They utterly failed to negotiate and in 6 months have barely managed to govern at all as all the time is spent negotiating.

... and destroyed any good will from your creditors, and squandered 25B euros in the past two weeks on this pointless temper tantrum with untold residual damage going forward, and brought in the micromanagement on every bailout cent spent from here on out. Frankly, I think a majority of Europeans would prefer to see a Grexit also. They'd recover from your leaving within weeks. The best plan for any Greek with any willingness to work for a living to to leave Greece immediately.

And if you hadn't pissed everybody off, maybe somebody would give a shit.

Atonement is the price of forgiveness.

> The bad news is that they feel this way because they see your data as a new source of profit — they're just deciding how best to harvest it.

It's really great how car co's just assume they are entitled to have this data.

I do not want this in my car, at all, in any form. No "opt out" or "we take your privacy seriously", nothing. I want it physically impossible for them to collect data.

to be made by someone other than the lowest bidder.

I read recently that the Allies made a policy of not telling about the decryption until long after the war, apparently so everyone would think we won by valor rather than by cheating. But what's (perversely) funny is that the UK rounded up as many machines as they could and "donated" them to third- world countries so that they, too, could enjoy the benefits of strong encryption.

Start countdown to baby boom in 9 months.

Are majors allowed to marry each other now?

If you ask your accountant to help you to lie on an application form, is it really your accountant that is "starting" the whole thing?

Will the evening news be illegal? Wishing someone a happy 30th birthday? Mentioning that Christmas is over 'til next year?

Though, apparently it's legal if you do it in analog.

Even if we believed the lunacy that the US put Saddam up to invading Kuwait, why didn't Saddam get the clue to leave when Bush, Sr. massed hundreds of thousands of US troops on his border? Hell, since, according to you Saddam did whatever Bush wanted, why didn't the "This will not stand" speech do the trick?

A Citizen's Dividend of 17% would end poverty.

If I am elected, I promise a Citizen's Dividend of $1-million per month straight from the Central Bank. Vote for me and we can all be millionaires!

...by providing a convenient service that the public wants at a price it believes to be fair?

As another thought experiment, imagine that there was a horse with the following properties:
- Pink in color
- Of appealing physical proportions
- Has a single long, straight horn projecting from its forehead.
- Possesses the ability to fly.

It would undoubtedly have significant value to collectors, and I would certainly want one.