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Unless otherwise credited, all content came from my head and is my responsibility. If you want to reproduce it, ask me or at least link here.

I reserve the right to:

  • Use foul language
  • Be politically incorrect.
  • Name names or job titles
  • Name companies
  • Tell stories from my point of view – if it appears skewed, chances are, it’s too weird to make up AND I can cite evidence or have a witness.
  • Spread my ideas, wisdoms and philosophies via this pokey little site. If you don’t like it, read something else.

With this in mind, I will not intentionally slander a person or a company – I will simply speak of an experience as I experienced it.

Anyone who has issue with anything I have to say can… contact me and I’ll decide what to do at that time (but as an assertive person who stands by my ideas and words, it is unlikely that I will back down unless either a voice of reason intervenes OR the alternative idea is actually better).

Unless I am literally holding a gun to your head*, I am not forcing you to read this bollocks, so if you don’t like what I have to say, go and read something else.

*As a Buddhist living in an upper-class area amongst Hindus in India, I’m pretty not-cool with violence unless absolutely necessary, such as personal self-defense or self-preservation.

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I acknowledge and agree that any questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, feedback or other information that I provide to Facebook (“Submissions”), are non-confidential and non-proprietary. Facebook is entitled to the restricted use of any such Submission only for any purpose  exclusively authorized in writing by either myself or party holding power-of-attorney.

I hereby declare that all content and excerpts thereof which are currently on my Facebook (Profile ID 507807879) and other internet profiles (including, but not limited to data streamed to Facebook via API, Applications, Myself or Third Parties) are mine alone. Any distribution found to be outside of the following paragraphs shall be in direct breach of my existing 2001-present copyright and/or the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (2001) where applicable.

I hereby revoke any and all licenses which may have been previously granted to Facebook under previous Terms and Conditions of that site to all data created, added, amended and deleted by either myself or third parties, including written content, photos, ideas and personality and profile data both exclusive and non-exclusive to Facebook except and unless exclusively authorized in writing by either myself or party holding power-of-attorney.

Facebook is hereby prohibited to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content I (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof regardless of my privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on my website and (b) to use my name, likeness and image for any purpose, including commercial or advertising, each of (a) and (b) on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof. I represent and warrant that I have all rights and permissions to decide whether or not to grant the foregoing licenses.

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Vittu, Perkele, Saatana! The Finnish Immigration Saga!

I battled Finnish Immigration for 18 months, starting in November 2005, trying to get permission to stay. I was asked to leave the country once (May 2006, which, as it turns out was un-necessary, due to my being supplied with incorrect information).

I received my permit in April 2007. I reapplied in March 2008, as I had been told that, with a job etc this would be a simple 2-ish week process to get a new sticker in my passport. In August 2008, I was requested to come to the immigration police in Malmi to sign documents stating that I would leave the country (similar to the May 2006 incident). I refused to sign the documents.

These are UNAUTHORIZED, UNEDITED audio recordings taken using a phone in my pocket. (therefore, I apologize for the quality of the sound). I decided to wait 6 months before posting these for two reasons:

  • Due to the fact that, as far as I know, recording devices are NOT allowed in police questioning rooms, these may not be entirely legal.
  • It may piss some people off, in the unlikely event that anyone can be bothered listening to it.

In either case, I hate cops. Period. Here are the recordings.
First policeman (MP3 – 6,212KB) and The Translator (MP3 – 9,596KB)

Warning:

I have been threatened by a team of lawyers working for a major international company (or at least a subsidiary thereof) due to the content on this website (and others). They withdrew the case.

While I am not a lawyer, I am no stranger to both local laws (in a variety of countries) and international laws. Nor am I a banker or an accountant, however I am no stranger to these subjects either.

This legal fluff may be edited at any time, without warning or notification.