ninalanyon

> Porsche

Really? With the spelling Portia it's a perfectly respectable girl's name in English, why not in German? Or are they completely unrelated? The English Portia stems from Brutus' wife.

Surely it was the name of a person long before it was the name of a thing?

Do they also forbid Mercedes?

> the Nordic

Long obsolete except in Iceland.

HTtrack was great when pages were static or server side generated but now that lot are rendered by JavaScript on the client HTtrack isn't much use.

Do the WebScrapBook and SingleFile extensions not work?

It will still be cooler here than in Germany. And if the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) fails it will quickly become a lot colder than it is now.

Also the abstract talks only about peak temperatures. Those peaks tend to last only for a few days or even less in Norway, the July average where I live (about 40 km south of Oslo) this year was 18 C (0.5 C higher than normal), maximum was 32 C (for two days), minimum 6 C.

The article is about Sweden so no they aren't on what other parts of the world would call minimum wages.

That feeble capitalist excuse won't fly in Europe. Health and Safety legislation in most (all?) of Europe requires workers to take effective safety measures for their own and others safety; it's part of the job.

Except that none of those things are true.

A McDonald's Quarter Pounder is 86 NOK (8.30 EUR or 9.34 USD) here and 6 USD in the US, 5.40 EUR in Germany. So yes it is more expensive than the US or Germany but still not outrageously so.

The one hour train journey from where I live to the national airport is 298 NOK (29 EUR, 32 USD).

I thought they could vote by post?

If you can get a job here then that will go quite some way to compensating for the high cost living and housing outside the biggest towns is relatively affordable compared to, say, UK.

Must have been a short holiday if you didn't see any of that. But it is much better than it used to be.

A detail or two would be welcome so that we could either agree or disagree on firm ground.

I'll grant you it's not perfect, primary education is a bit lacklustre, preparation for an oil free economy is not given enough effort, etc. What were your "structurally pathetic", etc. things?

In Norway they would be evicted pretty promptly.

Recycled towels?

100% touch free? How does that work?

A word that has never been seen before isn't necessarily hard to understand. I'm pretty sure that any Brit would catch the meaning without thinking.

So pretty much anyone for whom the news is relevant would understand the headline immediately.

> Humans don't code anymore

I find that difficult to believe. Is there some objective evidence?

3 million of what?

Is it? What does that one dimensional measure even mean in today's world?

> academic can be bookish, shy or haughty.

There's no shortage of haughty politicians either.

Understanding something intellectually is not quite the same as appreciating it viscerally because you have done something similar.

Also road accidents.

Not much use at 60 degrees and more away from the equator.

Sunrise today was 07:31, sunset will be at 16:32 here.

On 22nd December it will be 09:17 and 15:16.

But not everyone does start working at the same hour. I went to a supermarket today that opens at 07:00 and closes at 23:00, a cafe that opened at 10:00 and closes at 18:00, and a charity shop that opened at 12:00 and closes at 16:00.

When I was working I worked from 08:00 to 16:00 with a half hour break for lunch. But several of my colleagues in the same office worked 07:00 to 15:00. All of us worked with other engineers in countries across the world. My children went to school at 08:30 until 13:30 until they were in senior high school when it was 08:00 to 15:30

The local buses start running at 05:30 and stop at 22:30.

The sun rises when it rises, it has nothing to do with the clock. How does what the clock say take an hour of sunlight away from you? It is surely your employer doing that not the clock.

> Scotland has to have GMT in the winter so that school children don't have to walk to school in the dark.

This gets brought up every time the discussion happens, yet we manage perfectly well even further north here in Norway.

Also why should people need government permission to vary the time at which they do things?

As far as I'm concerned I just want the clock to not change every spring and autumn. Institutions can surely be left to decide for themselves what working hours they have? After all shops, cafes, restaurants, bars, etc., already do that.

There is a wonderful copy of the Bayeux Tapestry (Battle of Hastings, etc.) very well displayed in the municipal museum in Reading, Berkshire.

https://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/collections/britains-bayeux...

One of the interpretations of the poem is that it criticises organised religion and that the mills in question are the church as an organisation represented in concrete terms by the church buildings.

What's the advantage over a catamaran or hydrofoil ferry?

> the test for whether a donation is a bribe.

Donations are always bribes.

> Donations to a politician are to the person.

Isn't that how bribery is normally done?

> It’s not a proxy for buying an outcome.

Perhaps not precisely, but it is a proxy for attempting to influence an outcome.

> under the law, a politician can’t rip you off by taking your money and then voting contrary to your desires.

Isn't that in conflict with:

> it is illegal to tie a donation to a particular position, vote, or action by the politician.

Are you saying that if I give a politician money and express my desire that they are then legally bound to vote according to my desire? Sounds like buying votes; I'm pretty sure that's not condoned by the law.

Not where I come from.