I have gigabit internet here in Finland and Edgemax works just fine. I had the 5-port poe version but it broke down because of my roof was leaking just above the router. Now I have Edgerouter pro and I haven't really noticed any difference in throughput compared to the 5-port model.
As a Finn I have waited for this to happen somewhere in Europe. I guess the legislators don't play games or at least buy them from Steam. I hope that this changes how digitally distributed games are seen in light of ownership before every purchase is somehow locked to buyers dna. Tinfoil hats ahoy!:)
For example we have data plans here in Finland that include two sim cards for 20 € (inc. VAT) or single sim card data plan for 14 € / month (also inc. VAT). They both have unlimited speed and no data cap.
I personally waited for this tablet, but since it doesn't have 3g I ordered Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 64 Gb. I am also planning to get another data plan for the tablet because tethering eats up battery super fast.
Actually we haven't had social security numbers in Finland since 1971 when they were changed to national identification numbers. The number is not public and you aren't required to give it to every company. A company may require it only if they loan you money or something that is comparable to money (such as subscription from a phone operator, car rental etc.).
National identification number is used in every governmental office and in every private contract that you make in Finland and it really identifies you. Many companies just ask for you id number and you're cleared to do changes to your contracts or order extra services on phone. You can for example end a phone sim card subscription for everyone on the published list just by calling operator customer service and pretending to be someone else.
So this i really a big deal.
Phone and address information is public but not free. You can also ask Population register Centre (click to check out population of Finland live) to hide your address information and operators to hide your phone number so that private companies and citizens can't find it out anywhere.
Yes. Big brother watches us every moment but it doesn't really bother us.
Well. I have graduated from University of applied sciences and have been working in ICT field full time for 8 years and have been paying about 25% - 32% taxes of my total annual income.
And I still think that It's OK to pay a lot of taxes to have for example free fire departments and all the other things I mentioned before.
And I don't think that 95% of Finnish citizens don't deserve my tax money. That's just selfish.
To put it in your perspective, should a Swedish fire company cross the border and put out a Finnish house fire? Unless there is an agreement between Sweden and Finland for such action, isn't that outside the responsibility (legal, not ethically) of the Swedish fire company?
I tried searching the web for an official agreement between Finland and Sweden about helping each other. I found one magazine article about Tornio's agreement with Haaparanta in the 1990's about helping fire departments across border.
I also found out that Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland made an "agreement about co-operation across state borders in accidents that may harm or are harming people, property or environment." Finland has similar agreements with Estonia and Russia.
All rescue services are paid by taxes and I'm quite happy about it. And we have free universal health care also paid with taxation. And you can't forget our free education system. Tuitions are a thing we only know from movies. Studying in Finland is free even for foreigners.
Ok, enough bragging about my home country. We pay a lot of taxes. I think that only Sweden has higher taxation. But really I OK about paying high taxes for what's it worth. Progressive taxation is a fair system in my opinion. In a way.
Ok, now I'm going offtopic but I always find it amusing that everywhere in the world you teach your kids that "if you have two apples and your friend doesn't have any, you should give the other to your friend". When the kids grow up, they lock their apples in a safe and don't care s*it about people who don't have apples at all.
Elisa, the largest mobile operator in Finland saidthat they start selling micro-sim cards in june. Their product manager Panu Lehti suggested that if you need micro-sim before that you should use a box cutter.
The Swedes have an advantage being so far North, but if they were to move their datacenter inside the Large Hadron Collider- or if they were to move the population of Sweden into the datacenter- your post would have more merit.
Sweden? Last time I checked, Helsinki was still in Finland.
And no. We Finns wouldn't like the idea of 9.3 million more Swedes in Helsinki.
Goes bit offtopic but this reminds me of a Finnish electronic music band Pan Sonic. They had to change their name from Panasonic to Pan Sonic because they were threatened by Panasonic with a law suite.
In Finland (You know, in Europe) it is legal to record conversations in general that you participate. There are examples where citizens have videotaped cops in their duties and complained about them in court. Supreme court has always thought that it is legal to record or take a video of a conversation that you videotape. The point is that you won't violate other persons privacy.
But it is a different thing if you publish the conversation. Then it brings up a different question: will the published video or tape offend the other persons privacy?
But answering the question: it is legal to tape or videotape conversation with anyone and it doesn't matter if the other person knows about it or not.
I have always wondered why there are only two political parties in the USA? Is it because all the others are so small and not to be taken seriously or is it because it's always easier to blame 'the other party'? Is it so that the parties can gather followers by just saying that if you're not with us you're with them? It gives a really black and white picture of the whole American politics. For example here in Finland the government is formed by four parties and there are total eight parties in the parliament. And yes, we also have national id for all citizens and we don't think that the big brother is watching us all the time.
First I have to give condolances to the victims' families. This is a really sad incident.
In Finland, Europe, you need a permit to buy and own a firearm. The permits are granted by Police and you have to wait for the permit about 1-2 weeks. Approved purposes for owning a firearm are:
- shooting of animals as permitted by hunting legislation
- shooting competitions and other target shooting
- work in which a firearm is necessary
- demonstration, filming or other similar presentation
- keeping in a museum or collection
- keeping as a memento
- signalling.
There were 112 manslaughters, murders or homicides in the year 2006 in Finland according to Statistics Finland. I have a feeling that many of them were done under the influence of alcohol (Which is really sad also). http://tilastokeskus.fi/tup/suoluk/suoluk_oikeusol ot_en.html
It is really difficult to buy illegal firearms or such. For example I am 28 years and I wouldn't know where to buy an illegal firearm if I really wanted to (Of cource I don't want to). All automatic and other dangerous weapons are also illegal in Finland.
I have never felt unsafe anywhere in my country. Of cource you have to remember that there are only 5,25 million inhabitants in Finland.
Could someone send me an invite to this service? I hope that someone kind person sees this second comment of mine to this and gives me an invite. Well the address was karpanen (at) gmail dot com
Germany and France were among the 6 countries that formed the European Coal and Steel Community back in 1951 which is thought to be the first step to European Union. I really doubt that they are going to want out of EU. What comes to corruption I think that Germany and France are not the least corrupted coutries in EU. I live in Finland and we belong to the EU and also to EMU. Finland is the least corrupted country in the world. I would not say that corruption comes with EU. Perhaps the corruption comes with the country.
You can always say that the EU is full of nonsense because they define the curvature of banana and cucumber for example. If EU doesn't define some things, who will then? Every government for themselves? After a while we would have 25 different standards for curvature of cucumber and banana that are good for sale in EU.
We can always compare the directives that "dictate" the length of sausage to the McDonadl's "directives". Every BicMac is the same in every country. What if you ordered a BicMac in Finland and it would be made of ryebread and sausage? And the only explanation would be that they are not following the stupid McDonald's directives how to make a hamburger.
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I have gigabit internet here in Finland and Edgemax works just fine. I had the 5-port poe version but it broke down because of my roof was leaking just above the router. Now I have Edgerouter pro and I haven't really noticed any difference in throughput compared to the 5-port model.
As a Finn I have waited for this to happen somewhere in Europe. I guess the legislators don't play games or at least buy them from Steam. I hope that this changes how digitally distributed games are seen in light of ownership before every purchase is somehow locked to buyers dna. Tinfoil hats ahoy! :)
For example we have data plans here in Finland that include two sim cards for 20 € (inc. VAT) or single sim card data plan for 14 € / month (also inc. VAT). They both have unlimited speed and no data cap.
I personally waited for this tablet, but since it doesn't have 3g I ordered Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 64 Gb. I am also planning to get another data plan for the tablet because tethering eats up battery super fast.
Actually we haven't had social security numbers in Finland since 1971 when they were changed to national identification numbers. The number is not public and you aren't required to give it to every company. A company may require it only if they loan you money or something that is comparable to money (such as subscription from a phone operator, car rental etc.).
National identification number is used in every governmental office and in every private contract that you make in Finland and it really identifies you. Many companies just ask for you id number and you're cleared to do changes to your contracts or order extra services on phone. You can for example end a phone sim card subscription for everyone on the published list just by calling operator customer service and pretending to be someone else.
So this i really a big deal.
Phone and address information is public but not free. You can also ask Population register Centre (click to check out population of Finland live) to hide your address information and operators to hide your phone number so that private companies and citizens can't find it out anywhere.
Yes. Big brother watches us every moment but it doesn't really bother us.
Well. I have graduated from University of applied sciences and have been working in ICT field full time for 8 years and have been paying about 25% - 32% taxes of my total annual income.
And I still think that It's OK to pay a lot of taxes to have for example free fire departments and all the other things I mentioned before.
And I don't think that 95% of Finnish citizens don't deserve my tax money. That's just selfish.
To put it in your perspective, should a Swedish fire company cross the border and put out a Finnish house fire? Unless there is an agreement between Sweden and Finland for such action, isn't that outside the responsibility (legal, not ethically) of the Swedish fire company?
I tried searching the web for an official agreement between Finland and Sweden about helping each other. I found one magazine article about Tornio's agreement with Haaparanta in the 1990's about helping fire departments across border.
I also found out that Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland made an "agreement about co-operation across state borders in accidents that may harm or are harming people, property or environment." Finland has similar agreements with Estonia and Russia.
All rescue services are paid by taxes and I'm quite happy about it. And we have free universal health care also paid with taxation. And you can't forget our free education system. Tuitions are a thing we only know from movies. Studying in Finland is free even for foreigners.
Ok, enough bragging about my home country. We pay a lot of taxes. I think that only Sweden has higher taxation. But really I OK about paying high taxes for what's it worth. Progressive taxation is a fair system in my opinion. In a way.
Ok, now I'm going offtopic but I always find it amusing that everywhere in the world you teach your kids that "if you have two apples and your friend doesn't have any, you should give the other to your friend". When the kids grow up, they lock their apples in a safe and don't care s*it about people who don't have apples at all.
Elisa, the largest mobile operator in Finland saidthat they start selling micro-sim cards in june. Their product manager Panu Lehti suggested that if you need micro-sim before that you should use a box cutter.
Sorry, only in Finnish
http://www.digitoday.fi/mobiili/2010/05/03/elisa-alkaa-tarjota-micro-sim-kortteja-kesakuussa/20106299/66
Yeah I read too fast. Although when I was a kid I used to have a Finnish pen pal in Turku. She stopped writing.
No wonder she stopped writing if you thought that Helsinki is in Sweden. We do have a hate / love relationship with the Swedes.
The Swedes have an advantage being so far North, but if they were to move their datacenter inside the Large Hadron Collider- or if they were to move the population of Sweden into the datacenter- your post would have more merit.
Sweden? Last time I checked, Helsinki was still in Finland. And no. We Finns wouldn't like the idea of 9.3 million more Swedes in Helsinki.
Goes bit offtopic but this reminds me of a Finnish electronic music band Pan Sonic. They had to change their name from Panasonic to Pan Sonic because they were threatened by Panasonic with a law suite.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pansonic
Like they would ever be mixed with each other.
Actually the machines were supplied by local company called Tieto.
More about the case in English
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Helsingin Sanomat
Newsroom Finland
Yeah, you had other matters to concern during war...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw3e64sosEg
In Finland (You know, in Europe) it is legal to record conversations in general that you participate. There are examples where citizens have videotaped cops in their duties and complained about them in court. Supreme court has always thought that it is legal to record or take a video of a conversation that you videotape. The point is that you won't violate other persons privacy. But it is a different thing if you publish the conversation. Then it brings up a different question: will the published video or tape offend the other persons privacy? But answering the question: it is legal to tape or videotape conversation with anyone and it doesn't matter if the other person knows about it or not.
Has any non-American ever said that America is the greatest country in the world? I thought that that phrase came from movies made in Hollywood.
I have always wondered why there are only two political parties in the USA? Is it because all the others are so small and not to be taken seriously or is it because it's always easier to blame 'the other party'? Is it so that the parties can gather followers by just saying that if you're not with us you're with them? It gives a really black and white picture of the whole American politics.
For example here in Finland the government is formed by four parties and there are total eight parties in the parliament. And yes, we also have national id for all citizens and we don't think that the big brother is watching us all the time.
First I have to give condolances to the victims' families. This is a really sad incident.
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In Finland, Europe, you need a permit to buy and own a firearm. The permits are granted by Police and you have to wait for the permit about 1-2 weeks. Approved purposes for owning a firearm are:
- shooting of animals as permitted by hunting legislation
- shooting competitions and other target shooting
- work in which a firearm is necessary
- demonstration, filming or other similar presentation
- keeping in a museum or collection
- keeping as a memento
- signalling.
Taken from the pages of Finnish Police:
http://www.poliisi.fi/poliisi/home.nsf/pages/C72E
There were 112 manslaughters, murders or homicides in the year 2006 in Finland according to Statistics Finland. I have a feeling that many of them were done under the influence of alcohol (Which is really sad also).
http://tilastokeskus.fi/tup/suoluk/suoluk_oikeuso
It is really difficult to buy illegal firearms or such. For example I am 28 years and I wouldn't know where to buy an illegal firearm if I really wanted to (Of cource I don't want to). All automatic and other dangerous weapons are also illegal in Finland. I have never felt unsafe anywhere in my country. Of cource you have to remember that there are only 5,25 million inhabitants in Finland.
Could someone send me an invite to this service? I hope that someone kind person sees this second comment of mine to this and gives me an invite. Well the address was karpanen (at) gmail dot com
I would also like an invite. karpanen@gmail.com thanks!
Germany and France were among the 6 countries that formed the European Coal and Steel Community back in 1951 which is thought to be the first step to European Union. I really doubt that they are going to want out of EU. What comes to corruption I think that Germany and France are not the least corrupted coutries in EU. I live in Finland and we belong to the EU and also to EMU. Finland is the least corrupted country in the world. I would not say that corruption comes with EU. Perhaps the corruption comes with the country.
You can always say that the EU is full of nonsense because they define the curvature of banana and cucumber for example. If EU doesn't define some things, who will then? Every government for themselves? After a while we would have 25 different standards for curvature of cucumber and banana that are good for sale in EU.
We can always compare the directives that "dictate" the length of sausage to the McDonadl's "directives". Every BicMac is the same in every country. What if you ordered a BicMac in Finland and it would be made of ryebread and sausage? And the only explanation would be that they are not following the stupid McDonald's directives how to make a hamburger.