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  1. Gotcha. A dado head for your saw will speed up the hogging and leave a smoother cut than a saw blade. Dado Heads @ Finewoodworking How to cut tenons on a table saw
  2. Finger joints are glued, not friction fit. One of their advantages is providing more gluing surface than miter or butt joining. iNow, you can make a simple jig for your table saw to cut these joints if that doesn't offend your Zen. Making a Table Saw Box-Joint Jig
  3. Acme replied to Sayonara's topic in The Lounge
    p2p= pay to play f2p = free to play
  4. +1 StringJ! Part for the video, but most for what it led me to. After it finished, among the recommended videos was one by Sungha Jung playing a harp-ukulele. Now I'm listening to song after song by Sungha. Will be dipping in this well for days at least. 고맙습니다
  5. One stalagmite mnemonic is 'it might reach the ceiling'. The color changes when deposition stops and/or when the material dries. Even broken pieces can continue to grow if they are being dripped on.
  6. Stern-wheelers Up Columbia: A Century of Steamboating in the Oregon Country by Randall V. Mills & Poison Arrows: North American Indian Hunting and Warfare by David E. Jones
  7. Here I lurk for lack of what, maybe something that is not, or could be something after all, but if it is it's very small.
  8. Recreations in the Theory of Numbers: The Queen of Mathematics Entertains by Albert H. Beiler Because OEIS made attributions to this work that others assured me are not in it, I ordered this book a few years back but never got it. On a whim I tried again last week and now have it in my hot little hands. A quick check of the pertinent section shows my friends were correct and OEIS mistaken, though this won't forestall my reading the whole of it for my own recreation.
  9. The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth by Paul Hoffman
  10. Can you cite what you read with a link or give more details? The material I find is the work of non-geologists and puts the impact at ~800,000 years and hitting ice 1 to 2km thick. The hypothesized impact is suggested as the source of the Carolina Bays structure. I find no mainstream support for the idea however and the impact formation hypothesis for the Carolina Bays has been rejected by professionals. Amateur work: The Saginaw Impact Manifold Carolina Bays @ Wiki: >>Carolina Bays
  11. I am ambivalent about this thread.
  12. On my machine, holding Alt and typing 227 on the numeric keypad gives the pi symbol. π Here's a reference to many more symbols using the technique: Alt Code symbols on Laptop keyboard Go to their Home page for other systems.
  13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jJwUESRNeg
  14. Acknowledge no slip forge. As to burden, every time I drop it someone sees fit to re-saddle me with it. Like a damn booger on a finger I tells ya. How about using the meta-study title and add 'discussions on'? As in, Discussions on Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition. . PS Well, I see the new title but I don't see that it helps anything inasmuch as it still has the term 'insane'. I do have to say it's disheartening that so few find the sociological aspect of little to no interest, but whatever. Stick a fork in me.
  15. No, I will not stop correcting the misnomer. I know perfectly well what my point was and is in bringing up these studies, regardless of what you or Phi or others want to try & make of it. Were Phi or any staff member to rename the thread or take my name off it I would gladly leave it to the beavers. Point of fact, they are not my studies; they are the studies done by others that I wish to explore & discuss. At any rate you seem to acknowledge my intention, so why not respect it? And again, again, again.... the subject is not craziness. I suppose you refer to the last list that I quoted, but in any case as I continue to point out the topic is not 'craziness' or 'insanity', both of which are colloquial terms. Many of these correlations I quoted are however associated with pathological behavior, where 'pathological' refers to the psychiatric definition. source Again, in spite of the title stuck on this thread, my topic is not craziness. Moreover, you seem to imply that those few correlations that I have quoted are the sum total of Altemeyer's book and/or that you have read the whole of it. He does in fact discuss and differentiate among & between time-frames as well as cultures, something you can know by actually reading the book. As I have pointed out, we have plenty of other threads suited to the type of discourse you -and so many others here- appear to prefer to engage in.
  16. Fooled me with the title, then. And the first postings. Sorry about that. There is a difference, though, between the question of why conservatives are conservative and the question of why modern US conservatives are crazy. Your study seems to deal with the first why only. Well, for the umpteenth time I didn't make the title or the thread. Phi split my post from another thread and borrowed the title from an article that referenced the studies. Of course reading the thread would have informed you, though admittedly your in the majority for not doing so. And yet again your post is off-topic because you aren't actually discussing the study(s) and so dragging me along with you by imposing my need to reply. Good grief. I don't particularly agree with your 'difference' comment, but 'crazy' or 'insane' are not terms used in the studies so the point is moot. I won't bother to quote any from the posts that follow yours as they are not on the topic of the studies either and concern issues we have already covered, e.g. the 'Southern strategy'. Again, reading the thread could save us the repetition. At the risk of confusing the issue with facts of the kind I intended we discuss, I'll just pop in a quote from Altemeyer's work. For those of you who haven't read the thread, Altemeyer is a Canadian researcher whose RWA [Right Wing Authoritarian] scale is one -I say one- of the 80+ studies from the meta-study. (Undoubtedly someone is going to whine about labeling people again, but Bob wouldn't know if folks were Republican or Democrat unless they declared to him they were.) The Authoritarians Continuing a bit more from that quote: Notably, as is so often pointed out in many other topics here, prediction is a keynote of reliable science. (Substitute your preferred affirmative term for reliable as you see fit.)

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