Except you can't legally buy ammunition for it and store at home. And yes, the culture is different - no-one here is walking/driving around with their rifle for "self protection". I would think there are some restrictions on who gets these rifles - i.e. background checks. And finally, the amount of households with guns are roughly half of in the USA.

A lot of info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...

Tight restrictions doesn't mean that no-one has guns.

How is a lower violent crime rate not a good thing? I agree that there can be too heavy-handed measures for achieving these goals - but how could a lower violent crime rate *not* be a good thing?

Ouch!

I paid ~200$/year for a obligatory membership of the student's union, plus rent at a student's village (1000$/month for the apartment I shared with my GF, which was almost 1/2 price of market price for an apartment in Oslo, especially given that it was in a quite nice area relatively close to the university.).

To pay my bills, I got a loan from the Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund. This is a low-interest loan (zero interest until you graduate), where ~half of the loan for the semester is turned into a grant when you pass your exams.

Did your tuition include housing? If so, the cost may be similar in the end - if you do everything on schedule, you would end up with ~40K in loans after 4 years. But then the price levels and probably the expected salary are quite different here.

Easy: You say you lost it. Or just don't say anything at all. I totally agree on the keeping of textbooks, as some "electronic companion" is probably quite useless compared to the book you know where to find things and have marked up.

I think this is mainly aimed at book stores reselling professionally - they might be legally prevented from reselling this book. However, I can't see it preventing student A giving the book to student B in exchange for money. That's usually what happened at my uni anyway - I can't remember there being any "used book" section in the university book store.

Similar example probably many people have seen in some variety, at least in their mind's eye: A 3-4 year old kid steps out from the sidewalk and into the road a few meters ahead of you, while the parent is looking the other way. There's no way you can stop for him, but you can swerve and avoid him - into oncoming traffic. What do you do? You've got a very short time to decide...

However, I wonder what would be the legal/insurance aftermath of something like that, where you have two parties with damages but none of them really at fault - while the at-fault person is (1) uninsured and (2) probably can't be held legally responsible. What would the role of the parent be?

Yeah, that sounds about right:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...
a paper found by a google search on amonia regulation in the body. It mentions that amonia is important for creating "hepatic coma" and high amonia levels are correlated to "meat intoxication".

It's interesting that the symptoms sounds remarkably similar to the dementia old people often get. I wonder if one could treat exess amonia with dialysis?

Also, the consequences of a SSME failing (killing the human occupants) are a bit worse than for an unmanned rocket carrying a satelite, or even a manned traditional rocket where a launch escape system have a fair chance of pulling the capsule away from the malfunctioning carrier rocket.

Depends on the car. In mine (2005 Opel, the German part of GM), they work when the ignition is in ACC mode, and also a few seconds after removing the key (very usefull when you stop the car, and then realize you forgot to close a window). You never need to restart the engine to move the windows.

Of course, when the car is locked, they shouldn't work.

About the title - how does "nunnyness" count?

Always, no matter what the consequences? Mowing down 20 kids on the sidewalk (little risk of injury to the driver) OR hit a solid steel pole front-first (large risk of injury to driver)? I guess most humans would actually choose the pole.

Ah. Well, I guess you could implement some kind of "P" position on a normal stick as well...

But not starting an IC engine just by getting into the car, I wouldn't like - I don't want to start my car immediately or every time when I enter it - sometimes I'm waiting for someone, or I just need to get something from the glovebox etc.. I can see it works for electrical engines tough, where starting actually is just switching on the power electronics and arming some controls...

And that it's a prototype. It doesn't make much sense to build the hardened version before you've tested that the concept works.

I think they said so in the video as well, when they where talking about how much this cost related to how much the finished version would likely cost. This is very much a proof-of-concept - it looks like the cameras are literally duck-taped to the vehicle.

Exactly. It did melt through a few concrete floors tough.

Sure, but I meant the typical fluid-copled variety.

Why would you need a separate radiator?

Something I've been wondering: Is it possible to do non-sequential shifting on these dual-clutch / paddleshifter boxes?