They are sociopathic libertarian company devoted to "disruption", which is generally code for "we break the law if it gets in the way of us making money and we think we can get away with it".
The funny thing about that, is that pretty much describes every big company I know.
*Yawn* . . . but in your next sentence, you will claim that it is all the fault of the liberal western nations.
,I live in North America
Well, do the world a favor . . . and go home! To your Muslim world.
these people are killing muslims in their own countries.
Muslims hate everyone. When they aren't killing innocent foreigners, they are killing each other. They hate everyone. Even themselves. See the Shiite Sunni divide to see what I mean.
There is an an old Arabic saying . . . I fight against my brother . . . but my brother and I fight against other kids in my neighborhood. We fight with kids in our neighborhood against other kids in other neighborhoods. Etc, etc, etc.
Those children that died when Taliban carried an attach on Peshawar school were all muslim's.
See above, to see why Muslims will just kill anyone, just for fun, because it says so in the Koran.
So its idiotic to think that these extremist will listen to me, who lives in Canada, shops in these malls and hell, condemn them every opportunity I get.
Well, you are living in a liberal democracy that is tolerant for everyone. I guess you missed the attacks by Muslim in Ottawa
I have a 9-5 job
So your employer should be charged with aiding and abetting Muslim terrorists.
kids to look after.
Have you fitted your kids with suicide belts yet?
When was the last time you went to a street to protest, I never have, likely won't either. Those who understand this, I appreciate them, those who won't, I don't care.
Which is why we should tell Muslims, like Nazis to go home!
Your basically rubbing shit on them in their eyes, since that's your wiping hand.
Listen, because Muslims don't have the intelligence to use toilet paper is not my problem. That is theirs. Muslim countries are stuck in the Middle Ages.
It's rude in their culture.
Well, sorry for them, but I can't write with my right hand. So your Mohammed can kiss my fucking hairy ass. Or I cannot go to your Islam countries, to try to help out with their abysmal cultures.
I doubt you would be killed..
Tell that to the folks shopping at a mall in America.
Oh, and by the way, I am left handed. Google your own religion to see what they think about that. When visiting Egypt on a business trip, I was told not to use my left hand . . . otherwise, I would probably be killed.
Who is doing the killing here? Am I standing in an airport security line because of Muslims? Or Methodists in Ohio . . . ?
Do christians listen to other christians who condemn?
Well, Christians don't let other extremist terrorists hang out in their houses of worship. If the creeps from the Westboro Baptist Church showed up at any Christian church that I know showed up, they would be politely ask by the pastor to "take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut". In contrast, Muslim Mosques actively encourage extremists and terrorists to make themselves at home.
Have you been to a mall lately? Remember your Muslim Pledge of Allegiance . . . that is your "get out of jail free" card. Anyone else will be slaughtered.
Look at the history of slavery in the south.
Yes, that's gone now, isn't it? Let's look at the slavery in the Islamic State. Twelve year old girls sold as sex slaves, because that's the what's written in the Koran, and what the Prophet [sic] wants.
Did it end because the menonites and some catholics told the other christians it was wrong?
No, it ended because a lot of folks, regardless of their religions agreed that slavery was evil, and was worth fighting for to end.
Look at Muslims today. They couldn't even muster themselves to lift a finger against the Islamic State . . . until Obama twisted their arm.
Muslims would like to live in the prosperous land of a liberal democracy. But they want the government of a Medieval Caliphate.
It's not going to work with Muslims living with non-Muslims.
Greece, as my high school history teacher would put it, is a basket case. It survives only on the handouts from the EU.
I worked on an EU funded research project, where Greeks were involved, the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and the Athens Technology Center (ATC). Although some of those folks had PhDs, none of them were even close to being productive as a US high school student.
Whine, moan, bitch and complain, someone else was responsible for their failure. I couldn't even hear it any more.
Yeah, great, a funky new currency . . . but Greece needs some more radical reform . . . and not some leftist bullshit.
I hear that such folks exist, but they seem to be as rare as a transsexual US Navy SEAL riding a unicorn at the front of a 4th of July parade. Muslims will not listen to goddamned Methodists from Ohio. They will only listen to other Muslims.
Unless other Muslims take to the streets and condemn these threats and actions from the Islamic State . . . ain't nothing gonna happen!
So, if you are Muslim, will you tolerate these extremists in you Mosque . . . ? As long as that problem isn't solved, the rest of us will live in fear of you.
all an English chef could cook was oxtail and the like
Actually, before Jamie Oliver meddled in, the English chefs at schools could serve up a wonderful meal of Turkey Twizzlers, Heinz baked beans, fresh, right out of the can, and chips (UK), French Fries for the rest of the world. "French" Fries were actually invented in Belgium, which any Belgian will tell you, again and again. And then one more time, again. Eating fries in Belgium is quite a treat, because they offer different sauces that you can have on top. Not just the mundane ketchup or mayonnaise, but something like a Tex-Mex salsa . . . with mango!
Well, anyway . . . Jamie Oliver fueled an anti Turkey Twizzlers campaign, an they are gone now. And instead, the children in the UK get fed boiled Brussels sprouts and spinach.
"Mopsy! Flopsy! Cottontail! . . . your dinner is ready!"
So I could imagine that some angry UK school kids were the culprits behind this hacking. They wanted Turkey Twizzlers . . . but they got Jamie Oliver cattle feed instead!
Perhaps the EU should just do the same as when anyone else goes bankrupt: seize their assets.
Perhaps the EU should just do the same as when anyone else goes bankrupt: seize their asshats.
Any liquid Greek assets are sitting in Switzerland by now. The Germans need to swallow a bitter pill: That money that they loaned to Greece is gone. Ain't no never gonna be paid back. On the positive side for the Germans, Greece will be out of the Eurozone, and probably the EU as well. One less "leech".
For Greece, bankruptcy means that all those debts are gone. They can start with a clean slate, with their own Drachma currency. The government can then print as many needed to keep their people internally happy.
Of course, the New Drachma would be worthless on international currency markets. So wave bye-bye to things like TVs, computers, cars, etc. Greece will become "The Cuba of Europe", but what the hey . . . as long as the folks there are happy!
exploitation of the cooperators is the fast track to success.
But what happens when the cooperators figure out together what the exploiter is up to? I am thinking concretely here about Greece and the Eurozone. Yanis Varoufakis, the Greek finance minister, a Marxist economist and Valve consultant, and a Game Theory expert, as well, is trying to extort the other Eurozone countries for money. If Greece doesn't get what it wants, money, with no strings tied, it will go bankrupt and be forced to leave the Eurozone. This will of course disrupt the international financial markets.
However, the problem with extortion, is that it never ends. The extortionist will demand payments, again and again.
So what the Eurozone must decide what the short term costs are, of giving Greece the boot, and dealing with short term market turmoil. But what would be the long term costs be, of being extorted for the rest of eternity by Greece? In other words, Greece will demand "protection" money from the Eurozone for not going bankrupt.
Forget any academic papers . . . you can watch this in real life on TV and Internet news!
One can't help, but wonder, what other famously "settled" science will come apart?
From Woody Allen's Sleeper, set in the future:
Dr. Orva:Here. You smoke this, and be sure you get the smoke deep down into your lungs.
Miles Monroe:I don't smoke.
Dr. Orva:It's tobacco. It's one of the healthiest things for your body. Now go ahead. You need all the strength you can get.
Non-smoker bars, restaurants and airline flights will be banned in the future!
Unless, of course, they are organized as non-smoker "clubs" . . .
But this is a system which inherently transfers data from one side to the other, checks it along the way, and then stores it on the far side in preparation for being played.
Yes, that's all nice . . . but can it check the quality of the music, and improve it along the way, if the music sucks . . . ?
The wacky German young hobby pilot flew a Cessna from Finland to Russia in the late 80's . . . and landed it in Red Square. Of course, without any permission from Russia. Way back then, folks also thought that the stunt might have started a new, fresh and funky, World War.
Well, the Russian military noticed the airplane, but figured that one little Cessna would not be the way that the decadent West would choose to attack them. Also, the Generals figured that the pilot or passengers were Soviet VIPS, who had had a few too many, and nobody dared to give the order to shoot it down.
Gorbachev used the event to re-assign a bunch of Air Defense generals to latrine duty in Siberia.
Anyway, I'm thinking that a swarm of drones descending on North Korea would result in a wave of confusion, but not another World War.
If Greece goes the Euro goes. (Actually if any Eurozone country goes the Euro goes).
I believe that the Greeks are overplaying their hand here. A few years ago, this might have been true, but now, international financial institutions have had time to prepare for the "Grexit" as a seriously possibility and create contingency plans.
Greece is less than 2% of the Eurozone economy. If Frace, Spain or Italy jumped . . . then they would have a problem. The Euro will survive a "Grexit", and be probably come out stronger, because the world financial markets will see the Eurozone as an organization that will not tolerate financial "fudge." And that the Eurozone is committed to keep the Euro a "hard" currency.
Let's face it . . . why are the Greeks in the EU anyway? They aren't really European . . . they sit at the butt-end of the Balkans, as one English diplomat put it, "half Byzantine, half Turkish by temperament." And why are the Turks in NATO? Turkey . . . and North Atlantic?
Well, if we take a look at a map, we'll see that Greece and Turkey together control the strategic Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits. These were important during the Cold War, when the EU and the USA were fearful of the Tartar hordes of the USSR sailing through. This is the only reason that the EU wanted them in.
After World War II, the Greeks were very close to flipping over to Communism. Well, the voters of Greece have now done it. I worked with a couple of guys from Greece a few years ago. They voted early, and voted with their feet. One works in Ireland now, the other in Spain.
Plus Greece cannot be kicked out of the Eurozone by anyone. Actually there isn't a provision for such a thing in the treaties that implement the Eurozone.
Just do a search on Google news on "Grexit". You will learn how this can happen:
Actually there are some nerds here who work managing data centers . . . and some of them have the pleasure of being invited into high level management meetings every month when the power bill comes in, to explain why the electricity bill is so high.
The gag is . . . I have actually met some low level managers who would write a business plan proposal, when they heard that electricity in Greece is free.
But the really, really, REALLY cool thing about nerds . . . is that we can discuss ANYTHING into being a nerd issue. If Slashdot posted a story about Justin Bieber breaking his leg while falling into Kim Kardashian's ass crack . . . well, first someone would post a response titled, "I am an Certified Expert Celebrity Ass Spelunker!" Then someone would post that they are currently working on a post-doc on the abstract quantum fractal geometry of female posteriors.
Then we would degenerate the whole thread into a pedantic bun fight about tangential issues.
I don't read Slashdot for the news . . . I read it for nerds' opinions on the news.
Let's exploit the already-screwed Greek government for some 'free' CPU time to run your own business..
Actually, I believe a more accurate statement would be that the Greek government has been exploiting the rest of the EU for free money.
But, as the famous economist John Maynard Keynes said, "If I owe the bank 100 pounds . . . I have a problem. If I owe the bank 100,000 pounds . . . the bank has a problem."
Right now, Angela Merkel has a problem, because she guaranteed the German public that all the money that they lent to Greece would be eventually paid back.
Alexis Tsipras has stated that he wants Greece to stay in the Eurozone. I don't believe him. What he wants most, if for Greece to be free from old debts to the EU. The EU is not going write off the old debts, and let Greece stay in the Eurozone. So his other choice would be to let the bus crash and default on the debts. The EU would then have to toss the Greeks out of the Eurozone. Then Tsipras could claim that he wanted to stay in the Eurozone, and that it was the evil EU who kicked them out.
When the Greeks go back to their own Drachma, instead of the Euro, they can then print as many of them as they like. They can distribute them as they wish, and make everyone in Greece rich!
Of course, the Drachmas will be close to worthless on the world financial markets . . . so the Greeks would not be able to purchase things that they think they need from foreign countries . . . like TVs, cars, washing machines, etc.
But at least they would be free from the Euro yoke, and have control over their own fate . . . and have nobody else to blame, if they don't like how it turns out.
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They are sociopathic libertarian company devoted to "disruption", which is generally code for "we break the law if it gets in the way of us making money and we think we can get away with it".
The funny thing about that, is that pretty much describes every big company I know.
Speaking as a muslim, I do always condemn them.
*Yawn* . . . but in your next sentence, you will claim that it is all the fault of the liberal western nations.
,I live in North America
Well, do the world a favor . . . and go home! To your Muslim world.
these people are killing muslims in their own countries.
Muslims hate everyone. When they aren't killing innocent foreigners, they are killing each other. They hate everyone. Even themselves. See the Shiite Sunni divide to see what I mean.
There is an an old Arabic saying . . . I fight against my brother . . . but my brother and I fight against other kids in my neighborhood. We fight with kids in our neighborhood against other kids in other neighborhoods. Etc, etc, etc.
Those children that died when Taliban carried an attach on Peshawar school were all muslim's.
See above, to see why Muslims will just kill anyone, just for fun, because it says so in the Koran.
So its idiotic to think that these extremist will listen to me, who lives in Canada, shops in these malls and hell, condemn them every opportunity I get.
Well, you are living in a liberal democracy that is tolerant for everyone. I guess you missed the attacks by Muslim in Ottawa
I have a 9-5 job
So your employer should be charged with aiding and abetting Muslim terrorists.
kids to look after.
Have you fitted your kids with suicide belts yet?
When was the last time you went to a street to protest, I never have, likely won't either. Those who understand this, I appreciate them, those who won't, I don't care.
Which is why we should tell Muslims, like Nazis to go home!
Your basically rubbing shit on them in their eyes, since that's your wiping hand.
Listen, because Muslims don't have the intelligence to use toilet paper is not my problem. That is theirs. Muslim countries are stuck in the Middle Ages.
It's rude in their culture.
Well, sorry for them, but I can't write with my right hand. So your Mohammed can kiss my fucking hairy ass. Or I cannot go to your Islam countries, to try to help out with their abysmal cultures.
I doubt you would be killed..
Tell that to the folks shopping at a mall in America.
Oh, and by the way, I am left handed. Google your own religion to see what they think about that. When visiting Egypt on a business trip, I was told not to use my left hand . . . otherwise, I would probably be killed.
Who is doing the killing here? Am I standing in an airport security line because of Muslims? Or Methodists in Ohio . . . ?
The Islamic State is just a plane ride away from you . . . book now!
Do christians listen to other christians who condemn?
Well, Christians don't let other extremist terrorists hang out in their houses of worship. If the creeps from the Westboro Baptist Church showed up at any Christian church that I know showed up, they would be politely ask by the pastor to "take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut". In contrast, Muslim Mosques actively encourage extremists and terrorists to make themselves at home.
Have you been to a mall lately? Remember your Muslim Pledge of Allegiance . . . that is your "get out of jail free" card. Anyone else will be slaughtered.
Look at the history of slavery in the south.
Yes, that's gone now, isn't it? Let's look at the slavery in the Islamic State. Twelve year old girls sold as sex slaves, because that's the what's written in the Koran, and what the Prophet [sic] wants.
Did it end because the menonites and some catholics told the other christians it was wrong?
No, it ended because a lot of folks, regardless of their religions agreed that slavery was evil, and was worth fighting for to end.
Look at Muslims today. They couldn't even muster themselves to lift a finger against the Islamic State . . . until Obama twisted their arm.
Muslims would like to live in the prosperous land of a liberal democracy. But they want the government of a Medieval Caliphate.
It's not going to work with Muslims living with non-Muslims.
Greece, as my high school history teacher would put it, is a basket case. It survives only on the handouts from the EU.
I worked on an EU funded research project, where Greeks were involved, the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and the Athens Technology Center (ATC). Although some of those folks had PhDs, none of them were even close to being productive as a US high school student.
Whine, moan, bitch and complain, someone else was responsible for their failure. I couldn't even hear it any more.
Yeah, great, a funky new currency . . . but Greece needs some more radical reform . . . and not some leftist bullshit.
I hear that such folks exist, but they seem to be as rare as a transsexual US Navy SEAL riding a unicorn at the front of a 4th of July parade. Muslims will not listen to goddamned Methodists from Ohio. They will only listen to other Muslims.
Unless other Muslims take to the streets and condemn these threats and actions from the Islamic State . . . ain't nothing gonna happen!
So, if you are Muslim, will you tolerate these extremists in you Mosque . . . ? As long as that problem isn't solved, the rest of us will live in fear of you.
all an English chef could cook was oxtail and the like
Actually, before Jamie Oliver meddled in, the English chefs at schools could serve up a wonderful meal of Turkey Twizzlers, Heinz baked beans, fresh, right out of the can, and chips (UK), French Fries for the rest of the world. "French" Fries were actually invented in Belgium, which any Belgian will tell you, again and again. And then one more time, again. Eating fries in Belgium is quite a treat, because they offer different sauces that you can have on top. Not just the mundane ketchup or mayonnaise, but something like a Tex-Mex salsa . . . with mango!
Well, anyway . . . Jamie Oliver fueled an anti Turkey Twizzlers campaign, an they are gone now. And instead, the children in the UK get fed boiled Brussels sprouts and spinach.
"Mopsy! Flopsy! Cottontail! . . . your dinner is ready!"
So I could imagine that some angry UK school kids were the culprits behind this hacking. They wanted Turkey Twizzlers . . . but they got Jamie Oliver cattle feed instead!
Perhaps the EU should just do the same as when anyone else goes bankrupt: seize their assets.
Perhaps the EU should just do the same as when anyone else goes bankrupt: seize their asshats.
Any liquid Greek assets are sitting in Switzerland by now. The Germans need to swallow a bitter pill: That money that they loaned to Greece is gone. Ain't no never gonna be paid back. On the positive side for the Germans, Greece will be out of the Eurozone, and probably the EU as well. One less "leech".
For Greece, bankruptcy means that all those debts are gone. They can start with a clean slate, with their own Drachma currency. The government can then print as many needed to keep their people internally happy.
Of course, the New Drachma would be worthless on international currency markets. So wave bye-bye to things like TVs, computers, cars, etc. Greece will become "The Cuba of Europe", but what the hey . . . as long as the folks there are happy!
exploitation of the cooperators is the fast track to success.
But what happens when the cooperators figure out together what the exploiter is up to? I am thinking concretely here about Greece and the Eurozone. Yanis Varoufakis, the Greek finance minister, a Marxist economist and Valve consultant, and a Game Theory expert, as well, is trying to extort the other Eurozone countries for money. If Greece doesn't get what it wants, money, with no strings tied, it will go bankrupt and be forced to leave the Eurozone. This will of course disrupt the international financial markets.
However, the problem with extortion, is that it never ends. The extortionist will demand payments, again and again.
So what the Eurozone must decide what the short term costs are, of giving Greece the boot, and dealing with short term market turmoil. But what would be the long term costs be, of being extorted for the rest of eternity by Greece? In other words, Greece will demand "protection" money from the Eurozone for not going bankrupt.
Forget any academic papers . . . you can watch this in real life on TV and Internet news!
Real Life isn't Spherical Cows. They need a better model.
Of course not. Real Life is Fractal Cows: http://mndl.hu/2008-02-01-frac...
It will look so much like the real McCoy, they will be able to use it in the next Star Trek film
I'm thinking that they are researching another type of "Bone", that some males experience in dreams or in the morning in Mom's basement.
I was always suspicious over that children's song, where they sang "Give a dog a bone!"
"I'm a doctor, Jim, not a bestiality fetishist!"
(IBM) Employees now are issued laptops with a rebranded version of RHEL installed.
Well, now that Apple and IBM have a cooperation deal . . . maybe we will see IBMers showing up to meetings with Apple laptops . . . ?
One can't help, but wonder, what other famously "settled" science will come apart?
From Woody Allen's Sleeper, set in the future:
Dr. Orva:Here. You smoke this, and be sure you get the smoke deep down into your lungs.
Miles Monroe:I don't smoke.
Dr. Orva:It's tobacco. It's one of the healthiest things for your body. Now go ahead. You need all the strength you can get.
Non-smoker bars, restaurants and airline flights will be banned in the future!
Unless, of course, they are organized as non-smoker "clubs" . . .
Avoiding is not illegal. Evading is illegal.
Bill Clinton: "I did not evade tax with that woman! . . . I just avoided it . . . a bit . . ."
But this is a system which inherently transfers data from one side to the other, checks it along the way, and then stores it on the far side in preparation for being played.
Yes, that's all nice . . . but can it check the quality of the music, and improve it along the way, if the music sucks . . . ?
"What was there before the Big Bang?"
There was a Big Kaboom.
As in, "Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!"
You don't need a CS education to slaughter chickens. Google on "Arkansas Tyson Chicken" to see what I mean.
Probably anyone in Arkansas who earns a CS degree . . . ends up moving somewhere else anyway.
profits go to politicians, losses are socialized. Pretty Soviet.
Actually, that pretty much describes what happened in the US, with the Wall Street and US auto industry bailouts.
Is anyone here old enough to remember who Matthias Rust is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
The wacky German young hobby pilot flew a Cessna from Finland to Russia in the late 80's . . . and landed it in Red Square. Of course, without any permission from Russia. Way back then, folks also thought that the stunt might have started a new, fresh and funky, World War.
Well, the Russian military noticed the airplane, but figured that one little Cessna would not be the way that the decadent West would choose to attack them. Also, the Generals figured that the pilot or passengers were Soviet VIPS, who had had a few too many, and nobody dared to give the order to shoot it down.
Gorbachev used the event to re-assign a bunch of Air Defense generals to latrine duty in Siberia.
Anyway, I'm thinking that a swarm of drones descending on North Korea would result in a wave of confusion, but not another World War.
Teaching a child about people burning other people alive isn't as easy as it sounds.
Yes, but it develops into a very effective parenting tool:
"You will eat your spinach! Otherwise, you will be sent to the Islamic State, where they will cook you in a cage alive, and then eat you!"
"With spinach."
If Greece goes the Euro goes. (Actually if any Eurozone country goes the Euro goes).
I believe that the Greeks are overplaying their hand here. A few years ago, this might have been true, but now, international financial institutions have had time to prepare for the "Grexit" as a seriously possibility and create contingency plans.
Greece is less than 2% of the Eurozone economy. If Frace, Spain or Italy jumped . . . then they would have a problem. The Euro will survive a "Grexit", and be probably come out stronger, because the world financial markets will see the Eurozone as an organization that will not tolerate financial "fudge." And that the Eurozone is committed to keep the Euro a "hard" currency.
Let's face it . . . why are the Greeks in the EU anyway? They aren't really European . . . they sit at the butt-end of the Balkans, as one English diplomat put it, "half Byzantine, half Turkish by temperament." And why are the Turks in NATO? Turkey . . . and North Atlantic?
Well, if we take a look at a map, we'll see that Greece and Turkey together control the strategic Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits. These were important during the Cold War, when the EU and the USA were fearful of the Tartar hordes of the USSR sailing through. This is the only reason that the EU wanted them in.
After World War II, the Greeks were very close to flipping over to Communism. Well, the voters of Greece have now done it. I worked with a couple of guys from Greece a few years ago. They voted early, and voted with their feet. One works in Ireland now, the other in Spain.
Plus Greece cannot be kicked out of the Eurozone by anyone. Actually there isn't a provision for such a thing in the treaties that implement the Eurozone.
Just do a search on Google news on "Grexit". You will learn how this can happen:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8fd55736-ae0a-11e4-919e-00144feab7de.html
So what? This is not news for nerds.
Actually there are some nerds here who work managing data centers . . . and some of them have the pleasure of being invited into high level management meetings every month when the power bill comes in, to explain why the electricity bill is so high.
The gag is . . . I have actually met some low level managers who would write a business plan proposal, when they heard that electricity in Greece is free.
But the really, really, REALLY cool thing about nerds . . . is that we can discuss ANYTHING into being a nerd issue. If Slashdot posted a story about Justin Bieber breaking his leg while falling into Kim Kardashian's ass crack . . . well, first someone would post a response titled, "I am an Certified Expert Celebrity Ass Spelunker!" Then someone would post that they are currently working on a post-doc on the abstract quantum fractal geometry of female posteriors.
Then we would degenerate the whole thread into a pedantic bun fight about tangential issues.
I don't read Slashdot for the news . . . I read it for nerds' opinions on the news.
Let's exploit the already-screwed Greek government for some 'free' CPU time to run your own business..
Actually, I believe a more accurate statement would be that the Greek government has been exploiting the rest of the EU for free money.
But, as the famous economist John Maynard Keynes said, "If I owe the bank 100 pounds . . . I have a problem. If I owe the bank 100,000 pounds . . . the bank has a problem."
Right now, Angela Merkel has a problem, because she guaranteed the German public that all the money that they lent to Greece would be eventually paid back.
Alexis Tsipras has stated that he wants Greece to stay in the Eurozone. I don't believe him. What he wants most, if for Greece to be free from old debts to the EU. The EU is not going write off the old debts, and let Greece stay in the Eurozone. So his other choice would be to let the bus crash and default on the debts. The EU would then have to toss the Greeks out of the Eurozone. Then Tsipras could claim that he wanted to stay in the Eurozone, and that it was the evil EU who kicked them out.
When the Greeks go back to their own Drachma, instead of the Euro, they can then print as many of them as they like. They can distribute them as they wish, and make everyone in Greece rich!
Of course, the Drachmas will be close to worthless on the world financial markets . . . so the Greeks would not be able to purchase things that they think they need from foreign countries . . . like TVs, cars, washing machines, etc.
But at least they would be free from the Euro yoke, and have control over their own fate . . . and have nobody else to blame, if they don't like how it turns out.