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Steven Hawking Considering Move To Canada
thepacketmaster learned of "...the possibility of Steven Hawking moving to Waterloo in Canada: 'A report out of Britain suggests Stephen Hawking is considering an invitation to come work at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics....But he's also being encouraged to move to Ontario by his University of Cambridge colleague Neil Turok, the mathematical physicist who will take over as Perimeter's executive director on Oct. 1. Perimeter confirmed last night that it has made a standing offer to Hawking...Turok is leaving Cambridge after failing to persuade university authorities, research councils and sponsors to spend $40 million...By comparison, Waterloo's Perimeter Institute has about $600 million in funding...The addition of Hawking to Perimeter's staff of top physicists would be a major coup for the research institute, founded in 1999 by Mike Lazaridis, founder and co-CEO of Research In Motion, which makes the BlackBerry.'"
FYI, if not doing anything I can use some helping packing and moving. I will splurge for Pizza.
S.H.
Actually what you are referring to as Britain, also encompasses all of England, but also Ireland, Scotland, & Wales.
Some people refer to it as the United Kingdom, or the UK for short. Meaning England is only a portion of Britain.
You can't be ahead of the curve, if you're stuck in a loop.
or related ones. I looked it up, the WH keeps requesting small increases to the NSF... http://www.nsf.gov/about/budget/ and they request specific amounts for projects only to see them whacked http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/12/us-budget-spell.html
Now I know, there are going to be the standard cry-about-Iraq-because-if-not-Iraq type crap totally ignoring the fact that just a small percentage of earmarks wasted on works named after LIVING congressmen could pay for any number of our own pet projects.
The money has always been there, Congress has the final responsibility for directing it correctly. Iraq is a very good excuse to spend money how they want while pointing "SEE SEE SEE SEE" elsewhere. In other words, one negative about Iraq that people ignore is that its mere existence allows Congress to waste money because they can always lay claim to the fact that Iraq consumes more.
without Iraq the money would be just as unavailable as it is today. This situation will not change until neither Democrats or Republicans are dominant.
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
Ah yes, the tax savings... There won't be much left to save after Uncle Sam takes away all his money for giving up his citizenship here. This was also covered by Slashdot (or a reader) a while back... BTW, Canadian taxes are actually a little lower than ours, and they get free healthcare! taxes in Canada.
I've read Slashdot for the last 5 years, and now I start posting... Go figure
From what I hear, free healthcare in Canada isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
While we're on the karma whoring train..
OMG PONIEZ!!??
Hey, it was worth a shot! Well, maybe not. I have a feeling karma whoring just backfired TERRIBLY.