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Egalitarian Finland most competitive, too
Christian Science Monitor ^
| October 26, 2005
| Peter Ford
Posted on 10/27/2005 8:57:35 AM PDT by cloud8
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Suomessa sataa paljon lunta myös.
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posted on
10/27/2005 8:57:36 AM PDT
by
cloud8
To: cloud8
But it's so damn cold there and the language is related to (?!) Hungarian!
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posted on
10/27/2005 8:59:21 AM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
To: cloud8
A poverty-stricken land of poorly educated loggers and farmers on the edge of the Arctic Circle, few paid it any attention.Finland in 1955 was neither poverty-stricken nor were its people poorly educated.
The author is an idiot.
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posted on
10/27/2005 9:00:32 AM PDT
by
wideawake
(God bless our brave troops and their Commander-in-Chief)
To: cloud8
What they need is a few million third-world immigrants. Let's see how high they rank then.
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posted on
10/27/2005 9:03:05 AM PDT
by
uscit
To: cloud8
"If you are Finnish, you've won the lottery." If you are Finnish, you are finished.............
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posted on
10/27/2005 9:05:47 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(I've eaten so much crow in my life that I'm immune to bird flu.........)
To: cloud8
As more and more Islamists invade Europe even Finlands system will come under duress. Besides that its alot easier to maintain a nanny state in a country with a population smaller than 6 million people.
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posted on
10/27/2005 9:06:00 AM PDT
by
aft_lizard
(I oppose Miers, for the good of the Party and Conservatism, but not to the point of extremism.)
To: cloud8
What kind of debt are they carrying?
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posted on
10/27/2005 9:06:46 AM PDT
by
M203M4
To: M203M4
30 billion, external debt.
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posted on
10/27/2005 9:07:57 AM PDT
by
aft_lizard
(I oppose Miers, for the good of the Party and Conservatism, but not to the point of extremism.)
To: cloud8
It's quite easy to maintain social order in small, homogeneous populations that don't mind being taxed up the yin-yang.
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posted on
10/27/2005 9:09:13 AM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: Revolting cat!
> the language is related to (?!) Hungarian!
Finnish and Hungarian are related, but not mutually intelligible. About as distant as English and Welsh.
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posted on
10/27/2005 9:09:47 AM PDT
by
cloud8
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posted on
10/27/2005 9:11:26 AM PDT
by
Eurotwit
(WI)
To: cloud8
Linus Torvalds is a Fin.
This makes Finland the epicenter of the Open Source movement.
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posted on
10/27/2005 9:11:32 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Islam Factoid:After forcing young girls to watch his men execute their fathers, Muhammad raped them.)
To: aft_lizard
exactly.
You cannot compare countries like Finland to the US, Britian, Russia, etc... when they only have a couple million people.
To: Mr. Mojo
don't mind being taxed up the yin-yang.>>
Thats no kidding. According to the CIA Fact Book.
GDP is 151.2 billion
Budget is 96.43 billion.
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posted on
10/27/2005 9:15:27 AM PDT
by
aft_lizard
(I oppose Miers, for the good of the Party and Conservatism, but not to the point of extremism.)
To: cloud8
About as distant as English and Welsh.Cymru am bydd!
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posted on
10/27/2005 9:18:10 AM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: Proud_USA_Republican
"We are a small homogenous country, heavily state-based, and our social model as a whole is so typically Finnish that it won't travel.
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posted on
10/27/2005 9:18:11 AM PDT
by
Eurotwit
(WI)
To: cloud8
I pride myself on my ability to say this in as many languages as possible. I hope it is taken as the joke that it is.
btw, correct the spelling. "tulle issukille"
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posted on
10/27/2005 9:22:14 AM PDT
by
wickedpinto
(The shortest path to peace is a straight line, usually down the barrel of a gun)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
> Linus Torvalds is a Finn.
> This makes Finland the epicenter of the Open Source movement.
Linus left Helsinki for America in 1997. Last I heard, he had moved from So Cal to Portland.
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posted on
10/27/2005 9:22:15 AM PDT
by
cloud8
To: cloud8
Linus left Helsinki for America in 1997. Last I heard, he had moved from So Cal to Portland. Well, it started there.
I just wanted to mention Linus's name. I wasn't making a universal pronouncement of epic proportions.
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posted on
10/27/2005 9:37:14 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Islam Factoid:After forcing young girls to watch his men execute their fathers, Muhammad raped them.)
To: cloud8
Socialism never works in the long run. The more extreme forms last the shortest amount of time, less extreme forms last longer but collapse eventually. The problem is human nature. Communism has never figured out how to change human nature.
It would be immensely more frightening if it did. Imagine a world filled with state programed robots. Finlanders seem mostly content to be state programed robots for now, but there is no such thing as utopia. As the article noted, there are already cracks beginning to show.
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posted on
10/27/2005 9:53:58 AM PDT
by
monday
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