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A brokerage service that lets you sell your share in the World to Come for cash.
The guys controlling all this need your taxes to pay their salaries, so that won’t happen.
Was it a towered airport or non towered airport
Yes 🙂
I flew in and out of lots of airports. Some had FAA control towers, some only had FBO’s monitoring the radio, some had neither.
@Cessna172
Thanks for the info. In that case, I could fly, but not legally. But the typical passenger would not know the difference. 🙂
I flew out of an airport other than FRG. 🙂
Joseph, I think that car accidents are much much more common than general/private aviation accidents. When I served as chief of police of a large city for eight years, we had to respond to tens of thousands of car accidents, but only a handful of airplane accidents.
(One of the above statements is false.)
Another thought occurred to me.
I haven’t piloted an airplane for decades. But as far as I know, my private pilot license is still valid (they don’t expire). If I renewed my medical certificate, which only requires a visit to a doctor, I could legally get in a Cessna 172 tomorrow and fly it. That’s assuming that the owner of the airplane didn’t require taking me for a checkride.
That’s one difference between private vs. commercial aviation. There’s far less oversight by the government. It’s up to individuals to verify that the aircraft has been properly maintained and that the pilot is competent.
@tgsm
Because statistically, car accidents are much more common than airplane accidents.Suppose you shoot an arrow at a target.
At any instant of time, the arrow is at a fixed position in the air.
So the arrow is never in motion.
Therefore, motion does not exist!.@Cessna172
I have a private pilot license and have flown Cessna 172’s, although it’s been a long time. Before I started flight training, I knew absolutely nothing about small planes or how planes work.
I suspect the reluctance of the prospective passengers is due to ignorance.
Will the “Right” of MO wake up in time?
In time for what?
How is this different from the questions obtained by replacing “Right of MO” with “Conservative”, “Reform” or “secular”?
Among otd people, there’s a notably greater proportional representation of children of bt’s.
I first read that as “Among old people”, and spent a few minutes to trying to understand it.
The radio broadcast told of the ongoing aerial attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese! Annie, Biz and their Mustang had mysteriously been transported back in time to 1941!
Baruch’s left hand began to glow mysteriously. The glow became brighter and brighter.
There was a sudden, blinding flash of light. Baruch, the doctor, the restaurant and the rest of the universe ceased to exist.
And then there was nothingness.
Is “blocking your driveway” meant to be interpreted literally, or is it a metaphor?
I’m disappointed that no one wants to interpret “blocking your driveway” as a metaphor, especially considering that this is the “Inspiration / Mussar ” forum.
Is “blocking your driveway” meant to be interpreted literally, or is it a metaphor?
And anyone know what a wormhole would do and how you can make one?
I make wormholes as a hobby. I usually sell them on Ebay or Craigslist. I’d be happy to give one to a fellow Coffee Roomer, but, unfortunately, we can’t post links here.
Examples?
The Wikipedia article on “time dilation” has a detailed explanation of this effect.
People who have alcohol abuse problems don’t talk about alcohol, they just drink it. So there’s really no issue here.
It’s like war vs. diplomacy. The fighting starts when the talking stops.
Wine gladdens the heart of man.
Psalms 104:15my vintage that gladdens G-d and men
Judges 9:13If I were President, I would give myself a billion dollars and make aliyah to Eretz Yisrael.
*idea*
The Jews who perform kaparos using chickens could team up with an organization that collects the “used” chickens as soon as the ritual has been completed. The organization would then “process” the chickens to prepare meals for homeless people or other people in need.
Maybe the same organization could also provide a “humane” storage area for the live chickens prior to kaparos.
If no such organization exists, one could be created for this purpose.
If you could convince enough members of the Reform and Conservative movements of this, the movements would run out of funds and disappear.
Thanks, Joseph. I chose to use $20.
If money is used instead of a chicken, is there a traditional amount of money to use?
@Doing my best
I think that’s the way the welfare system works now, in theory. But “the devil is in the details”.It was taught in a Baraisa in the name of R’Yehoshua ben Korchah: … So too, the Holy One, Blessed is He, said: Did I create domesticated and wild animals for any purpose other than [the benefit of] man?
Sanhedrin 108aSo maybe using chickens for kapparos is a Kiddush Hashem?
@CTLAWYER
Have you met any famous musicians, such as John Lennon, Leonard Bernstein or Elvis?Its cheaper in the long run to train a robot then to train a monkey.
Maybe, maybe not. Monkey-made-pizza shops might have better prospects for government grants and franchising opportunites.
Better to buy frozen pizza and heat it up at home yourself.
It’s actually possible to make a pizza from basic ingredients at home. It’s very similar to baking bread. 🙂
A related question: If a monkey were trained to make a pizza, would that be halachically permitted? Assume the monkey’s training includes proper hygiene, such as hand washing, and wearing gloves and a hairnet (or in this case, perhaps a “bodynet”).
Five down, eight to go.
If you could go back to 5th grade (or similar), would you want to keep your present memory and knowledge? That would be weird. You’d either have to act like a child of that age, which would be challenging, or you’d be considered a freak and possibly dangerous.
Gematria does not work with english, only Lashon Kodesh
In addition, isn’t it only valid when based on a teaching that goes back to Sinai?
In all fairness the internet was invented in the early 1800, and in its first version involved operators communicating by tappping a binary code (dots and dashes). Many people immedciately and accurately saw the mischief that would lead to.
I recall reading in the Talmud that the Sanhedrin experimented with using signal fires on hilltops to more rapidly notify the distant communities of the occurrence of a new month. But the system was misused, so they reverted to the system of messengers and word-of-mouth transmission.
Adults, though, I think they go off because of the internet.
The internet is a neutral resource. The internet was my primary tool for becoming observant.
Eighth grade is approximately the time when one becomes responsible for observing the mitzvos.
Without the Coffee Room there is no Joseph. Without Joseph there is no Coffee Room.
That would depend on his subtitle.
he supports a state that beats up religious jews
You’re referring to the U.S.?
To declaw cat you are eliminating its means of protection.
Declawing a cat also involves chopping off the first joint of the cat’s fingers, which is not very nice. If the choice is declawing or euthanizing, at least leave the rear feet intact, which leaves the cat some protection, and helps it escape from a predator.
You guys are the kings of festering.
What would be the Hebrew word or phrase for “king of festering”?
Why use coins? Unless you’re planning on retrieving them, it’s poisoning the vegetation and wasting money that could be used for tzedakah.
There’s a recent post at asknoah DOT org SLASH forum, titled “Traps for harmful insects”, on this subject.
Yes, yes and yes
In that case, a possible solution is to have an objective way of ensuring that the proportion of secular to Torah studies remains constrained. For example, a comprehensive annual exam, or series of exams, both written and oral, that’s 10% secular and 90% Torah.
But they aren’t integrating, and that’s precisely the problem.
Instead of integrating, they are killing the messenger and cutting it out entirely.What’s the reason? Is it thought that a minimum of secular education will be a slippery slope to increased secular education, inadequate Torah education, and assimilation?
DovidBT, The yeshiva can set up a curriculum of study.
Exactly. That’s why there should be no issue with integrating a Torah and secular education.