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Comment Re:Trying this in Norway (Score 1) 353

Yes it was. I don't remember the exact phrasing. My friend's argument is in the lines of:

-You said it can play games
-You said I could put other OSs on it
I can no longer put other OSs on it, so my machine is broken. If I choose to not update it to keep the other OSs-option, I can no longer play games in the future.
Please provide me with one that works as advertised.

Comment I own. (Score 1) 582

In the US, maybe. I live in Norway and here it is very common to own.
Owning a home means I save about $800 a month compared to renting a similar flat (subject to change, as the interest rates are going back up.) Every time I pay the bank I also buy a little bit more of my flat from the bank. Giving the same amount to a landlord ... leaves me nothing.

Comment Re:MD (Score 1) 595

People expect a life free of disease,

I have had a few courses in medicine (in Norway, yay) and I must say: After I read a book on how much stuff could go wrong in my body I am amazed I'm ever healthy at all!

Comment It was a russian rocket (Score 3, Interesting) 347

..or so the theory goes. Norway's largest newspapers all did stories on this earlier today. Here is from one of them: Vg.no, and here is another dagbladet.no.

The first image from vg is taken with a long shutter time (or long exposure, or what the english expression is) on a tripod.
americans might consider these newspapers NSFW. Most norwegian ads contain a fair amount of tits and ass. just sayin'.

Comment Re:Someone please explain (Score 2, Informative) 402

Kind of. To be pedantic (and I hope I remember my Latin correctly), campi is plural of campus, but only in certain cases.
In the original sentence he said "in college campuses (campi?)". "In" triggers the ablative case ("ablative of place"), and plural the plural version of this is "-is" [1][2]. So the correct form would be "in college campis".

So in my opinion he could argue "campus" was now an English word and use say "campuses" in the English fashion, or go Latin all the way.
Not all Latin words ending with -us is -i in plural. All 4th declination nouns have -us in plural as well. E.g. manus /hand.

[1] Ablative: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ablative_case#Latin
[2] Campus is second declination: http://www.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/words.exe?campus

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