Iceland Votes "Já" To Proposed News Haven 232
eldavojohn writes "The proposed rules shielding journalists harbored in Iceland are now official. It appears that sites like Wikileaks and Cryptome could have a friendlier home base. For those familiar with the Icelandic tongue, the voting results and legalese. Some of the details can be found at www.immi.is."
Wow (Score:5, Funny)
It would be nice to get something like this in the US.
Re:Wow (Score:1, Funny)
It would be nice to get something like this in the US.
Yeah.
You could say that Iceland is warming up to freedom-of-the-press advocates.
Re:is it just me? (Score:5, Funny)
Well, at the dollar's current valuation, that doesn't surprise me.
Gunboat Diplomacy (Score:2, Funny)
Nothing a little Gunboat Diplomacy couldn't resolve.
Re:Wow (Score:5, Funny)
I don't get it mods, why is this funny? It really would be nice to have this in the US.
Re:Wow (Score:1, Funny)
Thanks for that - I haven't laughed so hard for ages.
Oh, you were serious ...
Re:is it just me? (Score:4, Funny)
See, you shouldn't have said that. Icebears in the street is a good thing.
Re:Wow (Score:5, Funny)
I don't get it mods, why is this funny?
Commonly called absurdist humor [wikipedia.org]
Re:Wow (Score:4, Funny)
Re:is it just me? (Score:1, Funny)
By the fireplace in the winters, out in the yard in the summers... Icebears have an undeserved reputation of being fierce whilst every scandinavian knows they are just huggably soft and cuddly...
This feels familiar somehow.... (Score:2, Funny)
Now if only Iceland hid some forgotten caches of WW2-era war-gold then it would be the perfect placr to build The Crypt [wikipedia.org]
Re:is it just me? (Score:1, Funny)
But, that's human nature. We reign over nature, so is it that much of a stretch to reign over "the weak"?
As much as I am a libertarian, I am starting to think that tyranny is in the very nature of man: if we can do something we wish, we do. It is only the fact that "the weak" can associate and cooperate to tend to slow the advance of the strong. For the weak tend to be many and (out of necessity) often respectful of their peers and thus easily organized against a common threat. The counterpoint is that the very weak are corruptible and will prostitute their ethics for the promises of the strong (healthcare, and all other nanny state perqs).
But, really, if the last remaining superpower could eradicate other nations with its might, why doesn't it? Perhaps it isn't quite strong enough (yet). Perhaps a "scortched earth" isn't really all that valuable when you can't effectively just kill people and not destroy their things. Perhaps the few remaining will be hell-bent on revenge.
However, given the species' propensity for short-sightedness, I am convinced that if an effective weapon to kill people and leave "things" intact were developed, it would be used: "To hell with people of nation X! If they can't resist our onslaught they are not even human." I don't think that reasoning is much of a stretch.
Re:EU membership will undo this (Score:5, Funny)
I live in New Haven... (Score:2, Funny)
Whatever. (Score:1, Funny)
I've got like, several trillion interstellar krona.
Iceland takes those, right? Right?!
Re:is it just me? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:is it just me? (Score:3, Funny)
my reality has a conservative bias, i don't know how yours works.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_law [wikipedia.org]
* Conservation of energy
* Conservation of linear momentum
* Conservation of angular momentum
* Conservation of electric charge
* Conservation of color charge
* Conservation of weak isospin
* Conservation of probability
Re:is it just me? (Score:4, Funny)
But the beer costs $10 a glass.
They have much to learn about balancing the needs of the people and the needs of the state.
"Hey Svend, you'll never guess what I got this crazy American to pay for a beer ..."
Re:i see you've been gone a few decades (Score:1, Funny)
At least the president will have something to wipe his ass with when he runs out of toilet paper.
Re:i see you've been gone a few decades (Score:2, Funny)
if he doesn't mind finding a part the last president didn't already use.