1Mb Broadband Access Becomes Legal Right In Finland 875
An anonymous reader writes "Starting next July, every person in Finland will have the right to a one-megabit broadband connection, according to the Ministry of Transport and Communications. Finland is the world's first country to create laws guaranteeing broadband access. The Finnish people are also legally guaranteed a 100Mb broadband connection by the end of 2015."
Wow. (Score:5, Funny)
That's for me! But... (Score:5, Funny)
I'll wait to move there until they establish the right to winters that don't drop below zero.
Re:I understand these modern times and all... (Score:3, Funny)
I need air to breathe, food to eat, clothes to wear, and a place to sleep at night.
If you live in Finland you'll probably also want some means of warming your dwelling.
Re:That's for me! But... (Score:5, Funny)
I'll wait to move there until they establish the right to winters that don't drop below zero.
Trust me, they never have fewer than zero winters per year.
-Taylor
Re:That's for me! But... (Score:1, Funny)
No, we usually have just two. The other is called "summer".
Re:Wow. (Score:5, Funny)
From: Finland Telecom Customer Service Manager
Dear Sir,
Your install has been scheduled for next month. Please accept our humble apologies. We are attempting to clear the backlog of new application as soon as possible.
In the meantime, we hope that the strippers we have sent over to your house will serve your needs until your broadband order is complete. Again, please acept our most sincere apologies.
Re:Bastards! (Score:4, Funny)
Bastards! I still only have 215 kbit internet!
It's okay, I expect congress will pass similar legislation here in the US next year sometime.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHaha...
(cries)
Re:Bastards! (Score:5, Funny)
Those backward Finns. They don't realize that this makes them less free. I suppose they have health care for everyone over there and think it's a good thing. I bet people get free education through college in Finland, too. What a shame.
Thank god I live in a country where I'm free to lose my home if my wife or kid gets sick, just as our Founding Fathers intended. Now that's liberty. At least until that horrible President Hussein Osama forces us to have health insurance and we become a pitiful third-world country like Finland.
You can have my overpriced, traffic-shaped, capped DSL when you wrest it from my cold, dead hands.
Oh, and God Bless America.
Re:Bastards! (Score:5, Funny)
How about IDN URLs? Example: http://anmälan.museum/ [anm]
If I paste this into Firefox address bar, it works, but clicking the Slashfungarbulated link from this post's preview doesn't.
Conclusion: Slashcode barfs on IDN. Bad Slashcode.
That's because you put an HTML entity in there instead of the real character. The real bug is that Slashcode can't handle true Unicode, which is pathetic. Proof: when I use the fake compose key on my keyboard, I get ä, which is valid unicode but garbage whatever-the-fuck-slashcode-uses.
Scratch that, it's not garbage in this particular incident. So your URL is http://anmälan.museum/ [anm]
WTF Slashcode?! I didn't &-encode that! You are broken!
But this doesn't work: ¥øü å ဠæØñ üß. It's supposed to say, in very weird lettering, "All your charmap are belong to us". AFAICT it is valid unicode, although I'm too stupid to find the yen sign in charmap (it's not under currency symbols, and I'm too lazy to look elsewhere). So apparently SOMEONE partially fixed UTF-8 support behind my back *looks around suspiciously* and then that SOMEONE failed to completely fix it.
I wonder if anyone will wonder how this post is relevant after reading it (oh god^H^H^H FSM, recursion).
Re:That's for me! But... (Score:3, Funny)
And the temperature during those winters is always above zero. Kelvin.
Re:Bastards! (Score:4, Funny)
You can have my overpriced, traffic-shaped, capped DSL when you wrest it from my cold, dead hands.
Without heathcare reform, that's scheduled for when? Next Tuesday?
Re:Wow. (Score:3, Funny)
Dear Finland Telecom Customer Service Manager,
No problem. No rush.
Actually, I'm going to be pretty busy over the cumming years so may not be able to let your techs in to do the installation for quite sometime.
I'll call you when I'm available to provide access to the installers.
Thank You
p.s. While it's on my mind, do I just call customer service for replacement if the strippers wear out or break?
Re:Bastards! (Score:4, Funny)
I know, there's all those Finns and Swedes and Norse trying to sneak across the border into the US to steal our advanced degrees, health care and WiFi.
We Young Republicans call them "icebacks".
Re:Wow. (Score:3, Funny)
This IS the Nordic women we're talking about. I'm sure even a bumbling slashdotter could land something decent.
No honestly, do you guys have fat unattractive girls over there that no one photographs? I swear every picture I've seen taken in Sweden or Finland looks like the hot sorority house on campus.
Re:Meanwhile in America (Score:1, Funny)
It's the joke flying over your head. Americans, dense, get it?
Re:Wow. (Score:3, Funny)
Right. I'm off to Finland.
Finland, Finland, Finland
The country where I want to be
Pony trekking or camping
Or just watching TV
Finland, Finland, Finland
It's the country for me
Finland, Finland, Finland
The country where I quite want to be
Your mountains so lofty
Your treetops so tall
Finland, Finland, Finland
Finland has it all
Re:Wow. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Idle hands (Score:2, Funny)
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