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Finland Declares Broadband a Legal Right

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A one-megabit internet connection will be guaranteed to every Finn starting in July, said Finland’s Ministry of Transport and Communications on Wednesday.

But that’s just the beginning. A 100 megabit connection will be guaranteed to every Finnish citizen by the end of 2015.

Contrary to many reports circling the net, Sweden was actually the first to guarantee universal broadband access, in 2006, according to IntoMobile.

Universal broadband, universal healthcare, the decimation of invading Russians, Simo “White Death” Häyhä. Do we need any

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Large Hadron Collider Physicist Linked to Al Qaeda

2046228644_05507000b3 Okay just for a minute, stop yakking about Obama winning the Nobel lottery, and let’s talk some real news. Real scary news.

An unnamed French scientist was arrested Thursday, suspected of ties to terrorism. The scientist was a contractor working with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) on the Large Hadron Collider, the largest particle accelerator ever built, which in theory has the potential to create small black holes or equally world destroying strangelets.

“His work did not

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