Plainly not true; certainly for banks in the UK overseas and crown dependencies.

This may actually be true due to correspondent banking -- e.g., the Bank of Drug Dealers and Terrorists based on an oil rig in the Pacific may in fact be a correspondent with CitiBank (just a fictional scenario of course, I'm sure Citi would never agree to any relationship with such a sketchily named bank)

The largest bank in the Seychelles (a known tax evasion jurisdiction) is Barclay's, based in London.

Plainly true, those 'banks' or trusts don't have their own data centers and infrastructure where the money just 'rests' as records in databases they put it into their accounts in other banks, London banks in this case to make more money.

If you like these you may also like Grovemade - http://grovemade.com. Initially I even thought it was from them.

TL;DR No.

You're likely to run into domestic Controlled Foreign Corporation rules. Basically if you or your family own a large portion of a foreign registered company and that company is taxed less than domestic tax rates, it'll be classed as actually residing in your home country for corporate tax purposes.

Why will anyone trust something based/developed in the USA related to security? It's a compromised jurisdiction. For anyone creating security products who wants to be credible will need to be based somewhere that respects privacy.

I don't think there's any place on Earth where you can escape government wrath. Better to design assuming the environment is already compromised.

Every single US citizen is complicit? Man, I would hate to be this jaded. Some of us are fighting against mass surveillance as hard as we possibly can.

This is as silly as saying that all of the people who live in North Korea are brutal dictators.

That's not what xmr claimed; what was said is that the US is a compromised jurisdiction, and of course everyone developing something in the US is subject to that jurisdiction.

It was never implied in xmr's post that every US citizen supports mass surveillance, only that they may be legally forced to participate in it.

I visited at christmas and it felt like people were very reserved and yes at times quite rude / snobbish. Apart from that, seemed like a nice place.

Jersey (Channel Islands) is working on becoming a focus point for technology investment and startups. While technically it's not part of the EU, it is part of Europe. There's very low taxes and gigabit fibre is being rolled out too.

Glad to see it's still going well - it had a great atmosphere a decade ago when I was there. So much goes on there that isn't widely reported.

Is it possible to buy these and get them shipped outside of Finland?

Unfortunately you can't, but you should be able to buy most of the items off the shelf in Finland (except the original cardboard box).

This page displays the contents of this years box with the contents:

http://www.kela.fi/aitiyspakkaus

Here's an infomercial demoing the contents: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVPw2_A9V5Y

Lot of the clothes are from finnish company Reima, which have an online shop:

http://www.reimashop.fi/

Seems not sadly, but it would make a great gift.

Lots of people will complain about how the state is getting involved in peoples lives etc so it would have been funny if we could buy them online from overseas too, thus creating a profitable business

The box is heavily subsidized and even Finns can't buy them directly. Some people re-sell theirs but mostly on finnish language baby websites.

I second this; I've been a happy user since v1 of AppViz. Might want to try out AppSalesMobile if you want the figures on the move.

I completely agree, AppViz 2 is an excellent app for checking and storing sales reports, iAd revenue, customer reviews & app ranks.