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I think it does have something to do with Tesla: NRK (Norwegian State broadcaster, for those joining us from outside the Nordic countries) reports on this: https://www.nrk.no/ostfold/tes... Google Translate works OK if you don't read Norwegian.

It says that the vehicles were mostly Lithuanian and apart from the overloading and bad tyre maintenance, they were also EURO III standard vehicles, so at least 13 years old (EURO III was superceded in 2005). That's quite old for a commercial vehicle. I'm sure there are companies with newer vehicles that could have been contracted to do this job, and I'm sure this company was cheap.

Tesla decided to use a cheap contractor rather than a quality contractor. Their attitude of trying to pay their workers and contractors less and treating them badly led to this.

Disclaimer: I am Norwegian, so when I grew up NRK was the one and only TV channel available.

Even so, I do believe it is one of the best public broadcasters in the world: Less resources than BBC but able to do a lot of very good stuff.

http://nrk.no/ is one of the news sites I visit every day, and I use their program streaming solution to view the few programs I still care about.

NRK came up with "Slow TV", watching a train ride that takes 12 hours is almost hypnotic, and the full Hurtigruten coastal express trip is amazing.

Terje

you can watch South Park on NRK from outside USA. The audio is dubbed into Norwegian (of course).

Low cost carrier Norwegian Air Shuttle stated some hours ago that they are implementing it "from this moment".

Source: http://www.nrk.no/norge/endrer... (Norwegian text)

AC was me on a different computer, didn't log in... I'll repost here for visibility:

More info & interveiw (in English!) from NRK, the norwegian state broadcaster (similar to BBC):
http://www.nrk.no/viten/skydiv...

Not sure if the video plays outside of Norway:
http://tv.nrk.no/serie/skavlan...

It's about at 54 min. in.

Facts:
- Carlsen was given 30 sec to win.
- Gates humbly said he had a 1600 rating vs someone with 2000 etc.
- Gates was actually a sponsor of Carlsen at the start.
- Carlsen said he violated one of his principles by using a cheap trick to win.

How or why would they ever know I bought a Ferrari? Are such purchases reportable in Norway? (they aren't in the US)

You're not in Kansas anymore, friend! Not only is the Ferrari dealership (I think there is a single one) obliged to report purchases over a certain amount, but how much you're taxed is a matter of public record. They used to print them in the newspaper, even, though there's slightly more restrictions on them these days. Want to know how much I made in 2009? be my guest! (Spoiler alert: I'm not rich :P)

So when your neighbors see you driving a Ferrari, jealousy and/or civic duty might compel them to check the tax records, and if you're listed with zero in income and assets, the tax authorities might get a tip.

For those wondering where it's from, here's an explanation from Per Egil Hegge, via this thread (in Norwegian):

In his book Katta i sekken, Kjell Ivar Vannebo writes that the origin is German, and comes from the fact that Germans often drank from a cup which was shaped like a shoe. Drinking over a shoe meant drinking too much. Later it became "low shoe", and the phrase was also expanded to include performing activity other than drinking, at a level far above normal or acceptable.

The title of that book, by the way, translates to "cat in a sack", but is not related to the English idiom "let the cat out of the bag"... instead it's the Norwegian version of the English idiom pig in a poke.

They say they can't say anything about whether the gender of the teachers make a difference "because there just isn't enough male teachers".

There's a data point from Norway: A small group of schools have better results for boys than girls, and their commonality is more male teachers (translation).

Other research does not support this as a general trend; see e.g. http://www.ungdomsforskning.no/Download/2-2009/Bakkentrykk.pdf (there's further references in there). A translated summary of this is here. The original article is Anders Bakken 2009 Are male teachers important for boys' school achievement? Norwegian Journal of Youth Research 2009 (2) :25-44

I don't see that happening in Norway at the moment due to public opposition to such "unfair" taxes. It would be far better if it was done over the national budget without the extra cost of invoicing students, families and the elderly. As one of the many that don't have a TV, don't pay the TV license and rarely watch your content, I strongly oppose more licenses. I would not mind paying a fee if I actually watched your content.

Well I do have a TV, I do pay the license because I have a subscription to other channels but I rarely if ever watch NRK and wouldn't pay for it if I had the choice. And despite you not paying, you can watch pretty much anything you want at nrk.no/nett-tv. It is just not fair at all. I think it's long overdue that the NRK license either moved to either being a subscription service or a public service, tying it to whether you have a TV receiver or not was probably a good idea in 1960s when they had a monopoly and a single distribution channel but not today. With the move to digital broadcasts everyone has a box capable of this so there's no technical excuse for this.

The first images from the scene show a car that's been absolutely obliterated. Video (the car about 1 minute in): http://www.nrk.no/video/store_materielle_skader/6073854C1A446E1A/

And re: the blast having happened on the upper floors? No.

But an attack like this is big deal in Norway, I live nearby, and the blast has blasted the window in almost 1 km radius, check these images. This is the main government building in Norway: http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/norge/1.7722919

Oh, I should probably add that's on top of their free streaming service where almost all their stuff is, but I think that's IP-locked to Norway. Again, it's a rights issue.

Saw an article with pictures of a jail in Sweden. I wouldn't mind living there myself. You can see images of the new Tusener prison

As an example of thorough work done by a real design agency, here is a 90-page PDF style guide from the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. (Not in English, but the images should speak for themselves.)

You won't get anything comparable for $250 on 99designs.

Norwegian teletext mentioned it: http://www2.nrk.no/teksttv/?channel=1&subpage=1&cd=0&page=456

1969 Den finske datautvikleren Linus
        Torvalds ble født. Han utviklet
        operativsystemet Linux.

http://gfx.nrk.no/YOYD2X1CgNBSeaPse9LjVwT6ymkkphv7Q7x0aibAWJwg.jpg

If you've ever seen a rocket launch around sunrise or sunset, this is pretty obviously one of them. It should be a piece of cake to figure out the azimuth of this picture and deduce from where it was launched.

Case closed. Next...

http://gfx.nrk.no/YOYD2X1CgNBSeaPse9LjVwT6ymkkphv7Q7x0aibAWJwg.jpg

as evidenced by the trail from over the horizon. Note the wind shear... Sorry, Russia. Denial denied!

/startTroll

Positive Evidence of Intelligent Design

Start Here

End Here

More Evidence

/endTroll

RSS feed of their torrents: http://nl.nrk.no/torrent/deringenskulletru/deringenskulletru.rss
It certainly seems to be available for anybody who's interested.

Norwegian public broadcaster NRK also has a lot of web broadcasting during the olympics here. Right now they have 8 live channels. The streams are wmv and work in ubuntu(vlc), but as with the Swedish parent, I don't know if they are watchable outside of Norway, but in case it does, "Direkte" means Live.

If you do not understand Norwegian the following is probably not of interest, but they covered this in the populat science radio program Verdt å vite yesterday and you can still listen to the podcast.

If you do not understand Norwegian the following is probably not of interest, but they covered this in the populat science radio program Verdt å vite yesterday and you can still listen to the podcast.

Lasse Gjertsen!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzqumbhfxRo

"If you want to download the audio from this video, go to
http://www11.nrk.no/urort/user/?id=36781
It's a norwegian page where I uploaded some of my music. (Lytt = Listen to, Last ned = Download)"

That's the guy who doesn't exactly know how to play any instrument, but uses mix editing like the old amiga samplers used to do. The funny part is he does a lot of it from his camcorder, so watching the jerky images on top of surprisingly clean soundtracks is funny.

P.s. All the corporations fake their "location" anyway, so we'll just borrow their trick and funnel things through a Norwegian distribution center. (Think about it - is an American Singer managed by a German label American or German content?)

Seen the Baltic Sea on your GPS?

You can download his mp3s from NRK Urørt: http://www11.nrk.no/urort/user/?id=36781 (click "Last ned" to download)

NextGenTel follows NRK
By André Lorentsen,
Wed 4. okt 2006 kl. 04:00

NextGenTel customers can now again see NRKs web-tv in full speed.

Norways second largest broadband supplier, NextGenTel, reduced in June the transfer speed from NRK.no to it's broadband customers. The motivation was to cut costs.

- We cannot increase the capasity on our lines at the same pace as the free offers from NRK, said marketing director, Morten Ågnes in NextGenTel in a comment to Forbruker.no.

Fotball viewers pays

But the football leage have always had full speed.

The football league is a payment subscription service, and then we get paid to transfer the programs to our customers, was the comment from the marketing director.

Network manager Bjarn Andre Myklebust in NRK did not like the new strategy from NextGenTel. TV2 and NextGenTel have always had a very good relationship.

- We don't like that our products get a lower quality when being delivered to the end user, and I guess the customers don't like it very much either. Our principle is that we deliver a high quality product to every broadband companies. From there on it's their responsibility, Myklebust says to NRK.

Crossed customers

To show where the responsibility was, the web director of NRK.no published a message to the customers of NextGenTel. At the same time the maximum speed on NRK's web-tv was reduced to 650 kbps for NextGenTel's customers.

The strategy paid off. Now NextGenTel has changed it's mind and have set the capacity back to the same level as before the reduction in June.

- I got a phone from NextGenTel tuesday morning. They told that they had received some negative feedback from their customers, and that they had realized that this wouldn't work, Myklebust proceeds.

Roles

He claims it was important for NRK to use this case to underline the roles between content producer and distributor.

- It is important for us to show that we deliver content, and that it is the distributors that have to make sure the customers get what they already have paid for.

The case have also lead to renewed dialog between NRK and NextGenTel.

- We are in dialog about long term planning when it comes to transfer speeds. We also evaluate the possibility of a commercial cooperation about paid content from NRK, Myklebust says.

And why isn't this innsight in more of those motherboard factory tours? As every
other consumer I have responsibility for what I buy, but it seems I am part of very few that is actually clearly aware of that every time I choose a product.

If people would spend less time on religion and more time interested in planet earth and things like these (when I say planet earth I mean everything also humans), the world might get better. Sure, 99.9% of such caring may all be rediculously futile and a waste of time, but with power comes responsibility, and in time we might get extremely effective of stopping evil companies.

Tommy Hilfiger busted again for use of slave workers in Mae Sot
http://nrk.no/programmer/tv/fbi/3296787.html
http://jooh.no/root/text/Tommy_Hilfiger/email_to_h ilfiger.txt

Maybe I should start a religion and hammer these few words into the cheep so they would think about it in their daily acts. For now I'll post the parents simple and insightful sentences here and there. Someday a company might start up and stamp their products "built in fair work conditions" and enough brainwashed people will actually buy them and the rest is history.

For now buy Intels lead-free NICs.
http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/products /pro1000gt_desktop_adapter.htm

Some anti-idealists may say don't stress about it but don't listen to them. You are either part of the problem or part of the solution.

Windmills actually *can* be quite dangerous! Where I live there was recently (A few years ago) built a state of the art windmill park. October 2002, the blades on one of them fell off. That's right, they fell off! A propellar with a diameter of 90 meters crashed to the ground. Snippet about the incident (norwegian)

NRK OGG

NRK ogg

The official streaming is in the windows media format though...

Given that they are a state-run Norwegian station, http://www.nrk.no/ should really consider to offer other formats...

NRK, the Norwegian government-run TV already offer high-quality streams of every single show they produce, including newscasts, for free. It's an excellent service; if I miss a show, I'll just watch it online. How the BBC claims that this is revolutionary I cannot understand. http://www.nrk.no/

>>>TV channel Five has said it will be the first UK broadcaster to offer parts of its shows for sale as legal downloads.

A norwegian channel, http://www.nrk.no/ (click on NRK NETT-TV, between the ads) , already does what this article advertizes, I belive.
- It allows for downloads of already-aired shows to the public, and for no cost too.
It should be noted, however, that NRK is a government ``owned" channel, and that one could say that this service is already paid for by our tax-money.
Still - it can hardly belive that this is the only TV-channel to do such a thing.
Is this really such a new thing?

As an American who currently lives in Norway, I'd have to say Norway has done an excellent job with TV.

One of the government-owned TV stations (NRK) provides their most popular shows online via streaming WMV. The others might also, but that is the only one I'm sure of.

Norway's prohibition of advertisements targeted toward children, as well as the extremely short and sparse commercial breaks - the few advertisements being other shows on the same channel, generally - shows that the Norwegian TV industry is a completely different beast from the United States' TV industry.

The norwegian public broadcaster (NRK) sends all channels in WMF, mp3 and ogg. They have done so for a long time . To listen go to :

http://www.nrk.no/lyd/

I guess you don't speak norwegian, but NRK (the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) allows you to listen to their radio stations as Ogg Vorbis streams. http://www.nrk.no/lyd/

The Norwegian police's economic crime division ("Økokrim") has a nifty program that (I'm not kidding) can monitor P2P traffic everywhere, to see which IP is downloading what. They used it with great success in a recent international kiddie pr0n raid ("Operation Enea"). There was a documentary about the sting on Norwegian television, showing how it worked. I was baffled, they monitored all P2P traffic over the course of a weekend, looking for certain known filenames and general keywords, storing all the info in a database. They caught a great number of kiddie pr0n peddlers in the sting.

OK, They won't use this to find you when you download Halo 2, and they don't have the resources to monitor constantly. However, if you live in Europe and download that file called 'ILLEGAL PR0N LOL FORBIDDEN' don't feel too safe :)

Everything about Operation Enea (in Norwegian, sorry, didn't find any int'l links. If anyone's really interested in the technology etc I might be willing to translate, just drop me a line at my gmail address which is 'kurisuteru'): Info on NRK's site about Operation Enea

Meanwhile, Norway's government just made it's budget proposal where the music and film industry will be compensated by government funds for their losses due to private/personal copying.

In the proposal, all forms of personal/private copying of copyrighted will be legalized, including P2P. Also, no further fees on recordable media (such as CD-R and DVD-R) will be introduced.

If you understand Norwegian or have an excellent fish, you can read the article here: http://www.nrk.no/musikk/4149551.html.

Being Norwegian I was quite interested in this, as were the Norwegian media. The largest Norwegian television-channel, NRK, interviewed a biographer of Munch's. When asked what he supposed Munch would have thought of this theft he replied something like (and I'm translating off the top of my head here):

If it were on one of Munch's better day's he'd probably say something like: "The Geniality of the artwork lies in the Thought and the Act, not in the Result. The Thought caused the Act, and I did it. The work itself is of little importance." But, Munch was a temperemental man so he might have been livid.

And it wasn't exactly the only example of The Scream ("Skrik"), as there are several other versions made by Munch around the world. Still, I wish the thieves all possible good luck in selling the best-known image in the western world without being found out :)

Still widely used to get news overviews, sports results, wheather information and tv guides.

Secondly, it keeps the government in check by allowing the people the means to hold a revolution if necessary. England regularly rounded up swords in Scotland to keep it under its control (way back when, of course).

Pop music has never been about high art, it's about having catchy tunes that young people like to listen to and dance to. The BackStreet Boys actually deliver on that. I'm no great fan of them, but I know their music is catchy and a lot of 14 year-old girls genuinly liked the sound. That just make them "not my taste" rather than "the death of good music."

The Norwegian Broadcast Company (NRK, similar license model as BBC) has done something similar for a while now. All the programs they produce inhouse is aired live online, and is also stored in the archive. so you can access it whenever you like.

For the moment this is free for everybody (registration required though), and can be reached abroad (handy for me as an exchange-student in the UK).

A bit of a curiosity:
Earlier this week, a norwegian comedian, Shabana Rehman, insulted the well-known, and reportedly militant, mullah Krekar by lifting him up in an attemt to prove that he was not very dangerous. The Mullah, which found this very humiliating, has filed a complaint to the police (and managed to attack a journalist while doing so).

However, this incident has now resulted in a online game called "Lift a mulla".

Actually a bit boring. Use your left and right arrows to play if you must

- that they will be going after VHS Lars next..

Norway is a den of copyright criminals. Make no mistake; we in Oekokrim and our new best friends from the MPAA won't give up our holy fight to take avay the evil fair use rights from the Norwegian movie fans just because our holy cause suffered a minor setback today.

Indeed, another criminal right up Johansen's alley is already under investigation and will be brought to justice soon. This criminal mastermind is known as VHS-Lars.

There is reason to believe he has has connections to Osama bin Laden, too.

Why let MSNBC filter your news? These others are one step closer to the source.

If you don't have access to Clarinet (which you should) then you can check via the web:

• Reuters
• The Associated Press
• United Press International
• BBC
• CBC
• NPR
• even Times of India

(AFP don't count - spelling, grammar, and factual errors. NYT - heavy circulation does not a good news source make. )

[Arbeids- og administrasjonsminister Victor D.] Norman tror oppsigelsen av avtalen med Microsoft ikke bare vil gi billigere dataløsninger, men også kvalitativt bedre løsninger.

"Gir Microsoft på båten." Norsk Rikskringkasting/NRK. 12 July 2002.
http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/okonomi/1987724.html

Now that MS is no longer given a functional monopoly in Norway, they'll have to shape up in regards to quality and pricing. Or else they'll be losing more contracts. Shops / institutions in Norway with smaller budgets have already started to dump MS albeit very, very quietly.

The problem with the modern music distribution channels (p2p that is) is that you don't get to know about music you don't about: you don't know how to search for things you never heard about. Radio is quite brilliant when it comes to forcing The Unknown upon you. That's what I like about radio; but as the subject of this thread shows, this is less widespread in America. So I'm glad I live in Norway .