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1Mb Broadband Access Becomes Legal Right In Finland
An anonymous reader writes "Starting next July, every person in Finland will have the right to a one-megabit broadband connection, according to the Ministry of Transport and Communications. Finland is the world's first country to create laws guaranteeing broadband access. The Finnish people are also legally guaranteed a 100Mb broadband connection by the end of 2015."
That and the fact that nordic countries pay shitload amounts of taxes so that the services in general are free or atleast cheap to people. Healthcare is pretty much fully paid with taxes, along with countless of other things. This is not always a good thing, because Finns need to pay a lot for shit they dont need. This also means paying the living of people who are too lazy to go to work (they get like 400-700e per month from goverment).
I guess this is another such "legal right" that is there to make sure even the ones living in centre of nowhere get the internet and everyone else pays for the infrastructure and so on. Pretty much a nanny state.
I mean, does a 100 year old person have as much of a "right" to some organ replacement surgery or expensive cancer drugs as a 6 year old?
You haven't been paying close enough attention to the debate, they cover this. In fact, the sweet spot is 18-34, with coverage shooting up around age 10 and shooting down around 65-70. I'd say under Obama-care the 6 year old would only be doing slightly better than a 100 year old.
And yup, I completely agree with you. Most people who currently don't have health insurance refused the health insurance offered at work, or are illegal immigrants (there are about 12-15 million of those). We are going through all this nonsense for about 10-15 million people. This is overkill.
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Thanks for agreeing with me. Sorry if I'm assuming too much, but if you think that the government bailouts were an example of capitalism at work, let me assure you it was not. Quite the opposite. Governments keeping unprofitable businesses alive at taxpayers cost in order to save the jobs and preserve what they think is some sort of a public benefit is a standard feature of left wing governments everywhere.
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
Your right that the government should toss Marriage out the door and tell Rome to fuck em selves. I'm not a religious person but I do know that some religions not only allow but actually insist that a marriage consists of several persons, so the entire definition of marriage a violation of the Seperation of State and Religion provision in the U.S. Constitution as it favors One Religion over another.
A Civil Union would solve the issue and would then fall under standard Contract Law. In this case, a Civil Union could spell out minimum standard set of elements that represent such a contract and in fact, it would allow for even BDSM contracts, that conform to the law, be enforcable.
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Because clearly, public welfare has been working for centuries.
Whoever modded this up is retarded too.
I hate this fucking website.
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