Apple employees over 4,000 employees in Ireland. The large companies with bases here are also here for our educational talent, as well as the taxes. The taxes bring them here and the employees keep them here. That was the whole idea behind introducing the low taxes (they are around 10%) in the 80s. Its the reason we are not a bunch of peasant farmers any more. We are very much a knowledge economy these days.

I wonder if its possible for America to fix this horrible "if you aren't with us, you are against us" mentality. There seems to be no concept of a middle ground, no grey. Everything is either black or white. How did it end up like this?

If it did it wasn't coke. Most likely it was cut with something else that made you feel bad,

I'm pretty sure you can't assume your opinion applies to everyone. I agree with the original statement, as an omnivore, who does pay more for free range stuff than than factory farmed. You can be sure there are many more like me given the huge amount of organic and free range stuff in the supermarkets. I'm very interested to know why you would pay more to not eat lab grown meat, that is immensely mind-boggling.

Here you go. Testable, duplicatable example of evolution. http://www.newscientist.com/ar...

They're calling it IRA. (Individual Retirement Account). What a stupid choice. I mean its bound to cause some confusion that could have very easily been avoided. I realise the IRA (Irish Republican Army) isn't a global organization but you'd think the American Government would have the brains and foresight to avoid reuse of already long established and very well-known acronyms.

Thats the upgrade. This is the successor.

Viewed from outside America he is incredibly conservative. America seems to get more conservative every year. He is at best, center-right.

The Machine Stops, 1909, E. M. Forster: http://archive.ncsa.illinois.e...

That has food that is just called food and comes in tubes. It also effectively describes the modern world. Its amazingly prescient. Definitely worth reading.

Plenty of long haired hippie looking dudes where I work. My bosses boss is a long haired hippie. The company is a highly successful internet company. I find your comments very strange. Why does appearance matter so much? It's seen as effectively meaningless to us. Dreadlocks, crazy hair, crazy beards, ancient clothes. None of it matters. What matters is the people.

I find this strange. Youtube never needs to buffer for me, no matter the stream or quality.

do you happen to remember what book this was? I love such stories. it sounds kinda like. Charles stross - accelerando?

Galaxies do not expand. They are gravitationally bound structures and the expansion force is much weaker.

Because its clearly pronounced rah-pie? Unless you pronounce pi as pee? and raspberry as ray-spberry?

We have known UI's like that suck since the 80's.

http://catb.org/jargon/html/G/gorilla-arm.html