You miss the point: Of course it is all legal. But Sweden could also easily question him in the UK if that was what they really wanted. (Plenty of precedent.) Their stated motives makes no sense. Of course the whole thing is purely political. You'd have to be incredibly naive to believe the extradition is about sexual allegations from ex-lovers.
Actually, it is considered a notoriously difficult language for westerners to learn. I don't think that is hyperbole.
Not just Westerners! Chinese is just as hard for Tanzanians or Indonesians. Chinese an awful language, not just the tones but full of homophones and other pitfalls. The only worse language I know is Cantonese. Maybe Khoisan?
In comparison, Swahili or SE Asian languages are a piece of cake, at least at the beginner level.
I'm still lost on why Sweden, of all places, is more likely to deport Assange to the US than England is.
Why else are they going to such extraordinary lengths to obtain him? There are no charges, and Sweden refuses to question him in the UK. The UK is spending millions of pounds on a case where even the allegations do not add up to anything that would be a crime in the UK.
If you think Assange has no cause for fear, read this:
In December 2001 Swedish police... two Egyptians who had been seeking asylum in Sweden. The police took them to Bromma airport in Stockholm, and then stood aside as masked alleged CIA operatives cut their clothes from their bodies, inserted drugged suppositories in their anuses, and dressed them in diapers and overalls, handcuffed and chained them and put them on an executive jet with American registration N379P. They were flown to Egypt, where they were imprisoned, beaten, and tortured
OK, I can see that in mountainous areas one drone can replace many towers to give line of sight. But the drone still needs to be near overhead, so will not cover a massive area like an Irridium satellite.
And a bunch of mass-produced solar-powered, LOS microwave-link meshed hilltop cells will likely still be easier than one mega-drone. And safer.
For 98% of the population, towers as used currently make even more sense. Ground-based cellular systems can pack close together in cities, and spread out in the suburbs and rural areas. These drones are stuck at high altitude, so except for remote areas they are wasting bandwidth and battery life on the ground. Drones might be useful for extra large LTE cells in northern Canada or central Australia. Perhaps replace Iridium.
How do you explain the fact that Japanese-Americans have a lower homicide rate than Japanese in Japan?
LK
- as a wild guess, discriminatory immigration (no criminal record allowed, higher education an advantage) - one is the overwhelmingly dominant culture while the other a tiny minority, so any comparison is pointless. - both are very low, and US data not accurate enough to know if that is true anyway. Your data is based on rough estimates with a large error range. - you are attempting a distraction that has nothing to do with my post. I do not even offer an explanation for the data I observed, except to agree that homogenous societies tend to have less crime, more cohesion. - which may be only a small part of the answer.
Homogenous societies in general tend to have less violence regardless of the race of the people involved. I think that's the point that was being made.
Thats certainly a factor. Japan obviously is very homogenous, as are many of the nations with low violent crime.
However there are notable exceptions: Singapore has large disadvantaged minorities, is highly urbanised, yet still has an exceptionally low murder rate. It doesn't hurt that guns are almost non-existent there.
Same applies to Bahrain and Kuwait (racially diverse, very low murder rates). So much for middle-eastern stereotypes. New Guinea is racially homogenous with a very high murder rate - but culturally diverse with 800-odd languages.
(BTW, I look at murder rate partly because the figures are much more reliable in comparing countries. Methodologies, reporting rates etc vary more for other crimes.)
Japans draconian gun laws are not the reason for its low violent crime rate. They have a very low murder rate generally, and don't need such heavy penalties.
The US however does have a serious violent crime problem. But not all the US: places such as New England, Iowa, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wyoming, Utah all have homicide rates not so much worse than Europe and Australia. ( Restricting handguns could well reduce the gap.) What do all these states have in common? Similar racial mix. There is only one state with both a large racial minority and a low murder rate: Hawaii. Importantly, the white-only homicide rate in the US overall is still much higher than the total homicide rate in the above states, so the cause is not simple. People in those states have a lower murder rate regardless of race.
You cannot possibly understand the US murder rate without looking at race and guns. The left do not want to talk about race, and the right don't want to talk about guns, so we're screwed.
This "sled" looks exactly like an old-fashioned chassis, as used in trucks and the VW beetle. So the roof of the Tesla is not structural: Does this mean we can expect to see home-modified "convertible" Tesla-Ss in future, as we did for the Beetle?
get the idea that the tests are somehow measuring "intelligence,"
But IQ tests do measure intelligence, and do it well. It cannot be perfect, because there is no one simple definition. IQ does not measure education or general knowledge, which your "ignorant public" may equate with intelligence, but a more scientific version of it. Intelligence can be far more accurately measured than other aspects of mind/personality - bravery, resilience, charisma, introversion... Intelligence traits (that you might define) not directly measured by IQ tests are likely to be highly correlated.
Many people do not like the idea of innate aptitudes, but wishing it false does not make it so.
Well, maybe people shouldn't be writing inaccurate headlines. Are people not allowed to criticize those?
Yes, the headline is bollocks. Welcome to slashdot:)
Babies that show a faster, stronger fear response to scary images are more likely to be republicans as adults by a pretty substantial margin.
That is misleading. What happens is the conservatives show a different response to scary images. Which is better depends on the environment. It may be that conservatives are more prone to over-reacting to threats while liberals are more likely to ignore or downplay real threats.
And conservative does not mean Republican. e.g. black Americans tend to be conservative but overwhelmingly vote Democrat.
We have yet to define intelligence in any objective way
Thats not how science works. What you do is find something you can measure, an aspect of intelligence rather than a perfect definition. The bit you can measure is called IQ. If the measure is reliable and makes successful predictions, then it is scientifically valid.
IQ tests are strong predictors of many things, such as school success and job performance. This does not depend on anybody defining what general intelligence means.
we'll be able to test if someone is a genius?
No, but it may tell if they are smart enough to RTF Summary.
Yes, and far more people die every in the US from being beaten to death by killers using fists and blunt instruments than have died by killers using rifles of any kind,
He said guns, not rifles.
But that raises a good point - like Ebola, assault rifles get disproportionate fear and media attention. Sure they are both bad, and need to be contained, but influenza and handguns are the much bigger threats overall.
Bird flue has killed fewer then 200 and is contained. Ebola has killed more then 3000 and is not.
Math is hard.
Swine flu has killed hundreds of thousands in the current global epidemic (not contained), and at least 50 million the previous time (1918). Ebola has a lot of catching up to do.
suggests that intelligence is just a part, maybe even a small part, of achievement.
In life, perhaps. But this study is looking specifically at school achievement, where intelligence is by far the biggest factor. They were also looking at other less important but less studied heritable traits, which is the interesting part.
You don't get it. This is not a scientific achievement, but an engineering one. It cost a few cents per Indian - I think they can afford that. Congratulations India!
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Sweden doesn't have to question him in the UK
You miss the point: Of course it is all legal. But Sweden could also easily question him in the UK if that was what they really wanted. (Plenty of precedent.)
Their stated motives makes no sense. Of course the whole thing is purely political. You'd have to be incredibly naive to believe the extradition is about sexual allegations from ex-lovers.
Actually, it is considered a notoriously difficult language for westerners to learn. I don't think that is hyperbole.
Not just Westerners! Chinese is just as hard for Tanzanians or Indonesians. Chinese an awful language, not just the tones but full of homophones and other pitfalls. The only worse language I know is Cantonese. Maybe Khoisan?
In comparison, Swahili or SE Asian languages are a piece of cake, at least at the beginner level.
I'm still lost on why Sweden, of all places, is more likely to deport Assange to the US than England is.
Why else are they going to such extraordinary lengths to obtain him? There are no charges, and Sweden refuses to question him in the UK.
The UK is spending millions of pounds on a case where even the allegations do not add up to anything that would be a crime in the UK.
If you think Assange has no cause for fear, read this:
In December 2001 Swedish police ... two Egyptians who had been seeking asylum in Sweden. The police took them to Bromma airport in Stockholm, and then stood aside as masked alleged CIA operatives cut their clothes from their bodies, inserted drugged suppositories in their anuses, and dressed them in diapers and overalls, handcuffed and chained them and put them on an executive jet with American registration N379P. They were flown to Egypt, where they were imprisoned, beaten, and tortured
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
OK, I can see that in mountainous areas one drone can replace many towers to give line of sight.
But the drone still needs to be near overhead, so will not cover a massive area like an Irridium satellite.
And a bunch of mass-produced solar-powered, LOS microwave-link meshed hilltop cells will likely still be easier than one mega-drone.
And safer.
For 98% of the population, towers as used currently make even more sense.
Ground-based cellular systems can pack close together in cities, and spread out in the suburbs and rural areas.
These drones are stuck at high altitude, so except for remote areas they are wasting bandwidth and battery life on the ground.
Drones might be useful for extra large LTE cells in northern Canada or central Australia. Perhaps replace Iridium.
Must be a slow news for nerds day.
How do you explain the fact that Japanese-Americans have a lower homicide rate than Japanese in Japan?
LK
- as a wild guess, discriminatory immigration (no criminal record allowed, higher education an advantage)
- one is the overwhelmingly dominant culture while the other a tiny minority, so any comparison is pointless.
- both are very low, and US data not accurate enough to know if that is true anyway. Your data is based on rough estimates with a large error range.
- you are attempting a distraction that has nothing to do with my post. I do not even offer an explanation for the data I observed, except to agree that homogenous societies tend to have less crime, more cohesion. - which may be only a small part of the answer.
Homogenous societies in general tend to have less violence regardless of the race of the people involved. I think that's the point that was being made.
Thats certainly a factor. Japan obviously is very homogenous, as are many of the nations with low violent crime.
However there are notable exceptions: Singapore has large disadvantaged minorities, is highly urbanised, yet still has an exceptionally low murder rate. It doesn't hurt that guns are almost non-existent there.
Same applies to Bahrain and Kuwait (racially diverse, very low murder rates). So much for middle-eastern stereotypes.
New Guinea is racially homogenous with a very high murder rate - but culturally diverse with 800-odd languages.
(BTW, I look at murder rate partly because the figures are much more reliable in comparing countries. Methodologies, reporting rates etc vary more for other crimes.)
Japans draconian gun laws are not the reason for its low violent crime rate. They have a very low murder rate generally, and don't need such heavy penalties.
The US however does have a serious violent crime problem.
But not all the US: places such as New England, Iowa, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wyoming, Utah all have homicide rates not so much worse than Europe and Australia.
( Restricting handguns could well reduce the gap.)
What do all these states have in common? Similar racial mix. There is only one state with both a large racial minority and a low murder rate: Hawaii.
Importantly, the white-only homicide rate in the US overall is still much higher than the total homicide rate in the above states, so the cause is not simple.
People in those states have a lower murder rate regardless of race.
You cannot possibly understand the US murder rate without looking at race and guns. The left do not want to talk about race, and the right don't want to talk about guns, so we're screwed.
Of course, a measure can often be deconstructed into several independent factors; "intelligence" seems to fit this.
But intelligence factors are highly correlated, not at all independent.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
This "sled" looks exactly like an old-fashioned chassis, as used in trucks and the VW beetle.
So the roof of the Tesla is not structural: Does this mean we can expect to see home-modified "convertible" Tesla-Ss in future, as we did for the Beetle?
Voting either Republican or Democrat is a sign of either ignorance, or a lack of personal ethics.
I thought it was a consequence of the stupid first-past-the-post voting system used in the US.
get the idea that the tests are somehow measuring "intelligence,"
But IQ tests do measure intelligence, and do it well. It cannot be perfect, because there is no one simple definition. ...
IQ does not measure education or general knowledge, which your "ignorant public" may equate with intelligence, but a more scientific version of it.
Intelligence can be far more accurately measured than other aspects of mind/personality - bravery, resilience, charisma, introversion
Intelligence traits (that you might define) not directly measured by IQ tests are likely to be highly correlated.
Many people do not like the idea of innate aptitudes, but wishing it false does not make it so.
Well, maybe people shouldn't be writing inaccurate headlines. Are people not allowed to criticize those?
Yes, the headline is bollocks. Welcome to slashdot :)
Babies that show a faster, stronger fear response to scary images are more likely to be republicans as adults by a pretty substantial margin.
That is misleading. What happens is the conservatives show a different response to scary images. Which is better depends on the environment. It may be that conservatives are more prone to over-reacting to threats while liberals are more likely to ignore or downplay real threats.
And conservative does not mean Republican. e.g. black Americans tend to be conservative but overwhelmingly vote Democrat.
We have yet to define intelligence in any objective way
Thats not how science works. What you do is find something you can measure, an aspect of intelligence rather than a perfect definition.
The bit you can measure is called IQ. If the measure is reliable and makes successful predictions, then it is scientifically valid.
IQ tests are strong predictors of many things, such as school success and job performance.
This does not depend on anybody defining what general intelligence means.
we'll be able to test if someone is a genius?
No, but it may tell if they are smart enough to RTF Summary.
That award has pretty much 0 to do with real achievement. It is a political power play. Up until Obama got the peace prize I though otherwise.
Really? You didn't notice anything odd about Henry Kissinger getting the Peace Prize for Vietnam?
Or Arafat etc for bringing peace to Palestine?
Yes, and far more people die every in the US from being beaten to death by killers using fists and blunt instruments than have died by killers using rifles of any kind,
He said guns, not rifles.
But that raises a good point - like Ebola, assault rifles get disproportionate fear and media attention.
Sure they are both bad, and need to be contained, but influenza and handguns are the much bigger threats overall.
Bird flue has killed fewer then 200 and is contained. Ebola has killed more then 3000 and is not.
Math is hard.
Swine flu has killed hundreds of thousands in the current global epidemic (not contained), and at least 50 million the previous time (1918).
Ebola has a lot of catching up to do.
suggests that intelligence is just a part, maybe even a small part, of achievement.
In life, perhaps. But this study is looking specifically at school achievement, where intelligence is by far the biggest factor.
They were also looking at other less important but less studied heritable traits, which is the interesting part.
Its a troll because it was worded as if the Vatican was doing it, not some local church in Africa. Good lies often have a seed of truth.
- the world got by just fine before our species even existed, and likely will again when it's gone.
How can the world get by, when noone is there to anthropomorphise it?
Extremely low density of vending machines in the US. Now, Japan...
Never mind wifi. Japan could build a bluetooth network with 80% coverage from their vending machines.
Or it could be just a promotional stunt for the new movie "The Gods Must Be Crazy" part IV.
It simply proves that God is right-handed.
You don't get it. This is not a scientific achievement, but an engineering one.
It cost a few cents per Indian - I think they can afford that. Congratulations India!
As a tweeter asks..when was the last time we saw women scientists celebrating a space mission?
India does have female scientist and engineers, but the women in that photo are not them.
It would be like a photo of NASA engineers wearing hoodies.