You can always change this.

Starting 2011, the TV-fee should be replaced by a Media-fee, proposed yesterday a work-group dealing with financing the Finnish YLE (Public broadcast company). Instead of the present way where the TV-owners pay about 225 euro annually, next time all households –regardless do they own a device that can receive TV signal– will pay about 175 euro. This means virtually everybody: all students, seniors, or companies.

As you can imagine, there is some discussion and resistance. What do you think about this new tax?

For the opponent and for the wholeness of the defense, it is important to show that the opponent read the whole thesis carefully. It is then a good idea that the candidate leaves at least one obvious typo in the manuscript.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1040_22-6056325.html

I think there will be a lot of controversy still coming up, anyway, VoIP is not only safe but it’s also cheap. So skype me please! :)

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as “Euro-English”.
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There was an old story. Two brothers, Juha and Jukka, both either always said truth or both always lied – but we do not know which was the case. Somebody asked them, whether they are married or not. Juha answered that at least one of them is married. Jukka then either answered that he is married, or he answered that he is not married – we do not know anymore, the story got twisted later, so nowadays there are two versions around. EDIT: version 1: Jukka said he is married, version 2: Jukka said he is not married.

Which of the versions is correct? We know for sure that, before garbling the story, the problem about what is the marital status of the brothers was correctly solved.

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Freely adapted from Raymond Smullyan. I am thinking about getting some of his books…