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Tuesday, October 10, 2017

No Waze In Teheran

I got a chuckle this morning when I saw that Iran has moved to permanently block the use of Waze, an app that helps drivers not only find directions but avoid congestion or accidents.  Personally, I hate having a phone tell me where to go, and I often wonder if the directions are valid.  Sometimes, it seems like the phone is just messing with me when it tells me to get off a highway.  That's not why the Iranian government is moving to ban Waze, however.  The reason is that the app was created by Israelis, or what the Iranians call "Zionist criminals."  So the mullahs think it is better needlessly to sit in traffic than to use something created in Israel.

That's just soooo seventh century.

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