The many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XVIII

[shadowplay]

I have started weighing myself every morning at work ( I work in a hospital and I have access to a very good scale). I eat the same breakfast everyday and I am naked when I weigh myself. Still my weight can vary nearly 3 kg from day to day. How can this be?

You might not be properly centred on the scale.

Either that, or it's not as good a scale as it appears.

 

[Artifis]

To any who might just happen to be knowledgeable in medicine, what does it mean when I can feel my heart skip a beat? It's like a flutter which comes and goes very infrequently. I don't know whether I should be worried about it, or whether it's just an occasional aberration that's not worth thinking of.

 

[Zelig]

I have started weighing myself every morning at work ( I work in a hospital and I have access to a very good scale). I eat the same breakfast everyday and I am naked when I weigh myself. Still my weight can vary nearly 3 kg from day to day. How can this be?

It's normal, I get the same thing.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

What is a "corporate shaft"?

 

[Cutlass]

Without context, I can only guess. But I would say that it meant that a company screwed over (shafted, in slang that was common in the 70s and 80s) some person or group.

 

[say1988]

You sure it isn't what male corporations use to make baby corporations with female corporations?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

here is the context:

[he] talks about the life and times of the band-next-door, critical chic, the corporate shaft

 

[Cutlass]

From that I would say that he thought that having the record company screw over the bands was a common occurrence.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Yes.
To my understanding, "critical chic" means popular with critics. Is about right?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Sorry for the double-post.

I have a small newspaper clipping from 1990 about a lawsuit filed in "Los Angeles federal court." (I dont know what that means) However I cant seem to find much information about it online and Im curious to what became of it. In Canada I believe a lot of lawsuits are put into big books. In the U.S. do they do this and if so, can you search them online or something?

I can provide a link to the news clipping if required.

 

[Cutlass]

"Los Angeles federal court" would mean a US federal court for the district of California that happened to be located in Los Angeles. Lawsuits in the US frequently are not published. But if you want to try looking it up anyways you need the name of the case.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I know the name of the plaintiff but theres several defendants (I know the names of them too but I'm not sure entirely of everybody involved) so I don't know exactly what to look up from there.

 

[Cutlass]

The case name would be something like Plaintiff v. Defendant. So plug names in there and google it and see if anything came up.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I plugged it in and I found this:
http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/35/570/605060/

I literally have no idea what that means

 

[Cutlass]

Not knowing exactly how to read the notations used in legal briefs, it would seem that Martin Allen Fine sued Tom Petty; Jeff Lynne; Mike Campbell and others to recover legal fees from some other issue. And Fine lost the case. Fine appealed the case, and lost again.

 

[GamezRule]

Hmm, I always each defendant got a separate case.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Yeah thats why I wasnt sure exactly what to search for.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Do Europeans have differently-shaped wallets? I just looked at some Euro notes and they look really awkward to put in my wallet.

 

[Arakhor]

THe only possible way anyone can answer that is they know what "your" wallets look like.

 

[bhsup]

We've got your basic bi-fold or tri-fold over here for the most part. Course, there are the more upscale models attached to chains that are tied to belt loops, but you rarely see that outside of the extremely wealthy neighborhoods.

Bi-fold:

Tri-fold:

Chained: