Category: General

This is just a little notice that although people doesn't find me around on Internet Relay Chat (IRC) anymore, where I have been rather active for several years, I'm still alive.

I have been active on IRC for nearly a decade, and at one point it just got enough. People in different channels are tired of me, and I'm tired of them.

Those who knows me well enough and still wants to keep in touch, they have my email address, MSN address, or some other means of contacting me, otherwise I have a contact form on my primary website.

I have been active on multiple IRC Networks throughout time, but primarily Undernet, where I've been difficult not to spot in channels such as #asp, #linux, #html, #sql, #mysql and numerous others throughout time.

I've been through good times and bad times, including one regular over many years dieing of a brain tumor, spending her last days on IRC from her sickbed in the hospital, on borrowed laptop and a dial-up connection.

So long and thanks for all the fish
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the galaxy

Following up the former article about responsibility for your own actions, I came across another newspaper story (norwegian story).

This article it is about a man from Trondheim, a city in Norway, cought for shoplifting while under influence. Apparently his lawyer thinks he shouldn't be responsible for it, as he was too drunk at the moment. Thankfully the court saw the case otherwise and fined him close to 500 USD as well as 500 USD in case costs. This comes in addition to laywer fees, although the laywers say they will bring the case further for free.

Being drunk does not excuse your actions, it is your own free will to get drunk, and you should face the concequences for your actions while being drunk. Even the laywer is a hypocrit, and wants to distinguish between punishment law and property law.

We need to get a grip.

A case has been swirling in the Norwegian and the European court system for quite some time, very much related to the question of taking responsibility for ones actions.

This case is related to passengers of drunk drivers, getting hurt in an accident. By Norwegian law, this thankfully didn't give any insurance payments. Apparently, however, this is a violation of European Economic Community rules, that states that even if the driver is drunk, you have the right to a partial payment.

And that shows one of the many areas that is wrong in Europe and in particular in Norway, there is simply no responsibility for your own actions, everything is supposed to be pulverized through the state. Themarginal income tax in Norway is 51.3 percents. Way too much. This comes in addition to a 25% Value Added Tax, which accounts for roughly one third of the total tax payments from Norwegian citizens, property tax, 130% tax on gasoline (including the VAT), in the country that hosts the most expensive city of the world.

Start taking responsibility damn it.