daniela

A filter will not be of much help if someone wants to access certain sort of material. I agree that there are cheap smartphones availables and it will only increase. So what? After all there are various other forbidden items for sale, and many of them are very cheap and easily available, in every neighbourhood. If someone decides they want to purchase and use, it’s easy to. But most people don’t.

If you believe it’d be different with the internet, please explain why. If you believe people would rebel to being filtered and monitored, or at least resent it, please explain the reason it is not happening right now. Our local system administrator does, as well as our ISP, our Tier 1, and of course the government. I trust them zero, and on top of that I loathe them, and yet, I let them do so (I don’t have my own infrastructure and very few people do).

That said, please don’t insult our intelligence about “questionable material” being equated with something a MD or an OB-GYN would study (one can only wish it were so), nor about professionals “needing” access to unfiltered internet (which, actually, most of us want to filter in order to avoid malware, spyware, and unwanted content which, as it was already mentioned, can land innocent people in jail due to law violations by their employees).

I can think of only one industry that needs completely unfiltered access (not really to the user, but indeed to their machine), and that is data mining. I sure hope those who are in that business have asked a shaila whether it’s a permissible manner to make a living.

Maybe there are other areas with similar requirements, and please feel free to list them. I can’t think of others.

I never heard of any college that mandates use of their computers and networks for connecting to the internet (suddendly a personal device and connection is too expensive for people who spend tens and hundreds of K$ on college?) and by the way, the standard is that they monitor, filter, and sometimes do more than that.

Finally I don’t have any problem about you using or not using any filters, in fact, if you have unfiltered internet, I assume you have both good valid reasons and a heter, as well as sharp skills and/or a full-time network manager. Yet, this is quite different from treating others like fools because they use a filter.

No! It is never alcohol, it is usually paraffine or isoparaffine. Some **skilled and experienced** artists add a little bit of alcohol (vodka and similar) so that the liquid does not taste so bad and also it’s more spectacular, as alcohol is volatile (think of the flame on flamboyant dishes or cocktails). But it is dangerous as it increases the chance that flames go in reverse and the liquid inside the mouth might catch fire. Not advisable and absolutely not for a beginner. And of course, only for breathing fire.

I am surprised you can’t find a male to teach you in the NYC area. Perhaps one of the ladies who would be willing to teach you, can suggest a male?

Hi, in some phones you can disable wifi in the preferences, but in others, this is not possible. I assume the OP was not able to disable wifi in preferences (or perhaps only had “airplane mode”, which also disables cellphone reception).

I personally don’t particularly like K9. In addition, Android, but also Chrome for Windows and other platforms, will connect directly to the google websites, such as gmail. I once posted a detailed discussion, but moderators deleted it. I don’t mind rewriting what I can remember, but if it’s not suitable for the website, no problem. However it is unadvisable to rely too much on K9. Actually at this point it is unreliable to rely upon any single filter.

A smartphone is, unfortunately, a platform where the user is the product. They need to grab our personal info (you realize our phones knows which time we wake up and which time we fall asleep, whom we call and for how long, the websites we visit, even what we are thinking – we usually write that into google) and they need to push advertising and other unwanted garbage; the aim is to keep our attention focused on the device for most of our waking hours. Of course connectivity is crucial to that “business” model.

The Android (a unix-family operating system) has a filesystem which is hierarchical. The top directory is / (it is also called the root directory) and contains both files and subdirectories. For example typical subdirectories of the directory / are /etc /bin /usr and so on. In turn those contain files and sub-subdirectories. However, in many cellular phones, one can not even see the directory structure, or in other cases, the important files are read-only and can not be modified by the user.

Please be careful with modifications because it’s very possible that the phone will decide to access the internet anyway, except will do that on the cellular network (at your expense).

Please let me know more precisely what you are trying to do, and if I know how, I will tell you. Are you trying to block the web browser? Are you trying to block all connectivity via wifi? Are you wishing to keep some apps connected (such as email) and block others?

GAW:

“The problem is that there is nothing to discuss.”

“They are “true believers”, who similar to missionaries, are not interested in hearing the truth.”

if that is what you think a priori, and if you assume that I have never asked medical counsel or that I have seen a quack, I am sorry that I can’t help your narrow-mindedness. By the way you do not even know so far which vaccinations we declined.

“P.S. If you don’t vaccinate your children, I’m interested to hear why not. (Also I’d like to make sure that no one in my family has any contact with you or your children).”

“Not really. I don’t think I asked for such personal information from a complete stranger.”

Which one of the two?

“As I said before, Tetanus+ (TDAP?) & Polio are the biggies. MMR is also important, as those diseases can hurt pregnant women. After that, if you don’t want to take flu or Chicken pox vaccine (and certainly HPV), I have no Tayainos.”

Those who receive Sabin Polio should be aware that live virus is present and thus avoid contact with immunodepressed people and people not (or not yet) vaccinated for a few days after each dose. I agree with you on the rest, except for your glaring omission of arguably the most important vaccine for travelers and for people in contact with travelers: yellow fever. Polio is by now very rare even in remote countryside areas in the third world: yellow fever, which is more serious than polio, is endemic even in urban areas and due to globalization can occasionally be encountered anywhere.

Now, if you tell me you don’t ever travel outside NYC or at most you go to NJ, and that you rarely have reason to contact travelers to Asia or Africa, that is a good reason for skipping yellow fever vaccine. As you see, good reasons for declining potentially life-savings vaccinations exist. You are proof of it.

I can not agree with the point you make with regards to herd immunity. A child or an elderly or even a young person who can not be vaccinated (due to serious diseases such as cancer, or being a transplant recipient) is a person whose health and even life are threatened even by a trivial cold, for which there is no vaccination available at present. Anyone who has any cold-like symptoms should temporarily stay away from that person.

You can buy kosher food at 2am in any town which has shops open at 2am (even the pharmacy or the gas station, if it comes to that). How much more so if one avails themselves of all the leniences you accustomed us all to.

Now, if someone wants to buy *meat* and *wine* at 2am, that is a different story. I am, however, not sure where in the Torah it is advised as necessary, or even as healthy, to do so daily or twice a day during the week. Let alone do that regularly in the middle of the night.

Would be interesting if you posted a similar discussion “The cost of having a computer”.

A heter? is he a yid?

Ask your question to the rabbi who is encouraging you to get the person deported.

ZD I have hardly noticed rabbis stating it is forbidden to pay taxes to the State of Israel or to other ordinary countries, perhaps you would like to quote them to us? Even in cases it was permissible to evade such taxes if possible (USSR is an example) I do not recall it being declared forbidden to pay taxes, of course, as long as we perceive that paying taxes to the evil govt is for us advantageous. Again can you please quote if someone stated differently?

I am not sure what compulsory draft has to do with the above, though.

I don’t hold by “rabbi” martin luther king (sorry if someone dislikes the quotes) and halacha allows us various recourses when we are allowed (sometimes obligated) to follow Torah and disregard the law of the land. We sure don’t have to “willingly” and “lovingly” turn the other cheek, as MLK’s religion is suggesting. By the way, a law which, if obeyed to the letter, violates the beliefs of a minority has a name: “religious discrimination”.

Avi K

I am well aware there are halachot (let me stress, halachot) in regards to people who present a danger. The last time I know these questions being non-theoretical was in Europe during WW2.

Equating cremation of eichmann (which I have no idea if it was done seeking daas Torah, and quite frankly I doubt it) which has no negative connotation for their ideology (many nazis chose cremation for themselves in their will, and I do not recall eichmann protesting it during the trial) with desecration of human bodies which sometimes had to take place in order to safely eliminate evidence after a person had to be assassinated, with a hypotetical deliberate desecration of bodies, speaks for itself. Moreover, the assumption that such a step would scare the aspiring terrorists into becoming meek lambs and fear the might and strength of the Jews, also speaks for itself. What will realistically happen, everywhere in the world, we all know. And, sorry to break the bubble, terrorists are not exclusively motivated by their fantasies of young ladies in the afterlife. They are prepared to do what they do because they believe that is the right thing to do.

Public safety and order, if that is the high priority of the Israeli government, should indeed be implemented, but the statistics on violent crimes and those on vicious crime, somehow tell me that if there were miracolously a peaceful solution of the Arab problem, this would not turn the country into a paradise, would it.

Finally I am well aware of the correspondence between Rabbi Moshe Feinstein and Ronald Reagan on the subject of death penalty in USA. We do not know if nowadays Rabbi Feinstein would pasken the same way (I am sure we all remember the first death penalty trials i.e. frank coppola etc. where the legal debate was not superficial, attorneys studied the papers and the sentence was not written before the trial even started), what we do know is that at this time, multiple poskim in USA say it’s forbidden for observant Jews to be on juries when the death penalty is involved – period.

Thank you, oomis, for your flattering words, but I have not been young (much less “very young”) since a long time.

I had already read you attribute the opinions to an Israeli cousin of yours. Two questions remain: why you decided not to challenge his position (possibly you agree with him, if it weren’t for the detail you do not believe it would be a “deterrent”? am I misunderstanding your clarification?) and why you decided to post such a statement in public, in fact, presenting it as an opinion shared by a sizeable number of Jews, including – according to you – some (unnamed) rabbis.

Torah allows killing either in immediate self-defence or, under precise conditions which nowadays it’s questionable if they ever can be fulfilled even for nonjews, within the framework of death penalty. The person condamned to death, gentile or Jew, is executed immediately to minimize their suffering and then the body is treated with the respect which is owed to every human body. I happen to find it very strange that a Rabbi would state something against Torah. Stating that “Jews” would approve, much less suggest, desecrating human remains, sounds to me eerily similar to a blood libel, if I may say.

You are correct however, it is not your cousin’s original idea. Large-scale desecration of deceased Muslims enemies was pioneered by mussolini and graziani in Libya and later adopted by hitler in his north african campaign. They even made sure to hang any enemies who were still alive or who were sentenced to death, before dirtying the deceased with pig’s carcasses, because according to Muslim beliefs, strangulation or hanging prevents the soul from exiting through the throat.

DaasYochid I do not perceive a difference. People buy certain goods paying handsome money if they are convinced the goods are worth the price. It does not matter if their returns are in the form of financial gain, perceived satisfaction, higher social standing, valuable business connections, or something else. Of course if we buy machinery for a workshop we can expect the balance to be tilted very differently from (even the same person) buying a lady’s handbag, but all those elements coexist to a point in every purchase.

Hi oomis

I wonder if you have ever considered what would be the consequences for Jews worldwide (especially in Muslim countries, but also in Western countries with strong Arab or Muslim minorities) should your misguided plan be implemented. Or is that an intended consequence of your plan, to make life impossible for Jews outside the Medinat?

I would also like to ask what you propose to do, when it comes to the consequences for the Medinat itself, given that we can expect the Arab citizens, the PA citizens, and the citizens of the neighbouring countries will “react” to your proposal. Are you going to demand that, after having been kicked out by the countries we lived in for centuries (and losing whatever belongings we have there) we “donate” our children’s life to the IDF so that they may R”L suffer a futile death?

Finally, given that your proposal is unlikely to pass unnoticed in the international community, I wonder if you would be delighted in the event R”L the hospital and police services of countries worldwide would deliberately make sure that Jews who are determined (by their legal systems) to be guilty of something and die in custody, should suffer autopsies and afterwards be cremated.

Thank you for clarifying for all readers the difference between Torah and Zionism. That is the same difference between Zaka respectfully washing and recomposing every deceased, including the terrorists, and the proposal you stated.

Hi, of course you can. You have to change the settings of the wifi antenna – just make sure you have a copy of the settings in case you need in the future. If it’s a recent smartphone you have do it for both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz bands. Please go to system/etc/wifi and have a look what’s there, such as nvram_mfg.txt and nvram_net.txt (the exact details depend on what device you have and what android version) That’s where the parameters are, rx and tx power, frequency etc. You can change them or as someone else suggested, rename the files or the whole folder.

I advise after doing that, you manually disable wifi in the phone preferences, because some terminals might attempt anyway to find a lock to the signal and waste battery power.

LOL It took me a few minutes to stop laughing…..

Thank you a lot ubiquitin and Sam2.

If the cow is shechted and found treif, then can it still be mevatel by intentionally mixing it?

I maybe used the wrong word “worse”, I meant to say that standard tests and chemical analysis is a good method for detecting blood (actually I think there is a max concentration allowed for that), I think it is not as good in detecting a mixture of milks from different species, especially if the nonkosher animal’s milk is not extracted mechanically and there are few cells and few species-specifics bacteria in the milk (yet perhaps it’s good enough, say, could a 1% threshold be detected? I am not sure about it), but in regards to finding traifa milk it seems to me it’s useless.

Ubiquitin, Benignuman, correct me if I am wrong but I believe that a kosher liquid mixed with a nonkosher liquid has a much less stringent rule than the nonkosher unwanted taste being nullified in 60. I believe it is 1/6. Also, I believe I heard we do not have to worry that perhaps our particular container that we bought in the store, is nonkosher due to unfortunate coincidences which caused it to have a percentage of the nonkosher liquid larger than 1/6 (thus no bitul): given that the milk for sale is intended to be mixed at the processing plant e.g. for pasteurization, as long as the majority of USDA milk is kosher enough, we do not have to worry about a specific container. Again please correct me if I am wrong.

Many cows get their stomach punctured, it is a routine practice, but there is a high turnover of milking cows and young cows have not yet needed the procedure.

I can’t understand. Does anybody think that requiring mandatory background checks and other common-sense regulations will increase the number of victims? I don’t think anyone can argue that. No one is stating this is the perfect solution to all problems, this is obvious. But, will it prevent some murders? Possibly only a few events, or some victims in the same mass event? I think it’s very hard to deny it will prevent some murders, especially given the worldwide statistics, and we all have seen how much of a dissuasion is the simple fact of making it complicated (e.g. smoking laws) even when something is totally legal.

Since we can’t do everything, should we give up and do nothing? What about medicine? Since we can’t help the fact that everyone eventually dies, should we shut down hospitals, doctor’s offices, and medical schools? Or should we do what we can and after that, try harder at it and try to improve even a little bit?

Thank you T613T and I am glad the answers satisfied her.

That’s precisely the point, in my humble opinion. I do not think the young lady’s familiarity with Shas is too great, and I also notice that she is asking a woman, she did not ask her father / brothers / Rabbi (or she asked and they did not answer; possibly there is a reason for that). I think you might tell her you asked and were given this answer (print it out): if she understand it, awesome, she will have her answer (BTW thanks Popa for sharing this beautiful insight). If, as I suspect, she can’t, she will be forced to reach the correct conclusion, ie that she is ignorant – and that’s the very reason she asked the original question. Yet, if the question was sincere, she will go to her father or brother or Rabbi and ask them to please explain what does it mean, admitting that the various cases when the halacha is according to Rabbi Abaye and someone who lost hope about a lost object and a mumar etc. don’t seem to her to have a relation with her question, and will ask them to please explain why is this supposed to be an answer to a question of hers – which she will respectfully state. In the event the question was insincere, now it is her problem, you have quoted her from the Talmud, which to a woman is unusual and yet you promptly did, and there is nothing more she can ask for.

If you are her teacher, I find her statement you quote “As a ‘feminist’ I believe it is the men’s sacred duty to look up interesting Midrashim, meforshim and halachos for me, answer all my random hashkafic questions, and tell fascinating Divrei Torah. In return, I have to keep tznius.” if that is quoted correctly, quite disrespectful and not the proper way to address anyone, let alone a teacher.

Yes, adblocking plugins should also work (we have to download a plugin for every browser we use). They all have basic blocking lists and in addition it’s possible to block any unwanted content for future navigation.

let’s not feed the troll….. oh wait, it’s too much fun to resist. Dear troll, if you are convinced it works, please by all means feel free to lie on your resume, I am not going to stop you.

I don’t think a bus is comparable to this discussion. If the bus drives over a road, or even a dirt road and the like, that means there is no recognizable cemetery and tombs. I recall there is some park in NYC where we have documentation that a Jewish cemetery existed and if I recall correctly, we are also aware that construction did not take place after proper removal and reinterrment in another area. Someone told me Cohanim are not prohibited to walk there. But in this case it’s impossible to rely on any sort of doubts.

ah, so it’s a public relations issue. I wonder if you people feel embarrassed that the Torah commands us something you find absurd (“what’s with this difficult concept of tuma, anyway”). If so, please by all means do whatever you see fit, the world is wide and there’s all sort of people including the frei, the reforms etc, just please don’t mislead others by falsely suggesting it is a “stringency”.

YYtz you seem oblivious to the fact that this IS the leniency a genial posek came up with. A huge leniency that not everyone accepts, and which incidentally I believe to be valid only for pressurized aircrafts. On top of that you and other posters are trying to paint us as fools via reductio ad absurdum. Tumah is definitely a problem for cohanim at “thousands of feets” or a few hundred meters. It is not a problem at jets’ cruise altitude, on spacecrafts, or with the moon.

True, I take everything you write with many grains of salt. I don’t mind if you eat macrobiotic, this is a personal preference. I have issues about people advising (a very young person) before thinking twice. Some speak very well about that place and some others did not enjoy it (to use an euphemism); it is a controversial place for a girl or woman to be, and one should at least recommend to hear many opinions.

I can’t believe what I read in this thread. The dr recommends what is in his best interest and bad for you? because he is lazy? That must be why he graduated medical school, he was too lazy to drop out. And what about “doctors and nurses are busy”, yeah guess what! Are busy assisting us! Integral I thought you said you are 14yr old, I am curious about your knowledge about labour and childbirth, can’t help wondering where does it come from.

Dear OP, use that money for a cleaning lady, take-away restaurants meals, and some nice gifts to your wife, after she has given birth and left the hospital.