I know -- *checks he's actually on slashdot* -- zero of zero times.

And in order to do that, the sender's bank has to physically haul a 10 $ note over to the receivers bank? (And then, is a 10$ note actually the same as ten dollars?)
Protip: No, and no.

Oh wait, you're being serious? Bad news: There are no bitcoins; they don't manifest as tokens of data. Transactions do, (ending up in the blockchain)

Made my day.

Sounding serious is how to play sarcasm well :). In related news, pretty sure google invented sarcasm, too.

Didn't they also invent HTML formulars and Text input fields? Pretty sure i've seen them at google for the first time

Fast processor, slow processor -- I for one couldn't care less; I'm confident that the experts at Microsoft do the right thing for me. After all, I'm the customer.

+1

FTFY

Please, discontinue your AOL.

the <Esc> (or Ctrl+[, as you seem to like keychords) to [...]

FTFM

Oh and for the record, you shouldn't frequently "jump between modes".

The general idea is that you stay in Normal Mode (what you called 'command mode'). Insert mode is only ever entered temporarily, for short bursts of input; the (or Ctrl+[, as you seem to like keychords) to go back to Normal Mode should become second nature. You should never have to ask yourself "What mode am I in, right now?".

Visual mode, OTOH, is rarely a mode to switch to (one exception would be the rectangle-select (Ctrl+Shift+V)). If you frequently need it, chances are you are simply missing some canonical way of doing whatever you attempt to do in visual mode.

because then we arrive at emacs with its retarded hard-to-type and strain-inducing keychords, like Escape Meta Alt Control Shift

Its one of the most retarded and least funny xkcds in existance.

Which bit of "worse" did you miss?