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Gunmen Set Fire to Microsoft’s Greek Headquarters
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#12They were trying to end of life IE6 in Greece.
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#13Someone turned off the firewall!
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#14My guess would be that Microsoft's Greek office didn't want to pay protection money to some or other criminal racket -- or something else along similar lines also involving criminals. This kind of violent activity tends to become more prevalent and audacious when grown men and women can no longer provide food and shelter for their families. Greece is truly in the midst of a Great Depression . According to official st…
The thing I've always had in the back of my mind regarding Greece's current woes, is that, despite being the cradle of democracy, the parthenon, the diaspora etc... they're just a short boat trip away from Northern Africa. And beyond that, just subsistence Africa, the Sahara etc. They may have the trappings of a "Euro" country at the moment... but things could quite concievably get way worse for them and a lot closer to their neighbours than it's easy to imagine.
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#15Am I the only one who read the headline as "...Microsoft Geek Headquarters?"
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#16According to other news reports, this is just the latest in a string of attacks on American companies in Greece. McDonalds, Citibank, and Starbucks were hit in Athens. If this continues, you might see multinationals scale down operations or even close up shop in Greece, adding to the unemployment ranks - just what the Greek economy does not need.
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#17According to other news reports, this is just the latest in a string of attacks on American companies in Greece. McDonalds, Citibank, and Starbucks were hit in Athens. If this continues, you might see multinationals scale down operations or even close up shop in Greece, adding to the unemployment ranks - just what the Greek economy does not need.
Sources?
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#18Am I the only one who read the headline as "...Microsoft Geek Headquarters?"
Title got me to, its always funny when it happens.
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#19I'm truly baffled by what they were protesting, here. I'm no MS fan, but I haven't heard of any particular ire pointed at them for anything, much less the troubles Greece is going through now. Was this just a wanton act of petulance?
There exist in Greece a few (2-3) groups of anarchist activists, mostly consisting of idiots from 17-30.
Random targets like this are not uncommon. It's not like they know what the fuck they are doing anyway or have any coherent plan. It's mostly banks, but foreign multinationals have also been targeted in the past. Even Apple's authorized dealers IIRC. So don't read too much into the target --it probably just means it was convenient and unprotected enough for them to attack more than anything.
Think Anonymous level IQs (ie not that high), but with guns and bombs instead of computer. This is known, because some of those groups have been busted by the police, and they were indeed as described above.
Re: Gunmen Set Fire to Microsoft’s Greek Headquarters
#20My guess would be that Microsoft's Greek office didn't want to pay protection money to some or other criminal racket -- or something else along similar lines also involving criminals. This kind of violent activity tends to become more prevalent and audacious when grown men and women can no longer provide food and shelter for their families. Greece is truly in the midst of a Great Depression . According to official st…
The thing I've always had in the back of my mind regarding Greece's current woes, is that, despite being the cradle of democracy, the parthenon, the diaspora etc... they're just a short boat trip away from Northern Africa. And beyond that, just subsistence Africa, the Sahara etc. They may have the trappings of a "Euro" country at the moment... but things could quite concievably get way worse for them and a lot closer…
And the US is right next door to Mexico and South and North Korea are, well, you get the point. Geographical proximity is not an accurate economic indicator. Also, Africa is not some homogenous blob of poverty.