I don't know much about Bitcoin, and it's probably a stupid question, but where did the BTCs go?
Isn't it possible to trace it, and prove that you owned them?

zsh, vim+plugins, ssh, ssh keys, unison, git, rvm for ruby and some gems, guake/yakuake, htop, solarized and all the corresponding config files

I'm sorry, but the more you explain yourself, the less I understand.

If you ask me, I'll say $12'000. It's a $450'000 purchase, a $230'000 mortgage, I'll pay an average of 3.5% interest per year, I'll have paid it off in 10 years.

Wait, what?
230 000*3.5%*10 = 80 500
$12 000 would be about 0.5% interest per year
Did I miss something?

It goes back and forth.
Canon got a lot of Nikon users when only Canon had full frame cameras.
Nikon got a lot of Canon users (back?) with D3/D700/D300
Nikon got some Canon users with the 14-24 f/2.8
Nikon got some Canon users with the D800
Nikon got some Canon users with better CLS/TTL flash system
Canon got many Nikon users for video
Fuji now gets many Nikon/Canon users with X-trans sensor, good ergonomics and great lenses
Sony got some Nikon/Canon users with small cameras and big sensors, but lost them again with slow and expensive lenses and lack of support
Nikon lost customers with sloppy quality control
Canon lost customers with not so good sensors

The correct answer is Mu :
http://nl.urbandictionary.com/...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

If you really want to talk about how technology is changing the world and how the next 40 years might look like, you'll have to mention peak oil and climate change.
http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...

see ether.

1) I haven't seen GOTO statements since my GWBASIC days, and I've surely never seen this many.
2) I really like one-liners for if statements in Ruby: "do_this if x==1"
3) Two-liners for C if statements without curly braces feel wrong, are dangerous and hard to read
4) http://xkcd.com/292/
5) GOTO 1

Good!
Continuing in this direction, Ubuntu 18.04 might be as good as Ubuntu 10.10!

it could ???
"Bread and circuses" is a 2000 years old expression.

The only meaningful comparison would be sustainable water usage.
People may realize one day that it isn't a good idea to build huge cities, swimming pools, golf courses and water shows in the friggin desert.

I don't like the answer, but it could be worse, and it's nice the director answered honestly.

Why? Because there are 7 billion people on Earth.

I might be wrong, but it's my interpretation of Gödel's incompleteness theorems.
If you're in the Matrix, you cannot prove you're in the Matrix, if you're in a big simulation, you cannot prove you're part of the simulation.
So the definitive answer to this question is : "Maybe".