I hate typing on my phone and English is not my first language, so I guess the point I was trying to make didn’t quite make its way through. Sorry.

The more conservative party left the coalition because they value their “sovereignty” and “independence” and thus don’t want to play by the rules of the EU. To me they basically just trade one Dependance for another. They want to still be able to sell their oil to the EU, so they depend on EU’s demand for oil, but they don’t want to give up some freedoms even though that in turn would bolster their independence in the energy sector (even more local renewable electricity production, improved infrastructure that would be less susceptible to failure, and so on).

It just makes no sense to me. The EU directives are actually quite in line (or could easily be spun into line) with the ideals of traditionally conservative parties. Yet everywhere (not just Norway), those parties HATE renewable energy. And I think it is pretty clear that money is the big factor here…

Also…maybe I’m blind, but nowhere in the article it’s mentioned that Norway produces its energy with hydro?

I’m always surprised at what their argument is. “Don’t make us invest in cheap renewable energy that will make us independent from other countries”. Sure, they export quite a bit, but that makes your economy dependant on external demand. In all other areas the right leaning parties want to sever themselves from outside influence, except when it involves money…

But he hates being made fun of. He wants people to be angry with him, because that shows him he has some form of power over them (withholding funding makes “the left” angry -> for him that’s good). And he loves to see himself as smart and strong. But if you ridicule him…that hits him.

I would love to join, but the whole registration process fails at every turn. Mails aren’t sent, login pages just do refresh…please…just let me iiiiinn

I think this is true for computers that are in danger of being stolen. Laptops or PCs in dorms or other shared living spaces. But I live in a relatively secure area, burglaries are very rare and my PC never leaves the building. So the benefits of encryption are pretty much negligible.