01 Dec 2009, 11:44 pm
01 Dec 2009, 11:45 pm
sinsboldly
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02 Dec 2009, 12:34 am
tektek
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02 Dec 2009, 12:37 am
hi and welcome Snusfenrik 
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you have an interesting background in military service and now as a security analyst... were you in the military as part of compulsory national service or did you join voluntarily?
what are you intending to study when you return to university?
i hope you enjoy your stay here at WP.
*edited for typo.
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02 Dec 2009, 4:57 am
Hiya Snusfenrik and welcome to the WP. 
02 Dec 2009, 6:48 am
Velkommen til Wrongplanet 
02 Dec 2009, 9:10 am
02 Dec 2009, 2:55 pm
Thank you all
tektek: Norway has conscription, so not voluntarily. But I wanted to join anyway, having a huge interest in the military since early childhood. Military stuff, especially military aircraft and vehicles, was one of my main interests. Aside from that airplanes, reading scientific and technical stuff, computers and later also cars. Anyhow, finished at the rank for corporal, having a lot of training in observation and analyzing threats, security holes and such. So no suprise in my next line of work after returning to socitety then. However, I want to expand my horizions a bit, develop myself. My current job is paid ok, but I feel Im not going anywhere. As for what I will study, I dont know yet. I want to do something relating to computers/IT, but I have picked up all kinds of strange interests in several other fields as well.. doing a lot of thinking into the subject, trying to decide on something to study. So I'll have to get back to you on that one.
sinsboldly: Hehe, yeah I've heard there is a lot of people with Norwegian roots up there in Minnesota. Cool:) I have been around in the states a lot when I was younger, but I have never been anywhere near Minnesota. Is it really people still speaking the old language there? I have however met a few Norwegians or people with norwegian roots other places, like down in Houston(my father lived there for 7 years), and I have some norwegian familiy both in the Washington DC area and Boston. And my "family" has a summerhouse up in Vermont(my stephfathers family, if you can call him family. He's Canadian btw), so many summers have been spent there.
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02 Dec 2009, 5:46 pm
To WrongPlanet!! !
sinsboldly
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02 Dec 2009, 11:11 pm
sinsboldly: Hehe, yeah I've heard there is a lot of people with Norwegian roots up there in Minnesota. Cool:) I have been around in the states a lot when I was younger, but I have never been anywhere near Minnesota. Is it really people still speaking the old language there? I have however met a few Norwegians or people with norwegian roots other places, like down in Houston(my father lived there for 7 years), and I have some norwegian familiy both in the Washington DC area and Boston. And my "family" has a summerhouse up in Vermont(my stephfathers family, if you can call him family. He's Canadian btw), so many summers have been spent there.
They not only speak the old language there, but they haven't modernized anything like the actual Norwegians have . It is like the language is frozen in time, caught in amber like a mosquito. They moved to the new land and struck out across the North American continent in Conestoga wagons and when they got to the plains and lakes of Minnesota and Wisconsin they were so homesick for Norway, they settled there, growing wheat on the broad prairies and forgetting that was what they were trying to get away from! (Well, anyway, that is what Garrison Keeler says
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03 Dec 2009, 10:22 am
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