The US gave Greece $376 Million dollars to rebuild between 1949 and 1951. This was not a loan. The US just gave Greece the money. Given that the exchange rate back then was around 4 DEM per dollar, that is over 1bn DEM that Greece got.

The point that Germany surrendered to the US to the allies is a salient one. At least one of these allies paid back Greece two fold for its trouble. And Germany doesn't have that money it stole. That was either conscripted by the allies or sent offshore by Nazi's in hiding. It is why most claims to money and treasures stolen by Germany it WWII gets made to places like Switzerland and Austria.

This argument going back to Nazi German doesn't serve Greece. The rest of the world got over WWII years ago, and nobody is holding the current German state accountable for the Nazis. It is generally accepted that one of the last place one looks for the people responsible for WWII is Germany. Those Nazi folks either got killed, when into hiding, or got good jobs with the Americans or Russians.

What Greece should be arguing is that it was irresponsible for Germany to allow Greece in the Eurozone to begin with. Greece's addition had to do with Germany's greed. At the time, it just make it easier for Germany to export, while giving a very poor Greece a credit card it obviously couldn't handle. It is kind of the same story of all those mortgage banks lending to people with bad credit in the US. And all while, Germany was telling its citizens that they would never have to bail out Greece. What a crock.

This is an outrage! Tim Hortons must sell hot dogs! Where else would we expect red blooded Canadians to eat after a curling match?

I'm always shocked at just how much Canada doesn't get Canadian culture.

The Chuch Norris defense, eh?

And I think the Canadian spelling is "aboot", not "about".

Don't you mean "eh". As in "Lets all go to Tim Hortons for hot dogs and beer after a good match of curling, eh." or "There is a mouse in this beer, eh."

"ay" is from somewhere ootside of Canada.

Terrorism is a red shirt.

Last I checked, a court found that no law existed that allowed bulk collections. Not even the Patriot Act: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05...

This is a law that makes something illegal that was already illegal. More congressional theater.

Wake me up when the people who broke the law start seeing some time. Let me know when the guy who exposed this illegal activity is allowed back into the country with his liberty intact.

As a hiring manager, when I look at resumes I am thinking, "if I hired this person today, what will they have done by the end of the week?" A 15 year old GPA is useless in this answer. The thing that matters most in resumes are technical skill and domain experience. Those two things will get an interview. The things that matter most in interviews are personality, hygiene, and are the things in your resume not complete bullshit.

I know smart PhDs from very good universities that I would never hire, because they wouldn't be able to do a damn thing useful for the business. I know a high school dropout that can generate more useful code than a guy with 20 years experience who wouldn't deign himself to learn Python. Getting a job has a lot less to do with formal credentials than you think, and the true value in these credentials comes in how you apply them lately, not the schooling you got a decade and a half ago.

You say you are writing client server code, and you have a patent. That you know how to write that code (technical skills), and that you have a patent (domain experience) should get you a job somewhere, assuming you are not an idiot in an interview. Make 90% of your resume about the technical skill and domain experience you've collected over the past 5 years. Leave the GPA off. Put name the school and the year you graduated, and nothing more. If you aren't bullshitting about the code you've written and the patent you got, then you will at least get an interview. If you are right for the job, nobody will give a damn about the GPA.

By "different", did they mean green?

This woman's forte is taking an organization that just spun off all the great things it was known for, and re-branding that leftover crap. She can do this cheap - she knows how to hire H1-Bs. If we are truly fucked, then there is no one more qualified to make us fuckeder than Carly.

Though the Islamists seem to be quite good at it these days, Islamic fundamentalists don't hold a monopoly on using selective interpretation from unreliably transcribed ancient texts as a means to justify bad behavior.

The Tinder of websites for startups that are the Tinder of randomly created nonsense.

You got it soldier! Back in the days of the agrarian society, everyone worked! And we worked hard!

Progress sucks. Now we have to figure out what to do with our time when we the hippies win we are getting our energy from free sunlight.

There once was a time when I looked forward to Apple's new products. Without being an iCult member, repeating all I heard from the fearless Apple leaders, I could appreciate the design and market leadership. I didn't always buy the stuff, but I once knew when I looked at new a Apple product I was seeing the future of consumer electronics.

Apple hasn't marketed a good new idea in three years. And it isn't even a new idea. Android tried and failed about a year ago. It turns out, people prefer lightweight watches, with faces they can read, that don't have to get recharged on a weekly basis. Making a smart watch, when everyone carries smart phones is a bit of a redundant novelty.

It is kind of sad to see Apple go in this direction.

I think you are confusing "hyped" with "over-hyped".

I remember the 70s, and the first Star Wars was absolutely hyped. I saw it opening day and there were lines. This was for a movie that no one had seen yet. Those lines were generated with hype.

I'm sure that first building will be the same way. Pretty good and a waiting list to get. Smart money will be on the second building. Third building will be tough. Ewoks are a bitch to get rid of.

Yea, I know the idiom. But I didn't write kangaroo, I wrote "Godwin". As in the potential for tyranny in the government you unquestionably trust.

You stated that I wrote something I didn't, then beat the strawman like a good troll.