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Wow, these democrats are really powerful—they managed to influence even the construction of nuclear reactors in Finland!

The Olkiluoto reactor #3 has been a spectacular failure for years. Works started in 2005, slated to finish in 2010 for 3 billion €. Works are still unfinished, with completion slated for 2019 at 8.5 billion € (barring further fuck-ups, which at this point have become a habit).

Building the plant is not some Finnish farmer, it's Areva and Siemens, top-notch companies in the nuclear industry. If that's what nuclear can provide, well some politicians looking for a humongous boondoggle may be happy with that, but I as a consumer and taxpayer, not so much.

Your link appears to be mostly a whining rant about how terrible it is that nuclear power plants are forced to respect minimum standards of environmental decency: this, in particular, blew my mind [my bold]:

The Seabrook plant in New Hampshire suffered 2 years of delay due to intervenor activity based on the plant's discharges of warm water (typically 80F) into the Atlantic Ocean. Intervenors claimed it would do harm to a particular species of aquatic life which is not commercially harvested. There was nothing harmful about the water other than its warm temperatures. The utility eventually provided a large and very expensive system for piping this warm water 2 miles out from shore before releasing it

So as long as it's not commercially harvested, it's all right to exterminate species in the ocean? The temperature may seem mild to us, but higher temperatures do reduce oxygen content in water, and for every GW of power out of nuclear power plant there are 2 GW of heat; that could have altered the ecosystem significantly. Look at the location of the Seabrook, NH plant: it is right on the inside of Hampton Harbor, which has a very narrow inlet. Heat would easily accumulate in there over time. And boo-hoo, they had to build 2 miles of pipe, cry me a river.

Huh what? GDP from 1960s until today, please do tell when we had a "decade long recession".

https://www.google.no/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1587&bih=918&q=donald+duck&oq=donald+duck&gs_l=img.3..0l10.1947.2952.0.3364.11.9.0.0.0.0.225.776.1j4j1.6.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..5.6.775.qbJ6z0fElNo

I know a lot of people think Sander's views would put us in line with that of Nordic countries

Hahahahahaha no. There's not a US party that would stand a snowflake's chance in hell in a Norwegian election, nor a Norwegian party in a US election. For example, here's the policy for healthcare and care for the elderly of our right-most party, the Progress Party:

Elderly

What we will do
The Progress Party believes that everyone should have a good and dignified elderly. Thus it is important that the government takes the bill for elderly care, and that does not address shall determine whether you get a worthwhile offer or not.

For better elderly care, and ensure everyone a good offer, we wish to competitive tendering services in that it is the best option that takes on work - whether it is a public or private is not the most important, but that the elderly get a good services that meet their quality of life.

All older shall have the right nursing home placement when they need this. There is no municipal budgets that will be decisive for whether seniors receive the necessary help - it will come automatically through state funding. At the same time we must allow private operators to offer good services in elderly care. This way you can decide for yourself which older offerings to suit them, and reject bad deals. A4 systems does not contribute to a warm and dignified elderly.

The Progress Party believes that everyone should have a worthy offer, thus we must give the elderly the opportunity to stay at home as long as they wish. This must be done through a broad and varied offer.
(...)
Health

What we will do
Progress will change health structure fundamentally, so that patients are put in the center and that absolutely everybody gets safe and prompt medical care regardless of their wallet.
We will do this through efforts based funding, which means that hospitals receive funding based on how many patients they treat. When someone needs treatment, it should automatically get the means to treat them. In one of the richest countries, we will not experience that one does not receive health care on the basis of lack of funding. Everyone shall have the right to good health care.

Health Queues must be reduced. After they have grown so much during the coalition government it is necessary to reform health care to put patients at the center.

Free user choice is a right all patients should have. It should be up to each individual to decide how they want to receive health care. This applies to both private and public institutions. It is not up to the bureaucracy to think where and how to be treated. It is a matter between you and your doctor - no one else.

I'm guess most of this would fly like a lead balloon in the US. And the left side of our politics consists of Red, Socialist Left and the Worker's Party, proud socialists. For a good laugh watch the series "Lillyhammer" about a New York mafia boss who retreats to rural Norway, it's a hilarious culture clash. And no, it's not really all that exaggerated either.

NSA is buying security holes to use against us. This is part of what Snowden revealed with the leaks.

Offering a bounty, even though it is not as much as the security problem could fetch on the grey market, creates a certain loyalty towards the vendor, and makes it easier to go to them, and ensure the hole gets patched. It also attracts more eyeballs to your software, as finding a problem means money. Google has gone even further - by offering grants for research into specific products, where you get money for checking security of the software, not just finding security prolems.

So I believe it is a good thing; it probably means more holes will be reported directly to the vendor, and not sold for exploit. It probably attracts eyeballs as well...

Think of [Hambach Tagebau] as an anti-nuclear exclusion zone, like Fukushima but getting bigger instead of being cleaned up..

Quite ridiculous proposition: you cannot get cancer by entering the mine, nor is it incompatible with human life, and once depleted the mine reverts to normal soil on which you can grow crops. See the map of open-pit mines near Cologne that you mentioned, and compare the satellite images of the same area. Notice how the areas of previous development (Frechen, Zukunft-West, Bergheim) have been re-converted to agriculture.

Try doing that in Chernobyl, smartass.

Also: I know Muricans have issues with proper units of measure, but the size of the Fukushima exclusion zone is a semi-circle with a 20 km radius. That gives 3.14*20*20/2 or 625 square kilometres, 13 times the size of Garzweiler.

http://www.google.no/intl/en/c... That s what I think Google uses internally. It should be stable... Never used it in that form...

Yeah, agree - that clip is pretty neat :) Link to another project, which was where I heard of it first (google translated Norwegian -> English, translation seems to be reasonable):
http://translate.google.no/tra...

Hehe, I could imagine she wouldn't be to happy - especially taking into account the extra plumbing that usually goes with it + it probably won't work too well with the guarantee :P

This is incredibly stupid. Criminals use it to pick out who to rob, and the news has a feeding frenzy every year where they single out people who actually contributes.

I hope this system will be gone and buried soon along with the whole envy culture that we have in this country with the new government.

Fellow Norwegian here, this is actually a myth. There isn't any evidence that this ever happened. After populist politicians kept repeating this claim, the police did the research, and came up disproving it completely (Google Translate). Criminals don't need tax info to seek up nice neighborhoods and look for houses to rob.

If you'd just bother to read the page you linked for reference, you'd see this:

Since the mid1990s, Monsanto indicates that it has filed suit against 145 individual U.S. farmers for patent infringement and/or breach of contract in connection with its genetically engineered seed but has proceeded through trial against only eleven farmers, all of which it won.[131] The Center for Food Safety has listed 112 lawsuits by Monsanto against farmers for claims of seed patent violations.[132] The usual claim involves violation of a technology agreement that prohibits farmers from saving seed from one season's crop to plant the next. One farmer received an eight-month prison sentence for conspiracy to commit fraud during litigation with Monsanto[133] in addition to having to pay damages.[134]

Monsanto sued the Pilot Grove Cooperative Elevator in Pilot Grove, Missouri, on the grounds that by cleaning harvested seeds covered by Monsanto's patents so that farmers could replant them, the elevator was inducing them to infringe Monsanto's patents. The Pilot Grove Cooperative Elevator had been cleaning conventional seeds for decades before the development of genetic engineering and developments in patent law led to the existence of issued patents that cover seeds.[135]

In one case in 2002, Monsanto mistakenly sued Gary Rinehart of Eagleville, Missouri for patent violation. Rinehart was not a farmer or seed dealer, but sharecropped land with his brother and nephew, who were violating the patent. Monsanto dropped the lawsuit against him when it discovered the mistake.[135]

If you'd truly like to know more, you can start on these different themes about Monsanto and RoundUp:
Killing 90% of amphibians
Wiping out bee colonies
Killing thousands of farmers
Causing widespready obesity diseases

I'm sure this is just the tip of the iceberg. They will suck the planet and humanity dry, and vanish like a puff of smoke when everything collapses due to their greed and harmful actions. Make no mistake, Monsanto and the owners behind it will do everything in their effort to prevent being held accountable. Company accountability is almost non-existant by law anyway. So to expect anything better than amoral sociopathic behaviour from corporations is foolish, naive at best.

What fantastic gains:
Killing 90% of amphibians
Wiping out bee colonies
Killing thousands of farmers
Causing widespready obesity diseases

I'm sure there are lots more. This is just the tip of the iceberg. They will suck the planet and humanity dry, and vanish like a puff of smoke when everything collapses due to their greed and harmful actions.

I hate to break this to you, but unless you are 100 years old, ANY beer you have ever drunk has been from a lined can.

METHOD OF LINING THE INSIDE OF CANS (Google Patents, 1933)

The new cans are pretty decent (the lined ones).

You mean, like the Chinese or Asian people can somehow showcase us the benefits of non-toxic vegetarian diet, since Westerners are not really representative in those areas, at all? Who'd thunk it?

The China Study
http://books.google.no/books?id=KgRR12F0RPAC&hl=no&source=gbs_book_other_versions

Because Asians do eat vegetarian.

The China Study

The China Study

Hint: Press Refresh (F5) once, and you can actually read most excerpts from the book for free!

Have you heard about this new thing called Google?

123qwe!@#QWE

Just to inform you, that password was in the dump (or at least, in the file I downloaded that claimed to be the dump).

$ echo -n '123qwe!@#QWE' | sha1sum
cc2afe5029cf4ae9189c91d7454c7671a6612078 *-

Just for fun, I googled that hash.

Ahem. I can find plenty of quite pretty ladies here:

https://www.google.no/search?q=renaissance+faire&hl=en&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=xaefT-iMJq2P4gStmuitAw&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBsQ_AUoAQ&biw=1472&bih=734

This already happens once in a while with banks. Basically all transfers by accident gets sent to the same account. So after a few hours, that person is quite rich.
Of course, they have routines for catching this, because they know it will happen, so when they catch it after a few hours, and correct it.

Example: Norwegian man was Norways richest man for about 1 hour., Google translated version

9.6 billion light years = 2.94330797 × 10^9 Parsecs

Define "problem"

http://www.google.no/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=define:+problem

Apparently, you didn't do the obvious, and check actual Norwegian websites.

Why try to hide it with nonsense units like km/L?

We don't do that, where I live litres/10 km is common, because a Norwegian "mile" is 10 km. It works because everyone here use the same units :)
Of course most know about other units of distance like the "british mile" or the "nautical mile" and their values.

For anyone on /. it should be trivial to make the conversion to any unit of your choice. You can even use the google calculator to quickly convert from mpg to something I can relate to by searching for "230 miles/gallon in litres/10 km".

Of course none of this is valid in this case without qualification as they include "free" miles from charging according to TFA:

The mileage calculation for the Volt assumes that most drivers would stay within that range and not need the gasoline engine.

It almost becomes an abstract number. If you are the Volt target guy who is driving under 40 miles per day, then theoretically your miles per gallon is infinite. -Jack Nerad

Even so it's good to see vehicles that are more environmentally friendly than pure gas-guzzling ones, at least when 98% of your power comes from hydroelectricity as it does here.

You think that's impressive? Try calculating how much energy the sun has (E=mc^2): mass of sun * c^2. Want it in a different unit? Just say so: in kilowatt hours

I was trying to find a good comparitive for this, but it doesn't work!

mass of rush limbaugh * (the speed of light^2)

You think that's impressive? Try calculating how much energy the sun has (E=mc^2): mass of sun * c^2. Want it in a different unit? Just say so: in kilowatt hours

I was trying to find a good comparitive for this, but it doesn't work!

mass of rush limbaugh * (the speed of light^2)

(As an aside - holy shit is Google getting scary! To calculate that, I typed in "1.92 million * 3.5 megabytes" and it said "6.40869141 terabytes". Then I asked it "6.41 terabytes / 256kbps" and got 6.81574337 years. I'm starting to think we should be referring to Google as 'a logic called Joe'. :S )

You think that's impressive? Try calculating how much energy the sun has (E=mc^2): mass of sun * c^2. Want it in a different unit? Just say so: in kilowatt hours. It does currency conversions and plenty other useful things too. It's not just the search results keeping google on top...

(As an aside - holy shit is Google getting scary! To calculate that, I typed in "1.92 million * 3.5 megabytes" and it said "6.40869141 terabytes". Then I asked it "6.41 terabytes / 256kbps" and got 6.81574337 years. I'm starting to think we should be referring to Google as 'a logic called Joe'. :S )

You think that's impressive? Try calculating how much energy the sun has (E=mc^2): mass of sun * c^2. Want it in a different unit? Just say so: in kilowatt hours. It does currency conversions and plenty other useful things too. It's not just the search results keeping google on top...

John Mitchell - Concepts in Programming Languages

I can has Google? Yes!

NOK is the ISO 4217 code for Norwegian Kroner, the currency of Norway. Nokia vil pay 16 NOK pr share for Trolltech.

I have a theory on what caused it. The republicans are to elect who get to run as a republican presidential candidate soon. One candidate, Ron Paul, gets mutch of his support from tech people. Many tech people read Slashdot. About the same time as the racist comments started to multiply a campaign to label him racist started. The racist comments often mention this candidate. It could of course be a coincidence, but if not: Slashdot, meet politics. Politics, meet Slashdot!

steralyzine

According to Google, you have just created a new word.

A blow to net neutrality here in norway, major ISP Telenor disconnected themselves from NIX (Norwegian Internet eXchange) and requires content providers like Schibsted to pay.

Telenor is the former state tele monopoly, and are not very popular with recent pay-per-MB and P2P bandwidth throttling.

Telenor blaimed NIX for allowing content providers connect directly to NIX instead of through an ISP, and getting charged too little. The truth is more likely Telenor has been overselling their bandwidth.

http://www.google.no/search?hl=no&q=telenor+nix&bt nG=Google-s%C3%B8k&meta=

Yes, they are rather common. Here's an example of cheekbone implants gone wrong...

Now, would the computer be able to catch all of this? The after in relation to the before? ;-)

At a huge uproar in local websites and discussion groups they eventually turned tail. The core of the matter was they denied access to www.skandiabanken.no if your browser reported Linux as OS.

I sent them en email myself, explaining my dad was interested in Linux when he saw how light and fast the XFCE window manager was. just to give them some innsight.

A side notice, recently Skandiabanken was taken over by a bigger company, DNB NOR, I guess they where less idealistic then the original founder.

http://www.itavisen.no/php/art.php?id=361469
http://groups.google.no/group/no.samfunn.forbruker /browse_thread/thread/0dbf8be53f1809af/78c055355e1 7f145
http://www.diskusjon.no/index.php?showtopic=681622

My refs were just Google searchs: http://www.google.no/search?q=cod+liver+oil+norway http://www.google.no/search?q=cod+liver+oil+health +benefits - Jon

My refs were just Google searchs: http://www.google.no/search?q=cod+liver+oil+norway http://www.google.no/search?q=cod+liver+oil+health +benefits - Jon

http://www.google.no/search?q=biscitory
Your search - biscitory - did not match any documents.

Whow. I'm flabberstruck, you just made a new word.

Some alternatives:
http://www.google.no/search?q=alternative+adsense& sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&o e=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:nb-NO:off icial
Another one that looks good (though I've not tried it)
http://www.clicksor.com/internet_advertising.php

Personally, I'm using Adsense on my site (http://www.mailtic.com/), but I'm considering the alternatives.

Since when is upgrading your priveliges a problem in windows? (http://www.google.no/search?q=local+windows+site% 3Afrsirt.com) No wonder everyone runs as admin, there's hardly a difference...

http://www.google.no/search?hl=en&q=%22anonymous%2 0coward%22

I am googleable and therefore i am

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The firmware source which you can download, unfortunately, either comes without the wireless drivers or with binary wireless drives compiled only for the embedded processor which sits in the boards. Which leads us back to square one.

Thus, since Broadcom obviously already have working Linux drivers, it would be a simple matter for them to release them. However, being a company with a bad (but recently improved) history of cooperating with the OSS community, our only option is to support and buy products from those who do it well.

- jeps

Like these? www.google.no - they are one of the few who have managed to keep their domain even after being taken to court by Google. Only in Norway - home of deCSS, and where American lawyers fear to tread - of course. <wink />