A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.
Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
Its not the fall that kills you; its the sudden stop at the end.
And since today is Thursday:
Today must be a Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.