The Corner Blog Archives: Norway
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28 September 2008
Finnishmen arrested for attempt to smuggle 22 320 eggs to Norway
(NUORGAM) Two Finnish men were caught by the Norwegian customs officials when they were trying to smuggle 22 320 eggs into Norway.
The customs found the hidden eggs on a routine checkup. The Finns told they were heading to Oslo where they were supposed to sell the eggs with a profit.
The customs officials confiscated the cargo […]
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23 April 2007
Grassroots triumph
Wow. In Norway, the congress of Arbeiderpartiet (Labour, or Social Democrats) voted against all their own ministers to force them to introduce a law illegalizing purchases of sex. I can’t really say whether the law is a good one or not (I’m simply not read up on the topic at all and have no idea […]
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18 November 2006
Norway trying to ban cluster bombs
Norway is proclaiming a drive to ban cluster bombs. Cluster bombs, as is explained in then BBC’s news article, often do not explode on impact but the “grapes” are left in the ground to serve as land mines and tend to explode when intervened by people or animals. isn’t this the point of cluster bombs?
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10 June 2006
DRM vs. Consumers in Nordic countries
The Norwegian Consumer Ombudsman has decided that the terms and conditions of iTMS are “questionable” and should be changed. The Consumer Council filed it’s complaint to the Consumer Ombudsman on the 25th of January which the Consumer Ombudsman is now supporting.
Among other things, the decision clearly states that the terms of agreement demanded by iTunes […]