If you’re having that kind of day, the kind where if you could only do things outlawed by the Geneva Convention to someone who can’t retaliate, you’d feel much better, I have the solution for you.Torture a stranger whose job it is to be patient and polite. You know those online services where you can “chat” to a live person?

I spent over an hour making a guy prove he was human by doing simple math, answering trick questions and performing other linguistic gymnastics that a computer hopefully isn’t smart enough to do.

And if they are and they have us all fooled, then i for one would like to be among the first to bow down to our future digital overlords…