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*Fingering away on my iShiney*, "What's a pay phone?"

That's already happened in Scandinavia... in 2015 they disappeared in Sweden, 01.01.2016 it ended in Norway, 13.12.2017 the last one disappeared in Denmark. Those who grow up today will never have seen a working phone booth.

the (swedish) government should have less power

Yes, because they are unfit traitors but also because the freedom of the individual are more important than the ideas of the collective.

the government should have more power (to throw people away)

The Swedish people should have all the power over themselves and their land. The immigrants should never had been allowed to or be allowed to become Swedes.

he does not want a racist country

?

but want to get rid of brown and black

I don't necessarily want to destroy the Swedish people and replace us and fill a democracy with other people who will be changing it and take it over.

The Swedish people happen to be white but that's really irrelevant. It's like stealing the land of and replacing the aboriginal people in Australia or the Indians in USA. Those was black and brown and that wasn't ok either. I don't care if it's "racist" to not steal their land and destroy their cultures and replace their people. But it's harder to say that when it happen to non-white people though? Because there's a bias against white people, for the destruction of white peoples lands and for "diversity" in any country which is white, which you indeed could say is racist depending on your view of what's racism.

Was it wrong of the Spaniards to flood and take over south America? But it's right of the Muslims and niggers to flood and take over Sweden? Why is that?

the migrants are never condemned when they do something outside the law, several afghans have been condemned

lol whut? No, I've never said they NEVER are. I'm saying that Swedish authorities consider it impossible to deport criminals and people who aren't granted asylum even with lax Swedish laws on the subject, hence it doesn't happen even if they decide that it should happen. Only 25% of the Asylum-seekers are granted asylum as convention refugees, another 50% are granted it by other reasons, and among those 75% who are granted residency permits more or less everyone has been able to bring their family over even if they have no income to pay for them leading to even more people.

he does not agree with the tyranny of majority, but when he says he has a (imaginary) majority on the increased/decrease of refugee they should follow this majority

Why do you claim it's imaginary? There's opinion research on the subject done regularly and it's always the case.

Why do you lie?

http://www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...
24th December 2015:
55% want to accept less "refugees"
19% want to accept more "refugees"
20% neither more or less.

And that's even with our media climate and lies and hidden statistics.

55% is definitely a majority and 55% is more than 19%.
How are you going to change that to mean something else?

http://www.svt.se/nyheter/val2...
7th May 2014:
44% thought Sweden had taken in too many immigrants.
10% thought we had taken in too few immigrants.

How is that imaginary? What are your interpretation? That because the 10% are the ones shouting and screaming the whole time they totally make up 100% of the Swedish people except a few neo-Nazis which are irrelevant?

Why are you posting as AC your fucking coward who don't take responsibility for your bullshit?

One reason to not let the majority flood the country with immigrants anyhow would be that you know what you have and are used to it and is it ok to enforce something else upon someone within that system?

And I don't know his age

36.

he he wants the trash to be deported, I can probably buy him a one way ticket to anywhere.

That don't make me deported or a citizen of some other society.

the (swedish) government should have less power

Yes, because they are unfit traitors but also because the freedom of the individual are more important than the ideas of the collective.

the government should have more power (to throw people away)

The Swedish people should have all the power over themselves and their land. The immigrants should never had been allowed to or be allowed to become Swedes.

he does not want a racist country

?

but want to get rid of brown and black

I don't necessarily want to destroy the Swedish people and replace us and fill a democracy with other people who will be changing it and take it over.

The Swedish people happen to be white but that's really irrelevant. It's like stealing the land of and replacing the aboriginal people in Australia or the Indians in USA. Those was black and brown and that wasn't ok either. I don't care if it's "racist" to not steal their land and destroy their cultures and replace their people. But it's harder to say that when it happen to non-white people though? Because there's a bias against white people, for the destruction of white peoples lands and for "diversity" in any country which is white, which you indeed could say is racist depending on your view of what's racism.

Was it wrong of the Spaniards to flood and take over south America? But it's right of the Muslims and niggers to flood and take over Sweden? Why is that?

the migrants are never condemned when they do something outside the law, several afghans have been condemned

lol whut? No, I've never said they NEVER are. I'm saying that Swedish authorities consider it impossible to deport criminals and people who aren't granted asylum even with lax Swedish laws on the subject, hence it doesn't happen even if they decide that it should happen. Only 25% of the Asylum-seekers are granted asylum as convention refugees, another 50% are granted it by other reasons, and among those 75% who are granted residency permits more or less everyone has been able to bring their family over even if they have no income to pay for them leading to even more people.

he does not agree with the tyranny of majority, but when he says he has a (imaginary) majority on the increased/decrease of refugee they should follow this majority

Why do you claim it's imaginary? There's opinion research on the subject done regularly and it's always the case.

Why do you lie?

http://www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...
24th December 2015:
55% want to accept less "refugees"
19% want to accept more "refugees"
20% neither more or less.

And that's even with our media climate and lies and hidden statistics.

55% is definitely a majority and 55% is more than 19%.
How are you going to change that to mean something else?

http://www.svt.se/nyheter/val2...
7th May 2014:
44% thought Sweden had taken in too many immigrants.
10% thought we had taken in too few immigrants.

How is that imaginary? What are your interpretation? That because the 10% are the ones shouting and screaming the whole time they totally make up 100% of the Swedish people except a few neo-Nazis which are irrelevant?

Why are you posting as AC your fucking coward who don't take responsibility for your bullshit?

One reason to not let the majority flood the country with immigrants anyhow would be that you know what you have and are used to it and is it ok to enforce something else upon someone within that system?

And I don't know his age

36.

he he wants the trash to be deported, I can probably buy him a one way ticket to anywhere.

That don't make me deported or a citizen of some other society.

Except it's not just one link, there are many more, to quote from the linked article:

National newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, explicitly using the term “no-go zones”:

http://www.svd.se/opinion/leda...

National newspaper Aftonbladet on the rampant ISIS recruitment taking place in these areas:

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyhe...

Dr Magnus Ranstorp on the rapid growth of radicalized Islamists (in English):

http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/...

An article about the police incident deserting their own and ceding control to criminals in Landskrona. They literally use the term in the headline, adding that the police are now pulling out of the area:

http://hd.se/landskrona/2014/0...

The local police chief explaining why the officers are not to exit their vehicles and make arrests:

http://www.hd.se/lokalt/landsk...

More from the police chief on how they now deal with the area:

http://hd.se/landskrona/2014/0...

Also, if these areas do not exist, why is the ambulance union demanding military-grade protection gear to enter them?

http://mobil.svd.se/nyheter/am...

Another article interviewing the ambulance union chief on why they need bulletproof vests, helmets and similar gear:

http://magasinetneo.se/artikla...

As for the police report, it clearly states that there are indeed informal courts and parallel justice systems (page 12, third paragraph (3.4.3)). Anyone who has read about Södertäljenätverket knows how broad the extent of this clan-based influence can be.

http://polisen.se/Aktuellt/Rap...—Nationellt/Ovriga-rapporterutredningar/Kriminella-natverk-med-stor-paverkan-i-lokalsamhallet/

The vehicle checkpoints are mentioned on page 15, fourth paragraph (3.5.3).

On page 13, second paragraph (3.4.4) you find the frequent attacks on police. Here is just one of many news stories on how police have to install shatterproof glass on their vehicles because they get rocks hurled at them whenever entering these areas:

http://www.svt.se/nyheter/regi...

There are numerous newspaper articles, police reports and even Youtube videos by the gangs themselves bragging about how they’re chasing off the cops from “their” area, but I think this list should be enough.

I've nothing against Muslims in general myself, the same as I've nothing against Hindus, Christians or Buddhists. I do have a big problem with people obscuring the truth, and thus far you've presented no compelling evidence to suggest the above information is untrue. A rambling collection of anecdotes and opinions, sure, but no evidence.

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I remember a few years ago seeing the 1960s Canadian TV series Wojeck, and it carried a viewer discretion warning that the standards for personal and professional relationships had changed since the program was produced. There was a certain element of "like, duh!", but somebody had thought about it, and I had no problem with it.

Fast forward to the present day. I'm watching Swedish sci-fi show Äcta Människor ("Real Humans" in English). It quietly avoids any gratuitous sex or violence, but there is lots of non-gratuitous sex and violence, as integral parts of the plot. Like all Scandinavian shows it has interesting female characters who do in fact talk to each other about something other than men. That's the sort of culture they want, it's one I admire, and I'm cool with it.

...laura

NSA "frågar" FRA om specifik information – avtal sedan 1954
FRA hackade datorer åt NSA

Citations from a more reputable sources provided.

The FRA has always been close to the NSA and GCHQ. A close third party to the 5 eye nations.
Cable collection, an expansion of collection sites shared with the NSA, Tailored Access Operations, Quantum, help with telecommunications.
Sweden helps US spy on Russia, Snowden leaks show December 6, 2013
http://www.smh.com.au/world/sw...
"excerpt of a larger document showing Sweden’s status as a closely allied “Third-party partner”"
http://www.svt.se/ug/read-the-... (11 december 2013)
https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying... has a few Sweden links to media reports.

hahaha, do you even know about Sweden?, Sweden is not so far off USA in the monitoring of its citizens or spying on the neighbours, and the spying is even done for the US http://www.svt.se/ug/fra-spying-on-energy-and-baltics-for-usa

For any (large) group communication space, there is always a need for (some) moderation. See http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/05/a-group-is-its-own-worst-enemy.html for some discussion for instance.

Imagine a line representing freeness of speech, with 0% at one end and 100% at the other end (the word freeness here meaning lack of any restrictions). Where on that line would you put a cross for the optimum value of free speech? There are no countries in the world (or any society though history) that allows 100%. There are typically many things you are not allowed to say, like uttering death threats, crying fire in a theatre when there is no fire, in a court you are not allowed to lie (think about how enormous restriction of free speech that actually is), etc.

The point is, exactly what the "optimum" value of free speech is is always a subjective opinion, and it is always less than 100% (although normally quite close).

Also I assume you are a man that have not been exposed to the darker side of the this problem which apparently is significant (I am also a man so I have neither a first hand experience). I recommend you to watch the documentary "Uppdrag granskning: Menn som nÃtthatar kvinnor " (men net hating women), http://www.svt.se/ug/man-som-nathatar-kvinnor, if you can find a translated version (https://sv-se.facebook.com/granskning/posts/10151724543289883).

Firstly it's called Luleå (let's see if that works) and secondly I doubt it's the coldest place in Sweden. There are some clips of the building here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJTGoTMHRHg
http://www.svt.se/nyheter/regionalt/nordnytt/#./idag-invigs-forsta-serverhallen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfmm7FPvxmI

Here you go:

När Kulturnyheterna talar med Jan-Olof Brunila på Swedbank säger han att det är kortföretag som Visa och Master Card som bestämt om de avtal som Swedbank följer.

http://www.svt.se/kultur/banker-stoppar-kop-av-skrackfilm

Trash from Napoli is already being incinerated in Sweden. At Värtaverket in Stockholm.

story (Swedish).

Place the blame where it should be, in the lap of Beatrice Ask. Just read this interview. She's evidently in favor of thoughtcrime; literally, she says that "children and childhood mustn't be offended" when she's asked about why drawn "child pornography" should be illegal. She's also the one who came up with the crazy suggestion that people who visit prostitutes should have mails with brightly-colored envelopes sent home to them, so that they couldn't keep it a secret from their family (or anyone who saw the letter being delivered). Fortunately, this suggestion wasn't well received by anyone else AFAIK.

I would guess/hope that someone in that position would have done a little more in the field of law than "once read a lawbook"...
But that was of course before the politicians (Bodström et al.) got leaned on during a visit in the US...

Donate them to Pirate Bay. If nothing else, it will help them with the streaming video for their trial. :)

Unfortunately, video cameras are not allowed in Swedish court rooms. The Swedish state television SVT, that currently has live audio streams of the trial, practically said that they would have provided video streams as well, if they were allowed to. (roughly, the editor-in-chief says "unfortunately, the trial laws only allows us to transmit sound")

You mean they are trying to court the same media companies whose content is being shared through Pirate Bay and who are behind the efforts to shut it down in the first place?

There are different kinds of media companies.

Nice to see they have good weed in Sweden.

While I can't offer an opinion on that, we do have public television who will be streaming the audio from the trial live, and we have reputable newspapers who just this morning had 3 or 4 full pages about the upcoming trial.

If the trial does become a media spectacle (though I haven't seen it even mentioned in any mainstream news outlets in the US, maybe it's different in Europe) I doubt it will be the kind of coverage that is sympathetic to TPB.

The coverage has generally been pretty even-handed. The article in DN mentioned that all the major political parties are internally divided on the issue, while most of their youth-organizations lean more towards siding with the "pirates".

a "state study"(?)(Statens beredning för medicinsk utvärdering.) concludes childrens vaccine "Safe and efficient". No link to autism. News stub in swedish: http://svt.se/svt/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=58360&a=1440032&printerfriendly=true So, I'd urge believers of a link between autism and vaccination to start picketing the Swedish government, demanding some answers. Maybe that would get more debate into more homes, since as it is now, some parents are putting my child at risk (vaccines don't give 100% protection). Measels can make you retarded and/or dead.

If we could get enough people to encrypt their communications, such a flag would be worthless. They would have to break an enormous number of encrypted messages (which is hard work even for the biggest supercomputers in the world) just to find out that they are not relevant.

It is quite funny that some of these viable arguments come from Håkan Roswall (the prosecutor in charge of this case) himself.

A few months before the raid he wrote a PM (PDF in swedish) with a legal analysis.

Here we can read that he thinks it would be hard to get a conviction, as TPB does nothing illegal according to swedish law. At most a judgment of aiding to commit copyright infringement would be possible, and even that would be hard to get.

The rest of that "scandalous" story is a conspiracy theory with no proof to back it up.

On the contrary, there is a lot of facts that backs up the conspiracy against Lans and this story has received a lot of investigation in Sweden from mainstream media. The Swedish government has protested to the US. Even the European Parliament has reacted.

This conspiracy involves both the color graphics patent as well as the ownership to the navigation systems patent, the Americans tried in fact to take ownership of it by burying a statement deep in a suggested settlement around the color graphics patent lawsuit settlement, but by now Lans had wisened up to what was going on and knew what to look for. When Lans did a small change to that statement so that he would still own all rights to the navigation related patent and his other inventions and signed the settlement, the other party was no longer interested in settling, in effect validating the conspiracy against Lans.

There's an investigative TV documentary, "The American Lawyer" (home page for the documentary). It was produced by one of the most respected investigative journalism teams in Sweden. You can watch the entire 55-minute documentary on the net here (in Swedish, of course). There's also a book by David Lagercrantz, Ett svenskt geni , it was first published in 2000, but rewritten, expanded and published again last year (I haven't read the book). The publisher of the book, Piratförlaget, is a mainstream publisher in Sweden, one of the three founders is one of Sweden's most famous investigative journalists.

The rest of that "scandalous" story is a conspiracy theory with no proof to back it up.

On the contrary, there is a lot of facts that backs up the conspiracy against Lans and this story has received a lot of investigation in Sweden from mainstream media. The Swedish government has protested to the US. Even the European Parliament has reacted.

This conspiracy involves both the color graphics patent as well as the ownership to the navigation systems patent, the Americans tried in fact to take ownership of it by burying a statement deep in a suggested settlement around the color graphics patent lawsuit settlement, but by now Lans had wisened up to what was going on and knew what to look for. When Lans did a small change to that statement so that he would still own all rights to the navigation related patent and his other inventions and signed the settlement, the other party was no longer interested in settling, in effect validating the conspiracy against Lans.

There's an investigative TV documentary, "The American Lawyer" (home page for the documentary). It was produced by one of the most respected investigative journalism teams in Sweden. You can watch the entire 55-minute documentary on the net here (in Swedish, of course). There's also a book by David Lagercrantz, Ett svenskt geni , it was first published in 2000, but rewritten, expanded and published again last year (I haven't read the book). The publisher of the book, Piratförlaget, is a mainstream publisher in Sweden, one of the three founders is one of Sweden's most famous investigative journalists.

Not true at all, Thomas Bodström had a similar proposition, but definitely not on the same scale as what the current government (and all coalition parties) are trying to push through. You are the one being gravely informed, it was Socialdemokraterna and the liberal parties that voted in favor of Bodströms previous proposals. Miljöpartiet and Vänsterpartiet voted against.

I make no claim that the central right coalition are better than the Social Democrats or the other way around, but the investigation that led to this proposal was actually initiated by the Social Democrats before the last election. Additionally a representative from the current government interviewed by the Swedish National Television said that they have no intention of turning the proposition into a new law.

For Swedish-speaking users my sources are this article in NyTeknik http://www.nyteknik.se/art/52077/ and the the news program Rapport 19.30 on Swedish National Television (http://www.svt.se/).

Is the Swedish national television (SVT = Sveriges Television) credible enough? The article is in Swedish though: United States government behind site shutdown.

25% of the Swedish population do not believe in Evolution either.

Source: Svenska Dagbladet (one of the largest news papers in Sweden)

Personally, I think the effect we see is due to a change of public perception of science and scientists today. People just do not respect scientists the way they used to. If this is due to news coverage, politicians or bad science I have no idea.

If you link to copyrighted material but do not host it, you're an accessory to the crime of illegally distributing the material. Story (in swedish), the actual document (pdf, swedish).

The problem with prosecuting the Pirate bay is that someone must be found guilty of a crime for another to be guilty of being an accessory to thet crime. The users of Piratebay are not suspected of a crime carrying a sentence of two years or more, meaning the police can't get their IP numbers, meaning they can't be charged with a crime that Piratebay could be an accessory to.

If you link to copyrighted material but do not host it, you're an accessory to the crime of illegally distributing the material. Story (in swedish), the actual document (pdf, swedish).

The problem with prosecuting the Pirate bay is that someone must be found guilty of a crime for another to be guilty of being an accessory to thet crime. The users of Piratebay are not suspected of a crime carrying a sentence of two years or more, meaning the police can't get their IP numbers, meaning they can't be charged with a crime that Piratebay could be an accessory to.

There is nothing new about this story. Sign language over mobile (cell) networks already works with regular 3G (UMTS) phones in Europe. Take a trip to Örebro in Sweden, which has a high concentration of hearing impaired due to a specialist education cent(e)r(e), and you'll see loads of teenagers using their 3G phones to talk using sign language. In the streets, on the bus, in cafes, everywhere. This article http://svt.se/svt/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=37482&a=5369 32 (in Swedish) from February 2006 even talks of the local social security services offering customer service to hearing impaired using 3G phones and sign language.

In the United States, laws against "contributory infringement" would be applicable, however Sweden does not have these laws.

Actually, we do, but they have an interesting twist. A contributory infringement sentence requires that someone can be sentenced for a main infringement. If you cannot hold someone responsible for the main crime, nobody can be held responsible for the contributory crime. The main crime would be the up- and downloaders of the actual material, but the main prosecutor in the TPB case is not sure that anyone can be held responsible for the main infringement. The problem is that nobody shares a significant portion of the material, but only small bits and pieces, which may not be covered by Swedish copyright. IANAL, but this is mostly a rewording and translation of what the TPB prosecutor wrote in a PM (in Swedish) that is available on the Swedish national television (SVT) website.

As a side note, the same prosecutor notes (in the PM) that Swedish copyright law only covers movies produced in the EEC area. In other words, e.g. American movies are very weakly protected by Swedish copyright law.

You haven't looked very hard then. Here's a video from the news where they talk about it: http://svt.se/svt/road/Classic/shared/mediacenter/ index.jsp?&d=52447&a=602092

According to this story It was the MPAA that was behind the raid. After being contacted by the MPAA, the US government got into talks with the swedish ministry for foreign affairs here in Sweden. The ministry of justice contacted police and prosecutors, but they didn't want to do anything since the legal issues here are unclear. So the ministry of justice contacted the national police chief and got orders to raid the server hall. The legality of the operation is highly questionable and borders on ministerstyre, whatever that would be called in english, it means that ministers tell government agencies what to do or how to interpret laws. This is illegal in Sweden.

http://svt.se/svt/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=22620&a=6020 79&lid=puff_602080&lpos=rubrik

The Swedish government-owned TV networks are exploring similar options. SVT (as they're called, sorry, not sure if their site is available in Anglosaxon) are working on making available all of their archives over the internet.

A small(ish) selection of the historical archives is available, and shows are available online up to a week after having been aired - but the plan is that one day all of the archives will be indexed and digitized and viewable over the intarweb. There's also rumors that this will be completely free for everyone who lives in the country and pays the state-imposed TV-license.

In Sweden there has been a TV show going on for some time called Toppkandidaterna (The Top Candidates). In this program six young politically interested persons debated the political issues they felt important. Two days ago the show was concluded with a viewer vote, and the "candidate" with the most votes won 250,000 swedish kroner. The winner had openly supported The Pirate Bay and said that he would donate 50,000 swedish kroner to them if he won. He won with 57.8 percent of the votes.

Sweden's public service television SVT has some of it's programs online (though only in Real and Windows Media formats). 'Til now, Finnish citizens near the coast/border have been able to view Swedish TV via the overspill effect, but with the move to digital the future of Swedish television in Finland is very uncertain, so I for one am very happy that they have it.

"because those who have Swedish citizenship speak Swedish."

That's not true. You don't have to speak Swedish in order to gain a Swedish citizenship. Actually Swedish isn't the official language (it is however in Finland - next to Finnish). If you are Swedish you should know this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden#Language

Links on the subject (in Swedish):
http://www.svd.se/dynamiskt/kultur/did_11214541.as p
http://svt.se/svt/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=27170&a=4997 90
http://svt.se/svt/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=27170&a=5004 19
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diskussion:Sverige

"because those who have Swedish citizenship speak Swedish."

That's not true. You don't have to speak Swedish in order to gain a Swedish citizenship. Actually Swedish isn't the official language (it is however in Finland - next to Finnish). If you are Swedish you should know this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden#Language

Links on the subject (in Swedish):
http://www.svd.se/dynamiskt/kultur/did_11214541.as p
http://svt.se/svt/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=27170&a=4997 90
http://svt.se/svt/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=27170&a=5004 19
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diskussion:Sverige

Swedish media (http://www.svt.se/texttv/136.html) is reporting the cookie as being an "active cookie", supposedly tracking your surfing as you visit other sites. Headline claims NSA did illegal investigating. :)

There's a blimp constructed to be able to increase GSM-coverage in disaster areas tested today(!) above the ESRANGE rocket launch site in northern Sweden.

I've got a link in, but only in Swedish though ;)
http://svt.se/svt/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=22620&a=4413 60

Pavarotti Loves Elephants

Singing Horses

DengDeng

SVT open archive

They are still working on some IP-issues; hence no sound on most of the clips. SVT has some 200 000 hours in their archive, dating back to 1896, of which some 10 percent is digitized.

Science is not only for the 'chosen' ones and television doesn't have to be made for stupids. In Sweden, for instance, the state television has no commercials and commercial interest since it it financed by a special fee with all that non-commecialism implies, i.e., sex, drugs, violence. On the other hand, it produces didactic programs that have won European awards, especially one for kids (Högaffla Hage). Knowledge and education should be available for everybody even for that 99.99999%+ who does not care about /. or the /.ers who consider themselves above Joe Public.

Swedish TV... http://www.svt.se/texttv/

All of it in swedish.
http://www.tv4.se/visa/?innehall=/texttv/text-tv.a sp
http://www.svt.se/texttv/index.html

In the Swedish TV show Kontroll (Mindball being a Swedish game) they tried to play reverse Mindball (missing the point completely, I guess). Two guys were supposed to get as agitated as possible to score an own goal.

Surprisingly they just sat there silently, looking as if they were playing the usual Mindball game. It wasn't very exciting but I think one of them finally succeeded to win the match by getting the ball to roll towards him.

Se also a recent speech (scroll down a bit) by Stephen Hawking on string theory and the origin of the universe.

Fyi, Survivor was first broadcasted in Sweden as a show called "Expedition Robinson". It was the beginning of all sucky reality TV shows here (except from real world MTV, though MTV can't really be conscidered swedish television).

Quality wise, the original swedish Survivor is much better than most shitty reality tv shown on commercial channels. Sometimes public access TV is the winner.

Expedition Robinson

Högaffla Hage is the Web page of a Swedish childrens' TV show. It explains why we're losing the international weirdness race.

Requires Flash and Shockwave. Heavy scatological content (I like the squeeze-the-sheep drawing program.). It's in Swedish, but that shouldn't be a problem if you've ever dealt with the documentation on the typical Open Source project.

In one commonly aired piece of footage (which I think was taken by Reuters), an elderly woman was cheering along with some kids at a market place. A team of journalists at a media watchdog program from SVT managed to find this woman and interview her. She had not, at the point the footage was taken, heard anything about the WTC attack. She later saw herself on video in conjunction with a story about the attack and was very unhappy with what the network had done. I saw this interview myself. Journalists from a media network (I think it was Reuters too) had actually travelled around the area attempting to find cheering crowds (they attested to this) but could not find one. A documentary about this was aired on SVT (Swedish public television) last year or earlier this year (can't quite remember).

This doesn't of course mean that no-one anywhere cheered the attack. It would surprise me if some didn't, much like how some Americans cheer when arabs are killed. But it was still a dishonest thing to do by the networks. Much of the western media used the exact same clip.

It's not horrible, the scientists using it said that they haven't even let a bird fly more tahn two days in a row, because they had to go home and sleep themselves. (Feature on Swedish Television "Nova")

In context, they didn't even get close to the birds limits flying 3000 km without stop in 3 days, with species reaching over 10000 km.

The bird themselves flies these distances in the wild and would have suffered more if held in captivity withouth the chance to get rid of the summer fat.
In the spring they are released again in their natural environment.

What interest the scientists is how the birds can manage to eat its own weight in a single day, and be able to use that energy to build up muscles extremely fast, and then use it up during the flight.

Some reference in Swedish