This study is total garbage. There's no way intelligent human beings are predisposed to deny facts in favor of pre-determined beliefs. I can't believe anyone is taking this "study" seriously.

IQ didn't use to be so nebulous. I can remember when it was a simple formula: knowledge / chronological age = your intelligence quotient. Using such a rudimentary formula IQ was simple the measure of your rate of learning, which was assumed to be directly proportional to your potential learning rate.

Now IQ is measured in many different ways and qualified with numerous adjectives so that we know what type of smarts we're trying to measure or that we're good at. Social IQ, or Spacial IQ for example. Now if you tell someone you have an IQ of 146 you might be telling them any number of things and without further qualifications they might think you more or less capable than you really are.

Now, if the Chinese business here is using the first and simplest IQ test I mentioned they may just be trying to determine how fast the individual being questioned can learn. That seems like a reasonable criterion for a foreign company to asses international employees on given the learning curve associated with the changes inevitable in cross-cultural employment. Not the only criteria mind, but an important one.

All the comments about IQ not being directly related to success or job performance may well be true, for careers and jobs that don't require high intelligence. But there jobs that require high intelligence to be successful, and what I mean by that is there are jobs where the work environment changes rapidly and one needs to be able to process these changes and adapt quickly and excellently to be able to thrive. This trend towards accelerated change and adaption in the workplace will continue to develop and be in-part an ongoing challenge to employers looking to remain agile and competitive in markets where they have to compete against lumbering large corporations.

They're on the loose with our cash (or loose with our cash) trying to stop the unstoppable.

What does vehicle seizure have to do with anything? It doesn't. I already said you could be charged, but you can't lawfully be convicted unless they can prove you conspired to sell the drugs. You may be convicted of being an accessory but not of conspiring.

If you've been unlawfully convicted that doesn't change the law or what should have happened.

Wow, and you think these foreign companies should care about what's legal in your state? Why should they? The internet isn't American. These companies have every right to operate legally based on the laws of the country they live in.

Why didn't they just confiscate the servers that have the data? Why didn't they arrest the people commiting these crimes? They had to have known how easy it is to put up another domain. They didn't because they can't. They know they don't have a legal basis to prosecute them based on the laws of the country they reside in. So they strongarm the Registrars who don't have the same protections under the law.

But it's pointless. It takes less time to get a new domain than it does to talk about how you cleverly confiscated the old on. But what really bothers me is that they waste tax payer's money on trying to prevent something that is entirely unpreventable.

If every video sharing site on the planet was shut down today, next week there would be ten more to replace them and the week after that a hundred more. And there is nothing anyone can do. It's a waste of money, and money that can be better spent helping people that really need it.

 

I don't think so. Me telling someone where the crack house is isn't conspiracy to sell a controlled substance. Conspiracy means two or more people conspire/agree to commit a criminal act AND they take some kind of overt act in furtherance thereof. You might be able to charge a person for conspiracy because they said, "Crack house? You mean the one around the corner with the bathtub in the backyard?", but for them to be found guilty you have to show that the person that told where the crack house was had previously agreed with the crack dealer to help him/her sell crack.

One, Movies-links.tv doesn't stream video, nor does it embed any movies in their site. What they do is provide links to where you can stream videos around the web and give the users the ability to report if the stream is working or not so that finding streaming video is easier. They confiscate the domain for that? That's like arresting me for telling you to go to the crack house down the street if you want to buy crack. Maybe it's not cool to give you that information but I don't think it's illegal. Really? It's illegal to let people know where they can find video streams? Anyhow immediately after the Feds seized the domain a replacement one was created: http://www.watch-movies-tv.info/ and you know how I know this? Because when I googled Movies-links.tv it was the second link that popped up. So wait a second? Why is it okay for google to tell me where I can find Movies-links.tv but not okay for Movies-links.tv to tell me where I can find video streams? Whatever. Who knows how long it took for this "operation" to get approval, pass the paperwork around, select a operational task force, come up with an action committee, decided on a communication strategy and plan the concerted effort.... I'm pretty sure it only took the people at Movies-links.tv about 5 minutes to register a new domain though. Nice work Fed's.

Er, Fastest (and Most Compact) (that we currently know of) Stellar Spinner Confirmed.