I heartily agree. There's no excuse for not knowing what mod is, even if you've never happened to need it in a program. I wouldn't hire someone who didn't know what mod is or couldn't explain it to someone else.

Who's the doofus that modded this "offtopic"? It should be modded "funny."

I've always wondered... Why didn't he just say quadruple?

Let's not forget:

Moon
Blade Runner
The Matrix
Inception
The Fifth Element
Gattaca
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

World War W??

But that's impossible! How will the government maintain control without the bureaucracy?

The regional governors now have direct control over their territories. Fear will keep the local currencies in line. Fear of this treasury.

Don't underestimate traditional currency. The ability to deliver money electronically around a planet is insignificant next to the power of the federal mint.

I am the same way! But only for left-brain stuff. If I'm trying to code, I can't listen to music with words, because it's super distracting. But if I'm, say, focusing on something right-brain like drawing a picture or coloring in a book, then the words aren't distracting at all. The exception in the left-brain case is if I'm listening to an album I've already heard a zillion times — then my mind doesn't divert attention away to listen to the lyrics because it already has figured them out.

You know, I am the same way... but... are you sure it's the silence that's actually distracting? For me, it's the noise inside my own mind that's distracting when there's silence. Noise like earbugs/songs that I can't get out of my head, mostly.

Uh, where are you going to find someone to loan you $1,000,000 worth of bitcoins and return them as $200,000 worth of bitcoins? You expect to profit $300,000 while losing someone else $800,000? HAHAH, good luck with that.

“And now, young cobalt-60 thieves...... You will die.”

I thought your story was going to go like this...

When I hear about bitcoin's founder I am reminded of a homeless man I met in Palo Alto in the 1990's, in his 30's or 40's. He used to stand on the street chanting weird things and you would think he was insane, which he was. But if you talked to him, you'd realize he was pretty smart too. Anyhow, he told me about how he was getting his P.H.D. in Economics from Yale, but they rejected his thesis which was basically about private currency, as his professors equated it with counterfeiting and he subsequently went semi-mad according to him. This guy was a smart homeless guy but also a little crazy, his shopping cart had various gadgets powered by car battery, and I think there was a reason he was hanging out in the valley at that time. Find him, and you will find the creator of bitcoin. Anyway, after he was all done telling me this, he looked intently at me and said, "By the way, can you spare some change? I need about tree fiddy."

Young, massive, and hot: Pick any two.

Chimpanzees absolutely cannot function in human society. When they become agitated, people around them lose hands and eyes. If they're lucky.

"I don't know... It's not wise to upset a chimpanzee."
"But sir, nobody worries about upsetting a droid."
"That's 'cause a droid don't pull people's arms outta their sockets when they lose. Chimpanzees have been known to do that."

Well, yes, that was a short-term consequence of it. But what it actually meant, in the long term (and why it was such a briliiant tactic!) is that it encouraged states to free their slaves in order to gain even more representation — because those "other persons" would then count as 1.0 as free persons, as opposed to only 0.6 as slaves. In other words, the slave-holding states were tricked by their own greed. It's brilliant.

Maybe you could have the eyeball explode or get shot with a bullet or poked with a sharp stick after two seconds? That would get the point across that you're shutting down the eye so it can't see anymore.