Should have read:

You won't believe this one weird trick Facebook uses to store data!

Other than that, fascinating look at how all that data is being stored and retrieved.

It's a replacement for everything. In theory, it can do the job of the A-10, F-16, F/A-18, and Harrier Jump Jet (to name a few)

In practice, so many competing priorities means compromises.

That explains Imperial Stormtroopers, then.

It's catastrophic to remain with the Euro, too. Acknowledging the economic & political lunacy that has been Greece over the last however many years, sticking with the Euro merely keeps the pain lingering far, far longer that another country in the same situation would.

Suppose Greece remains with the Euro: sooner or later, prices are going to rise. If you're thinking about visiting somewhere on the Mediterranean, are you going to stay in Greece, where the prices are high, or somewhere else, where your Euro has much more buying power? Greece would enter a nasty period of stagflation with no real opportunity to break the cycle.

The only outcome for Greece that is good in the long term means nasty times ahead in the short and medium terms. The opportunity to avoid this has been squandered buying votes; now loaning money to Greece simply keeps the problem from resolving.

I'm buying food, fuel, guns and bullets. You can have all the gold in the world, ans I'm not trading it for my gallon of fuel.

Exiting the Euro gives them some control over their destiny.

A country that is in such poor economic shape generally has it's currency devalued. This has two effects: first, imports are suddenly more expensive; and second exports are suddenly cheaper for the rest of the world to buy. As the economic mess cleans up, you have a capital inflow into the country, liquidity frees up and things get better.

Now Greece (or any other country in the EU): They don't have their own currency; they use the EU's. So they can't allow their currency to devalue; they are dragged along by the strength of the German economy, which effectively determines the value of the Euro. They can't control their economic destiny.

Exiting the Euro may be the only option to give the Greek economy exactly what it needs: a savage, sharp recession to flush out all the inefficiencies and get back to making stuff and exporting it. Or just producing enough for domestic consumption; that'll do. Staying in the EU probably means that it's going to be a long, drawn-out and painful process.

Amiga fanatic from way back here.

When you say "Amiga with current technology", what exactly are you referring to?

Both CPU lines the Amiga used are dead.
The true power of the Amiga was how the custom chips worked together; those chips hit an evolutionary dead end about the time Windows 95 was released
The OS, whilst remarkable at the time, is sadly lacking in comparison to today's OS's in terms of services offered (think TCP/IP, for a start)
Amiga, Inc have tried many iterations of a business plan to get going again (think partnership with Tao Group etc)
What applications are there that would drive sales of this device?

Don't get me wrong: I almost always update Amiga Forever to keep an Amiga running for nostalgic reasons. But if a new piece of hardware was available, what would it actually contain, and (more importantly) why buy it?

Kinda sucks, though, that it's come to this.

OMG!!! You're that guy!!!

What is directly known about Microsoft code doesn't support your argument. For example, after the Windows 2000 code leak several people did their own analysis of the code. For example, kuro5hin concluded:

Note that last sentence: Problems are generally due to a trade-off of current quality against vast hardware, software and backward compatibility.

More recently, static code analysis was done on the legally released Word for Windows 1.1a by PVS-Studio. They concluded:

In short, there may be many reasons not to pay for Microsoft's software. Your perception of the quality of their code is not one.

I've seen that problem before on a Bluetooth stick. The real issue was that I had purchased some Chinese ripoff clone of another product (I didn't know at the time that's what I was doing. We learn.); and the original company had released updated drivers to Microsoft. These new drivers worked just fine with the oem product, but something in the ripoff product didn't work with the new drivers, and the stick stopped working. I had to back the drivers out, re-install the original drivers and mark that particular update as "do not install".

I've no idea if the original company (who had their gear ripped off) spiked the driver deliberately or simple broke it by accident.

Long time since I've heard Derryn Hinch's signature tagline :)

Whilst I've no great love of insurance companies, I do disagree with "contribute nothing". They contribute to your life by wearing the risk that you are unable or unwilling to wear yourself.

Example: I have a 2001 Infiniti QX4 which I paid $4500 for. At this point in my financial life, I simply cannot afford to risk the loss of that car; therefore I am paying Geico an agreed monthly sum for them to lay awake at night and worry, whereas I can get a good night's sleep. They have contributed to my life in the loss of stress.

Another example: public liability. If you own a house, are you willing to risk some nutjob walking down your driveway, "tripping" over a crack and suing you for every cent you have or will ever have? Me, I'd prefer to hand that risk off to some insurance company; preferably one who retains a cadre of lawyers thatnreally, really don't like the concept of giving that nutjob anything (except the legal bill). How about the total loss of everything you own in a fire? Do you want to have that risk yourself, or would you prefer to pay someone else to have that risk for you?

Yes, insurance companies can be a pain in the neck. Yes, you deal with an insurance company knowing full well you better bring your own KY. But I'd much rather deal with their crap than face financial ruin.