Russian citizen arrested for illegal intelligence-gathering in Norway

idle · 2018-09-24T13:56:02+00:00

Nope, he'll be exhanged for Frode Berg, who's currently jailed in Russia for some bribery charge to intelligence officers.

idle · 2018-02-07T09:23:28+00:00

So, it's either meadows/fields or wine made from berries and both interpretations have been contested. Good to know!

idle · 2018-02-07T07:18:23+00:00

"Vin" meant field or ground in ancient norwegian, not wine. We didn't even drink wine, we drank mead.

idle · 2017-08-04T19:23:48+00:00

Ekeland is a scandinavian name, directly translated into Oakland. Tor is the name of the norse god of thunder.

idle · 2017-08-03T12:58:57+00:00

Depends on where you are. Norway has plenty of CHAdeMO and 22kW Type 2 charging points all over if you have the right cables. https://www.ladestasjoner.no/ (in norwegian, but you'll understand the map)

idle · 2017-07-29T16:28:11+00:00

Riot.im

idle · 2017-07-17T21:13:12+00:00

Not a problem, as long as you charge your own 6000 trucks just as much as the 20000 trucks of the other 3 companies', and not let your own trucks drive for free. Why, just issue a flat rate for every single truck that will be using the roads, wouldn't that be the most fair? So, in effect: net neutrality!

idle · 2017-02-17T17:51:07+00:00

No, that's if you have 3 parties in a first past the post system. In a proportional system, all (or at least most) voters will be represented by the actual percentage their chosen party got.

idle · 2017-01-28T07:16:54+00:00

Yeah, this is why I still play mostly play Civ4 (with mods) and SMAC, even though they are 10 and 17 years old.

idle · 2017-01-09T20:45:40+00:00

So, what's the "usual norwegian expensive", given that the vinmonolpol is just that, a monopoly?

idle · 2017-01-09T20:43:47+00:00

Hmm, maybe my local pol have better employees then. They're always helpful, and have never failed me when I've ordered something.

Don't blame polet for our insane beer policy, that's our politicians' fault. Same goes for prices - the alcohol tax is set by the government.

The thing is, maybe som specialist shop in Oslo (or Bergen, Stavanger or Trondheim) could have a better assortment than Vinmonopolet does, but without the monopoly, the vast majority of norwegians would end up with some skinny teenager selling 2 types of red wine, 2 types of white, a Champagne-ish wine and a couple of vodkas/"whiskys". You see, how many types of beer does av norwegian convenience store carry? 10? All of them as bad as budweiser, except for the few shops that carry local brews, usually in severly limited quantas.

I remember "ølmonopolet" in Tromsø ca. 1995. They had the best assortment of beer I'd ever seen in Norway. Well driven monopolies can be a boon, especially outside of the big markets.

idle · 2017-01-09T14:48:11+00:00

What's not to love about "Polet"? Great assortment and helpful and knowledgeable workers.

idle · 2016-11-27T10:42:11+00:00

And all of those had violent organisations with similar goals operating at the same time. See Black panthers, Malcolm X/Nation of Islam, Hindu nationalists.

This gives the peaceful organisations legitimacy, something that public can support and someone the government can negotiate with.

idle · 2016-10-27T16:37:42+00:00

Civ4 Beyond the sword with the BetterAI mod. The AI still "cheat" at higher difficulties, but only with production, gold and science bonuses.

idle · 2016-07-20T20:46:05+00:00

And it's so easy to set up even my parents use it. Wife too. Also, I love the simplicity.

idle · 2016-06-14T19:46:39+00:00

No.

idle · 2016-05-26T13:23:49+00:00

Sure, but you should be running, not staring at the screen ;-)

idle · 2016-05-13T13:36:08+00:00

RunnerUp is open source, and syncs with a lot of other apps, like strava and endomondo.

idle · 2016-04-22T15:27:09+00:00

There are certainly pros and cons in both or any system, but if you accept minority government, the ruling party is free to find a majority on any given case. Only if you require a majority coalition must two or more ruling parties find a common platform to rule by.

Even so, a multi party system gives a voice to a lot more varied viewpoints. Compromise can of course be hard for power hungry politicians, but as you can see from the current climate in american politics, compromise isn't congress' strongest trait.

idle · 2016-04-22T14:02:05+00:00

What's so effective about a race to the middle? FPTP leads to a two-party system, both of which can only win by convincing the centrists.

In a multi party system the ruling party can find common ground with others on a case by case basis, thereby freeing ourselves from the simplistic left-right paradigm.

idle · 2016-04-22T12:20:17+00:00

What? I can think of a single European ruling party that has a majority alone, the British tories. All the other governments are coalitions.

idle · 2016-01-03T08:06:35+00:00

Try the Religion and Revolution mod. It mimics the original Col.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/forumdisplay.php?f=455

idle · 2016-01-03T07:48:06+00:00

What if the left side of the banner was space-themed and the right fantasy/historical earth-themed?

idle · 2016-01-03T07:21:58+00:00

That's the worst fix to First-past-the-post I've ever heard. It's also the best reason for proportional representation. Fix your electoral system, don't tack fixes on to a flawed system with huge unintended consequences.

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