That would have been a VERY tall iceberg!

Based upon performance at the box office, I think Kevin Costner was the "Lone Postman"...

Surface area of the world is around 510 million square kilometers. Half of that is exposed to sunlight at any given time. That sunlight averages around 250W per square meter. Do the math. A 0.2% change in output is a change of about 127 TW (yes, teraWatts) per day. I'd call that a pretty significant given it's about 7 times more than the entire energy consumption of humanity (in all forms). Doesn't take much solar output change to totally swamp all of humanity. Seems that would be quite a change to the climate, doesn't it?

I beg to differ! The original poster should know that the Bay area isn't a center of power of the Illuminati, but the Bilderbergers and Freemasons. The Illuminati are a bit down the coast, in Santa Barbara...

I don't think it's the price; more people than ever have college degrees. Rather, it's the quality of the education they're receiving. Which says a LOT about those who put so much faith and trust in our higher education system.

So, the citizens didn't vote in the Government that took the loans on their behalf? The citizens didn't vote to join the EU and play by a known set of rules? The citizens didn't understand those loans were actually loans, and not gifts?

Fair enough. So why should anyone - ANYONE - loan another Euro to Greece? Flush the current loans down the toilet, call it even - and survive on your own. No more loans. Sound fair?

Wouldn't the financial pain of suddenly paying 3X the taxes be worse, to the average Greek, as the austerity plans the EU wanted to see? Getting blood either way requires about the same level of pain.

Because the Greeks haven't tried austerity. Try raising the retirement age up to that of Germany or the US (in the mid 60s). That alone would save tens of billions of dollars, and allow Greece to make their payments.

It seems to me, in this case, it's the communist-rich Syriza party and their supporters getting in bed together to take money from private industry and other Governments - then saying "screw you, you fascists" as they try to walk away from their debts. That's not fascism - that's communism at best (and outright theft at worst).

The Syriza Party includes anti-capitalists, Marxist–Leninist, Maoist, Trotskyist, and Eurocommunist groups. If that's not a coalition with strong communist leanings - what is?

The population of Germany was about 10 times that of Greece. The typical German got about 40% of the typical Greek.

And we Americans financed the whole thing. You're welcome.

You're metadata-editing wrong.

My Rec Tec Grill has that, and it does a great job. I love to mix cherry and mesquite to do my slow-smoked brisket (12-14 hours at 200 deg F).

Because they're cramped, have poor ergonomics, stupid non-overridable defaults (like it always defaults to 8A charge, and if you want 12A @ 110VAC you HAVE to set it EVERY SINGLE TIME, no way to save the setting), and has pretty poor QC. This is from a coworker I've had over the last 2 years who can't wait for the lease to end and he'll move to something else. Yes, it's saving him some cash over gas, but it's just not worth the hassle.

Really? The US didn't become the number one economy until 1916 - about the time that most of the European powers (specifically, the UK - which was the biggest economy before the US stepped into that role) were deep into World War I. World War II pretty much cemented our position as the rest of the first world (and much of the 2nd) was bombed and broken. I don't think it was the slaves that made us the greatest economic power, but rather the fact we have two large bodies of water keeping us relatively safe from wars in Europe and Asia.