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A Danish mother did that in New York: http://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/14/nyregion/toddler-left-outs...

Healthcare spending in the US is something like 15% of GDP. It's a trillion dollar industry. Think health insurance, pharmaceuticals, nursing, dentistry etc.

here's Louis CK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4f9zR5yzY

You can buy bitcoins with bank transfer from the UK (or other countries) here: https://bitcoinnordic.com/

Click 2013. In the red municipalities less than 50% are employed. http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Indland/2013/01/26/103754.htm

It's good because it's less risky to hire people. In Spain it's hard to fire people and the youth unemployment rate there was more than 50% last time I checked.

edit: And the ethical answer is because employers and employees should have the freedom to voluntarily agree on the terms of employment.

Why are you so sure that is the reason?

The nordic countries have been capitalist for a long time. In 1960 the taxes in Denmark were lower than in the US. In the 1960s and 1970s the welfare state really started expanding.

The system as it is now in Denmark is unsustainable. Most people don't work. The government is running a deficit. And the outlook is very low growth and Denmark is going to be the poorest northern European country.

It used to be in the top 5 of the richest countries in the world.

Besides the government deficit and debt, the population also has high private debt. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230444460457733...

One of the good things in Denmark that you don't have in most southern European countries is that you can fire people easily.

BTW Denmark has had the school voucher system for decades.

edit: According to this site Denmark is more economically free than the US: http://www.heritage.org/index/

In Monaco there's no income tax. And it's not the only country in Europe without income tax. In Estonia the marginal tax rate is 21%. In the US it's 35%+ ?

> From what I know, it's hard to fire underperformers in most of Western Europe.

That's typical in places like France, Spain, Italy. But as my fellow Dane tries to say in his article: don't generalize and think it's the same everywhere :)

You can compare Europe to the US, but you are comparing a diverse geographical area to a nation state. Apples to Oranges. It's like comparing the US to Asia.

No. For instance Swiss and Norwegians are Europeans, but not part of the EU.

It's a movie filled with lies and shouldn't be taken as a serious documentary.

For instance when the guy sets fire to gas coming out of his tap it is assumed that it is caused by fracking, but the movie doesn't tell you that these things happen naturally also in areas without any gas drilling.

Take a look at this video: http://www.fightgaslandcensorship.com/

> It's not like it's arbitrarily taking companies by force. 

They took over the majority of the shares by force. Buying something is when you voluntarily agree on a transaction. When the government cuts off the communication to the head quarters as the nationalization is announced and then go with armed guards to escort the Spanish bosses out of the building. That is what's called "an offer you can't refuse".

You write "civic-minded" and "non-cynical", I read "nationalist" and "naive" ;) But perhaps I am cynical. Are the Danes you know students?

Among the minority in Denmark that works full time in the private sector, there is discontent with how the system works.

It is very common for people to complain in Denmark. I left the country, but if you want I can still complain about it ;)

The dashboard is not the most important thing in the entire automotive industry.

Car companies are focusing on design. They are spending billions on it.

Regarding the Ferrari 458, it can show the current speed as a number while showing the map at the same time.

"Other timezones can be written as an offset from UTC. Australian Eastern Standard Time is UTC+1000. e.g. 10:00 UTC is 20:00 EST on the same day."

Every programmer should know about DST. Offsets are not always enough.

When it's winter north of the equator, some countries are on summer time (DST) south of the equator.

While the US has brought the world many great technological innovations, "Europe" on the whole doesn't suck at it. And Europe is not France, it's a continent with many different countries.

If we are talking about the internet, these things were made by Europeans: The World Wide Web, Skype, C++, PHP, MySQL, Rails. Just to name a few things.

The car industry is also pretty high tech and the European car companies are doing well while the government run car companies of the US suck. A few of the many car related innovations from Europe: the car itself, ABS, Electronic Stability Control.

The site shows two watches and one of them looks like it has an e-ink display and no OLEDs. The "Digital with 96x96 reflective / always on display technology". That sounds and looks a lot like e-ink.

Seiko and others have also released watches with e-paper displays: http://www.seikowatches.com/baselworld/2010/precon/0402-epd....

Sounds like an e-ink display, not OLED. On the website it says there are two platform, and for only one of them does it say OLED.

Government monopoly. It's in Australia which has a telco monopoly.

Internet is very expensive there. I was there as a tourist and left earlier than planned because it was so hard/expensive to get internet access. In third world countries on the same trip it was easier/cheaper to get internet access than in Australia.

Wrote about it here: http://creativedeletion.com/2008/11/05/wifi-in-sydney-availa...

In the EU there are different countries with different cultures and rules. In some countries it is easy to fire people, while in others it's almost impossible. Where it's easy to fire people it's less of a risk to hire people.

If you think that's wasteful - bad news, that's how governments work in general. A good example of the 4 ways to spend money: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RDMdc5r5z8

The way to get a good economy is to get rid of obstacles, not for the government to try to pick winners. Less red tape and lower taxes would be better.

Mac OS X is the only unix based OS that runs Photoshop natively. Macs are the only way to run Mac OS X except if you make a "hackintosh".

Linux is not as user friendly and integrated with the hardware as Macs. There are certain apps that are only available for Mac. Those are some of the reasons.

Macs "just work" for things where Linux doesn't. Photoshop doesn't run natively on Linux, that's alone is enough for many to choose OS X over Linux.

For many people the price difference (if it's there) doesn't matter.

I guess you are for alcohol prohibition too?

The batteries weigh a lot and require cooling. A Lotus Elise, which the Tesla Roadster is based on, weighs and costs less.

Actually, at least in some countries, the punishment for buying stolen goods is similar to stealing it.

Buying stolen goods isn't much better than stealing.

Is there something wrong with questioning scientific theories? Except that it's not PC.