looking at the Saw Stop saws

Some care, some don't, and, like your meddlesome and impertinent neighbor down the street, it pays to identify.

Just for starters:(need more let me know)

No, I don't.

Remember that the lower the blade is, the farther the cutting edge is from the front of the saw -- hence as the blade drops, it also moves away from your fingers horizontally as well as vertically.

I don't think I agree. Watch -- carefully -- the slow-motion video at sawstop.com, the one titled "How it Works". Pause it at 0:20 and step forward a frame at a time, watching as the blade contacts a finger. It appears that only one or two teeth actually touch it before the blade begins to drop.

Note also the manufacturer's statement that the blade stops in 5 msec. A 40-tooth blade at 3450 rpm is moving 38.33 teeth per second, or 26 msec per tooth.

Interesting, if true. I did a Google and every reference I could find says it's a bell curve. Would you please cite a reference supporting the straight line hypothesis. I'd like to read it.

If she's a politician of any persuasion in this culture, compounding loathsomeness is superfulous ... save your time, breath and fingers.

Most IQ tests indeed rank results in a Gaussian Bell Curve with a standard deviation, depending on the test.

As with the maxim that "statistics lie and liars use statistics ..." you can certainly massage the rankings, by grouping the results by ethnicity, nationality, and other creative ways, ad infinitum to prove a point/agendize.

ePztvWnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:

Interesting new technology being developed here:

My least favorite...

"Where's it at?"

Actually, it is but a simple concept, but one obviously difficult for someone who could exhibit the immaturity above to grasp.

Effectively judging the validity of a viewpoint or opinion most often entails determining how much skin the proponent has in the game ... as demonstrated in this instance, little to none.

A bit more maturity may help your understanding of that concept, so keep trying.

You wished ... trust me, not something that will ever happen on your account.

Loony, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

No -- I just couldn't stand listening to Franken any longer.

I didn't see anything in those clips of Bachmann to suggest that she's any more of a lunatic than Tom Tancredo or Howard Dean.

Fail.

On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 14:59:33 -0800 (PST), the infamous GarageWoodworks scrawled the following:

-- We rightly care about the environment. But our neurotic obsession with carbon betrays an inability to distinguish between pollution and the stuff of life itself. --Bret Stephens, WSJ 1/5/10

On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:26:41 -0600, the infamous Swingman scrawled the following:

'Cuz they're next, after the Middle East?

-- We rightly care about the environment. But our neurotic obsession with carbon betrays an inability to distinguish between pollution and the stuff of life itself. --Bret Stephens, WSJ 1/5/10

On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 21:11:54 -0800 (PST), the infamous RicodJour scrawled the following:

Perhaps he meant for us to infer that the idiots who voted Franken into office are in the lower ranks of IQ.

Franken is another perfect example of the pitfalls of overeducation.

-- We rightly care about the environment. But our neurotic obsession with carbon betrays an inability to distinguish between pollution and the stuff of life itself. --Bret Stephens, WSJ 1/5/10

IIRC, the original sawstop concept just jammed the blade; the mechanism to drop it down was added a little later. I suspect these are redundant mechanisms, each can do the job on its own, but both together achieve the sort of reliability you would need in something that's guaranteed to generate a lawsuit if it doesn't work.

My $.02

Paul F.