>>I seem to remember the problem of the Gordian knot was resolved with a sword ...
Yes. So all you need now is another Alexander the Great. Though the Greeks probably want him to do some Gordian slicing at home first. ;-)
BTW, why are you quoting GBS in your sig? ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
