It is possible to learn to read the facial expressions. There are various methods (flash cards) or use yourself for examples. Even if she doesn't learn all the expressions accurately, just knowing that they exist will be huge. It's like being able to hear after being deaf your whole life. Suddenly there's this whole other convesation going on in front of you that you didn't even know was there.
One other less commonly recognized symptom is difficulty recognizing faces. People may have a hard time telling if the person you are speaking to now is the same person as before (for example an employee in a supermarket). And TV is even harder. People close to you usually give more clues (voice, clothing, etc), and are not as hard. And forget about mug shots, or those lost kids pictures.
There is a specialized area in the brain for recognizing human faces, different from the one for recognizing objects. (So damage in the area for recognizing objects will not prevent someone from recognizing faces, and vise versa.) Aspergers clearly involves that area.
The goal is to learn to use the object recognition area on faces, specifically on body language. Which is possible, just learn the pictures as objects, meaning lots and lots of examples are needed, an example for every possible emotion, and type of face. (The number of variations you will need depends on how bad the aspergers is.)
As far as the perfectionisim goes, try to re-channel it. Get her to be perfect in something else about the paper rather then the shape of the letters. For example be perfectly on time, but not perfectly formed, or perhaps perfectly spelled. The perfectionisim is inate (it causes a great deal of satisfaction) but the specific thing to be perfect about is not. So you can pick something else - but something hard, or it won't count.
Saying things like - look you made a spelling mistake - all the words need to be spelled correctly, will start the process, then you need to actively not care about the shape of the letters. But be careful not to say "it's good enough", it need to be fine as it is, not fine despite how it is.
But be careful, so you don't wind up with both. How old is she BTW?
This really doesn't sound like aspergers. The most common symptom of aspergers in an inability to read body language, and many don't even realize body language exists, making them quite a target for teasing and bullying. Also poor social interaction. But very very good technical skills, so asking questions such as these just doesn't match.
Additionally there are no perscriptions for aspergers. So, I couldn't tell you what you have, but I don't think it's aspergers.
I don't care if they forge the from address. But I DO care that they use mine!
I get about 200 bounces a DAY because of people forging my domain name. Yes I can filter all message from a daemon, but it doesn't work prefectly, and what about when I typo an address? I'll never see the bounce.
So I think that there has to be some way of verifying that the sender had permission to use that from address.
Bah! You are right. I did know this once upon a time, but I got the genders reversed in my head.
However a female caused by non response to testosterone is fertile actually. See the second to last paragraph below.
Let me repost the whole thing correctly this time:
The implications of this are quite simple: the mixed chimera child will be male, fertility will depend on if the sex organs have male of female DNA.
Providing male hormones to a fetus will make it male regardless of what the DNA says, it's basic - although quite interesting - biology. And since the DNA is female, which has only one side of the chromosome, then child is sterile.
A bigger problem is if not enough hormones are produced, then you have mixed genders, but in a chimera this doesn't typically happen, since there is some testosterone.
Usually mixed genders occur on the other side of the hormone equation - the reverse of the above: the receptors for the hormone.
If the receptors don't 'receive' the hormones properly they don't 'masculize'. If they receive no hormones at all the child is female, and fertile! If they work partially then you have a mix, usually sterile, but possibly self fertilizing (not very likely though)!
The type of problem (no receptors at all) usually runs in families. Since the child is female and fertile, they go on to have more kids with the same problem. But the DNA of the kids is male half the time! Usually you will see this a family with all female kids, some of them possibly with some male characteristics. Where their mother was also from a family with all female kids, etc. going back up the chain.
It's interesting that such a person can not compete in the olympics - and quite unfair, since for all purposes they are female (but only if they have total failure of the receptors). It is interesting that this subject is discussed in the Talmud! Both the case of mixed organs and neither. The ruling there is you go by the external apperence, so in the case above the child is female, irregardless of what the DNA says (even though that can be measured today it's not used). If you are curious look up tumtum which is the aramaic word for a person with ambiguous genital signs.
The implications of this are quite simple: the child will be female. And fertile too.
Providing female hormones to a fetus will make it female regardless of what the DNA says, it's basic - although quite interesting - biology. And since the DNA is male, which has both side of the chromosome, then child is fertile.
A bigger problem is if not enough hormones are produced, then you have mixed genders, but in a chimera this doesn't typically happen.
Usually mixed genders occur on the other side of the hormone equation: the receptors for the hormone.
If the receptors don't 'receive' the hormones properly they don't 'feminize'. If they receive no hormones at all the child is male, but sterile, since it only has female chromosomes. If they work partially then you have a mix, usually sterile, but possibly self fertilizing (not very likely though)!
If you are interested in this subject there is quite a bit of info out there, just look for chimera to get you started (and ignore the info about chimera in cows:) where it is apparently quite common.
What are you saying exactly? The oldest source for the Bible is the original Hebrew - which I learn directly, no translation at all. In fact any Hebrew speaker would be able to read the Bible in the original with very little problem.
The Hebrew spoken in Israel is the Hebrew of the Mishnah, which is very very similar to the Hebrew of the Bible (which is called Lashon Hakodesh - which means holy language). The few differences I can think of are numbers are written in reverse order (still in base ten with an implied zero) - eg: five and thirty and two hundred years, instead of two hundred and thirty and five years. Some words are different eg: the color yellow is "Yarok" but in modern Hebrew "Yarok" means green. But the word is still a color. And maybe some others words that are not used in spoken Hebrew.
The first translation of the Bible was into Aramaic, and from that we (and by we I mean people who lived 1000 years ago, since the meanings of all the words are tought in school today) know the meaning of any unknown word. The only words that are still unclear are the names of gems, and birds, where there are a few different opinion of which gem/bird specifically is being refered to.
Any translation of the Bible done by a Jew would be directly from the original - in fact the King James and others are so inaccurate so no Jew would dream of reading from them. The best version I have found is called The Living Torah.
I could not even make my way through book 1 - I finally forced myself to finish it. I had the exact same problem as you - not to mention I had a very had time keeping the characters straight.
I think my problem is that I was not expecting this kind of book - where there are no real main characters, I found myself skipping chapers to find out what was happening to dany, and not realizing she has a very small story (at least in book 1 from what I hear 1). Same for other characters.
I think that if I had known what kind of book this was from the start, I would have read it in a totally different way, and probably enjoyed it.
I think I'm going to give the series a second chance.
That sounds very similar to me. I also do my best thinking late at night, in the morning I'm not at my best, in fact I have problems with visual acuity (it's like I'm looking at things that are too far to see clearly). Late at night I have great vision though.
I think I have sleep apnea, I'm not sure. My biggest problem is falling asleep at night - I could be exausted and It'll still take me 1 to 2 hours to fall asleep. And heaven help me if something wakes me up at night - It'll take me an hour to fall back to sleep. So I might be in bed for 10 hours, and still get only 6 hours of sleep.
I have the same problem with headaches (if I sleep too much or too little I get a headache that stays with me all day long).
I has a similar problem. Although I think I did know what the zip was.
I simply wrote a script (using wget and the shell) that tried all dates in the past 100 years. I was surprised that it only took about 5 minutes to crack the date.
You might want to try that if you have any information at all about which date and zip it might be. Especially if you can guess part of the zip.
With a fast connection, you can try hundreds of dates per second.
Use an account you know the info for to see what is the output when you have success vs failure and put that in the script.
Buy her moissanite - it's actually better then diamond (more sparkle, etc), it's cheaper at about 1/10th the price - and it's nearly impossible to tell the difference. Most diamond checkers will think moissanite is diamond! (it has similar heat absorbtion, which is what they check)
The only way to tell the difference is that moissanite is double refracting, vs single for diamond.
If you have difficulty buying it contact me and I can get you some. It's not sold directly to the public (to try to keep the cost up:), but I can get it. Try the internet too of course.
And BTW if you never tell her it's not diamond she'll never know the difference - even a jewler would have a hard time telling. Course you don't want to lie to your wife.....:)
As you can see moissanite wins in everything except hardness. And moissanite is actually tougher then diamond. (Hard is scratching, tought is breaking.)
But your theory of how to teach children conflicts with reality.
Take the same position with regard to theft for example - never tell your child that theft is wrong, oh no. Instead say that some people think it's wrong, but other think it's a great way to get things.
See which idea your kid will adopt.
Children must be taught, and they are going to be taught the same things their parents believe. This is the point of being a parent. (Instead of laying eggs and letting kids grow up on their own.)
There have been plenty of people who tried your method with disastrous results each time. And plenty of civilization too - the rule of the sword.
Your sentence is a bit confusing. The only time you are allowed to break the laws of Shabbos is if someone's life is in danger. And in that case you are not only allowed to break the laws you MUST do so. Even if you are not the only person around, even if you don't know if you'll succeed.
So long as there is a chance that what you do could save someones life - you must try.
The exact meaning of "Life in Danger" is very specifically determined, but in most cases it's obvious. An example of non-obvious is a woman the day she gives birth. By decree she is in the category of "Life in Danger" even if she is well and the birth was easy.
Another example is a low grade fever. In that case some things are allowed and others are not (since the person is not currently in danger, but if untreated could become in danger).
That's the problem with using an imperfect transalation of a Hebrew work. Melacha = Work.
Work is not defined by how difficult or fun it is, but rather by a very specific list of things that may not be done. Fire may not be lit Shabbos, end of story, it's not about whether it's hard work to do so.
You can cary a bowling ball from your basement to the 4th floor of your house, but you can't carry a feather in a public domain (the defenition of public domain is very specific BTW - it's not necessarily what public domain means in English).
All the rules are very very specifially described BTW. None are arbritrary, once you understand the basic reasoining behind them it's easy to know what you can and can't do - you don't need to memorize lists:) (Although there are some grey and/or confusing areas where learning the specific laws is quite helpfull.)
A fire is allowed to stay in existance on Shabbos (i.e. you don't have to put it out). But it may not be maintained! There are in fact prohibitions about reading by the light of an oil lamp because you might, out of habit, adjust the wick.
So, no, you can not do anything on your computer on Shabbos. However you can leave it on, and let automatic programs run. But, it should be set to not make any noise, or display on the screen. Since although not specifically disallowed monitoring what your computer is doing is not in the spirit of Shabbos - and becides you might forget and use it.
Also, fire is not the only reason electicity is not allowed, there is another prohibition about creating on Shabbos - for example creating an electronic circut.
There is BTW a very specific list of what may not be done on Shabbos, all the rest can be done (unless it's not in the spirit of Shabbos).
Here's one: are you allowed to use, via the internet, a computer located in another timezone where it is already Shabbos, but in your timezone it's not currently Shabbos.
The general consensus is that you are allowed to, because the computer doesn't have to keep Shabbos, and you, where you are located now, are allowed to use a computer.
Here's a more difficult one - can you, remotely, turn on a light for a Jew where it is Shabbos for him, but where you are it's not Shabbos?
This one doesn't have such a clear answer because in this case the other Jew is benefitting from what you are doing. But I believe it is allowed because none of you are doing any action that is prohibited.
You can learn from other cases such as: on Shabbos you had to do something that was not allowed to be done, but you did it in order to save someone's life (saving a life takes priority over Shabbos) - say light a fire in -20 degree weather for someone with acute pneumonia. Other people in the room may benefit from that fire.
Part of the reason you don't hear much about this sort of discussion is that most of the questions have been answered. Not all of them though.
Categories with unanswered questions are:
Space
Other Planets
North and South poles
(The above 3 with respect to when is Shabbos and other time related events)
Any sort of Artifcial life (IVF with sperm from non-husband for example - is it allowed? Who is the legal father?)
Genetic engineering (of any kind) BTW is clearly not allowed for a Jew to do - but a Jew may benefit from such work if a non-jew did it.
Is corn with genes from a Shrimp kosher?
HOAX!! This machine is actually impossible.
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I think I'm missing something. Does the whole structure rotate together as one solid thing?
If so, think about it - you won't actually be moving relative to the ground!!
The snow will not be moving relative to you (in a horisontal direction). So how are you supposed to turn? Your ski's won't be moving relative to the snow.
Think about it - if you moved relative to the snow - I don't care what the machine is doing, eventually you will reach the bottom of the slope.
Don't be fooled by the slope (angle). Look at any individual piece of snow (looking down from the top). It will simply be moving in a big circle. Any rider sitting on the machine will also simply be moving in a circle.
Because the machine is moving so fast in a circle, the only force you will experience is an outward force, to the edge of the machine, and an upward force (if the machine is moving too fast), or you will slip down the machine to the bottom (if the machine is moving too slow). But in no way will you be skiing perpetually. Either you will be standing still, or moving up or down to the ends of the machine.
It's not like an escalator - or any of those contraptions described in the posts. In those cases the belt that you are standing on is moving up and coming back at the bottom. So the ground is moving relative to you. It not just going in a big circle.
If that's what this guy wanted then he would have made the machine in a straight line - but imagine just how many tons of snow the motor would have to move!
As far as I can tell he wants the whole machine to rotate as one solid unit. When you do that and stand on it - absolutely nothing at all will happen!! If you balanced the speed of the machine exactly to the speed of you falling, you will stay in one spot. But you could sit in a chair for all the difference it would make.
The only possibiliy I can see is to make a big FLAT disk and spin it. You would get some skiing effect then, but eventually friction will speed you up to the speed of the machine, and you'll be standing still.
It's called Commercial Advance, and it remembers the start and end of the commercial while recording, then goes back and marks it (takes about 12 minutes after the show).
I don't watch anything at all live, I record everything, and let the machine skip commercials for me.
There are a number of VCR's out there that do this, look for them. What I'm waiting for is for the Tivo/Replay TV to do this. But I'm guessing it'll never happen. So any chance we4 can hack it ourself?
It's called Commercial Advance, and it remembers the start and end of the commercial while recording, then goes back and marks it (takes about 12 minutes after the show).
I don't watch anything at all live, I record everything, and let the machine skip commercials for me.
There are a number of VCR's out there that do this, look for them. What I'm waiting for is for the Tivo/Replay TV to do this. But I'm guessing it'll never happen. So any chance we4 can hack it ourself?
Why do you want to force kids to go where they don't want to go? If the schools are as good as you say, then people will go there anyway, and you should have nothing to worry about. If you want to force kids to go there, you are as good as saying the schools suck - and sorry, I don't want my kids to go to a school that sucks.
Vouchers allow natural selection of good schools. The good ones will get students and therefor money, the bad neither, and eventually will disapear.
You might say money = good school. I disagree, you can have a great school with almost no money - it's all a question of teachers, and the schools ability to select good ones.
What's wrong with school vouchers? Can't kids go to whatever school they want? The Gov sets aside X dollars per kid, the kid picks which school gets it. I don't see anything wrong.
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One other less commonly recognized symptom is difficulty recognizing faces. People may have a hard time telling if the person you are speaking to now is the same person as before (for example an employee in a supermarket). And TV is even harder. People close to you usually give more clues (voice, clothing, etc), and are not as hard. And forget about mug shots, or those lost kids pictures.
There is a specialized area in the brain for recognizing human faces, different from the one for recognizing objects. (So damage in the area for recognizing objects will not prevent someone from recognizing faces, and vise versa.) Aspergers clearly involves that area.
The goal is to learn to use the object recognition area on faces, specifically on body language. Which is possible, just learn the pictures as objects, meaning lots and lots of examples are needed, an example for every possible emotion, and type of face. (The number of variations you will need depends on how bad the aspergers is.)
As far as the perfectionisim goes, try to re-channel it. Get her to be perfect in something else about the paper rather then the shape of the letters. For example be perfectly on time, but not perfectly formed, or perhaps perfectly spelled. The perfectionisim is inate (it causes a great deal of satisfaction) but the specific thing to be perfect about is not. So you can pick something else - but something hard, or it won't count.
Saying things like - look you made a spelling mistake - all the words need to be spelled correctly, will start the process, then you need to actively not care about the shape of the letters. But be careful not to say "it's good enough", it need to be fine as it is, not fine despite how it is.
But be careful, so you don't wind up with both. How old is she BTW?
Additionally there are no perscriptions for aspergers. So, I couldn't tell you what you have, but I don't think it's aspergers.
What perscription to you take?
Which BTW is why the carbon based pastes work much better.
I get about 200 bounces a DAY because of people forging my domain name. Yes I can filter all message from a daemon, but it doesn't work prefectly, and what about when I typo an address? I'll never see the bounce.
So I think that there has to be some way of verifying that the sender had permission to use that from address.
Bah! You are right. I did know this once upon a time, but I got the genders reversed in my head.
However a female caused by non response to testosterone is fertile actually. See the second to last paragraph below.
Let me repost the whole thing correctly this time:
The implications of this are quite simple: the mixed chimera child will be male, fertility will depend on if the sex organs have male of female DNA.
Providing male hormones to a fetus will make it male regardless of what the DNA says, it's basic - although quite interesting - biology. And since the DNA is female, which has only one side of the chromosome, then child is sterile.
A bigger problem is if not enough hormones are produced, then you have mixed genders, but in a chimera this doesn't typically happen, since there is some testosterone.
Usually mixed genders occur on the other side of the hormone equation - the reverse of the above: the receptors for the hormone.
If the receptors don't 'receive' the hormones properly they don't 'masculize'. If they receive no hormones at all the child is female, and fertile! If they work partially then you have a mix, usually sterile, but possibly self fertilizing (not very likely though)!
The type of problem (no receptors at all) usually runs in families. Since the child is female and fertile, they go on to have more kids with the same problem. But the DNA of the kids is male half the time! Usually you will see this a family with all female kids, some of them possibly with some male characteristics. Where their mother was also from a family with all female kids, etc. going back up the chain.
It's interesting that such a person can not compete in the olympics - and quite unfair, since for all purposes they are female (but only if they have total failure of the receptors). It is interesting that this subject is discussed in the Talmud! Both the case of mixed organs and neither. The ruling there is you go by the external apperence, so in the case above the child is female, irregardless of what the DNA says (even though that can be measured today it's not used). If you are curious look up tumtum which is the aramaic word for a person with ambiguous genital signs.
The implications of this are quite simple: the child will be female. And fertile too.
:) where it is apparently quite common.
Providing female hormones to a fetus will make it female regardless of what the DNA says, it's basic - although quite interesting - biology. And since the DNA is male, which has both side of the chromosome, then child is fertile.
A bigger problem is if not enough hormones are produced, then you have mixed genders, but in a chimera this doesn't typically happen.
Usually mixed genders occur on the other side of the hormone equation: the receptors for the hormone.
If the receptors don't 'receive' the hormones properly they don't 'feminize'. If they receive no hormones at all the child is male, but sterile, since it only has female chromosomes. If they work partially then you have a mix, usually sterile, but possibly self fertilizing (not very likely though)!
If you are interested in this subject there is quite a bit of info out there, just look for chimera to get you started (and ignore the info about chimera in cows
What are you saying exactly? The oldest source for the Bible is the original Hebrew - which I learn directly, no translation at all. In fact any Hebrew speaker would be able to read the Bible in the original with very little problem.
The Hebrew spoken in Israel is the Hebrew of the Mishnah, which is very very similar to the Hebrew of the Bible (which is called Lashon Hakodesh - which means holy language). The few differences I can think of are numbers are written in reverse order (still in base ten with an implied zero) - eg: five and thirty and two hundred years, instead of two hundred and thirty and five years. Some words are different eg: the color yellow is "Yarok" but in modern Hebrew "Yarok" means green. But the word is still a color. And maybe some others words that are not used in spoken Hebrew.
The first translation of the Bible was into Aramaic, and from that we (and by we I mean people who lived 1000 years ago, since the meanings of all the words are tought in school today) know the meaning of any unknown word. The only words that are still unclear are the names of gems, and birds, where there are a few different opinion of which gem/bird specifically is being refered to.
Any translation of the Bible done by a Jew would be directly from the original - in fact the King James and others are so inaccurate so no Jew would dream of reading from them. The best version I have found is called The Living Torah.
The rental price includes the landlords expenses, and taxes is one of those.
I could not even make my way through book 1 - I finally forced myself to finish it. I had the exact same problem as you - not to mention I had a very had time keeping the characters straight.
I think my problem is that I was not expecting this kind of book - where there are no real main characters, I found myself skipping chapers to find out what was happening to dany, and not realizing she has a very small story (at least in book 1 from what I hear 1).
Same for other characters.
I think that if I had known what kind of book this was from the start, I would have read it in a totally different way, and probably enjoyed it.
I think I'm going to give the series a second chance.
I think I have sleep apnea, I'm not sure. My biggest problem is falling asleep at night - I could be exausted and It'll still take me 1 to 2 hours to fall asleep. And heaven help me if something wakes me up at night - It'll take me an hour to fall back to sleep. So I might be in bed for 10 hours, and still get only 6 hours of sleep.
I have the same problem with headaches (if I sleep too much or too little I get a headache that stays with me all day long).
I simply wrote a script (using wget and the shell) that tried all dates in the past 100 years. I was surprised that it only took about 5 minutes to crack the date.
You might want to try that if you have any information at all about which date and zip it might be. Especially if you can guess part of the zip.
With a fast connection, you can try hundreds of dates per second.
Use an account you know the info for to see what is the output when you have success vs failure and put that in the script.
The only way to tell the difference is that moissanite is double refracting, vs single for diamond.
If you have difficulty buying it contact me and I can get you some. It's not sold directly to the public (to try to keep the cost up :), but I can get it. Try the internet too of course.
And BTW if you never tell her it's not diamond she'll never know the difference - even a jewler would have a hard time telling. Course you don't want to lie to your wife..... :)
Here's a little chart.
The numbers are: moissanite, diamond, ruby, sapphire, emerald
Refractive Index: 2.65-2.69, 2.24, 1.77, 1.77, 1.58
Fire: 0.104, 0.044, 0.018, 0.018, 0.014
Lustre%: 20.4, 17.2, 7.4, 7.4, 4.8
Mohs Hardness: 9.25, 10, 9, 9, 7.5
As you can see moissanite wins in everything except hardness. And moissanite is actually tougher then diamond. (Hard is scratching, tought is breaking.)
Take the same position with regard to theft for example - never tell your child that theft is wrong, oh no. Instead say that some people think it's wrong, but other think it's a great way to get things.
See which idea your kid will adopt.
Children must be taught, and they are going to be taught the same things their parents believe. This is the point of being a parent. (Instead of laying eggs and letting kids grow up on their own.) There have been plenty of people who tried your method with disastrous results each time. And plenty of civilization too - the rule of the sword.
Maybe the Bible did - i.e. what the Christians use, but the Torah is still written and studied in the original language.
God exists, and his verbal laws are just as valid as his physical laws.
So long as there is a chance that what you do could save someones life - you must try.
The exact meaning of "Life in Danger" is very specifically determined, but in most cases it's obvious. An example of non-obvious is a woman the day she gives birth. By decree she is in the category of "Life in Danger" even if she is well and the birth was easy.
Another example is a low grade fever. In that case some things are allowed and others are not (since the person is not currently in danger, but if untreated could become in danger).
Work is not defined by how difficult or fun it is, but rather by a very specific list of things that may not be done. Fire may not be lit Shabbos, end of story, it's not about whether it's hard work to do so.
You can cary a bowling ball from your basement to the 4th floor of your house, but you can't carry a feather in a public domain (the defenition of public domain is very specific BTW - it's not necessarily what public domain means in English).
All the rules are very very specifially described BTW. None are arbritrary, once you understand the basic reasoining behind them it's easy to know what you can and can't do - you don't need to memorize lists :) (Although there are some grey and/or confusing areas where learning the specific laws is quite helpfull.)
So, no, you can not do anything on your computer on Shabbos. However you can leave it on, and let automatic programs run. But, it should be set to not make any noise, or display on the screen. Since although not specifically disallowed monitoring what your computer is doing is not in the spirit of Shabbos - and becides you might forget and use it.
Also, fire is not the only reason electicity is not allowed, there is another prohibition about creating on Shabbos - for example creating an electronic circut.
There is BTW a very specific list of what may not be done on Shabbos, all the rest can be done (unless it's not in the spirit of Shabbos).
The general consensus is that you are allowed to, because the computer doesn't have to keep Shabbos, and you, where you are located now, are allowed to use a computer.
Here's a more difficult one - can you, remotely, turn on a light for a Jew where it is Shabbos for him, but where you are it's not Shabbos?
This one doesn't have such a clear answer because in this case the other Jew is benefitting from what you are doing. But I believe it is allowed because none of you are doing any action that is prohibited.
You can learn from other cases such as: on Shabbos you had to do something that was not allowed to be done, but you did it in order to save someone's life (saving a life takes priority over Shabbos) - say light a fire in -20 degree weather for someone with acute pneumonia. Other people in the room may benefit from that fire.
Part of the reason you don't hear much about this sort of discussion is that most of the questions have been answered. Not all of them though.
Categories with unanswered questions are:
Space
Other Planets
North and South poles
(The above 3 with respect to when is Shabbos and other time related events)
Any sort of Artifcial life (IVF with sperm from non-husband for example - is it allowed? Who is the legal father?)
Genetic engineering (of any kind) BTW is clearly not allowed for a Jew to do - but a Jew may benefit from such work if a non-jew did it.
Is corn with genes from a Shrimp kosher?
If so, think about it - you won't actually be moving relative to the ground!!
The snow will not be moving relative to you (in a horisontal direction). So how are you supposed to turn? Your ski's won't be moving relative to the snow.
Think about it - if you moved relative to the snow - I don't care what the machine is doing, eventually you will reach the bottom of the slope.
Don't be fooled by the slope (angle). Look at any individual piece of snow (looking down from the top). It will simply be moving in a big circle. Any rider sitting on the machine will also simply be moving in a circle.
Because the machine is moving so fast in a circle, the only force you will experience is an outward force, to the edge of the machine, and an upward force (if the machine is moving too fast), or you will slip down the machine to the bottom (if the machine is moving too slow). But in no way will you be skiing perpetually. Either you will be standing still, or moving up or down to the ends of the machine.
It's not like an escalator - or any of those contraptions described in the posts. In those cases the belt that you are standing on is moving up and coming back at the bottom. So the ground is moving relative to you. It not just going in a big circle.
If that's what this guy wanted then he would have made the machine in a straight line - but imagine just how many tons of snow the motor would have to move!
As far as I can tell he wants the whole machine to rotate as one solid unit. When you do that and stand on it - absolutely nothing at all will happen!! If you balanced the speed of the machine exactly to the speed of you falling, you will stay in one spot. But you could sit in a chair for all the difference it would make.
The only possibiliy I can see is to make a big FLAT disk and spin it. You would get some skiing effect then, but eventually friction will speed you up to the speed of the machine, and you'll be standing still.
Also there is this program that will take C code and convert it into english prose. (Used to bypass restrictions on code - i.e. encryption.)
It's called Commercial Advance, and it remembers the start and end of the commercial while recording, then goes back and marks it (takes about 12 minutes after the show).
I don't watch anything at all live, I record everything, and let the machine skip commercials for me.
There are a number of VCR's out there that do this, look for them. What I'm waiting for is for the Tivo/Replay TV to do this. But I'm guessing it'll never happen. So any chance we4 can hack it ourself?
I don't watch anything at all live, I record everything, and let the machine skip commercials for me.
There are a number of VCR's out there that do this, look for them. What I'm waiting for is for the Tivo/Replay TV to do this. But I'm guessing it'll never happen. So any chance we4 can hack it ourself?
Vouchers allow natural selection of good schools. The good ones will get students and therefor money, the bad neither, and eventually will disapear.
You might say money = good school. I disagree, you can have a great school with almost no money - it's all a question of teachers, and the schools ability to select good ones.
What's wrong with school vouchers? Can't kids go to whatever school they want? The Gov sets aside X dollars per kid, the kid picks which school gets it. I don't see anything wrong.