borism

second largest sovereign fund in the world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_wealth_fund#Largest_s...

plus all the investments into its' own people like mentioned in the article.

(it's long for that, i know).

not at all, Norway's oil is pretty much gone http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-03/norway-drillers-hit...

What about other oil-prosperous small countries such as the Emirates or Kuwait? Are the cases comparables?

Totally different. You know, in UAE they build skyscrapers just because they can. In Manhattan they built skyscrapers because there was no more land available to build on...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse

Norway is probably only country in the world that was able to dodge Dutch disease.

I thought it was HTML5 site?

not to mention that there are definitely more than 1 radar in 300km radius of you than this.

I'll be the other side of this trade.

huh? and how exactly would they do that in a legal way?

Yes. Depends on definition of evil, I guess.

P.S. in Stallman case I guess definition of evil goes something like this: "I think with your rules you're doing harm to long term development of intellectual property like software. You're evil and you will burn in hell." Pretty mild definition of evil in my opinion?

We may only imagine how we might arrive to such future.

Have you read the article?

What they forget is that all those apps get their information from somewhere and a lot of it is coming from hobbyists and amateur astronomers putting it up on http://www.heavens-above.com and SeeSat mailing list for free (yes, a lot of space-celebs like Hubble and ISS have a known orbit, but those guys have catalogued virtually every object launched by humans, including many top-secret satellites).

Just thought it is appropriate to give respect where respect is due.

isn't this what Allen said in his critique? scientific achievement doesn't just grow exponentially - there are those "jumps in paradigm" that move us forward, but they're relatively rare and unpredictable.

But this so called refutation seems to be totally missing the point. No wonder - it's coming from Austrian. This is like asking Aristotelian about General Relativity. They're Universe apart.

You might find a higher sticker price on a Gucci, but it is a pretty safe assumption that the added cost is to get you into Gucci. Which just so happens to be the only reason why you would consider purchasing a Gucci in the first place.

you prove my point. To you computer isn't just a piece of commodity. It IS a status symbol, a thing to revere.

I guess it is the same to me since I write this from my MBP.

theoretically it is fairly easy to repay those $4T. you would need some large container ship to transport all of them back to China, but a lot of those go back over Pacific fairly empty anyway.

you use wrong/incomplete models to describe it (incidentally so do policymakers).

try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory for starters.

they are freely interchangeable!

money IS debt!

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/318450_...

it's just a social concept (one of many) of how we humans should organise our interactions with regards to software.

I believe it's an useful concept and probably so do you. For god's sake, we don't need a spokesperson!