Required post(though I think the whole thread ought to count):
[QUOTE=Michael Tzadok;2970388]Cost isn’t unrelated. In fact you brought cost into in your first post where you started abusing the Yiddish language. Here let me quote you:
Bold for emphasis mine. I’ve pointed out numerous times that “we” as in “we the people” don’t in fact budget for corporate security. Corporate Boardrooms do that usually based on complex algorithms of cost vs loss and benefit vs risk. Ask Submessenger as he did it for the great orange beast once upon a time. So yes it is a false comparison. Without any guessing at all involved they are very different types of entities. Public schools are not profit making entities whereas corporations are. They face different types of threats. They have different insurance requirements. They have different budgetary restraints.
In case you haven’t figured it out the US as a whole isn’t overly invested in its educational system. The US for all its considerable wealth never ranks within the top 10 nations for education and rarely even within the top 20. Education simply isn’t a priority, it is an underfunded institution that bleeds money at best. So yes comparing what “we’ll budget” as far as corporations are concerned versus what “we’ll budget” as far as public educational institutions are concerned is simply a bad comparison. There is no guessing there.
Simply put Americans are unwilling to invest in public education. That goes from quality to security. Second to that, as much as these mass casualty events are a tragedy, they are not a sufficient threat to warrant spending considerable portions of an already stretched budget on security improvements. When researchers from North Eastern University are claiming that schools are safer now than they were in the 90’s and that there have only been 8 mass shootings in public schools since Columbine in 1996.
So not only do you want to compare the budget(your words see above) of a corporation to that of a public school, you want to burden the budget of a public school to account for a very rare threat. So yeah make your case.
Well you don’t even seem to be certain as whose grandmother she is.
First you send me PMs threatening to “expose me as a fraud”. You make all kinds of accusations and assumptions about my faith and my qualifications as a Rabbi, both publicly and in PM. You PM me begging me to stop exposing your pseudo-Jewish BS. Look dude, you want nit pick everyone else for all their errors, but you act like a whiney little punk when other people do it to you. Don’t dish it if you can’t take it. Either harden up or shut up.
Now as to whether whomever’s 80yr old grandma is wrong. I’ve already linked one academic Yiddish dictionary, I am willing to link others. Yiddish is a language, it has words, grammar and rules which are recorded in dictionaries, grammars and lexicons. Now if the dictionaries, grammars and lexicons say that you are using the wrong word, I don’t care how many mumbling recordings you bring of old ladies you claim are holocaust survivors you are wrong. You can chose to be an idiot and die on this hill(never ceases to amaze me the hills people will chose to die on) and demonstrate your science and fact denial once again by arguing you or someone you know actually knows better than academic reference materials or you can just admit your mistake and move on. Somehow I think you might be just enough of a ego-maniacal narcissist to insist that that you know better… But I could be wrong.
Don’t know Italian, have no Italian dictionaries and don’t frankly care about Italian so I don’t really care whether the local Italians or you are using the language correctly. I’ll leave that to Mario Batali and Emeril.[/QUOTE]
Can I get a Judo Black Belt Tag? I would post the USJA form, but it’s got my full name and date of birth. I’m happy to verify over PM, or if someone is a USJA member they can look me up
[QUOTE=halfcut;3047531]Can I get a Judo Black Belt Tag? I would post the USJA form, but it’s got my full name and date of birth. I’m happy to verify over PM, or if someone is a USJA member they can look me up[/QUOTE]
If the moderators do not outrank you in Judo,
then their tags are ridiculous.
Do not ask people who cannot certify your rank to do so for a ‘tag’.
Just reference your USJA rank when and if you feel the need.
[QUOTE=ghost55;3047540]Pretty sure Omega has a Judo blackbelt.[/QUOTE]
Good for him.
So what?
Is he the right Judo rank to certify Judo black belts?
I can certify Judo brown belts…As I am only a sandan (3rd degree) Judo black belt, and a rank examiner.
Two of me can certify a Judo Black Belt.
Maybe Klanuck Neil can certify a Judo black belt.
I don’t know his status beyond “Judo Black Belt”.
But ‘Judo Black Belts’ at shodan, nidan, and sandan, cannot certify Judo shodan (Judo black belt) ranks according to most of the Judo world, only recommend.
[QUOTE=halfcut;3047531]Can I get a Judo Black Belt Tag? I would post the USJA form, but it’s got my full name and date of birth. I’m happy to verify over PM, or if someone is a USJA member they can look me up[/QUOTE]
Just so I can say that I checked the boxes, dotted the t’s and crossed the i’s, you can PM me. I’ll preemptively give you the tag, because you seem trustworthy
[QUOTE=ghost55;3047540]Pretty sure Omega has a Judo blackbelt.[/QUOTE]
In order to give Omega more tags, I would have to rewrite large chunks of the forums. He is free to instruct me to put up whatever he wants (within current technical limits), as long is it’s not bullshit.
[QUOTE=submessenger;3047542]Just so I can say that I checked the boxes, dotted the t’s and crossed the i’s, you can PM me. I’ll preemptively give you the tag, because you seem trustworthy :)[/QUOTE]
The USJA, as one of the three U.S. bodies recognized by both the IJF and the Kodokan to recognize Judo rank,
is, flawed as it has been historically,
“good enough for government work” to recognize Judo rank.
[QUOTE=Dr. Gonzo;3047545]The USJA, as one of the three U.S. bodies recognized by both the IJF and the Kodokan to recognize Judo rank,
is, flawed as it has been historically,
“good enough for government work” to recognize Judo rank.[/QUOTE]
As I am not officially ranked in Judo, I don’t have access (unless they’ve changed that, I stopped checking because we have enough other members that can do it on my behalf).
[QUOTE=submessenger;3047544]In order to give Omega more tags, I would have to rewrite large chunks of the forums. He is free to instruct me to put up whatever he wants (within current technical limits), as long is it’s not bullshit.[/QUOTE]
That weird cat claims, and may legitimately have, nine black belts.
Be sure to give him a Super-Ninja tag, as space allows.
But also, that many black belts also equals Weird-Do status, by default.
[QUOTE=submessenger;3047546]As I am not officially ranked in Judo, I don’t have access (unless they’ve changed that, I stopped checking because we have enough other members that can do it on my behalf).[/QUOTE]
BKR, me, several others have.
Plus, if you call John Paccione, the current Pres of the USJA, he will take your call.
[QUOTE=Dr. Gonzo;3047548]BKR, me, several others have.
Plus, if you call John Paccione, the current Pres of the USJA, he will take your call.
He has a school in Ft. Myers, and is no mystery.[/QUOTE]
What I don’t have is halfcut’s permission to share PII with you. He is a member in good standing, and to date has not tried to pull one over our eyes, so I give him the benefit of the doubt. Lying to get a tag is going to be way, way worse, if/when we find out.
[QUOTE=submessenger;3047549]What I don’t have is halfcut’s permission to share PII with you. He is a member in good standing, and to date has not tried to pull one over our eyes, so I give him the benefit of the doubt. Lying to get a tag is going to be way, way worse, if/when we find out.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but he referenced USJA, so just call John P, Pres of USJA to confirm.
You can always ask for John P’s email, on first call, if calling is a hassle.
[QUOTE=submessenger;3047551]He is asking to provide documentation, at which point I will do my due diligence. Until that happens, I think it’s fair to provisionally crown him.[/QUOTE]
As you wish,
contrary to my procedural and institutional recommendations,
The only crowning I ever admired were the sort Napoleon and Genghis performed, anyway.
