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He did say that actions of Greece's debtors are terrorism, so I would guess that he would not get most warmest welcome in meetings with other eurozone's finance ministers. Meaning that if Greece hopes to have any change in any negotiations with their debtors he probably should not be part of those negotiations. Yeah I have heard that argument, hopefully that is exactly the reason and outcome But the issue is he represented a certain symbolism around the Greek defiance. Many Greeks really liked him and believed what he said Now the rhetoric is over and the NO vote has won he resigns...what does that say about the veracity and credibility of the NO argument ? Surly for the all the millions of Greeks who stood by his views he needs to continue to represent the NO perspective and ideological stance ? That is something that only Greeks themselves can give answer.

He did say that actions of Greece's debtors are terrorism, so I would guess that he would not get most warmest welcome in meetings with other eurozone's finance ministers. Meaning that if Greece hopes to have any change in any negotiations with their debtors he probably should not be part of those negotiations.

I can't predict what result means for Greece, EU or euro, but it has already become a weapon for anti-EU people, like Finland's current foreign minister, which will make all negotiations from this point on much more difficult and I am pretty sure that Finland at least will do it worst to make sure that Greece will have hard time to get any additional loans from EU and they probably will try to get Greece exit euro and also EU if they can as that is what they want Finland do also and Greece exit would be great example and also it would make sure that there is process for such exit in EU's contracts. I hope that leaders of other EU countries don't let pride and populist nationalist protectionist politic mongering that is rising in popularity all around Europe make them forget long run goals for EU and euro and principles behind our unions, just because it would be much easier on short run.

It isn't just multiplayer that OP asks, but NWN style multiplayer with GM mode. To make GM mode actually be worth while there should be quite lot things that GM can do, like for example changing maps, creating quest lines, editing and creating monsters/NPCs, etc.on the fly, and so on and so forth. And to make those feature work well and make game look same as PoE, there needs to be quite lot more work done. I made 50 million dollar estimation in based on my guess that making game with such features with such quality level that I personally would find to be high enough would probably take from Obsidian (and I mean everybody on Obsidian) about 3 years, which would mean over 40 million salary expenses (based on average game developer salaries in US and numbers that Double Fine and Obsidian have mentioned about subject), and because there are also other expenses and costs that Obsidian would need to pay during that time I just rounded sum to 50 million dollars. Of course they would be able to make something with smaller budget, but in my opinion it would not be worth it, because it would mean less resource in making single player experiences which I personally find more enjoyable anyway and which don't need same amount polish and ability edit assets, etc. as multiplayer with GM mode (in my opinion/estimate).

I would say that if Obsidian don't get somewhere additional 50 million dollars to make such feature I would hope that they don't even try in first place and focus to make excellent single player content, because I don't think that there are any reason to make such feature if you don't have resources to make it actually good and comprehensive.

I posted it because teknoman2's claim that "greek government has paid all it's internal obligations (schools", to show that such claim is maybe bit too simplistic when it comes to full picture of the situation (as if you read article you see that they have struggled with their payments years now). Also in long run losing educational resources can be quite harmful for economical development of the country, so even though it don't seem that alarming in short run, when compared to other effects of economical crisis it can be one most devastating in long run. Of course losing access to articles isn't killing blow for Greek's universities in anyway, but also it don't do them any good. But of course ensuring that people have access to food, medicine, residence and other basic needs are the things that should have the highest priority always.

Greek scientists lose access to digital journals

Wanting to pretty much be given billions of EUR as a gift, is a strange position from which to say "NO" and be proud of it. gift? the money is given as loan with a very hefty interest rate in the last 5 years Germany has paid nothing to anyone and has gotten over 500M euro from Greece as interest for the bailout loans. they even admited it publicly! Greece is getting loans with high interest to pay off loans with low interest and is called a thief too because misinformed people say that the rest of the EU is giving away taxpayer money for free. and that is because 5 years ago, the then PM Papandreou "sold" the greek economy to the IMF and to the germans for a share of the pie. because of his antics during his time as a PM, there was even a rumor (unconfirmed but plausible since he was born there and has the citizenship) that he could not go to USA because there was a federal arrest warrant for him there, for "conspiracy against the state". They ask that partial of their debt will be forgiven, so one can argue that they ask billions of euros as gift. And many people all around EU saw those emergency loans as gift at first place. Germany bought most Greece's loans to independent creditors which they weren't capable to pay , and actually lowered Greece's interest rate on those loans. And Germany is biggest participant in ECB and other instances that constantly give Greece emergency funds so that they can pay their loans and pay pension, unemployment benefit, salaries for public employees and so on. Germany is not guilt free in this crisis, but they have put most money and time in solving it. that my friend is misinformation. as i wrote in another post, without any outside financial support since august 2014, the greek government has paid all it's internal obligations (schools, health, salaries and so on) and gave 17 bilion for the loans. ALL of the money "given" to greece have gone to pay off old debts... for the inside needs there are more than enough do you know the scene from the movie about apollo 13 where that guy says "we have to find a way to fit this sphere into this cube"? this is what is happening right now. the previous governments, instead of making a deal about the money owed, they recklesly took loans to pay off loans and thus increased the overall debt making more loans necessary... and now this government tries to stop the chain reaction and guess who does not want it to stop: those who give the loans. Germany could have bailed out on greece at any time but it keeps pouring money to it... you think they do it out of the kindness of their hearts? they stand to gain more than they spend if the loan reaches a certain height with a greek government willing to cooperate and sell them EVERYTHING to make up for that loan. and that is also the reason germany has done everything possible to sabotage any effort to solve the problem and force the greek government to quit ECB has given Greece emergency funds for several years now and Greece has constantly asked amount of this funds to be increased, so that there is actually money in their banks for people. So quite big part of Greece's internal obligations are actually paid by other euro countries. ECB, other euro countries and IMF bought all Greece's loans to independent creditors, by form of giving Greece loans which they could use to pay those previous loans. These news loans had much lower interest rates that lot of Greece old loans had, because credit markets had started to doubt Greece's ability pay its debts, which wasn't without base as we have seen, which had lead in situation where Greece could not anymore take loans from credit markets to pay their loans like they had previously done, and they were on their way towards default, which would also cause major economic turmoil in other euro countries because lots of their creditors were Europeans biggest banks. Of course lot of blame should be put on those banks, but euro countries decided to save them because estimates of effects of their bankrupts say that letting those banks to go bankrupt would hurt citizens of euro area much more than cuts and tax rises that countries need to do to buy those loans to themselves and prepare towards Greece's default. Euro countries also wanted that Greece will fix it economy, although I would argue against merit quite lot of those fixes. Germany could bailout Greece (because it is just has that much bigger economy), but that would mean that they lose hundreds of billions euros (which means hundreds of billions euros less money for Germany's schools, hospitals, public infrastructure, more taxes for Germans and so on), which isn't something that is easy to sell German voters. So you can blame Germany as much you want, but they helped to make sure that private citizen in euro area don't lose their money because bankrupts of banks by taking big part of risks in Greece's loans to itself, and you can blame that they weren't full altruistic by excepting that Greece will pay their loans and by not giving their money to Greece free but asking some interest for their, which also would make sure that there are incentive for Greece to shorten their loans. Germany has been one of most understanding of the all the creditors that Greece has, but as its biggest creditor it also has most incentive to make sure that Greece pays it debts. But Greece blight isn't seen very favorable light in euro area, because how they drifted on their current situation and how much populism parties use Greece as example how EU and euro don't work and how they only eat all the money from honest working people of [put there any country in euro area], which really puts big shadow over all negotiations with Greece, because if politician are too lenient towards Greece they risk their jobs in their home country and if they are too trick towards Greece they risk Greece defaulting its debts. And now we are in situation where people of Greece feel that troika was too trick towards them (which is arguably true when you look how long it would take Greece to get it economy running and debts paid with troika's plan) and lots of people in other euro countries think that politician have been too lenient towards Greece and that Greece should have kicked out from euro and EU already in 2011, but at least now.

Wanting to pretty much be given billions of EUR as a gift, is a strange position from which to say "NO" and be proud of it. gift? the money is given as loan with a very hefty interest rate in the last 5 years Germany has paid nothing to anyone and has gotten over 500M euro from Greece as interest for the bailout loans. they even admited it publicly! Greece is getting loans with high interest to pay off loans with low interest and is called a thief too because misinformed people say that the rest of the EU is giving away taxpayer money for free. and that is because 5 years ago, the then PM Papandreou "sold" the greek economy to the IMF and to the germans for a share of the pie. because of his antics during his time as a PM, there was even a rumor (unconfirmed but plausible since he was born there and has the citizenship) that he could not go to USA because there was a federal arrest warrant for him there, for "conspiracy against the state". They ask that partial of their debt will be forgiven, so one can argue that they ask billions of euros as gift. And many people all around EU saw those emergency loans as gift at first place. Germany bought most Greece's loans to independent creditors which they weren't capable to pay , and actually lowered Greece's interest rate on those loans. And Germany is biggest participant in ECB and other instances that constantly give Greece emergency funds so that they can pay their loans and pay pension, unemployment benefit, salaries for public employees and so on. Germany is not guilt free in this crisis, but they have put most money and time in solving it.

They will not be only ones that will run to carcass for cheap snacks, but also lots of people/companies from western countries will also be there. So Greece would had to create laws against foreign buyings if they don't want to lose significant part of their land and infrastructure to foreigns.

Yes, being kept in solitary. and how is that a violation of human rights? if someone is dangerous -OR- there is a particular concern for the safety of the prisoner, then solitary cell is the best method of punishment. Keeping prisoners in solitary confinement without justifiable cause is actually human rights violation in ECHR, but in past 14 years we have not really cared about that when we are dealing with terrorists, like lots of other things that we have in past said to been human rights have been forgotten in such cases. But if European Court of Human Rights find that Breivik's treatment in prison is against his human rights, I am pretty sure that when that verdict is really available for Brevik, he has been decades in prison, because are so much different things that European governments can do to delay ECtHR's verdicts if they really want, and I am pretty sure that politician that fight against such verdict in Norway will only find themself become more popular among voters. And I am pretty sure that other European countries will not really give any pressure to solve situation especially in timely matter. It is quite improbable that mass murder that remind Europe of its past will really find any justice regardless of what our laws say as, those laws have loopholes that can used to remove all rights that person has, and one has very hard time get people care when one is publicly despised all around Europe especially in current political climate.

We are so lucky that this is the language that so many internet's functions are heavily based on.

Nothing can force them stop using euro, but they will lose all control and benefits they now have. So from national economical standpoint it would be better for Greek to move back to use their own currency, if they leave euro, given that they can establish some value compared to other currencies for it, so that it can be used in international trade.

I have seen some really informed people suggesting that Greece should leave the EU as people are tired of there intransigence and lack of compliance with austerity. But for me Greece leaving the EU would effectively crash there banking institutions and who would now lend them money? You can forget the IMF as they owe them billions..maybe the BRICS bank but Greece would be considered a high risk and dishonest in its payment strategy. So Greece leaving the EU could devastate there economy to a point where they may spend 15-20 years recovering from it. Its a huge deal and really needs to be avoided Banking structure in EU has only quite minor risk to crash if Greek leaves Euro and possibly EU, as now those loans that Greeks have aren't for Europe's big banks, but IMF, ECB, and directly to other countries, so even if Greek defaults it don't collapse banks from other euro countries. For Greeks banks leaving euro would be devastating as then they don't anymore get emergency funding from ECB. But it is absolute possible that Greek can recover from such blow, but for Greeks probably would lose quite lot their standard of living on short run and it is difficult to predict how it would impact on Greek's tourism and other major sources of income. Following troika current plan would mean that Greek will have hard time to get any economic growth in next couple decades, so I can understand why it isn't very compelling option for them and why they could even risk defaulting. Option that is in current political climate nearly non-option for other euro countries is that some of Greeks loans will be forgiven or they will be changed to interest free for decades, probably could be best option in long run, as it would allow Greek to build their economy back faster without need to cut their standard of living so much as two previous options. But this option would be quite hard to sell as economy in euro area is in recession and they going through major budget cuts. And own problem comes from rising popularity of anti-EU parties, UK's upcoming referendum about leaving the union. And also worsened relations with Russia, don't help. And of course situations in Middle-east and North-Africa don't help.

It's just that of all the people who sent me stuff internationally, only Paradox managed to screw up, twice. All other 30+ times the items came -mostly from ebay and amazon. I have ordered hundreds of items from all around world and sent hundreds of items all around world and total number cases where something have gone missing is under 10 total, meaning that usually shipping services are very reliable, but that don't help when bad luck hits, even if you ordered your stuff from most reliable seller using most reliable shipper. Best thing that you probably can do is to keep bothering Paradox's customer service, because I am pretty sure that eventually if anything else don't work they sent your stuff to you with fast courier to make you stop.

In my shipment they provided a tracking number. But lots of shipping companies have problems with international tracking, which means that they don't always provide tracking number for shipments to everywhere where they ship, usually because they don't handle shipment all the way but buy services from some other shipping companies, which is quite annoying also for the sellers.

I liked both games but objective facts support DA:I's superiority. DA:I: 151 hours played Witcher 3: 128 hours played I refuse vote either of the games, because of their poor mouse and keyboard controls, which make them undeserving to win anything.

In most lucrative sports salaries of best athletes are higher than 15M USD. And those who success in "world finals" usually get (possibly even tens of) millions of dollars worth advertisement deals addition to their salaries. So popular esports have become quite lucrative, but it is still far from level where some traditional sports are.

#100 update seem to be saved for something special

I've seen similar remarks a few times and I don't understand it. Why not just wait until the second part is out? As far as I can tell, the only difference is that now you can play something a bit earlier if you want to. I think it has to, do with a) Obsidian promised a meaty expansion, with none of the modern DLC shenanigans, and then decided to split it up (which feels a bit like modern DLC shenanigans). To hammer the point home, Obsidian hasn't even confirmed if non-backers will have to buy each part of the expansion separately, or they will have to pay once to get the entire expansions (which the old nickel-and-dime DLC strategy). b) Sure, you can make yourself wait, but releasing the expansion in parts sends a signal that it should be played now. It's like exploits in computer games, yes you don't have to use them, but if using them is the optimal strategy, then you are more likely to use them, even if it diminishes the fun of the game. c) Since the expansion has been cut in 2 means that the story and the content of the second part must be cleanly split from the first part, instead of organicly integrated. This could very well not be a problem, but the possibility exists, and that diminished the expansion as a whole. We'll see when the expansion is released. a) For first it was PoE's backers that Obsidian promised meaty expansion, and as all backers that bought that expansion, soon 3 years ago, will get both parts one would need to count both parts when they judge if expansion is meaty enough. Obsidian/Paradox has not even yet started to take preorders for expansions from non-backers, meaning that there is no need yet announce how they can buy the expansion, but I would say it would be more customer friendly to give people ability to buy parts separately or together, but whatever they decide to do has nothing to do with their meaty expansion promise to the backers. b) Obsidian got great deal of complains because they didn't gave backers access to preview and even earlier builds of PoE, but instead made them to wait official release version. And now they get complains because they have planed their expansion so that they can offer people earlier access to some of its content, people are hard to please I see. c) PoE's story itself is divided to 4/5 parts (chapters), which would allow to split game in episodes that could be sold separately without causing any problems how player progress in the story.

Prides are very similar to other festivals, conventions, etc. where people that share something in common gather to spent time, have fun and share information about that thing that they have common. Which means that there are people that share that commonality but don't like said gatherings, at least any that they know and even some that hope that they would not exists because they think that other people will associate people's behaviors from those gatherings to them. Rights of sexual minorities are sky rocketed and large number of people, in many countries majority of people, not just tolerate but actually accept and support sexual minorities right to exists, and also common thinking about homosexuality has changed from unnatural-, abnormal- , vile-, dangerous-, indecent-, etc. behavior to that homosexuality is normal-, natural-, decent-, etc. behavior after prides have become common place and know things in those countries. Also how sexual minorities are portrayed in media has changed lot (it isn't stereotyped as much, it isn't shown as dangerous behavior that leads individuals doom, but instead it is become additional trait of characters that don't necessary define them and spectrum of sexual minority characters have become larger and more nuanced) and become more common. Meaning that it is quite easy to argue that at least prides haven't generally hurt sexual minorities rights or caused people see them in just one way.

If you think that argument bit more you find that it really don't hold any closer scrutiny. And even if we leave all sense, logic and decently behind us, how do you even begin to plan actual isolation of population group which members can born to any family in any social, economical, ethnic, religious, cultural, etc. group that there are and they don't have any visible marks or clear test that would reveal their sexual orientation. And in this your isolation system do bisexual had to decide between living with other people or living isolation or is it based on some random system? I don't think it's possible, but if they stopped advertising this rainbow low caliber clothing 'style of gay', and forcing down our throats with sad stories and aggressive feminine ( but from a male ) attitudes, making us all look like an abomination. I'd have no problem, not even patronizing homosexuality, if the majority of them stopped being this stupid. They can live happily without a lisp, they can live happily without feminine acting. It's not a thing that comes with gay, feminine acting and general sexual stupidity ( promoting it like porn in daylight - "I'm here in daylight because I have sex with men, and there's hundreds of us, you should join in" ). To be honest, all emotions aside for a second, it's unnecessary and making us look weak and abnormal, begging for combat. It's also provocative for a lot of people are homophobic and it's even broadcast now. They get so much attention, they've reached the peak now surely. I would HATE to see it carry on from this point, gay-pride, but sure be gay. So you say people should stop publicly liking, practicing or exercising anything they like because some other people don't necessary like how they behave, like for example people should not wear fan shirts, symbols, flags, bandanas, religious symbols etc., go concerts, conventions, exhibitions, religious events, sporting events, etc.. Gay prides are only events where people celebrate something in their lives and make public demonstration that they have people like them exist and they have right to exists. I also would point out that your premise that they promote one style of gay is absolute wrong, and that feminine acting don't have anything to do being gay and association of such trait to gays is actually product of media (movies and tv-series) that more often than not give such behavior for their gay characters when there is one in the movie/tv-series. So feminine acting is trait that our society demands from the gays so that they can be gays.

If you think that argument bit more you find that it really don't hold any closer scrutiny. And even if we leave all sense, logic and decently behind us, how do you even begin to plan actual isolation of population group which members can born to any family in any social, economical, ethnic, religious, cultural, etc. group that there are and they don't have any visible marks or clear test that would reveal their sexual orientation. And in this your isolation system do bisexual had to decide between living with other people or living isolation or is it based on some random system?

The Moscow Times is Moscow based publication that don't actually is issued in Finland. It is funded by Russian based (Sanoma) Independent Media, which is owned by Sanoma Oyj(Public Limited Liability Company), which primary owners are Finnish family Erkko's foundation and company's CEO Antti Herlin. They are one of the five biggest magazine publishers in Europe and own several TV stations. So they are bit like Finnish Murdochs, meaning that they own big part of news outlets. But as I haven't ever read even single issue of The Moscow Times, I can't say if or if not it is a propaganda magazine. But as Finnish people accuse Sanoma Oyj's magazines, like Helsingin Sanomat, that are published in Finland to spreading leftist, communistic and Russian propaganda (can't really judge if there are bases in reality for such accusations, as similar accusations are targeted against all the largest Finnish news outlets by certain Finns), I would guess that said magazines suffers from similar issues.

I don't know what story they are using for their exercise, but it's the most likely scenario. Also it's very probable that the support they are talking about is physical, ie. logistic, military, training, weapons, etc. I mean it's a war exercise, does it matter what story/pretext is used in it... One thing that is noteworthy in story story/pretext is that it was scenario in which Russia invades areas from another country/countries, meaning that it was not planned to be defensive exercise but aggressive one. I would also note that war exercises even though they are set in hypothetical scenarios always have purpose in greater military strategy of country and they are meant to make sure that country's military is ready to carry out that purpose if/when need to that comes.