Yeah, I agree.

At our office we have IE by default and it takes maybe one minute to load on my 3.2 ghz, 16 gb ram analytics machine.
Rendering pages takes even longer.

Chrome and FF are instant so I use those except for some internal web apps that require IE.

This is with version 10 of IE.

He actually got it mostly for his work in nuclear disarmament before he was president, however they were clearly smitten and should never have given him the prize.
We all (Norwegians) know it.

We have standard european 230V grid.
I've never had issues with anything using an european plug.
My guess is the cold. It's been bad lately.

Another thing is the number of teslas here. I see them _everywhere_.
With my Toyota I had to pay $25000 as a one time tax, yearly taxes, road tolls, gas at $9/gallon.

The tesla and other electrics are completely tax free. Not even VAT. No yearly taxes. You pass for free in the toll roads, and electricity is about 16 cents/kWh.
I could also drive past the traffic in the bus lanes and save one hr compared to driving, 30 mins compared to bus/train.

I'm seriously considering selling the toyota and getting a tesla, or buying a leaf as a 2nd car.

In arch linux it's as simple as
  pacman -S nvidia

How did you manage to brick the PC btw?
Did it destroy your bios?

IBM deathstar must have been the worst. I don't know of any survivors.

My quantum fireball 20gb still runs after 16 years or so in my dual ppro 200 with arch :)

You might have a look at that too :)
It's still fairly basic though, but it does not contain any of the old opengl cruft.

I agreed until I shelled out for the expansion which should have been in the game from the start.

The city area is still small, but you can add some towers that make up for it. And it's actually quite fun.

Yes,

Just look at Anders Behring Breivik here in Norway.
He's even allowed to study political science in jail!!

Sounds like they have been trained in the White tower :)

Publicly posting tax information has nothing to do with wealth inequality.
That is the excuse, not the reason. The only ones that need to know your income is the computer systems that is used to calculate taxes.

Fighting wealth equality should happen in policies, not publicly shaming those who work hard and actually contributes to the society.

It is hard to explain to foreigners often, but there is a deep rooted culture of envy that historically have been strong where someone standing out in a positive way is pulled down as hard as possible.
Everyone should be equal, or else.
This is also ingrained in the school system and is one of the reasons we rank so low in the PISA tests.

Fortunately this is starting to go away as people come to their senses and stick to their own business :)
We just elected the first liberal government in many years and I hope they will make the necessary policy changes like removing the public tax information.

This is incredibly stupid. Criminals use it to pick out who to rob, and the news has a feeding frenzy every year where they single out people who actually contributes.

I hope this system will be gone and buried soon along with the whole envy culture that we have in this country with the new government.

It's funny. In any other operating evironment you would call these root exploits.
However in the Apple camp it's simply jailbreaking. One does not dear imply that the iphone is insecure :)

I could work as a programmer, however since the pay as an analyst is much better that is where I am.

The work is still coding, though the it is different and involves a lot more math and statistics than regular app development.
My tools also differ. I use PostgreSQL and R mostly, but I still find my self using C or ruby when the situation requires it.

I'm not considering my self a hobbyist programmer though. This is what I do for a living :)

If you need to slam the bakes to stop for a yellow signal you are going waaaay to fast into the intersection anyway.

Nevertheless. We don't have anything resembling those cameras here and quite long yellow light. People still slam the brakes or floor it when the yellow hits.
Some stop in the middle of the road blocking everyone too :)

Bottom line: people can't drive so nothing really helps except building roads that make it impossible for vehicles to cross in that way.