How do you know it was stopped in Nigeria? Because the Nigerian government, who have a strong incentive to protect their billions of dollars in trade with the rest of the world say they stopped it?
No. We know it because US health authorities and the WHO reported it.
Furthermore Ebola never did reach Nigerian cities.
Um, ebola certainly reached Lagos, Nigeria's largest city, populated by 17.5 million people. The index case, doctor Patrick Sawyer, even performed surgery while ill and symptomatic.
"... they suggest Polo was aware of the New World two centuries before Columbus."
I'm not sure Columbus was ever "aware of the New World"; he probably always thought he had reached the East Indies. On the other hand, it's a well-known fact that the Vikings or the Norse "discovered" the Americas no later than the 11th century.
it still works like new after 4 years
FTFM. The point stands.
Like GP, I stopped buying HTC due to horrible support for upgrades. The Desire HD was far from cheap - more than 600 euro at the time I bought it, the HTC flagship device back then. Officially, it is stuck at 2.3.5. They once promised to upgrade it to 4.x at some point, but they later retracted and they had the nerve to claim they couldn't upgrade it because "storage partitioning", "user data", or some such baloney. Yes, it can be upgraded with CyanogenMod or whatever, but it was lame how they refused to upgrade a recent and powerful device with such pathetic excuses - the real reason was, obviously, they wanted you to buy the Sensation or the One.
Having said that, it still works like new after 6 years (terrible GPS and WiFi not that great; fine otherwise).
Disclaimer: this is by no means a slam on Android or a defense of iOS; my current phone is a Nexus 4 and it's great.
The "haircut" in Cyprus was a horrible deal. Having said that, people didn't "starve" like you suggest. The issue with the ATMs was that they ran out of notes. There was a bank lockdown, but it lasted 12 days. Everybody knew it wouldn't last enough for people to starve - the ECB and Germany couldn't tolerate continued damage to the currency.
Trevor a wolf went out there and started buying cashless peoples' Jewellery for about 5 cents on the Euro
Citation needed, really, for that.
And the way you put it, it seems like you have to either be completely cashless or keep cash out of the bank. Misleading. There's no reason you can't keep certain amount of money in the bank, for convenience, and another amount in notes.
If you think the system is working, ask someone who's waiting for a prompt.
