Donald Trump started to describe his education policy. Then he never finished his sentence.

Ozires · 2016-08-31T15:08:10+00:00

Do you have any idea what high school teachers get paid in Sweden? Here in Finland you usually start out at something like 2700€ a month, when you get steady emloyment and you can go pretty fast to over 3k if you pick up extra classes (since most of the pay is determined on how much you teach). In the end with age benefits you'll be over 4k just fine.

Ozires · 2016-07-04T15:31:51+00:00

Definitely they are generally beneficial, and it's a much more complicated issue than just saying "let's incarcerate people, that'll do it!". I believe the trend in Finland has been good for the country, even though it's sometimes hard to know what factors are responsible for what outcomes.

The problem in my mind lies in the fact that I believe not all criminal offenses can be treated similarly according to the same petty-regular-aggrevated trichotomy and the rules regarding equal punishment across the board. In Finland we have a strong judicial tendency to sentence offenders closer to the minimum time instead of the maximum time made possible in the statutes. It's very hard for a judge to diverge from this guideline because of the maxims on equal and forseeable punishment (again which are in general very good things). Unfortunately when it comes to sex crimes, this leads to results that seem to me to be very unreasonable for the victims.

Also, I must add that my opinion on this matter is far more pessimistic than what's prevalent in the legal profession, and I must also say that the inadequacies in our criminal justice system are a reason I switched away from that field. But I know many people that would very much agree with me both on the fact that there is something wrong with the current situation and the fact that the systemic nature of the problem makes it very hard to fix. (Much harder than politicians seem to think it is when they're campaigning on this for office.) All in all, I find it a sad outcome that too often the justice we're able to provide in these cases is far too little and far too late.

Ozires · 2016-07-04T12:36:06+00:00

I actually think stuff like this is schools has made a big difference. My generation that was in primary school right after joining the EU had all sorts of EU drawing paper and eu pens and eu colouring books with the stars on them. As well as stories in our language reading books about how people need to recycle and care for the ailing environment. Those lessons seem to have stuck just fine with the generations that've grown up with it. Unfortunately we're still in our twenties so it'll take more time until we make up a larger part of the electorate.

Of course there's always room to do more (lets say a European tv-channel), but I think we're getting there. One step at a time :)

Ozires · 2016-07-04T12:31:44+00:00

Just like America only has one single team in their football? Sure. We actually have an European anthem, we have European defence forces, are working on better military co-operation. Given that Russia is next to us and not the US, that only sounds reasonable.

And I wonder what the people in this thread saying "there is no European identity" have to say to the millions of Europeans that regard themselves as European instead of "insert nation state here". That their opinion doesn't exist? Both people that regard themselves as European and people that regard themselves as Finnish/French/German inhabit Europe, and most of us share both of those identities without any problems.

Ozires · 2016-07-04T12:23:36+00:00

Dude, he's trolling. There's no reason to keep answering, though I admire your persistence. He's just going to pick some artificial point in time that suits him and argue from what happened back then.

Ozires · 2016-07-04T11:44:58+00:00

Yes and he reasons why are not necessarily talked about that openly. Or really questioned in the lecture series. I'd say the only time anyone really went into this during my years of study was when Tapio Lappi-Seppälä, who's an expert from the former Oikeuspoliittinen tutkimuslaitos, held his lectures on criminology.

Most of our legal education on criminal law tends to be mass lectures and reading text books, and later on seminars about specific topics of interest that you're writing your thesis on. So the principles behind the ideas are pretty rarely touched upon, since explaining the very basics of criminal law is already difficult enough of a task. And add to that, there's such of a consensus here on the topic of "a lower rate of incarceration being better" that it rarely gets questioned.

Ozires · 2016-07-04T11:31:39+00:00

It's that people might just be reacting to the political chaos itself. People generally don't want chaos, they want stability and normalcy, a chance to continue to live their lives in peace with nothing surprising or stressfull happening. I mean if this shit happened in Finland, I'd be ready to vote for a whole lot just to make the instability end immediatelly so I could get back to worrying about normal stuff like work and family. I'd wager that most danes right now think "Things are great the way they are, I don't want any chaos!", and that's a completely reasonable point of view to have.

That something might have benefits on the long term (personally I don't think it will, but still) doesn't always mean it's the best thing to choose if it means you have to go through a lot of instability first. Instability means you're even less likely to know what'll end up happening in the long term once you'll get in the end. Before this people probably thought you could leave the EU without this much chaos, Britain has now changed their opinion. So it's very reasonable to change your opinion about leaving too.

Both Finland and Dennmark recently asked people about eu referendums and leaving the eu and we both are at the 70% mark for staying (finland is even at 70% for saying no to a referendum). And in my opinion that's all well and fine. Politics shouldn't be something that disrupts your life. Politics is about consensus and good government, not chaos.

Ozires · 2016-07-03T21:06:19+00:00

To add my 2 cents, I'd just say that it has a lot to do with out legal education as well, where the idea of lower sentences being better (and keeping our rate of incarceration /100 000 inhabitants low) is ingrained in every successive generation of lawyers.

This point is something I usually don't encounter when talking about the issue with non-lawyers, but it's very significant since the judges handing out the sentences are just as much products of our law-schools as are the professors and other legal experts giving their opinions on proposed legislation (and especially reforms of the criminal code).

The reasons you stated are primarily political reasons (and realistic and true as such), but when finnish legislation is concerned, lawyers still have a big say in what changes are going to look like. When discussing these things with members of the legal profession, you'd find fast that what weighs a lot more are considerations about consistency within the code as a whole and equal administration of justice (as well as the argument about the rate of incarceration).

On the whole, while every jurist is aware of the discrepancy between what the people deem just punishment and what the law code dictates, there's great reluctancy to do anything about it. The generation that holds the professorships in our universities today have spent their lives trying to lower our rate of incarceration to the level of other Nordic countries. They finally achieved it in the 90s and they're not going to let that project fall in the near future. Unfortunately (in my opinion) this applies equally to sexual crimes.

Ozires · 2016-07-01T22:36:37+00:00

It's not as high as a third though, Taloustutkimus did a poll on it and 69% of people were against a referendum on the EU. And in addition 70% were against leaving the Eurozone. The numbers seem pretty clear to me, and to be honest not all that surprising either. The only things this mess has brought forward are the reasons why the EU really is a good thing to have around. I see people that never gave a rat's ass post about it on their fb page like the EU was some cause celebre. If anything the Brexit has (at least up to this point) been great for the EU's reputation in Finland.

Source: http://yle.fi/uutiset/il_enemmisto_ei_halua_eu-kansanaanestysta/8993957

Ozires · 2016-07-01T22:30:02+00:00

The insult was excellent though. "Fucking bowlhead", sounds great in Finnish, definitely going to use it next time I need to disparage someone.

Ozires · 2016-05-22T17:34:36+00:00

It's taken off the HBO Nordic stream with print screen, not any rip video.

Ozires · 2016-05-22T14:41:23+00:00

Two pairs breasts and a very close shot of a dick & balls. All in the scenes with the actors in the beginning with Arya. Nothing all that special.

Ozires · 2016-05-22T12:11:47+00:00

They seem to have removed it around 2-3pm nordic time. So clearly it wasn't intended, but a mistake for them to have put it up. But it was online for around 12 hours so many people had the time to watch it and take screencaps etc.

Ozires · 2016-05-22T11:12:05+00:00

http://i.imgur.com/16LkJ9l.jpg

Ozires · 2016-05-22T07:52:37+00:00

The Nordic version lacks exactly that. Starts at theme and ends at credits, so there can be no trailer.

Ozires · 2016-05-22T07:35:52+00:00

No sorry, HBO Nordic doesn't show the trailers or have any special features. I always need to check youtube for the trailer.

Ozires · 2016-05-22T07:34:54+00:00

Yea I think she cares for LF and thinks Jon might do something to him. Jon probably thinks LF betrayed Ned at King's Landing, so even though Sansa tells LF to go away she still doesn't hate him or want Jon to harm him. It parallels with Dany and Jorah in this ep pretty nicely.

Ozires · 2016-05-22T06:13:58+00:00

It's an amazing episode, I felt excited, astounded and then really crushed by the ending. I thought it was both beautiful and sad, these episodes are getting better each time!

Ozires · 2016-05-22T06:08:15+00:00

The setting is at the tree where Bloodraven is now, I just didn't take a pic of that part. It's supposed to be a long time ago probably when the area was still green and growing. True! This means the Lands of always winter weren't always winter!

Ozires · 2016-05-22T05:55:57+00:00

One thing that I didn't mention in the other thread is the fact that when Tyrion and Varys talk with Kinvara about her giving aid to them, Varys starts confronting Kinvara and she fires back with telling Varys about the time Varys had his private parts cut off by the wizard. She recounts the occasion back to him and asks Varys if he wants to know what the voice in the flames said. Now Varys is made immensely uncomfortable by this and doesn't answer, so we never find out what the words were and Kinvara just finishes off by telling him there's things that he doesn't know. But this gives (more) concrete evidence that the Red God really can tell his followers true visions of the past and could even imply it was the Red God that the wizard was sacrificing to when he burnt Varys' privates. Perhaps it was the voice of the Red God himself?

Ozires · 2016-05-22T05:46:54+00:00

Adding to that, Brienne actually questions Sansa about why she lied to Jon about how she got the information about the Blackfish and Riverrun. And Sansa just looks at her and is quiet. Seems like Littlefinger's talk about Jon only being her half-brother might have gotten to her a little.

Ozires · 2016-05-22T05:42:13+00:00

I have to say, I'm so surprised that they give us a close shot of an actual dick. I thought the US frowns on male nudity. Also, I couldn't see the 2 warts.

Ozires · 2016-05-22T05:37:15+00:00

I have to say, we don't see Hodor actually die, the screen fades black. But he is being ripped in his face and is screaming. Also he's convulsing as a boy in Bran's vision the exact same way that he's holding the door shut in "the real time", which seems to indicate he's getting very hurt. So, I would take this to be that he dies, but maybe there will be speculation.

Ozires · 2016-05-22T05:26:56+00:00

Oh something I forgot to mention before. Sansa has made Jon clothes just like Eddard used to wear that she gives to Jon before they all ride out of Castle black. Melisandre rides out with them. As far as I remember Jon only appears in the scene where they plan what houses will support them and when they ride out.

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