How did this get modded up. Intel has a lot of R&D jobs in Ireland, as do the pharmas; Viagra was invented in Cork. Chuckle up your sleeve at that one if you like, but its one hell of a money spinner. Not to mention much of that high tech industry is in Shannon, with its very own international airport. As for the incubators, most of the investment in the country was going into property, so that's that.

Hope the WDA didn't pay you too much.

Wrong. The only reason the bailout is being forced on Ireland is because of loans given by German and UK banks to Irish banks. Ireland is quite capable of sorting out its own deficit.

Incorrect. Its in trouble because the government guaranteed huge amounts of speculator debt.

These two are not connected. Bankruptcy in this case has a lot more to do with the banks than anything else.

They do pay American taxes, the Irish operation only works with European, Middle Eastern and African income.

On the contrary, hundreds of thousands of people depend for their living directly and indirectly on FDI.

Ireland is in trouble because the government stupidly guaranteed the gambling loans of investors in Anglo Irish, not because of foreign direct investment.

If you look at the video, it never seems to actually submerge though - is it in fact a sub?

You dickhead.

Indeed. Someone needs to go to prison for this.

Yeah it did.

Great, lets hope the female politicians in Saudi Arabia use it to further their careers.

Meh, just keep everything under a little pressure.

Because space has a lot more stuff than earth. True, you'd need to do it just for space based markets first, but before too long economies of scale would kick in and you could just drop your manufactured products straight down to earth.

The more engineers I meet, the less I respect the breed tbh. Science, motherfucker, it does stuff it couldn't do yesterday. Economics, you do not understand it.

Oh piss off you spellchecker abusing malignancy.

Better than you putting words into the mouths of others.

Mmm, sarcasm is no replacement for a critical mind. Although some clearly feel that it is.

On the contrary, it merely involves educating you on the limits of our knowledge, which doesn't take long.

In flat defiance of the clear predominance of possibility pointed out by the poster you misrepresented, and which you have thus far failed to refute.

You're not interested in evidence. You should, however, look up calls to authority as they were used in the medieval period. Most of us have moved on, you know.