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Here in Norway we are currently considering a temporary change in the laws:
Pubs and restaurants are closed down, but to give them a chance to survive, they are allowed to prepare takeaway food that you order by phone and come to pick up at an agree time. But they have huge tanks of beer, that cannot stand for more than a few months. So now the authorities are considering them to provide takeaway beer as well, so they won't have to throw thousands of liters of beer into the river.
I have no idea about how they expect the takeaway beer to be delivered - certainly not in open half liter glasses. Speciality beers are bottled, but those are not the problem, the problem is the tank of two thousand liters of standard beer. Will they suggest some "BYOB" - "Bring Your Own Bucket" to have it filled up?
I honestly do not believe that this proposed law change will be passed, not even as a temporary law. But if is is, I am very curious to see how it will be carried through in practice.
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Quote: I am very curious to see how it will be carried through in practice
I am curious as well! Keep us posted!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Member 7989122 wrote: I have no idea about how they expect the takeaway beer to be delivered
Are you seriously suggesting that a thirsty Norwegian cannot find a way to cart away a beer or three? 
Just a couple of ideas for BYOB:
- Use the 1 liter water bottles that are fine for day trips (I mean the reusable kind that attach to your belt, not the so-called "mineral water")
- For larger quantities, you can get 5 liter Styrofoam-insulated containers. It used to be that every house in Israel had a few of these for use in day trips in the summer (when you need LOTS of water!)
I'm sure that one or other of these ideas could be made to work in your neck of the woods. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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I thought Budweiser was a drain cleaner (not a very good one  ).
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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It is just a homeopathic version of lager
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A couple decades ago, a standard joke among beer lovers in Europe went:
- What's the similarity between making love in a canoe and American beer?
- Both are f**ing close to water.
Since then, there has been a microbrewery movement, which has resulted in some excellent beers (some of it good enough to be shipped over the pond for us here in Norway, although at premium prices.)
Has this had any influence on the mainstream, "industrial" beers? Or are they essentially unchanged from what they were twenty and thirty years ago?
I am guessing that USA is similar to Norway: The microbreweries catch a lot of attention, but their share of the total beer market is not that many percent, by volume. Or have the micros succeeded in making any significant inroads in the overall beer market?
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 Here in Oz booze production is considered an essential service. It was threatened with restrictions but the uproar was so loud they withdrew them.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
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I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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It seems the people Down Under have their priorities sorted out! 
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Yep, more so in Western Australia.
While everyone was panic buying toilet paper and canned food, the premier got ahead of it all and put restrictions on how much alcohol anyone can buy in one go - to make sure there's enough to go round.
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Not sure if all that is right.
I fizz my beer by adding a bit of sugar to it when bottling, the yeast eats it and since the bottle is sealed there's nowhere for carbon to go, so it dissolves into the liquid.
I know that some larger breweries pasteurize the beer to give it a longer shelf life, maybe that interferes with the traditional process?
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Dar Brett wrote: maybe that interferes with the traditional process?
It does, but the traditional process still creates all CO2 needed, they just need to learn to save it for later use.
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I just reported what I saw on one of the news channels on TV. Keep in mind that most American beers tend to be watery. Fermentation may not produce enough CO2 on its own? But I am guessing now.
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We joke here in Canada that we can run out of toilet paper, the water supply can be disrupted, the power grid fail (not that that's a new thing) but 15 mins after they close the beer stores here it will be full societal collapse.
I used to think us Aussies drank a lot of beer. I stand corrected.
In any case we have beer delivery, beer takeout and the beer shops are open and practicing safe distancing. I'm personally working on ensuring they all stay afloat financially in the only way I know best.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Quote: I'm personally working on ensuring they all stay afloat financially in the only way I know best.
I admire your unflagging dedication to secure the survival of such a vital part of canadian culture! Well done!  
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I have hardly written a full sentence by hand since I first encountered a computer keyboard in High School (that was in the teletype days). Today, I fight to understand my own handwritten shopping list when I go to the grocery store
So I was sure I could do touch typing - I am using all ten fingers, and I do not have to look at the keytops. Or at least so I thought. A few weeks ago, I flipped off all the keytops to brush my keyboard clean. I was a little too fast when putting then back on, and swapped M and N, as well as X and Z. I discovered it more or less immediately, but said to myself: "I'll just leave it that way! I know which character is in which position!"
What did I think??? I immediately started typing N for maybe every second M. Especially with CTRL, I begun undo when I meant to cut and cutting when I meant to undo. I do not notice myself looking at the keytops; I have no idea why I do such silly typing mistakes.
Anyway, I will leave the keytops in their wrong place, to teach myself real touch typing, neither consciously nor unconsciously looking at the keytops. After several weeks I have very little progress. But I will continue my fight against myself. When my Z/X and M/N error rate goes down, I will start switching the other keytops around. Maybe in a year or two I will be able to do real touch typing. For now, I am really frustrated over my typing abilities.
A friend of mine has got a keyboard with all black keytops. It is one of those super-flat, no-key-travel models that I don't like. Besides, he has it set up as a US English keyboard; he is of the kind that don't mind if he has to enter Norwegian characters by hex code. I want a native Norwegian keyboard, with keys in standard position for ÆØÅ. That limits the selection significantly (I asked if he could set his keyboard up as a Norwegian one; he didn't know, didn't think so). So flipping keytops around seem to be the solution, and it may be just as fine.
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Get an app - I learned back on my Amstrad 6140 with "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing" and have never looked back. It's so much worth it (until you start swapping between an English layout Desktop and a US layout Surface (partly because Windows for no good reason remember what I had set last time and assumes my current machine is the same layout ... and WINKEY+SPACE toggles it which for some reason I keep hitting by mistake. And then swear.
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I guess that after 40+ years behind the keyboard, doing "The big red fox jumps over the lazy dog" style exercises is not really for me - even when provided by an app. I did lots of that style back in 8th grade. Even after going through the drills of that app, my experience shows me that even if I thihk that I am not looking down, I am indeed. No app drill will change that fact.
So my solution to that is to make it worthless to look down, because the ketops do not reflect reality when they are misplaced. The only app that could prevent me from taking sneak views of my keyboard without myself consciously noticing it would be one that told me to shuffle the keytops around. That is exactly what I am doing, without needing an app to tell me to!
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My advice would be not to torture yourself. I am exactly in the same position, after 40+ years of typing looking at the keyboard. That hasn't stopped me from having a pretty successful career. If anything might have even helped a bit: slow typing gives one time to reflect at what he is typing. I'm not sure my mind would be able to go much faster, so what's the rush?
Mircea
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Mircea Neacsu wrote: so what's the rush?
Nothing really, beyond the realization that I must be making sneak views down on my keyboard without realizing it - and when those sneak views give me the wrong information (because the keytops are misplaced), I obey! I am typing according to the wrong keytops even though I (wrongfully believe) that I am not looking at them!
So I sort of present this as a challenge to all of you: Flip off all the (standard-sized) keytops and put them back in random order. Do you still have the same typing speed, the same error frequency? I was convinced that I would. It turned out not to be true. So try it for yourself - you don't have to admit your failure in this forum!
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Mircea Neacsu wrote: low typing gives one time to reflect at what he is typing.
I'd say the reality of it is that one is putting more attention into the typing instead of the thinking.
I was "forced" to learn to type in Junior High School (8th grade) back when it was only useful for typewriters. Years later, in college, that turned out to be quite useful . . . for typing.
Now, after years with a keyboard, I type without thinking about my hands, but instead, about what I am typing. Not intending to be mean or overly critical, but your comment about how "it might helped" is very reminiscent of Aesop's Fox and Grapes fable.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: very reminiscent of Aesop's Fox and Grapes fable.
There is more than a nugget of truth in there.
Truth is howerver that, for me, programming efficiency is O("little grey cells speed") as Poirot would say. Typing faster would help only marginally.
Mircea
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I would describe myself almost exactly the same way - I, too, learned touch typing in 8th grade.
So I am curious: Have you ever tried to switch the keytops around, to verify that you in fact take no visual clues from the keyboard?
If you had asked me a month ago, I would have laughed: Of course I "take no visual clues" - I have been touch typing for 40 years! The problem is: It turned out not to be true. I still could swear that I do not look at the keyboard, I just see myself making a lot more typing mistakes with those two letter pairs. I guess I would have been better off scraping off the keytop letters so there would be nothing to mislead me.
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Not at all - I'll glance at it for special keys (sometimes) as I don't (and never did) really memorize them (neither did my fingers). In particular - some of the keys are in different places on different keyboards: there's no solid standard for where the "extra" keys, added for computers, will be.
Peeking for those is much faster than backspacing (or worse) to get rid of and error and then retyping it.
But as for 95% of the time, I hit 80 WPM bursts. You can hardly see the fingers move. Sustained rate is slower - and typing stuff in CP Lounge - as many who read what I post will attest to: erratic.
There is, now and then, the "Special Encryption" which occurs if I have either or both hands out of place and start to type. :oole TJos (should have been Like This),
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