Don't know, but scuzzlebutt posted an interesting link further up, at which you can read:

Our time has not been wasted. :)

In some ways, certainly; e.g. the US teamsters having links to organized crime, something which has never been the case in Denmark, nor to my knowledge, Germany (to return to the subject of the article). A more important difference is perhaps that Danish unions and employers have a more amiable relationship than is the case in the US. Although in other areas, I'll wager that there's a strong resemblance.

Yes, the US is larger; why should that be a problem? If anything, synergy effects should benefit a larger country?

You're right that the US has a higher per-capita GDP than Denmark, but that is a very narrow measurement of economic success, and is really besides my point; namely that Denmark has strong unions, and yet the sky isn't falling. We may be 22nd in per-capita GDP, but the credit rating is flawless and the foreign debt non-existent.

It's not like Denmark is unique in EU; the union densities in Sweden (70% of the work force unionized) and Finland (74%) are even higher than in Denmark (67%), and these economies are also doing well, despite the financial crisis.

Greece (25%) and Italy (35%), on the other hand, have much lower union densities - and MUCH higher corruption levels.

The lesson most Americans take from observing their unions is "Unions are bad." But perhaps the lesson you should be taking is that unions, like any organization, performs better when the mafia is not involved.

How's this for a bedtime story? Once upon a time, Danish workers felt that they were not receiving a sizable enough share of the value of their labor, so they formed unions. Through unions, Danish workers obtained privileges such as a $20/hr. minimum wage, a 37 hour work week and six weeks of paid vacation every year. This immense increase in quality of life led to a higher level of education among the populace, as well as higher productivity. In fact, the model was such a great success that businesses even extended these benefits to non-unionized workers, such as me.

Maybe in the US. Denmark has lower unemployment than the US and high labor mobility.

Yup. Dell, at least, has an authentication chip in most of their chargers (the center pin in the typical Dell charger). The chip (or its wire) is invariably the first thing to break, and bam! laptop refuses to charge the battery, or even run the processor at full speed. This causes the weird behavior that the laptop speeds up when you switch to battery power. It also means that you have to ditch an otherwise fully functional charger.

The purpose of the chip is of course to prevent the charger from being overloaded, and not at all an attempt at extorting money from customers as well as frustrating third-party charger manufacturers.

Sigh. You're attempting to disprove one hoax with another? Why You Can't Have A Tacocopter Drone Deliver You A Taco For Lunch Today.

And I can see that your understanding of irony is on roughly the same level as your understanding of global warming.

There, FTFY.

They won't do that intentionally. But bog standard Linux machines can certainly be infected just by inserting a compromised USB stick.

First of all, the stick will be mounted. Typically, this happens automatically, but if not, the user will still have to do it manually. The USB filesystem can be modified to contain just the right corrupt data structures to trigger a kernel bug, leading to a compromise of the machine. If you think this is far out, think again. This was 2006, but don't worry, the NSA has zero-days on file if they need them. It is well-known that kernel "oopses" (such as this bug in ext4 from 2013) can often be converted into full exploits by a sufficiently determined adversary.

Assuming your Linux distro has a graphical desktop, you may next try opening the stick in a file browser, such as Nautilus. (Or it may even autolaunch when you insert the stick.) This too can cause your computer to be compromised, if e.g. the stick contains a PDF, which has been modified to contain just the right corrupt data structures to trigger a userspace bug in the program that generates the PDF thumbnail. By the time you think, "Wait, I never put any PDF on this stick", you're already compromised. If you think this is far out, think again. This was 2011.

If you're really paranoid, you'll forgo filesystems and desktop environments entirely and just dd plain ASCII files directly to the USB block device. But if your networked computer has been infected, you can never be sure that it's only doing that...

And someone posts your address on Twitter, and the death threats starts arriving in your mail? Don't open your mail. Simple as that.

Yup, it's all just a conspiracy. Applekid is in fact also a woman, only pretending to be a misogynistic douchebag in order to gain support for her radical feminist notions (such as allowing women to be depicted on bank notes!).

(Of course, by Applekid's logic, I am also just a woman seeking to defend my sisters and/or a man trying to gain favors with women by posting snarky comments on Slashdot. Because OkCupid is so last decade.)

That's another thing to like about DDG: The fact that all settings can be stored as URL parameters in your browser, instead of a cookie (meaning you can simply disable cookies for duckduckgo.com entirely).

And it's well-documented and easy to do:

1. Go to https://duckduckgo.com/settings, configure DDG as you please.
2. Click "Bookmarklet and settings data", then click on the prominent "https://duckduckgo.com/" URL.
3. Right click in the DDG search field, select "Create search" (Opera) / "Add keyword for this search" (Firefox) .

In other browsers, the process is more roundabout, but that's hardly DDG's fault.