Well. To be fair: Tried to.

Swedes are regarded as trust-worthy. But Sweden of today have lots of immigrants and other cultures blended in and possibly you can't expect the same from them.

Also if the social community/union of Sweden collapses because some people abuse it / doesn't play by the rules then that will be gone.

Maybe what you say would be correct for rich and successful people. For the poor and stupid which has put themselves into this situation or are average joes whom happened to get there I assume many don't realize / think about that / know how to do it and hence face the consequences.

Iceland let the banks fall. They work ok now.

Pressure cookers have actually made a comeback among foodies. The difference from grandma's pressure cooking style is that times for anything but pot roast are *extremely* short. For example if you're cooking broccoli it's done after two minutes at pressure. Grandma would have kept the broccoli in the pressure cooker for five minutes and removed it as a pale gelatinous goo.

A pressure cooker is a good acquisition when you're setting up a kitchen because even though you might use it only a couple of times a month, if you don't lock down the lid what you have is just a nice, heavy pot. Slow cooked is still the way to go for chili, but if you don't have eight hours you can get passable results in well under an hour with a pressure cooker.

I look at the Nokia which is Nokia.
Not what is now Microsoft.
I talk about Nokia not Microsoft.

The fact is that Windows phone and number of phones manufactured or not Nokia according to the market is worth about the same. That the phone business has been sold of is irrelevant. The price for that include what it contained and was.

Finns who held the stock through this time is likely about or better of by now (whatever you measure before it was announced or after matters.)
Of course having changed to the market in general would still had been a better deal though.

So has it been a success or failure? I don't know. I don't know what would have happened otherwise. Guess I'd say no. But it at least haven't been a catastrophe because Nokia hasn't lost value since it happened (it has relevative the total market value of the whole stock market.)

I believe the metaphor you're looking for is "re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic".

Yeah. And with high interest rates for a debt which can never be repaid that doesn't help much either.

Here in Sweden if you're in heavy personal debt eventually you may be able to get it written of through some system I won't bother with what it's called because it's 07:28 in the morning and I haven't slept yet but anyway. If you do that you lose everything and all your earnings beyond what you need to survive is given to your debtors for five years or whatever and then it's written off.

I assume you may have a hard time borrowing money afterwards too, for some time. But that too is dropped eventually.

It sounds like a good deal.

Until you lose.

I wouldn't call it a metaphor, nor would I say that Asimov's point is that you can't codify morality. His point is more subtle: a code of morality, even a simple one, doesn't necessarily imply what we think it does. It's a very rabbinical kind of point.

The Nokia stock is up above where it was than the Windows phone deal was announced.

Which also was a pretty weird reaction even though it would be in line with what I felt about the ideas before-hand but considering analysts / at least some people had said that was what they should do and then it tanked anyway =P

Anyway. Stock price recovered. And now they don't make phones.

But Nokia didn't only sell smartphones or even mostly smartphones.

They sold future-phones and dumb-phones too.

So you may both be correct.

That they still sold a bunch of phones though shitty ones which couldn't compete in the premium market doesn't really matter all that much.

This isn't really true: Yeah it give twice as much money back in online poker!

If serious then I have no idea. Guess normally it doesn't work since the routing would be weird (if all had the same IP but different mac and routing then I don't know how that would work.) For games performance is most likely latency related and not bandwidth related and there wouldn't be anything to gain from adding other connectivity options than the best one anyway.

I nominated "dingleberry".

Spin, sure, but it's a waay bigger minority than I expected. I'd even say even shockingly large.

The genius of Asimov's three laws is that he started by laying out rules that on the face of it rule out the old "robot run amok" stories. He then would write, if not a "run amok" story, one where the implications aren't what you'd expect. I think the implications of an AI that surpasses natural human intelligence are beyond human intelligence to predict, even if we attempt to build strict rules into that AI.

One thing I do believe is that such a development would fundamentally alter human society, provided that the AI was comparably versatile to human intelligence. It's no big deal if an AI is smarter than people at chess; if it's smarter than people at everyday things, plus engineering, business, art and literature, then people will have to reassess the value of human life. Or maybe ask the AI what would give their lives meaning.

$2499 for most expensive Macbook Pro.

"2.5GHz quad-core Intel Core i7
Turbo Boost up to 3.7GHz
16GB 1600MHz memory
512GB PCIe-based flash storage1
Intel Iris Pro Graphics
AMD Radeon R9 M370X with 2GB GDDR5 memory
Built-in battery (9 hours)2"

I have little knowledge for how it compares without bothering with it and I won't bother.

Dear moderators: "Troll" is not a synonym for "I disagree with this".

That said, I disagree with this.

We've known since the investigation of 9/11 that suicide bombers are not necessarily dead-enders except in the literal sense. Economic powerlessness might play a role in the political phenomenon of extremist violence, but it is not a necessary element of the profile of a professional extremist. These people often come from privileged backgrounds and display average to above average job aptitude.

Mohammed Atta's life story makes interesting reading. He was born to privileged parents; at the insistence of his emotionally distant father he wasn't allowed to socialize with other kids his age, and had a lifelong difficulty with relating to his peers. At university he did OK but below the high expectations of his parents. He went to graduate school in urban planning where his thesis was on how impersonal modern high rise buildings ruined the historic old neighborhoods of the Muslim world.

That much is factual; as to why he became an extremist while countless others like him did not, we can only speculate. I imagine that once he decided modernity was the source of his personal dissatisfactions Al Qaeda would be attractive to him. Al Qaeda training provided structure which made interacting with his new "peers" easier than ever before. And martyrdom promised relief from the dissatisfactions of a life spent conscious of his own mediocrity. Altogether he was a miserable and twisted man -- but not economically miserable.

"Actually it can have three Internets at once. One wireless, one through the included USB Ethernet adapter and one tethered to your phone over Bluetooth!"