ok, so what are you saying? What should be done, then?

"Or is there a different plan you are talking about?"

No, I'm not talking of a different plan. It's only the part you omited. It was not the money lended back then -or else Greece would be nowadays a buoyant economy as no less money has been lent in the past five years, but what was done with the money: Greece is still in the same place it was, opened to turism and a gate between Eurasia and Black Sea/Mediterranean; it still owns the biggest merchant fleet. It still has powerful basic infrastructures and a chance to grow both in quality agriculture and knowledge industries.

Did you read the part about me not being sane or rational? It explains a lot.

Sure it may be its secondary purpose, but it will be its primary use.

The fifties to the seventies saw the recovery from world war 2 (and internal war), and a lot of money from the US to Greece. That's not going to happen again.

Or is there a different plan you are talking about?

Popups and notifications are high on my list of things we can do without. If I am sitting at my computer it means that I am there to accomplish a specific task. I do not welcome interruptions on my computer any more than I appreciate robo-calls when I sit down to dinner.

Highest on my list are those dialog boxes that pop up after selecting an option that say "Are you sure you really want to do that?" Yes, I am you fucking retard that's why I clicked the button in the first place and to think that someone had to program this functionality in means you are probably trying to see how far my blood pressure will rise today and I will tell you this, programmer, you are playing a dangerous game thinking I am sane and rational but I'm not, really, deep down, I have it in me to track you down....

Anyways you get the point. I am not a big fan of interruptions to my workflow.

"What plan are you talking about to increase Greek productivity?"

No need for too many magic recipies. Basically the same path that worked for Greece between the fifties and seventies would also work now.

"at what point did Goldman Sachs become a German and/or French company?"

Of course Goldman Sachs is not a EU company itself (while with a branch incorporated in Europe and still a big company with their hands dirty in quite some national-level crisis), but it is not companies the ones that do things; it is people, and the ties between Goldman Sachs execs and these governments and agencies are hurtingly notorious. In example:

Mario Monti: Prime Minister of Italy, ex Goldman Sachs.

Mario Draghi: European Central Bank's Director, ex Goldman Sachs

Lucas Papademos: Greece Prime Minister, ex Goldman Sachs

Petros Christodoulus: Head of Greece's debt management agency, ex Goldman Sachs

Otmar Issing: board member of Bundesbank and ECB, ex Goldman Sachs

Karel Van Miert: EU Competition Comissioner, ex Goldman Sachs

Peter Shutherland: Attorney General of Ireland and prominent voice during Irish bail-out, ex Goldman Sachs

Antonio Borges: head of the IMF's European Dpt. ex Goldman Sachs

We have had a century to figure out the "unplugged" car interface, and it is simpler: dials for speed and tachometer, nothing else. Drivers train from an early age to drive with this sort of instrumentation.

The lack of safety with these HUD's is likely a consequence of inexperience both on the part of the HUD designers and the drivers. Once the interfaces themselves iterate a few times, and then drivers get experienced with them, I imagine they'll be much safer.

Typically, taxi medallions aren't sold by the government anymore. They're typically sold by their previous holders and the high prices reflect their scarcity and perceived value. The market decides this value (even when they're auctioned off by the state), so there isn't any guarantee that they'll maintain that value. Any contracts that exist say nothing about limiting the supply or compensating medallion-holders for any speculative prices they paid. Buying a medallion for $800k is just as speculative as buying an $800k house or $800k worth of stock. There are no government guarantees that they will maintain value.

tl;dr... The economics of the taxi medallion situation are extremely similar to shares in a company. The "contracts" that you're referring to don't exist (at least in the form that you image).

If you want your software to be used by as many people/corporations as possible, use BSD.
If you don't want corporations to take advantage of your software without giving back, then use GPL.

BSD expands usage at the cost of community; GPL increases community at the cost of usage. Both approaches are valid.

You have to avoid discussing this anyway. This is not the 70s where you hung around the water cooler talking about yesterdays shows. The rise of the DVR meant that people did not watch shows at the same time, except maybe some sports. A few times of people shouting and beating on you with sticks means you learn to not give out spoilers the next morning.

But then the BBC and many other outlets gave massive spoilers for Game of Thrones (I think, I don't watch it) within a week of the season finale. I also saw massive spoiler for the Sixth Sense in a newspaper before it was even out on DVD. Hopefully such idiots learn not to continue do this and have gotten the appropriate set of beatings.

Now the trick is not just to go without spoilers until after the weekend (which a lot of people get caught up on stuff), but to go without spoilers for a few months or a year. For me I find it's not friends I avoid, since we don't watch the same shows, but stuff on social media. But I've stopped googling stuff about Walking Dead and Doctor who so they're now showing up on Google+ anymore in their "stuff you don't want to see but that we think is hot" entries.

This, a thousand times this.

I was trained to drive defensively from the word go. This means keeping your eyes outside the car. You'd only need to scan your instruments (which realistically means just your speedo and maybe your rev counter if you drive a manual and cant hear or feel the engine (AKA: the most incompetent manual driver in the world)). I check my instruments every 10 to 15 seconds, about the same interval as I check my mirrors.

As such I've never understood the argument "I keep getting speeding tickets because I dont want to constantly stare at my speedo". This tells me a few things that make you a terrible driver.
1. It takes you a while to figure things out. My speed registers in my brain in a fraction of a second, if it takes you longer to read a number I'd hate to think how long it takes you to register a real hazard like a dog or cow in the road.
2. You cant keep a consistent speed. If your speed changes that drastically in 10 seconds, its time to admit you need lessons.

What plan are you talking about to increase Greek productivity?