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.'"

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Re:yes but there was a difference.

[Tubal-Cain]

Only if you ignore the parts that say you should stone people

no comment

and eradicate whole villages if one of the members doesn't believe in the Bible's god

I am not familiar with this one. Lots of villages being eradicated, but I can't recall one destroyed over a single pagan/heathen/insertpolicticallycorrecttermhere living there. In fact, Sodom and Gomorrah would have been spared if there were even 10 righteous men there.

retain slaves

...and free them every seven years

and that giving up your virgin daughter to a rape gang is preferable to turning over a foreign man to them.

In Lot's defense, there was no laws regarding this at the time. And there were two daughters. And the crowd didn't want them.

Re:yes but there was a difference.

[Anonymous Coward]

Just for kicks - there's a city of Cambridge in Ontario, within the same region as Waterloo (the region of Waterloo).. sheesh