16th August 2012, 9:01 PM
Good. Taking a portion of the sales from that was pretty sketchy itself. Now people selling "prayer beads" will need to sell them purely as a decoration of symbolic value rather than as some sort of blessed talisman.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)