Excite@Home's creditors have argued that this amount is too low, and have pressed the company to take a tough negotiating stance with all the cable companies.
You are not happy as you feel you have been overcharged for years and that this amount only goes a small way towards addressing this.
"We hope for the better but I don't believe that this amount of sanctions and pressure will bring the Iranian leadership to the conclusion that they have to stop their nuclear military programme".
"If they think that this amount of disruption can be caused by only 5% of the workforce coming out on strike, they must be hoping that more people don't join the strike if there's another one".
The RAC has called the figure "worrying", but the DVLA responded angrily, saying it would be "misleading" and "completely wrong" to conclude that this amount of money had been lost.
Making a conservative assumption – that this amount stays broadly stable for a decade – the government will have contributed £58bn (or $75bn) towards science and medical research during the same time-span that Zuckerberg and Chan have pledged $3bn.
The numbers are not important, rather the fact that this amount is visible, measurable and accountable, unlike the time and resource we all waste waiting for the egg timer to stop spinning.
Mr. Madoff's wife, Ruth, has reportedly struck a deal with the government in which she is to keep $2.5 million, although there is ample reason to believe that this amount is the fruit of her husband's fraudulent conduct.
However, an anonymous email, which came from a source close to one of the board members, alleged that this amount, claimed to be £140,000, was paid by one of the club's mini rugby coaches.
Officials note that this amount is much greater than it was in 2008, and that Korea's banks are less reliant on short-term, foreign-denominated debt than they were when Lehman collapsed.
"It's a myth that this amount of debt can ever be paid back in full, so we might as well get on with restructuring it," says one Athens banker.
