Free-As-In-Beer Electricity In Greece?

PolygamousRanchKid writes New Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will lay out his radical left-wing government's policies in a speech later on Sunday, firmly rejecting any more austerity forced on his debt-strapped country by its euro zone partners. In his first major speech to parliament as premier, Tsipras is expected to say that Greece wants no more bailout money, plans to renegotiate its debt deal and wants a "bridge agreement" to tide the country over until a new pact is sealed. A second part of the speech will touch on his government's social and fiscal policy over the longer term and is likely to repeat pledges for such things as a rise in the minimum wage and free electricity for poorer Greeks. Which gets me to thinking: with free electricity, wouldn't that be a great business opportunity, to build a cloud of servers in poorer Greeks' basements? Maybe that is the real plan behind the free electricity idea.

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Re:Electroplating in college dorms

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Re:The Cuban Miracle

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a cranky neighbour USA which autotakes the right to force sanctions on Cuba just because it is so full of evil commies

Do you know WHY those sanctions exist? It's not because Cuba is full of evil commies. It's because when the evil commies took over Cuba they "nationalized" (i.e. stole) billions of dollars worth of property owned by American companies and individuals.

There's even a Wikipedia article that explains it all. I won't put a link here because I don't want to enable your intellectual laziness.