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Old 01-22-2006, 11:59 AM
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What happens when all possible Social Security numbers are used up? Do they recycle dead people's? And if so, would that screw up some people's records? Perhaps they could add a digit. But won't that cause a lot of people to have to update their software?
Once the billionth person is entered into social security, it will cause an unstable collapse of the computer system, a fatal defect which will destroy all technology and cause computers everywhere to stop functioning. Power grids will fail, industrialization will end.

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