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by lb1lf 6y ago
-I speak English (my third language) with a marked Aberdinian accent - despite never having lived there; this is courtesy of the kids next door when I was a child - their family had moved from Aberdeen to rural Norway, and if I wanted to pl
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by lb1lf 6y ago
National Brotherhood Week (Tom Lehrer) Oh, the white folks hate the black folks, And the black folks hate the white folks. To hate all but the right folks Is an old established rule. But during National Brotherhood Week, National Brotherhoo
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-Not only was the plant built more or less on the seafront, the sheds housing the backup generators were quite literally built on the quay stones. In hindsight (which, after all, is 20/20), it would have made sense to keep a set of bac
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by lb1lf 6y ago
They can sell it, but the PDO ensures they have to find some other way of gaining market share than piggybacking off the reputation the products they imitate have earned over the years. (Which, in fairness, equates to being unable to sell i
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by lb1lf 6y ago
In Norway, we've got a place called Hell; you pass through it on the way from the town of Trondheim to its airport. A friend of mine was born in a place called Time on the southwest coast, and quips after just about every flight that h
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-At a former employer - a vast engineering multinational - we had a big, annual questionnaire to determine how happy we were to work there. 'On a scale from 1-10, how satisfied are you with...' We were assured the results were onl
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by lb1lf 6y ago
"We choose to go to the Moon...We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; (...)" This blog post made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside -really- it enca
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-Fun fact: Feudalism (somehow) lingered on until about a decade ago on the channel island of Sark. That being said, aside from the dubious principle, 21st century feudalism on Sark had little in common with its medieval cousin.
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by lb1lf 6y ago
No, we don't. If you spend more than half the year in Norway, you are considered a resident for tax purposes, and chances are you will have to pay some tax. However, income is not subject to double taxation; if you've already paid
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-Oi, vi er overalt! (Odd Erling - aktiv 1997-2005. Fortsatt sporadisk radioaktiv - oftest under Field Day ) 73 og god helg!
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-The ham radio club I was a member of while in university had a long and proud tradition of sending letters to former members, asking if their employer happened to have any items suitable for donation to the club; power tubes (think 3-500Z,
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-Surely if you are going through the trouble of setting your clock, you might as well do it accurately? Also, as suggested by others (I should have thought of that!) - ships used chronometers to establish their longitude. (At 56 degrees nor
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by lb1lf 6y ago
Just wagering a guess, but presumably to synch their clocks to a known good time?
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by lb1lf 6y ago
Or the album intro to National Brotherhood Week - "...This year, for example, on the first day of the week Malcolm X was killed which gives you an idea of how effective the whole thing is. I'm sure we all agree that we ought to lo
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by lb1lf 6y ago
Anecdote time - the first time I rode in a Maruti Suzuki (an Omni - think Toyota HiAce/VW Transporter), the driver asked me to close the sliding door, as I was the last to enter. Having ridden my fair share in old Transporters, I grabb
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-Because you need volume to make car production economic. We're a small and, hence, neglected minority. The product you want already exists, though - it is commonly referred to as the 70 series Land Cruiser. :)
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by lb1lf 6y ago
Unless I misunderstand you - several Lenovo laptops run Ubuntu right out of the box (Typing this on a X1c 7th gen which shipped with 18.04 LTS.)
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by lb1lf 6y ago
Being tritanope, my favourite euphemism is 'chromatographically challenged'.
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-At a former employer, I volunteered - as in, bullied my way into - the test group for our SCADA GUI front-ends. This resulted in palettes for both deuteranopes and tritanopes; our support staff on occasion had calls from customers who had
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-AOL. I work in automation&controls in the oil industry, and my customers are always puzzled when I start to whittle away at the features suggested, rather than adding to them; my mantra being that 'If it isn't there, it canno
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by lb1lf 6y ago
Anecdata alert - I grew up on the C64 in (reasonably affluent) Norway. Everybody and their dog had the C64. For quite a while, I only knew of one household in addition to mine which had a 1541 to go along with it - when I wanted to, ahem, e
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-Even more interesting given that Rolls-Royce plc has a number of boffins at a subsidiary in Trondheim, Norway working on exotic PM motor designs, including for aviation. (The company is called SmartMotor, was purchased by what was then Rol
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-Also, there's a bust of him in the Spreebogen (Berlin-Moabit).
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-Oh, and anything by desert aficionado extraordinaire Tom Sheppard. (Though being the diligent chap he is, his books mostly focus on getting out of trouble, figuring most people know all too well how to get into it in the first place!)
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by lb1lf 6y ago
Not OP, but presumably the keyboard is fitted with a USB hub requiring extra power.
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-I had (and have, though it isn't used much these days) a Sony PCM-M1 ultraportable DAT deck in the late nineties. Wonderful for recording live gigs. It was, if memory serves, the exact same unit as the consumer counterpart - TCD-D100
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by lb1lf 6y ago
"Real laziness is doing it properly the first time." -Instructor at a field bus training course I did sometime around 2000.
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by lb1lf 6y ago
Incidentally, I was listening to the Köln concert as I read this. I laughed out loud.
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-Thus 'allegedly' and 'apocryphal' - to the best of my knowledge, no reliable sources back this ever happening - but it is, you'll have to admit, a wonderful tale...
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-No history of medieval toilets is complete without reference to Erasmus von Lueg, 15th-century robber baron and lord of the Slovene Predjama castle. He allegedly met his maker while relieving himself - having made a nuisance of himself to

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