Strange... I grew up in Eastern Germany, yet I don't remember speaking Russian all day or my parents electing somebody to the Kremlin and it is kinda strange that the armed forces did not wear the red star of the Soviet forces.
But hey, I'm sure you know what you're talking about.

(Now, if you had written that the state that was founded out of the Soviet occupation zone was propped up and controlled by the Kremlin and made part of the eastern European system then yes, that would be in line with my experiences in my youth.)

Does that hold true if you take retirement age into account?

If Greeks retire 10 years (or whatever) earlier than Germans, you have to take into account the 10x 52x weekly hours (most Germans work some 37 hours a week, so we have to add something like 19.000 hours).

Actually, changing the current policies is what needs to happen.
Greece needs to get rid of corruption, tax evasion and excessive spending.
That would give them more money to spend on rebuilding their economy, while the pay their loans with the additional money borrowed.

Defaulting is the (somewhat) easy way out. The debtors loose their money (meaning that 500 million Europeans have to pay the tab for the miss -management by several Greece governments) and Greece will have to rebuild from nothing. Cause if they default, who will give them favorable credits after that?

Being German, I resent your comment.
People like you are the reason why we can't have nice things :(

Well, it would have been those citizens job to elect not the parties that promised them everything for nothing but the parties that were willing to to make the hard but necessary decisions.

When you borrow money you have to pay it back. Or at least honestly try to do your best to do so.
Borrowing money and then saying 'We can't pay you back. Sorry. Your problem now.' is not the way to go.

We're talking several hundred BILLION Euro here. If Greece defaults on that that money will be missing in the coffers of the other European countries. That's money that you take away from the other 500 Million EU citizen.
It would be nice if you are less carefree with other people's money.

Strange... I seem to remember that the current Greek government was elected by the Greek people. Also, if they the where instated by Bruessels, why didn't they do what Bruessels wants?
You are right on the current Greek secretary of finances, though. He is a corporate man who thinks the lies and deceptions he's used to work here as well as in his former job.

Untrue. Richer EU countries like the UK and Germany are in fact paying more into the EU coffers than poorer countries.

Many Linux distributions are totally fine booting on a computer with activated secure boot, using a boot loader that was signed by Microsoft.

Do you have any source for your claim that that will not work anymore? Otherwise I call FUD.

It would help if you read up on this case...

Apple and the publishers did not only fix the prices you pay at Apples shop, but they also forced all other ebook retailers to follow the agency model that Apple wanted and pay at least what Apple payed to the publishers.

So this collusion harmed all retailers, and thus all consumers because it removed a lot of choice.

Why should digital sale not use the wholesale model?

I do not want the publishers to dictate the price, because they are removed from the customer and thus don't think of the customer when setting prices.

The publishers are the ones that first sell eBooks for the price of the hardcover paper book and only go down with the price when the paperback is released.
It doesn't make sense that the same eBook suddenly should be worth only a third of what I would have had to pay earlier.
Publishers don't understand the digital business and would only be trying to prop up the classic paper business that they are used to.

Strangely enough, on Kobobooks.com or Google Play for many books I can find 2 versions for different prices. Usually from different publishers.

Of course, it could be that this is only because I'm living in Europe and there is some overlap in publishing rights. But still.

Can I buy music from the iTunes store without installing the iTunes software?
That's not a rhetorical question: I would like to buy something that is only available there, but there is no Linux version of iTunes.

Well, one could argue that these agencies should concentrate spying on hostile governments and terrorists, instead of heads of state of allied countries.
But no, it is important for Americas national security to spy on, say, Airbus.

But... that doesn't make sense.
Either it's always sucking, then it is also sucking when there is nothing to be sucked in.
Or it is only sucking when there is something to be sucked in, then it isn't always sucking.

I wish we had somebody who could analyze this further. Somebody who specializes in black holes and their suckiness. Maybe in astronomic bodies in general. We could call those specialists 'astronomers'.

Well, how about you tell your colleagues that it is stupid to piss of one of your first customers (that guy has been using YouTube for 10 years!) with no good reason.
He was there first, he has every right to use the name, and there are certainly more than one company by the name of 'Lush'.
Creating the precedent opens a can of worms.

And: Even if we don't know everything. Saying that they can not undo a change they did is definitely bullshit. They might not want to, but if they could change it in one direction they can certainly change it in the opposite direction.