The lyrics below are from Sonic Youth's song "I'm Insane." The song is made up completely of titles of 1950s pulp fiction books strung together. It's a great song:) This mode of writing -- influenced heavily by William S. Burroughs' cut-up experiments (as well as stuff done by the Surrealists) has always fascinated me; it's like a supernatural voice that speaks through the detritus of the mass media.... Check it out:
"I'm Insane":
Love starved backwood teaser farm girl hot eyed bride stone cold blonde a quivering menace atomic wallop wholesale murder
we want out / we fish at night / sex in heaven / tough town / a cruel touch / sailors leave / sirens screaming / lap of luxury / a show of violence / take off your mask / lay off my brother / kiss my fist / stop at nothing / a steaming swamp / and a troubled heart / the sky is red / and i can't stop running / her baby stares / the secret's there / so help us god / i'll swing at your funeral / the stubborn air / the killer mob / a red bone woman / a double cross
big fake bitter love underbelly freezing jungle one step more he'll stir your senses scratch your surface and nail your head
murded angels bodies in bedlam a women scorned you can't hang me
tied to my job a blast scene alibi tied to a tree in a blind alley
nothing before / a big fear / don't get caught / by her father's friends / swamp girl faded / the tiger's wife / a frenzied love / hot climate / twisted passions / flesh parade / dead ahead / a world so wide / big river love camp / the house boy and hill girl / the agony column / don't crowd me / it's time for crime / strange breed river girl's misery index / inside my head my dog's a bear / she was significant / i'm insane
inside my head my dog's a bear she was significant i'm insane
inside my head my dog's a bear she was significant i'm insane
inside my head my dog's a bear she was significant
You think I meant to say "...is systematic of cheating"? That makes even less sense than what I did say.
Actually I've taught the summer course at that university twice and I would consider teaching it again but in general I prefer to take summer off to travel and research. And I don't ever use my slashdot posting history as part of my curriculum vitae, so it's unlikely that my posts to slashdot would have any impact whatsoever on my teaching career. I didn't check, but I doubt a "+5 insightful" is considered a refereed publication by most hiring committees....
This reminds me of another case I had several years ago. The girl who plagiarized came from a wealthy Beverly Hills family. She was a graduate student in an undergraduate class, which made it all the more embarrassing for everyone concerned. I caught her on an assignment, talked to her, she swore she had no idea that what she was doing was plagiarizing, so I gave her the opportunity to redo the assignment (something I usually don't do anymore in such cases). She turned in the next assignment. Plagiarized. I went back and looked at her previous assignments more closely and it too was plagiarized. So I flunked her in the class and she was booted from the graduate program. Two weeks later I got a threatening letter from her lawyer. He was claiming I had "ruined her life" and that the assignment didn't make it clear that she was not to plagiarize. It was absurd. I wrote a letter back explaining that I thought he was a fucking moron if he believed he had any case at all (in much more polite and less actionable language). I should have just ignored the letter, but I was pissed. No lawsuit followed.
Funny thing is, I heard about this girl a couple years later. She was in law school.
The argument presumes that there is some implicit agreement when you pay tuition that the university will award you a degree; that a degree is in effect something that you purchase with your tuition money. A student who flunks their last semester of classes could easily make the same argument as this punk. The university doesn't owe him a degree; if he chooses to piss away 4 years of college by cheating on the last day, too bad for him. His tuition pays the university to teach him -- it does not guarantee that he will actually learn anything. If the university were to grant him a degree after it learned he was cheating, it would cheapen the degree for every alum from that university. The argument is idiotic, and I think the university should countersue for frivolous lawsuit (and I don't think it would be wrong under the circumstances for the government to demand back any financial aid the student was receiving).
Sad thing is the kid does have a point about universities not being aggressive enough about cheating and plagiarism. The fact that he got away with it for so long is symptomatic of cheating at many universities here in the US. I taught a summer course at a prestigious university once (I teach full time at a not-quite-as-prestigious one normally) and there were 11 students in the class. Several were students at another big well-known school in the midwest. I caught 6 of them plagiarizing, cases that ran from a couple students who had no idea they were plagiarizing (I didn't believe them at first but after talking to them I actually believe them; they basically did clip jobs of stuff from other sources, a paragraph here, a sentence there) to a couple who openly admitted that they plagiarized.
The ones who admitted it were from the midwest school; I had a long chat with one of them afterward and she told me that she and everyone she knew cheated on just about every assignment. She said she didn't want to at first but when she saw her friends getting away with it and getting better grades than her, she changed her tune. She was kind of blown away that she had gotten caught - she said professors at her university simply never made much attempt to catch cheaters. If students are being essentially rewarded for plagiarism, they may not have enough incentive to avoid it.
I had another case a few years ago with a student who looked up to me a great deal. After I caught him he was extremely apologetic and embarrassed. But he said the strangest thing in an email to me -- he basically said, "I'm a Marine, and I learned in the Corps to do whatever it takes to get ahead. If I was in the same position again I would do it again." Now, I've never been in the armed services, but I can't imagine the USMC is teaching him to cheat in school. And the idea that he would do it again if he was in the same position -- what the fuck? He got caught. He flunked the course. He didn't "get ahead." You'd think he would learn from the experience. But I think the problem is, when people get away with it so many more times than they get caught, they really believe it is in their best interest to cheat.
I'm all for giving people a second chance in many of these situations but I think professors should always document instances of academic dishonesty at the university level (our university requires it; I think all should) so that students who do it in different classes do not keep getting "second" chances.
If this actually happened, you would have pointed this out to the professor and the professor would have apologized. Unless the professor is a complete moron. Which is possible. But not likely.
All these comments about turning in your own work twice being plagiarism are beside the point. Some professors don't want students turning in a paper written for another class, since presumably you should have learned something unique in that class that merits a unique assignment. In many situations that could be considered academic dishonesty (although I don't agree with that view), but hardly "plagiarism," which as others pointed out involves taking another person's work and pretending it is your own.
Can anyone confirm this? There's nothing that I see in the technote about it. The only security note there is that 10.3.4 incorporates previous security updates. Which means the help: vulnerability is solved (with an updated application) but not telnet:, ssh:, disk:, etc. Do you still have RCDefault Apps installed after the upgrade?
It seems odd to me that they would fix such a major security flaw so quickly and quietly. I mean, I'd expect them to toot their horn at least a little bit about it....
It's their fucking egos. As many bad things as you can say about the BSA, they don't stoop to the level of the RIAA and MPAA. These people can't just let it go because they truly believe you should pay them sixteen dollars every time you listen to "oops I did it again." Part of the problem may be that most of the people making these idiotic decisions are failed artists themselves; they've figured out a business model that allows them to leech off people with talent, and they've convinced themselves they really deserve such a big piece of the pie. But many real artists feel the same way too unfortunately. Either way, it isn't just money. They've wasted a ton of money on this crusade, and even though the crusade is allowing them to extort millions, it probably would have been much wiser to invest their money in discovering new ways to do business in the internet age. It's clear the crusade itself is more than just about lost profits or lost opportunities -- their inflated sense of self-importance is at stake.
word is this sarin bomb had 2 chambers -- meaning it's a binary weapon, and most likely of US origin. And about 15-20 years old. Which means it's not only likely that Kimmitt's right that whoever had the weapon in Iraq didn't know what it was, but also that US-Iraqi cooperation during the Iran-Iraq War (when Saddam was notoriously gassing Kurds) was more involved than many thought. Which also explains why Bush & Co. have not been jumping up and down claiming this is the evidence of the missing WMDs, since Bush is not fond of calling attention to things that embarrass his father and President Reagan.
Osama was never paid or trained by CIA. It is true that the CIA funded muslim extremists in Afghanistan, the "Afghan Arabs" as they were called, and that Osama was an Afghan Arab fighter, but there is no evidence that he ever was offered money by CIA and in fact there is some evidence he would not have taken it had it been offered. That is not to downplay CIA involvement in and responsibility for the growth of al Qaeda -- US arms and money flooded the region during the 80s, the CIA built bases (many of which were later used by terrorists) and made deals with Afghan warlords (including Hekmatyr, now one of our biggest enemies in the region), and surely Osama's men benefited from this -- but suggesting that bin Laden was on the CIA payroll just makes the argument seem looney. There is no evidence of any direct contact between CIA and bin Laden during the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
Yes! Please tell us Word 04 also has Unicode support!! If I can go back to copying and pasting ancient Greek text directly from perseus directly into my word processor rather than copying it by hand, I will jump for joy.
with what the Bush Administration has done to medicare and social security, none of these people can afford to buy songs on iTMS. Set these geezers in front of a computer running kazaa and just you watch how many Dean Martin songs they fill the ipod with....
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Technically, no it's not, or there would be a rocket involved.
Has Netcraft confirmed this?
The lyrics below are from Sonic Youth's song "I'm Insane." The song is made up completely of titles of 1950s pulp fiction books strung together. It's a great song :) This mode of writing -- influenced heavily by William S. Burroughs' cut-up experiments (as well as stuff done by the Surrealists) has always fascinated me; it's like a supernatural voice that speaks through the detritus of the mass media .... Check it out:
"I'm Insane":
Love starved backwood teaser farm girl hot eyed bride
stone cold blonde a quivering menace atomic wallop wholesale murder
we want out / we fish at night / sex in heaven / tough town / a cruel touch / sailors leave / sirens screaming / lap of luxury / a show of violence / take off your mask / lay off my brother / kiss my fist / stop at nothing / a steaming swamp / and a troubled heart / the sky is red / and i can't stop running / her baby stares / the secret's there / so help us god / i'll swing at your funeral / the stubborn air / the killer mob / a red bone woman / a double cross
big fake bitter love underbelly freezing jungle
one step more he'll stir your senses scratch your surface and nail your head
murded angels
bodies in bedlam
a women scorned
you can't hang me
tied to my job a blast scene alibi tied to a tree in a blind alley
nothing before / a big fear / don't get caught / by her father's friends / swamp girl faded / the tiger's wife / a frenzied love / hot climate / twisted passions / flesh parade / dead ahead / a world so wide / big river love camp / the house boy and hill girl / the agony column / don't crowd me / it's time for crime / strange breed river girl's misery index / inside my head my dog's a bear / she was significant / i'm insane
inside my head my dog's a bear
she was significant
i'm insane
inside my head my dog's a bear
she was significant
i'm insane
inside my head my dog's a bear
she was significant
i'm insane
There's a Windows version of bash?
Is that all? I thought you had to hit control-Z and then type killall -9 vi at the prompt....
Actually you were complimented. Had you been complemented on your testicles, I would expect you would have three or four now.
Yes, the obvious reason being that you're a fucking troll. Now go back to copying that 17M file at your freelance gig.
Great. What's your ip address?
You mean pot?
If you can't trust the public with information about voting machines, why trust them to elect our leaders at all?
Actually I've taught the summer course at that university twice and I would consider teaching it again but in general I prefer to take summer off to travel and research. And I don't ever use my slashdot posting history as part of my curriculum vitae, so it's unlikely that my posts to slashdot would have any impact whatsoever on my teaching career. I didn't check, but I doubt a "+5 insightful" is considered a refereed publication by most hiring committees....
Funny thing is, I heard about this girl a couple years later. She was in law school.
And it certainly shouldn't be rewarded with a university degree.
Sad thing is the kid does have a point about universities not being aggressive enough about cheating and plagiarism. The fact that he got away with it for so long is symptomatic of cheating at many universities here in the US. I taught a summer course at a prestigious university once (I teach full time at a not-quite-as-prestigious one normally) and there were 11 students in the class. Several were students at another big well-known school in the midwest. I caught 6 of them plagiarizing, cases that ran from a couple students who had no idea they were plagiarizing (I didn't believe them at first but after talking to them I actually believe them; they basically did clip jobs of stuff from other sources, a paragraph here, a sentence there) to a couple who openly admitted that they plagiarized.
The ones who admitted it were from the midwest school; I had a long chat with one of them afterward and she told me that she and everyone she knew cheated on just about every assignment. She said she didn't want to at first but when she saw her friends getting away with it and getting better grades than her, she changed her tune. She was kind of blown away that she had gotten caught - she said professors at her university simply never made much attempt to catch cheaters. If students are being essentially rewarded for plagiarism, they may not have enough incentive to avoid it.
I had another case a few years ago with a student who looked up to me a great deal. After I caught him he was extremely apologetic and embarrassed. But he said the strangest thing in an email to me -- he basically said, "I'm a Marine, and I learned in the Corps to do whatever it takes to get ahead. If I was in the same position again I would do it again." Now, I've never been in the armed services, but I can't imagine the USMC is teaching him to cheat in school. And the idea that he would do it again if he was in the same position -- what the fuck? He got caught. He flunked the course. He didn't "get ahead." You'd think he would learn from the experience. But I think the problem is, when people get away with it so many more times than they get caught, they really believe it is in their best interest to cheat.
I'm all for giving people a second chance in many of these situations but I think professors should always document instances of academic dishonesty at the university level (our university requires it; I think all should) so that students who do it in different classes do not keep getting "second" chances.
All these comments about turning in your own work twice being plagiarism are beside the point. Some professors don't want students turning in a paper written for another class, since presumably you should have learned something unique in that class that merits a unique assignment. In many situations that could be considered academic dishonesty (although I don't agree with that view), but hardly "plagiarism," which as others pointed out involves taking another person's work and pretending it is your own.
It seems odd to me that they would fix such a major security flaw so quickly and quietly. I mean, I'd expect them to toot their horn at least a little bit about it....
Not yet but there's a bitchin' version of Office 2004 to be had there....
Q: How many MSCEs does it take to change a lightbulb? A: None. MS simply declares darkness the new standard.
It's their fucking egos. As many bad things as you can say about the BSA, they don't stoop to the level of the RIAA and MPAA. These people can't just let it go because they truly believe you should pay them sixteen dollars every time you listen to "oops I did it again." Part of the problem may be that most of the people making these idiotic decisions are failed artists themselves; they've figured out a business model that allows them to leech off people with talent, and they've convinced themselves they really deserve such a big piece of the pie. But many real artists feel the same way too unfortunately. Either way, it isn't just money. They've wasted a ton of money on this crusade, and even though the crusade is allowing them to extort millions, it probably would have been much wiser to invest their money in discovering new ways to do business in the internet age. It's clear the crusade itself is more than just about lost profits or lost opportunities -- their inflated sense of self-importance is at stake.
word is this sarin bomb had 2 chambers -- meaning it's a binary weapon, and most likely of US origin. And about 15-20 years old. Which means it's not only likely that Kimmitt's right that whoever had the weapon in Iraq didn't know what it was, but also that US-Iraqi cooperation during the Iran-Iraq War (when Saddam was notoriously gassing Kurds) was more involved than many thought. Which also explains why Bush & Co. have not been jumping up and down claiming this is the evidence of the missing WMDs, since Bush is not fond of calling attention to things that embarrass his father and President Reagan.
Osama was never paid or trained by CIA. It is true that the CIA funded muslim extremists in Afghanistan, the "Afghan Arabs" as they were called, and that Osama was an Afghan Arab fighter, but there is no evidence that he ever was offered money by CIA and in fact there is some evidence he would not have taken it had it been offered. That is not to downplay CIA involvement in and responsibility for the growth of al Qaeda -- US arms and money flooded the region during the 80s, the CIA built bases (many of which were later used by terrorists) and made deals with Afghan warlords (including Hekmatyr, now one of our biggest enemies in the region), and surely Osama's men benefited from this -- but suggesting that bin Laden was on the CIA payroll just makes the argument seem looney. There is no evidence of any direct contact between CIA and bin Laden during the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
All except for the prom date. The cheerleader still doesn't want to date a geek.
if Linus didn't write Linux, can we go back to pronouncing it with the long "i" (lie-nucks)? It sounded so much cooler that way.
Yes! Please tell us Word 04 also has Unicode support!! If I can go back to copying and pasting ancient Greek text directly from perseus directly into my word processor rather than copying it by hand, I will jump for joy.
with what the Bush Administration has done to medicare and social security, none of these people can afford to buy songs on iTMS. Set these geezers in front of a computer running kazaa and just you watch how many Dean Martin songs they fill the ipod with....