Hehe, but it's pronounced twent-eh in Dutch, sounds nothing like twenty ;)

http://www.forvo.com/word/twente/#nl

Just because all you hear about the EU has to do with those two American companies does not mean they have a bias.

Your attitude is profoundly arrogant in my opinion. I cannot understand why so many of your fellow Americans don't understand the situation? If a company operates in a European jurisdiction, either as a local legal entity or offers services and goods, it has to follow local laws and courts. It's that simple, or leave!

The EU's courts go after European companies every day, you just don't read about it because it's "foreign" news. Why should the [very profitable] arms of American companies in Europe be any different?!

Most sources actually mention that it is subject to approval by many other countries such as China, Taiwan and Israel.

The EU and US however are the biggest markets, they're also the markets that lead/dictate the standards [due to their market power]. See how the EU set the standard for electronics world wide by requiring RoHS compliance [for products to be sold in Europe], and how California legislates the car industry in their state but affects the whole US.

Reaction of the mayor of Oslo after the shootings this year by far-right terrorrist : "We need even more democracy".

It was actually the Prime Minister of Norway that said that. Also the shootings themselves happened in another county far away from Oslo city.

... welfare state is rock solid and financed for almost ever by Oil money ...

The national budget is financed by income, corporate and sales tax (75%). Sales taxes being the largest contributor. Oil and gas revenue is invested abroad in the SWF, we allow a maximum of 4% of the surplus to go towards the national budget. Oil does represent a solid portion of the revenue (25%), however it is not what funds the budget.

I don't pretend to know much about EMP hardening, I assume the built-in electronics are built to withstand the effects, but I also assume that the whole outer skin of the plane is shielded?

If that is the case, which I am only suggesting, is it not likely that the tablet inside the cockpit would also be shielded by the fuselage?

That's basically how European telecom market(s) work. It's good for consumers, lower prices and more competition [than in the US].

As an Apple Customer you are stuck with vendor lock in.

While Apple does not offer you the freedom to change the hardware, why would a consumer want to anyway, Apple does not lock you in with regards to operating systems which is what we are talking about here in reality.

If Apple switched to another hardware architecture, your current Mac would still be able to run any other major operating system on the market today including Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, *BSD and so on. What "lock in"?

I'm sorry, as far as I can tell you are not being sarcastic. If you honestly believe what you wrote then I have news for you.

Every time Google, Microsoft or some other American corporation is involved in so-called "foreign" courts American citizens are up in arms [on the Internet].

Do you really not understand that companies that have offices and offer services in said "foreign" country are subject to that country's laws and courts? The company is not "American", the legal entity involved is Google India, Inc, an Indian corporation.

Or are you simply in denial and wish it to be otherwise? It's quite simple, really, if you want to play, you have to play by the local rules.

I think you have the labs and roles confused, that's why I pointed out that there are different labs for medical and criminal cases.

What was formerly known as the Division of Forensic Medicine ("Rettsmedisinsk institutt"), is now, as of 2012, part of The Norwegian Institute of Public Health ("Nasjonalt folkehelseinstitutt"). This division was indeed plagued by the [public] capacity problems you refer to.

The Norwegian Institute of Public Health is a "... national centre of excellence in the areas of epidemiology, mental health, control of infectious diseases, environmental medicine, forensic toxicology and drug abuse.".

The Division of Forensic Medicine and Drug Abuse Research analyses biological samples with respect to alcohol, drugs (medicinal and illegal) and toxic agents in cases where the results may have judicial consequences. The analytical results are usually interpreted and commented and, in many cases, expert statements are submitted to the courts.

The issue was not a lack of general capacity in the health care system, it was handing over work generated by criminal cases to privately owned labs. These are completely different and separate areas.

The Norwegian Police and Prosecuting Authority ("påtalemyndigheten") are frequently looking for positive DNA identification of suspects in murder and rape cases. This differs greatly from the lofty goal of mapping the complete exome, the human genome, in all future Norwegian cancer patients.

This national project will utilize and expand the existing capacity of the regional cancer centers, i.e. Norwegian hospitals, through:
"... establish[ing] sampling procedures and sample logistics, bioinformatics infrastructure, analysis and pipelines, ...". It will in no way impact, reduce or take away focus from the criminal cases handled by the Forensic Division. Of course, that is merely my opinion, that I gathered from what I read.

Source(s):
http://www.cancergenomics.no/
http://www.fhi.no/
http://www.forskning.no/

The key difference between the two is that what you're talking about is criminal investigations where we don't want to use private cliniques, this is a medical research project.