The number 69 has staying power. It was hardly new when it was used in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, and that was in 1989, 37 years ago.

How long will 6-7 last? I’m guessing not more than a year. I bet even now it’s being included as part of a script for a kids’ movie, and by the time the movie comes out the kids will all think it’s “cringe” (or whatever term replaces cringe).

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They’re also saving you money. You spend $1000 on ammunition to prevent the sinking of a $1 billion ship.

The history of torpedoes is fun. The original ones were attached to a spar at the front of boats. The boat had a steam engine which they used to get up to speed to try to ambush and ram enemy capital ships. The threat these boats posed to capital ships gave rise to “torpoedo boat destroyers”, which we just call “destroyers” today.

The first kinds of torpedo boats that launched stand-alone torpedoes did use torpedo tubes, but they weren’t underwater. Underwater launching of torpedoes only started when torpedo boats evolved into U-boats (undersea boats, a.k.a. submarines). Destroyers remained torpedo boat destroyers, but now rather than hunting small, fast boats on the surface using small, fast guns, they hunted stealthy boats that were underwater with depth charges.

Except real money is used for taxes and government spending. Fake money is needed only by criminals.

Bitcoin actually has legitimate uses

Ransomware.

“Expensive cartoon monkey pictures”

that becomes wildly popular extremely quickly

That’s not going to make you $1b. Maybe tens of millions, but not billions.

I guess you could sort-of argue that it’s what happened with Minecraft, though that took more than 5 years from the alpha to the eventual acquisition. But, it’s true that he went from typical middle class type wealth to a billionaire overnight when that deal closed.

But, in almost every other case someone’s going to make far less than $1b on their first deal. And then they’re going to be multi-millionaires who either start giving their money away, or try for $1b.

I have nothing? I’ve shown that it wasn’t terrorism, including by your definition.

In an appearance on Fox News, no less.

I think you’re dreaming if you think that’s possible.

At the time, sure. But, I think fewer people look back on it fondly and think it should be recommended to people to go find it and watch it today.

Ah, I see.

I’m not only argument.

In many places there are car share services. Zipcar, Communauto, Flexicar, etc.

Transparent?

The military uses UTC? Not for regular timekeeping I’m guessing.

Whenever I see people say: “I don’t get it, if I were <insert billionaire’s name here>, I’d immediately <do some selfless thing with my money>”.

Anybody who is the kind of person who would spend their money to fix societal problems isn’t going to wait until they’re a billionaire to do it. They’ll do it as soon as they think they have enough money to make a difference. That’s what will prevent them from ever becoming a billionaire. It’s a survivorship bias thing. Every billionaire you see is a person who could have fallen into the “trap” of helping other people with their absurd, vast wealth. But, they survived that temptation and instead kept accumulating wealth like a dragon in some fantasy story.

Yeah, but it’s not widely used by anyone other than computer geeks. Not surprised that there’s a big crossover between computer geeks and spreadsheet pilots.

You have trouble reading huh?