Just as individual Greeks are losing access to Apple's iCloud, as the Athens staff of Bloomberg News recently discovered, so companies are finding themselves cut off from services critical to their ongoing operations.
The problem demonstrates a hidden risk in today's otherwise efficient vertical disintegration. Taking for granted the easy flow of money across borders, system designers never foresaw a situation in which companies with adequate funds would find that they couldn't pay foreign vendors.
"Greek companies are not able at this moment to pay for hosting (Amazon), storage (Dropbox), email services (MailChimp) and many other services," says Jon Vlachogiannis, a Bay Area entrepreneur, in an email. Without these services, otherwise viable businesses are in trouble.
Vlachogiannis and other expats are stepping up to pay the bills from California, rescuing companies with astonishingly small amounts.
Falcon 9: zero failure on all commercial flights
I don't really know how to break this to you, but...
I guess the Illuminati really don't want us to know what meteors are made of.
Dibs!
Maybe the Russians should launch a "Not a single cosmonaut lost since 1971!" marketing campaign.
Just a few months ago, Musk cultists here on Slashdot were virtually cheering when an Orbital Sciences launch failed. Everyone was piling on them for using Russian engines and singing the praises of the infallible SpaceX. I guess payback's a bitch.
It still landed, just in more pieces than expected.
See, *everyone* fails sometimes, even your hero Elon Musk.
Yeah, but in October they have PUMPKIN FLAVORED moldy dirt!
1 + 1 = 3, for large values of 1.