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Does that count replacing the battery pack every few years? Don't forget, those things run on the same battery technology cell phones use, and a cell phone battery only lasts a few years.

Not to mention climate issues - you can't use those batteries in any place where it gets too cold or too hot, which is - well, basically, everywhere.

You do not need to replace the battery pack every few years. Also, batteries work just fine in cold temperatures - sure, they lose some range while it's cold, but not permanently. You can also preheat the car to avoid the problem. In Norway, home of reindeer, snow, ice and skiing almost 50% of the car sales in September was pure electric cars. Granted, the last month of a quarter is higher than usual but on a normal month, like November, it was 41%. In addition to this, hybrids are another 25-30%.

For a fun fact, this shoe advertisement (NSFW) was found illegal, not for being visible to children despite being a 24m^2 poster at the mall but because they found it to be objectifying women. That said we do have a fairly strict barrier between nudity and sex, the sex magazines are by law on the top shelf and covered so you can't see much from below. Of course, that doesn't stop the Internet but that's a different story...

Oh, wait... nevermind.

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.

In addition to the permafrost's ability to preserve at -2 to -3 degrees celcius, electrical cooling will ensure lower temperature.

- To keep the seed preserved as long as possible, it will be frozen at -18 degrees celcius, says Information worker Grethe Evjen at the Agricultural Ministry.

More elaborate article on this can be found at NewScientist.com. Some sketches (2) over the vault available on the online Norwegian newspaper TV2 Nettavisen.

Also, I'm a bit disappointed that BBC missed out on the whole "security-details provided by roaming polar bears"-thing.

In Norway the fines for speeding recently became higher than for committing violence. It's cheaper to be taken with heroine than to drive on a red light. Needless to say, this is causing some debate (norwegian, sorry).

TV2 also streams some of their content, including in mobile-phone-format.

It _is_ a different beast, but it's because of high taxes ($300(?) a year per tv-set to pay for NRK to keep it ad-free),laws, and a different mindset.
In the US, laws restricting the amount of advertising would be regarded as some kind of communist pipe-dream, I guess.. :)

Is there advertising on PBS, or whatever it's called?

Sweden. Sounds fine by me. I got dibs on the princess. Swedish Princess SFW

In America, conservative Christians restrict Scandanavian cultural behaviors.

According to this article, she's going to think over whether or not she wants to appeal. Again, I have the feeling she will. After following both trials and her actions in general and from the information I have been given by former colleagues, this whole thing seems like one big personal agenda for her actually. However, for the sake of her name and career, she ought to learn when to stop...

I guess some people enjoy being humiliated over again, and over again, and...

I didn't link to the article because it's in Norwegian. But if you can read Norwegian, here it is.

This article is based upon another article from the danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, but I'm unable to locate the article on their web site.

I don't care how anoying, people seem to be extrmely creatve this one day!!

The best I have seen so far is norways biggest TV channel, TV2's joke.

http://www.tv2.no/snitch/

They had a big repotasje on the news about a rich nerd who had made a service on the net to find out if somebody you knew was surfing on porn, just by enetering their email address. Complete with the norwegian IT-minister's comment, that the page would be shut down in a few weeks.
But go there and see what happens! (Norwegian only)

Wow... I like this (=

- St4k1n