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I think it's quite valid for Sweden too, possibly to a lesser extent. Possibly.
My wife is German and when she moved up to me she recognized most of what he describes.
But the funny thing is that when she worked with Norwegians a few years ago she had the same experience again.
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Interesting - Ive worked and met with Norwegians outside of Norway, and I found them very different from this portrayal/sterotype ... and ditto Swedish persons as well .. I remember a Swedish gent I met in Italy in 2005, who started with the line 'I know you think Swede is a type of vegetable..." (which cracked me up having such humour off the cuff)
And having spent a week in Stockholm, a few years ago, I had no issues talking to Swedish people there, although maybe most of them were a younger generation
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It's different when you try to live here, but then again it's also different from US type Instafriends™.
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I've met som Swedish people that works here, they seem adjust just fine. I have also met some Americans who thinks we are kind of wierd...
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In my last job I had to travel quite a lot in Europe, and the strangest thing I found about the people I worked with, in all countries, was how normal thay all were. Friendly, welcoming, generous, sense of humour, enjoyed drinking ... On reflection, that applied to the people in Kuwait and India also; apart from the drinking.
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I guess they are pretty equal at work, but its the spare time that really was a challange for him at least. I guess it depends what you do.
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I always found my colleagues keen to show me their towns.
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I suppose that higher educated jobs have to be in a city, but were I'm originally from there isnt really that much too see (Not even a pub), unless you want to drive for ages. 
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People are the same the world over.
"The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s." climate-models-go-cold
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Very true. I found the same attitudes in Uganda, South Africa, Canada and the US.
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His latest novel, "In Paradise" [^], will be released on April 8.
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The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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My business partner and I have had company cell phones (in my name) for many years and never had an overage on minutes or data. Four months ago, she added her 25 yo son to the plan. Since then, I have started receiving messages from the cellular provider informing me that we are nearing, or have exceeded the shared data allowance. In one month his mother and I used .3 GB while his line has racked up 6.5 GB and cost another $15. I called and asked him about it...had he also received the alerts? 'Yes, but I figured Mom would have upgraded the plan. It's not my fault!'. I had to just hang up...not worth arguing about. It's much easier to just suspend his line at least until the new cycle.  Brat!!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Modern 25 yr old sounds like our 13 yr olds from the 80s. Ah, progression.
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kmoorevs wrote: she added her 25 yo son to the plan.
Why, he is old enough to own a phone of his own.
kmoorevs wrote: figured Mom would have upgraded the plan.
As you said drop him from the plan. He can get his own phone.
kmoorevs wrote: It's not my fault!
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Ok that's a little sad, the fact that you can still consider a 25yo a brat, I wonder at what point he is expected to grow up and take responsibility for himself. Cut the dammed line, cut the apron strings and chuck the bugger out.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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kmoorevs wrote: My business partner and I have had company cell phones
Four months ago, she added her 25 yo son to the plan
Is her son also an employee of your company and using his cellphone for business purposes only? If not, she's just broken the cardinal rule of mixing business and personal expenses. I assume you're not claiming the entire phone bill as a business expense? That would make the IRS quite unhappy. 
/ravi
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kmoorevs wrote: It's not my fault!'.
There is a lot of truth in this statement. As long as he isn't held accountable, its not his fault!
It is the behavior of our entire culture. You should do more than suspend the line - like cut it off completely.
Edit:
I'd also take 'mommy' off the list of people who can edit the account. No reason why he should have been added. Irresponsibility there too, in a big way.
P.S. Don't give her a company car!
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Just had yet another run in with computer browsing, and trying to get it working when switching back to a different local network. And its dead. It did work, you switch networks, come back, and its dead even after enabling computer browsing. This used to work on XP and 2k seamlessly.
Vista was a disaster, and IMO there is too much of it inside win7 still.
"The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s." climate-models-go-cold
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I thought XP started nice and then became quite broken. Windows 7 has been a breath of fresh air. I found Windows 8.x to be amazingly stable (and even grew accustomed to a few of its UI quirks.)
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Quite the opposite. Vista got a bad rap, but imho it wasn't all that bad. My only grip with it now is that IE can't be upgraded to current version. I have 8.1 installed on a laptop for testing, but my workhorse is still Win7.
To be honest, I pretty much skipped XP altogether moving straight from Win2K to Win7.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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XP is leaner meaner and more responsive than 7.
Seems like MS got it right performance wise with 8.
Too bad they hung Metro on it.......
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Ron Anders wrote: XP is leaner meaner and more responsive than 7.
That has not been my experience. Windows XP would often freeze up for me. And, while Windows XP had much better performance than Windows Vista, I found that both XP and Vista had worse performance than Windows 7. And, I measure performance.
By the way, I either read, or was told, that after the issues with Windows XP and Windows Vista, Microsoft went back to the Windows 2000 code base to develop Windows 7 so that the mistakes made with XP and Vista could be avoided.
I dislike Windows 8's UI so much I am staying at Windows 7 until Microsoft either fixes Windows 8 or provides another operating system that makes it easy to switch between multiple applications that are all running simultaneously, just like previous versions of Windows. I am hopeful that the Windows 8.1 update on April 8 will fix this.
When, on Ubuntu Linux 12.x, the UI was changed to use the "Unity" by default to support both tablets and desktop system, there were complaints from desktop developers about the new UI. I guess Microsoft developers missed that. I also wish they had read "User Interface Design For Programmers" by Joel Spolsky. This book is like a Cliff's notes version of a UI textbook. An understanding of the book's contents would have avoided lots of the issues with Windows 8.
In any event, I don't doubt whatever network issue you're referring to exists. I do wonder what specific issue you're having. There can be more setup for Windows Vista and 7 than XP, because specific security settings have to be bypassed. I don't know if that applies to your situation or not.
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Bill_Hallahan wrote: XP would often freeze up for me
That's third party drivers and bloat ware. I bet fresh out of the box it didn't. Cant say the same for win 7 though.
"The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s." climate-models-go-cold
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Bill_Hallahan wrote: I dislike Windows 8's UI so much I am staying at Windows 7
I felt the same way, until I got my Win8 (which is impressively speedy and stable) to look like this[^].
/ravi
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