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?

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"Man lives in the sunlit world of that which he believes to be reality. But unseen by most is an underworld, a place that is just as real... but not as brightly lit... A DARK SIDE!"
-opening from Tales From the Darkside

Is that really realistic, how many digits are there, surely there should be enough numbers left to last until the system no longer exists. In Canada we have 9 digit social insurance numbers, I never actually pondered this in my mind either.

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"The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. " — John Stuart Mill

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.

Remember to stock up on canned goods and waters, and remember to buy my book!

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"The belief that nothing exists outside your own mind--surely there must be some way of demonstrating that it was false" - 1984

5 seconds after i made that post the power went out and did not come back up for 2 minutes.

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"The belief that nothing exists outside your own mind--surely there must be some way of demonstrating that it was false" - 1984