Read as far as the sixth paragraph.

Unfortunately, the summary is incorrect. The article says the mice are more stressed with males around.

I'm a bit hazy on this myself, but I believe the way it works is this: under Irish law, the profits are to be taxed in the US. Under US law, the profits are taxed there when they are repatriated from the subsidiary to the parent company. So, the profits are never repatriated, they are instead sitting in a dollar account in a US bank (to avoid losses due to currency fluctuations) belonging to the Irish subsidiary of the US company, until such a time as congress decides to lower tax rates so they can take it all back "home" (it is already back in the US, just untaxed) for free. Until then, banks will be more than willing to lend them whatever money they want or need in the US, because they have this massive pile of cash lying about.

I'm willing to bet it was around in some form or other. Diagnosis of it, however, would not have been, especially given that its human origins are probably African bushmeat.

I think that might be the best sentence I've ever tried to read out loud.

Yes, although there can be nuanced differences. Athiesm is a lack of belief. Agnosticism is the belief that something is unknowable (not specifically referring to religion). In the case of religion, saying that it is unknowable whether or not there is a god is effectively the same as saying that there is no good reason to believe that there is one.

There was a similar story a few months back, also from the BBC, about a study with slightly different conclusions than polarisation of light.It concluded that the stripes cause optical illusions when moving. Link.

You joke, but here you go.

That is untrue. The prosecution was for "gross indecency" with a 19 year old man, who was also prosecuted.

Thank you. I'm glad someone saw what I meant :(

God this is tedious. I was making a joke. It wasn't a very funny one, but that is all it was. I made a joke about someone describing a volume as 1.5 times a quarter of eight of something we can't all agree on. I very clearly referred to a quart as a quarter of 8 pints, to which Megane retorted "A quart is a quarter of a gallon, not a quarter of a pint." Excellent reading comprehension skills there. When I asked if there was some kind of gallon that was not made of 8 pints, given that Megane was trying very hard to contradict me while actually agreeing with me, noh8rz10 replied with a condescending reply saying that yes, there are 8 pints in a gallon, and asking if I had any other questions that need answering. Now, I know it is extremely unfashionable on this site to read the article, but it does behoove one to read the comment they are replying to, and in cases where you are making comment on other peoples comments on previous comments, to read the whole bloody thread. In this case, there were 4 sentences, apart from a list of measurement conversions, to read, and you somehow arrived at the conclusion that rather than the possibility that there are 2 people on the internet who are incapable of reading 10 words correctly, that I must have phrased my words incorrectly, and you choose this as a way of deciding instead of reading 4 sentences?

any qs?

No questions. I was merely pointing out that Megane above did not read what I wrote. Obviously you didn't either. Nevermind.

And are these gallons of yours some newfangled ones that are not made up of 8 pints?

Was that 1.5 quarters of eight American or English pints?

Would that be Brian May?