Comment Re: Muslims (Score 1) 101
You should watch "Django Unchained" to see such 'sacks' work.
You should watch "Django Unchained" to see such 'sacks' work.
People already use masks and shawls, big sunglasses and hats in the UK, because of the tens of thousands of cameras.
Normal, because there ARE NO 'illegal immigrants', only asylum seekers and refugees.
Like the US, the UK HAS NO ID cards.
English courts use guideline figures for wrongful arrest/false imprisonment: the starting point is around £500 for the first hour of loss of liberty, with a full 24-hour wrongful detention normally attracting about £3,000 total (some firms cite closer to £1,000-1,400 for the first hour, £6-7k for 24 hours, depending on aggravating factors). Even five-minute detentions have resulted in payouts around £200. Rates taper the longer detention goes on, the first hour is compensated more heavily than hour 20, on the logic that initial shock matters more than continued duration. On top of basic damages, courts can add aggravated damages (distress, humiliation) and, rarely, exemplary damages up to around £50,000 for serious police misconduct, though that requires proving something like malice or oppressive conduct, not just an honest mistake.
Exactly what Global Warming needs.
Did somebody place a melon on this robot and call it 'human'?
...people rolling on the ground from amusement.
No way.
Stupid locals stay.
"Elite" or "educational" multilingualism: Luxembourg, Switzerland, Scandinavia, wealthy expat communities.
Here you're right, multiple languages usually travel alongside good schooling, healthcare access, nutrition, and social stimulation, because the whole bundle stems from the same underlying resource: a well-funded, high-quality education system and stable, prosperous society. This is exactly the profile that would score well on brain-age studies partly because of the languages and partly because of everything surrounding them.
"Circumstantial" or "necessity" multilingualism: this is actually the more common form of multilingualism worldwide, and it points the opposite direction.
Huge parts of India, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, and plenty of post-colonial or highly fragmented linguistic regions have populations who speak three, four, even five languages simply because they live at the intersection of a home language, a regional trade language, a colonial administrative language, and a national language, entirely disconnected from wealth or educational quality, often the opposite, multilingualism there correlates with lower formal education and lower income, since it emerges from geographic and ethnic diversity, not from an expensive school system layering languages onto an already well-resourced child.
A migrant labourer speaking four languages out of survival necessity isn't in the same category as a Luxembourgish child in a well-funded lycée, even though both are technically "quadrilingual."
This is actually a well-known problem the dementia-onset research explicitly wrestles with: differences in study outcomes may be due to methodological limitations and confounding factors within studies such as immigration status and level of education, researchers flag immigration status specifically because immigrant multilinguals often have systematically different socioeconomic profiles (sometimes lower, sometimes higher depending on migration type) than the "naturally multilingual because of an excellent local school system" case, and lumping them together muddies what's actually driving any protective effect.
Like the PC came for typists.
Sure, lawyers are the worst, not AI's fault.
...why should I care?
Ditto if AI finds case-law faster, easier and cheaper for the lawyer's clients, why complain?
It's called progress.
Interchangeable parts won't.