Yes, pretty much. (Expat here, have lived in Stockholm for about 10 years now.)
You should also be aware that, in Sweden, any sort of attention given to a member of the opposite sex that is not very "strictly business" tends to be regarded as sexual interest. Especially if you are male. For example, do not ever compliment a female coworker on anything to do with her appearance unless you know her extremely well--9 times out of ten, this will be regarded as though you're hitting on her.
Swedish office culture is such that, if you do make friends with (in my case) a woman at work, be prepared for tonnes of sideways looks and gossip based on the assumption that there's no other possible explanation for the two of you to be having lunch alone together, of course you must be sleeping together! This has happened to me twice, despite the fact that I'm very happily married and fairly vocal about it, and in neither case was there any suggestion whatsoever between the women in question (FWIW: one lives with her boyfriend, the other's married with 2 kids) and me that there was anything at all going on other than that we enjoyed some friendly conversation over lunch and didn't care for having to talk over everyone else while doing so.
It sometimes goes the other way, too; not long ago, my wife (who is also not native to Sweden) was having a difficult time discussing a technical matter with a male colleague, and after wasting the better part of an hour going in circles with him, decided that maybe it was best to let it lie for awhile and then come back to it later, perhaps in a different setting. So she said, quite innocently, something like, "Okay, we're not getting anywhere with this right now. Let's have a chat over coffee later on today without so many distractions and maybe I can make this clearer to you then?" His response? "B-b-b-but... I thought you were married?!" Whereupon she had to burn up an additional 15 minutes reassuring the guy that it was strictly business. As she remarked to me, "They talk about how equal men and women are here and how sophisticated they are about sex and relationships, but the real story is that their minds are stuck in junior high school."
If you're looking for any more test subjects, get in touch via the (unarmoured) email above ASAP and tell me what I need to do to get in on this. Please!
The question you should be asking yourself is: "Who are the ones involved in implementing energy sources that don't depend on oxidation of hydrocarbons, and who are the ones fighting tooth and nail against these alternatives?" There you go.
(You probably won't care for the answer, but reality has a way of not caring about about what you like or don't like.)
The US to join the civilised world, where most folks have access to mass transit and aren't obligated to devote an insane proportion of their lives to cars.
It can't hurt for us to keep our word, for starters. We already gave them the assurance of the US government that they could travel to/stay in the country--now they try to act on this, and we tell them, "HA-ha! We had our fingers crossed!"?
As a practical matter, if Trump keeps up such shenanigans, it might not be very long at all before Americans visiting or living overseas find their visas vanishing into thin air in retaliation.
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You didn't even count the blanks. FAIL.
Q: You can never have too much money, too much sex, or ___ ____ ______. (Fill in the blanks.)
(A: "Too many backups".)
--Actual question from the final exam for the Networking 100 class I took in 1998.
This is when tab completion is your friend...t
This. Very first thing I thought of as well.
Yes, pretty much. (Expat here, have lived in Stockholm for about 10 years now.)
You should also be aware that, in Sweden, any sort of attention given to a member of the opposite sex that is not very "strictly business" tends to be regarded as sexual interest. Especially if you are male. For example, do not ever compliment a female coworker on anything to do with her appearance unless you know her extremely well--9 times out of ten, this will be regarded as though you're hitting on her.
Swedish office culture is such that, if you do make friends with (in my case) a woman at work, be prepared for tonnes of sideways looks and gossip based on the assumption that there's no other possible explanation for the two of you to be having lunch alone together, of course you must be sleeping together! This has happened to me twice, despite the fact that I'm very happily married and fairly vocal about it, and in neither case was there any suggestion whatsoever between the women in question (FWIW: one lives with her boyfriend, the other's married with 2 kids) and me that there was anything at all going on other than that we enjoyed some friendly conversation over lunch and didn't care for having to talk over everyone else while doing so.
It sometimes goes the other way, too; not long ago, my wife (who is also not native to Sweden) was having a difficult time discussing a technical matter with a male colleague, and after wasting the better part of an hour going in circles with him, decided that maybe it was best to let it lie for awhile and then come back to it later, perhaps in a different setting. So she said, quite innocently, something like, "Okay, we're not getting anywhere with this right now. Let's have a chat over coffee later on today without so many distractions and maybe I can make this clearer to you then?" His response? "B-b-b-but... I thought you were married?!" Whereupon she had to burn up an additional 15 minutes reassuring the guy that it was strictly business. As she remarked to me, "They talk about how equal men and women are here and how sophisticated they are about sex and relationships, but the real story is that their minds are stuck in junior high school."
This sounds like just the ticket for me.
If you're looking for any more test subjects, get in touch via the (unarmoured) email above ASAP and tell me what I need to do to get in on this. Please!
Sincerely,
Zontar the Very Willing Guinea Pig.
Great Firewall, hyperaggressive caching by my telco on the far side of it, jetlagged memory banks... excuses, excuses. :-)
Gates must absolutely spend his own money to develop this without any government subsidies or grants whatsoever.
Why? The issue is whether or not our descendants have a livable planet.
The question you should be asking yourself is: "Who are the ones involved in implementing energy sources that don't depend on oxidation of hydrocarbons, and who are the ones fighting tooth and nail against these alternatives?" There you go.
(You probably won't care for the answer, but reality has a way of not caring about about what you like or don't like.)
Look dude, the 640k thing was *specifically* why Linus made Linux. To beat Windows which didn't use all the memory of his 386 properly.
Which, if true, still has *absolutely no bearing on what Gates may or may not have actually said*.
Ok, done. What are you waiting for?
The US to join the civilised world, where most folks have access to mass transit and aren't obligated to devote an insane proportion of their lives to cars.
"In your heart, you know it's flat."
Bravissimo! Wish I had mod points today.
Try going unprotected in CONSTANT +50C conditions for just 24 hours and let us know how that works out for you. Or even only 12 hours.
The disgrace is that the Climate Science community uses terms like "Consensus" which is not a thing in Science.
You are obviously not a scientist of any sort.
After you presented me with a fish-in-barrel-and-here's-your-gun opportunity like that one? Yeah, pretty much. HAND.
We're talking about people who expect their computers to do as they're told, so that they can get work done with them. Not you.
I LOL'ed.
Google and Facebook think with dollars. Billions of them.
You were saying...?
I like living in a world where people are treated like human beings. I guess that you don't.
The Chinese aren't very fond of Trump, but already recognise the golden opportunity his isolationist policies might well present them with.
Like the way the Chinese communists are about to start blaming Trump for their own economic problems...
They don't like him very much, but may well end up being grateful for the opportunity he looks poised to present them with.
Feel free to return to wherever it was that your ancestors came from, then.
You've got a real hangup with simple bodily functions. You should discuss it with your therapist.
It can't hurt for us to keep our word, for starters. We already gave them the assurance of the US government that they could travel to/stay in the country--now they try to act on this, and we tell them, "HA-ha! We had our fingers crossed!"?
As a practical matter, if Trump keeps up such shenanigans, it might not be very long at all before Americans visiting or living overseas find their visas vanishing into thin air in retaliation.
I realise that wasn't quite fair of me, knowing quite well how you SO want to believe... but thanks for the chuckle in any case.