>Whilst I don't live in Sweden (I'm in the UK), I have to ask quite what your point is?
I do live in Sweden. Let's check your claims...
>The Swedes may pay more in taxes, but in return get free healthcare
Untrue. Low cost only (there are small fees). And (sometimes very long!) queues...
>good roads
Questionable, depends a lot on where you drive! Many smaller roads and streets in towns have suffered badly during the last decades from reduced maintenance.
>low crime free schooling and university
Probably both correct (at least the crime rate is not high)
>(i believe) free (or heavily subsidised) childcare
Heavily subsidised. Very costly for society...
>efficient public transport, and much more.
Questionable, in Stockholm it's great, in most medium cities it's okay, anything more rural it's often quite spotty.
>They're also very highly rated in terms of their low wealth disparity (road fines for example are based on a percentage of your annual income so that a rockstar in a ferrari feels the same sting in their speeding ticket as does a poor person in a skoda)
No, fixed amounts for speeding tickets etc. Fines for "normal" (non-road) crimes (ordered by court) use the day-fine system you describe though.
>, and human development index.
No, but usually you'd put your WiFi router inside your house. Hence, the house would work as a Faraday cage around the rest of the world, keeping all WiFi signals within the house (might be a good idea for tinfoil-hat wearers, btw)
"BECAUSE THEY ACT AS IF THEY OWN MY MACHINE, NOT ME"
You should be glad that they don't act like they own you too?
You forget about wireless internet (over the cellphone net). In the best case, they would identify a computer, but then we have NAT, so in reality it's more like groups of computers...
You forgot the reference...
http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/jean-michel.muller/goldberg.pdf
I'm working on embedded systems. Real men don't program desktop computers!
Small embedded systems are often sans FPU. Fixed point arithmetic is orders of magnitude faster on such a platform (I'm not sure what the numbers on desktop processors are but I wouldn't be surprised if it's slightly beneficial even there).
Please google for "BibTeX4Word". Word doesn't need to beat BibTeX, because BibTeX and Word can nowadays be used in combination...
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