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I am not at all doubting that there is mismanagement, but I just want to comment on the 40% lost to leak because that sounds like a quite normal number for leakage. Here in Norway many places are worse than that, and upon searching for some reference while writing this answer I see than worst in class is actually as bad as 73%.

You shouldn't extrapolate to much out of the 60 year perspective reports, they are not there to make any serious predictions.
They are to to point out potential problems and worrying factors and use it as a yardstick for reports in later quarters.

That said, "But now more and more people are having sunset decades instead of sunset years and they don't want to work longer just because they live longer."

Here i must disagree, i have the last four years heard how more and more people are working long into their seventh decade.

http://www.tu.no/jobb/article285712.ece

This is not a given for everyone of course, more physical and labor demanding professions can exaust you in the long rung in more ways then one, but I also think that the one who spent 5 or 7 years on their education, are the one who are most likely to work postpone their retirement.

I can understand the industrial workers when they say they got the shaft regarding the pension reforms, but...they were also the ones who were earning paychecks earlier.

But whatever the case, i think the careers of people do stretch to fill the gap that the new longevity in the population.

Både Asker og Bærum tingrett og Borgarting lagmannsrett mener at Telenor medvirker til at det skjer ulovlige handlinger via The Pirate Bay, men at denne medvirkningen ikke er rettsstridig.

This is doublethink in my opinion. Simply granting access doesn't make the ISPs responsible. I can't help to feel that the courts should have been way more clear in this matter.

What inevitably happens, is that the media interest groups will lobby to make our ISPs liable for 'granting access' to copyrighted works. Our copyright law 'åndsverksloven' is up for reform/ratification this year. And the Norwegian Data Inspectorate's main spokesperson and director Georg Apenes is leaving his post soon, making this scenario even more likely. Georg Apenes has been extremely vocal regarding our individual rights to privacy since he entered his position in 1989, and the government resents him for it. He has been a barrier for 'progress', and I really doubt whoever replaces him will have even 10% of his integrity. Most probably they will replace him with a government-friendly, industry-friendly puppet.

"Amerikaneren Bruce Perens er veteran paa aapen teknologi, men oppfatter Pirate Bay som kriminelle."

"The American Bruce Perens is a veteran in open technology, but sees The Pirate Bay as criminals."

http://www.tu.no/it/article207171.ece

Microsoft Norway was first out to support the campaign in an interview with Teknisk Ukeblad: http://www.tu.no/it/article200622.ece They also sent out a press release, and we posted it here: http://tekniskbeta.no/ms-stÃtter-ie6-saken/ Both links above are in English, but Norwegian developer THomas Hansen ran it through Google Translate and ended up with this: http://ra-ajax.org/microsoft-supports-the-war-against-ie6.blog Swedish Microsoft-managers also support the campaign: http://stephanielindberg.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/uppgradera-nu-det-har-gtt-mnga-internetr-sedan-2001/ http://blogs.technet.com/microsoftnyheter/archive/2009/02/20/var-med-i-v-rst-dningen-uppgradera-till-ie7.aspx Best regards, Anders Brenna Teknisk Ukeblad TU.no

In Norway thorium is seriously considered for solving the energy crisis. Firstly, it is usable in safe reactors, you need exitors to start and maintain the reaction. Secondly, these exitors may be nuclear waste, so we may buy it cheaply. Thirdly, there is a lot of it here. Here is a link to an article, sorry it is in norwegian. http://www.tu.no/energi/article60325.ece

Some numbers from Norway:

People with cell phones: 96% (July 2004 - source)
Houses with landlines:
2001: 91.6%
2004: 84.8%

In 2004 15% of all SMS trafic was premium SMS (ringtones, televotes, chat services etc)

A total of 1.7 billion SMS-messages was sent in 2004. The average subscriber sent 68 SMS/month. (Aprox 5 million people/subscribers in norway) This is 16% more then in 2003.

Nov 4. 2004: 59% of all norwegian corporate leaders belives they will abandon landlines.
source

The cheapest call planes are:
Monthly cost: 0
Price pr/min: 0,13$ (0,79 NOK)
Price pr/SMS: 0,06$ (0,40 NOK)

All providers have more or less the same coverage, which is very good. If you can drive there - you are more or less garanteed coverage. Lost calls, or breakdown seldom/never occur.

I guess this is more or less the same for all of North-Europe.

Biometrics can certainly be spoofed. How easy this is depends entirely upon the equipment being used for recording and verifying it.

Here's a link to a Norwegian article about one successful breach:
http://www.tu.no/nyheter/ikt/article30692.ece
The article links to this Swedish one on the same story:
http://www.nyteknik.se/pub/ipsart.asp?art_id=37392
and this concerning some Japanese experiments:
http://www.rootsecure.net/content/downloads/pdf_do wnloads/fingerprint_scanners.pdf

(mind the /.-inserted spaces in those links if you're copying them)