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    #466
    Re: What Are You Thinking About?

    I'm thinking that some 9th grade students are none too bright...

    Despite working with them for 12 weeks and knowing which ones can't write in their native language (which is reputed to be English), I guess they figure I won't notice when they turn in a cut and paste research paper with perfect grammar and punctuation.

    They also probably never figured out that I can type four consecutive words from a sentence into a search engine and find exactly where they've copied it from.

    Silly little angels.

    I just want to conk their heads together and see if they will wake up.
    Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.

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      #467
      Re: What Are You Thinking About?

      It's my day off. I'm going to clean... Because my home is a mess.

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        #468
        Re: What Are You Thinking About?

        Originally posted by B. de Corbin View Post
        I'm thinking that some 9th grade students are none too bright...

        Despite working with them for 12 weeks and knowing which ones can't write in their native language (which is reputed to be English), I guess they figure I won't notice when they turn in a cut and paste research paper with perfect grammar and punctuation.

        They also probably never figured out that I can type four consecutive words from a sentence into a search engine and find exactly where they've copied it from.

        Silly little angels.

        I just want to conk their heads together and see if they will wake up.
        Lol...it doesn't get better. In college, I had to submit papers through this software that did plagarism checks for the professors--it checked it against online search engines, and every other paper that had been submitted thru it. I don't think you'd be surprised at how many people "failed" even knowing they had to do this....but it shocked the heck out of me.
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          #469
          Re: What Are You Thinking About?

          Originally posted by thalassa View Post
          Lol...it doesn't get better. In college, I had to submit papers through this software that did plagarism checks for the professors--it checked it against online search engines, and every other paper that had been submitted thru it. I don't think you'd be surprised at how many people "failed" even knowing they had to do this....but it shocked the heck out of me.
          Oh yeah... I can imagine.

          That's why they should hire somebody like me to write the things for them.

          :devil:

          (now I suddenly start to wonder what the going price for an original 10 pager is...)
          Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.

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            #470
            Re: What Are You Thinking About?

            Originally posted by thalassa View Post
            Lol...it doesn't get better. In college, I had to submit papers through this software that did plagarism checks for the professors--it checked it against online search engines, and every other paper that had been submitted thru it. I don't think you'd be surprised at how many people "failed" even knowing they had to do this....but it shocked the heck out of me.
            Our school will start using this next year: http://turnitin.com/ It checks for identical and similar sentences as well as writing style and format apparently.
            The colleges around here use it too.

            Originally posted by B. de Corbin View Post
            (now I suddenly start to wonder what the going price for an original 10 pager is...)
            It depends on the due date. A good paper at 10 pages is a little under $100 if given a few weeks. I've written some papers around 5 pages for $50.
            You can also order papers here http://www.writemypapers.org/ just specify what you need and order.
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              #471
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              Bored.. Stuck at work until my BF shows up. Kinda worried about my Baby Dragon.. But, she has been doing a lot better. Still on my struggle to find my "Pagan Path"... Hopefully I'll have time to do some Soul Searching later once I get home.. If anyone wants to chat to help time go by... It'd be appreciated

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                #472
                Re: What Are You Thinking About?

                Originally posted by Corvus View Post
                It depends on the due date. A good paper at 10 pages is a little under $100 if given a few weeks. I've written some papers around 5 pages for $50.
                You can also order papers here http://www.writemypapers.org/ just specify what you need and order.
                It's sad that I'm not surprised by this. :P

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                  #473
                  Re: What Are You Thinking About?

                  Wow. I actually used to go to the library, read, take notes, research topics, write papers/reports out by hand, and then type them on a manual typewriter. And, after reading all this stuff about computer-age cheating, I'm GLAD I did it that way!
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                    #474
                    Re: What Are You Thinking About?

                    Etsy won't let me list items made with mammoth ivory. I got a harsh letter letting me know how evil I am for using it.

                    I guess they're an endangered species.
                    Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.

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                      #475
                      Re: What Are You Thinking About?

                      Originally posted by B. de Corbin View Post
                      Etsy won't let me list items made with mammoth ivory. I got a harsh letter letting me know how evil I am for using it.

                      I guess they're an endangered species.
                      Mammoth Ivory? As in extinct relative of modern elephants or am I committing a zoology fail?
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                      "But those men who know anything at all about the Light also know that there is a fierceness to its power, like the bare sword of the law, or the white burning of the sun." Suddenly his voice sounded to Will very strong, and very Welsh. "At the very heart, that is. Other things, like humanity, and mercy, and charity, that most good men hold more precious than all else, they do not come first for the Light. Oh, sometimes they are there; often, indeed. But in the very long run the concern of you people is with the absolute good, ahead of all else..."

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                        #476
                        Re: What Are You Thinking About?

                        Originally posted by MaskedOne View Post
                        Mammoth Ivory? As in extinct relative of modern elephants or am I committing a zoology fail?
                        Nope - you caught it. It's a fossil.
                        Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.

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                          #477
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                          I'll toss up a proper pic for this later but

                          Facepalm, so much facepalm...
                          life itself was a lightsaber in his hands; even in the face of treachery and death and hopes gone cold, he burned like a candle in the darkness. Like a star shining in the black eternity of space.

                          Yoda: Dark Rendezvous

                          "But those men who know anything at all about the Light also know that there is a fierceness to its power, like the bare sword of the law, or the white burning of the sun." Suddenly his voice sounded to Will very strong, and very Welsh. "At the very heart, that is. Other things, like humanity, and mercy, and charity, that most good men hold more precious than all else, they do not come first for the Light. Oh, sometimes they are there; often, indeed. But in the very long run the concern of you people is with the absolute good, ahead of all else..."

                          John Rowlands, The Grey King by Susan Cooper

                          "You come from the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve", said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth; be content."

                          Aslan, Prince Caspian by CS Lewis


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                            #478
                            Re: What Are You Thinking About?

                            Originally posted by B. de Corbin View Post
                            Etsy won't let me list items made with mammoth ivory. I got a harsh letter letting me know how evil I am for using it.

                            I guess they're an endangered species.
                            Hahaha, what? I didn't know that etsy was campaigning to save the mammoths.

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                              #479
                              Re: What Are You Thinking About?

                              Originally posted by iflewoverthecuckoosnest View Post
                              Hahaha, what? I didn't know that etsy was campaigning to save the mammoths.
                              Well - full disclosure - they told me I can't use it 'cause I'm a white guy. They said it more PC, though.

                              Oh yeah. I'm not supposed to tell anyone they said this...

                              P.S. Funny thing is that I bought the box of ivory pieces off Etsy in the first place.

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                              Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.

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                                #480
                                Re: What Are You Thinking About?

                                Originally posted by B. de Corbin View Post
                                Well - full disclosure - they told me I can't use it 'cause I'm a white guy. They said it more PC, though.

                                Oh yeah. I'm not supposed to tell anyone they said this...

                                P.S. Funny thing is that I bought the box of ivory pieces off Etsy in the first place.

                                We live in an odd world.
                                Oh. Well, dammit, Corbin, why you gotta go around being all white and male? Don't you know better?!! Etsy knows better. Sheesh.

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