Norwegian post about Norwegian traffic light rules. Google Translate if you’re too curious

Hva sier reglene om det å gå på rødt lys?

Forskrift 7. oktober 2005 om offentlige trafikkskilt, vegoppmerking, trafikklyssignaler og anvisninger (skiltforskriften) § 24 har følgende bestemmelser knyttet til ditt spørsmål:

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Ved rødt lys må kjørende ikke passere signal eller stopplinje. Gående må ikke begynne kryssing av kjørebanen hvis dette vil være til hinder for kjørende, eller innebære fare.
Rødt lys sammen med gult lys varsler at veksling til grønt lys vil skje straks.
Ved grønt lys kan kjørende passere signal eller stopplinje dersom vegen er fri. Gående kan krysse kjørebane.
Gult lys alene varsler at veksling til rødt lys vil skje straks, og at kjørende skal stanse. Kjørende kan likevel passere signalet eller stopplinjen hvis kjøretøyet er nådd så langt fram at stans ikke kan skje uten fare.

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Rødt signal betyr at gående ikke må begynne kryssing av kjørebanen hvis dette vil være til hinder for kjørende, eller innebære fare. Gående som allerede er kommet ut i kjørebanen, kan fortsette kryssingen.
Grønt signal betyr at gående kan krysse kjørebanen. Blinkende, grønt signal varsler at signalet om kort tid vil skifte til rødt, og har samme betydning som rødt signal.

Er det egentlig ulovlig å gå på rødt lys?

I de tilfeller der det vil være til hinder for kjørende eller innebærer fare, er det ulovlig å gå på rødt lys.

Kan man teoretisk sett bli bøtelagt?

Ja, dersom en går på rødt lys og det er til hinder for kjørende eller innebærer fare.

Vil det få andre konsekvenser dersom en blir påkjørt om en gikk på rødt eller på grønt lys?

Dersom en blir påkjørt når en har gått på rødt lys vil dette kunne medføre en reduksjon eller i verste fall bortfall av erstatning knyttet til skaden.

Så slipper man å lure på det lengre!

Takk til Harald i Statens Vegvesen som faktisk svarte. Hadde i grunn ikke regnet med at de gadd det… i hvert fall ikke så utfyllende. Kudos to you guys!

It’s in Norwegian though, so stuck a translation below the picture

English translation

Meteorological stone
Hot stone = Sun
Wet stone = Rain
White stone = Snow
No stone = Fog

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Say wahaat? Strange thing was my website was otherwise working normally. Could even edit other posts just fine!

Some head scratching, googling and making a support request to Dreamhost followed. Apparently they had just had an outtake, so I figured it might be related. They did too. But it was not! I finally found the answer on a blog:

Turns out this error is not alone in WordPress and not a bug of it at all. Some of the administration tasks of other CMS software such as posting posts with PHP code in them and uploading stuff would also trigger a module in Apache called Mod_security to be over sensitive. — www.kavoir.com

And sure enough, I had mentioned a PHP function called curl_exec in my blog post. Once I removed that word, the post could be previewed and saved just fine. Great stuff…

Solution

Of course I could just have avoided using that word, but that’s no fun. After reading the rest of that mentioned blog post, some comments and wiki page at Dreamhost, I found that by adding the lines below to the .htaccess file the problem was fixed. Or makes it go away at least

Alrighty… back to my actual blog post…

UGT (abbr.): Universal Greeting Time.
UGT is convention initially established in #mipslinux on irc.openprojects.net (now irc.freenode.net) but slowly taking over the world. It states that it is always morning when person comes into a channel, and it is always late night when person leaves. Local time of any member of channel is irrelevant. Resistance is futile. Your ass will be laminated. (geoman is exception to this rule – his ass will be fried instead).

Used as follows:
Good (UGT) Morning, Everyone! or good morning (ugt) (on entry to channel).
Good (UGT) Night – when leaving it.

The idea behind establishing this convention was to eliminate noise generated almost every time someone comes in and greets using some form of day-time based greeting, and then channel members on the other side of the globe start pointing out that it’s different time of the day for them. Now, instead of spending time figuring out what time of day is it for every member of the channel, we spend time explaining newcomers benefits of UGT.

Source: UGT

Good night!

First one wide youtube video:

And, as it turns out, no video. How about that. Well, here is one wide with video.

Then one that is in the 4:3 ration. Seems like the preview image looks a bit uggo when the viewer is 16:9, but the video is scaled correctly anyways…

Using the Vipers Video QuickTags plugin btw. In case  you were wondering.

Yes, that diagram is also what I based my site title and tagline upon ;)