StringJunky

I have a Leighton Denny but I've since found Wolfram Files that was designed with guitarists in mind, which might just have a bit better polishing ability. Don't get a cheap one because they are not acid-etched etched but glass particles glued on to glass which wear off and don't give as fine a finish... been there! Edit to add: I initially wondered if hydrostatic pressure helped keep nails rigid and sealed ends are necessary to maintain it.

I don't get to play my steel string guitar so much now because my nephew has it most of the time but I've been using a glass nail file regularly the last few months and they are nearly like horn now. I need wire cutters to snip the thumbnail; my left fretting hand one got too long so I tried to cut it with scissors but failed. My nails used to be very fragile and split at the ends as well being easily chip. I read a while ago that glass files produce a fine dust which apparently seals them; this seems to be the case. It seems, from Area54's link, that there is a porous, more fibrous middle layer. I was wondering, if the nail was filamentous, then loss of moisture, or whatever, caused a loss of rigidity plus ingress of everyday chemicals being absorbed by capillary action attacking the nail structure. My basic idea being that keeping body moisture in and enviromental substances out has made them as strong as they are. My diet has not changed and I do not apply any nail preparations. Technique is important too in terms of avoiding excessive nail wear and I think some people have them too long, playing wholly on the nail when, as in classical technique, one should tension the skin with flesh but ping the string with nail, using only a modicum of pressure on it.

Yes, it does seem a bit messy not automatically merging.

Cool. Probably the most useful upgrade I've seen so far considering how much we all selectively quote. I've just about got used to the change now.

Just found something easy and useful. To quote extracts of a post: highlight the desired section and and a little "quote this" label shows up. Click that, you then have a a named and time-stamped quote in your input box.

Perfect. Thank you. I've got some pointers now. I'm trying to understand how nails lose their strength or maintain it which is possibly due to ingress and egress of moisture and other substances. Having porous or unpolished edges makes them considerably weaker and I'm trying to understand why that is. It's necessary for me to understand the structure first, that's why I asked. I fingerpick my guitar sometimes and I've been working on them to get them in optimal condition.

Yes, but what is the physical arrangement of it? Like tubes or rods arranged longitudinally, or stratified horizontally, or homogenous etc.

I don't know the right words to search google for the fibre orientation and general structure of finger and toenails. All I get is the parts of the nail area when I want to know composition and structure of a nail itself. Any ideas?

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Although this is more biology, if you know a song well your brain will make adjustments to the incoming signal to match your expectations and will even synthesise sounds/frequencies that may be missing, derived from memory. .

Nothing is no thing. Once we define what the things that are absent we can say there is nothing.

Also, he would have practice on a person who understands.

It's an accounting word that describes a state of absence of something or anything at all.

We first need to find what number of people 1% represents, so we divide the number of people by 25: 80/25 = 3.2 people per 1% We now know 3.2 people makes up 1%, so all we have to do is multiply that 75% figure by 3.2: 75 x 3.2 = 240

Unless you plant the right seeds in the right places you will not get the result you desire; the prevailing landscape won't allow it, If there are no minority models in whatever position how can the minority youngsters be inspired when they don't see any people like them in the goals they desire.

The reality that scientists know is expressed in the models. Veni, vidi, ad exemplum illud (I came, I saw, I modelled it) .

My question to CharonY was not whether bias against minorities existed but what was the agreed proportion of minoritiesthat should be proactively chosen by institutions to redress the balance in an AA policy . I'm asking questions not asserting a viewpoint.

I'm not calling you names but I am pulling you up on your ideological position.

As a long-term consequence of applied AA? It doesn't really affect non-minorities much applying such a policy? Is there a generally accepted figure for the % of annual admissions that should be proactively biased for towards minorities?

Meat is not bad per se. Something as apparently innocuous and essential as water can kill you. Yours is an ideological position that is not wholly empirically based or at the least not balanced, it would seem. Your history on the subject of meat-free diets shows that you are evangelistic about them.

This is one of the consequences of affirmative action (AA); one side has to suffer. AA is a temporary policy to correct some perceived imbalance in the social order. It's never going to be popular with those that are being biased against. Essentially, one has to turn a deaf ear to the discontent until the objective is achieved.

Moderation and variety is the key I think. Everything has an LD50 (will kill 50%) rating. water has an LD50 of 6L.

Thwarting drug addicts in one way only makes them find another way... it just moves the problem around. I remember in the eighties I heard people lost limbs to Diconal (dipipanone/cyclizine) because of the large amount of insoluble materials in it but people still persisted. It's another world being a drug addict; safety is some abstract concept to many of them. Drug-induced amnesia is the real obstacle to dealing with the problem. That's why there is an endless pattern of reoffending.

If our galaxy is scaled to 1mm the edge of the observable universe would be 480m or 480 000 adjacent Milky Ways away... that's pretty big.

I've just done a test post, gone to another site, come back to this page and my entry is still there when I click on the input box. I went away from the page immediately after making a second test post as well to see when it kicked in and seems to save it straightaway.