ireland
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Here’s The Document That Started Apple’s Hidden Irish Tax Scheme
The mega-valuable company that makes your laptop is under US congressional scrutiny this week for alleged offshore tax-dodging. It all started in 1980, when Apple’s California execs moved their operation to Ireland with a fake company with the codename “Waldwill Limited.”
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How Spontaneous Human Combustion Works
Terrifying, isn’t it? To imagine that you could be sitting in your favourite easy chair, happily reading UNIX in a Nutshell, and then your body just COMBUSTS — spontaneously — and you’re a pile of ashes. A coroner in Ireland recently ruled that’s exactly what happened to Michael Faherty, 76, who burned to death last…
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WTF? Ireland Gets The iPhone Before Australia?
It just doesn’t make sense. Ireland is getting the iPhone, courtesy of O2, as of March 14. That’s two weeks away today. For those of you not up to date with your geography and population statistics, According to Google, Ireland has an estimated population of 4,109,086 as at July 2007. Australia, on the other hand,…