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Mawwage. Mawwage is what bwings us together today. Wove, twue wove… So tweasure your woves fowever.
Sacrilege-
Obviously, more than 100,000 people per year disagree with my assessment or they would not bother putting in the work it takes to earn the MBA.
With that in mind, I don’t think the addition of one or two people here disagreeing with me is going to change my perspective. Which is the other side of the desk.
They very well know the difference between a real degree and other alternatives.
I find that is generally the case, in the NYC area and even in large companies outside of NY Metro. But in other regions or smaller companies, they often have never heard of these shortcuts and will treat it the same as any other college they never heard of.
For someone starting in such an area, the pseudo-degree may be the stepping stone into such a company, and the experience there can be the stepping-stone into ANY company.
As another poster was saying before Y”T, we should also abolish the building of succos. After all, even the ones that are not on fire escapes pose a threat to human life. Why, just this Y”T my succah collapsed in strong wind (and mine was only strong enough to withstand normal wind) and again collapsed as it was being dismantled (not by local union).
Additionally, the whole concept of YT should be abolished. Nowadays, we know how unhealthy it is to just sit around feasting day after day and spending the rest of the time sitting around in a shul. A more compliant YT would have to involve group exercize, not group prayers – and no red meat.
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but finish the story
I’ll give you a really simplified explanation. If it doesn’t satisfy your question, you probably don’t need the Priority service very much. You can learn more details from google blog though, if you’re interested.
Many people receive far more email than they can possibly read. The longer you have an email account, the more spam it will receive (Nobel Prize hopefuls are trying to formulate the exact relationship). Plus, there are plenty of non-spam emails that just don’t deserve your full attention (think of blast emails, chain emails, forwards, anything where your name is one of hundreds on a cc or bcc list). Then there are the notification emails from banks, credit card companies, etc and then there are the “sales” announcements from every retailer whose site you’ve ever visited. Once or twice a week there is that one email from your mom that if you don’t notice immediately and reply to she will be reporting you as a missing person.
If you are like many people, you need a secretary to sort your email into piles just to get down to the one or two that you actually care about. Priority Inbox tries to do that for you.
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Here’s a riddle for you, ICOT.
Why does ICOT always wrap squeak’s handle in quotes?
Changed your name to Sara yet?
😉 😉 😉
Moq, in all seriousness, every time you quote something it’s a crackup. Do you do it on purpose?
Tear down the avenue how fast? 62 or less I hope.
Life Of Reilly belongs in a shidduch thread.
With over 100,000 MBAs handed out every year, it is a degree with diminishing or even questionable value. Unless it’s from a top 4 school.
Plus, MBAs don’t look so good on grads with no work experience. It is considered meaningful when a working stiff gets the MBA during his/her career.
Bachelor of Talmudic Law
but by all counts, a BTL is really a BS
rebdoniel – Ask Reggie Jackson
So appropriate.
Adios!
kltpzyxM
eat dots, blinky
Jimmy Olsen? (Not Perry White, we know who he is)
theprof1:
1- The Indian names are a perfect example. So are Chinese names. Everyone is 100% accepting of them, yet they make communicating very difficult (I can give examples if none are obvious). The Chinese do adopt Americanized names, unlike the Indians.
2- Nice drush, but not pshat.
And if you believe that the Triangle K has a Rav Hamachshir sitting on the Wild 2 comet, this place has reached a whole new level 🙂
Seriously, check the hechsher on Cold-Eeze before you start putting it in your mouth.
Moderator-80
Mr. 80
very helpful helpful
That that is is that that is not is not is that it it is
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perhaps it is because Yiddish has entered into a kinyan so to speak of belonging to the Jewish People
To people who only speak English this may sound plausible.
Re: Yiddish names
There are three types of Yiddish names, as I see it. One is slang-like, such as “Mudke” (Mordechai) and “Yankev” (Yaacov). The other two are the secularized version of the Hebrew name itself, either an alternate pronounciation (such as “Isaac” and “Zaloman”) or a translation of the Hebrew name (such as “Hirsch” for Tzvi and “Ber” for Dov).
As far as the first type goes, I’m not sure how a nickname became a real name, but I’ve heard men called up for aliyos as “Mudke ben Yankev” or the like.
The latter two types are not Hebrew names but secularized versions, based on the lingua franca at the time. We have certainly adopted both types as “official” Jewish names that are given at brissim, but that doesn’t change the fact that they are straight out of a Lashon Zar. If you were given the name Herschel or Zalman at your bris, all it means is that your “Hebrew” given name is a secular name.
NTTAWWT
ETA: The point is that Zalman = David. For some reason David is a popular given name by goyyim and yiddin only use Dovid, and Solomon is not a name used by goyyim but it is used by yiddin.
LBK, this is within my expertise. You can take my word on the matter.
Mod80- in that case, why didn’t you mention that psak back when we were discussing “Is Yiddish Holy”? Clearly it must be if what you say is true.
It’s the German form of Shlomo, actually. Crack open a German language bible from any century.
Yiddish picked it up from the Germanic, along with other names such as Isaac, Hirsch, Ber, etc.
charlie- I meant a handicap in the sense that the person will be constantly asked to repeat and spell his or her name to every new person. In addition, there are the inevitable misspellings by others on important paperworks and address labels which is annoying. Not a handicap to detriment.
You missed my point – Zalman IS a secular name.
Did you really mean to write ‘per week’? Don’t you mean per day?
Irony. With a name like Zalman, you should at least kick it off with a disclaimer like BP Totty did.
Some flaws are more obvious than others 🙂
It is clearly not necessary in today’s society.
But it is still a handicap for the person with the funny sounding/hard to pronounce name.
Weigh the options.
What’s the heck-shaw on Cold-Eeze these days?
Just sayin’…
Moq,
….va’yisnaeha…????????
er, OK, but that’s not what the spray manufacturers claim on the can. Flying insects, shteit. And bees. Crawlies were a different can.
BP Totty, I heard a similar story (may be apocryphal, but I doubt it) where the feds were dressed (i.e. not in a mikveh, hehe) as Chassidim but couldn’t get anyone to gossip with them. Unfortunately, they had curled their peyos counter-clockwise.
Why? Do they all want to go back to the other side again?
Mod 80-
Based on your description of the diet, no wonder the weight comes back so quickly after the diet is stopped! The kinsmen no doubt stop being sad after you find a shidduch, which means they stop making you sad and you regain your appetite. Also, you start spending most of your time with new kin (i.e. the new spouse), who is also presumably very happy.
SJSinNYC
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If need be, another wife CAN stay home. It just means less money. Or add another wife.
To a point. Law of Diminishing Returns?
Last time ladies’ hats were in fashion I don’t recall any hubbub.
The thread should be renamed: Emerging Fashion – Tznius?
And then the coffee room grew up and had real discussions.
<shakes head>
From you of all people.
1) C & MI cross
2) MI returns
3) C & C cross (now all cannibals are across, and all MI at square 1)
4) C returns
5) MI & MI cross
6) C & MI return
7) MI & MI cross (now all MI are across, and all but 1 C at square 1)
8) The 1 cannibal who is across will make 2 ferry trips to bring his or her companions across one at a time.
My closing comment in my first solution attempt at least was correct.
Oomis:
Everyone will agree that you may trap bees on YT to prevent them from stinging (tzar godol). I wouldn’t be surprised if the same reasoning was a heter to kill them on YT.
A better alternative is to not have bees in the first place. There are bug sprays that are quite effective and last for 2 months with one application. Look around in Home Depot or a similar store. They usually come in a bottle that attaches to a water hose and cost $5-10. Simply spray the ground and the area around where the succa is built. The area is kid safe once the water is dried.
Why does the fault go back to the beginning of time? The fault is right now. For some reason the two parties involved (husband and wife) cannot agree on a basic and important issue (sustenance of the family).
It does not matter what was said previously. If a couple wants to stay married then they have to be able to work something out now. If not, they are both at fault. Right now. Work it out or take the blame.
mw13: In case my above two posts aren’t clear, I will try to spell it out.
You asked, “How am I taking money that belongs to somebody else if it’s my own money I’m keeping?”
The answer is it is not your own money that you are keeping. Taxes are the price you must pay to live in this country and have the opportunity to work and earn a living. In essense, the tax man is a partner in every dollar you earn. So when you hold back money from the tax man, you are holding back money that is NOT just yours, but is both yours and ‘his’.
How am I taking money that belongs to somebody else if it’s my own money I’m keeping?
It’s a classic ethical dilemma. Consider this anecdote:
A older lady decided to make a change to her will. So she went down to Main Street and saw a storefront with the sign “Smith & Jones, Attorneys at Law, LLP”. She sits down with Mr. Jones and they review her changes, modify the document, sign and date it. The lady then asks “How much?” and Mr. Jones replies it will be $200. She opens her purse, takes out two crisp $100 bills, hands them to the lawyer, and leaves.
After the lady left, Mr. Jones observes that the bills are so new and crisp, the lady must have just gotten them from the bank across the street. In fact, they are so crisp that when he thumbs one of the bills, it starts to separate into TWO bills! The lady had inadvertantly paid $300 thinking it was $200 because she didn’t notice that that there were two bills stuck together. Mr. Jones walks to the door that his customer just walked out and sees her heading back towards her car. He is now clearly faced with an ethical dilemma.
The dilemma is: Must he tell his partner about the extra $100?
Cheating on taxes is a complex subject (perhaps its complications lie in the negius of the people making arguments).
The side SJS is presenting is that by cheating on taxes, the government receives less money and must make up the money from other tax payers (since their spending is not a function of revenue collected but the converse). Either the current tax payers will pay more now or the missing amount adds to national debt and will be payed for by future taxpayers. The tax evader is thus stealing either from his own cohort of taxpayers or from future generations of taxpayers.
The other side of the debate seems to be the argument that it is not stealing because the government always collects the maximum amount of taxes it can safely demand at any time. No one is paying more as a result of your cheating because they are already paying as much as the government could get out of them anyway. I’m not aware of any other defenses, and this one sounds pretty flimsy and specious.
Of course, there are the anarchists who claim that taxes in and of themselves are theft and therefore it is not theft to avoid paying them (any more than it is theft to lie to a burglar and say there is no jewelry hidden in your home when there really is).
If there are any real anarchists among us I would be surprised (it is not a Torah concept, for one thing). As far as other arguments go, it always comes down to something that sounds like excuses. I’m with SJS all the way on this one. If you cheat on taxes, you are reducing the amount of money in the US coffers and adding to the national debt. That amounts to thievery in my books.
Can I offer a prize to make it interesting?
I’ll try.
If I asked you what the value of Pi is, you would say it is 3.1415926…….. If I asked you how the value of Pi was obtained, the answer would be to measure a circle of any size and divide the circumference of the circle by its diameter.
What’s happening here is I am asking you how the value of e was derived and you are telling me what the value is (in numerical and algebraic form).
BTW, blinky, I apologize for completely hijacking this thread and causing your riddle to be ignored. Here is a solution:
I have taken the liberty of changing the demographics a bit to fit my sensibilities (Joseph would understand).
1) 2 Cannibals (C) take the boat across the river.
2) 1 C heads back
3) 1 C and 1 Marauding Imperialist (MI) take the boat across the river.
4) 1 C heads back
5) 2 MI take the boat across the river
6) 1 C takes the boat back
7) 2 C take the boat across the river
8) 1 C heads back
9) 2 C take the boat across the river
10) The Marauding Imperialists instruct the scribe to omit from the story any mention of the revolvers, rifles, and bayonettes they were carrying so as to misdirect the reader’s sympathy. It’s just a small band of harmless white guys now, scared to death of the vicious cannibals.