A stupid question

They say there's no such thing as a stupid question. But that's stupid. Here's one: "Is there such thing as a stupid question?" Of course, stupid! Anyone who is in retail or, say, an American hears multiple stupid questions every day. And kids ask stupid questions all the time, because they're inherently stupid.

Here's another one: If digital recordings are made up of a series of 1s and 0s, is it possible to remove all of the 1s or all of the 0s from a recording? What would Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" sound like with every third 1 removed? Like a skipping CD? A remix by Oval? What about replacing "Billie Jean's" 1s with "Black Dog's" 0s? Will there every be an app for that? The Plunderphonics app? Are silences in songs — like the silence after the opening guitar noises in "Black Dog" — registered by 1s and/or 0s? Is silence more 1-is or 0ish? Is there such thing as an absolute silence? Maybe these questions don't reflect stupidity so much as my ignorance as to how digital encoding works. An ignorant question, then. But aren't all questions based in ignorance? Yes, except the stupid ones.