FTFY.

Leaving the Euro will mean that the country has defaulted, and whatever currency they put in place will have no value at all. The government will be bankrupt and will not be able to pay civil servants or pensioners. There are only 3 ways this goes:
- Creditors accept to write-off some of the debt. They cut their losses and allow Grece to survive, in a situation which is actually bearable.
- More austerity, from inside the euro. Hard times ahead.
- Default. Chaos, Civil War.

Humanity and Finance don't go together very well...

Don't get me wrong. I'm French, and I agree that we should offer him asylum. Whistleblowers deserve to be protected. But what he uncovered was an open secret. People with positive IQs knew that it was probably going on in the background, Snowden only confirmed it.

But the show will go on.

Well there's also the great hypocrisy that lies there like an elephant in the room. France have probably tried to do the same on all its allies... (No presumption on whether they succeeded or not, just that the fact that they tried is highly likely).

To me, the reaction of the French government shrieking like pigs is just a show for the public opinion, and maybe they'll send back the US Ambassador for good measure. But it will soon die down and no change is to be expected.

True. But then again, is there such a thing as a convenient hard drive failure?

You mean like the Moon has no influence on other liquids on Earth?

Everybody in the UK knows a pint of water weighs a pound and a quarter, easy peasy

It will still be a human making a decision as to what is newsworthy and what is not. Crowd-vetting could be an option too?

I came here for the LOLz: after seeing the title, it could only be a flame war. But 7 comments in and you've already made my day. Thank you.

FTFY

Of course, because the compiler leaves *all* those #ifdefs in the binary. You know, all those the preprocessor didn't catch.

I thought that came along with being part of the Nerd Herd...

still ring-0. quite a big deal...

you mean like the downward facing call-stack which has provided so many buffer overflows over the years? seems to me like they've been breeding fast inside Intel...
(pun intended)

Using USD puts you under US jurisdiction. So any bank with a branch in the US would then not be allowed to trade with you. Same thing...

Sorry, brainfart, I meant to write evading.