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Controlled by fables from thousands of years ago!
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RE: Controlled by fables from thousands of years ago!
January 15, 2017 at 11:00 am
(January 15, 2017 at 4:58 am)robvalue Wrote: Yeah, that is stupid enough...

Quote:Working from their research facility in the West Bank settlement of Alon Shvut, they create electronic devices — from phones to alarm systems to motorized vehicles — that obey Orthodox Jewish laws about the Sabbath, when even turning an electric current on or off is forbidden.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/busine...osher.html

So rather than question the idiocy of these crazy "laws," they come up with creative ways to adapt technology to comply with them. Mankind (at least some of it) is doomed.
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Controlled by fables from thousands of years ago! - by thool - January 15, 2017 at 1:30 am
RE: Controlled by fables from thousands of years ago! - by thool - January 15, 2017 at 11:00 am

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