Do I want to turn Caret Browsing on?
I'm always a bit scared to try that.
( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:34, archived)

i just turned it on and nothing happened.

( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:40, archived)

YOU CRAZY FOOL, DON'T YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'VE DONE?!

( Druid, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:41, archived)

I just did it
and got a cursor on the page.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:42, archived)

It's probably responsible for your pancreatic cancer.
I've never turned it on and guess what? No pancreatic cancer. This can't be coincidence.
( mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:53, archived)

Well, I'm convinced.
I think my new internet buddy should SUE Caret.
( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:54, archived)

oh fucking hell
fucking fucking hell
( Gilgamesh gazed in wonder as Frampton came alive, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:41, archived)

Oh for fuck's sake, that's the most ridiculous thing I've seen.
I can't believe you didn't use target="new". Jesus Christ.
( Druid, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:43, archived)

For fuck's sake.

( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:46, archived)

I know that rule,
but I'm not sure how that applies here, I don't know whether the Sabbath extends to automatic equipment or not, I'm sure I remember reading some counterexamples. It would probably take another Orthodox Jew to talk them out of it.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:54, archived)

I worked with an observant jewish lad a few years back
if it was going dark when he finished work on friday night then the silly twat used to walk home

edit: beause Jehovah would strike him dead if he used his car
( Gilgamesh gazed in wonder as Frampton came alive, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:58, archived)

oh yeah,
Hebrew days go from sunset to sunset, so he wouldn't be able to operate a motor vehicle.

An interesting issue from the Talmud is that the Sabbath would be announced by a trumpeter from the city walls at sunset. The sounding of the trumpet would be the official start of the Sabbath. The problem is, no transfer of property from public to private property is allowed on the Sabbath, so then what does he do with the trumpet?
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 19:04, archived)

leaves it in the communal trumpet cupboard?

( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 19:09, archived)

this is, believe it or not, exactly the right answer.
there's a great argument in there where some rabbi proposes the hypothetical situation of someone throwing a beehive into the street on the Sabbath. It just gets more bizarre as it goes on.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 19:10, archived)

I bet God was having a right laugh when he was writing the rules.
1) Don't kill people.
2) Don't say my name in vain.
3) No carrying trumpets on Sunday.
4) No eating pork.
5) No walking past automatic light sensors
( Druid, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 19:21, archived)

The Talmud is Rabbinical rather than prophetic,
but yeah, it's hilarious in parts. There's some brilliant stuff about Leviathan. And apparently the age of consent in ancient Israel was... 9.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 19:29, archived)