Greece shouldn't have been allowed into the Eurozone in the first place. The government at the time falsified and hacked balance sheets, economic and financial data to be allowed into the Eurozone.

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Not in my neighbourhood. But many applications specify .NET or Java. The platforms and the languages (C#) are so similar, if you know one you know almost everything about the other.

You are the programming language discriminating and generalizing equivalent of a racist.

Java is certainly not dead. If you're a software engineer, my gut feeling is that 70% of job offers involve Java programming. Java is widespread in the enterprise as well as open source frameworks and platforms.

But parent is right in the fact that Java in the browser is practically dead. Some office environments still require Java for entperise applications, but practically all ordinary users don't need Java in the browser.

It's a little ironic, since Java on the web was one of Java's main, original use cases. Now Java applets are niche and fading out, whereas Java is pretty much rampant everywhere else.

That sounds familiar. I'm also weird in the sense that even though I'm a deeply kind-hearted person by nature, I enjoy playing dark characters in games, such as an undead knight, an assassin or a brutish ork. I find these characters more interesting than "generic good hero guy".
But this leads to some interesting conflicts, as I mostly choose the "good" actions in games opposed to the evil or selfish actions, I just can't help it. So in the end I'm actually unable to play these dark personalities in character.

Once I decided to try and play a really "evil" character in The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, doing the Dark Brotherhood and Daedric (Demon) quests. One quest requires you kill a unicorn for its horn, which I did, but I really had to push myself to do so and felt bad for days afterwards.

The Durch are to busy partying. I mean, who would want to drive around in a cramped and smelly tank when you have one of the highest living standards in the world and Amsterdam?

You are exaggerating, but there is some truth to that, for sure.

Maybe it's worth mentioning that due to some cataclysmic events you might have heard about in history class, Germany has issues with many things related to patriotism and militarism.

It's no joke. Expressing patriotism or sympathy for militarism is kind of taboo and still frowned upon in Germany.

Are you serious? That is ridiculous. The FDP (liberal party), the SPD (social democrats) and the Green Party are not pro-Russians. None of the parties are pro Russian except the extreme left (Die Linke) and the extreme right (NPD, AfD).

There is some pro-Russian sentiment among many former citizens of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), but the vast majority of Germans, especially in West Germany, are very pro USA. Most Germans were actually quite let down by recent revelations that the US does not consider Germany one of its closest allies, at least in terms of intelligence cooperation, as the general perception in Germany has been that it is indeed one of the closest allies.

The presidency of GW Bush has hurt public perception of the US in Germany a lot, but that is not singular to Germany, this has been the case in almost the entire world.
Still I would estimate that if forced to choose a side, 80% of Germans would favor partnership with the US over Russia.
Like Bush before him, Putin seems like he is doing all he can to hurt the Russian reputation accross the globe, but especially in Europe.

Breakin' the law, braikin' the law!

Well, Star Wars *is* a global phenomenon and a staple of US culture loved and adored by millions across the globe. So, now that you draw the comparison to the founding fathers, in our modern times George Lucas has probably been more significant to most people than the founding fathers have.

I know that the Ewoks are controversial among the original, older crowd of Star Wars fans. I watched the movies as a kid and I thought that anything with spaceships and lasers was awesome. However I also thought that the furry buggers actually make sense in the context of the story.

Emperor Palpatine could foresee almost everything, he does claim so a couple of times himself. But the furry little natives of Endor probably seemed so insignificant to him that they didn't even register on his radar. Which ultimately tipped the balance of power to the Rebels and led to his doom.

I disagree. I think pixelated graphics can look better than high-res. Mainly because pixelated art leaves more to the imagination. Your brain fills in the details. Some 2D games that use high-res pictures don't appeal to me because I don't like the art style, like, for example, the faces of the characters. I have never experienced this "issue" with retro-themed 2D games that use more pixelated art.

Seems like that is true. However I strongly suspect that, as with most things in the US. the share of that spending is extremely unbalanced. I'm almost certain a public school in a black neighbourhood will not be even close to the funding of a school in a predominantly white suburb.

Maybe the US of A should put more money into public schools, infrastructure and public service instead of F-22's.