If you register for flat rate VAT you will (most likely) actually take home slightly more money however, so it's worth doing.

So anyone can use the web browser on their iOS device to view nude photos on the 500px website, but they can't download the app and view them via that? It's a bit ridiculous really. Are they going to start blocking websites they dont approve of as well?

The point is, if I have set my son's iOS device to block Safari as well as apps rated as mature, then he won't be able to do either.

If 500px's app was rated 12+ because it's default was 'Safe On" (according to one of 500px's owners: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5099607), and my son can just toggle a "Safe On" switch in the app, it side-steps my parental controls.

I strongly recommend reading the book that this extract was taken from. http://amzn.com/0670023329

I've read the book and it's an amazing read, both for details of what occurs in the camps, and for the issues Shin faces trying to assimilate in both South Korea and the U.S. Beyond symptoms much like PTSD, he has perverse difficulties with money and personal finance. At the same time as he expects to be cared for in a bare way (because the camp existed to give him a really shitty place to sleep and really shitty food), he's deeply suspicious of any largesse shown to him--it's either a bribe requiring action, or an unexpected windfall that he must consume immediately to avoid it being taken away from him by a stronger inmate, or the possession of which might be grounds for further punishment. He has trouble saving money or conceiving of budgeting his money. He has trouble planning beyond a few days in the future because, in the camps, nothing was in his control, so planning was not just immaterial, it was counterproductive and risky.

When Korea reunifies, the South is going to have to deal with 20 million people with similar symptoms (in most cases less severe).

Yes, and not just those symptoms, but a generation raised in a truly bizarre educational system, who believe that total corruption is the norm, and who are so economically backwards that they'll be largely unable to meaningfully participate in a re-united economy.

I suspect that, if reunification occurs, NK will be held apart as a special zone for a generation or two in order to educate a following generation for real reunification.

It's been done before. Germany hasn't had a smooth transition, and there are still problems, but it has been done.

The gap between the Koreas is far bigger than the gap between West and East Germany ever was. The latter was arguably ahead of the better parts of Third World (say Brazil or Mexico) in terms of education, health care, infra-structure, industrialization, etc. Compare to North Korea, which still uses mainly manual and animal labour for agriculture, and can barely feed its people.