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Not only Visa: http://cphpost.dk/news/interna...

Here in Denmark, Intel closed a division they bought some years ago because clearly the employees wouldn't mind moving to another country (they were to be relocated to somewhere in Germany I believe) and despite having almost completed a new lab facility.

Only to find out that they didn't have anyone else who could develop the products they had already sold. So they ended up cancelling the closure AFTER having announced it to the public.

Here's the announcement of closure:

http://cphpost.dk/news/busines...

These kind of decisions aren't rational. They happen because someone takes a look at a spreadsheet and thinks to him/herself - gosh, that looks complicated! Let's cross out half of the lines, then it's much simpler! It's a gross failure of an organization when stupid decisions from the top aren't blocked - well in this case it was, but a little late. They proved they weren't a reliable employer and did lose a bunch of people.

“Cartoons and drawings depicting paedophilia do not encourage people to commit child sex offences in real life, a report by experts who treat sexual problems concludes.”
“There is no evidence to support the claim that the existence of lolicon, or engagement with such content, encourages “cognitive distortions” or criminal acts.”
“[T]here is no demonstrable relationship between the production of yaoi, participation in online yaoi communities and harm to actual children.”

Lastly, given that Denmark has extremely high power rates (about 3X that in the US), perhaps they are the perfect example of why offshore wind is not really a good bet - the power generated is very expensive due to very high maintenance costs.

Well, at least you presented it as speculative, but, no, sorry, but Denmark collects a relatively high tax rate on electricity, so nope, you really can't tell about the maintenance or production costs. And no, before you ask, the money isn't all dumped back into environmental programs, so you can't even wave your hands and ignore it. Some of it goes into general revenue.

You really need to be more informed about how things actually work in other countries before you start using them as examples.

Either that, or you'll have to find someone who has done the work to give you real numbers that are effective at cost comparison.

Otherwise, you might as well be going to buy something in one county, and losing money on it because you didn't factor in the higher sales tax, let alone the gas costs.

This embargo is what caused the US to seize $26,000 being transferred by a Danish businessman in Denmark to his German suppliers bank in Germany as payment for Cuban cigars, because it violated the US embargo on Cuba.

It also threw into question the power the US has over the SWIFT system and its ability to interfere in transactions between two third parties.

http://cphpost.dk/news14/inter...

http://www.b.dk/nationalt/dans...

http://rt.com/news/184600-isis...
http://cphpost.dk/news/danes-w...
http://www.gatestoneinstitute....

That is just retarded. Non-white immigrants and descendants of immigrants only make up 300,000 people in Denmark, or short of 6% of the population, and hasn't been raising since the immigration laws were tighten in the late 90s, and since then they have gone from tight to being outright silly, and no major political party is seriously trying to bring them back to sanity let alone the immigrant positive levels of the 20th century.

Somehow this fact has escaped the nationalist right wing, who rose to power to oppose the immigration policies of the 70-90s, but then admitting they already won would mean shuting down..

http://rt.com/news/184600-isis...
http://cphpost.dk/news/danes-w...
http://www.gatestoneinstitute....

Remember the mass-murderer Norway? There is a campaign that is comparing his treatment with that of anakata

It doesn't look too well.

I have to laugh at the people who whine about Cuba's embargo. Cuba is free to trade with every other country on earth.

The US just stopped a Danish national from importing Cuban cigars, from Germany, to Denmark.

“It’s a clear example of the US abusing rules which were implemented to fight terrorism. That the American authorities can stop a completely legal financial transaction between two European countries is an abuse of EU citizens’ rights.”

http://cphpost.dk/news/international/us-snubs-out-legal-cigar-transaction

Did this fact change your mind about anything? Why not?

I wonder if a society would actually decide to change their language if there was sufficient evidence that it hinders their cultural development.

Danish might be slow for children to learn, which might hinder their development (last time I read about this, that was the claim). I don't know how many multilingual Danish parents would consider teaching their child another language though...

Sure they are. Just not for grants from politicians.

Yet countries with social healthcare cover more of the elderly and other "non productive citizens" better than we do....Our system is nowhere near perfect, and I could critique it for hours, but a social healthplan does not mean the death of elders and retards.

Unfortunately, it does. Consider this article from the Copenhagen Post in which one doctor out of ten in Denmark admitted to practicing "active euthanasia"--and another 10 percent of Danish doctors said they would if they had proper training. Who did the survey? A group called "A Dignified Death" that actively promotes "assisted suicide." I remember reading about how senior citizens in the Netherlands were terrified of going into the hospital--because so many of them seemed to agree to "assisted suicide" procedures when they were there.

I'm not impartial in this...
I'm writing this at 10:40 pm--and I really should get off the computer and put Daughter #3 to bed. She has Down syndrome--while she was born in 1991, for all intents and purposes she's a six-year-old. I do volunteer work with other children who have all sorts of disabilities--some who have a future in the work force, but some who do not. The parents of those children have a variety of different experiences, based on the kinds of disabilities they work with. But we share one thing in common: a haunting dread of what will happen to our children when we can no longer provide for them. Or defend them.