StringJunky

So, outside the legal profession - solicitors, courts, etc - what else can you do with a law degree where it is specifically a requirement? I don't mean in terms of transferable skills, of which there are no doubt plenty.

Do you need to apprentice to a law firm for a while to earn professional status?

Thinking about this as a conspiracy effort dedicated to covering up someone's professional mistake seems very implausible. It would have required the co-operation of too many people to pull off and for what? To cover up the embarrassment that Kennedy was killed by accident by one his own entourage? I see no gain or sense in all those professional people colluding to cover up a simple accident. I get a similar feeling from this as with the "fake" Apollo missions: Bleuch!

He said: "Probability of life in the Universe is 1." not "Probability of life occurring in the Universe is 1.". His statement is true but I think you are reading/interpreting it like the second one.

I'm sure there's a few corrupt policeman in each country where the police are unarmed but it's definitely not significant, otherwise it would be in the news on regular basis, certainly here in the UK. The police in the UK not being armed is a matter of hard-won and acquired mutual trust between the police and the public which has been around since the inception of our police in the 1800's. The early Peelers (first police officers) were killed much more than they are now but eventually this caused consistent outrage amongst the public and they started to trust and help the Peelers when they realised they were just as vulnerable as they were. The police are here by consent. They don't need them and they don't want them1 as a matter of routine; Every County police force has an Armed Response Unit and that is considered quite sufficient here. Obviously. An unarmed police force can only work if the general public is as well.

I found this NASA article that starts with 3 incorrect theories of lift and then explains the correct one. The link to the next page is at the bottom of each. I've always thought it was the first example but it's wrong. The correct answer is rather complicated ...for me anyway.

It's a piss-take used on naive guitarists in a band. A scenario might be; Guitarist: " Hey Man, how do you get that sound?". Secretive Guitarist : "Well, I put a bit of chapstick all over my strings" It seems there are a number of concocted false tales told using chapstick. The only practical use for it is to ease frictional surfaces in some part of the guitar or possibly rubbing it into your finger tips to reduce string squeak. It could also be used to soften callouses on your finger tips but bear in mind you'll potentially shorten the life of the strings for reasons I mentioned before if it's not absorbed fully first.. Might be a useful quick fix in a gigging situation where sore finger tips or sliding fingers squeaking the strings are problem that need addressing there and then.

I thought you might bring this up and it turns out it's derived from German. English is a mongrel language as this clearly illustrates. From Wiki: Etymology The word may have come from the German Nut (pronounced "noot"), meaning groove or slot. (The nut, however, is called Sattel in German, which means saddle, whereas the part of a guitar known as saddle in English is called Stegeinlage in German.) What English speakers call "the saddle" is the equivalent white part at the other end, which in the vast majority of cases is not slotted. It's nice and logical isn't it?!

The nut is the white string guide at the end of the fretboard. Putting pencil lead in the slots before stringing reduces friction there.

Just noticed that my answer to this part disappeared for some reason in my other post. Steel strings don't stretch significantly enough at the tensions applied on a guitar, which is about 20-25lbs, to cause tuning issues. Initial tuning instability is a function of how tight you first wrap the strings around the tuner posts. The less slack you leave when you wrap the quicker the strings settle down. The only place where I can see chapstick being possibly useful on a guitar is to lubricate the nut slots at the end of the neck so the string doesn't bind and get intermittently stuck when tuning. I personally rub soft B pencil lead dust into the nut slots because graphite is an effective and dry lubricant; less messy.than greases or oils.

In that light it does look rather at odds.

Sexual disorders are largely those behaviours that any given society considers to be immoral. I don't see how surgery can be a cure for immorality. Look in other societies and those "disorders" are not considered such at all; Imatfaal's Turing example is a case in point of the clearly evolving ground secular morality stands on: we can only look back with sadness on the great man's predicament at the hands of our old moral system. Imagine how we might look back now if the UK was performing that procedure MonDie posted in Turing's day.

The colour we see, when considered objectively, should be more towards purple but our eyes have more sensitivity in the blue than violet, so, coupled with our brain's evolved tendency towards maximising visual differentiation for a survival advantage it is seen more as blue. Rather than being a perfect reflector of the world around us our brain constructs its own reality in a way that suits it best.

This seems sensible because it has been repeatedly reviewed and affirmed as just. I imagine one needs prodigious recall of past cases to be a good judge or lawyer.

Very interesting Imatfaal. If a High Court judge accepts a precedent to decide a case against the defendant and they subsequently decide to appeal to an Appeal Court, would a successful appeal by them tend to set a new precedent in that type of case?

Most furniture polishes and car polishes etc contain silicone which can migrate into the finish over time (lacquer and paint) and you can't remove it unless you Nitromors the whole paint lacquer job off. You have most likely put silicone traces over it with your rags. This is not a problem until and if you want to repair a damaged area with new finish; the wet finish will probably 'fish-eye' like in this image: Believe it or not, the solution is to add some pure silicone to the paint\lacquer before spraying! I've put silicone on my hand-built guitar in ignorance but I don't care ...it can wear it's scars and still make music. Unless your instrument is or is potentially a museum piece carry on with your rags! Knowing what I know now and if I got a new guitar, I would just use warm water with a bit of pure detergent, wipe the whole thing down free of grease marks, let it dry it off and buff to a shine with a clean soft cloth on the glossy bits. At the end of the day, the finish is the protection and doesn't need another layer of stuff that is only going to turn into a gunky layer. I'd also lemon-oil the fretboard sparingly every year or two.

Elixir strings have a very thin plastic-type covering (name escapes me) and they last months compared to 2-4 weeks with uncoated. The reason is that crud can't get in between the windings to damp winding interfaces that rub against each other and give that chimey metallic sound. A guitar is plucked and released; the tone is reliant on the sustained freely vibrating note. A violin bow is in constant contact and drawn so it naturally kills that sustaining metallic ring characteristic of guitars. I don't think that 'ring' is an expected feature of violins. I think of bowed instruments as dry and earthy compared to guitars with metal strings. Putting anything on the string alters it's mass and especially in various random amounts along the string will adversely affect it's vibrational charcteristics and tuning ability. Chapstick dries semi-waxy and apart from gunking the strings up will collect in the fretboard/fret joints. If the OP wants slick then I suggest Elixir Polys.

Sounds like the fastest way to kill the strings. and crap up the guitar. That stuff will get pressed into the windings and kill the tone.

IIRC this stopped working properly after IE10 so I went back to it. Got a new laptop with IE11 and it's still not fixed now you mention it. A workaround is to click the top left icon next to the eraser icon and then hit the quote button. This will give you the quote in the coded form. Do what you want to do answering and whatever then click that top button again so it's off and the quote boxes should show. If the cursor is stuck in the quote box, take to it to the end of the quote and double-click. If you are going to do multiple quotes keep it in coded form until you have finished them all.

Ignorant can also mean wilfully not paying attention: "Listen to me! Why are you being ignorant?". It can imply wilfulness as well as naivete.

If in doubt get it checked out. It's far too easy for people like you and us to fit symptoms to a particular ailment and be completely wrong.

...standing on the shoulders of giants.

I just thought I'd give a heads up in case the trend hadn't been noticed. I did wonder if the the sites' spam-filters might not be set up for that forum in some way although I'm not familiar with these things..

I've noticed nearly all the spam I see and report is from the Philosophy forum. Any significance in this?