I can't help but associate nutjobs like these with folks like al-Shabab, who, in trying to "save" Somalia from the West, have managed to reintroduce polio there.

The ICA Supermarket on Lillåvägen in Bagarmossen has heaps of pre-emptied spray bottles for sale (as of yesterday evening when I did some shopping there).

[citation needed]

TFTFY.

The same way you "prove" that I am not a 10,000-year-old "evil archmage" dedicated to bringing about the eternal triumph of Ultimate Chaos by driving all Slashdotters INSANE with my cleverly-disguised, "scare-quote"-and-GRATUITOUS-caps-and-boldface-filled "anonymous" posts about Hosts Files, that's how!

--APK

In this era of teeny touchscreen keyboards, the occasional typo is inevitable. I try to overlook such things, and expect others to do likewise.

People who insist on writing grammatical horrors such as "You should of been more careful" or "Obvious typos are obvious to you and I" are not making typos, Grasshopper.

My national tax rate here* is roughly double what it was in the US. Sweden also has a 25% GST.

That does seem to be the case, yes.

Perhaps having to do all that paperwork makes it seem like more, but it really is not.

AFAIK, the US Postal Service does not. The US Census takes place only once every ten years. In any case, these things are completely irrelevant to the matter of being required by law to register your current address with a central government authority (the Folkbokföring). IIRC, you're obliged to do so within 10 days of moving to a new residence. You are also required to have a national ID card here, and you cannot access any government services without it.

You can't even pick up your mail here if you don't have a national ID card or passport issued by the government of Sweden or another EU or Schengen member state. US passport doesn't count, even with a Swedish-issued visa incorporating your photo attached. In theory, they're not even supposed to deliver mail to you if your name does not appear on the door and it's not a name that's registered to that address, but they do honour "c/o" addresses, and in practise there's some additional slack given in this regard.

The point I'm trying to make is that the national government here knows who and where you are pretty much at all times, and that many if not most Americans who are accustomed to living semi-anonymously/semi-"off-grid" are likely to find this a bit uncomfortable. I know that I did when I first moved here.

*(Yes, "here" now; flew home yesterday.)

"Fun" != "satisfying".

Looks like this has potential. Thanks for the link.

The task was *getting the machine online*. You might want to try again.

I'm a very native English-speaker, and I had no problems parsing the GP. You are attempting to pick nits where there are none.

They've managed not to grease the right palms in the mobile space so far, or so it would seem.

I used to think of myself as a Grammar Nazi, but these days I'm jusr grateful to make it through an entire thread without hitting at least one "must of". When we see /. users with 16-digit IDs, you'll likely feel the same.

Didn't you mean, "Shouldn't be, but already is"?

Perceptions change a lot in 9 years. 9 years ago I honestly thought Windows was superior to Linux on a technical level, at least for desktop purposes. Now, I'm quite convinced of the opposite.