there is no factual knowledge in a properly written IQ test.
Facts are the basis of all knowledge. Aptitude is only meaningful in the manipulation of facts. Facts are representations (often abstract) of the real world.
The CP charges I have seen in the media here in Australia seem to be based on credit card records and evidence found on computers. I think it would be hard to prove that the machine which logged client details against an IP address at a particular time had a valid local time set when the DHCP action was logged. Maybe somebody set it? What if it uses NTP? Can you prove that the external NTP server had the correct time? Which NTP server, in which country? Well, you see, NTP uses the cloud, and servers are rotated to split load.
OTH the way the police do the arrest should be based more on their overall risk assessment than the offence the person is charged with. Say he has a gun license or a gun related conviction? That may justify an armed response regardless of the accusation against him.
Secondary schools earn more money (fees, funding) when their students score well on tests. When I started at college, students from private schools had more caching up to do because all this stuff had been done for them at high school.
Thats all great but the hundreds of billions of dollars needed to pull off a big project (like colonising Mars) will have to come from the worlds biggest economies.
Use the solar sail angled at 45 degrees to the run to reflect light from the sun directly ahead along your orbital path. This results in thrust which slows your spacecraft down in its orbit so you move in to a lower energy orbit closer to the run.
Venus might be doable in 200 years but Mercury is doable now, with Apollo derived hardware. We could get to Mercury with solar sails and land with hydrogen rockets. If we can mine water near the surface, long term habitation should be possible. Titan will be harder to get to, but utilising local resources will be much easier than on Mercury. I don't see how we could exploit Venus without easy fusion energy for power and transport. One plan I have read of is to freeze the planet by entirely blocking it off from the sun. Wait a couple of hundred years for the CO2 to freeze out on the surface and then start work.
That's been a fact ever since Einstein declared that the universal speed limit was C.
There's nothing in this solar system to go to, and it takes forever to get anywhere there might be livable alternate Earths.
Has it really taken this long for the reality to sink in?
For a start there are plenty of interesting places in this solar system. Titan and Mercury are both very interesting and valuable for their own reasons. And secondly from the POV of the traveller the speed limit at C is irrelevant. With enough kinetic energy I could get to the andromeda galaxy in a few subjective years. The number of years experienced at home would not be relevant to me.
Solar energy collection could open up near Earth space in the next fifty years or so. If uranium fission really takes off on Earth it might be economic to mine uranium off Earth. Unfortunately uranium will be where the other heavy elements are: On earth, venus and mercury. Something could certainly crop up as worth mining. But consider the money behind the more radical and isolationist Jewish sects. If secular Jews took more control of Israel and gave less support to religious crap then those more religious jews might see a solution in going straight up, and in a good way.
Remember that the US was founded by a European religious minority. Its not how I would like colonisation to happen but its not happening now at all.
How about paying the government deficit that is about to default in a month so humans can habitat Earth first
Because if man is to survive as a species, we must leave this planet. To leave this planet, we must advance the state of the art. To advance the state of the art, we must spend money on human space exploration/colonization.
Deficits will never go away, and neither will the fact that the sun will eventually incinerate the earth.
I agree that we need space exploration but as an Australian I am not going to demand that it be funded by US taxpayers. The fact is that Mercury, Gemini and Apollo were funded by the cold war and this funding is long gone. It was gone in the early 1970s and its not coming back. Fortunately a lot of good research and development was done in the 1950s and 60s. Launches are cheaper and more reliable now. Maybe the gap has been closed and exploration money can come from private sources. I think that is the only way space exploration will get beyond flags and footprints.
I hate to say it but nationalism and religion were the drivers of exploration in the past. Maybe this will happen in space.
Kinect uses a camera. If you want to use gestures to turn the TV on the camera has to be on all the time. For me thats a little bit creepy. I know kinect just turns the image it gets into a model, but what if the suppliers of the equipment sell the data it collects to advertisers? How much time do you actually spend in front of the TV? Do you listen to music? What music? When you rent a DVD how many people are actually watching? Is that more than the DVD was licensed to be viewed by?
His site is obviously intended to be fairly radically pro nuclear. Most similar organisations will at least use a neutral sounding name. But if you read down the article he actually does a pretty good job of documenting what has gone wrong with the reactors so for me his article had the affect of turning me off nuclear power.
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there is no factual knowledge in a properly written IQ test.
Facts are the basis of all knowledge. Aptitude is only meaningful in the manipulation of facts. Facts are representations (often abstract) of the real world.
And (if I read it right) your country is segregated on religious grounds right now...
It could be the software and key to turn a different block of random data into actual data.
The CP charges I have seen in the media here in Australia seem to be based on credit card records and evidence found on computers. I think it would be hard to prove that the machine which logged client details against an IP address at a particular time had a valid local time set when the DHCP action was logged. Maybe somebody set it? What if it uses NTP? Can you prove that the external NTP server had the correct time? Which NTP server, in which country? Well, you see, NTP uses the cloud, and servers are rotated to split load.
And so on.
OTH the way the police do the arrest should be based more on their overall risk assessment than the offence the person is charged with. Say he has a gun license or a gun related conviction? That may justify an armed response regardless of the accusation against him.
Its nice to be able to run fast but thats not everything.
They will never do well
From what perspective?
IQagregate=1/(1/IQ1 + 1/IQ2 + ... + 1/IQn)
2) Factual knowledge
..should never be on an IQ test. Ever.
Factual knowledge is a factor in every test, always.
After all, we all like to go in and show something we do well in
No.
Secondary schools earn more money (fees, funding) when their students score well on tests. When I started at college, students from private schools had more caching up to do because all this stuff had been done for them at high school.
What, exactly, is the scientific definition of "human intelligence"?
It has absolutely nothing with the ability to take tests.
If you mean Christchurch, you are a bit late.
Good thing this happened in NZ. Apparently in the US it is acceptable for people who leave a store without paying to be shot on sight.
Thats all great but the hundreds of billions of dollars needed to pull off a big project (like colonising Mars) will have to come from the worlds biggest economies.
Use the solar sail angled at 45 degrees to the run to reflect light from the sun directly ahead along your orbital path. This results in thrust which slows your spacecraft down in its orbit so you move in to a lower energy orbit closer to the run.
Venus might be doable in 200 years but Mercury is doable now, with Apollo derived hardware. We could get to Mercury with solar sails and land with hydrogen rockets. If we can mine water near the surface, long term habitation should be possible. Titan will be harder to get to, but utilising local resources will be much easier than on Mercury. I don't see how we could exploit Venus without easy fusion energy for power and transport. One plan I have read of is to freeze the planet by entirely blocking it off from the sun. Wait a couple of hundred years for the CO2 to freeze out on the surface and then start work.
Then we are not, realistically, going anywhere.
That's been a fact ever since Einstein declared that the universal speed limit was C.
There's nothing in this solar system to go to, and it takes forever to get anywhere there might be livable alternate Earths.
Has it really taken this long for the reality to sink in?
For a start there are plenty of interesting places in this solar system. Titan and Mercury are both very interesting and valuable for their own reasons. And secondly from the POV of the traveller the speed limit at C is irrelevant. With enough kinetic energy I could get to the andromeda galaxy in a few subjective years. The number of years experienced at home would not be relevant to me.
Solar energy collection could open up near Earth space in the next fifty years or so. If uranium fission really takes off on Earth it might be economic to mine uranium off Earth. Unfortunately uranium will be where the other heavy elements are: On earth, venus and mercury. Something could certainly crop up as worth mining. But consider the money behind the more radical and isolationist Jewish sects. If secular Jews took more control of Israel and gave less support to religious crap then those more religious jews might see a solution in going straight up, and in a good way.
Remember that the US was founded by a European religious minority. Its not how I would like colonisation to happen but its not happening now at all.
Then we are not, realistically, going anywhere.
How about paying the government deficit that is about to default in a month so humans can habitat Earth first
Because if man is to survive as a species, we must leave this planet. To leave this planet, we must advance the state of the art. To advance the state of the art, we must spend money on human space exploration/colonization.
Deficits will never go away, and neither will the fact that the sun will eventually incinerate the earth.
I agree that we need space exploration but as an Australian I am not going to demand that it be funded by US taxpayers. The fact is that Mercury, Gemini and Apollo were funded by the cold war and this funding is long gone. It was gone in the early 1970s and its not coming back. Fortunately a lot of good research and development was done in the 1950s and 60s. Launches are cheaper and more reliable now. Maybe the gap has been closed and exploration money can come from private sources. I think that is the only way space exploration will get beyond flags and footprints.
I hate to say it but nationalism and religion were the drivers of exploration in the past. Maybe this will happen in space.
In comparison to what?
Kinect uses a camera. If you want to use gestures to turn the TV on the camera has to be on all the time. For me thats a little bit creepy. I know kinect just turns the image it gets into a model, but what if the suppliers of the equipment sell the data it collects to advertisers? How much time do you actually spend in front of the TV? Do you listen to music? What music? When you rent a DVD how many people are actually watching? Is that more than the DVD was licensed to be viewed by?
And so on.
His site is obviously intended to be fairly radically pro nuclear. Most similar organisations will at least use a neutral sounding name. But if you read down the article he actually does a pretty good job of documenting what has gone wrong with the reactors so for me his article had the affect of turning me off nuclear power.
dirty little community
Thats the issue, isn't it? Why have a dirty little community when you can have a big, fancy, bureaucracy?