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The SomerZ Summer, yay! Level: 45  Posts: 825/862 EXP: 618182 For next: 41982 Since: 03-15-04 From: Norway Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 3 hours |
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| September 12th is the day of the Norwegian Parliamentary Election. The election this year looks like it will be a close one. We currently have two very distinct blocs hoping to win government, both consisting of three parties. The Red-Green Alliance and The Government Parties. According to recent opinion polls, The Red-Green Alliance will win majority in Parliament with only about 2 seats, but this could easily change. For those interested in reading a bit about this, a presentation of the parties follows: The Red-Green Alliance Labour Norwegian Name: Det Norske Arbeiderparti Scale: Centre-Left Ideology: Social-Democratic Seats won in 2001 election: 43 (of 165) Party Leader: Jens Stoltenberg Labour wants a strong welfare-state, where poverty is fought, and jobs are created. Labour wants to do this while ensuring a stable private industry, though Labour is pro making sure the worker's rights and interests are looked after, especially since Labour has very strong ties to the Norwegian trade union. Socialist Left Party Norwegian Name: Sosialistisk Venstreparti Scale: Left Ideology: Socialist Seats won in 2001 election: 23 (of 165) Party Leader: Kristin Halvorsen The Socialist Left Party is mainly concerned with equality, children/youth, and the environment. The party wants to ensure that all children that want to go to kindergarten can go to kindergarten, and that school will be a place where children can grow up, and not a place where grades are the only things that count. Wants a new direction in foreign affairs, eventually leading to Norway pulling out of NATO. Centre Party Norwegian Name: Senterpartiet Scale: Centre-Left Ideology: N/A Seats won in 2001 election: 10 (of 165) Party Leader: Åslaug Haga The Centre Party is mainly concerned with agrarian and district politics. The party wants more subsidies to farmers and a decentralization of power from the cities to the countryside. The party also strongly opposes Norwegian membership in the European Union. Government Parties Conservative Party Norwegian Name: Høyre Scale: Right Ideology: Conservative Seats won in 2001 election: 38 (of 165) Party Leader: Erna Solberg The Conservative Party gives tax cuts and removes limits to what private enterprise is allowed to do, thus hoping to stimulate growth in the private sector of Norway. Christian Democratic Party Norwegian Name: Kristelig Folkeparti Scale: Centre-Right Ideology: N/A Seats won in 2001 election: 22 (of 165) Party Leader: Dagfinn Høybråten Concerned with moral and ethics. The party thinks the state should care for its citizens, but not get economically involved. Conservative stand in controversial topics such as Gay Adoption, Abortion, and Biotechnology. Liberal Party Norwegian Name: Venstre Scale: Centre-Right Ideology: Social-Liberal Seats won in 2001 election: 2 (of 165) Party Leader: Lars Sponheim Believes in a private economy where a "social security net" (i.e. a welfare state) takes care of those who fail. Also interested in environmental issues, and wants to help build more environmentally clean alternatives to today's industry. Independent Parties Progress Party Norwegian Name: Fremskrittspartiet Scale: Far Right Ideology: Neoliberal Seats won in 2001 election: 26 (of 165) Party Chairman: Carl I. Hagen Wants stronger penalties for crimes, a bigger police force, and more restrictions on immigration. Supported the government in this period (to keep the left side from attaining power), thus giving the government parties a majority in Parliament, but has said it will not do so again unless the party can be a part of a new government. The Christian Democratic Party refuses this, because of the two parties' opposing views on alcohol and pornography. Coastal Party Norwegian Name: Kystpartiet Scale: N/A Ideology: N/A Seats won in 2001 election: 1 (of 165) Party Leader: Roy Waage Special Interest party for fishermen, whalers, and other people working in coastal-related industries. Supports continiued Norwegian whaling, protecting fishermen's jobs, opposes Norwegian membership in the European Union. Red Electoral Alliance Norwegian Name: Rød Valgallianse Scale: Far Left Ideology: Communist Seats won in 2001 election: 0 (of 165) Party Leader: Torstein Dahle Promotes revolutionary marxist ideas. Wants more solidarity and equality, both nationally and abroad. Currently holds no seats, but can win up to 2 seats this year, according to recent opinion polls. So there you have it. In addition to these, there are, of course, also a lot of smaller parties, but none that have any realistic chance of winning any seats in Parliament. As for election results, well, you never really can tell who will group together to form a government. The Red-Green Alliance is simple, if they win a majority of seats, they'll form a government, if they miss majority by only a few seats, they'll have to go ask the Red Electoral Alliance or the Coastal Party for support, as those parties might decide to support the Red-Green Alliance. Should the Red-Green Alliance miss majority by many seats, however, they might still form a government, since the current Government parties are fractioned, and support from the Progress Party might not come this year, which would then mean that a Red-Green Alliance would be the only realistic government option. After the last election, which was September 10, 2001, the situation was much the same. No one really had any good government alternatives, and deliberation and debate would ensue to see who would go together to form government. The media claimed they would follow this closely, but then shifted its focus completely the next day (to a certain plane crash in the USA), which gave the Christian Democrats, the Liberals, the Conservatives, and the Progress Party the opportunity to discuss in peace from the media... (edited by The SomerZ on 09-02-05 06:06 AM) |
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The SomerZ Summer, yay! Level: 45 Posts: 826/862 EXP: 618182 For next: 41982 Since: 03-15-04 From: Norway Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 3 hours |
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| Name: The SomerZ D.O.B.: May 23rd, 1985 (I think the game will register it as 1967 or something, though) Nationality: Norwegian Favorite Team: Tromsø IL Starting Team: Tromsø IL, Norwegian Premier Division Only Accept Offers Matching Asking Price Apply For Positions At Higher Ranking Clubs: NO (of course, I'm basically screwed, since Tromsø totally sucks at FM 2005. But, ohh well...) |
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The SomerZ Summer, yay! Level: 45 Posts: 827/862 EXP: 618182 For next: 41982 Since: 03-15-04 From: Norway Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 3 hours |
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| I assume the Swedes and Norwegians will be in mid-season when we start... Anyone playing in America, as well, I guess... | |||
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The SomerZ Summer, yay! Level: 45 Posts: 828/862 EXP: 618182 For next: 41982 Since: 03-15-04 From: Norway Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 3 hours |
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Whoo, boy! Colleen, you gonna get stomped!  |
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The SomerZ Summer, yay! Level: 45 Posts: 829/862 EXP: 618182 For next: 41982 Since: 03-15-04 From: Norway Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 3 hours |
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| The results are in, and I've just woken up to the first day in what will be a brilliant four years! The air smells cleaner already. The results (Total seats: 169): Labour: 62 seats (+19 from last time) Progress Party: 37 (+11) Conservative Party: 23 (-15) Socialist Left Party: 15 (-8) Christian Democratic Party: 11 (-11) Centre Party: 11 (+1) Liberal Party: 10 (+8) Coastal Party: 0 (-1) Red Electoral Alliance: 0 (0) Which gives these results for the two blocs: Red-Green Alliance: 88 seats (ex-)Government Parties: 44 seats (ex-)Government Parties with support from Progress Party: 81 seats So, the results are a majority for the Red-Green Alliance, and no need for the Alliance to have outside support (the former Government had to rely on outside support from the Progress Party to stay alive, this Government can call the shots all on its own). Two winners can clearly be seen from these results. Labour are not only back in power for the first time since 2001, but the party experienced a huge rise in popularity, as seen by its 19 new seats in Parliament. The other winner is the Progress Party, which has garnered 11 new seats, and is now undoubtedly the biggest bourgeious party. The Liberal Party will, despite losing government power, have to be pleased, as the party now has 5 times as many seats as it had 4 years ago. The two losers of the election are the Conservative and the Christian Democratic Party, who both experience one of their worst elections ever. The Conservatives have always been the biggest bourgeouis party, but has now lost ground to the Progress Party. The Socialist Left is in the strange position that it is a loser, but still a winner. The Socialist Left managed its primary objective, a new red-green government, but lost its secondary, get the same result as 4 years ago. The Socialist Left experiences a decline in popularity, and loses 8 seats. This is possibly because many of its voters went over to Labour after it was clear that the two would cooperate to form government. The Coastal Party and the Red Electoral Alliance have also lost. The Coastal Party didn't manage to hold on to its one seat, and the Red Electoral Alliance, which looked to be getting 2 seats in the very last opinion poll on election day, ended up with no seats. |
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The SomerZ Summer, yay! Level: 45 Posts: 830/862 EXP: 618182 For next: 41982 Since: 03-15-04 From: Norway Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 3 hours |
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| Well, I am, after all, a social democrat. That means I could pick two of the options here. Social Democrats want to work with reforms within the capitalist system to give it the transition to the socialist system (as oposed to communists, who want the same goal, but who believe in achieveing it through revolution in stead of reform), so you could say my ideal government is the socialist democracy, but I work under the capitalist democracy. Ohh well... I guess I'll just have to go ahead and vote socialist democracy. It has a nicer ring to it. |
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The SomerZ Summer, yay! Level: 45 Posts: 831/862 EXP: 618182 For next: 41982 Since: 03-15-04 From: Norway Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 3 hours |
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| We don't have mascots for schools in Norway. However, the High School I went to the year I lived in Texas had a Tiger as its mascot and black/red as the colours. The university I go to now does not have a mascot (as stated earlier, we don't have mascots for schools in Norway), but the logo has Hugin and Munin in it, and during some arrangments (mainly concerts at campus), someone will dress up in a raven-costume and dance in front of the stage.. |
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The SomerZ Summer, yay! Level: 45 Posts: 832/862 EXP: 618182 For next: 41982 Since: 03-15-04 From: Norway Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 3 hours |
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| Communists, Socialists, Democratic Socialists, Social Democrats, Anarchists, Social Liberals, Centrists, Libertarians, Fascists, Greens, Cosmopolitans and anyone I might have forgotten: Stand up, speak up, say no to polls like these! I'm a mix between a democratic socialist and a social democrat. I'd vote Green Party of the USA had I been American, though. Democrats and Republicans are not for me. |
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The SomerZ Summer, yay! Level: 45 Posts: 833/862 EXP: 618182 For next: 41982 Since: 03-15-04 From: Norway Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 3 hours |
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| People need to know why what they're doing is wrong, not simply that it is wrong.You can't just implement scary punishments for crime, it's not the right way to go.Our moral systems will work when we know tht something is wrong, not when we're afraid of reprecussions, Kant said that. And, also, you people do realize that you're discussing the lives of other human beings, and the financial benefits of ending such lives. You should be ashamed of yourselves. |
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The SomerZ Summer, yay! Level: 45 Posts: 834/862 EXP: 618182 For next: 41982 Since: 03-15-04 From: Norway Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 3 hours |
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| Actually, if you feel that murderers and child rapists, among others, deserve a chance to live in this world than you should be ashamed of yourself. Well, yes, I do believe any person has a right to live, no matter how gruesome their actions. I was brought up to "hate the sin, but love the sinner". And you seem to have misunderstood me. What I reacted to was how you (for a large part of this discussion) discussed the financial benefits/expenditures of killing another human being. Discussing the morality of capital punishment, I have no problem with. Discussing it solely on a "what will cost me less?"-base is a lot more problematic. It's this kind of mentality that allows repeat crimes to happen. Let's not fool ourselves, people rarely change. Who you were as a young adult fundamentally is typically the person you grow up to be and the person you remain. People know it's against the law to murder and rape people. And you all suggest that we "teach" them what they already know? Please. They don't deserve to live on the same planet as us, they don't deserve to even live. I'm a dialectic, I believe everything changes (or progresses, if you will). People change, history changes, society changes. If I met the little boy that I was 10 years ago, he would probably shake his head at what I have become. The idea that nothing changes is simply absurd to me. And besides, can you kill a person before he's ever had the chance to prove to you that he has changed? Who are we to decide who lives and dies? Who are we to decide who should have a chance to succeed at life, and who should not be given a chance at fulfilling their potential? What would society become if someone decided they had the authority, and the right, to make those kinds of decisions for people? I started the topic, I feel absolutely no shame of it. I could just as easily say you should be ashamed of yourself for using shame tactics. Seriously though, individual human life is extremely overrated. You've gotta see the forest from the trees sometimes. If you have to chop down one infected tree in order to save some of the surrounding, you've done a bad thing for a good reason, that's what the basis of execution is. Execution has been abused throughout history, but pain medication regularly is abused too, that mean we're just going to stop making pain medication? I use shame-tactics? What the heck are shame-tactics? (no, you don't have to answer that, I can pretty much figure it out from the name, just never heard about it before). And the system you're describing is called utilitarianism. I'm sorry, I'm not a big fan of utilitarianism. I believe Gandhi was right when he said "I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all." I can't see anything good coming out of favoring the majority over the minority (no matter how small the minority is). |
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The SomerZ Summer, yay! Level: 45 Posts: 835/862 EXP: 618182 For next: 41982 Since: 03-15-04 From: Norway Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 3 hours |
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| Air force payout cures Santa woes Now, how would Rudolph survive the physical stress of an all-around-the-world trip in one night if he can't even take the boom of an F-16? |
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The SomerZ Summer, yay! Level: 45 Posts: 836/862 EXP: 618182 For next: 41982 Since: 03-15-04 From: Norway Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 3 hours |
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| Oh, yeah, by the way, Colleen, people generally never say If-Cup, only the official people who get paid to say it, others just say the NM-cup, or the Cup. Oh, and if you must use its official sponsored name, it's not the If-Cup anymore, it changed sponsors. It's now the SAS Braathens Cup. | |||
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The SomerZ Summer, yay! Level: 45 Posts: 837/862 EXP: 618182 For next: 41982 Since: 03-15-04 From: Norway Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 3 hours |
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| It was the NM If-Cup in 2004, it's the NM SAS Braathens Cup in 2005. Always NM, though, the only thing that changes is the sponsors... | |||
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The SomerZ Summer, yay! Level: 45 Posts: 838/862 EXP: 618182 For next: 41982 Since: 03-15-04 From: Norway Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 3 hours |
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| UEFA Cup groups are in: Group A Monaco, Slavia Prague, Hamburg, CSKA Sofia, Viking Well, I have Monaco for the win, closely followed by Hamburg. Slavia will take the 3rd and last spot. Group B Lokomotiv Moscow, Espanyol, Palermo, Brøndby, M. Petach-Tikva Espanyol, Brøndby, Palermo, and Lokomotiv are all capable of qualifying from this group. I guess I'll have to go out and say Palermo for the drop, though. Group C Hertha Berlin, Lens, Sampdoria, Steaua Bucharest, Halmstad Hertha, Lens and Sampdoria for the win. Steaua might unseat Sampdoria or Lens, though. Group D AZ Alkmaar, Middlesbrough, Dnipro, Grasshoppers, Litex Interesting group. AZ Alkmaar are strong, as are Boro. Hard to pick a number 3, though. I have my money on Grasshoppers, but Dnipro are good, as well. Group E Roma, Basel, Red Star, Strasbourg, Tromsø Well, this is probably the most obvious group of all. Tromsø will trash the other teams, and whoever comes in 2nd and 3rd will be so humiliated by their gigantic loss that they'll decide to withdraw from the tournament. Group F CSKA Moscow, Marseille, Heerenveen, Levski Sofia, Dinamo Bucharest CSKA are in a very tough group, but they are the defending champions, and should be able to make it from here. Marseille and....... Heerenveen, I guess, for the other two. Group G Stuttgart, PAOK, Shakhtar, Rennes, Rapid Bucharest. Stuttgart and Shakhtar, PAOK beats Rennes for number 3. Group H Besiktas, Sevilla, Bolton, Zenit, Vitoria Guimaraes Sevilla or Bolton for the win. I have the strangest feeling Besiktas will fail, and Zenit will nudge number 3 ahead of Vitoria. Don't ask me why.... |
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The SomerZ Summer, yay! Level: 45 Posts: 839/862 EXP: 618182 For next: 41982 Since: 03-15-04 From: Norway Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 3 hours |
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| Hell, yeah! I got mentioned... My fragile ego can feed on this for aeons. Oh, and *thwap* Capital Z, damnit! Errr, and lowercase o, m, e, and r. You got the S right, though. Seriously, though, I know we've had diferent opinions on a lot of things up through the years. That ain't no reason for us not to be civil towards each other, now is it? |
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The SomerZ Summer, yay! Level: 45 Posts: 840/862 EXP: 618182 For next: 41982 Since: 03-15-04 From: Norway Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 3 hours |
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Originally posted by geeogree Of course no one cares, geeogree. That's why Leg made sure to specify that the Z was lowercase, and that's why you felt that you had to post a reaction when you saw me mentioning the Z. It's because neither of you guys care.  Either way, this thread is not about my Z, it's about giving Leg his last honours by having a long, heated discussion, and quite possibly a flame-war, between those who disagree with him and those who agree with him, just like he'd want it (and probably intended for, as well ). |
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The SomerZ Summer, yay! Level: 45 Posts: 841/862 EXP: 618182 For next: 41982 Since: 03-15-04 From: Norway Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 3 hours |
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| Actually, those alco-ice creams were teh sux, I heard. Something about having to eat a gazillion of them to feel anything, that seems kinda weird to me. | |||
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The SomerZ Summer, yay! Level: 45 Posts: 842/862 EXP: 618182 For next: 41982 Since: 03-15-04 From: Norway Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 3 hours |
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| Public Kingdom 14 They have some music of theirs at that site (found here). Their lyrics are in Chinese, yes, but the music is cool. (edited by The SomerZ on 10-06-05 11:10 AM) (edited by The SomerZ on 10-06-05 11:16 AM) (edited by The SomerZ on 10-06-05 11:17 AM) (edited by The SomerZ on 10-06-05 11:18 AM) |
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The SomerZ Summer, yay! Level: 45 Posts: 843/862 EXP: 618182 For next: 41982 Since: 03-15-04 From: Norway Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 3 hours |
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| Technically, New York to New Jersey takes one millionth billionth of a nanosecond. Anyways, have fun. Say hi to the Ontarians for me, or something! Hope I beeth not late with my goodbyes... *sobbety, sobbety*, who will I discuss the matches on Saturday with now? |
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The SomerZ Summer, yay! Level: 45 Posts: 844/862 EXP: 618182 For next: 41982 Since: 03-15-04 From: Norway Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 3 hours |
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| Technically, white is an achromatic color, black, however, is the absence of color. |
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