Pardon my total ignorance but, presuming human skin cells also have a membrane, why aren't they also destroyed in the process?
It reminds me of this old mystery (to me at least) of why the stomach does not digest itself.

What the hell is a dollar?

"Wikipedia is this amazing global cultural phenomena"
I would say that Wikipedia is a phenomenon in collective low pass filtering.
It is essentially an opinion repository from which emerges a consensus delivered to the masses.
Truth is another more elusive story.

Knowledge is the art of filtering the relevant data out of this inflated mess.
By that definition, there is very little knowledge around.

It is a little more subtle:

Zero-cost high-speed trading is a sure way for the privileged on-site trader offices to slowly skim the world's wealth into their pockets.
This ever increasing generalized diversion can only be offset by runaway debt and money creation.
Beyond a certain threshold, debt leads to economic crash as in 2008.
Ironically, the short term response has been to hide behind increased debt, leading to the unavoidable disaster that we shall soon observe, unless you believe in miracles.

If there had been a worldwide minuscule (Tobin) tax on trading, this grand theft could not have occured and the subsequent debt-induced crash might have been avoided.
Of course, the thus enriched world financial elite which ultimately controls all political decision making will never tolerate such a tax which would render high-speed trading useless.

Probably as popular as Pablo Escobar, and for similar reasons.

Let us fantasize about how a matter-symmetric universe would evolve.
I bet it would be very morphogenetically boring: no structure, no stars, no life. If it was symmetric, it would not have created us to comment on it.
It is asymmetric because we are here, and conversely.

I think I think, therefore I think I am.

Well, you are poorly informed then!
"Virii" does not exist at all.
The plural of "vir" (man) is "viri" (men), even if there are lots and lots of them.
I am beginning to feel proud to be a nerd: people stink!

There is absolutely no way the latin plural of virus could be "virera" or "virii" (yuck!).
"virus" belonging to the second declension, its plural should be "viri" except that the word virus in latin is purely collective (like air or fire) and *never* used as a plural.
The english meaning ~(dirty little bug) is far removed from the original generic latin meaning of poison so that it is actually a different concept which can be pluralized. Thus it is no longer a latin word and the plural should be spelled viruses.
(Sorry, I speak better latin than english)

Glow-in-the-dark slippers would be more useful.

The theft happened in HSBC-Geneva. And Geneva is still in Switzerland.

The thief, Hervé Falciani, openly escaped to France.

The french minister Eric Woerth who used the list is guilty of concealment according to swiss law and faces arrest if he travels there even on official business.

You think you think in English but I think you think in Mentalese just like everyone else.

Just wondering what "not severely tortured" would feel like.

And a more detailed explanation can be found starting there:
http://mhalb.pagesperso-orange.fr/kivu/eg/index.htm

This is why the view should not be blanked or blurred but replaced by an ordinary looking fake.