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by lb1lf 7y ago
-My bank sent an (authentic, it turned out) E-mail including the ‘We’ll always use your first name in our correspondence with you to prove we’re who we claim to be.’ The E-mail started «Dear $FORNAVN...» (Where ‘fornavn’ is Norwegian for ‘f
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-Thank you; unless this corona thing paralyse anything and everything for the rest of the year or more, I expect to land on my feet (and, should the current state of affairs continue for that long, I suspect the lack of a paycheck is not go
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-Oh, it was a proper layoff, all right. Assuming you are in Norway, too - got summons to a 15.1 out of the blue, couple of days later I was told that my services were not required going forward, signed an agreement giving me several months
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-I just got laid off after 15 years at an engineering company, the last couple of which I was an engineering manager/technical authority. Prospects aren’t too bleak - the local engineering scene is pretty sound and I’ve heard encouragi
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-Irrelevant, but I chuckled at your last sentence. One of the all-time smartest people I’ve ever met worked a bar in Bergen, Norway; autodidact in anything which caught his fancy, he could give you a lecture on what brought down the Scythia
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by lb1lf 7y ago
Once you've heard the warble of SSTV, it is quite simple to recognize - I hear it all the time around 3850 and 7175kHz or so; this is in IARU R1. Other regions may have other activity centres.
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by lb1lf 7y ago
Being Norwegian (occupied by the Nazis during WW2) I'd like to chime in with my anecdata - my grandfather served as occupation police in Germany for a couple of years after the war; when the Berlin Wall came down, I was eleven years ol
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-A few years ago, months after Norway had witnessed a HEAT-style armed robbery during which a police officer was killed, Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ and ‘Madonna’ were stolen from the National Gallery to divert resources away from the ongoi
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-While I cannot recall the exact legal aspects, years ago while I was the union representative at the engineering company I worked for, the company wanted (for very valid reasons) to go through a number of E-mails sent to/from a couple
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-I have found that the news cycle (for anything but the largest of events) is so short that several times when I've worked offshore, something happened back home - some celebrity died, some place burned down &c - but by the time I
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by lb1lf 7y ago
I’ll ask - I have to admit I’ve only seen it once - when at the museum, I asked kindly and a curator took mercy upon me, gave me a cup of coffee and proceeded to locate the sword from storage. I know a sizable part of the collection is bein
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-Not very big; approximately a square kilometer (.4 sqm) all told - most of which is forest and a mountainside. Some 30,000sqm arable land, all of which is maintained by neighbours who are active farmers -both my wife and I are engineers.
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-One of my wife’s ancestors found a sword dating back some 1,300 years on the farm we currently live on, and it has caused lots of annoyances over the years. The problem is that the national Norwegian archive of ancient artifact findings on
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-Ah, the Goths! The west Goths (which are to the east of us...) I find that Asterix skilfully plays on our own prejudices with regards to different nationalities, very much evident in the Goths and in Asterix in Britain. (in the latter, Ast
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by lb1lf 7y ago
In Norway, the fishmonger was named Hermetix (as in, canned food), and - two of my favourites - the Greek tour operator Setopenextrabus (Schedule an additional bus) and the drunken legionnaire Sophus Antabus .
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-If you haven't reread them as an adult, do yourself a favour and get started. I, too, loved them as a kid - but have found that Asterix resonates on many levels. It is definitely a comic for grown-ups too, gently mocking the grown-up
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by lb1lf 7y ago
The Hurtigruten is a coastal freighter cum cruise line traversing the Norwegian coast between Bergen in the south and Kirkenes near Murmansk up north, making loads of stops underway to on- and offload cargo and passengers. The Norwegian coa
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-Thousands of passengers from all over the world, (comparatively) cramped quarters, HVAC systems push air from cabin to cabin without sterilisation, buffets where hundreds handle the same serving utensils...
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-I used to live in a small town (Aalesund, Norway, pop. of town centre - 10,000 or so). It is a popular port for cruise ships doing the Norwegian coast. I assure you, during summer season one could have 2-4 vessels in port - effectively a D
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by lb1lf 7y ago
The Finnish coffee break sounds like it was directed by Aki Kaurismäki. Life imitates art.
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-And, while taking a break from that (excellent, I might add) book, you could do worse - a lot worse - than picking up Sebastião Salgado's "Scent of a dream", a photographic tour de force documenting how coffee is grown, proc
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by lb1lf 7y ago
Sincere question - how widespread is actual check usage in the US nowadays? As in, would "mail her a check" be a colloquialism for an Apple Pay transfer or similar, or would it mean just what it says - write out a check, mail it,
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-Are part-time band leaders semi-conductors?
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-Do note that the question I was (poorly, as it were...) trying to address was 'what is the appeal of SUV/4x4 type vehicles?', not 'why is a 4x4 the only right choice, for anyone, under any circumstances?' That bein
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by lb1lf 7y ago
As for SUVs I pretty much agree with your sentiment, but a 'proper' for lack of a better term 4x4 has a lot of things going for it - -You're sitting significantly higher than most traffic, giving you a much better idea of wha
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-Your comment made me chuckle as I was in fact listening to that fine act of Slovenian cultural imperialism as I read it - Opus Dei, by the way. Slightly less off-topic, I have been listening to lots of classical music over the years - in n
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by lb1lf 7y ago
I cannot vouch for others, but I didn't think much of it; while no-one are seriously expecting a Russian occupation of Norway, we're rather aware that we are a NATO member, the Russians very much not - and that there is bound to b
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by lb1lf 7y ago
Came here to say this. Also, the Red Army liberated the northernmost part of Norway (Which, incidentally, also is the easternmost - the town of Kirkenes lies to the east of Istanbul) in the autumn of 1944; they quietly left in the autumn of
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by lb1lf 7y ago
Given sufficient force, anything fails - but the steering gear is typically fine even after the rudder has fallen off; replace bearings, new rudder stock, new rudder, off you go. (Or, as the C/E on a vessel I attended once put it - the
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by lb1lf 7y ago
You'd use chain pulleys. I work for a company making (among other things) rudder steering machines, and they are typically engineered to never fail. As a first-order approximation, that holds true. (In the event of a black-out, there a

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