Why Is Finland Europe's Technology Leader?

Who would have thunk it...that a snowy North country made up of Europeans with a small population spread out over a large land mass would lead the world in wireless communication technology?

...and to think that the only reason this country can't use iPhone or N95 is that there is ONLY one GSM carrier which of course charges prices higher than even calling card sellers in Bangladesh for cell access.

I hear Jack and the NDP want to change this and make it an issue!; which to any Canadian observers usually means that if the third rate front party is talking about it, then it usually takes the pressure off the real parties to do anything but defend the industry's monopoly against the 'socialist' (hehe) hordes.

This country is a joke

Finland and all of the other Scandanavian countries have an extremely well
educated population and, unlike some other Western Countries, DO NOT have a
high level of garbage flowing through their manstream media. In other words,
their media is unbiased, does not have an agenda and tells it like it is. It's
amazing what a real democratic country can accomplish when their citizens
don't have to deal with lies, awful immigration policies and other bullsh**.

And, oh yeah, the Fins like to drink their asses off and are not two-faced
hypocrites about it either.

Here is a link which ranks countries according to Freedom of the Press for <br />
2006:<br />
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<a href="http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=639">http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=639</a><br />
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Finland is ranked #1, Canada is ranked #18 and surprise, surprise the good <br />
ole freedumb loving USA is ranked #56.<br />
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Obviously, the more educated, literate and enlightened a country's population <br />
is, the more freedom of the press the country "enjoys". Conversely, a <br />
population of illiterate idiots does not demand, nor have freedom of the <br />
press, because the press to them consists of a supermarket tabloid rag or <br />
some trashy TV celebrity show. <br />
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Isn't it amazing what a country (like Finland) can accomplish when they put <br />
their efforts and resources into educating their citizens, instead of putting <br />
their efforts into blatant censorship? True democratic governments prefer <br />
well informed citizens, who can make well informed decisions. On the other <br />
hand, fake democracies prefer fat lazy slobs sitting around the telly watching <br />
shows which serve no purpose, other than to incapacitate the mind.<br />
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Maybe this is one major reason "Why Finland is Europe's Technology Leader"?

<blockquote> a snowy North country made up of Europeans with a small population spread out over a large land mass </blockquote>Jeez all right! Except for the "European" part, it could be us.....oh, and except for the spread out part, too. We DO like to huddle along that 49th, almost like we're waiting to be let in (like the pet dog/cat left outside). Well, we got the snowy part and the large land mass part right.......(wonder why we don't have anything else right?)<p>---<br>"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." <br />
-Max Planck<br />
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