The Euro may not, now that people realize that the whole thing was a scam and the loan shark can be chased out of town.

Umm, well, if the Euro collapses over this, German will start using DM, and Greece will start using drachma. I expect the exchange rate will strongly favor the Germans. How does Greece 'having a say in the matter' have any positve effect whatsoever for Greece? The only thing the Greeks can hope for is the can getting kicked further down the road. But the road in question is at this point a very, very short blind alley.

They should just monetize Magic the Gathering cards.

Fucking fascists and their sympathizers think everyone is a communist... or are too stupid to learn what words mean before using them.

Woah! Be careful swinging around those big words! You could take somebody's eye out!

Grow a brain, use it; buy a dictionary, use it.

That's a weird thing for you to put in front of what you typed after it.

So what you're saying is, the government in Greece is not communist, yet the European Union is fascist.

Hmmm, I think you've spent all your currency in this discussion. You'd better duck out before everybody starts pointing and laughing at you.

The Greeks should come up with their own 'lubricant' if the problem is liquidity. They could call the 'lubricant' the drachma. Wow, they would even have a lot of control over the situation if they did this. The socialist dude they elected last year should jump on this, it would give Greece the chance to show us what it's capable of.

Living here in the Midwestern US, I haven't heard anybody attempt a 'Polack' joke in years. Decades, even. Are you still trying out corny shit like that in Europe?

The debtors and the creditors. They can sort it out among themselves. The rest of us should just stay out of it, and/or make sure the responsible entities within our national jurisdictions don't weasel out of the mess.

And I guess the Greeks can all start driving cars made by Greek car companies. If there aren't enough Greek automakers, maybe they can purchase the intellectual property from whoever owns the Trabant designs. Probably somebody in Germany, actually.

Nickels are still made of nickel. They're the only bullion coin left, though.

It's not just eye candy. There's also vendor-lockin, supplimented by a heavy dose of Stockholm Syndrome. And a cultish attitude, which many people find attractive. It's appealing to think you are part of an enlightened minority; even to the point that it wouldn't be fun at all if the ideal you champion ever actually caught on and became the dominant thing.

Steve Jobs studied this kind of thing earnestly. He made pilgrimages to his guru in India to learn this stuff.

I used to care how the files were organized too, until I realized it was pointless if the software can do it for me. It's not about "the Apple way", it's about letting computers do the job for us, like it's supposed to be.

That's known as 'vendor lock-in' and if IBM or Microsoft were doing it, you and yours would be screeching. Or sneering, more likely.

Every once in awhile the astroglide runs thin.

I have just about every issue. Maybe not #1. Modo 2000 was the hot magazine at the time, and Wired was what 'the suits' said should succeed instead. It's sort of sad for Wired to be doing a 'retrospective.' Are they STILL that upset at being seen as the corporate-slick usurper?

Mondo had articles about culture, smart drugs, cool stuff. Wired has always toned it down and been more about gadgets and spending money.

Does Cook know you're screwing around on /. instead of working? Of COURSE you work on a Mac Pro. I built a bookcase with power tools. My grandpa built his icefishing darkhouse with hand tools, though.

Isn't 'snafu' an acronym:

Situation
Normal
All
Fucked
Up

Does that describe bitcoin and this 'glitch' properly?