When first reading your comment I though wtf?! After the second time I knew it must be sarcasm.

Easy money!

IANABF (I am not a bible fanatic) but I think somewhere they mention that everything was created about 3000 years ago? I don't even know how to start disproving that one. Too many options!

Thanks Jane. Just inquiring: do you have videos or photo's of said locker room situations? For my collection?

(Just kidding of course)

basic income won't do it. It will get rid of the people that just don't want to contribute. It will not get rid of incompetent people lusting for power.

I have mixed feelings about bitcoin. I own a couple, and see a couple of benefits which are threats at the same time. Since it allows anonymous payments, it will for sure be used to dodge taxes. This in turn means that governments will discourage the use one way or another. The bigger thing is that it is a currency that isn't backed by anything valuable. Yes, it took the equivalent of a couple of dollars worth of electricity to mine a bitcoin. But you can't convert it back. There is no way I can get electricity from a bitcoin. As such, it is again a currency that exists by the trust people have in it.

it also has a more left-leaning government

Now, that's an understatement!

Please note that Hollande has nothing to do with Holland. Although it has a similarly f*cked up government.

I can come up with a shorter list. My idea of a smart watch would be one that

A) is a Rolex Submariner

And I'm sure James Bond agrees.

You'll see a lot of suggestions here that involve you being dependent on others: customers that buy apps. Why not take matters into your own hand and develop applications that trade for you? This could be anything from arbitraging between ebay and something else to finding arbitrage opportunities in the stock market. And yes, those still exist and you don't have to be a HFT firm for it. You'll just need to be satisfied with less money; these things typically don't scale. I started down this road about 10 years ago, and have seen a steady increase in income through them. I only work on the software when I want to (which is often, since it's such a fun thing to do), but it makes money for me 24x7, 365 days a year. It has given me independence: if tomorrow I'll lose my job I'm not sure if I ever need one again.

We could make a market. I'm backing the outcome "Bennett is a moron" with $100 at odds 2, $200 at odds 2.5 and $300 at odds 3. I'll be willing to put up more money at higher odds.

Maybe, just maybe they will learn in a few years that touch panels are a nice gimmick, but are a step back compared to traditional keyboard and mouse when doing actual work.

that they failed to copy OSX is actually a good thing

why should "we" do that? Can't "you" do it yourself?

Maybe the American programmer hired Spongebob, who paid to do the job.

Truly wise money would go yet another step further. Instead of using a regular laptop, bring a commodore 64 and put sensitive data in the $E000-$F000 region. Mark the machine with a sticker 'confusius'.