You should move to Sweden. 30 cm of snow over night isn't uncommon and when it goes on snowing for a couple weeks it get gets old pretty fast.
Even the polar bears seems to have moved to better conditions.

I don't actually hate the winter but it would be nice if instead of like 6 months winter every year we could have 4 months every other year.

Well, I work from home a lot on rather data intensive projects and a 5 Mb/s connection would bring an end to that.
I would mean I would either have to move closer to my office or commute 300 kilmeters a day (round trip) neither is acceptable (I'm at the office perhaps 2-3 days a week).
High bandwidth means freedom of living the life you want to for many people. I live in area where I can see 1 other house and I can actually make out if someone is home if using binoculars and that's just about how crowded I would like my living area to be.
My lifestyle would not be possible for me without high bandwidth.

Agreed, I'm pretty well paid and treated like a real person at my workplace, hence I hardly ever steal and keep my illegal porn operation small enough to not tax the company servers way to much.

Today the Donkey Kong highscore, tomorrow The World!

Sincerly
MrMarkie
Lead Developer, SkyNet Deveolment Team

What's 2012 then?
Lunch break?

What if they didn't put that database on a server facing the internet? Could that be a good idea? Or maybe they should just return all their computers since they can't be trusted to use them securely... Let the flames begin.

I live in Sweden too and I do not see to horror of people finding out how much money I make and what property I own. People who want to do bad things will find these out anyway so I don't see any reason for secrecy. And it's actually kinda handy when taking down braggers who say "I make this and that much", one flick of the phone and you can say for sure "no you don't, you make this and that much" :)