kiiski

It could of course start sending a countdown to your email a month before going off.

I have to disagree. I don't play online games myself, but the people I know who are active players certainly seem to consider the interaction between players the main part. They even choose the game to play based on what their clan/guild/whatever is playing.

It seems like the Tor Browser at least pops up a message saying you should leave the window to its original size when you maximize it. It still lets you do it.

In a civil ceremony you're married in the eyes of your state, and religious communities don't have to recognize it.

In a religious ceremony you're married in the eyes of your god, and states don't have to recognize it.

They serve a different purpose, and it makes no sense for a social contract in one community to carry weight in the other.

Are you implying that Apple wouldn't allow that? I can't find a way to browse their book store with a browser (it just tells me I have to download iTunes), but I would imagine they have erotica as a category there (or at least as a sub-category under fiction like Amazon does).

edit: slightly rephrased.

Browsers already have the ability to block cookies and at least Firefox allows overriding the choice for individual sites without needing any plugins.

You left out the source for that quote, but it appears to be from Wikipedia, which has this[1] as a source.

From that article I get the impression that the $100 million refers to all money paid during the existance of Bandcamp, while I suppose the 15B is annual? The article says that Bandcamp has revenue of $3.5 million a month (= $42 million a year), most of which goes to artists.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2015/03/10/direct-t...

In Finland we give the cash/receipts straight to the person. Nothing rude about it. I don't remember there ever being any hand contact involved in it. I guess some restaurants might use trays, but not the ones that I ever go to.

The photos, btw, are from the Finnish Defence Forces photo archive which is available at http://sa-kuva.fi

It's not exactly a masterwork of UI design, but for those who like ww2 photos it might be interesting.

Helsinki times did a similiar thing some time ago: http://files.snstatic.fi/hs/2013/7/sakuvat/

Not that much destruction though.

Out of curiosity I checked what kind of degrees Finnish presidents have had. There was (not in any particular order):

  3 law, doctor
  2 law, master
  2 law, candidate (~bachelor)
  1 agriculture, doctor
  1 social sciences, doctor
  1 none, farmer + bank manager
  1 military, field marshal 
  1 teacher (primary school)

While the whole Schengen area may not allow you to work everywhere, the core EU area pretty much does[1]. Of course you may have to do some paper work, but, generally, if you have a job offer from another EU country, you will be able to take it without having to worry about getting a visa.

Nordic countries also have their own passport union, so a Finnish passport, for example, will let you go and work in Iceland or Norway pretty freely.

I would imagine there are be some other regions that have similiar agreements. I think that the Commonwealth at least used to have some benefits for its citizens, but I'm not sure how much of those remain.

[1] http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/moving_country/moving_a...

This seems to only consider the number of countries one can travel to without a visa as a tourist. So it doesn't consider the ability to move to or work/study at another country.

I chose to quote paragraphs showing that there was also non-political art, and therefore the policies of the Soviet Union don't alone explain why their art is not known in the west.

According to wikipedia there seem to have been times when artists had more freedom too. And it doesn't seem accurate to say that "the few exceptions ... were commissioned by the CPSU", as the artist - who were not few - seem to have had freedom to do their own thing within the limits of socialist realism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_art

> However, art exhibitions of 1935–1960 disprove the claims that artistic life of the period was suppressed by the ideology and artists submitted entirely to what was then called ‘social order’. A great number of landscapes, portraits, genre paintings and studies exhibited at the time pursued purely technical purposes and were thus free from any ideology. Thematic painting was also approached in a similar way

> ...

> The death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, and Nikita Khrushchev's Thaw, paved the way for a wave of liberalization in the arts throughout the Soviet Union. Although no official change in policy took place, artists began to feel free to experiment in their work, with considerably less fear of repercussions than during the Stalinist period.

> ...

> The most infamous incident regarding nonconformist artists in the former Soviet Union was the 1974 Bulldozer Exhibition, which took place in a park just outside of Moscow, and included work by such artists as Oscar Rabin, Komar and Melamid, Alexandr Zhdanov, Nikolai Smoliakov and Leonid Sokov. The artists involved had written to the authorities for permission to hold the exhibition but received no answer to their request. They decided to go ahead with the exhibition anyway, which consisted solely of unofficial works of art that did not fit into the rubric of Socialist Realism. The KGB put an end to the exhibition just hours after it opened by bringing in bulldozers to completely destroy all of the artworks present. Fortunately for the artists, the foreign press had been there to witness the event. The world-wide coverage of it forced the authorities to permit an exhibition of Nonconformist Art two weeks later in Izmailovsky Park in Moscow.

> ...

> By the 1980s, Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of Perestroika and Glasnost made it virtually impossible for the authorities to place restrictions on artists or their freedom of expression. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the new market economy enabled the development of a gallery system, which meant that artists no longer had to be employed by the state, and could create work according to their own tastes, as well as the tastes of their private patrons. Consequently, after around 1986 the phenomenon of Nonconformist Art in the Soviet Union ceased to exist.

Aren't those limitations just in the USA? I'd guess that someone in .co.uk should be able to do what ever they want, especially as a non-commercial project.

> Frankly, that's a cop out

So is saying that the rules can be broken because there are no parties who would remove them. European democracies generally allow people to form new parties, and I don't belive Portugal is an exception. If the population was pro free market, there would be parties that are pro free market. If there are no such parties, that is because the population doesn't support that idea.

In most parts of Finland, people only speak Finnish at home. It's mainly just Western Finland (and Helsinki to a lesser degree) where there are lots of finnish-swedish people that are bilingual. Elsewhere everyone tends to know English pretty well, but Swedish isn't nearly that common.

If the word (I think you mean "kynttilä=candle"?) is pronounced correctly, the last character sounds like an "ä", which is a completely seperate character from "a". In fact, you can't even have an "a" in the same word with a "y" due to the vowel harmony rules.

The thing that makes Finnish alphabet very easy, is that every character corresponds to one sound (with the exception of "c", which can be either "k" or "s", but it isn't actually used in Finnish (it just exists for legacy and compatibility with Swedish)) and vice versa (with the exceptions of "w=v" and "å=o", but, again, they're not used in Finnish)

That is, a character will always sound the same, regardless of what is around it. There are no silent letters. No things like "ea -> ee" or "ph -> f" (if you write two different characters, you also pronounce two different sounds). No single vowels that randomly became long vowels (like English "ski -> skee" rather than "sky").

There was recently some articles about the phenomenon in the Finnish Helsinki Times, but they say it mainly happens in the USA "due to the agressive operating culture of the countrys police"[1]. Apparently the people calling the swat strike may be from other countries.

[1] in finnish: http://nyt.fi/a1305943609673

Are American bills all the same size? Euros at least are all different, so you couldn't really do that.

There is also a Finnish indie movie based on (or inspired by) it, called Vyöhyke (the zone) [1]. Nowhere near as good as Stalker, but it was published on Youtube [2], so it's easy&free to watch if you have the time to spare.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2627842/

[2] http://youtube.com/watch?v=EwkIaJX3hmg

I don't know what the Swedish limits are, but in Finland the "right the charge a person of a crime" (whatever it would be called in English) will expire in:

  - never, if the maximum sentence would be life
  - 20 years, if the max is more than 8 years
  - 10 years, if the max is 2-8 years
  - 5 years, if the max is 1-2 years
  - 2 years, if the max is less than 1 year or a fine
  - if the crime was a "serious sexual crime 
    against a child" it will expire at earliest 
    when the victim turns 28

It's also worth remembering that Finland has, in addition to income proportional fines, a rule that three offences during a year or four during two years will lead to losing your license. And if you go too far above the speed limit, you will lose your license for <=6 months.

Why the quotes?

I guess there may be some other cases that I can't think of, but the point remains the same; using the same pronoun for "he" and "she" (and "it" in spoken language) doesn't really cause confusion, because that's how the language works. People have been speaking it without having separate pronouns for a long time, and the language has evolved accordingly.

I took a look at a few of the top articles on Helsinki times right now (yes, those don't represent the spoken language very well, but I doubt it matters for this purpose) and some of their top comments. In the articles themselves almost every instance of "hän" (=he/she) referred to someone who had been described or named in the previous sentence. Only in one occasion the person was named in the previous paragraph (there were no other people named in between). In the comments there were some cases with no name/description, but they were commenting on a story about a person (unabomber in this case), so there was no ambiguity there.

I can't speak for Spanish, but in at least in Finnish there wont be confusion, because pronouns are used to refer to the previously named/described person:

"A man went missing last night. He was wearing a red shirt." "Mary had a vacation last month. She travelled to Spain."

Of course there could be situations where the description doesn't tell you the persons gender, but those are rare and the gender likely didn't matter anyway (as otherwise it would have been stated). Plus since you don't need to use gendered words, no one will know even if you mistake a woman for a man or vice versa.

That link gives a 404 page.

You don't get your face/head wet when ice swimming, I suppose?

I imagine that it would be even easier to look at European companies, as there has been lots of border changes there.

According to a quick search into Finnish companies, the currently oldest one (Fiskars, founded in 1649) has survived the transitions from Swedish rule to Russian rule (1809) and to independence (1917). The owners have changed several times. The oldest one that remained in the same family seems to be Frenckells printshop, which survived from 1642 to 2008.