Business ethics 101 is all about cheating.
Actually, funnily enough, it was. I'm a business major, and my school doesn't officially require, but "strongly encourages" that all business majors take an ethics class. And something like 45% of everyone's grade is homework, that was really just entirely busywork. (I should think that I got out of having to paraphrase the goddamn chapter I just read for homework in JUNIOR HIGH. Especially with reading quizzes.)
So everyone cheated. I didn't, because I don't cheat. But everyone else did. Not to mention everyone did the same two philosophers on their final (and only) paper, and thus half the class pretty much did worked on it together.
I've always found it amusing that the worst class I've ever been in in college for cheating was my Ethics class.
You can sit on the couch and relax while peeling the orange. You can even make it a game! See how many pieces of orange peel you can throw at the cat before he moves. (Answer: You'll run out of orange peel first.)
Oranges taste better.
Oranges have that lovely citrus peel on the outside, which you can peel off with your zester to make a lovely garnish, or use in a recipe for an intensely orange taste.
Apples are the source of the American apple pie, which is seen everywhere, and is thus boring and only for plebes.
Apple seeds are poisonous! This means that you shouldn't eat apples because they're dangerous. Really.
I have an orange tree in my backyard, thus they're cheaper. Free, even.
Because.
I said so.
Why are you eating that apple?! I said they aren't as good.
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And then there's those people who make their useragent identical to Google's in hopes that they can get into paid content, and forget to take it off. *whistles innocently*
It's a little more difficult in Firefox than Opera, since you have to go to about:config, and add the field general.useragent.override. Which you can then define as whatever you want.
Ignoring the whole nanoparticle issue for the obvious absurdity, people have been using unsafe items to make themselves more attractive since the first monkey noticed how luxurious his fur was when he ate arsenic.
A brief list of methods used to enhance appearance that cause long-term damage:
Belladonna - used to enlarge women's pupils, and make their eyes seem more attractive
Arsenic - used to enhance hair and weight gain (since in most societies where food isn't readily available, being fat is a sign of beauty)
Mercury - used to make women paler
Corsets - used to enhance the appearance of women's waists
Foot-binding - used because apparently women who can't walk were considered attractive at some point.
Tattoos - not that dangerous now, but considering that previously they were dealing with completely unsterilized needles, and possibly unwashed/unhealthy person, large tattoos were bloody risky
Lead - used in lots of cosmetics, from creams to eyeshadows, to whatever.
Antimony - used as eyeshadow
Bleeding oneself - One way to stay pale was to bleed yourself. Yes, people have been that desperate to be pretty
And we're supposed to entertain the idea that the Egyptians using nanoparticles in cosmetics is somehow a sign of safety. I have just one question. What the hell are you smoking?
I've been burned by professors trying to profit off their own books before. What I tend to do before buying books now is check the syllabus to see when it's required. If a book makes no appearance in the syllabus except in the books to buy section (as has happened before), I hold off buying it until the professor announces in class that we're going to need that book. Which has sometimes never happened. (And, of course, sometimes it does and I need to make an emergency trip to the bookstore, but I can live with that.)
I then usually make a point of bitching about that in the class evaluations at the end of the year. In different handwriting than I've used during the year, because I'm paranoid like that. There's no excuse for that.
And on the day that there's no one uneducated, unclothed, unsheltered, and without proper health care in any country on the planet is the day that I'm desperately explaining to St. Peter that just because I laughed at Steve Irwin jokes doesn't mean I should be sent to hell. Because it's obviously Judgement Day.
I mean, I think this is as big a waste of time as anyone else. But get real.
As long as Microsoft has well over fifty percent of the market, web designers as a whole are going to primarily design their website to best display in IE. Even if it sometimes means that the website layout gets a little funky in Firefox. It's what Microsoft depends upon. If Microsoft can hurt their competitors' just by not complying with standards, why on earth should they comply?
Really, I'm more interested in seeing what Microsoft does if they continue losing market share like this. Even some of the non-technologically inclined people at my workplace are beginning to use the Firefox I installed on the shared computers, and sometimes asking me to install it on their computer. Eventually, it may reach the point where it damages Microsoft more to not be compliant than to be compliant. (So I'm the optimistic type.) I'll be curious to see if it causes them to change their ways at all.
If you want to distinguish between true criminals who are a danger to others, and people who just want a little privacy, the first thing to do is distinguish between people who want to download a cd before buying, and people who want to kill as many people as they can. Because so long as the RIAA are going after music pirates, they're going to be clogging up these sorts of services and making it absolutely impossible to track the people who might actually be a danger.
The more people you turn into criminals, the harder it is to find the dangerous ones. Why is this so difficult for people to understand?
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Forget internet addiction, I'm waiting for someone to admit that I have a book addiction.
Business ethics 101 is all about cheating. Actually, funnily enough, it was. I'm a business major, and my school doesn't officially require, but "strongly encourages" that all business majors take an ethics class. And something like 45% of everyone's grade is homework, that was really just entirely busywork. (I should think that I got out of having to paraphrase the goddamn chapter I just read for homework in JUNIOR HIGH. Especially with reading quizzes.) So everyone cheated. I didn't, because I don't cheat. But everyone else did. Not to mention everyone did the same two philosophers on their final (and only) paper, and thus half the class pretty much did worked on it together. I've always found it amusing that the worst class I've ever been in in college for cheating was my Ethics class.
Oh good. When they try to sue me for breaking the EULA, I can legitimately say that I didn't have a strong enough microscope to read it.
And then there's those people who make their useragent identical to Google's in hopes that they can get into paid content, and forget to take it off. *whistles innocently* It's a little more difficult in Firefox than Opera, since you have to go to about:config, and add the field general.useragent.override. Which you can then define as whatever you want.
Ignoring the whole nanoparticle issue for the obvious absurdity, people have been using unsafe items to make themselves more attractive since the first monkey noticed how luxurious his fur was when he ate arsenic.
A brief list of methods used to enhance appearance that cause long-term damage:
And we're supposed to entertain the idea that the Egyptians using nanoparticles in cosmetics is somehow a sign of safety. I have just one question. What the hell are you smoking?
I've been burned by professors trying to profit off their own books before. What I tend to do before buying books now is check the syllabus to see when it's required. If a book makes no appearance in the syllabus except in the books to buy section (as has happened before), I hold off buying it until the professor announces in class that we're going to need that book. Which has sometimes never happened. (And, of course, sometimes it does and I need to make an emergency trip to the bookstore, but I can live with that.)
I then usually make a point of bitching about that in the class evaluations at the end of the year. In different handwriting than I've used during the year, because I'm paranoid like that. There's no excuse for that.
And on the day that there's no one uneducated, unclothed, unsheltered, and without proper health care in any country on the planet is the day that I'm desperately explaining to St. Peter that just because I laughed at Steve Irwin jokes doesn't mean I should be sent to hell. Because it's obviously Judgement Day.
I mean, I think this is as big a waste of time as anyone else. But get real.
As long as Microsoft has well over fifty percent of the market, web designers as a whole are going to primarily design their website to best display in IE. Even if it sometimes means that the website layout gets a little funky in Firefox. It's what Microsoft depends upon. If Microsoft can hurt their competitors' just by not complying with standards, why on earth should they comply? Really, I'm more interested in seeing what Microsoft does if they continue losing market share like this. Even some of the non-technologically inclined people at my workplace are beginning to use the Firefox I installed on the shared computers, and sometimes asking me to install it on their computer. Eventually, it may reach the point where it damages Microsoft more to not be compliant than to be compliant. (So I'm the optimistic type.) I'll be curious to see if it causes them to change their ways at all.
If you want to distinguish between true criminals who are a danger to others, and people who just want a little privacy, the first thing to do is distinguish between people who want to download a cd before buying, and people who want to kill as many people as they can. Because so long as the RIAA are going after music pirates, they're going to be clogging up these sorts of services and making it absolutely impossible to track the people who might actually be a danger. The more people you turn into criminals, the harder it is to find the dangerous ones. Why is this so difficult for people to understand?