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Funetik spelur. 😀
“????? ??????? ?????? ?????”
I guess we have that in common with the Native Americans. 😛
You can tell a lot about a person by their choice of humor…
That’s pretty awesome.
Mazel tov. 😀
Well, you need SOMETHING to balance out the perfume thread…:P
She/He’s getting more sophisticated, I see…
beamed in
lol
whatelseisleft: Regular. Ancient, actually.
The Body Shop has some nice ones. They’re pretty inexpensive, too.
Wow, thanks everyone for all the help!
jemmapuddleduck: Yeah, so I usually charge it overnight. That’s what I do with all my electronic equipment. I never tried to change the brightness…hmm, I’ll try that…
Toi: Yeah, that’s what I do every day (out of necessity :S). I do charge it overnight though…just can’t be bothered to check it all the time.
WIY: I don’t use it for anything particularly battery intensive – which is why I’m perturbed that it’s just failing. I just changed the screen brightness to the lowest setting, and backlight is at 5 seconds.
Busy As A Bee: Wow, I never heard that one before! I think I’m gonna try it! (I’ll just have to survive without my iPod for a day or two…)
cinderella: I am guilty on both counts. :S I have to charge it every day, though – I use it for 1-2 hours, and it goes completely dead. I’ll try not to charge it overnight, but I really don’t want to be a slave to it…
Shucks, I thought this thread was gonna address MY iPod problem…
So I’ll just ask: does anyone know what I can do increase battery charge retention?
What’s “classical Jewish thought”?
I wrote a nice long post about BYMR on another thread:
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/seminary-3#post-312954
Hope that helps!
mik5: Kensington, actually.
Ken Zayn: lol
Health:
So whose opinion counts – what words mean -YOURS?
I’m not guilty of anything. I’m sorry that your education didn’t include all the definitions, but now that I educated you -why don’t you say Thanks?
Read up on connotation vs. denotation. After that, we can talk.
Perhaps you didn’t read all the posts?!? He attacked me, not the other way around. I guess you believe in the best defense – is an offense; but my only question to you is -Why are You the one on the defense? You aren’t both the same, are you? You should familarize yourself with what Chazal say about people who mix into other’s convos!
I did read all the posts, and while I have no comment on your point per se, I think BaalHabooze is correct in picking on your negative phraseology. So I maintain that you stop trying to defame him.
And as for mixing into other people’s conversations, I would argue that that is the premise of the whole CR. And that YOU in fact did exactly such when you posted your opinion on this thread. So I guess there’s wrongdoing all around, then…
yitayningwut:
Unless guys and girls are very different, I don’t think you are right, and if it seems that way, maybe it’s simply a you-want-it-because-you-can’t-have-it motivation that’s behind it. In other words if you would change the system and make girls learn just as much as guys, they would have less of an interest. Just my conjecture.
Sheichus difference? Not sure what you are getting at. My point is this: there are people who like to learn and people who don’t. Girls who aren’t interested in learning torah most likely aren’t dying to learn advanced maths. Girls who like learning advanced maths will most likely also want to learn torah. Teaching the basics in halacha etc. and pushing secular subjects more won’t satisfy EITHER group.
It could be he thought (clearly, mistakenly) that you personally could not handle such a course, and in his mind he believed that it would soften the blow to make a general comment about women than about your specific shortcomings, because in this way he is saying “don’t worry, you are normal.”
I don’t think that’s what my principal meant, but good point. And I guess it’s all for the best anyhow. I still got to learn it later. 🙂
*See, for example, his comments at the end of the fourth chapter in Hilchos Yesodei haTorah.
Lol – aren’t you supposed to be referring me to math textbooks…
popa – How does the fact that women aren’t COMMANDED to do study torah logically lead to “go study math”? True, women don’t have a chiyuv, but if they want intellectual stimulation, why is mathematics better than torah?
You say “applied mathematics” – are you specifically excluding mathematical theory?
davkanik1 – …what’s the “inverse,” and how is it worse?
Health: The word “burden” unquestionably has a negative connotation, even if you intend to use it neutrally. Dictionary definitions don’t prove anything. YOU are guilty of bad word choice. Quit picking on BaalHabooze.
RSRH: lol
I pass by a busy shopping center every day, and the salespeople on the sidewalk soliciting for their stores ALWAYS approach me, shove stuff into my hand, ask WEIRD questions (“Who cuts your hair?” – no joke), etc. I’ve started to think that there is some general target profile that I somehow fit exactly…
Yeah, not the type of approachable I would like to be. 😛
miritchka, gefen, Nechomah, yentingyenta – I don’t get what you find offensive about non-pregnant women wearing “pregnancy style” clothing. Gathered empire waists, etc. are not exclusive to maternity styles. If you automatically associate such cuts with maternity, fine. But they aren’t doing anything wrong.
Toi – If women really weren’t capable of analytical reasoning, they wouldn’t be able to manage advanced mathematics either. I guess I am a paradox, then…
yitayningwut – You seem to be saying (correct me if I’ve misinterpreted) that since women don’t have a chiyuv in talmud torah, etc., their knowledge of torah can be technically be regarded as equivalent in value to their knowledge of other disciples. I don’t agree with that. Isn’t there intrinsic value in learning torah, regardless of its role in the scheme of things?
And then there’s a logistical snag – girls that are content with learning the “basics” usually are really not interested in (or capable of) expanding their secular knowledge. The ones that are capable usually want the utmost in limudei kodesh too.
And the principal thing really wasn’t that bad as I made it out to be. It was regarding a request for an advanced physics class, and I think he was just trying to say that we wouldn’t be able to handle the theory. He did phrase it very offensively, though. Plus, I don’t think it’s right to just throw out that generalization regarding specific cases.
yitayningwut – A very choshuv principal of mine once said that to me (pretty much in that lashon, too). Still irks me to this day.
Anyway, what does the gemarah mean, exactly? Is it better for a woman to learn science (over torah)?
yitayningwut: According to some men, we are too stupid for that.
They learn Navi because they don’t have anything better to learn. I would guess that’s sufficient reason…
lolkatz’s is really funny…
BaalHabooze – nice subtitle! 😉
If you don’t know, then you are not a geek. Congratulations.
Good shabbos, all! 🙂
I’m not trying to draw legal parallels. I’m trying to look at it from the goy’s perspective. He doesn’t really care that what they are doing is legally correct, because he thinks it’s morally wrong. Same as by the B110, no?
Hmm…maybe we should give in on this issue in order to save face from the B110 debacle…:P
I grew up in NJ and distinctly remember not having busing on legal holidays…when did they change this?
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I really don’t think anyone’s taking this Ice-cream character seriously.
Orchestra?! Is that what they get nowadays? Do they rent an extra hall for them?
Now, isn’t that the pot calling the kettle black?
Sorry to say, but…+1
Clean-up time…:)
(S)he’s cunningly trying to profile all recent sem graduates! STALKER ALERT!!!
midwesterner, charlie brown – and I thought it was me against the world.:P
The colonists were traitors against England, too. I’m definitely not saying that the OWS movement has as much justification as the American Revolution – just that a belief that opposes the establishment isn’t necessarily ideologically WRONG, even if it is “traitorous.”
Disclaimer: I DO think they are a bunch of moronic idealists.
Very unique brand of humor. 🙂
Ditto machine.
Lol. That’s pretty good.
yitayningwut, does your screen name really mean something?