Thats is the answer to my question, apparently 60,000 people are employed by Irish companies in the US [1], where as 90,000 Irish people [2] are hired directly by US companies in Ireland.
Interesting fact I think.
[1] Brian Cowen on RTE news.
[2] www.amcham.ie/article.cfm?idarticle=315
A while back I heard a report on the radio suggesting that Irish companies employ as many in the USA as American companies do here, can anyone tell me if that is true?
Not sure what exactly qualified as an Irish company or American company in the report…
Mahmoud, Age 13
Human Rights Watch: What’s happening here?
Mahmoud: These men in green are taking the women and the girls.
Human Rights Watch: What are they doing?
Mahmoud: They are forcing them to be wife.
Human Rights Watch: What’s happening here?
Mahmoud: The houses are on fire.
Human Rights Watch: What’s happening here?
Mahmoud: This is an Antonov. This is a helicopter. These here, at the bottom of the page, these are dead people.
Find out what really is happening in Darfur .
Via Ethan
There are 3 little things that Com Reg could insist phone companies do to improve transparency and competition.
Using these 3 things, 3rd parties, like me, could really do some interesting things.
For example, I could write a web page where you put in your mobile number, and password, and then it would display how much your last months bill would have cost across all the mobile providers, with all the various options.
It could recommend which number you should set as your “phone a friend for free” number. And if they let you change account options via a webservice, you could change to the suggested number there and then.
It could sample your bills for the last 6 months and suggest which carrier would give you the best options.
Once you have the data and power over your account, the options are endless.
You think that all those hippies protesting about GM crops are just scaremongers?
Read this and tell me that GM crops are not a danger to society.
Monsanto Suing Farmers Over Piracy Issues
Might be interested in this earlier post.
http://www.maccarthy.org/blog/wp-trackback.php/19
From a recent Slashdot posting…
The American Administrator of the Iraqi CPA (Coalition Provisional Authority) government, Paul Bremer, updated Iraq’s intellectual property law to ‘meet current internationally-recognized standards of protection.’ The updated law makes saving seeds for next year’s harvest, practiced by 97% of Iraqi farmers in 2002, the standard farming practice for illegal. Instead, farmers will have to obtain a yearly license for genetically modified seeds from American corporations.
From http://www.grain.org/articles/?id=6
As part of sweeping “economic restructuring” implemented by the Bush Administration in Iraq, Iraqi farmers will no longer be permitted to save their seeds. Instead, they will be forced to buy seeds from US corporations — including seeds the Iraqis themselves developed over hundreds of years. That is because in recent years, transnational corporations have patented and now own many seed varieties originated or developed by indigenous peoples. In a short time, Iraq will be living under the new American credo: Pay Monsanto, or starve.
More details can found here :
http://www.vegsource.com/articles2/iraq_seeds.htm
The full text of the law can be found here:
http://www.iraqcoalition.org/regulations/20040426_CPAORD_81_Patents_Law.pdf