The problem with Wikipedia in academia is not the accuracy per se, it's that references on Wikipedia are not static and therefore are unverifiable. References in the Encyclopedia Brittanica - even a 50 year old edition - are. If you try to verify today what I quoted from Wikipedia last week, it may well have changed since then. If I quote a specific edition of the Brittanica as my reference for a fact, I may be taken to task for using an outdated reference, but at least my research will be reproducible because that edition will always carry the same content.
Sun's don't go both ways. They're all either straight or gay.
Maybe, but who's to say it can't be turned? It's orbital ring got invaded by a foreign object. Maybe this particular sun, you know, liked the experience?
Proper training of such an animal should include noticing the telltale signs of sexual attraction. The release of certain pheromones would be a trigger for this beast to viciously attack the owner's groin (or that of the nearest male in the case of a female owner).
Hang on a minute! TFA also gives the guy's address (street name). I looked it up on Google Maps and it's a populated suburban area. The guy intentionally discharged a firearm - in a suburban area, for reasons other than self defense - Now THAT is a dick move. Hell, he probably did it on the 4th just because he thought there would be so many other explosions happening they'd mask his dodgy pruning activities.
You know, If you're proposing to violate the constitution anyway, there are surer ways to get at the money. Why not just seize the assets of the Madoff family members and throw the lot of them in prison as well? With no trial, due process, or possibility of release, of course. And continue the incarceration and seizures with Madoff's friends and associates until enough money has been recouped. It may not be law, but I imagine it'd be mighty close to justice!
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3. He's new here.
Key fact Wikipedia is as accurate as Britannica.
The problem with Wikipedia in academia is not the accuracy per se, it's that references on Wikipedia are not static and therefore are unverifiable. References in the Encyclopedia Brittanica - even a 50 year old edition - are. If you try to verify today what I quoted from Wikipedia last week, it may well have changed since then. If I quote a specific edition of the Brittanica as my reference for a fact, I may be taken to task for using an outdated reference, but at least my research will be reproducible because that edition will always carry the same content.
Hey AC, check out New Here's posting history - Nothing but that same tired old joke in the last 20-odd posts.
It hasn't been funny for a lo-o-o-o-o-ng time. But it certainly was funny then.
I would first like to take this opportunity to complain about the size of the margins on the paper supplied to students...
Sun's don't go both ways. They're all either straight or gay.
Maybe, but who's to say it can't be turned? It's orbital ring got invaded by a foreign object. Maybe this particular sun, you know, liked the experience?
Knowing the answer and knowing how to answer appropriately are two very different things.
Proper training of such an animal should include noticing the telltale signs of sexual attraction. The release of certain pheromones would be a trigger for this beast to viciously attack the owner's groin (or that of the nearest male in the case of a female owner).
Supporting evidence was not requested.
In the immortal words of Jim Carrey:
"Your entrance was good - His was better!"
I think the RIAA should not expect DRMed music to last forever - as a business model, that is.
Why so? Are you an orange dwarf with green hair and white eyebrows?
It might have been whiskey at one time. But you usually don't call it whiskey once it's been filtered through the kidneys.
I'm sure she wouldn't mind you going down at random times, as long as it's on her.
(Okay, it's fair enough in its own right,
You just lost me.
in soviet russia you own the cat.
No. No you don't.
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Even in Soviet Russia,
Cat owns you!
Better
My name is (say your name). My voice is my password. Verify me.
Better still
My name is (say your name). My voice is my passport. Verify me.
Well, I don't see anyone mining plastic, but the robots surely could recycle us to synthesize plastic.
Perhaps we don't mine plastic, but we do mine "plastic ore".
Hang on a minute! TFA also gives the guy's address (street name). I looked it up on Google Maps and it's a populated suburban area. The guy intentionally discharged a firearm - in a suburban area, for reasons other than self defense - Now THAT is a dick move. Hell, he probably did it on the 4th just because he thought there would be so many other explosions happening they'd mask his dodgy pruning activities.
Hey!
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I quite enjoyed TSO
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That was ISPF that I enjoyed.
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God and Country is a British thing i think?
Hmm, I thought that was usually "King and Country" and only sometimes prepended with God.
Direct brain interfaced control of a robot? meh.
Direct brain interfaced control by a robot? Now THAT's interesting!
(I, for one...)
You know, If you're proposing to violate the constitution anyway, there are surer ways to get at the money. Why not just seize the assets of the Madoff family members and throw the lot of them in prison as well? With no trial, due process, or possibility of release, of course. And continue the incarceration and seizures with Madoff's friends and associates until enough money has been recouped. It may not be law, but I imagine it'd be mighty close to justice!
Fortu- ah say - fortunately, ah keep ma feathers numbered fo' jus' such an occasion!
Don't you dare interfere with my 2nd Amendment right to bear poultry!
Where is my right to bare poultry?
You can't say he never warned us!