That idea of heaven sounds like purgatory to me, not exactly heaven. Whilst Chinese food is nice, and Japanese women sure know how to treat a man, British homes are awful and American salaries, compared to say, a Norwegian salary (or even a British one) are not very good.
I would change it to: Heaven is an American home (nice and big, generally well built), A Chinese/French/Italian chef, a Norwegian salary, and a Japanese wife.
Hell is a British home (I know, I have lived in a few, and compared to Norwegian, American, Austrian, Swiss, they are really badly built), a British chef (this is starting to sound like a bash-Britain post now, sorry), a Chinese salary, and a...well mine is British so I don't know what to say here.....
I would not get my hopes up. Just because they are rolling out FTTC for your exchange does not mean they are bringing it to your cabinet. I recently was overjoyed that my exchange was getting FTTC, since my current speed sits at 0.5mbps. Upon further research it seemed they probably will not be bringing it to my cabinet. BT usually only provide FTTC to 40-50% of the cabs on the exchange.
My response was more in jest, but you can't deny the very British notion of "we have always done it this way, why change?" such as when I noticed people burning garden waste in their gardens, or making a big gory game of hunting foxes, or tiny roads not suited for modern vehicles.
But these prices are out of context for people who do not realise the difference in price levels for Norway. Take those prices, alongside the minimum wage rate and average cost of a Big Mac, and you can see it is not that expensive, relative to other commodities.
Sadly my town does not have its own phone exchange, so we have to use neighboring towns to the east or west depending on where we live. I am right in the middle, therefore the exchange is over 6 miles away. There is no fibre. Repeated appeals to have fibre brought to the remaining streets in the town (about 2/3 is cabled) has been denied by Virgin saying it is not economically viable.
hmm, i must remember not to use > and < that first line should say "Here in the UK my (less than)1mbps (yes, mb not MB) suckfest is starting to get to me."
Ah how I miss fedrelandet. Here in the UK my
I did have fibre at one place I lived a few years ago, but while the line got the full speed they offered (20mb at the time) as is usual with Virgin UK, and indeed all UK providers, "we don't support upload"...whatever that means. In practice it meant a 20/0.7mbps line. In addition, because it was FTTC, the whole area was oversaturated to the point where latency was off the charts. Speeds were good, but a ping to the server in the next town was 500ms+ with jitter of over 300.
It's all well and good BT and the UK rolling out all this fancy hardware in one or two towns in the country, when even people living in major cities (like me) cannot reach the magical 1mbps, nevermind double-digits.
For correctness' sake, I lived most of my life in the anglosphere (US and UK) not Norway. And do not think for a minute that the norwegian mindset isnt equally egotistical and self-centered. Yes, we are more socially conscious; we do not litter, or waste resources. We do, however, strive to be rich and famous. We are just as materialistic. The reason our society works is a combination of a socialist democracy and an ultimately wealthy state, combined with a very low population. I often invite professional, middle-class westerners to come work in Norway, because the job market is good, but being filled up with immigrant labour from non-western countries, in large numbers, which causes culture clashing and a whole heap of social problems (we never had "gang warfare" until 2nd-generation immigrants took to the streets. And it's not like they live in ghettos and have a hard life)
I very much doubt that any contributor to slashdot is a biblethumping, gun-toting redneck. This is still "news for nerds" is it not? Try to be a little more open-minded, and you will have a much better life.
No real need tbh. Nearly all Norwegians speak english, and in most professional jobs unless you were very customer facing you could easily get by on English.
Perhaps, but you did not give that option in your comment, simply telling me to get out of my own country. You also simply assumed this was my mindset, from two short sentences... I believe, sir, that you can fuck off, and you are not welcome here.
Yes we are a nation of hunters, you should have no problem obtaining a hunting license and weapons permit provided you are knowledgeable about local flora and fauna.
I attracted quite a few strange looks in the office watching that. I was in tears by the end. It makes it all the more funny/morbid that it looks like he is writhing in pain, and all the while laughing maniacally.
The TME my brother had when it came out was not this advanced (I looked up what its supposed to look like without fire) ours simply laughed, then vibrated a bit.
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That idea of heaven sounds like purgatory to me, not exactly heaven. Whilst Chinese food is nice, and Japanese women sure know how to treat a man, British homes are awful and American salaries, compared to say, a Norwegian salary (or even a British one) are not very good.
I would change it to: Heaven is an American home (nice and big, generally well built), A Chinese/French/Italian chef, a Norwegian salary, and a Japanese wife.
Hell is a British home (I know, I have lived in a few, and compared to Norwegian, American, Austrian, Swiss, they are really badly built), a British chef (this is starting to sound like a bash-Britain post now, sorry), a Chinese salary, and a...well mine is British so I don't know what to say here.....
Yeah but who heard of Italian lovers? French are the lovers, surely!
Surely the Heaven lovers are the french and the chefs are italian, not the other way round..?
Ditto this for Orange mobile internet (on my Desire). The guy I phoned up to turn the block off was cheeky as well, convo went as follows:
Indian guy: "So you wish to turn off Orange Security?"
Me: "Yes"
Indian Guy: "You don't like security?"
Me: "No...I don't..."
You are saying in 1999 GPS and laser guided targeting did not exist? Wtf?
Yeah i get it, but is there such a thing as a millibit/byte?
I would not get my hopes up. Just because they are rolling out FTTC for your exchange does not mean they are bringing it to your cabinet. I recently was overjoyed that my exchange was getting FTTC, since my current speed sits at 0.5mbps. Upon further research it seemed they probably will not be bringing it to my cabinet. BT usually only provide FTTC to 40-50% of the cabs on the exchange.
I meant mb vs MB as in megabit vs. megabyte
My response was more in jest, but you can't deny the very British notion of "we have always done it this way, why change?" such as when I noticed people burning garden waste in their gardens, or making a big gory game of hunting foxes, or tiny roads not suited for modern vehicles.
But these prices are out of context for people who do not realise the difference in price levels for Norway. Take those prices, alongside the minimum wage rate and average cost of a Big Mac, and you can see it is not that expensive, relative to other commodities.
Sadly my town does not have its own phone exchange, so we have to use neighboring towns to the east or west depending on where we live. I am right in the middle, therefore the exchange is over 6 miles away. There is no fibre. Repeated appeals to have fibre brought to the remaining streets in the town (about 2/3 is cabled) has been denied by Virgin saying it is not economically viable.
We used to lead the world in engineering and technology.
When was this?? I was under the impression the UK creedo was "Older is better" or "innovation is scary" or "technology is unnecessary".
Yes i realised in my response that it accepted my lt and gt
hmm, i must remember not to use > and < that first line should say "Here in the UK my (less than)1mbps (yes, mb not MB) suckfest is starting to get to me."
Ah how I miss fedrelandet. Here in the UK my
I did have fibre at one place I lived a few years ago, but while the line got the full speed they offered (20mb at the time) as is usual with Virgin UK, and indeed all UK providers, "we don't support upload"...whatever that means. In practice it meant a 20/0.7mbps line. In addition, because it was FTTC, the whole area was oversaturated to the point where latency was off the charts. Speeds were good, but a ping to the server in the next town was 500ms+ with jitter of over 300.
It's all well and good BT and the UK rolling out all this fancy hardware in one or two towns in the country, when even people living in major cities (like me) cannot reach the magical 1mbps, nevermind double-digits.
For correctness' sake, I lived most of my life in the anglosphere (US and UK) not Norway. And do not think for a minute that the norwegian mindset isnt equally egotistical and self-centered. Yes, we are more socially conscious; we do not litter, or waste resources. We do, however, strive to be rich and famous. We are just as materialistic. The reason our society works is a combination of a socialist democracy and an ultimately wealthy state, combined with a very low population. I often invite professional, middle-class westerners to come work in Norway, because the job market is good, but being filled up with immigrant labour from non-western countries, in large numbers, which causes culture clashing and a whole heap of social problems (we never had "gang warfare" until 2nd-generation immigrants took to the streets. And it's not like they live in ghettos and have a hard life)
I very much doubt that any contributor to slashdot is a biblethumping, gun-toting redneck. This is still "news for nerds" is it not? Try to be a little more open-minded, and you will have a much better life.
No real need tbh. Nearly all Norwegians speak english, and in most professional jobs unless you were very customer facing you could easily get by on English.
Perhaps, but you did not give that option in your comment, simply telling me to get out of my own country. You also simply assumed this was my mindset, from two short sentences... I believe, sir, that you can fuck off, and you are not welcome here.
Correct, though I don't think ACTA touches this. Notice how TFA specifically mentions Switzerland in addition to the EU, but not Norway, nor Iceland.
Believe me I would love to, and I am doing my part by voting Fremskrittspartiet in the next general election.
Yes we are a nation of hunters, you should have no problem obtaining a hunting license and weapons permit provided you are knowledgeable about local flora and fauna.
It's not crazy at all, in fact, it is so common that we all like it. Which is why we live in a part of Norway that has it.
Derp.
I attracted quite a few strange looks in the office watching that. I was in tears by the end. It makes it all the more funny/morbid that it looks like he is writhing in pain, and all the while laughing maniacally.
The TME my brother had when it came out was not this advanced (I looked up what its supposed to look like without fire) ours simply laughed, then vibrated a bit.
You aren't looking close enough. He doesn't actually eat them, it just crumbles all over his face making a huge mess.