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The problem here as seen from Amazon's point of view isn't that someone broke the rules, it's that they were busted for doing so. Same with Apple and any other corp where a contractor violates the rules; you punish them for being discovered, not for breaking the rules in the first place.

Although a Norwegian, I had to look this up. The line of succession in Norway is limited to the descendants of the living king, so as a result the list is fairly short with just 7 eligible candidates.

If all those were to die, the Norwegian parliament would (in theory) select a new king or queen. In practice though, I suspect that we'd simply end the monarchy.

This is unlike other monarchies where the line of succession is a bit larger. According to Wikipedia, the line of succession in the UK has more than 5000 entries. [1]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succession_to_the_British_thro...

A similar thing exists in Norway. For auto-payments you have to register every agreement in the web portal of the bank*, and only after that can they withdraw money automatically. You can also set limits on how much they can withdraw per month, and if you suspect that something is fishy you can cancel the registration forcing them to send you an invoice electronically or on paper.

Isn't this what the article was criticizing in the first place? A bunch of white people pretending to care by doing a meaningless change?

This is more or less correct; a car with studded tires will average around 20kgs of asphalt dust over a normal winter season.

The problem for most countries is that it can be decades between hosting two Olympics, meaning that facilities are either worn out not fulfilling the current Olympic technical requirements.

Also; very few countries has a need for facilities with the capacity the Olympics require, so this would be a huge burden for most of them.

This is changing somewhat though. Several of the larger cities in Norway are struggling with poor air quality during winter, so studded tires have either been banned or require you to pay a tax in order to use them. [1]

This doesn't apply everywhere though, and people are require to use common sense and use the tires (and chains) that are best for where they live.

[1] - https://www.stavanger.kommune.no/en/waste-and-environment/mi...

She's been released it seems, but has been "Censored by the state of Florida until further notice." according to her twitter feed.

https://twitter.com/GeoRebekah/status/1350862633264672772

Chances are that Norway did it because of the EU as a member of EFTA.

Not really; MMO is just a massively multiplayer online game, it doesn't have to be an RPG. It could just as well be an FPS, RTS or any other genre... </nitpicking>

On a (somewhat) related note: Jack-Up Project Saves Sinking North Sea Rigs (https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/19/business/jack-up-project-...)

Keep in mind that most of the money Norway make from oil & gas are invested [1], it's not money used directly for anything in Norway. Up to 4% of the money made from the investments can be spent, the rest is re-invested.

Of the 1.173,5 bn NOK income in the 2020 national budget, 1.084,8 bn NOK are from taxes and various charges.[2]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor... [2] - https://www.statsbudsjettet.no/Statsbudsjettet-2020/Satsinge... (Norwegian)

It's not the full cost of having a kid in childcare. Norway have set a cap on what the parents have to pay, and most (if not all) kindergartens have discounts if you have multiple kids in the same place.

The actual cost is much higher but is covered by the government, with some adjustments to account for local variations in things such as real-estate costs and similar.

There are lots of possible choices, but if you depend on software not available on other platforms, it doesn't matter. If Microsoft doesn't do their job once properly notified, they deserve a slap on the wrist.

This! Not just for the systems development side of things, but just as much for normal usage. I tend to do work for fairly small organizations (<500 ppl), but with layer upon layer of bureaucracy and management, not to mention cultural and geographic differences.

The main goal of the systems I work on is to provide technical documentation of complex industrial processes. If things break, it can be pricey and/or dangerous. Having good information is a must.

However, if a user sees that something is off or just plain missing in the sometimes 30+ year old documentation, the easiest way to deal with it is to make a note of it and adapt to it for his or her work. Reporting the problem back in order to get it fixed is....difficult. There probably is a process for it, you probably don't have an account where you can log the time spent on it.

Having a quick and low-threshold way to report problems would be of enormous value in the long run.

English translation: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

tl;dr: Tidal has denied being suspected for anything, but the Norwegian Supreme Court just confirmed that the company has been under suspicion since June of last year.

The confirmation was part of a decision to allow the Norwegian police to seize documents relating to Tidal's power platform and business model, despite the fact that the documents contain business and operating secrets.

Have a look at the Wikipedia article about the 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron and Constant Peg :) [1]

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonopah_Test_Range_Airport#447...

> Maybe environmental issues?

Amongst others. It's not enough to just dig a hole in the ground, you have to make sure it doesn't seep into the ground as well. In addition, you have the always present risk of fire...

You can do both though. Replace the valve with a burst disc now, just so testing can continue. Investigate the valve in parallel with testing, and place it back in whenever you think you've solved it, if you still need it.

I once worked with a client in such a situation. They were in the process of building a huge oil rig, costing somewhere north of $5.5bn USD. The basic premise was that a previous vendor had configured a big documentation system running on a soon-to-be-outdated Windows Server version ages ago, along with a "kind of" API allowing the shipyard to send information in the form of equipment/construction metadata, documents of various kinds and similar stuff.

The main challenge was that nothing could not be resent if a transmission failed, unless there was an actual change on the shipyard side, or by an highly complex and manual method. There was no source code to anything, and while the enterpricy system was a fairly standard off-the-shelf type thing, the API was completely customized. Nobody knew anything about how it talked to the system, dependencies or anything else. Changing anything was out of the question, as everything had been defined in contracts and processes making waterfall seem agile.

The team I was in was basically there to set up a new application in a separate environment, so that we could migrate and replace the existing setup once the shipyard had handed over all the information. In the end everything was kind of anti-climactic, with everything working as expected for as long as it needed to.

Mandatory mention: Rifftrax and Mystery Science Theater 3000. They opened my eyes to truly bad movies, and have provided hours of entertainment since discovering them via a friend 15 years ago.

Not being realistic can also mean that you are creative on false premises, and that the result might fail because of it. By being realistic about the world and the environment surrounding you be it work-, political-, economical- or otherwise you can see actual problems plaguing others, and _maybe_ you can generate something that solves a tiny part of what people struggle with.

Isn't this a general problem for large cities? A quick glance at Google gave me [1], indicating that this isn't a problem limited to London.

[1] - https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/top-10-smoggiest-cities-in-...

Had to rewrite the headline a lot to make it fit. Full headline is "Men arrested for breaking into Dallas County Courthouse after judicial branch hires them to test 'vulnerability' of court records"

Right. And even if they conceded that they were on the moon, they'd argue that the 1969 landing was still fake, with props brought to the moon way later.

Won't work. The "rocket" is simply an advanced simulator with the ability to simulate zero G with high-def displays. No matter what kind of evidence you provide, they will always provide a (far fetched) counter argument.

Depends on the number of kids and what they do. Playing drums in the same room as someone trying to focus on a high-adrenaline multiplayer FPS would never work (at least not very well). Separating into multiple rooms also allows kids to bring friends over and do stuff without disturbing the other kids. Also; kids needs time to be alone, multiple rooms allows them to do stuff by themselves without having be with others.

The list looks great so far, with lots of books and authors I would never otherwise hear about. A big thank you to everyone who has contributed so far.

Please keep it coming, but try to stick to one book each. This isn't as much about keeping the list short, more to make you decide on one title which is more interesting than the others you've read.

No limits on genres or types of books. There are so much wonderful stuff to read I've never heard of, so by imposing any kind of limits or suggesting genres I would limit people to suggest stuff I might already like, not stuff I might like but would never otherwise hear about.

Any links or pointers to where it can be found? There are just a _few_ Apollo 11 documentaries coming out this year it seems...