here we have it.

Although this is overdoing it allot I think the state of many americans are long overdue for some nanny state control. When other parts of the world are dying of hunger, americans are dying of fat.

But I'll agree this is just silly.

And I wonder what this means.
from the article: "each individual addition of salt"
is that 1 salt molecule ?

Excellent idea, you would probably attract the attention of academics who have have knowledge of the area in question - historically - and can provide valuable input on modern locations and dimensions - since many of old maps vary in their scale internally.

Hehe, this is an ongoing dispute.
I agree with you on many levels, the big problem now is our currency... I hope to get as much power out of the hands of Icelandic politicians as possible. I trust the bureaucrats in Brussels more than politicians.

The best idea I've heard recently is for Sweden,Iceland,Norway,Denmark,Faroe Islands,Finland and Greenland to form a new coalition.

Combined we would be one of the 10th largest economy in the world, coming before Russia even.

http://svenskfinland.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/dagens-nyheter-the-nordic-countries-ought-to-form-a-federation/

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2009/01/marketshare-2398402384.png

kudos to the European union.

this and reading they will oppose ACTA's 3strike rule makes me want to join

ah, just like carrots :)

depends on the country, depends on the politicians, and ultimately the people

What about those who eat meat ?
Isn't eating meat animal abuse ?
Land of the free ?

Depends on where you are from, if within the EU, no problem. Else you'll have to find a job first.

But wouldn't recommend Iceland now, having a bit of a crisis :)

If you have money - you can get some very decent property for little money though.

We don't use voting machines in Iceland - and blank ballots are counted separately from those that are faulty and always reported on.

I would say any other way is very undemocratic.

Abstaining from voting is not an expression of anything but lazyness.

Showing up and handing in unfilled ballot is an expression of opinion - and sends out a message.

The message is to people thinking about running that there is room for new people and to the people in charge that they are not doing a good enough job.

Most unlikely that Americans will be as careful as the Swedish - they will probably outsource it to the lowest bidder - who ends up throwing it in the ocean somewhere in South America.

I'm not running a nuclear power plant :)

And why all the hostility ?

heh, maybe.

Shutting down the computer at random intervals is just evil.

Yes I downloaded the RC client - no, I didn't read the fine print, Yes I have the full version - No, I don't have time to reinstall everything.

Going on vacation in a week - Need my desktop computer running so I can remote into it without any foreseeable problems.

Thought I had until June to do a clean install.

Although someone posted this:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/3075/how-to-upgrade-the-windows-7-rc-to-rtm/
which sounds promising but of course they should have an official way to do this.

No official way to upgrade + random restarts + surprising fineprint = evil.