I've had this discussion before and American's won't understand your point of view. Drugs are so commonplace in American society that taking them for anything or in some cases nothing is seen as normal. There are cases where medication is the right answer but they are a minority of the cases, medication appears to be prescribed in the vast majority of cases.

So yes, American's get prescribed drugs when they tell their doctor they feel bad even where those drugs are inappropriate. People rarely question their doctor because they went to medical school so must know what they are doing.

Serious question - Every now and then I get a headache, or muscle ache, or hurt myself in some way. Regardless of the source of the pain if I take paracetamol I get no noticeable pain relief, it feels exactly like taking a placebo. Yet people around me keep taking this stuff like it actually does something.

Does Paracetamol actually work for people here?

Do not give them technical details, a before and after video will be enough. If you give them details they may just try and rip you off. If you give them details make sure they are not complete enough to reimplement your work.

Ideally don't deal with Venture Capitalists at all, these people are only interested in taking as much of your business away from you as they can get away with. They can't be trusted.

It sounds like what you really need is a sales guy to go out and sell this technology under license, not a venture capitalist.

Rubbish. For all practical purposes the police are above the law.

Newsflash - Police are above the law.

The bad guys have always abused other people's systems to steal data. Anyone who sets up systems connected to the internet should expect sustained attacks from the bad guys.

The only thing that is happening here is that the Dutch government is stepping out of the shadows and going 'Look at me! I'm a bad guy! I'm going to h4x0r j00 with my l33t skillz!' Personally I'd null route the entire Dutch government for this, they admitted an intent to crack other people's systems and steal data.

Maybe our generation should be doing something about it. Maybe they will just grow up thinking it's normal.

You know they have a program of fingerprinting children in UK schools? The kids don't know it's something they should object to and the parents are never consulted.

Sorry, sometimes the resentment leaks out a bit. Then I think of all the kids who don't even have electricity or running water and think I didn't get it that bad.

What if it involved a home made nuke? It didn't so it's a pointless question.

I see the same in Europe. Kids these days are compliant drones scared of offending their masters or they fight back, join gangs, and commit stupid crimes. Either way it's out of balance and far from healthy.

You are also teaching that power granted by authority is absolute and beyond question and that using that power to crush people is fine.

He is saying that he believes that's what the state believes.

He is not saying that is his personal belief.

Time to let out some of my pent up resentment about the UK school system under that satan-incarnate Thatcher.

When I was at school not one teacher 'cared' about me in any sense whatsoever, they didn't even pretend to care. School was a punishment to be endured and it was made absolutely clear that any attempt to educate myself or to simply entertain myself would not be tolerated and that being white was something I should be very, very guilty of because of all those black slaves I personally oppressed. The only thing they didn't seem to care about was when I stopped turning up for a few months, one less kid to worry about I guess. They didn't teach the syllabus or allow me a copy of it so I could teach myself so I screwed up all the exams that I could have easily passed.

Also potato fries every day. No wonder I had a weight problem when all lunch options included deep fried potato every single day.

Maybe you went to a good school but in my case the teachers didn't care, the administrators were never seen, and there was nobody else anywhere who gave a dam if I lived or died.

You went to a better school than I did if you can honestly say 'mostly no'. In my UK school race was the overriding consideration in just about everything and all it did was fuel more racism.

Racism is still alive and well but it's a far more complex issue than simply white people believing they have to make up for past crimes to black people. It's become a self-perpetuating cluster-fuck of resentment on all sides.

They are only making amends because they got caught. You don't need to extend them credit, they already stole enough of that.