I didn't state that all religious people are nuts, but nuts for me are peeple that: Kill other people because they have another views Says that the earth are the center of the universe That the earth are not more than 4000 years old Take the bible/koran/and all the other books literally word by word And oh so more "strange" things like that.
And if you then think you are a religious nut, you are free to call me a nerd/geek/science nut or anything you like.
For me it hard to take religion seriously because over a thousand of years it has stated so many things wrong and still haven't proven one single thing, like science have.
I might be a science troll, but at least I won't get burned/hanged/drowned like in the old good times when the church ruled.
If it is correct that they have found life completely different that have evolved independently from us (and everything else that uses RNA/DNA like us) then this mean that there are 100% chance of life in every corner of the universe (not meaning intelligent life, but I barely call us that so...) with probably hundreds or more different types of life. The odds of life only evolving on earth in the whole universe are astronomically huge (for me at least), but TWO different independent life types on the same and only place (earth or our solar system depending on where they found it) is "astronomically huge"*"astronomically huge". But then we are playing with almost infinity*infinity=infinity here (in my eyes).
Since I was really young I have always expected us to find a completely different life than us, but that I have Julius Verne to blame/thank for (got hooked on his books at a very early stage). He learned me to think outside of my own restricted life and accept that (in my eyes) "impossible" things WILL happen, and happen a lot in the future.
Will be VERY fun to hear the religious nuts explain this (not that they succeeded that well with intelligent design with just one type of life).
If I could I would put all my future mod points on this comment. It is so spot on that even 1=1 is not as "true"...
It boils down the biggest problem with US and it's citizens. As long they are doing the killing, murdering, torture, invading and everything else that is horrible evil it's just fine. But when someone else does the same AND it matters to the US (economy mostly) it's the end of the world. US is the biggest bully in the world, and almost everyone just bends over.
And this says all for me "I don't give a fuck about what happens outside US territory" (comment from above). But I know he DO care, because he want Irak oil and Afghanistan resources flooding the US. I mean what is a few million lives as long as they get cheap oil...
Depends on what we call "a good chunk", "a minor change", "not very much". A change to 19 to 1 from 20 to 1 might be any of the above (not that I'm saying that the change will be that or even close).
For us mortals the change might be minor, but for a scientist it might be a huge change.
It's just the opposite, Dark Matter is something we know we haven't seen, yet. It is a way to measure the "unexplored".
It's like saying that I know that of 20 persons in this room I can see 5 (and I can describe them). If I have some way of knowing (gravity for example) that it must be equal to 20 persons, I can call the missing persons Dark People. They might be 15 normal people, its just that they are behind stuff (my self for example) so I cant see them straight on. I might catch a glimpse in a reflective surface and so on. But I might also have a number of persons and the rest are dogs, just because I haven't seen a dog doesn't mean there aren't any.
So Dark Matter might be known stuff (new stars like this) or unknown stuff (like the dogs).
From Popular Science you can read: " 'Within these galaxies, a good chunk of the mass that had been ascribed to dark matter is probably stars,' said Pieter van Dokkum, the lead researcher on the project."
So I bet "a good chunk of the mass" is a bit more than "a minor change". But we will probably soon get an exact new ratio after the smart guys have made new calculations, other than any of the above.
It's not the laws that are flawed, it's our judges in the courts. A good lawyer can tweak any country's law to prove anything, it's the judges role to keep em in control.
The Swedish judges have over the last year broken the constitution over and over and over, and no one care. It has gone so far that yes I do think they are bribed. Either with money or power (fast track to higher positions).
But the worst thing is that no one (almost no one) cares. If I tell people that the judges break the constitution they don't react at all. Nothing. Blank. If that is from lack of interest or knowledge I don't know, but I guess both.
We in Sweden are so used to get fucked by the authorities now days that it looks like we have just given up. I used to say that not for anything in the world I would live in the USA because money can buy anything, and now Sweden has become a puppet to the states. It's time to migrate to Norway (our brother country that are not as corrupt, yet).
Because it is fine if a girl "Talks a boy into it"...
The Swedish laws are very very aimed at stopping males from doing wrongs but not the females. For example, if a married man hits his wife its called "Hustrumisshandel" that translate to "Wife batting". But if a female hits his husband its called just "batting" with less severe punishment (if any).
We (I am Swedish) have laws that prevent the society from discrimination on gender, but we have many (both social and actual) laws discriminating males, because we are desperate to fix the old female discriminations and then discriminate against the males instead (Sweden are one of the best countries on gender equality, seen from the female side).
But thankfully not all, there are a few that stands out. Blizzard for one. But then people complain that they don't release a game even if it is complete, they just don't understand that polish a game can take almost as long as 20% of the time completing (if you call Fallout: New Vegas complete) it.
But then I pre-ordered Starcraft II, and I will wait to pick up Fallout: New Vegas when it hit $10 bin or so. Guess if that 20% extra development time pays off... Ofc even Blizzard must make patches after the game is released, but it is just because they get bigger testing samples "in the wild" that you cant predict in small beta tests. I also will know (ok, it is a guess based on history...) that Startcraft II will receive patches (if needed) 10 years from now. My guess is that Bethesda will stop producing patched the minute the game has sold for 90% of the totally sales (a year from now?).
It ALL boils down to how you treat your customers, like an one time ATM or like returning customers. Or even worse if you treat your customers like thief's like Ubisoft that make me miss good games because I refuse to buy games that I can only "borrow" on their terms.
For example I set up my sisters computer with a firewall, anti-virus, anti-malware software and installed FireFox.
What happened?
My sister and her husband got sick of the question popping up all the time, "Do you want to allow this program to access the internet?" and instead of reading and the checking the box "Do this always" they found it easier to turn off the firewall and the anti-virus (more stupid questions they didn't bother to read). And to top it up, they thought IE was more familiar and started (against my strong advice) using it again.
But they didn't have to be the one spending 20h+ trying to rescue what was left after 50+ different virus and adware fighting over the control of the computer. It's the same with getting their account hacked, it not their problem (they think), it's mine.
If people would handle their cars the same way they handle their computer the car industries wouldn't have any problem with sales today... And if people handled strangers the same IRL that they handle them on the Internet we would have everyone giving away their keys to their house if a stranger asked for it (of just give it to them without them asking...).
I will never understand why people feel so safe on Internet.
Actually, if Google had not done this they would have broken the law. Why?
Because the law says that a company must do everything to maximize profit for their shareholders. So a company can't be "not evil", since the laws says they must be. It's not their fault, it's the law makers fault.
Same goes with copyright, patents and so on. According to the law they must be greedy bastards, otherwise the people responsible (VP, chairmen, board members and so on) in the company will break the law.
I don't like that it works this way, but we can't blame the companies for being good at what they are meant to do, earn money for the shareholders. What we can do is either change the laws (good luck with that in the US...) or we can refuse to help the company earn money or just don't give a damn. It's just up to your self.
Personally I'm the much worse evil (according to people in the country that knows best), a liberal socialist one...
I really liked/. once in a time. But why I don't as much any more is not just that this news is old (most are not on/.)
It's that this news is old with a very bad summery that is more what I expect from Facebook than/. and it feels like the poster haven't even read the article.
And the really horrible is that once I could read any news on/. and feel that it was interesting for me as a nerd. Now days it is few per week that are really interesting.
Either I have become as much a nerd that not even/. can safety me, or/. has become less news for nerds.
But I guess/. has to go the way of all social media, it start with a selected few and when it become too popular that selected few has to start all over (like Myspace, Facebook and all other).
I do like to hear from people that have in depth knowledge about the articles, but I get the feeling many/most have already left (or are just drowning in all comments).
Sorry for being off topic, but I have been waiting a long time for that article about the old/. times to write in.
As far as I have found it don't have a radio interface built in. But that cant be so hard to overcome.
What made me a bit worried is that Nvidia is generally fast to get new hardware out to products (excellent reference designs), their Tegra series has been painfully slow, even to products that don't need a radio interface.
This makes me think there is something flawed with the whole Tegra series if hardware makers stay away from them.
Been waiting for a Tegra 2 Android phone for a long time. But finally an alternative come.
I love competition, I don't care who makes the cpu of my super smartphone, as long as I get it soon.:)
It will be interesting to see how Nvidia will counter this, like make sure that we actually can buy a phone with the Tegra 2 would be a good start...
My grandfather told me about when a ball lightning came in thou the door in the basement, made a 90 degree turn in front of him and passed thou the door to the boiler room. And then went in the boiler.
It was roughly 20 cm big. And left a burn mark on both doors. And there was the smell of ozone. So even if what he saw could be explained be a hallucination, it still would not explain the burn marks after the ball.
Yes it is. It prevents me from buying any game they releases.
I pre-ordered but canceled Spore because of DRM (still not buying it even if I could have bought it for $7 on sale). I was very interested in Settlers 7, but I'm no longer. Ruse is a game I'm VERY interested in, but will never buy because of DRM.
If I see a new game and it looks interesting I read about it but as soon as I see the word Ubisoft, I just continue to something else.
That for me is a TOTAL loss. I loose and they loose. Buying games is my main hobby but it gets harder and harder to spend my money.
(I got f*cked by Infinity Ward over MW2, that I regret buying. But I will never (= most likely never) buy anything from them again, not that they will exist for long...)
My list over companies that wont get my money grows longer and longer, but Blizzard and inde makers are always welcome to get them as long as they stay away from DRM and other "f*ck the customers in the *ss" stuff.
But hey, as soon as I have my Starcraft 2 and Xsyon I don't care for 6 month or so.:)
Is it just me that think 1TB at the size of 55,7 x 45,8 centimetres is nothing to brag about?
Worlds largest postage stamp
But then again if it is the smallest stamp with 1x1 cm it is something to brag about.
Talking about passwords and LastPass is not in a Score 5 comment is insane.
Used several password solutions over the year like a password like SlashDotIsGod*****, where ***** is something unique about the site like first 5 chars of the web address. That way you don't have to remember really long unique passwords but still have a long unique password for every place.
After that I tried KeePass and others like it. The bad thing is that if I go away from my computer I have to sync it to a USB stick. And in some places you cant use it (like public libraries, iPhone).
So I found LastPass. And its insane how easy my life has become. It can auto fill (and auto login) on sites, it automatically recognize forms and logins. It works in multiple browsers, IE, FF, Chrome. And if you cant have a plugin you can access it by a webpage to receive the passwords.
It's extremely easy to use but still as powerful as any other solution. Even my mother, that cant remember from one day to another if instructed how to do things on a computer, can use it. Still I have it to generate 12-20 long passwords (depending on place) with numbers, special chars if needed.
I just sync the passwords to my KeePass once in the while to be on the safe side (never trust a single point of failure).
Lucky us non english speaking people you american's would never insult us if we spell of pronounce anything wrong. And we really look up to how you treat Mexican/Indian/Chinese/Black/European/Arab/Poor/African people. And we are really thankful for everything you push on us since we don't understand better.
I wish we was so open and understanding as you are. I'm really trying as you can see, but forgive me if I'm not good enough.
I can tell a little story of a Norwegian girl I once meet.
I had just started studying Computer Engineering in Linköping in Sweden when I meet a very lovely girl from Trondheim in Norway visiting a party over the weekend. To say the least I was a happy geek for 36 hours and doing non-geek stuff (illegally in public and legally in every other place we could find).;)
I/we fell in love but after she left I decided to focus on my studies instead of a girlfriend (I got her address and phone number) in another country. Some time later I got a mail (you know the old kind based on a dead tree) addressed to the university with my first name and a picture on it (she had a camera) with me, drunk as a skunk. It must have been a fun travel around the university people before they found out it was for me.:)
If I have one regret in my life it was to ignore my feelings and focus on my studies instead, who know, I might have been Norwegian now if not...
I'm from Sweden and have on and off for 20 years been thinking of moving to Norway A move for me would be easy, as we are close neighbors and a lot like each others. I understand them speaking and they me (almost like US and UK english).
Why have I been thinking about a move? Several reasons. Easier to get a job than i Sweden (I been in IT for my whole life) is one reason. They actually go in the right direction in the development of their country. Sweden implements more and more stupid laws, so soon we have zero freedom here. The people a very nice and pleasant, like the northern Sweden. It's really expensive in Norway, but the salary are higher. It's a chock for us in Sweden to have foreigners come here and buy cheep, as we tend to go to Denmark or Germany for our shopping (not only alcohol).
For me Norway is what Sweden SHOULD be. We are going down in the top list of most educated, best welfare, healthcare and so on while they go the other way. They have always been our "small" brother and they have been looking up to us, but that have changed and we are now looking up to them. Our politicians are almost as corrupt as in the US, when they in Norway somehow has been able to resist getting sick with power.
If only illegal file sharing was my only concern, there a cheep 100% secure solutions for $10/month that fixes that for me. But I'm soon living in something worse than a police state, a corporation state where Hollywood companies have more rights that I do. I like my Fon hotspot, but soon I risk going to jail for what others do on it. Soon the state will know where I am 100% of the time (tracking my credit card, mobile phone, SMS, email and so on), and soon there after all the Hollywood companies will have the same information. One of our courts has already broken our constitution with no reprimand what so ever (forcing ISP to dissconnect the Pirate Bay site is not legal in Sweden due to Mere Conduit).
We in the western world are going for a second Dark Ages very fast, but most people are blind to what are happening or just don't care. I guess that in 20 years china will have to take on our political refugees... One of the few country's resisting is Norway, that is the reason I'm very much thinking about moving there now. And that almost every Norwegian girl I have met has been lovely and sweet don't make it worse.
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I didn't state that all religious people are nuts, but nuts for me are peeple that:
Kill other people because they have another views
Says that the earth are the center of the universe
That the earth are not more than 4000 years old
Take the bible/koran/and all the other books literally word by word
And oh so more "strange" things like that.
And if you then think you are a religious nut, you are free to call me a nerd/geek/science nut or anything you like.
For me it hard to take religion seriously because over a thousand of years it has stated so many things wrong and still haven't proven one single thing, like science have.
I might be a science troll, but at least I won't get burned/hanged/drowned like in the old good times when the church ruled.
If it is correct that they have found life completely different that have evolved independently from us (and everything else that uses RNA/DNA like us) then this mean that there are 100% chance of life in every corner of the universe (not meaning intelligent life, but I barely call us that so...) with probably hundreds or more different types of life.
The odds of life only evolving on earth in the whole universe are astronomically huge (for me at least), but TWO different independent life types on the same and only place (earth or our solar system depending on where they found it) is "astronomically huge"*"astronomically huge". But then we are playing with almost infinity*infinity=infinity here (in my eyes).
Since I was really young I have always expected us to find a completely different life than us, but that I have Julius Verne to blame/thank for (got hooked on his books at a very early stage).
He learned me to think outside of my own restricted life and accept that (in my eyes) "impossible" things WILL happen, and happen a lot in the future.
Will be VERY fun to hear the religious nuts explain this (not that they succeeded that well with intelligent design with just one type of life).
If I could I would put all my future mod points on this comment.
It is so spot on that even 1=1 is not as "true"...
It boils down the biggest problem with US and it's citizens. As long they are doing the killing, murdering, torture, invading and everything else that is horrible evil it's just fine. But when someone else does the same AND it matters to the US (economy mostly) it's the end of the world. US is the biggest bully in the world, and almost everyone just bends over.
And this says all for me "I don't give a fuck about what happens outside US territory" (comment from above). But I know he DO care, because he want Irak oil and Afghanistan resources flooding the US. I mean what is a few million lives as long as they get cheap oil...
Depends on what we call "a good chunk", "a minor change", "not very much".
A change to 19 to 1 from 20 to 1 might be any of the above (not that I'm saying that the change will be that or even close).
For us mortals the change might be minor, but for a scientist it might be a huge change.
It's just the opposite, Dark Matter is something we know we haven't seen, yet. It is a way to measure the "unexplored".
It's like saying that I know that of 20 persons in this room I can see 5 (and I can describe them).
If I have some way of knowing (gravity for example) that it must be equal to 20 persons, I can call the missing persons Dark People. They might be 15 normal people, its just that they are behind stuff (my self for example) so I cant see them straight on. I might catch a glimpse in a reflective surface and so on. But I might also have a number of persons and the rest are dogs, just because I haven't seen a dog doesn't mean there aren't any.
So Dark Matter might be known stuff (new stars like this) or unknown stuff (like the dogs).
From Popular Science you can read:
" 'Within these galaxies, a good chunk of the mass that had been ascribed to dark matter is probably stars,' said Pieter van Dokkum, the lead researcher on the project."
So I bet "a good chunk of the mass" is a bit more than "a minor change".
But we will probably soon get an exact new ratio after the smart guys have made new calculations, other than any of the above.
Yes we are.
It's not the laws that are flawed, it's our judges in the courts.
A good lawyer can tweak any country's law to prove anything, it's the judges role to keep em in control.
The Swedish judges have over the last year broken the constitution over and over and over, and no one care.
It has gone so far that yes I do think they are bribed. Either with money or power (fast track to higher positions).
But the worst thing is that no one (almost no one) cares. If I tell people that the judges break the constitution they don't react at all. Nothing. Blank.
If that is from lack of interest or knowledge I don't know, but I guess both.
We in Sweden are so used to get fucked by the authorities now days that it looks like we have just given up.
I used to say that not for anything in the world I would live in the USA because money can buy anything, and now Sweden has become a puppet to the states. It's time to migrate to Norway (our brother country that are not as corrupt, yet).
Because it is fine if a girl "Talks a boy into it"...
The Swedish laws are very very aimed at stopping males from doing wrongs but not the females.
For example, if a married man hits his wife its called "Hustrumisshandel" that translate to "Wife batting". But if a female hits his husband its called just "batting" with less severe punishment (if any).
We (I am Swedish) have laws that prevent the society from discrimination on gender, but we have many (both social and actual) laws discriminating males, because we are desperate to fix the old female discriminations and then discriminate against the males instead (Sweden are one of the best countries on gender equality, seen from the female side).
But thankfully not all, there are a few that stands out. Blizzard for one.
But then people complain that they don't release a game even if it is complete, they just don't understand that polish a game can take almost as long as 20% of the time completing (if you call Fallout: New Vegas complete) it.
But then I pre-ordered Starcraft II, and I will wait to pick up Fallout: New Vegas when it hit $10 bin or so. Guess if that 20% extra development time pays off...
Ofc even Blizzard must make patches after the game is released, but it is just because they get bigger testing samples "in the wild" that you cant predict in small beta tests. I also will know (ok, it is a guess based on history...) that Startcraft II will receive patches (if needed) 10 years from now. My guess is that Bethesda will stop producing patched the minute the game has sold for 90% of the totally sales (a year from now?).
It ALL boils down to how you treat your customers, like an one time ATM or like returning customers. Or even worse if you treat your customers like thief's like Ubisoft that make me miss good games because I refuse to buy games that I can only "borrow" on their terms.
For example I set up my sisters computer with a firewall, anti-virus, anti-malware software and installed FireFox.
What happened?
My sister and her husband got sick of the question popping up all the time, "Do you want to allow this program to access the internet?" and instead of reading and the checking the box "Do this always" they found it easier to turn off the firewall and the anti-virus (more stupid questions they didn't bother to read). And to top it up, they thought IE was more familiar and started (against my strong advice) using it again.
But they didn't have to be the one spending 20h+ trying to rescue what was left after 50+ different virus and adware fighting over the control of the computer.
It's the same with getting their account hacked, it not their problem (they think), it's mine.
If people would handle their cars the same way they handle their computer the car industries wouldn't have any problem with sales today...
And if people handled strangers the same IRL that they handle them on the Internet we would have everyone giving away their keys to their house if a stranger asked for it (of just give it to them without them asking...).
I will never understand why people feel so safe on Internet.
Actually, if Google had not done this they would have broken the law.
Why?
Because the law says that a company must do everything to maximize profit for their shareholders. So a company can't be "not evil", since the laws says they must be. It's not their fault, it's the law makers fault.
Same goes with copyright, patents and so on. According to the law they must be greedy bastards, otherwise the people responsible (VP, chairmen, board members and so on) in the company will break the law.
I don't like that it works this way, but we can't blame the companies for being good at what they are meant to do, earn money for the shareholders.
What we can do is either change the laws (good luck with that in the US...) or we can refuse to help the company earn money or just don't give a damn.
It's just up to your self.
Personally I'm the much worse evil (according to people in the country that knows best), a liberal socialist one...
I really liked /. once in a time. But why I don't as much any more is not just that this news is old (most are not on /.) /. and it feels like the poster haven't even read the article.
/. and feel that it was interesting for me as a nerd. Now days it is few per week that are really interesting. /. can safety me, or /. has become less news for nerds. /. has to go the way of all social media, it start with a selected few and when it become too popular that selected few has to start all over (like Myspace, Facebook and all other).
/. times to write in.
It's that this news is old with a very bad summery that is more what I expect from Facebook than
And the really horrible is that once I could read any news on
Either I have become as much a nerd that not even
But I guess
I do like to hear from people that have in depth knowledge about the articles, but I get the feeling many/most have already left (or are just drowning in all comments).
Sorry for being off topic, but I have been waiting a long time for that article about the old
A quick google show that this so called "news" is at least a month old:
/. start to feel like looking in last year diary. I honesty don't know why I bother to visit /. any more.
http://www.guru3d.com/news/powercolor-radeon-hd-5970-with-12-displayport-outputs/
As far as I have found it don't have a radio interface built in. But that cant be so hard to overcome.
What made me a bit worried is that Nvidia is generally fast to get new hardware out to products (excellent reference designs), their Tegra series has been painfully slow, even to products that don't need a radio interface.
This makes me think there is something flawed with the whole Tegra series if hardware makers stay away from them.
Been waiting for a Tegra 2 Android phone for a long time. But finally an alternative come. :)
I love competition, I don't care who makes the cpu of my super smartphone, as long as I get it soon.
It will be interesting to see how Nvidia will counter this, like make sure that we actually can buy a phone with the Tegra 2 would be a good start...
My grandfather told me about when a ball lightning came in thou the door in the basement, made a 90 degree turn in front of him and passed thou the door to the boiler room. And then went in the boiler.
It was roughly 20 cm big. And left a burn mark on both doors. And there was the smell of ozone. So even if what he saw could be explained be a hallucination, it still would not explain the burn marks after the ball.
And I was hoping it would never be released. Now I will never get a girlfriend again... Unless their matchmaking servers fill my dating needs too. :)
"It's not a total loss for Ubisoft in a sense"
:)
Yes it is. It prevents me from buying any game they releases.
I pre-ordered but canceled Spore because of DRM (still not buying it even if I could have bought it for $7 on sale). I was very interested in Settlers 7, but I'm no longer. Ruse is a game I'm VERY interested in, but will never buy because of DRM.
If I see a new game and it looks interesting I read about it but as soon as I see the word Ubisoft, I just continue to something else.
That for me is a TOTAL loss. I loose and they loose. Buying games is my main hobby but it gets harder and harder to spend my money.
(I got f*cked by Infinity Ward over MW2, that I regret buying. But I will never (= most likely never) buy anything from them again, not that they will exist for long...)
My list over companies that wont get my money grows longer and longer, but Blizzard and inde makers are always welcome to get them as long as they stay away from DRM and other "f*ck the customers in the *ss" stuff.
But hey, as soon as I have my Starcraft 2 and Xsyon I don't care for 6 month or so.
Is it just me that think 1TB at the size of 55,7 x 45,8 centimetres is nothing to brag about? Worlds largest postage stamp
But then again if it is the smallest stamp with 1x1 cm it is something to brag about.
Talking about passwords and LastPass is not in a Score 5 comment is insane.
Used several password solutions over the year like a password like SlashDotIsGod*****, where ***** is something unique about the site like first 5 chars of the web address. That way you don't have to remember really long unique passwords but still have a long unique password for every place.
After that I tried KeePass and others like it. The bad thing is that if I go away from my computer I have to sync it to a USB stick. And in some places you cant use it (like public libraries, iPhone).
So I found LastPass. And its insane how easy my life has become. It can auto fill (and auto login) on sites, it automatically recognize forms and logins. It works in multiple browsers, IE, FF, Chrome. And if you cant have a plugin you can access it by a webpage to receive the passwords.
It's extremely easy to use but still as powerful as any other solution. Even my mother, that cant remember from one day to another if instructed how to do things on a computer, can use it. Still I have it to generate 12-20 long passwords (depending on place) with numbers, special chars if needed.
I just sync the passwords to my KeePass once in the while to be on the safe side (never trust a single point of failure).
For a ton of more information visit lastpass.com
If the Winooski ever try this I bet we once again are going to hear:
"Houston, we have a problem"
Lucky us non english speaking people you american's would never insult us if we spell of pronounce anything wrong. And we really look up to how you treat Mexican/Indian/Chinese/Black/European/Arab/Poor/African people.
And we are really thankful for everything you push on us since we don't understand better.
I wish we was so open and understanding as you are. I'm really trying as you can see, but forgive me if I'm not good enough.
I can tell a little story of a Norwegian girl I once meet.
I had just started studying Computer Engineering in Linköping in Sweden when I meet a very lovely girl from Trondheim in Norway visiting a party over the weekend. ;)
To say the least I was a happy geek for 36 hours and doing non-geek stuff (illegally in public and legally in every other place we could find).
I/we fell in love but after she left I decided to focus on my studies instead of a girlfriend (I got her address and phone number) in another country. Some time later I got a mail (you know the old kind based on a dead tree) addressed to the university with my first name and a picture on it (she had a camera) with me, drunk as a skunk. It must have been a fun travel around the university people before they found out it was for me. :)
If I have one regret in my life it was to ignore my feelings and focus on my studies instead, who know, I might have been Norwegian now if not...
I'm from Sweden and have on and off for 20 years been thinking of moving to Norway
A move for me would be easy, as we are close neighbors and a lot like each others. I understand them speaking and they me (almost like US and UK english).
Why have I been thinking about a move?
Several reasons.
Easier to get a job than i Sweden (I been in IT for my whole life) is one reason.
They actually go in the right direction in the development of their country. Sweden implements more and more stupid laws, so soon we have zero freedom here.
The people a very nice and pleasant, like the northern Sweden.
It's really expensive in Norway, but the salary are higher. It's a chock for us in Sweden to have foreigners come here and buy cheep, as we tend to go to Denmark or Germany for our shopping (not only alcohol).
For me Norway is what Sweden SHOULD be. We are going down in the top list of most educated, best welfare, healthcare and so on while they go the other way. They have always been our "small" brother and they have been looking up to us, but that have changed and we are now looking up to them.
Our politicians are almost as corrupt as in the US, when they in Norway somehow has been able to resist getting sick with power.
If only illegal file sharing was my only concern, there a cheep 100% secure solutions for $10/month that fixes that for me. But I'm soon living in something worse than a police state, a corporation state where Hollywood companies have more rights that I do.
I like my Fon hotspot, but soon I risk going to jail for what others do on it. Soon the state will know where I am 100% of the time (tracking my credit card, mobile phone, SMS, email and so on), and soon there after all the Hollywood companies will have the same information. One of our courts has already broken our constitution with no reprimand what so ever (forcing ISP to dissconnect the Pirate Bay site is not legal in Sweden due to Mere Conduit).
We in the western world are going for a second Dark Ages very fast, but most people are blind to what are happening or just don't care. I guess that in 20 years china will have to take on our political refugees...
One of the few country's resisting is Norway, that is the reason I'm very much thinking about moving there now. And that almost every Norwegian girl I have met has been lovely and sweet don't make it worse.