Why should I? I never came up with any Republicans, or said they "exploit flaws in electronic systems". I'm sure I could, but you're just changing the subject by quoting statements I didn't make.
So if your point is that Republicans (like you) are cheaters, you've made it.
You did make the exact claim "Of course, Democrats are more well-known for exploiting paper ballots.", in response to no one but the article submitted by supabeast! and posted by kdawson.
So now that you've failed your first try to weasel out of the trap you've created for yourself, here's another generous chance to say something honest.
Which Democrats? Can we have some examples of recent elections, like since the end of the Cold War?
The entire question of whether or not an act is cheating is whether it serves getting a grade more than learning the subject. Since you studied the entire lecture as planned to be delivered by your distance learning class, and additionally the extra scene which revealed what would be on the test, that doesn't seem like cheating in any meaningful way. If you had studied only that extra scene with its tip on what would be tested, then that could be cheating.
The teachers who handed out old tests are also augmenting their lectures with additional info on how you will be tested. If you could have aced your AP tests without learning the subject, your teachers would have been teaching you to cheat. I aced my own AP tests, after not only studying the subject in lectures, discussions and books, but also practiciing sample tests in extra books I got outside class. I learned the subjects, and also learned "how to take the test", reducing the test's distortion of its measurement of my knowledge of the subject.
Cheating is defined by what you do right as well as what you do wrong. And just because a teacher teaches a subject doesn't mean they're not also teaching you to cheat. In one of the private schools I went to, teachers would get together to makes sure that they weren't "ganging up" on a student with bad grades from multiple sources, raising their grades to ensure they didn't fail out of school, get left back (costing their parents $ for a repeated year), or look too bad in GPA for college applications. Despite their actual performance in class.
Ultimately, cheaters cheat themselves of knowledge of the subject, just like your gradeschool teachers told you. If you're getting grades that don't represent your knowledge of the subject, you're either lucky or cheating.
The Republican governor is just covering his ass. Republican Wynn, who's ahead in this typically "messed up" Maryland election, is virtually bragging that he cheated, on the floor of the House of Representatives.
No, it's cheating. The tests are not the defining criteria for what must be learned in the course. Tests cover the most important info (when they're good tests), but they're also just arbitrary samples of the entire coursework, standard "random sampling quality control" technique. Studing only "what's on the test" is cheating the course, to pass only the tests. It reduces good tests of a lot of the course to merely "a course in test taking".
Whether or not the teacher prohibits that kind of "studying", the cheater is cheating. Cheating themself of learning the course more than passing the test. In business, at least how business is run by the students I knew and their fellow businesspeople, that's all you need to know. And certainly something everyone needs to know about business.
I used to run the "Acadamic Committee" in my 1980s college fraternity - about 100 guys each year in a 10K student university. Most of our job was campaigns to reinstate members who'd been expelled for low grades or partying too much (and burning down a frathouse, but that wasn't my committee;). After that, our biggest operation was lending out old tests in our library from which members could study (for the often-repeated questions). I knew about all kinds of cheaters, including paper-writing operations, all around the school - we used to trade with other frats and "independents".
Every biz major I knew cheated regularly. At very least by studying the old questions first, before studying the entire section being tested. But extending to buying/stealing tests not in our library, buying papers. I even knew one biz major who paid someone (smarter) to take a class for him, attending occasionally but taking every test.
The universal attitude among biz majors was actually "this whole major is a cheat, to get me a business job without having a business". Sure, they learned some accounting, some marketing, some management, some finance, but those classes were all seen as "dues" to be paid, not any source of training necessary to do the job.
Once I got out of college, through a successful business career modelling and supporting in IT many businesses large and small, I learned that they were right.
At last we've managed to find the real terrorists: polluters who dump poison into our water all the time. We should catch Osama at the next board meeting of Dow Chemical.
"the U.S., Canada, Russia and the EU jockey for control of the newly opened passages"
Now it should be obvious to everyone why global politicians are so "blind" to global warming. Where all the political and business interest opposition to the science comes from, and how huge it really is.
The Old World (led by the "EU") colonized the New World as just a part of their quest for a "Northwest Passage" between their European and Asian coasts. Half a millennium of genocide, rape, pillage and pollution have followed, making those in the business more rich, powerful and evil than imagined before. Now they're finally getting such a direct route, between even more valuable ports. No opposition from any academics, grassroots political organizations, and documentary movies is going to get in the way of that engine that's moved the world for all of modern history.
I bet that's a lot harder to say, and even harder to hear, in French, German, Italian, Romanian, with a British/Irish accent, Spanish, Swedish, Dutch...
"Europeans, with shorter flights and lower expectations of privacy perhaps"
No, Europeans have higher expectations of privacy, as reflected in their much stronger privacy protection laws. Maybe their openness just comes from their manners, which let them all talk on mobile phones quietly and discreetly already, though they're all jammed together in a little continent full of cities. Or maybe Americans are mostly just hundreds of millions of primitives who can't respect each other, dependent on an increasingly foreign tech workforce to keep our highly tech society running without getting in the way of American Idol.
"The Silmarillion", and all the CT "editions" of JRRT's original fragments, are sequels to JRRT's own published works. As you said, JRRT tried to stop anyone from making sequels, CT made sequels, which contradicts his father's wishes, which contradicts what you said.
What are they playing all that vinyl on? Turntables cost a lot of money now, supplying mostly the niche audiophile and DJ markets. And there aren't many left, compared to the second half of the 20th Century when practically every teenager had at least one. These things wear out and are kinda big and delicate, in the way when kids play rough.
If we could play the vinyl stuck between the folded halves of a notebook PC, we might finally get back to the future, when it was so bright we had to wear shades.
CT writing a sequel follows his father's wishes to prevent someone writing a sequel? Chalk up another point for JRRT the visionary, and CT the cheater.
Pirates were, and are, some of the worst criminals ever known. Talking like a pirate makes a mockery of them, which keeps them human enough that we can talk about their actual history without some kind of taboo against comparing them to other, lesser criminals.
So we should also have "Talk Like a Nazi Day". Because Nazis were so bad, though so human, that we are losing the ability to learn from their awful history how possible it is to repeat it. Fallacies like the misapplication of "Godwin's Law" prevent us from comparing fascists, genociders, invaders and others to the archetypical Nazis, even prevent us from talking rationally about how those comparisons are often wrong and baseless.
We beat the Nazis in the 1940s partly by mocking them as cartoon evil. We keep piracy from having any legitimacy partly by mocking pirates into harmless cartoons. If we talked like Nazis in mockery more often, maybe we'd avoid acting like them as much as we still occasionally do in seriousness.
I don't know why you're sticking to "as good as JRRT" as the criteria. All I'm saying is that White, Donaldson and Gaiman are better than CT. And that there are certainly many more available better than CT if you're in CT's position.
And what about being 80 makes someone "not greedy"? If all you'd ever done in your life was some crappy cleanup of your father's monumental work, you'd be pretty driven to keep the glory to yourself, especially if someone else could make your work look bad by doing it right.
Fact is, CT's personal connections to his father's work produced crap in CT's hands. The legendary stashes of manuscripts now seem sensibly hidden from CT, not the world in general, rather than let them fall into "the wrong hands". I certainly prefer at worst CT's editions rather than nothing, but only because the CT editions free the possiblity of redoing them sometime, or just offering scholars more insight into JRRT's actual work, once they've cleaned the CT dreck from them. But in no way does CT's clammy grip on them give me what I really want: more readable stories dreamed by JRRT, even if finished by a mere mortal with some talent, if not the right last name.
Yeah, and as I said, the Silmarillion is the best of the stuff that CT touched, and the last he let anyone else touch.
And no, not everyone is a greedy asshole. Not everyone meets the criteria I stated that CT meets. He doesn't owe me anything, and he has a right to be a greedy asshole. I have a right to resent that he doesn't let anyone else finish JRRT's work, even though he proved that he can with TS, and that it produces a much better book. The criteria you stated have nothing to offer, as proven by the poor quality of the books that meet them. As is obvious to anyone who's read them who appreciates what JRRT created.
I don't know why you're so pissed that I'm so vehemently disappointed by CT's monopolization of his legacy. Maybe you're so jealous of his privilege that you can't stand anyone tarnishing it.
If I were JRRT's son, and not so greedy/egotistical that I couldn't recognize my limited talent, I'd find someone. The task is not the (probably) impossible one of meeting JRRT's quality, but exceeding CT's, which is no real challenge.
Holding the Tolkien name and those manuscripts, not to mention the access to his editors/publishers, I'd be in a lot better position than I am replying to you. But if I could just pick someone myself, I'd have tried Stephen R Donaldson, whose own world was fiercely imagined, though not comparable to JRRT's work (nothing is), but still better than any CT. If he hadn't predeceased Tolkein by a decade, I'd have considered TH White. Right now, probably Neil Gaiman. Or just give me the manuscripts and the budget such a project automatically delivers and I'll spend a year digging. I'll find a hundred better writers for the task than CT in the first week. They don't have the benefit to CT that his own work has, but I'm not CT. And he's no Frodo.
You apparently either haven't read the CT books which sucked, or have bad taste. Either way, good riddance. Find someplace where everyone will politely agree with you, and keep it all for yourself.
He doesn't let anyone else work on his father's manuscripts before he publishes them. I've never met the guy, but I tried to read his work, and felt used as a reader, used to increase the wealth and stature of Christoper Tolkien despite his lack of any qualifications but legal right. That makes him a greedy asshole. Which is based on my literary opinion, and of course my basic understanding that others are better at writing than he is.
Again, have you read those books? Apparently not, as you're ignoring that question. Tell me more about baseless...
On what could I possibly support my literary opinion on CT's work? That's what literary opinions are. Have you read the stuff I said is bad? Do you disagree?
Because then I could sell even more, overcompensating in volume what I'm losing in profit, according to price elasticity. These companies are not selling 100% of their product on a given day, but they could sell even more if there were actual competition.
If his son had someone else with more talent complete the unfinished works of his father, he'd deserve more thanks than ridicule. He's been riding the glory of his father, capturing some for himself, without any claim other than inheritance of the key, not the talent.
So you didn't like the movies, and liked the Silmarillion (so did I). Did you read the rest of the CT ouvre? How did you like that? That's the basis I'm spewing.
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Why should I? I never came up with any Republicans, or said they "exploit flaws in electronic systems". I'm sure I could, but you're just changing the subject by quoting statements I didn't make.
So if your point is that Republicans (like you) are cheaters, you've made it.
You did make the exact claim "Of course, Democrats are more well-known for exploiting paper ballots.", in response to no one but the article submitted by supabeast! and posted by kdawson.
So now that you've failed your first try to weasel out of the trap you've created for yourself, here's another generous chance to say something honest.
Which Democrats? Can we have some examples of recent elections, like since the end of the Cold War?
The entire question of whether or not an act is cheating is whether it serves getting a grade more than learning the subject. Since you studied the entire lecture as planned to be delivered by your distance learning class, and additionally the extra scene which revealed what would be on the test, that doesn't seem like cheating in any meaningful way. If you had studied only that extra scene with its tip on what would be tested, then that could be cheating.
The teachers who handed out old tests are also augmenting their lectures with additional info on how you will be tested. If you could have aced your AP tests without learning the subject, your teachers would have been teaching you to cheat. I aced my own AP tests, after not only studying the subject in lectures, discussions and books, but also practiciing sample tests in extra books I got outside class. I learned the subjects, and also learned "how to take the test", reducing the test's distortion of its measurement of my knowledge of the subject.
Cheating is defined by what you do right as well as what you do wrong. And just because a teacher teaches a subject doesn't mean they're not also teaching you to cheat. In one of the private schools I went to, teachers would get together to makes sure that they weren't "ganging up" on a student with bad grades from multiple sources, raising their grades to ensure they didn't fail out of school, get left back (costing their parents $ for a repeated year), or look too bad in GPA for college applications. Despite their actual performance in class.
Ultimately, cheaters cheat themselves of knowledge of the subject, just like your gradeschool teachers told you. If you're getting grades that don't represent your knowledge of the subject, you're either lucky or cheating.
Which Democrats? Can we have some examples of recent elections, like since the end of the Cold War?
"Well-known" is Republicanspeak for "I say so", just like "some people are saying".
The Republican governor is just covering his ass. Republican Wynn, who's ahead in this typically "messed up" Maryland election, is virtually bragging that he cheated, on the floor of the House of Representatives.
No, it's cheating. The tests are not the defining criteria for what must be learned in the course. Tests cover the most important info (when they're good tests), but they're also just arbitrary samples of the entire coursework, standard "random sampling quality control" technique. Studing only "what's on the test" is cheating the course, to pass only the tests. It reduces good tests of a lot of the course to merely "a course in test taking".
Whether or not the teacher prohibits that kind of "studying", the cheater is cheating. Cheating themself of learning the course more than passing the test. In business, at least how business is run by the students I knew and their fellow businesspeople, that's all you need to know. And certainly something everyone needs to know about business.
I used to run the "Acadamic Committee" in my 1980s college fraternity - about 100 guys each year in a 10K student university. Most of our job was campaigns to reinstate members who'd been expelled for low grades or partying too much (and burning down a frathouse, but that wasn't my committee ;). After that, our biggest operation was lending out old tests in our library from which members could study (for the often-repeated questions). I knew about all kinds of cheaters, including paper-writing operations, all around the school - we used to trade with other frats and "independents".
Every biz major I knew cheated regularly. At very least by studying the old questions first, before studying the entire section being tested. But extending to buying/stealing tests not in our library, buying papers. I even knew one biz major who paid someone (smarter) to take a class for him, attending occasionally but taking every test.
The universal attitude among biz majors was actually "this whole major is a cheat, to get me a business job without having a business". Sure, they learned some accounting, some marketing, some management, some finance, but those classes were all seen as "dues" to be paid, not any source of training necessary to do the job.
Once I got out of college, through a successful business career modelling and supporting in IT many businesses large and small, I learned that they were right.
It's also worth noting that we've already got a longer route that this ecological disaster improves.
At last we've managed to find the real terrorists: polluters who dump poison into our water all the time. We should catch Osama at the next board meeting of Dow Chemical.
"the U.S., Canada, Russia and the EU jockey for control of the newly opened passages"
Now it should be obvious to everyone why global politicians are so "blind" to global warming. Where all the political and business interest opposition to the science comes from, and how huge it really is.
The Old World (led by the "EU") colonized the New World as just a part of their quest for a "Northwest Passage" between their European and Asian coasts. Half a millennium of genocide, rape, pillage and pollution have followed, making those in the business more rich, powerful and evil than imagined before. Now they're finally getting such a direct route, between even more valuable ports. No opposition from any academics, grassroots political organizations, and documentary movies is going to get in the way of that engine that's moved the world for all of modern history.
I bet that's a lot harder to say, and even harder to hear, in French, German, Italian, Romanian, with a British/Irish accent, Spanish, Swedish, Dutch...
"Europeans, with shorter flights and lower expectations of privacy perhaps"
No, Europeans have higher expectations of privacy, as reflected in their much stronger privacy protection laws. Maybe their openness just comes from their manners, which let them all talk on mobile phones quietly and discreetly already, though they're all jammed together in a little continent full of cities. Or maybe Americans are mostly just hundreds of millions of primitives who can't respect each other, dependent on an increasingly foreign tech workforce to keep our highly tech society running without getting in the way of American Idol.
"The Silmarillion", and all the CT "editions" of JRRT's original fragments, are sequels to JRRT's own published works. As you said, JRRT tried to stop anyone from making sequels, CT made sequels, which contradicts his father's wishes, which contradicts what you said.
What are they playing all that vinyl on? Turntables cost a lot of money now, supplying mostly the niche audiophile and DJ markets. And there aren't many left, compared to the second half of the 20th Century when practically every teenager had at least one. These things wear out and are kinda big and delicate, in the way when kids play rough.
If we could play the vinyl stuck between the folded halves of a notebook PC, we might finally get back to the future, when it was so bright we had to wear shades.
CT writing a sequel follows his father's wishes to prevent someone writing a sequel? Chalk up another point for JRRT the visionary, and CT the cheater.
Pirates were, and are, some of the worst criminals ever known. Talking like a pirate makes a mockery of them, which keeps them human enough that we can talk about their actual history without some kind of taboo against comparing them to other, lesser criminals.
So we should also have "Talk Like a Nazi Day". Because Nazis were so bad, though so human, that we are losing the ability to learn from their awful history how possible it is to repeat it. Fallacies like the misapplication of "Godwin's Law" prevent us from comparing fascists, genociders, invaders and others to the archetypical Nazis, even prevent us from talking rationally about how those comparisons are often wrong and baseless.
We beat the Nazis in the 1940s partly by mocking them as cartoon evil. We keep piracy from having any legitimacy partly by mocking pirates into harmless cartoons. If we talked like Nazis in mockery more often, maybe we'd avoid acting like them as much as we still occasionally do in seriousness.
I don't know why you're sticking to "as good as JRRT" as the criteria. All I'm saying is that White, Donaldson and Gaiman are better than CT. And that there are certainly many more available better than CT if you're in CT's position.
And what about being 80 makes someone "not greedy"? If all you'd ever done in your life was some crappy cleanup of your father's monumental work, you'd be pretty driven to keep the glory to yourself, especially if someone else could make your work look bad by doing it right.
Fact is, CT's personal connections to his father's work produced crap in CT's hands. The legendary stashes of manuscripts now seem sensibly hidden from CT, not the world in general, rather than let them fall into "the wrong hands". I certainly prefer at worst CT's editions rather than nothing, but only because the CT editions free the possiblity of redoing them sometime, or just offering scholars more insight into JRRT's actual work, once they've cleaned the CT dreck from them. But in no way does CT's clammy grip on them give me what I really want: more readable stories dreamed by JRRT, even if finished by a mere mortal with some talent, if not the right last name.
Yeah, and as I said, the Silmarillion is the best of the stuff that CT touched, and the last he let anyone else touch.
And no, not everyone is a greedy asshole. Not everyone meets the criteria I stated that CT meets. He doesn't owe me anything, and he has a right to be a greedy asshole. I have a right to resent that he doesn't let anyone else finish JRRT's work, even though he proved that he can with TS, and that it produces a much better book. The criteria you stated have nothing to offer, as proven by the poor quality of the books that meet them. As is obvious to anyone who's read them who appreciates what JRRT created.
I don't know why you're so pissed that I'm so vehemently disappointed by CT's monopolization of his legacy. Maybe you're so jealous of his privilege that you can't stand anyone tarnishing it.
If I were JRRT's son, and not so greedy/egotistical that I couldn't recognize my limited talent, I'd find someone. The task is not the (probably) impossible one of meeting JRRT's quality, but exceeding CT's, which is no real challenge.
Holding the Tolkien name and those manuscripts, not to mention the access to his editors/publishers, I'd be in a lot better position than I am replying to you. But if I could just pick someone myself, I'd have tried Stephen R Donaldson, whose own world was fiercely imagined, though not comparable to JRRT's work (nothing is), but still better than any CT. If he hadn't predeceased Tolkein by a decade, I'd have considered TH White. Right now, probably Neil Gaiman. Or just give me the manuscripts and the budget such a project automatically delivers and I'll spend a year digging. I'll find a hundred better writers for the task than CT in the first week. They don't have the benefit to CT that his own work has, but I'm not CT. And he's no Frodo.
You apparently either haven't read the CT books which sucked, or have bad taste. Either way, good riddance. Find someplace where everyone will politely agree with you, and keep it all for yourself.
I used to live in Toronto. I used to take the streetcars and buses everywhere :).
He doesn't let anyone else work on his father's manuscripts before he publishes them. I've never met the guy, but I tried to read his work, and felt used as a reader, used to increase the wealth and stature of Christoper Tolkien despite his lack of any qualifications but legal right. That makes him a greedy asshole. Which is based on my literary opinion, and of course my basic understanding that others are better at writing than he is.
Again, have you read those books? Apparently not, as you're ignoring that question. Tell me more about baseless...
On what could I possibly support my literary opinion on CT's work? That's what literary opinions are. Have you read the stuff I said is bad? Do you disagree?
Because then I could sell even more, overcompensating in volume what I'm losing in profit, according to price elasticity. These companies are not selling 100% of their product on a given day, but they could sell even more if there were actual competition.
If his son had someone else with more talent complete the unfinished works of his father, he'd deserve more thanks than ridicule. He's been riding the glory of his father, capturing some for himself, without any claim other than inheritance of the key, not the talent.
So you didn't like the movies, and liked the Silmarillion (so did I). Did you read the rest of the CT ouvre? How did you like that? That's the basis I'm spewing.