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uytrtyuion Canadians Just Became World's Biggest Internet Losers.

Even buying it from the US - it only just got wireless downloads in Canada

uytrtyuion Canadians Just Became World's Biggest Internet Losers.

>such as the cell phone market

Not in Canada - same two monopoly suppliers. Means you get the iPhone 18months after the US, kindle 2 years later, still can't get skypein etc.

uytrtyuion Scott Adams: How to Tax the Rich

They do actually give away money - although with some strings attached (like your government not using open source!)

IKEA itself - not the owner - is a charity, registered in Holland to be in the Eu but actually in the Dutch antilles so they don't pay Dutch tax and they can keep secret any donations

uytrtyuion Scott Adams: How to Tax the Rich

Ikea is the most notorius tax avoider in the world.

The great swedish furniture company is actually a dutch charity.

uytrtyuion Egypt's Stone Age Response To 21st Century Media

A civilised response it to have a state owned media who if they forget who their masters are you can have a quiet word with.

Then you arrest any citisen journalist who happens to photograph demonstrators viscously hitting their heads against police batons and threaten then with 15years in prison for wiretapping or for taking images useful to terrorists.