The crucial point though tends to come when the miners move on. How many months or weeks or days will it take for difficulty to come back down? How many hours or days betwen blocks in the meantime?
I will be very interested to see what happens at that point. I cannot imagine that it will be as bad as some others.
With FTC it will be the worst ever because, you see, LTC is about to hit the Gox. Once that happens, your pathetic fork will be forgotten. Ohh, cruel destiny!
Ah but look for the silver lining! Maybe there *will* be an easier other side, as maybe litecoin will be so lucrative the rapists *won't* come back for another gangbang when the difficulty does eventually settle back down!
Maybe this might yet become another haven for CPU miners, like I0coin and GRouPcoin and CoiLedCoin and GeistGeld and Tenebrix and others before it!
-MarkM-