I suspect the energetic defence of 'British English' was to ensure our new EU friends used British spellings, not the US ones (with mixed success - I think overall we are losing / have lost on 'centers').
What price Brexit?
I'm not sure a tip can be described as useful when it's wrong. Keynesianism (we could spend some time distinguishing what we mean by Keynesianism - are we using it to mean what Keynes discussed and proposed or what the political-economic consensus subsequently made it into) did not cause the Great Depression, it was the reliance on policies derived from reliance on neoclassical economics, as any fule kno.
"That unelected officials are prone to spending vast sums of other peoples money on boondoggles is practically a cliche at this point" is irrelevant at this point. This project was one of six submitted, each was evaluated by a group of internationally renowned experts (who, oddly enough, weren't elected to the post of "expert"). The six groups of experts then compared notes across all six proposals.
The process was overseen by an independent monitoring panel and the results will have to be approved by representatives of Member States who are directly accountable to their (elected) Minister. This hasn't happened yet so (a) his project hasn't got the money and (b) the project won't be getting the 1B€ solely from the EU budget.
The FET Flagships will be 1B€ over 10 yr projects / programmes. Some of that money will come from the EU budget, some will be co-funding from EU Member States's national research programmes and some will be provided by the partners. For the purposes of discussion
1B€ / 10yrs = 100M€ pa
could be...
20M€ pa own resources
30M€ pa from EU
50M€ pa from Member States
Large Member States may be in for about 10M€ pa per flagship.
I'm old (and maybe slightly ashamed) enough to recall its strapline - "the genuine champagne perry" - which seems to break more laws and regulations than your average bit-torrenter / software pirate under net neutrality.
A better economist than me said "In the long run we are all dead" so I am always a bit cautious about asserting what will happen eventually - other than, of course, being dead.
Given the unhealthy state of the Spanish economy, what the new Govt there most needs is something to unite the country around to distract them from the austerity measures. You'd almsot think they'd put the yanks up to it...
As someone who works in the British civil service (on non-strike days anyway) I can assure you that neither "Yes, Minister" nor "Yes, Prime Minister" have dated much.
A man from Hibernian Express was on the "Today" programme on BBC R4 yesterday morning and was clearly surprised to be asked how many milliseconds there are in a second. After a bit of flapping he declared there were 100,000.
... and a neat complement to the welcome support Cameron got from the Chinese Govt for his proposal to block social networking sites as they could be used to organise riots.
In the UK we don't really do earthquakes and tsunamis so I suppose our stress-tests will feature vibrations caused by loud music from the neighbours (because we certainly won't ask them to turn it down, v unBritish) and predictable rain on the first day of a test-match.
Could be. The RV method can't detect small (ie Earth-size) planets at a distance from a star and simulations by the team showed such the presence of such a planet in the "habitable zone" would be consistent with their results (or at least it wouldn't knacker all their simulations). I welcome our not internally inconsistent overlords.
David Beckham made his first big impact when he lobbed the Wimbledon keeper from half way in 1996, so one might say his reputation has already lasted into the next century. Or at least that's the point Cassius Clay put to me the other day.
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I suspect the energetic defence of 'British English' was to ensure our new EU friends used British spellings, not the US ones (with mixed success - I think overall we are losing / have lost on 'centers'). What price Brexit?
Perhaps they moved from round to square (kilometre array).
I'm not sure a tip can be described as useful when it's wrong. Keynesianism (we could spend some time distinguishing what we mean by Keynesianism - are we using it to mean what Keynes discussed and proposed or what the political-economic consensus subsequently made it into) did not cause the Great Depression, it was the reliance on policies derived from reliance on neoclassical economics, as any fule kno.
"That unelected officials are prone to spending vast sums of other peoples money on boondoggles is practically a cliche at this point" is irrelevant at this point. This project was one of six submitted, each was evaluated by a group of internationally renowned experts (who, oddly enough, weren't elected to the post of "expert"). The six groups of experts then compared notes across all six proposals. The process was overseen by an independent monitoring panel and the results will have to be approved by representatives of Member States who are directly accountable to their (elected) Minister. This hasn't happened yet so (a) his project hasn't got the money and (b) the project won't be getting the 1B€ solely from the EU budget.
I'm assuming the question is rhetorical.
The FET Flagships will be 1B€ over 10 yr projects / programmes. Some of that money will come from the EU budget, some will be co-funding from EU Member States's national research programmes and some will be provided by the partners. For the purposes of discussion 1B€ / 10yrs = 100M€ pa could be ...
20M€ pa own resources
30M€ pa from EU
50M€ pa from Member States
Large Member States may be in for about 10M€ pa per flagship.
"I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" has the around the right number of single-entendres to provide an insight into Britishness.
I daresay the Govt could make a pretty good guess already: Porn and Euro2012 (and /. of course).
I'm old (and maybe slightly ashamed) enough to recall its strapline - "the genuine champagne perry" - which seems to break more laws and regulations than your average bit-torrenter / software pirate under net neutrality.
... or that ISPs / providers of infrastructure don't demand from Google that they pay ...
A better economist than me said "In the long run we are all dead" so I am always a bit cautious about asserting what will happen eventually - other than, of course, being dead.
"... kindly agreed to the following interview, which had been planned some months ago". I'll bet it had.
Xerox?
I need coffee right now but I don't think I've enough evolution to buy one.
Given the unhealthy state of the Spanish economy, what the new Govt there most needs is something to unite the country around to distract them from the austerity measures. You'd almsot think they'd put the yanks up to it ...
As someone who works in the British civil service (on non-strike days anyway) I can assure you that neither "Yes, Minister" nor "Yes, Prime Minister" have dated much.
A man from Hibernian Express was on the "Today" programme on BBC R4 yesterday morning and was clearly surprised to be asked how many milliseconds there are in a second. After a bit of flapping he declared there were 100,000.
... and a neat complement to the welcome support Cameron got from the Chinese Govt for his proposal to block social networking sites as they could be used to organise riots.
In the UK we don't really do earthquakes and tsunamis so I suppose our stress-tests will feature vibrations caused by loud music from the neighbours (because we certainly won't ask them to turn it down, v unBritish) and predictable rain on the first day of a test-match.
Could be. The RV method can't detect small (ie Earth-size) planets at a distance from a star and simulations by the team showed such the presence of such a planet in the "habitable zone" would be consistent with their results (or at least it wouldn't knacker all their simulations). I welcome our not internally inconsistent overlords.
Replace of IE6? In my dreams http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2010/08/02/uk-government-thinks-ie6-will-have-to-do/.
What?! I've just been mulling over whether to upgrade the OS on my main machine to XP.
David Beckham made his first big impact when he lobbed the Wimbledon keeper from half way in 1996, so one might say his reputation has already lasted into the next century. Or at least that's the point Cassius Clay put to me the other day.
... because I work for a UK Govt Dept and we still use IE6.
At least have the decency to insult Europeans in English rather than American.