Prime Minister Runs Norway From His iPad

[patronscorn_v1legacy]

Well, I live in Norway and I've never been an Apple fan, quite the opposite really. I pick in the kids with little macs in their schoolbags, but I got to hand it to them this time.
Running a country? There's an app for that.
Very funny shit, but unless there is an app for removing volcanic ashes from iceland it's pretty much not the solution. There is expected to rain ash down on my town tonight, so I might end up playing rugby in the "grey".

Well, this didn't convince me to buy the iPad, but it certainly raised my interest

 

[Simalacrum]

Running a country - there's an app for that.

Followed quickly by:

"World Domination - there's an app for that."

"Rebelling against an oppressive regime - there's an app for that."

 

[TheDoctor455]

Running a country - there's an app for that.

Followed quickly by:

"World Domination - there's an app for that."

"Rebelling against an oppressive regime - there's an app for that."

"Crushing Rebellions Under Foot - there's an app for that."

EDIT:
I think we just came up with a new forum game.

 

[brodie21]

he didnt RUN his country with the ipad, all he did was tell them to close the airports.

wouldnt it be nice if he could run more than one program on that waste of money?

 

[spectrenihlus]

Man if that ipad was stolen, that would make a great episode for 24.

 

[spectrenihlus]

Running a country - there's an app for that.

Followed quickly by:

"World Domination - there's an app for that."

"Rebelling against an oppressive regime - there's an app for that."

"Crushing Rebellions Under Foot - there's an app for that."

EDIT:
I think we just came up with a new forum game.

"Locating the one weakspot to cripple the empire-there's an app for that."

 

[Bradd94]

I'm kind of surprised how calm europe manages to stay under something with such massive economic fallout. Had the wind been blowing the other way, all of the news would be spammed full with OMFGWTFBBQ SIGN OF THE APOCALYPSE!!1!! followed by an invasion of Iceland(sans planes ofcourse).

heehehe. Arby 'n' the Cheif reference ^. I liked it, thankyou
I have to agree. Nature causes such devastation so easily, yet in fine times we're all casual and on top of the world.

 

[Antari]

He sent off a few emails ... OooOoOoOo .. wait haven't we been doing that for a while now?

 

[300lb. Samoan]

(x) [small]ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: WHO'S THE BOSS[/small]

 

[irrelevantnugget]

Wait... couldn't he just use a simple laptop for that? You know... technology that has been used by businessmen for over 10 years now? Geez. Viral marketing at its worst.

 

[Alphavillain]

Getting an iPad before they've brought out the 3G version? The Norwegian PM has too much disposable income, methinks.

 

[Aeshi]

Is it just me or have there been a lot of iPad threads lately?

 

[elricik]

I wonder if I can download an App to run Iran, and then destroy it.

 

[Sixties Spidey]

Jesus, the amount of apps on Apple's platform scares the ever loving shit out of me.

Running a country - there's an app for that.

Followed quickly by:

"World Domination - there's an app for that."

"Rebelling against an oppressive regime - there's an app for that."

"Crushing Rebellions Under Foot - there's an app for that."

EDIT:
I think we just came up with a new forum game.

"Locating the one weakspot to cripple the empire-there's an app for that."

Laboring a joke to the point it's like beating a dead horse? There's an app for that.

 

[Ph33nix]

really? thats just stupid. the ipad is such an over rated piece of apple marketing

 

[Normalgamer]

Running a country - there's an app for that.

Followed quickly by:

"World Domination - there's an app for that."

Ninja'ing someone- Apparently there's an app for that too.

 

[Therumancer]

Jesus, the amount of apps on Apple's platform scares the ever loving shit out of me.

Running a country - there's an app for that.

Followed quickly by:

"World Domination - there's an app for that."

"Rebelling against an oppressive regime - there's an app for that."

"Crushing Rebellions Under Foot - there's an app for that."

EDIT:
I think we just came up with a new forum game.

"Locating the one weakspot to cripple the empire-there's an app for that."

Laboring a joke to the point it's like beating a dead horse? There's an app for that.

Rule #34, doubtlessly some perv with a combined fetish for S&M, Necrophillia, and Beastiality created one and distributes it to those with similar tastes.

On a more serious not I happen to wonder how true this is, because it occurs to me that Norway must not be much of a country if this was actually true. However I would suspect that the truth of the matter is simply that running the country is an overstatement, and in reality there was enough reduntant administration in place to keep things organized, so that in a time of crisis he could defer authority and sign off on one or two things using a relatively simplistic communucations tool. Saying this is an awesome victory for the Ipad is probably better than saying "hey, you know that extremely redundant, compartmentalized bureaucracy everyone hates? This is why we have it, see it's good for something!".