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by lb1lf 7y ago
Regular theft has the added benefit (for the victim) of the thief having to show up on-site in order to steal anything. That puts him squarely in the jurisdiction of whatever country the victim lives in, with all the complications that enta
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-Oh, I'd go nuts if I did either of the above full-time; however it serves as a wonderful diversion and it is great to do something which produces tangible results. It helps being an engineer, too - I've found (much to my surprise
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by lb1lf 7y ago
Two things, both of which I stumbled into accidentally - I make lots of jellies once the berries in the garden are ripe; I bought a house in a rural area a few years ago and it came with loads of berries. Might as well put them to use. It i
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by lb1lf 8y ago
This film was initially banned in Norway due to alleged blasphemy (!). The Swedes loved it; their movie posters dubbed it 'The movie which is so funny, it is banned in Norway!'
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by lb1lf 8y ago
Keep in mind that in Norway, fossil cars are (and have been for a long time) taxed to high heaven. It is not uncommon for a car too double its cost as it is being taxed upon import. Hence, in a number of other markets a $50k Tesla 3 is comp
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by lb1lf 8y ago
D'oh, of course. In my defense, I hardly slept last night courtesy of a three-year-old with the chicken pox, and I hadn't had my morning gallon of coffee when I replied.
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by lb1lf 8y ago
We (Norway) cheat a bit, though - we're a small (5M and change citizens) economy with a massive oil extraction industry which we tax to high heaven, hence the large fraction of GDP raised by taxes. Regular corporate tax is 22%, whereas
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by lb1lf 8y ago
According to an ossi friend of mine, the moment he could no longer buy Sputnik, that torch of progressive socialism at his local Leipzig newsstand was the moment he realised that the GDRs days were numbered...
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by lb1lf 8y ago
As for the latter, that would possibly be The Collector's Library? Large selection of classics, printed on thin 'Bible paper', hardback, diminutive size, ribbon marker. I tend to always keep one or two in my cabin luggage for
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by lb1lf 8y ago
While urbanisation overall is probably a net plus for the environment, do keep in mind that, say, farming is quite area intensive. Someone needs to work at those farms - and they are not going to commute to work by high-speed rail. (Granted
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by lb1lf 8y ago
High-speed trains are wonderful where the population density is sufficiently high, but in more sparsely populated parts, the car (and, for longer distances, the plane) is likely the only viable solution for decades to come. With that as a s
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by lb1lf 8y ago
Speaking of Tarantino and low budgets, Tarantino apprentice (I say this tongue-in-cheek) Robert Rodriguez did his first feature film El Mariachi on a $10k budget. I distinctly recall that he for instance had only one guitar case on hand, so
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by lb1lf 8y ago
He won't. Norwegian law opens for in essence indefinite terms for inmates deemed a lasting danger to society. ABB was sentenced under this statute and may well be locked up for the rest of his days; he may, however, at regular interval
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by lb1lf 8y ago
Rehabilitation IS societally useful. However, it does require that the prime focus is rehabilitation rather than punishment. In my native Norway, rehabilitation has been the focus to such an extent that foreign media come to do stories on t
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by lb1lf 8y ago
I worked (for a short time) at the Norwegian Rocket Range. While it was never boring as such, there is no denying being around actual rocket science soon became commonplace and nothing to be particularly excited about. The notable exception
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by lb1lf 8y ago
Trains in Norway (and, presumably, also elsewhere) run on 16 2/3Hz AC. This is a historical artifact - back in the day, electrical motors didn't fare too well if fed with 50hz, so a lower frequency was desirable. In airplanes, on
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by lb1lf 8y ago
-On the contrary, Norwegian newspapers stress that Hydro is restoring data from recent backups and to heck with the blackmailers.
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by lb1lf 8y ago
-An unsurprising, but somewhat amusing tidbit from the article is that Hydro's senior employees got a chance to shine today - while younger employees had only ever operated the plant via SCADA systems taken offline today, the staff clo
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by lb1lf 8y ago
I think I read once that the last-ditch effort in case of power blackout is heating the ovens with gravity-fed kerosene burners to keep them from going titsup. No source, though.
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by lb1lf 8y ago
In Norway as well, at least in academia - I remember seeing SUSE boxes in the bookstores at both the Norwegian University of Technology and Science and the University of Bergen - this would have been in 1996-1998 or so.
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by lb1lf 8y ago
In the case of MH17, there were strong indications it had been shot down within days at most, and once the Russian-backed rebels let investigators into the area, one found pieces of wreckage showing shrapnel damage. Hardly consistent with a
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by lb1lf 8y ago
-Quite different scenario. One was shot down by a Russian-made surface-to-air missile (And one can hardly fault Boeing for not providing ECM equipment as standard!), the other was (probably) wilfully flown into the great void. Here, on the
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by lb1lf 8y ago
According to the head of the Norwegian civil aviation authority, interviewed live on radio right now, the ban is EU-wide as of a couple of minutes ago.
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by lb1lf 8y ago
Oops. Germany, too, follows suit and closes their airspace for the MAX. https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/unternehmen/deutschla...
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by lb1lf 8y ago
Norwegian Airlines / DY just grounded their 737MAX, too. Presumably as UK airspace was just closed to them. Anyway - the ball is rolling; it is much easier being the [n]th airline/regulator to ground it than it is to jump first.
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by lb1lf 8y ago
Please do; that would be great!
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by lb1lf 8y ago
I guess that depends on how fast you can make the cable; I have no idea how that pans out - but the cable is put onto the vessel straight from the production line (which, I guess, may have had its speed optimised to the speed at which crews
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by lb1lf 8y ago
...but the erbium doping is only part of the equation, involving additional circuitry powered from the surface? Or have I misunderstood completely?
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by lb1lf 8y ago
-You are right; I just looked it up. I guess (not that it makes much of a difference!) I picked this up from a book on earlier days of submarine cables. Thanks!
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by lb1lf 8y ago
I have a quite good book on the shelves on the very same subject, but I am unable to locate it at present. For a slightly wider take, Arthur C. Clarke's "How the world was one" is a most readable account of how telecommunicat

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