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Doesn’t sound so complicated.
For example, if you want to become a lawyer and the sign on your school says something like Boro Park Dental School, then you’re probably in the school for the wrong profession.
Wouldn’t it be great if there was a Rov one could go to who would give the next week’s winning lottery numbers?
It would solve the tuition crisis.
You’ve got that backwards. Eventually, the disease will die out. If everyone does DY, in only several generations, there will be virtually no carriers left.
1. Too much support.
2. More fights about where to go for Shabbos.
3. “Why does Heather have three Zaidies?”
4. Too many Chanukah presents (or gelt, if gifts are verboten).
5. An extra shvigger.
twisted: Interesting. It’s definitely surprising that you find motorcycles to be more tznius.
No, no. The uncertainty principle can clearly be extrapolated to grain in a granary.
Phrased otherly, it means: if you don’t see it, it isn’t true — and even if you did, it might not be.
Well, that’s the uncertainty principle, exactly. You can know where it is, but now how much. Or vice versa.
To quote a well-known philosopher:
Anything that happens, happens.
Anything that, in happening, cause something else to happen, causes something else to happen.
Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.
It doesn’t necessarily do it in chronological order though.
Siman ra? How can that be? There’s no homework when there’s an eclipse!
I agree with Popa.
I once read this somewhere:
“People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that’s a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events — the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there — that must also be a miracle. Just because it’s not nice doesn’t mean it’s not miraculous.”
Have a LAN party and play Call of Duty.
I kissed my bubby.
There’s no such thing as a Jewish computer. “Jewish” computers were taken from old Russian, Polish, or other Eastern European computers.
Knock knock.
Who’s there?
French.
French who?
French Fries!
You can always say that she’s older than you.
These are particularly nice: “
I’ll say it: law degrees from many law schools are of questionable value. In any economy.
The Cat in the Hat.
Forget stocks. Derivatives are the way to go, especially if you’re only first starting your investing career, likely with only a small sum. They’re much cheaper.
AZ: “Or job is to deal with what we can, let’s leave the nistaros to the ribono shel oilam….”
AZ, several lines earlier: “I have a huge problem believing that G-D wants 10% of our daughters to remain agunos..”
and
“aint no way the ribono shel oilam wanted 10% agunos……”
This you do know; I can’t begin to imagine what the nistaros must be.
One word: Gatling gun.
Isn’t that also the integral of 1/baomer dbaomer? Although that would be ln baomer, I guess. Your way is unnatural.
I will not get into the specifics of how badly Joseph misunderstands modern science, but I am amused at how he quotes from many modern scientists to support his opinion that they themselves are absolutely wrong in every single thing they’ve ever said other than the quotes he pulls out of context.
Carry on, though. I am enjoying this.
What a positive example of someone pursuing higher education!
Interesting. The way I heard the story, the master had the second servant flogged for searching for a cup, polishing it, and getting dressed, all while the master was dying of thirst.
Actually, in the interests of accuracy, let me rephrase my riddle:
What, metaphorically speaking, walks on four legs just after midnight, on two legs for most of the day, barring accidents, until at least suppertime, when it continues to walk on two legs or with any prosthetic aids of its choice?
What goes on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening?
Was this a psychiatric facility?
Ooh, I hope I’m still alive in 500 million years. And I hope I have a beachfront house. I can just imagine waking up in the morning, walking out across the (hot) sand, dipping my 12 oz. foam cup into the sea and just adding instant coffee. Ahhhhh.
I guess I’d better dump my newly-acquired SGP stock.
So cancer can now be cured with Tinactin?
Aren’t you lucky. In MY neighborhood, on the Shabbos before bein hazmanim is over, we insert a special prayer before mussaf in which we declare which day the zman starts. But you guys sure are lucky that they just post it on the wall.
Leave the guf home?
Joseph II: I don’t know whether you understood exactly what I was saying before. Yes, the P in RPN does stand for Polish, but it’s not meant to be derogatory at all. It’s not like it stands for Reverse Polack Notation. Polish is just after the nationality of the guy who invented its reverse (prefix notation). It does make me wonder, though, why they picked on his nationality. You don’t see something like Reverse American Vehicular Acceleration for the American who invented the reverse gear in my transmission.
Deteriorated? Excuse me?
I want to be clear: I by no means intended to imply that Texas Instruments manufactures inferior calculators; the people have voted with their wallets, and TI came out ahead. Let no one take this as an opening to accuse me of lashon hara or motzei shem ra. I repeat, Texas Instruments’ calculators are magnificient. HP’s are better, though.
I hear you. It’s interesting that TI calculators have become so popular. Almost no power users will deny that HPs are generally more powerful. But TI cornered the university market and, subsequently, when those students graduated, the professional market. Not that TI calculators are bad, mind you, but there are still plenty of holdouts who will insist on HP.
It turns out that Polish notation was invented by a Polish mathematician in 1920 (basically a prefix notation), and the postfix notation became known as reverse Polish notation (or hsiloP).
Anon for this: Yes, I know that HP still manufactures RPN calculators. Personally, I find I can do more complex calculations with RPN than with algebraic-entry calculators more easily. Once you understand how it works, it’s definitely quicker and easier to do complex operations than to do it with multiple nested parenthesized expressions. Most of HP’s modern graphing calculators have algebraic entry as an option, though. Can’t fight the tide. At least they come in RPN mode by default. Regarding your latter point, yes.
Joseph II: Chill out. I don’t know why it’s called Reverse Polish Notation, but that’s what it is. You’re from the “older” generation but don’t like calculators? Still have your slide rule hanging from your belt? Or do you have a compact one and keep it in your pocket protector?
Joseph II, RPN is Reverse Polish Notation. It’s just a method of entry that used to be popular on calculators, but has largely been abandoned in favor of modern algebraic entry. The basic idea is that the calculator maintains a stack and all operations are performed on the top two elements. For example, instead of 2 + 2 = to get you 4 on a modern calculator, on an RPN calculator you’d type 2 = 2 +: first the calculator would pop the 2, pop the 2, add them together, and then push the 4 onto the stack. Hewlett Packard is the lone holdout, and all their calculators today still use RPN.
My point was, though, that there used to be a limit on the elements the stack could hold. Eventually, the memory doubled, enabling one to hold twice as much data, but shortly thereafter, the calculator began using 32 bit numbers instead of 16 bit numbers, so the doubled memory once again held only half as many numbers.
It reminds me of what a famous philosopher once said (I think it was Plato, but I can’t find the source right now): “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Curabitur luctus congue tortor. Integer vitae dolor.” Roughly translated that means, “That which was once small can become bigger, but it will remain the same size.”
The sizes are definitely getting bigger, no question about it.
Very similar to what happened with HP’s RPN.