dammit, now I just HAD to know the history of hot dogs and wasted an whole hour in studying adjoining links.

or like the Danish Christiania in Copenhagen, but expect a lot of government pressure. Better go to some British island instead, like Guernsey, it is not even part of the EU.

Denmark is a mix of Sweden and the Netherlands, I guess. The mixture is what makes Denmark a little weird, on the one hand we are one the most free economies in the world, on the other hand we have a huge government who intervenes in peoples life.

It is a flat and/or hilly country side with a lot of beaches and progressive/environmental city building with much transportation industry and some big companies (Maersk, Danfoss, Lego, Novo Nordisk, Arla), but mainly the Danish people work in smaller companies (if they don't own it themselves). It used to be the country of bacon, butter and beer, but the IT-industry is actually bigger nowadays (not that it isn't still produced heavily).

We have universal health care, but it comes with the price of inefficiency and dreadfulness (but you now can get cheap private insurance for some diagnoses, which has improved conditions radically). The high living standards comes with high prices on food and housing/apartments in the cities (Copenhagen, Aarhus). Hardware and flat rate broadband Internet are pretty cheap. The job market is pretty dynamic and is keeping unemployment pretty low at the moment, but it is rising like every where else. There have been some discussions on legalizing marijuana for last 40 years, but there has just been introduced state donated heroin for the addicted in several cities (based on experiences in Switzerland to give addicts cleaner products). Smoking is prohibited in both public institutions and private companies, because of an EU-directive (but there is typically smoking rooms/areas in most companies, and smoking is very common at parties and even in clubs (though still illegal)).

Most of the parliament (in an libertarian view) are social liberals or xenophobic socialists (like the Danish People Party, which is a little less radical than BNP or Geert Wilders or so it seems). There are few CCTVs in the public, but since we have had IDs (security number, no picture, you get a temporary one on a visa) since the 60s, there is strict laws on where, what and who can use data, both government and private. Politicians are trying to put up speeding cameras again, but it is not a popular decision, since most Danish love their car and drive as it fits them :P

Yup, that is the problem. I don't watch DR1, DR2, DR Update (or the 3 new channels coming), TV2 Regions or using DR Online. Why do I have to pay a tax that is on the same price level as all private channels together? Together with that the government sponsors most newspapers in Denmark, journalists copy/paste Google, Reuters and Ritzau (the Danish Reuters), closed off sites (piratebay, allmymp3 ...) and the highest tax level in the world, it is a swell country! :P

I guess it has to do with, that the OP is a Mac fan. But even if you could install Mac OS X on another device than an Apple, you'll be breaking the EULA (if you care).

Our bourgeois parties (liberals and conservatives) even routed for Obama at the US election. So sad... even though McCain wouldn't have been much better. Ron Paul all the way, baby! At least we have a libertarian party in parliament, but it is not likely to get in next time

Maybe it is even worse to talk about capitalism in Sweden, but at least you got tax cuts, so now Denmark is the most taxed country in the world. What socialists doesn't get, that it is capitalism who pays for welfare. Don't destroy the foundation of the system, fools! That is how mixed economies work.

- libertarian

Always read the small letters below a commercial ;) There is a lot of this in Denmark too, selling 40/2 Mbit which runs at an average on 20Mb/1Kb with a guarantied minimum of 10Mb/1Kb or such. I call it a scam too, but then again I not stupid enough to buy it :)

I agree with you on M&M and Thief, but somewhat disagrees with civilization and sim city. Maybe it is because I was always a fan of those two games, but they didn't always end out to be as good as hoped for.

I had a weird experience with Civ1 on Amiga in boarding school, but as soon as I found out how to play, I was hooked. Civilization II was the right evolution for Civ and kept me happy for years. I don't know why Civilization III never got to me, but Civilization IV, all the expansions including Colonization gave my many hours of gameplay again and also playing with friends. If you like a thing in between Civ1 and 2, try FreeCiv.

The same actually happened with Sim City. The first was great for the time being, SC2000 felled right and gave me endless hours of gaming, but SC3000 annoyed me mainly because the skyscrapers made it impossible to view street layouts and that it felled semi-realistic, so I HAD to recreate my home town (which failed on the tools available). Sim City 4 finally made the realistic jump, and it finally feels like a simulator. Since they abandoned it, the modding community have heavily changed the game for the better. Cities XL will probably be the successor, since Maxis has gone to far on the "cuteness factor" with The Sims, Sim City Societies (outsourced and they created a terrible progressive game) and latest Spore. And why shouldn't they? they are making piles of money of these (for me, crap) games.

There has been the same talks in Denmark too, since much of our traffic runs through Sweden. Many companies are afraid of espionage if the data came into wrong hands (see UK as an example of government stupidity). Of course they cannot use it against us in a legal matter (yet), but I don't like to see my IP address in a Swedish government database.

Well, we would never know when the time comes around where a Linux distribution becomes illegal (it might even have DVD Playback (e.g. cracking) packages included). Maybe in some countries it is already happening?

Yeah, for me personally, nothing beats apple-tobacco on a water pipe :)

Well, it looks like a dual-boot, but it is a virtual guest (and therefore you cannot "see" the real partition structure when you load the linux guest). The PS3 can allocate 10GB to _either_ XMB or Linux (annoying choice), but you could use a USB- or NAS-server with your media/retro games.