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Re:Good for
Optical readers in the visible and invisible spectrum and software that can allow for edges that aren't razor straight? It's a reasonable guess.
As far as I know, all modern banknotes - except for the US dollars - works on the system that more valuable notes are physically larger than less valuable ones. Since the world outside the US has vending machines capable of accepting banknotes, it stands to reason the solution is trivial to implement - and I'm assuming it involves UV light for the fluorescent print, backlighting for the watermark and safety thread and so on. Most banknotes these days (for instance, the Norwegian notes) are packed full of safety features, some you won't find on older US bills still in circulation.
On a tangent, printing bank notes of different value on different size paper completely eliminates the problem of counterfeiters bleaching the bills and overprinting them as a higher denomination - that is a problem you'll only encounter with US dollars.
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Re:So?
No, the people claiming that the temperature is currently rising are not lying or wrong. Global mean temperature is still showing an upward trend.
I don't see any climate scientists using "single data points" and "localized weather" as proof of global warming. You need to look at the overall trend in global temperatures, over the past several decades. If you even glance at such a graph, you can easily see the rise.
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Re:Surprised?
Some corrections/supplements:
-Regular income tax range from 30-39%, depending on salary and capital.
-Free healthcare, except patient's charge of ~200 NOK per visit to general practitioners
-Subsidised medicines for most chronic illnesses (I have bekhterev, and get free medicine and physical therapy twice a week)
-Sadly, dental care not subsidised
-Pension fund of ~80 mill USD per capita (probably enough to cover future pension obligations)
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Re:What's a NOK? Are they paying in bananas?
NOK is Norwegian Kroner. Currently, 1 USD is approx 5.5 NOK.
NOK also happens to be Nokia's stock ticker on Nasdaq, I'm sure someone can make a joke about that. -
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Re:Easy solution for Norway
Why dot we just buy Microsoft, and open source everyting? It's not like we do not have the cash to do this...
Yeah, right. Our national petroleum fund is about the same size as Bill Gates' personal fortune.
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One of the definately worst I've heard of
...was back in 2001, here in Norway. Here's a quote:
"The operational disruptions at EDB Fellesdata
On Thursday, 2 August, at 5.40 pm, all operations at EDB Fellesdata came to a halt. The loss of service caused serious problems in relation to ATMs, balance checking, internet banking, account information, telebanking and company terminals.
The clearing and settlement system for a number of small and medium-sized savings banks was also down. 114 savings banks and an estimated one million users were affected. It was over a week after the problem arose before all systems were back in normal operation on Friday, 10 August."
This was all because they were finally getting full live mirroring in addition to tape backups. So they installed a brand new rack of close to 300 HDDs right next to the current live one. The tech was supposed to clear out the back-up rack to do RAID1 - instead he cleared the LIVE rack. One push of a button. I sure wouldn't want to be that guy...
Kjella
