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Finland's current unemployment rate is 8.4%.

Did you bother reading the article? The chart title is "Fuel Prices in Heat Production".
http://www.stat.fi/til/ehi/201...

Do you even know the difference between MWt and MWe?

It's best we keep moving away from the nuclear industry. In Finland two new nuclear power plants are currently being built. The French state is desperately trying to get rid of its state-controlled nuclear company Areva and it seems plausible that the remains of Areva - company may not even be able finalize building of the Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant.

Another (Russian) nuclear plant that is under construction is expected to produce more expensive MWh's than most of the competing energy sources. In practice, the some foolish buyers of Fennovoima nuclear power plant's energy have been committing into buying energy at a price of 50€/ MWh, while the other energy sources are clearly cheaper than that. Its quite likely that the Fennovoima's nuclear power plant never be producing any energy at a competitive price.

On the other hand, the price of solar keeps sinking 50% in a decade and it's already enough competitive with the prices of other energy sources. Development of high capacity solar energy storage solutions is much more needed than the new nuclear power plants.

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Finland has about 3 million passenger cars in use by a population of 5.46 million.

Finland, Vehicle stock grew in 2012

Helsinki has some 390 cars per 1000 inhabitants. This is less than in cities of similar density, such as Brussels' 483 per 1000, Stockholm's 401, and Oslo's 413.

Today, Helsinki is the only city in Finland to have trams and metro trains. There used to be two other cities in Finland with trams: Turku and Viipuri (Vyborg, now in Russia), but both have since abandoned trams. The Helsinki Metro, opened in 1982, is the only rapid transit system in Finland.

Helsinki

I don't know, let me check. According to the wiki article Wind power in Finland wind produced 143 MW with 118 turbines in December 2008. It says wind is the most popular energy resource in Finland. Now that doesn't say what the wind potential is so I'll continue... According to the Finnish Wind Atlas the south and southwest in coastal areas has plenty of potential. iea wind says wind is the second largest renewable resource with a target of 6 TWh/yr in 2020 (2,000 to 3,000 MW). It goes on saying that there's already 5,400MW to 8,000MW of wind power in planning or announced.

However that can only supply Finland with a fraction of it's electricity. According to Statistics Finland in 2009 the nation used 81.3 terawatt hours (TWh). More can be generated by adding capacity faster though.

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The number of rejected votes has been less than 1% in most muncipal elections.

In Finnish voting, a number of choisen candidate is written in booth by pen on paperboard sheet, that is then folded, stamped by official and put into ballot box. Many of invalid votes can be considered as protest votes (vulgar drawings, names of fictional charactes), but some of votes are rejected because number cannot be clearly identified (like 1 or 7). In larger cities, there are more than 100 candidates, so numbers can be upto 3 digits.

Yes, they are too cheap; besides, door intercom systems are subject to vandalism.

According to http://www.stat.fi/tup/suoluk/suoluk_vaesto_en.htm l the population of Finland is only 5 255 580. That means it is one of the smallest in Europe. Less than half that of Portugal...

Let me clarify that Finland has two (equal) official languages: Swedish and Finnish. The fact that only 5.58% of the population speaks Swedish as their native language (as opposed to 92.14% Finnish) has nothing to do with it. Statistics from here.

Um.

1) I was not discussing Finland. In fact, 98% of the comments in this discussion are not discussing Finland. The conversation has gone off of the topic of the story post. The person I was talking to was talking about the general case of whether Lindows is an okay trademark, so I responded in a general sense. Had he been talking about Finnish law, I would not have responded at all, because I lack knowledge in that area. However since he did not seem to be talking specifically about Finland or any other specific country, I chose to respond to his points from the viewpoint of the law of the country in which Lindows is based (America) and then explicitly state I did I did not know how the law in Finland worked.

You may stop reading here if you like.

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2) Just because I am not a citizen of a country does not mean that I do not have the right to criticize its laws. I do not have the right to do anything about them, but if I think they are stupid, I have every right to say so. Similarly, you will notice that slashdot frequently features discussions about American law in which non-Americans weigh in with opinions.

3) According to this, 66% of Finland has at least a passing grasp of English.

4) In my personal opinion, if a country's trademark law only recognizes the untrademarkable status of generics if they are in the native language, that is stupid. (Of course, I don't know whether they do or not.) Generics rules exist to demarcate that which is so common that it is unreasonable to grant only one company a use of it. If English were a language almost unheard of in Finland, that would be one thing. But English skills, at least basic ones, seem to be common there. I would use this same line of argument to argue that, for example, common spanish or french words would be untrademarkable for the products they describe in America. This is of course just my opinion.

There's a nice graph on that page with a bar that shows Finland ahead of the US in Internet connections. That doesn't really mean much, since this is how they figured it:

There were some 546,000 Internet connections in Finland in January 19992, 107 per 1000 inhabitants, as calculated mechanically on the basis of the country code shown in the network address, an approach which nevertheless entails a number of uncertainty factors. The users of the commercial com. network, for example, cannot be located to country, so that the network address of a computer located in Finland does not necessarily have to end with 'fi'. It is similarly impossible to count the number of Internet users on the basis of these data.

We Americans are the most wired country in the world

Can you back that up with a reference?

A quick search tells me that Finland is #1.

Or were you using the term "world" as in "world series" (which apparently means "USA - and maybe Canada occasionally if we're feeling particularly generous")?