TV legal ad focused on table saw injuries

BillinGA · 2014-05-07T01:51:55+00:00

While watching Delta Force for the 23rd time, I saw an ad from a law firm going after table saw manufacturers. They showed injuries such as missing digits and nasty cuts with many stitches...the narrative from a pretty blon de that said manufacturers did not want you to know there were preventativ e measures available and these saw companies could be held accountable for your injuries. They showed and named the only saw I am aware of that will p revent many of these injuries. It may be just me but it seems like a suitab le comparison would be going after an automaker that did not provide airbag s before they were required by law. I guess miter saws are next. Should hav e seen this coming when McDonalds was successfully sued for selling hot cof fee. I am aware of the argument that a brake cartridge is a small price to pay for safety but wonder if other woodworkers don't share my opinion that safe operation of any saw is the responsibility of the operator, no matter when their device was made and sold. Certainly no slap at SawStop...wish I had one. Wish I had a lot of new tools.

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Keith Nuttle 12 years ago

There is to much spin in the climate date. One of the "facts' they use in promoting their religion is the pH of the oceans are going down because of the increase in Carbon Dioxide. This "fact" was based on the observation that there was a decrease in the pH of about 0.06 units, The standards they used of make the measurements are guaranteed by the vendor to be =/-0.05. That makes their "fact" bogus.

They talk about the climate change of 0.1 degrees. There is no statistical method for evaluating date the would call that a change with on any day of the year, the temperatures taken all over the earth will vary over 100 degrees. (-40F at the winter pole to 130F in the equatorial deserts. For a change to be significant by a simple T test the change has to be greater the about 3 times the standard deviation of the measurements. If the global warning people presented a data set like this for drug approval they would be laughed out of the office.

I also like the studies on hurricanes that make the statement that the number of hurricanes have been increasing since the 1970, The low point in the Hurricane cycle which is based on the hurricane counts for several hundred years.

I was really impressed when the global warmer on a ship trapped in the summer ice in Antarctic told the people suffering in one of the coldest winters in recent history, that they should still being prepared to face the global warming.

Finally if you leave the Global warming religion and look at other field you will find the long term studies do not support the global warming data. This is one recent study

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The biggest questionable item in the data of Climate Change is comparing the data from a point that went from a rural area 50 years ago to an asphalt parking lot today. It does not take a genius to realize the Asphalt parking lot will definitely show an increase temperature when compare to its preparking lot days. Every day we pave more parking lots, build more houses with asphalt roofs, and other heat capturing structures, see the temperature change and say the carbon dioxide from a coal burning power plant is causing it.

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Baxter 12 years ago

Keith Nuttle wrote in news:lklend$v42$ snipped-for-privacy@speranza.aioe.org:

And you'd be wrong. I don't think this is the forum for political discussions - except as they affect the subject of the forum:

----------- SEATTLE Global warming is already altering forest landscapes in the U.S. Northwest, increasing wildfire risks and threatening coastal communities, according to a new federal scientific report released Tuesday.

The National Climate Assessment provides a detailed look at the regional and state-level effects of climate change. It lists key concerns for Washington, Idaho and Oregon:

Climate change will alter Northwest forests by increasing wildfire risk and insect and tree disease outbreaks, and by forcing long-term shifts in forest types and species, the report says.

Those impacts are already causing widespread tree die-offs and are certain to cause more forest die-offs by 2040.

Though wildfires are natural events in the Northwest, warmer and drier conditions have helped boost the number and extent of wildfires in U.S. Western forests since 1970s, and that trend is expected to continue.

Higher temperatures and outbreaks of mountain pine beetles, for example, area increasing pine tree die-offs in drier forests.

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