Well. I have graduated from University of applied sciences and have been working in ICT field full time for 8 years and have been paying about 25% - 32% taxes of my total annual income.

And I still think that It's OK to pay a lot of taxes to have for example free fire departments and all the other things I mentioned before.

And I don't think that 95% of Finnish citizens don't deserve my tax money. That's just selfish.

I tried searching the web for an official agreement between Finland and Sweden about helping each other. I found one magazine article about Tornio's agreement with Haaparanta in the 1990's about helping fire departments across border.
I also found out that Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland made an "agreement about co-operation across state borders in accidents that may harm or are harming people, property or environment." Finland has similar agreements with Estonia and Russia.

All rescue services are paid by taxes and I'm quite happy about it. And we have free universal health care also paid with taxation. And you can't forget our free education system. Tuitions are a thing we only know from movies. Studying in Finland is free even for foreigners.

Ok, enough bragging about my home country. We pay a lot of taxes. I think that only Sweden has higher taxation. But really I OK about paying high taxes for what's it worth. Progressive taxation is a fair system in my opinion. In a way.

Ok, now I'm going offtopic but I always find it amusing that everywhere in the world you teach your kids that "if you have two apples and your friend doesn't have any, you should give the other to your friend". When the kids grow up, they lock their apples in a safe and don't care s*it about people who don't have apples at all.

Elisa, the largest mobile operator in Finland saidthat they start selling micro-sim cards in june. Their product manager Panu Lehti suggested that if you need micro-sim before that you should use a box cutter.

Sorry, only in Finnish
http://www.digitoday.fi/mobiili/2010/05/03/elisa-alkaa-tarjota-micro-sim-kortteja-kesakuussa/20106299/66

No wonder she stopped writing if you thought that Helsinki is in Sweden. We do have a hate / love relationship with the Swedes.

Sweden? Last time I checked, Helsinki was still in Finland. And no. We Finns wouldn't like the idea of 9.3 million more Swedes in Helsinki.

Goes bit offtopic but this reminds me of a Finnish electronic music band Pan Sonic. They had to change their name from Panasonic to Pan Sonic because they were threatened by Panasonic with a law suite.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pansonic

Like they would ever be mixed with each other.

Actually the machines were supplied by local company called Tieto.

More about the case in English
Yle News
Helsingin Sanomat
Newsroom Finland

Yeah, you had other matters to concern during war...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw3e64sosEg

In Finland (You know, in Europe) it is legal to record conversations in general that you participate. There are examples where citizens have videotaped cops in their duties and complained about them in court. Supreme court has always thought that it is legal to record or take a video of a conversation that you videotape. The point is that you won't violate other persons privacy. But it is a different thing if you publish the conversation. Then it brings up a different question: will the published video or tape offend the other persons privacy? But answering the question: it is legal to tape or videotape conversation with anyone and it doesn't matter if the other person knows about it or not.