Arturo 101.

 

[WWGD]

I recently saw someone with a two tattooed on them. Now I want a two tattoo too.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I recently saw someone with a two tattooed on them. Now I want a two tattoo too.

Did you ever watch Fantasy Island?

You could get a two tatoos of Tatoo too.

 

[gmax137]

I recently saw someone with a two tattooed on them. Now I want a two tattoo too.

Did you ever watch Fantasy Island?

You could get a two tatoos of Tatoo 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.

 

[phinds]

Ok, guys, just STOP !

 

[gmax137]

Ok, guys, just STOP !

Two much?

 

[phinds]

Two much?

Painful

 

[WWGD]

Desmond told me, when he drinks too much tequila, he likes to wear his pink tutu. Tutu's tutu covers his two Tatoo tattoos.

I was hoping to write a full short story with similar phrases. More examples : The banana narratives ( triple syllable 'na'), I will miss miss mississippi, The melele legume.
Apologies, phinds.

 

[WWGD]

Gah! Can't remember how to use LEFT/RIGHT in Excel to remove $ signs from a spreadsheet. Anyone?

 

[Ibix]

Right(a1,len(a1)-1)

Or

Right(a1,len(a1)-find("$",a1))

...if you're paranoid about leading blanks (I might have the arguments to FIND the wrong way round - can't remember).

You may also want value(right(etc)) to convert the numbers-as-text to numbers.

 

[WWGD]

pro life tip: when going out with your mates, hit the gay bars so that you can get your drinks payed for by random 60 year old guys

But don't drink too much or else...

 

[WWGD]

Hope not overly political...

 

[WWGD]

Wow, seems Clint Eastwood came up with a new movie. Guy never stops.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Two much?

Too too much for a Tatoo tatoo and tutu discussion for two.

 

[WWGD]

It seems Norm McDonald died. RIP, Norm.

 

[Rive]

If you want low COVID numbers, just keep people away from testing.

I'm waiting for my official PCR test for more than a day already, and I can expect one more day or so. And then the result will be available in 2-3 days.
By the time I get the result likely I'll be healthy again (since I had both shots previously). But if the test is positive by any chance, I'll be grounded for two weeks anyway.

Hard to think that it's not a policy.
And it works.
Time to get my tin foil hat

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Ingrezza - a medication you can take that "is thought" to reduce errant signals in the brain caused by the other medication you are taking.

Sure makes me want to run to the doctors and get some pills to take. Then I can get pills to counter the effects of those. And maybe I can get pills to counter the effects of those pills.

 

[Keith_McClary]

I'll be grounded for two weeks anyway.

Here you're also grounded from when you make an online appointment until you get a negative result (which may take a few days if it is inconclusive and has to be sent to the lab).

 

[WWGD]

Next time someone comes complaining to me, I will just reply ' Chiornaya'. It's the name of...a river in Crimea . Crimea River.