Personally I think Monopoly is the root cause of all the financial problems we're having for the past years.

2.5% unemployment, 520$ billion dollars stashed away in a goverment fund for later spending, universil healthcare and ridicilously good unemployment benefits (80% of your last salary, available for 100 weeks as long as you're looking for a job). Apart from the odd massacre and a holier-than-thou-attitude we're fine thank you.

If your media makes a big deal out of him gaming, read better media. If you can't find any, stop reading. You're probably better off.

His manifesto actually (readily available in english) makes a big deal out of how pretending to have a gaming addiction is really usefull for hiding nefarious activities. He wasn't a gaming addict, he was using it as a cover.

Also, if your media is one of those who kept harping on about this being muslims long after it was clear he was Norwegian you're probably better off without them either (I'm looking at you NY Times). The american coverage of this incident has been pretty much abysmal, and I'm sorry for being able to read english. I wish I couldn't.

However, while his gaming certainly didn't affect him, it's pretty clear that the fact that he was taking a coctail of anabolic steroids did. He even described it himself in his manifesto. To which extent we won't know until later, but we'll figure it out. There's plenty of time, and we have to grieve a bit of first.

Signed
A Norwegian
(Also; Glenn Beck; May you burn in hell)

Well, being Amercan you're missing half the web :)

All the different native language sites out there are hiding under .no, .sp, .de etc, and there really is quite a lot of them. About half the websites I visit are from .no, so I think it's more a matter of saying what language they use and where they do business. Basically, I think the American companies messed up, while the rest are behaving themselves... but given your view of the world that's hardly surprising (ever considered inviting other countries to the world series of baseball?)

Fine, alot of you don't see the need for this. Don't use it, and more importantly, don't complain about it.

I work as teacher, mostly for fun, and got suckered into supposedly being admin for the school network. In reality I'm a general janitor / IT-support though. I have next to no time to spend on actually setting infrastructure. If anybody gives me a simple solution for printing any document, from any operating system on any computer easily to our public printers I'd give them a big, wet kiss. I certainly don't know any easy way of doing it now, because adding printers to students laptops is a f***king bother, and there's always some weird problem.

I'm certainly sure there's lots of other uses for this, aswell as lots of places it won't be usefull.

We have a single website for this in Norway already (norge.no), it's bloody usefull. Everything you need from the government is either there, or linked to from it. They even run free phone/sms/e-mail support.

There's nothing sinister about it, it certainly hasn't magically removed the bourecrazy, but it is another of the many small reasons I'm slightly smug to be norwegian; The land where stuff for the most part just works (which still doesn't stop people from whining though).

I'm a high-school teacher (16-18 year olds) and can confirm this. When I get my students I work really hard on teaching them to relax during math tests. Mainly by going around chatting, drawing stupid stuff on the whiteboard and just generally being bored. I estimate this improves math grades by around half a point (on a scale from 1 to 6, where the entire scale is actually used). Grades jump up by atleast 1 grade when I take over classes though. The rest I attribute to me being awsome.

This game is essentially unplayable on a regular CRT TV. The text is really small, and the conversation choices aren't bounded in small coloured boxes. The colour-bleed of a regular TV will make it impossible to read. Other than that, it is a great game, but really didn't capture me like the first one did. The mining mini-game is essentially hell on a XBOX too. The last one worked great on XBOX, but this one really is best on the PC.

Blærg. Finding vulnerabalities is a good thing. Fixing them is even better.

Microsoft just did a good thing. Google did too. The world just became a slightly better place.

If we just fixed the rest of the softwarebugs, ended world hunger, fixed the environment and I got together with my ex (whom I still a miss even a year afterwards..I'm such a f***ing loser) the world be kinda ok.

Smile :)

Who is really to blame for a rape?

a) The man doing it?
b) The woman for wearing suggestive clothes?
c) The Police for not being there?
d) The nightclub they met at for not monitoring everything closely enough?

..and yes, I do know the analogy doesn't quite hold, but I do believe it's close enough. If you commit a crime, you're at fault for breaking it. Always.

The victim should never get the blame for not anticipating somebody being an asshole. You might say they already got their punishment for that mistake.

Maybe I'm an exception, but I don't think that's true at all. I navigate entirely by landmarks. I don't even know the names of half the streets I travel on regularly. Furthermore, my mental map of the city is framed by our light rail system, major bus lines, and bike throughfares, not by the major roads carrying automobile traffic.

Sounds like you still have an somewhat abstract mental map. It sounds awfully close to what I'm using. I'm still can't easily take directions from most my female friends though.. they'll just constantly use landmarks I have trouble finding even when I'm standing right there.. just turn right after the shop selling those cute figurines.. you see the really nice red building?.. uh, come again?