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This sounds very much like the Swedish alcohol importation laws.
You can bring a tax free quota into Sweden (and many other places for that matter) but you can’t buy tax free inside Sweden, can you?
Headline fooled me. To me quota usually means "you must do this much", this appears to be a limit.
Interestingly, XIX century Poland has exactly the "minimum amount consumed" kind of quotas of alcohol... It was legislated by nobles who were producing alcohol from their grain and figured they'd force peasants to but it from them, to periodically extract whatever monetary surplus the peasants (serfs) managed to build up. One of the result was of course rampant alcoholism, since the peasants now owned buckets of vodk…
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> Mainland Norway definitely doesn't have quotas like this; rather alcohol is simply made to be quite expensive. If you don't mind the higher price I'm sure you can still import it as long as you pay the duty. (The linked page merely says that you cannot import tax-free .) So ultimately it's the same situation as in (the rest of) Norway, but with some small allowance of cheaper tax-free alcohol. If they didn't have t…
Can you just brew your own?
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There are levels of risk I am not prepared to accept. I'll carry an assault shotgun, an assault rifle, and a dedicated ammunition-hauling dog with me if I go outside a town in Svalbard.
I hope not: although, say, an M16 is a good weapon, you'd do better with something chambered in a full rifle cartridge (e.g. .30-06) against a bear rather than an intermediate cartridge
If a polar bear is charging me, I want his ancestors to feel what I'm going to do to him.
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I'm not a historian, but this doesn't match my understanding; that true weapons like swords and crossbows tended to be restricted, and peasants used scythes, clubs, etc. instead. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/268dmc/how_w...
Arround 1400, the King proclaimed that "every Englishman or Irishman dwelling in England must have a bow of his own height", at one point Tennis was banned to give more time to bow practice. By 1500s every man had to buy his 7 year old son a bow and teach him how to use it, and a bow+arrows must be kept in everyones house. Crossbows on the other hand were practically banned, but this was more because a highly skilled…
Headline fooled me. To me quota usually means "you must do this much", this appears to be a limit.
Depends. I clicked through to read about mandatory alcohol consumption, but thinking about it further, consider the case where you have "1 GB of disk quota". In that case, it obviously means that you can use no more than 1 GB of disk, it definitely doesn't mean that you must use 1 GB of disk.
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Some of the hardest drinkers I know are Finns. I'm not sure exactly why that would be, i.e. why Finns might drink more than Norwegians or Swedes, but this has been my observation. Keep in mind, n=low (I'd have to think about it, and I don't want to expend the brainpower right now).
The statistics link in a sibling comment says Danes consume most among the nordics.
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Throughout Norway, pretty much all sales of alcoholic beverages over 4.7% happens through state-run liquor stores (Vinmonopolet). Their selection is pretty great, but obviously imposes limits vs. a totally open import arrangement. And if a local store doesn't have something in stock, you can order it for later pickup, much like at a library with multiple branches. I don't know how that works in Svalbard, since it's s…
Interesting! Do you have any examples of wines like that? I tried to search and found nothing.
Anyone know the reasoning? I'm assuming its attempting to prevent alcoholism? I know Greenland and Iceland (to a lesser extent) suffer somewhat perhaps due to the light and isolation being contributing factors.
iceland taxes the heck out of it, and there are only a few stores where you can buy
I paid $20 apiece for shots at a bar in Reykjavik. I paid (IIRC) $5 for a bottle at the airport.
(The bars are especially expensive. I'm told that all the Icelanders pre-game before going out drinking. If you plan to drink while in Iceland, pick it up on your way in.)