Oh and don't forget that we are pirates if get tired of the whole things and stop watching it.
Please don't ask me to explain the logic...

I must do that myself, might be worth a laugh or two. :)

Like your analogy but just to nitpick, slut in swedish doesn't mean stop. It actually means "end" as in "the end" or that you are out of something like "We are out of milk" - "Vi har slut på mjölk".
Sluta on the other hand does mean to stop doing something "Now it's time to stop for the day" - "Nu är det dags att sluta för dagen".
If you mean stop as in stopping the cars forward motion though, we probably would use "stanna" or if braking "bromsa". We also have the wrord "stopp" but that is mostly used as exclamation or as an order.

A bit off topic but I have a hard time stopping myself when it comes to words. Grammar on the other hand can go hang it self ;)

Because some people need to eat and if the choice is to show your email or not having food on the table many would choose to give up their email. A law against it might help in that case.

You know, most of the ones working in this line of work is not happy about it. Most of them also work on comssion so the kindest you can do is to politly hang up as fast as you can. Sure if they won't give you a chance to talk or won't back down then harass away.

I got that here in Sweden. Costs me around 10 dollars...

Wish I had some mod-points. I agree, pigeons truly are rats with wings and they spread lots of diseases. So what would be the alternative to shooting them? Poison? Yes let them die slowly...
More birds of prey could be an alternative but that would probably be a more slow method than getting shot plus that everyone with small dogs getting snatched would start complaining :)

Unfortunately you actually do:
"In 2006 the directive on the right to move freely (2004/38/EC) was implemented, meaning that passportless travel is allowed in the entire European Union, if having a national identity card from an EU country. For some a passport is necessary anyway, since not all countries issue such cards for their citizens, and because Sweden requires a passport when travelling from that country to EU countries outside Schengen."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Agreement

So we traded away the need for a passport when traveling in exchange for needing an ID in our own countries. Congratulations...
Now the police in Finland is probably not checking the ID of everyone but the rules are there if they would like to.

That is because people don't know their history regarding EU. When it first started it was an economic union. The target was to help companies, not the people. Since then it has changed it's name but I belive that its root values are still there. There are people who try to change it though.

Actually, in Sweden we have partialy solved this problem. Gifts from clients may only cost at max a certain value and this is in effect for anyone who is in the employment of the state or the city and not just politicians. Makes things easy, if the gift is above a certain value then it's a bribe. We have other problems though that you don't. There is a non disclosure law in effect for party donations. So we may know that the party Moderaterna got a couple of millions in donations but we can't tell if MacDonalds payed for the recent lowering of taxes for restuarants.