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Iceland Votes "Já" To Proposed News Haven
eldavojohn writes "The proposed rules shielding journalists harbored in Iceland are now official. It appears that sites like Wikileaks and Cryptome could have a friendlier home base. For those familiar with the Icelandic tongue, the voting results and legalese. Some of the details can be found at www.immi.is."
Pay a very close attention to how the reality you refer to is generated. Your reality is a product of the information you are given.
My FTFY would have 'reality' replaced by 'government'. But I'll grant you that government is increasingly responsible for our perception of reality anyway. It is responsible for our schooling and it writes our laws... Culture is a mere byproduct of failures and successes at those two things.
Mind the frickin' laser...
Well, Slashdot certainly has at this time of day. I'm posting as AC as I see what the moderators are doing to dissenting comments. It's sort of funny but in the evening US time right-wing or libertarian comments get modded down. Then in the morning European time, left wing comments get modded down.
I know that for an American socialism may seem exotic and exciting but living under it certainly is not. Here in Sweden the political system consists of the left and the far left who are currently competing in dismantling our civil liberties. We're getting to the level of East Germany in terms of right to privacy. All of our email, web and telephone traffic is monitored by the state. As for our "free" health care - it's not free, we pay it through taxes. The cost is enormous as is the bureaucracy that makes our medical system one of the worst in the western world. If you want an eye opener, look at survival rates for various serious illnesses. In the EU only the UK is worse. My fear is of how bad our system will get if the US adopts a European style medical care. We have basically zero medical technology research here and live off what comes from the US.
So please, a reality check before you celebrate Scandinavian socialism. Sweden should be a deterrent not an inspiration. As for Iceland, yo do realize the country went bankrupt because they insisted on having state controlled banks and made laws against larger international banks being owners/part owners.
Alright troll, I'll byte.
why is it that Terrorists attacked the USA? And don't say it's because we sent troops over there in response to the attacks- there is a serious logic problem in those complaints. I happen to know the real reason but you seem to think you know so why don't you tell us. I seriously want to see if you are actually the suffering the "ignorance of so much around you" that you want to claim is others problems.
Oh BTW, be specific- ranting about how much better you are or how stupid you think others are, doesn't count as a reason. If we are luckey, we will get into a history lessen for you while we are at it.
Idiot.
Only because they choose to do so. It is so unbelievable easy to survive in America that only the laziest of the laziest have problems. We unfortunately, due to how easy it is, have made some of the laziest people on the planet. There will always be people who want to do the least amount of work possible to survive and they won't survive long without someone taking care of them regardless of how much effort you put into it.
Due to over extending themselves and/or not bothering to put any effort into any of the hundred government programs that are out there to help people in this situation. Theres no excuse for this happening unless you bought a 120k house for 750k and you make 25k a year so you don't qualify for any sort of help, in which case, I feel absolutely no sympathy for you.
Compared to what? Citation needed.
Yes, and there are multiple reasons for this. One, we're a great target for criminals from the rest of the world, lots of idiotic lazy marks and lots of extra money and stuff that can disappear before anyone will bother putting REAL effort into finding it or who did the crime.
Everyone has to pay for health care moron, its just a matter of if its an optional payment or one the goverment takes from you without your consent, either way you still pay for it. Government provided health care doesn't just come from thin air you realize, right?
Again, idiot. You think one form of government is better than another. They aren't. All forms are pretty much equal, regardless of what you want to think. The reality of it is, the government is run by people. People who can bend capitalism, socialism, communism, fascism or whatever into working for them how they want. If you have 'good' people in the government, they all work, including dictatorships. Reality is that you end up with bad people, cause bad people will take every advantage they can to get to the top, they don't play fair, which means its fairly easy to beat out the good guy who plays 'fair'.
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