Sorry Galleri, but perhaps I'll do instead? :)

Scode, you know omega never wars! So clearly, we must be netting now as well and you must be imagining things ;)

Maybe wiggle is around now?

How Utterly Morally decaying of highrOck to hide woRds in the message!
Imagine that :)

Does LCN use cute police cars? Maybe pink with purple lights and the sound of an ice cream truck as police sirens? =)

What? There's a war going on? Where? Did I miss the memo?

*waves*

Scode's around? :)

Evo and Laf are FAing each other?
How cute and friendly :)

Yes

aw, this thread went quiet amd i need my weekly bonus points! :)

France's mega-rich sign a petition saying they want higher taxes: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...-taxed-more_n_934354.html

*gasps* ivan said nm, evo, laf and omega can't netgain! ;)

anders, anders...våffö våffö gööru på dette vise'?
våffö våffö..våffö dårå?

Alicia

No :)

Hunsad

Y-not?

*shuts up and looks at QiXiongMao*

I have to agree with Applelion. Threatening someone with self violence would be very hurtful to the other person :(

As I said, I posted the statistics for accuracy (instead of using whaterver source), not to say who wins or not :D

Although, if you put it that way, the percentual ratio between immigrants and population is higher in Sweden than in Canada from 2006 to 2010 (which is listed in your table), if one count with Canada having a population of 30 million :)
(IF wikipedia is correct hehe, then canada had 31M in 2001 and growing) :D

Ah, right, my bad. The top ten list being only for those immigrants via asylum, which seem to be the figur Martianed refered to though.

2005-2011 being the totals though.

Just for the sake of being absolutely accurate :)

From Sweden's Statistiska Centralbyrån (central bureau of statistics):
I'll skip listing gender (booo we get fewer female immigrants!)

2005
Population 9 047 752
Immigrants 65 229

2006
Population 9 113 257
Immigrants 95 750

2007
Population 9 182 927
Immigration 99 485

2008
Population 9 256 347
Immigration 101 171

2009
Population 9 340 682
Immigration 102 280

2010
Population 9 415 570
Immigration 98 801

2011 (first half year)
Population 9 446 812
Immigration 43 800


Immigration for both 2009 and 2010 being from 49+ countries.

Top 10 list of countries:
1. Serbia
2. Somalia
3. Afghanistan
4. Iraq
5. Kosovo
6. Eritrea
7. Iran
8. Russia
9. Macedonia
10. Mongolia (I didn't expect that one!)

I can't speak for the 49 other countries in Europe, but I am sure some of them got quite similar reasons as in Sweden.

We got a tradition to sometimes use taxes to force some envisioned results to happen.
We first had a gasoline tax already back in the 20s or something (I do believe it was during the conservative party being in power. Being very rightwinged back then and far from the left). The government want revenues for all sorts of things, not only free health care. Plus free healthcare was a bit, well, not so exisiting back in the 20s.
It ended in 1995 where we replaced it with a CO2 tax (which is more than only gasoline) and an energy tax (also more than on only gasoline). Partly used as a nice revenue source for all different expenditures (health care being one of several).
The environmentalists (yup, we got such a political party) is big on increasing those two taxes to force people to consume less of what is bad for the environment. The environmentalists always pushing for an increase of them to help solve things. That is part of their ideology. It being an added revenue is an added benefit which I am sure the other parties like:) Although each time the environmentalists have pushed for an increase it always sparked an intense debate in Riksdagen (the parliament).

Increasing those taxes have worked to decrease consumption though. People push for cars etc which use less energy, drive less, try to use more public collective transportation and so on.
Some of that behavior is also part of an increased awareness and concearn for the environment. People wanting to contribute to less polution.
But national polls do show that consumption would increase if those taxes were decreased :)

Btw, Sweden is in Europe and a member of the European Union (EU), but still not a member in the European Monetary Union (EMU).

CKHustler made me log in ahead of time before my post can collect a free bonus!

You say Europe and group together a whole bunch of countries. You probably mean EMU (European Monetary Union) since that is mentioned in US media. But even there we see huge differences between the different member countries.

What about Sweden? It is probably rather socialistic in the eyes of americans (even when our rightwing parties are in government). We got a low public debt, we got high taxes (although corporate taxes are rather low especially when factoring in accounting stuff), we are probably world famous for our "socilistic" entitlement programs, pensions and regulations (and public healthcare...). We had learned from our mistakes in the late 80s and early 90s crisis and regulated our banks. Those regulations helping to prevent our banks from doing the same lousy stuff like US and other banking institutions around the world.
Those social entitlements we have for unemployed were extremely helpful to help prevent Sweden from falling off the cliff like USA did. It kept the purchasing power up, making sure the population could buy stuff, thus helping companies produce and keep employees instead of sacking as many as they otherwise would have.

All in all our so called socialisticaly run country, with regulations, high taxes and all that stuff prevented Sweden from sinking like USA and southern europe. US media even pointing at Sweden when trying to figure out what to do to get out of the crisis. Sweden came out strong from the financial crisis, got called having a Tiger Economy. No matter if we got a left wing government, right wing government, minority government, majority government or what ever, our government still run Sweden in a fiscally responsible way.

Clearly, our so called socialist ways must be very wrong indeed.

<3 highrock's land :)

Shouldn't the police say please hit them so we get free land? :D

Warren Buffett on taxes:
http://www.nytimes.com/...dling-the-super-rich.html

Ahh yeah, Alicia cracking her whip and Omegans marching along singing. Although some rebellious fractions might sing the vegemite song instead.

Is henrik good enough instead?

Bigwiggle!

How about a short kilt?

I've been better :)

Here's a road map to Pearl Harbor:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/...arlHarborCarrierChart.jpg

*pokes locutus* we can sell some Omega perfurme for you! We bottle Alicia's sweat and sell as Eau de Omega!
Alicia's share of the profit goes to buying sc2 stuff, while my share of the profit goes to purchasing shares in Activision Blizzard, Inc...

Reckless, what are you doing in NA?? Don't you know you should get back to Omega so I can boss you around like you did me back in 2001?

Nope!

Havoc again!

Hi Reckless!
lol hmmm Omega FA.

*takes away Reckless' omega FA priviliges*

Dec 7th, 2001?
60th anniversary of Pearl Harbor :)

*Waves at old people* :)

All this evo and laf bickering on AT every reset reminds me of these two videos :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp0Bt2cbcc8

http://www.youtube.com/...cSJPw&feature=related

Another H appears instead of Havoc!

Bigwiggle

No, don't bring the jets down to 35 :D

yay, Bigwiggle guessed right!

lets try a wilder! Bakku!!

Nope!
Hmmm Totte?

:)

What? no-no-no, Omega should be targeted last!
To quote Oddball from kelly's heroes:

Oddball: We see our role as essentially defensive in nature. While our armies are advancing so fast and everyone's knocking themselves out to be heroes, we are holding ourselves in reserve in case the Krauts mount a counteroffensive which threatens Paris... or maybe even New York. Then we can move in and stop them.

Oddball: This engine's been modified by our mechanical genius here, Moriarty. Right?

Moriarty: Whatever you say, babe.
[giggles]

Oddball: These engines are the fastest in any tanks in the European Theater of Operations, forwards or backwards. You see, man, we like to feel we can get out of trouble, quicker than we got into it.

Kelly: [looking skeptical] Got any other secret weapons?

Oddball: Well, yeah, man, you see, like, all the tanks we come up against are bigger and better than ours, so all we can hope to do is, like, scare 'em away, y'know. This gun is an ordinary 76mm but we add this piece of pipe onto it, and the Krauts think, like, maybe it's a 90mm. We got our own ammunition, it's filled with paint. When we fire it, it makes... pretty pictures. Scares the hell outta people! We have a loudspeaker here, and when we go into battle we play music, very loud. It kind of... calms us down.

*Grabs Warlorde*

Jumping off public now means having the rest of the reset off = the lazee way!

Martian's joke is funny :)

Pang, that's because she's cheap :)

Alicia queen of Evo?
Omega will FS evo for trying to steal her away from us!

I'd say she was doing "breakdancing".

I hope it goes well!

Isn't anoniem in Omega? :)

Hey, Jonathan! :) It's been a long time since last. I've had both good and bad times since then.
Sorry for not replying until now. I saved this until now so I could have a post for the bonus points :)

hmm wait, jonathan from sanct?

hehe yeah, I still play. Alicia's sidekick.
Sorry, madjsp, but hmm who are you now again? :)

Pteppic is on a break. Too much stress, poor guy :(
Jacobus is still around :)

:)

What is that you are writing in such small letters sonny boy? I must get my glasses....oh...where did I place my glasses now again...? I'm so forgetful these days...