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So, I had to walk home today, as there were no buses. At 8 pm, at -12 degrees. Funniest thing, this morning. I was going to the bus stop when I see a bus leaving in the distance. I go "fuckshitcunt. Oh well, I'll take the next one, no biggie". But then as I get a a bit closer, I notice...

A cramped subway isn't a good thing, Radiated Heinx. Don't use the argument that it's like that in other cities.

Turn into The Incredible Hulk, tear the wall a new a-hole, and carefully examine the wiring inside.

Actually, that particular helmet was notorious for causing neck injuries due to its peculiar shape.

What a pointless and trivial exercise. If this is an advanced level for you, I'm surprised people in your country manage to control fire and use stone tools. Sorry.

Highways are out. Railways are in. The Swedish government is retarded.

This just in: public transportation will be even worse tomorrow, spokesman for the transportation operator says "the solution lies in warmer temperatures". Why aren't these people fired and replaced? Oh, that's right, because of our incompetence-preserving work protection laws. I'll...

Well, the transportation issue arises again every year, and when the snow melts, everyone seems to forget about it. It's just that this time, it's an accumulation of years of neglect. What I meant was that resource allocation can be pretty fucking obvious at times, like now.

I installed it, but I have yet to play it. I'm going to tweak it with mods first.

By not having deal with silly automatic formatting or learning hidden and obscure Word shortcuts and commands and instead learning a more powerful method of writing text right away. Dumbass. I'm going to go with PDF, Ratty. And do most of the writing in Ubuntu on my netbook, where I use Kate.

Having an educated city council has little to do with centralization of power, see my above post. And read about the compromise I suggested. As I see it, educated professionals could handle the budget just as good, if not better, than most politicians, and probably wouldn't squander as much...

It takes time to get right, and then you have to place it within the document, which is hell. Speaking of Word formatting, there's this annoying new feature in 2007 (that open office copy-pasted into their latest release), where, when writing a paragraph, Word will spontaneously decide to...

That's the thing, they needn't and shouldn't exist. I am well aware of them, and it angers me whenever I read about it in the newspaper. When solving practical problems such as this one, there's usually one right answer, and an infinite number of wrong answers.

You answered your own question: That's what technocracy is all about. You see, in Sweden we have small local governments everywhere. Despite having one of the lowest population densities in the world, and being a small country overall, Sweden is run pretty much as an indirect federation...

Hehe, where did you get that idea? We must have one of the worst railway systems in Western Europe. I hear it's the same in Norway, but at least they have mountains as an excuse. You see, Sweden is probably the closest you get to an ideal rail transport model. It's flat and pretty...

That's the first thing I googled. Nothing.

The problem is gross mismanagement and political corruption of what is a practical issue. Only in Sweden will you find that college degrees are required for snow shoveling jobs. Seriously, a winter's "harshness" is in this case a measurement relative to nothing but the state of public...

Also, -21 degrees Celsius. It's not an absolute scale (eg kelvin)

That really isn't a solution in Sweden. Roads are as covered with snow as rails. And in the city, that would cause more problems. Our city roads are pretty small compared to American roads, you'd get massive congestions all over Stockholm, which would slow down buses, making public...

So, public transportation in Sweden is worse than ever this winter. In a country that's been populated for some 10,000 years (?) no one expected it to snow, apparently. It actually went so far as the local public transport operator in Stockholm (SL) declaring that if people could work from their...