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Learn how to drive in all weather. Skills beat tools every time.
Or use Flashblock. That just blocks the “moving” ads from starting up.
Rabbaim- I think you should do shibbuda d’rav nosson.
Mods- Is there any way you can weed out the inappropiate “better-than-thou” comments by bombmaniac? He seems to have a superiority complex caused by pressing “Enter”. I am seeing it more and more frequently, and it doesn’t serve any purpose in any thread.
Sam we dont fault them. If the gedolim in question never issued proclamations I dont think anyone would dare say a word here. But they do. I can say unequivocally that Id gladly trade the last 50 kol koreis for one today. Because as this debate shows, the issues are NOT clear to everyone.
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Even your precious paragraph breaks cant redeem you
You misunderstand. The 5th birthday is for YWN moving off blogspot. The CR came later where do I get that from? I was here.
SG-
The cr was open for about half of 2008. So the firstest post would be less than 4 years ago. The software rounds down, so the oldest post is marked 3 years ago. It will change to 4 in summer ’12.
YWN is more than 5 years old now, but not the cr.
Cinderella, how many did he kill in Aug? FTR this is much easier to answer. 🙂
Yes? what about when you spell it out? Lots and lots of numbers are spelled with x number of letters. For example, why 10 instead of 1? Both are 3 letters.
Joe, please explain why 96 is correct. What is the pattern in the series you gave?
1. If you replace the 90 in the sequence with 10^100, then the answer is 96. Otherwise, I have no idea.
And yet, we cannot seem to retain our superiority when it comes to cholent. Every. Single. Week.
Thanks, yenting, but I don’t need any awards 🙂
Number 1 is mustard. A close second is custard. The pickel flavor is good too.
Available at Man and Mixas.
“88 gigawatts of power”
You can be a koifer if you so choose and I won’t say a thing, but I can’t allow this to go by withot a protest.
Great Scott – everyone knows its 1.21 gigawatts and 88 mph! Why are you trying to deceive people? Koifer!
And I assume the connection to this thread is that this is the other one I have commented on?
Your rudeness is really inexcusable. That two times now that you have tried to call me stupid. I’d take AYC over DY anyday. I am not using your lack of understanding as an excuse to call you stupid,- and your lack of understanding certainly doesn’t make me stupid, so you really have no occasion to do so. All in all, I think you are either taking this too personally, or you are unwilling to any thought to this matter, or both.
In any case, I’ll repeat myself so you have another chance to digest or ignore my point. The mere fact that multiplying a number by another number makes a larger number does not speak to the relevance of the calculation to the real life situation. In plain language, until you prove that the shidduch pool increasing by 3.5 percent every year is a reasonable assumption, it is not a reasonable assumption. I could just as easily say the growth is 1%. I stress the word prove, because that is what is lacking – anecdotal evidence exists for and against the argument, but no proof. I am sorry for you if you are willing to accept postulation and guesswork in place of scientific proof.
To your last point, I too will defer to the Gedolei Hador when it comes to manipulation and its appropriateness – when they are not deliberately misled into making tbeir decision. In this case. I am certain they would retract if they had real facts.
charlie – (see, I can spell it right sometimes)
it looks like a I missed an interesting conversation on some other thread where mod42 discussed something about evacuated dolphins… Anyone care to post a link?
There are many references to the subject in the CR, but no actual conversations about it. A few posters make references in random places and that’s it.
oh, and squeak, how do you know what the dolphins were trying to tell us if “we didn’t understand”?
You clearly have forgotten that I can communicate with dolphins. Or can I? At least according to feivel. The real answer is that I read in a book what the dolphins’ message was.
Jothar-
Maybe the dolphins volunteered to be eaten at the restaurant at the end of the universe…
Uh, no. They successfully bred a cow-like animal that offered itself up for eating. No dolphin ancestry. Also, you should not say the “Z” name because of the issur “lo yishoma al picha” 😉
DaasYochid
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It’s much more than that; anyone who doesn’t “believe” in the age gap “theory” simply doesn’t have a good head for math. (I was going to say “has no seichel”, but then I decided that’s too harsh.)
This is very far off the mark. Firstly, the only math involved is squaring or cubing 1.035. Obviously even an elementary school child with a calculator can manage to do that. The point you are missing is that those mathematics have not been shown to be relevant to the situation at hand. Can I be any clearer?
A famous quote, that I unfortunately do not know to whom to attribute it, applies in this situation. There are 3 levels to understanding something. The first one is that of a simpleton, whose mind catches onto some logical connection and believes he understands the issue. The second level belongs to a deep thinker, who continues to study the problem until he realizes that there is so much he has not considered- and discovers that he in fact does not understand the issue. The third level belongs to the researcher, who continues to struggle with the issue until he covers all the bases and reaches actual understanding.
You my friend, are hopelessly stuck on the first level of understanding. Math has virtually nothing to do with the validity of the age gap theory, and it certainly has nothing to do with the moral issues surrounding manipulation.
DaasYochid
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You’re misrepresenting the facts. NASI never took money before accountability was transparent, and they said they would do it this way before there was any “outcry”.
That’s not a very polite way to interject yourself into a conversation. It’s also quite inaccurate. NASI has indeed taken money without offering any accountability in the past, and there was every reason to think that they were planning to do the same with this initiative. Second, they most certainly did NOT make a single mention of accountability before the negative response to their ad.
I’d like to follow up on my last post about outlandish claims and steamrolling the public into submission. That has been NASI’s modus operandi from the get go. My arguments with them are not personal but based on their tactics. I have no direct connection to the shidduch parsha.
From the beginning NASI has been taking leaves out of the playbook called yellow journalism. By making sensational proclamations in the loudest manner possible, NASI has garnered a cult like support not unlike that of a tabloid newspaper. I realize that its possible NASI does not realize that this is what they do and have done, but it is high time that they do realize.
The entire basis of NASI and their subsequent manipulation is the so called age gap theory. While anyone would admit that the idea has “seichel appeal” that is not enough to justify their agendas. In fact, not a shred of real evidence can back the simplistic theory, as I have been yelling from the rooftops since day one. The only attempt to offer proof was the Avi Chai study, which did not hold up to scrutiny.
I hope the public will stop allowing itself to be steamrolled by NASI going forward. We have the right to not be manipulated unfairly.
AZ- it’s obvious that history in general depends on who is doing the telling. Perhaps that is how you perceive things, and as an insider you are able to know if that is the truth or not. But from the outside, that is not how things went. NASI shocked the velt with their outlandish proposal and then met with an outcry over a number of things. One was the complete lack of accountability- down to having no names associated- and thank goodness people did not let themselves get steamrolled by NASI on that aspect.
midwesterner- it’s squeak, not Squeak, I’ll thank you to remember. Second, I said I have no idea what that counts- maybe it double counts the first post in a thread, maybe it includes deleted, and maybe not. Only a mod or above can tell us., but I am curious about it.
OneOfMany- the dolphins tried to tell us, but we didn’t understand so we don’t know where they headed.
I guess this shows that even NASI is willing to bear some accountability, if the public is going to insist on it. Thanks goodness people insisted on it.
Now if only we could insist on some common sense, or at least valid data backing their theories. Do you think if we insisted enough, we could get that too?
” oomis1105 Member
Firstly, there is the gemara that women drinking results in growing mustaches. “
Isn’t that supposed to be what happens when a woman drinks the HAVDALAH wine?”
Give that woman a cigar!
Oh. Oops.
No offense intended. It came as a big shock to me, but apparently they are pan-dimensional beings who took on that form in order to run experiments on the human race. Mod 42 can confirm this.
What I never understood is why they took interest in humans, rather than in the more intelligent dolphins.
charile,
1. You know that I am double nickel. Just kidding.
2. Since I’m just kiding, I will reveal my true method. Just click the hash symbol on any recent post and you will see a number. For example, yours is 331,490. But I have no idea what that count includes.
3. I would have thunk much, much more :p
4. As I have said peviously, I had nothing to do with my sub
5. If it helps, the two most intelligent creatures on Earth ae mice and dolphins, in that order.
6. Humans are third.
7. Some humans are ranked even lower.
What is the equivalent of PICNIC for mobile phones?
– Sent on my Blackberry/iPhone/HTC Android/Whatever
So only 31000 or so were deleted?
To say that over in the name of R Sacks is as stupid as saying it over on the name of Feif Un.
Littleapple – ROFL. I guess you are intimidated by Feif’s greatness as well?
” Of course. I don’t care if someone doesn’t wear teffilin or have a bris. As long as they feel close to G-d on the inside.”
Isn’t that pretty much true for all the girls you’ve dated?
Ken, how should I know? Feivish came up with the dolphin thing, not me.
RSRH-
If you equate the ideology of “U’madda” with that of TIDE then you are not worthy of your screen name. I assure you that Rabbiner Hirsch did not ascribe to what you wrote- though it is explicitly found in the works of Dr. Lamm. You should not confuse the two.
He didn’t spoof my email.
How many politicians does it take to change a lightbulb?
Well, the first thing we have to realize is that the reason we are having this, uh, lightbulb problem, is uh, due to the mistakes of the previous administration. I want to do everything to assure you, the people, of the willingness of my administration to uh, reverse and reestablish the previous equilibrium that we all enjoyed before this unfortunate incident that led to the bulb burning out. My first step will be to name a task force that is assigned to investigating the best way to tackle this problem. The Lightbulb Task Force will also take upon themselves the responsibility of getting approval to complete their objectives in the very next possible Congressional budget……
Answer: At least a few years, a few million dollars, and and an undisclosed number of people will take care of it by the next election year.
So the email was signed? It wasn’t me, and I find that troubling. If you still have the email, I’d be interested to know the address it came from.
I have no inside access to ywn, so I have no way to know anyone’s email address. I wouldn’t say you were victimized but definitely attempted.
I notice Shouldn’t Be Here actually isn’t here. Too bad.
Dr. Pepper-
I did not email you. Not only do I not know what your email address is, but I would not have sent you an email unsolicited.
As Hillel used to say to comfort mourners, Im Ani kahn, hakol kahn.
“And to the men, stop looking at women!
Absolutely correct, but it’s not an excuse.”
Absolutely correct, and how hypocritical of her after just telling us to stop picking on others and focus on role modeling.
“Forgetting doesn’t heal, forgiveness does”
” its called belt dialing “
Maybe if you’re a tuna beigel 😛
Otherwise, it is called pocket dialing.
Aries, funny 🙂
I think the accounting terms are racist. Just because Native Americans run gambling parlors and sell bankrupting products like tobacco, we have a right to call it “in the red”? That’s a racial slur!
Just because the NFL does it, does not mean we should all use this pejorative.
zahavasdad-
No, there are no frum truck drivers. There are some truck drivers who would be considered frum if not for their choice of job, though. They keep kosher, keep shabbos, and in fact keep all of Torah and Mitzvos but unfortunately chose to do a job that frum jews “do not do”.
Hold your tomatoes, I’m being as sarcastic as I can.
They’re just smarter than you.
Look HERE
Enough people have said it. You can rely on the fact that it has happened.
I don’t think the site administration is going to allow the answer to that.
Also tried to elicit a poster’s email address.
This all goes to prove that it takes an analytical eye to spot these things, and discern between threatening and non-threatening.
You could have mine, gladly. Everyone thinks it’s great, and maybe it is for certain purposes (and you are willing to buy K cups). But it just doesn’t make quality coffee.
If they could come up with a cheap disposable filter that would work, maybe the convenience factor would win out over the lousy brew. But they don’t have that option.