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To: TChad

can you name a couple of other things the estonians are doing?


5 posted on 06/03/2013 9:40:37 PM PDT by ckilmer
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To: ckilmer
can you name a couple of other things the estonians are doing?

They are still pretty exhausted from all the partying they did when they got rid of the Russians! :)

6 posted on 06/03/2013 9:46:07 PM PDT by the_Watchman
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Being in the forefront of stopping neo Soviet/Russian mischief in the Baltics?
7 posted on 06/03/2013 9:57:29 PM PDT by 4FreeSpeach
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can you name a couple of other things the estonians are doing?

Well, there's this:

Last year the president of Estonia went after Paul Krugman in a very satisfying manner.

Then there is Estonia's flat income tax. Steve Forbes is revered in Estonia.

Then there is the whole E-Stonia thing. Estonia is a "world power" in computing. The hugely successful Skype program is an Estonian product, though Microsoft bought the company for $8.5 billion in 2011. Estonia's annexation by the USSR ended in 1991, after which the country surged from low to high tech VERY rapidly.

Estonia's first satellite was launched last month.

All from a country with a population of about 1.3 million. The country has less than half the population of San Diego County.

I find Estonia interesting because it is a happy forward-looking success in a Europe with too many dismal stuck-in-the-past failures.

8 posted on 06/04/2013 12:14:16 AM PDT by TChad
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