Somalia does this, except they use git.

They're exactly the same as the casino owner: the house always gets its cut.

Not quite. The casino sets the rules of the game, making sure they know EXACTLY what the odds are, thereby turning long-term profit into a statistical certainty. The insurer has to guess the odds, and can actually guess wrong, so there's a lot less certainty. That's why there are reinsurers, who insure the insurers against unexpectedly large payouts.

If their economy wasn't fucked.

If Iceland's economy is fucked, I'd like to know where I can sign up my country's economy for a proper rogering.

Perhaps not, but you can stop acting on the impulse.

Indeed. A civilisation on a tidally locked planet would probably think life couldn't possibly start on a planet with day and night, or seasons.

Is Slashdot actually required by law to save ip addresses with each comment?

Which law would that be?

I'd expect the Chinese to use bignums.

Are you saying we would have nicer things if people believed anything they read in slashdot summaries as long as it fits in their pre-existing beliefs?

In the case of Greece, it's more like "Oh my god, we've been discussing a solution for our problems for months, and now it turns out you can't really speak for your people because you have zero support from them?"

The US obligated itself to its allies to produce this aircraft for mutual use, and not delivering it would cause a lot more international face loss than cancelling F-22

It's funny you should say that, because in The Netherlands, the opinion is that we only chose to join/support the development of the F35 to suck up to the US.