I recently heard that they regulate the amount of money circulating in certain MMO games, which seems to me like a far fetched thing. Let us assume that you are a player in a game where you can kill monsters and gold is the currency. Each monster drops a set amount of gold each time you kill it, assuming that the monsters re-spawn, you could continue to pick up the gold dropped by each monster until you had an X amount of money.
Take Runescape for example. In your inventory you have 24 32-bit slots, each slot can hold 2,147,483,647 (or 231-1)gold pieces, but there is no limit to how many stacks of 231-1 gold pieces you can have.... (read 295 more words →)
In The Grieving Student, while it may be morally right in society to accept the excuse and let her have more time, how do you know she is not lying? Of course, it is her mother, and it would be horrible to lie about such things, and dangerous, as the mother could call the school or any number of other things, but she could just be lying about it to get more time. Say her mother is dead, but she died when the girl was a child. If you didn't look hard, you could think that she had really died earlier. So, if she gave an extension at all, it should not be long. Say to the end of the day, or until the next day.