Because many large companies can afford to pay a lot more to their employees so that raising the minimum wage won’t affect them. The affects only smaller and mid-sized companies who will be forced to lay off workers and/or hire illegals for under minimum wage. But the vast majority of minimum wage workers work for places that can well afford an extra 50k a year to pay their workers.

I’m curious. Where does Rav Moshe assur it? Can someone find me the chelek and shayloh?

Time #9823 that my wife almost murdered me:

Someone was asking about a shidduch for my sister. It was a “double shadchan” situation, where one shadchan knew my sister and the other knew some guy. The boys shadchan (not a professional, just a ba’alabusta) asked to email a picture. I sent her a smiley face I drew with the message “You trust me on her middos, surely you can trust me on her looks”.

There are two types of alternate medicine: Those that work and those that don’t. Historically, alternate medicine that works has been called “medicine”.

The American court system is extremely biased in favor of women when it comes to divorce. I know of and have heard of cases where the wife’s family use that to their advantage and try to extort money out of the husband and take away his right to see his child/children. In those cases, yes, the husband has a right to withhold the <i>get</i> as a last resort.

He’s a Dutch politician who was very anti-Islam in a lot of his policies. Many Jews saw him as an ally due to his stance on Israel. Truth is, he’s just another right-wing nutter, which in Europe means he’s a Nazi in everything but name.

Does it have to be purely non-violent? Like, not even smashing robots?

• Thomas Was Alone is a great game. It has a very “artsy” style that may take a bit getting used to.
• Braid is one of my favorites. You play a man trying to get from point A to point B and avoiding all sorts of dangerous things. But the cool part is that you have to play with time by rewinding it, making it go slower or go faster to pass most of the puzzles.
• Some guy above mentioned Minecraft which is definitally falling in the kosher category (squids and pigs non-withstanding)
• Then there’s a lot of great free games out there. One of the best is something called Open TTD where you have to manage a transportation empire

Tell me what you think.

I’ve got a friend named O’Connor. Smart guy, made more than a few siyumim.

In my opinion everyone has been framing this argument in black and white. It’s either join the IDF or stay in kollel ???? ?????. Lapid can easily persuade the Chareidim by offering the option to leave kollel without joining the IDF and the Chareidim can easily persuade Lapid by offering to accept the same.

The non-Chareidi velt sees this “Million Man Atzeres” as a demand for welfare and indefinite government payouts to kollels and kollel families which did nothing but anger everyone. Had the Atzeres instead have been framed as a demand to give Chareidim equal opportunity without the requirement of draft, it would have gone over a lot better.

While it’s always important to daven for a yid, let’s not forget that Ariel Sharon is far from a tzaddik. From cutting funding to Yeshivas and Chedarim in 2002 to failing to stop the Lebanese in murdering the residents of Sabra and Shatila in 1980, he’s no tzadik and certainly doesn’t deserve a shlita.

Rummikub always works, as there’s a good chance you both will be interested in it and it’s a game that’s still good with only two people.

If you want my suggestion, forget the typical games that you find in Toys R’ Us and haven’t changed since the 60s. Go to Barnes and Noble and look in the “Strategy Games” section. Lots of really cool stuff that’s also a lot of fun to play.

One of my favorites is Forbidden Island which is fun because you have to work together to beat the game and the proverbial clock by finding treasures before the island sinks. It’s similar to another game (which I haven’t played) called Pandemic where you have to travel around the world curing diseases before everyone is infected.

Another cool (but expensive!) game is Agricola where each player has to manage a farm, including harvesting, livestock, a farmhouse and a family, and snatch up resources before the other players.

I’m also a fan of Carcassone which is kind of like a more fun version of dominoes.

I once slipped on my wife’s sheitel on the newly waxed kitchen floor and it became a WYSIWYG.

It’s incredibly difficult. Basically, it comes down to showing the tuition committee every penny you spend and earn and begging for a large enough break that you can just manage to break even.

Misread that as “Frum Geek Culture”. Oh well, back to the Discworld thread.

I saw a group of men standing by the kever of R’ Yonason HaSandler. One was blindfolded and stood in front, facing the kever while another guy stood in front of him giving him mussar.

There are strange frum people in this velt.

• How many identified asteroids are there in the asteroid belt?
• Why do humidifiers require salt before they humidify?
• If sfek sfeika works m’tam rove, why isn’t a taynas besulim considered kol kevuah?

Would it be kedai to convert an iThink System Dynamic model into an Agent Based Model, and if so, should it be run in AnyLogic or Arena?

Yeshurun: I would NOT RECOMMEND you to attempt to root the device yourself. It can permanently damage the tablet. Best thing to do is to find someone who knows computers and mobile devices and ask them to do it for you.

crazybrit: It’s not so simple to flash a recovery. It seems that the computer is closely guarded, so downloading a recovery image and transferring it to the tablet would be difficult. Doing it without the parents noticing is impossible. Besides, diddling with the hardware would probably lead to some really bad results, considering how closely connected all the different components are in a standard tablet.

nossb: <REDACTED FOR FEAR OF REVEALING MY IDENTITY> Let’s just say it was a moderate sized Asian country where the entire Jewish population consists of a Chabad Shaliach and a Morrocan guy who runs a cigar store.

Funny thing that, everyone talking about ordering a Coke. I was recently in a country where kosher food was completely unavailable, so drinking the beer (which was brewed at the restaurant) was actually halachically more permissible than drinking the Coke, as beer brewing relies on a very specific set of ingredients.

To get back on the subject, I hated the article. It basically brought a few examples of people who were inordinately hateful or fearful of Germans and/or obsessed with the Holocaust then pretended that they were gilgulim from that time. The funniest anecdote was with some hypnotherapist (while trying as hard as possible to avoid using any derivative of the word “hypnosis”) who claimed to have found gilgulim memories in people. I guess he’s a little out of date, as I believe it was in the 70s when a similar hypnotist was debunked and shown that the patient would often just construct the memories to make the hypnotist happy.

You. Just. Called. RUSH. A. Metal. Band.

Shades of black and your know they’re back

Gartel tight and peyos long

Shades of gray and you know what they say

It’s a cheirim otherwise

Oh, that chumrah song. I’m more of an old fashioned kind of guy.

One place that I always found interesting is Kalat Nimrod (Nimrods’ Fortress). It was a fortress built by the Crusaders in the 11th century. It’s still almost entirely intact and sitting a bit off the beaten path in the Galil it’s pretty empty most of the time.

What about Hatzalah abuse? There is no reason to pull an ambulance away from a potential pikuach nefesh situation because you are uncomfortable taking a taxi to the hospital to give birth. My aunt was a dispatcher and she said that the worst call she ever got was a woman hysterically screaming into the phone in Yiddish (which my aunt was not fluent in). After the volunteers arrived at her house, they found a kid with a comb tangled in his peyos on Erev Shabbos. That was all.