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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.
Do you believe in man-made global warming?
I’ve got a friend named O’Connor. Smart guy, made more than a few siyumim.
Presently the vast majority of Israeli society supports Lapid because of how the Chareidim are framing the fight. If the Chareidim would demand instead that conscription need not be mandatory, the tide would turn very quickly against Lapid.
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.
Just a point of clarification: was it brillig when you had the borogoves problem?
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.
Why don’t we follow the standard of the frum newspapers? A man is called depending on your subjective standards of him:
- Chariedi Gadol HaDor from Eretz Yisroel: Moreinu HaRav
- Gadol from America: HaRav
- Rosh HaYeshiva or Rabbi of a big shul and has a beard: Rav
- Rabbi but doesn’t have a beard: Rabbi
- Rabbi but has opinions that disagree with yours: Rabbi
- Chosson with a beard: Reb
- Bearded man with a lot of money: Reb
- Clean shaven man who doesn’t have a shul or yeshiva or dough: Mr.
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.
Personally, I find BBC to be more even handed than frum news sources in reporting news about Israel. Most Jewish newspapers are incredibly biased.
I once slipped on my wife’s sheitel on the newly waxed kitchen floor and it became a WYSIWYG.
If you know someone who can take you in to see Rav Aharon Leib Shteinman, Rav Chaim Kanievsky, or another major gadol, then go. If not, chances are you will be waiting for hours just for the Rov to show up and there’s a 50/50 shot that he won’t. Then you may have two or three minutes to ask him anything, but chances are you’ll just get a quick brocha.
Just take your sisters to the Kosel and say tehillim for 7 hours. It takes the same amount of time and accomplishes so much more.
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.
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Misread that as “Frum Geek Culture”. Oh well, back to the Discworld thread.
Little Froggie: There is something called a “credit rating”.
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.
Technically, many Sephardim can be considered Arabs.
- 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?
Velz Meshugener: What if I just drop the whole thing and write it from scratch in Prolog?
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?
crazybrit: iPhones require a bit more hacking than just downloading a program. And even rooting Androids can permanently disable it if you don’t know what you’re doing. As for flashing a recovery image without the parents noticing, I’m pretty sure that the parents would notice if suddenly their phone isn’t rooted any more.
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.
LevAryehBoy: Most WiFi networks are password protected. Unless Yeshuruns kids are walking around town looking for free WiFi, the tablet stays in the house so it can only connect to the house network. Or not, as the case may be.
Yeshurun: To permanently disable the WiFi on the tablet there is no solution. It’s possible, but it requires a decent level of computer expertise. You will need to gain root access and uninstall the network drivers, a tricky task that may or may not permanently break the 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.
Is anyone upset in the double standards in Yiddishkeit? A 30 year old man with a good job and apartment is a schlepper, looser and nebbech but a 30 year old girl living in her parents house and a part-part-part-time job is such a sad story for such a wonderful maidel.
Or a shadchan complains about people asking for support but will only set “Top guys in Lakewood” up with girls whose families have dough?
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.
There are many solutions, most of them fairly simple. The easiest is just to not give them the password. Your WiFi should have a password, make sure that the computer can connect with the password but not the WiFi. To set or change the password, you have to go into the routers settings.
- Step 1
- Windows: Click on the “Start” circle menu doohickey, click on the text area right above it and type in “cmd”. This should bring up an item on the menu called “cmd.exe”. Click on it. A small black window comes up. Type into it the word “ipconfig”. A whole lotta text should stream by. Look for the words “Default Gateway” and the number next to it (it should look something like “192.168.0.1”). Get the thing listed as “MAC Address”. Go to the next step
- Mac: From the Apple menu, select System Preferences. From the View menu in System Preferences, select Network. Click on “WiFi”. Click on “Advanced”. Click on “TCP/IP”. Get the numbers listed as “Router” and the thing listed as “MAC Address”.
- Step 2: Type that number into your webbrowser like it’s a regular website. This should bring up the WiFi configuration menu. Look for an option called “WPA” or “WEP” Password. From there you can change it so that you need to type in a password to get on to the WiFi.
- Step 3 (optional): On your router settings screen there should be an option for “MAC address filtering”. Turn it on. Type in the MAC address that you got from Step 1. This makes sure that only your computer can connect to this WiFi.
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.
Marshalls, Ross and TJ Maxx. If you’re paying more than $17 you’re over paying.
If you have internet, which you do, go to JC Penny and order Stafford shirts.
You. Just. Called. RUSH. A. Metal. Band.
My father had a great-great aunt named Hermione and was thus the only person alive who was able to pronounce her name before the movies came out. Ergo, it’s a Jewish name, and she’s Jewish and can therefore use an invisibility cloak to cover her hair. But only THE invisibility cloak of the Deathly Hallows, as the others will eventually fade out.
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.
To quote Rav Aharon Feldman:
I saw people lining up with children and infants to receive a bracha from a gadol. At first I was impressed because these people obviously want their children to see one of the greatest men alive today and hope it has an impression on them. I was shocked that when speaking to them, they were all there for brachos! Do they think that every tzaddik gives magical potions to people that can help them get better or become better tzaddikim?
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.
Kind of like Mel Brooks. Jewish according to Halacha, but converted to Christianity to marry a goyteh.
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.
FYI for all those comparisons to Ever Min HaChai, most slaughterhouses electrocute the animal and cut it up immediately. Often when the animal is still alive. The Noahide groups prefer to eat kosher and halal meats for those reasons.
I have a CD with a shmuez by Rav Moshe Heineman in which he quotes the Brisker Rav in order to say that there is no problem of yichud in an elevator.
It is never appropriate to make a Nazi comparison (except maybe in describing Soviet Russia or Pol Pot and other mass murders).
The standard Sysco cardboard buckets are lined with a bacon grease extract in order to add a slight taste of freshness to popcorn that was otherwise sitting on the shelf for a few days.
<quote>Not the same as it used to be</quote>
Err…. It was like that 20 years ago when I first went. It later became even more learning oriented by having the oldest bunks (Prishus and Tzidkus) as kind of a quasi mechina where learning is in place of first activity.
It’s still a rather Yeshivish camp. I don’t think that they have an all-white shirt policy, but it’s pretty much what most counselors and campers will be wearing during davening and learning.
edited four years later upon request
I remember the days when I used to look forward to Summer vacation. Now it just means that it’s more work on my wife entertaining the lil uns.
It’s not about college degrees, it’s about secular education in high school. It’s become a fad in some frum communities for high schools to forgo secular studies altogether. The ironic thing is, it’s not at the behest of the Rabbonim, it’s in order to attract more talmidim as many parents will refuse to send their children to a school that teaches math and sciences. Oddly enough, no Rabbonim have enough of an objection to the practice to stand against it, so it continues.
There is a huge number of talmidim in a this generation who are not fit for kollel life, but even less fit for finding a decent paying job. Yaffed feels that it’s the klals responsibility to see that this doesn’t continue. That is all.
Can someone please explain to me why this is in all objectional?
Me. I’ve posted on here more than once. I’ve been quoted in responses.
That’s already too much.
I see no reason why people are objecting to Yaffed. Do they think that America can raise a generation of poor people solely dependant on the government and outside sponsors like they do in Israel?
You should seek a qualified professional and not take advice from an internet forum.
But yes, having an illness that is taken care of via medication does not make you uncapable of caring for a family.
A massive skull and crossbones across my dorsal region is meant to beautify.
Y. Elchonon/Avi Yishai lives in Monsey which is part of the reason why he makes a huge effort to keep all mention of Monsey out of the Yated.
Proposal to change all references to goyisheh acronyms to more appropriate Yiddishe acronyms. In this way we shall separate ourselves from the tumadickeh outside world and the chukas hagoyim:
- OMG = RSO (Ribono Shel Oilom)
- LOL = Nothing. There is nothing funny about the Internet. Its only use should be for serious business.
- WT(LAST LETTER CENSORED) = OG (Oy Gevalt!)
- IMO = IG (Ich Gedensk)