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It depends on what you call "capitalism" and "free markets". Excluding tiny petro-states like Qatar and fiscal havens like Luxembourg, the richest country in the world by per-capita GDP is Norway, whose 5 biggest companies are all State-owned, whose public expenditure is 50% of the GDP (as well as the taxation revenue), whose welfare system is simply massive, and that doesn't seem to like "free markets" at all, it actually loves tariffs: http://www.newsinenglish.no/20...

That's not "Communism", it's more like Dirigisme ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ), but it's surely very, very different from the US economic system. And it works far, far better.

I'm afraid tea-parties wouldn't get a single vote there, and Adam Smith would have been a full time drunkard in Oslo, instead of writing fairy tales.

EFTA cuts red tape, not tariffs. You're confusing the EFTA with the EU. The EU itself has quite a different opinion about Norway's trade policy, go there and tell them that they are wrong:

EU blasts Norway's Protectionism http://www.newsinenglish.no/20...

I'm sorry if the richest country in the west blatantly ridicules the vodoo economics that you've believed in so far, but that's not a good excuse to make up facts and data.

Go to the original post on http://www.newsinenglish.no/20... and you will find...

One Tesla owner found himself stranded on Christmas Eve with a dead battery, 150 kilometers from the nearest recharging station.
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Tesla has confirmed the problems with recharging the cars when thermometers fall under zero, and online debate pages have been full of owners’ problems with the cars’ recharging cables.

And use a sample site http://met.no/English/Climate_... should now give you an idea which unit they are using. ;)

Let's face it. Norway is often very cold in the winter.

Not particularly cold, given how far north we are due to the Gulf stream and particularly if you live near the coastline - and Norway is a lot of coastline. In the capital, the lowest temp last year was -17.2C, just above 0F, the average in the winter months is just below freezing. True, if I pick one of the coldest cities on the coldest nights it might be -30C, but that's rare.

If you fuck up and buy a 'green' car that won't start in the cold, then you die in the cold.

Oh please, it might be a big inconvienience calling a tow truck but nobody's going to die. If you're at home and it won't charge, stay home. If you're at a charging station there will be houses nearby. And if it breaks down in the middle of nowhere on a night with -30C then you're equally screwed as in an ICE car.

And there is this briefly mentioned problem of the fucking Norwegian electrical connectors not mating with standard electric car connectors...

Here we're talking about quite regular home connectors, we use the "Schuko" plug used in most of Europe or alternatively the IEC 60309 industrial plugs for faster charging, both very standard in Europe but different than the US. I guess that's what they're talking about since there's few other Teslas on the road in the colder parts of Europe.

The charging problems mentioned here have by the way been solved in a software patch already, Norwegian papers covered that on last saturday. With charging stations popping up in more and more places, rather abundant and cheap electric power and very nice tax breaks on electric cars I can assure you Tesla will continue to sell well in Norway.

Conservatives are evil. Don't be one.

http://hardincountyconservatives.blogspot.com/2012/05/greg-abbott-wins-appeal-tx-ban-on.html

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110614035520AApWGtA

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-02-13/news/31054067_1_professors-obscenity-first-bill

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/the-rachel-maddow-show/43388331#43388331

http://www.mediaite.com/online/michelle-bachmann-signs-social-conservative-pro-marriage-pledge-that-also-bans-porn/

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/rick-santorum-wants-ban-hardcore-pornography-222833811.html

http://www.newsinenglish.no/2012/05/07/conservatives-back-ban-on-begging/

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2010/11/wyomings_self-described_conser.html

http://stfuconservatives.net/post/19427221927

Norway has been active in the bombing of Libya. The attack may have come in retaliation from the Libyan government, which has pledged to strike back at its attackers any way it could, or it may have come from unaffiliated right-wing Muslims who see the attack on Libya as kaffir invading the ummah.

I seem to remember that Norway already said they will retreat from the mission.As for the pledge to strike back on Europe it seems to be that this was an incomplete translation:

he also says if you continue targeting our houses we can do the same coz Europe is not far away but he said lets not do this ...

The attack was on a government office, so it's still too early to say whether it was an act of terrorism or war.

Al Qaeda and the organizations allied to it in "the Resistance" are the most obvious suspects, being that they are at war with everyone else in the world and they have the talent and desire to do it.

The attack could be in response to the recent filing of charges against Mullah Krekar, leader of Ansar al-Islam which was one of the first groups to rename itself to "al-Qaeda in Iraq" after the US invaded.

The motivation could also be the Jyllands-Posten cartoons that were published in a Denmark newspaper. The Muslim Brotherhood and Hizbut Tahrir encouraged attacks on Norwegian embassies after the Norwegian tabloid Dagbladet republished the cartoons.

Norway has been active in the bombing of Libya. The attack may have come in retaliation from the Libyan government, which has pledged to strike back at its attackers any way it could, or it may have come from unaffiliated right-wing Muslims who see the attack on Libya as kaffir invading the ummah.

It could be someone else. Remember that the Oklahoma City bombing was a couple of white ultra-Christians. Everyone thought it was Hezbollah at first. The attack could have come from Jews who are pissed off about European spy agencies funding the the NIF, B'tselem, Peace Now, Human Rights Watch, and all the lies they tell about Israel. It could have been a nut from an opposing political party or a farmer with a grievance about a change in subsidies and the knowledge to make a fertilizer bomb. The only thing we truly know is that we don't know yet, so wait a day or two for the investigators to do their jobs.

Here's Reuters's speculation.

Captcha: compute. If anyone was complaining that this was not news for nerds, it is now.