From teaching classes with turnitin.com, I know that at my institution there is a mandatory appendix to the syllabus stating the extent to which turnitin.com will use your submission. You do not have to continue taking the class at that point, and failing as you describe occurs because you are not doing the work you agreed to do, by continuing the course after reading the syllabus.
Using turnitin.com in required courses is a more complex issue, but the proper thing to complain about is the lack of a class you feel is appropriate, not a syllabus that you willingly accepted.
you can certainly achieve orbit from a horizontal electronic accelleration structure.
No. Orbits under any inverse square central force are closed. Without a burn to correct the trajectory, the projectile returns to the launcher or the ground that is in the way. Interaction with the atmosphere can't really work, as it would then be passing through the atmosphere every cycle. As soon as it goes ballistic, it is on a closed trajectory if it does not have escape velocity.
Netflix had it available initially with a long wait, but last I checked it was listed as unavailable. I called the local blockbuster to see if they had one, and that location did not but they referred me to a location that did. I drove 15 miles, and no Tron. The computer said it was there but it wasn't. It's hard to feel guilty over a torrent at that point.
Seriously, what warrants all of the Oklahoma bashing? I lived in Tulsa until college and it is a wonderful city. My mother did human resources at the worlds largest aircraft maintenance facility, while my stepdad worked at an enormous hub for what was then MCI. We had an 80 acre ranch that was within reasonable biking distance of a downtown with fifty story buildings. The city was laced with well over 100 miles of dedicated bike paths through parks and along waterways, and you could kayak in the river downtown. The state gave me free degrees in math and physics that were apparently worth a damn as I am currently several years into a PhD at a decent grad school elsewhere. It is one of the reddest states in the nation, but in a two party system that only means that a slight majority is homogenous. Why does the state have such a reputation?
I think it was "Brothers in Arms" where, after failing to reach the next checkpoint about five times, a message would appear saying something like "War is hell, but a video game shouldn't be. Do you want to restore your squad to full strength? "
I didn't read TFA, but I think this particular instance is not illegal because the posting was done by the actual creditor, not a collections agency. Third party debt collectors certainly can't publicly humiliate you, but that is not what is happening here.
But then society profits from the presence of prisoners, and you need a government you can trust not to exploit them. Every prisoner should be a burden to everyone in society, without exception, so that locking someone away is always a last resort, and legitimate reform is the goal. Of course, in the U.S. we already have ineffective privatized prisons, where more prisoners is better business and there is consequently zero or negative incentive to reform inmates, so your idea is not too much of a stretch.
As an American and a physicist, I would like you to define "regulated conditions" without using mass (The primitive units for pressure are kg / s^2 / m. ), but I would like it more if you were just modded troll.
In fact, just being a major jerk in a small community will bring about enough consequences that either the behavior changes or the person ends up moving away.
Actually, one need not even be a jerk. Simply being outed as an atheist will also do the trick.
The police can wait too. What is to stop police from tracking you, without cause, for six months, and then sending you two hundred speeding tickets for each and every instance you exceeded the speed limit by three miles an hour?
Running around dressed as civvies is a wonderful thing for your soldiers to do if we are trying to win the hearts and minds of your populace, but I think we've learned our lesson there. If the U.S. goes to war with Iran, justifiably or otherwise, we would probably just remove their ability to make war the old fashioned way and call it a day.
Some people enjoy the controller. I like being able to sit back on a couch without a keyboard in my lap and old text book as a mouse pad. It is certainly not as precise, but really, why does anyone care? It is a game. Do you refuse drinks at the bar so you can have that slight advantage when you play darts with your friends? Lots of testing has gone into balancing the games for the default controller; it is not the most precise way to play but those are the rules of the game. As long as people are not hooking up keyboards and mice to ruin the experience for those of us who had enough keyboards and mice at work, I will continue enjoying a game pad. You should borrow my AR-15, spin half a turn and aim, and see which controller best simulates the experience. Real guns (and people) have moments of inertia. A controller that introduces some clumsiness certainly doesn't break the immersion.
The visible spectrum is not too far off from the pass band of water. There are plentyt of evolutionary arguments for why this would be sufficient, but there is also the fact that a large part of the structure of your eye is water. Evolution cannot perturb the existing structure to significantly expand the visible spectrum. You would need a whole new eye that was not based on water.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Water_absorption_spectrum.png
The muon orbitals are much more closely localized around the nucleus than those of the electron. Given that the nucleus is not homogeneous, this would tend to induce a rotating dipole moment (or stark effect if you must) keeping the positive quarks closer to the muon and pushing the negative to the far side, increasing the effective radius of the nucleus since the center of charge is always between the center of mass and the muon. I am not sure enough is known about the strong force to accurately model this, but it seems too obvious to not have been accounted for...unless there is something silly with my logic.
Expert...you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. I know plenty of 'experts' on relativity. I had some of them on my candidacy exam committee. An expert on relativity can program a GPS receiver with full corrections, write a numerical simulation of black hole accretion, or at the very least show that the precession of the perihelion of Mercury is incompatible with Newtonian gravity, and use it to validate general relativity. True, an expert should be able to explain things at a basic level, but another criterion is certainly the ability to actually use the subject to some end other than talking about it.
Striving to criminalize everyone is in the best interest of any power hungry government
Say the wrong things about the wrong people, and you can disappear for getting a blow job in your highschool parking lot twenty years ago. You weren't taken away for having dissenting opinions...you were a filthy fucking pervert and the world is better off without you.
It might be trite, but correlation does not imply causation. You would see the same trend if you tried to plot unemployment for people of different intelligence, family wealth, ethnic backgrounds, or any of a number of traits that are also correlated with education level.
...and any issues they have with controlling their airspace are probably rooted in the fact that for several days per week they have multiple helicopters continuously bringing in construction supplies, food, etc, making trips about once every 20 minutes. Having their supply lines disrupted for aerial tourism would probably be a significant issue.
You are very misinformed. I have been to the Havasupai reservation recently. The Hualapai have the sky walk and the Havasupai do indeed live 8 miles below the rim of the Grand Canyon. "Supai" is the name of their village.
It is probably unrelated but worth knowing, that in a village of 450 people that is 8 miles from the nearest road, they have a very nice modern diabetes clinic and exercise center.
Pulling the trigger on this gun is like lifting a gallon of milk half an inch with your finger. Can a three year old girl even do that with her arm? This pistol is meant to be carried in a pocket, chambered, with no safety other than a heavy trigger pull.
I used to live in a smallish town in Oklahoma, and there was once an incident about a quarter mile from my home in which one teenager reported that he was visiting a friend when the friend just pulled out a rifle and shot himself in the chest. The cops ruled it as a suicide even though the father immediately pointed out the barrel was longer than the boys arms and he could not possibly have shot himself as in the story.
The father ran unsuccessfully for county sheriff three or four consecutive times in an effort to do something about it. Cops are rarely respectable people, and they often just don't feel like fucking with something demanding.
I TA'ed some physics labs for three semesters, and have busted three students for cheating, which all failed the course and received marks on their transcripts.
We used turnitin.com, which does provide the original sources that are being plagiarized, and was actually incredibly useful. Two of the students I caught were just recycling their friend's lab report from last year, and catching it would have been unlikely in the absence of such a system. (The students were even told their work would be checked against past lab reports; in my opinion they should have been sterilized as well as expelled.)
In every case though, yes, the plagiarism score was simply a starting point. Until students start to learn how to write lab reports correctly, the program claims that half of them seriously plagiarize the lab manual, which of course gets them a horrible score, but it does not get them sent to the dean.
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From teaching classes with turnitin.com, I know that at my institution there is a mandatory appendix to the syllabus stating the extent to which turnitin.com will use your submission. You do not have to continue taking the class at that point, and failing as you describe occurs because you are not doing the work you agreed to do, by continuing the course after reading the syllabus.
Using turnitin.com in required courses is a more complex issue, but the proper thing to complain about is the lack of a class you feel is appropriate, not a syllabus that you willingly accepted.
you can certainly achieve orbit from a horizontal electronic accelleration structure.
No. Orbits under any inverse square central force are closed. Without a burn to correct the trajectory, the projectile returns to the launcher or the ground that is in the way. Interaction with the atmosphere can't really work, as it would then be passing through the atmosphere every cycle. As soon as it goes ballistic, it is on a closed trajectory if it does not have escape velocity.
Netflix had it available initially with a long wait, but last I checked it was listed as unavailable. I called the local blockbuster to see if they had one, and that location did not but they referred me to a location that did. I drove 15 miles, and no Tron. The computer said it was there but it wasn't. It's hard to feel guilty over a torrent at that point.
Moon.
Seriously, what warrants all of the Oklahoma bashing? I lived in Tulsa until college and it is a wonderful city. My mother did human resources at the worlds largest aircraft maintenance facility, while my stepdad worked at an enormous hub for what was then MCI. We had an 80 acre ranch that was within reasonable biking distance of a downtown with fifty story buildings. The city was laced with well over 100 miles of dedicated bike paths through parks and along waterways, and you could kayak in the river downtown. The state gave me free degrees in math and physics that were apparently worth a damn as I am currently several years into a PhD at a decent grad school elsewhere. It is one of the reddest states in the nation, but in a two party system that only means that a slight majority is homogenous. Why does the state have such a reputation?
I think it was "Brothers in Arms" where, after failing to reach the next checkpoint about five times, a message would appear saying something like "War is hell, but a video game shouldn't be. Do you want to restore your squad to full strength? "
I didn't read TFA, but I think this particular instance is not illegal because the posting was done by the actual creditor, not a collections agency. Third party debt collectors certainly can't publicly humiliate you, but that is not what is happening here.
But then society profits from the presence of prisoners, and you need a government you can trust not to exploit them. Every prisoner should be a burden to everyone in society, without exception, so that locking someone away is always a last resort, and legitimate reform is the goal. Of course, in the U.S. we already have ineffective privatized prisons, where more prisoners is better business and there is consequently zero or negative incentive to reform inmates, so your idea is not too much of a stretch.
As an American and a physicist, I would like you to define "regulated conditions" without using mass (The primitive units for pressure are kg / s^2 / m. ), but I would like it more if you were just modded troll.
Actually, one need not even be a jerk. Simply being outed as an atheist will also do the trick.
The police can wait too. What is to stop police from tracking you, without cause, for six months, and then sending you two hundred speeding tickets for each and every instance you exceeded the speed limit by three miles an hour?
Running around dressed as civvies is a wonderful thing for your soldiers to do if we are trying to win the hearts and minds of your populace, but I think we've learned our lesson there. If the U.S. goes to war with Iran, justifiably or otherwise, we would probably just remove their ability to make war the old fashioned way and call it a day.
Whenever he is not building bridges, he might be voting.
Some people enjoy the controller. I like being able to sit back on a couch without a keyboard in my lap and old text book as a mouse pad. It is certainly not as precise, but really, why does anyone care? It is a game. Do you refuse drinks at the bar so you can have that slight advantage when you play darts with your friends? Lots of testing has gone into balancing the games for the default controller; it is not the most precise way to play but those are the rules of the game. As long as people are not hooking up keyboards and mice to ruin the experience for those of us who had enough keyboards and mice at work, I will continue enjoying a game pad. You should borrow my AR-15, spin half a turn and aim, and see which controller best simulates the experience. Real guns (and people) have moments of inertia. A controller that introduces some clumsiness certainly doesn't break the immersion.
The visible spectrum is not too far off from the pass band of water. There are plentyt of evolutionary arguments for why this would be sufficient, but there is also the fact that a large part of the structure of your eye is water. Evolution cannot perturb the existing structure to significantly expand the visible spectrum. You would need a whole new eye that was not based on water. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Water_absorption_spectrum.png
Oops. The measured radius is actually smaller. Well food for thought anyway...I'm getting back to work.
The muon orbitals are much more closely localized around the nucleus than those of the electron. Given that the nucleus is not homogeneous, this would tend to induce a rotating dipole moment (or stark effect if you must) keeping the positive quarks closer to the muon and pushing the negative to the far side, increasing the effective radius of the nucleus since the center of charge is always between the center of mass and the muon. I am not sure enough is known about the strong force to accurately model this, but it seems too obvious to not have been accounted for...unless there is something silly with my logic.
Expert...you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. I know plenty of 'experts' on relativity. I had some of them on my candidacy exam committee. An expert on relativity can program a GPS receiver with full corrections, write a numerical simulation of black hole accretion, or at the very least show that the precession of the perihelion of Mercury is incompatible with Newtonian gravity, and use it to validate general relativity. True, an expert should be able to explain things at a basic level, but another criterion is certainly the ability to actually use the subject to some end other than talking about it.
Say the wrong things about the wrong people, and you can disappear for getting a blow job in your highschool parking lot twenty years ago. You weren't taken away for having dissenting opinions...you were a filthy fucking pervert and the world is better off without you.
It might be trite, but correlation does not imply causation. You would see the same trend if you tried to plot unemployment for people of different intelligence, family wealth, ethnic backgrounds, or any of a number of traits that are also correlated with education level.
...and any issues they have with controlling their airspace are probably rooted in the fact that for several days per week they have multiple helicopters continuously bringing in construction supplies, food, etc, making trips about once every 20 minutes. Having their supply lines disrupted for aerial tourism would probably be a significant issue.
It is probably unrelated but worth knowing, that in a village of 450 people that is 8 miles from the nearest road, they have a very nice modern diabetes clinic and exercise center.
I used to live in a smallish town in Oklahoma, and there was once an incident about a quarter mile from my home in which one teenager reported that he was visiting a friend when the friend just pulled out a rifle and shot himself in the chest. The cops ruled it as a suicide even though the father immediately pointed out the barrel was longer than the boys arms and he could not possibly have shot himself as in the story.
The father ran unsuccessfully for county sheriff three or four consecutive times in an effort to do something about it. Cops are rarely respectable people, and they often just don't feel like fucking with something demanding.
In Arizona at least, it is actually legal for first cousins to marry if one of them is proven infertile (or if they are just older than 65).
We used turnitin.com, which does provide the original sources that are being plagiarized, and was actually incredibly useful. Two of the students I caught were just recycling their friend's lab report from last year, and catching it would have been unlikely in the absence of such a system. (The students were even told their work would be checked against past lab reports; in my opinion they should have been sterilized as well as expelled.)
In every case though, yes, the plagiarism score was simply a starting point. Until students start to learn how to write lab reports correctly, the program claims that half of them seriously plagiarize the lab manual, which of course gets them a horrible score, but it does not get them sent to the dean.