Euro allowed Greeks to go deep in debt only the same way as any currency allows debtors take up debt. The actual problem lied in smoke and mirrors of Greek gov trying to trick others and in readiness of lenders to be misinformed.

I was with you until you somehow got confused about intelligence of people making presumably legal decisions in your (is valid for any) country these fuckwitts are usually not very intelligent and if they are they are either corrupt or committed some sort of silly act that the others made illegal based on their prejudice or bad will. Other than that you are probably right.

What sort of barbaric regime sends weapons into space? Only Ruskies could be so evil. Ohh wait....

this is a black and white vision that would make any geek proud. The thing is - there is a relationship but it is not direct and straightforward. It reminds me of an Inverted Pendulum or rather a set of those to be held up just by moving their only support point.

the best one can do to save environment and protect against global warming at least in that part that is caused by humans* - condoms for free. The main reason we use so much energy is because there are so many of us. Most of us are completely useless (I agree republican party members are even more so) so there is no issue of having fewer useless farts. Bonus is - less STDs (including herpes hepatitis and other nice ones) around.The biofuels were a nice try - now we know better. We shall revisit the subject when the standard fuels run out which they eventually will
* - some humans doubt if humans at all can cause any significant global effect and say compare our CO2 production to a huge vulcano erruption. Yet 1 more vulcano eruption on top of 20 others is increase by 5% and this goes on every year. Then cutting trees all over the place has a significant effect on local weather patterns and increase of surface temperature and as humans live everywhere now they cut the trees everywhere. Concrete is significantly hotter in the middle of the sunny day than a forest surface. There are few other small and big items but certainly constant activity of 7b humans has a significant and accumulating effect on weather. We can discuss how big this effect may be but it is there.

2/7=28% which if you really want you can round down to 20% all is well then.

maybe their economy optimized living beings out of existence and now only the stock exchange boots are still there increasing the value and making progress as we speak.

I think you should use proper terminology - US have no allies or friends, they have vassals.

The mail would have been delivered by Kevin Costner.

and on the top of it!

I suppose if that were to happen the parents could be excused for keeping them in the cellar and feeding them only bread and water.

I suppose this being US of A a proper investigation would find a number of legal problems and thus make an arrest a reasonable approach to these criminals, if tried hard I am sure one could have arrested them for possession - if they are normal people they would have smoked weed at least once, so they belong to prison. It is a free country after all....

GP meant the market for laws, thus s/he was right.

I am sure there are pupils like you and possibly I was like this too (albeit I doubt that I ever had motivation and ability), yet neither knowledge in particular subject is all, nor claims of knowing more than a teacher are always correctly depicting reality. I am not a teacher but I do teaching at work by virtue of having students assigned to me for a year to do some menial jobs - they should be learning the right stuff mostly programming but more so around programming - because as far as I can tell nothing has changed much since I started - programming is a vital but minor part of developing software(*). I regularly fail to know all details that my newbies know about any chosen programming language yet I beat them every time on the actual programming and developing albeit I have to google more than they do. This will change of course and part of the course is for them to learn as much as possible. The point is - you may know all details but as so often in case of cohders - you fail to see the bigger picture.

* - some things changed since I started though - the division of work changed thanks to progress in communication technology which may make coding (and other things) being done in far away places (or in another office which is just the same if I do not know person doing the job). The system people cut jobs into small pieces and let Turks do the stuff for 10$ an hour. Yet I doubt that any big project can be done effectively only by outsourcing. If a company is a software house delivering software solutions then they most likely need to have in house competence in coding as well as developing, project management, communication and cooperation culture, decision making skills, presentation skills and much more. How often project fail because any of these were not there. Then again it all depends on the project of which part is people doing it.

First of all the current 'intelligent' systems are on a level of an ant or bee. This does not make them less lethal to humans however. The problems are already there then and the biggest is - even systems that are meant to be friendly may become lethal because of oversight, bug, miscalculation, abuse or because they may 'think' that humans are danger to other humans (which is mostly potentially and in quite many cases actually true). What about systems that are meant to kill or at least disable humans? In old good times a gun shot by itself once a year but it did so only if somebody pulled the trigger. Now the autonomous systems may pull the trigger all by themselves and they may have to decide themselves as humans in control loop are too slow. I think in most cases making system robust and reliable may be a shot in the right direction. Alas in the real world scrum team may decide this feature is to be move to next sprint or demo it albeit it is not ready etc... In other words - is anybody ready to pay for robust systems that are less likely to kill by accident? Yea I did not think so. We solve problems that come out of ant like creatures that have enough power to kill many, move on to quality and robustness and then when AI is on horizon we can start thinking about 3 laws and some such things.