> part from being spoken differently, they are written differently as well

No they aren't.

Their PM accidentally admitted, back in 2006, that they did have nuclear weapons.

Now Singapore is a relatively new and untested place for offshoring

This statement hasn't been true since the 1970s.

Your stupidity is showing. Singapore may be largely populated by ethnic Chinese, but it certainly isn't China.

I'd engage in a bit of reading comprehension before accusing others of stupidity. He was replying to aztektum's assertion that

It seems the countries they compare to Ireland such as China have a completely different lifestylet.

And one of the "countries they compare to Ireland" happens to be Singapore:

...a statement signed by senior execs at Microsoft, HP, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, and Intel points out that although Ireland's tax rate may be low in European terms, it is not when compared with locations such as Singapore, India and China.

We'll see. During the Asian economic crisis of the late 1990s, there was an inordinate amount of glee in the West over the plight of the original Tiger economies. Since then, they've bounced back even stronger than before, with GDP in South Korea and Singapore at roughly twice the level before the Asian crisis. And they've been almost unaffected by the current crisis.

All will hinge on how the Irish government handles the recovery. In the case of the Asian Tigers, referring to their economies as "right wing" is rather misleading; low corporate taxes notwithstanding, their governments actually play a pretty heavy role in managing the economy, and Keynesian programs (direct government spending) played a big part of their recovery.

> assange did a good thing starting wikileaks,

Assange did not start Wikileaks.

By comparison, let's look at how China has manages strategic resources:

A draft report by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has called for a total ban on foreign shipments of terbium, dysprosium, yttrium, thulium, and lutetium... “This isn’t about the China holding the world to ransom. They are saying we need these resources to develop our own economy and achieve energy efficiency, so go find your own supplies”...

The main problem with using hydrogen as a coolant is not that it is combustible (though it is). It's that it freezes. At ambient pressures, helium does not freeze, and remains a liquid down to absolute zero.

Anyone know how they're gonna handle the suckers who shelled out for a lifetime subscription?

We're certainly on the road to the future spelled out here.

if the republicans got elected the same thing would be going on - very little funding to NASA etc...

You do realize that Obama's budget increases NASA funding by a significant amount, right?

Most IT people I know are incredibly conservative/Libertarian/Ayn Rand followers. Mention a union, professional organization, or other stabilizer to these people, and most go off into a Fox News-style tirade about socialism or how unions are evil and corrupt.

I think you misunderestimate the power of cognitive dissonance. In my experience, most libertarians are all for protectionism when their own jobs are on the line.