Udelar Johnson
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I'd just like to happily state that like the earlier "bible-based" views on so-called miscegenation, this viewpoint is slowly dying out as people come into contact with gay people and find out that really, they're just like us.
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Schattenmann: when you call out individual alliances or blocs and in general make obviously false statements about them in your argument, it doesn't make sense to later claim, "That wasn't the point!" when someone reminds you that you were lying. If you want people to stay focused on the point of your argument, you should try maybe telling the truth through the whole thing.
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I had something typed here but I think I'll just say what instead.
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If you think the one who told the teacher he saw someone cheating without even being asked is someone to look up to or if you would want to follow their example, then I'm sure a lot of people will want to avoid you or give you a hard time for trying to get them trouble whenever you see them break rule when it doesn't matter.
Also you're making the assumption your moral code is the only one in the world and everyone must follow it, I think loyalty to your friends and those you work with, which would be your classmates while in school, is a better moral code to follow than worrying about if others are cheating on tests. If your friend is going to get kicked out of college and his house if he doesn't pass an exam, if his friends decided to help him I think they would be doing a good thing. In the real world mostly what matters are your connections and if your not someone most people would want any connection to you limit your options in life.
I think your getting morals and ethics mixed up as well, cheating on a test has nothing to do with morals. Good work ethic is good to have and can improve someone as they get stuff done, but someone isn't immoral for cheating on test.
I have no reason to remain "loyal" to someone who is devaluing my greatest investment, nor is this person a friend or peer of mine. My friends and peers are the ones working their butts off together and separately to learn the material required to pass the test. We're the ones working through the homework and asking each other questions about difficult problems. The cheater is a parasite who is taking credit for work that was never done.
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Now the guy had the ln(1/2) and then on the next line he all of a sudden had ln(-2). The teacher asked how we got it. The guy stuttered, "yeah well the 30 there and you take the log of the natural log." He was spouting nonsense for ten minutes, the teacher didn't let up. "No! How did you get ln(-2) from ln(1/2)?" He couldn't explain it. The teacher than said, "ln(1/2) is the same as the ln(1) - ln(2) through the property of the division of logarithms. The ln(1) is 0 therefore it's 0-ln(2) therefore it's ln(-2)."
Sorry, the mathematician in me won't let me let this go. It's -ln(2), not ln(-2). Logarithms of negative numbers are complex.
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Its up to the employer to check whether your degree is worth something and if you've actually learned any skills or if all the training will have to be on the job, also it would depend on the subject if it actually matters if you learn the stuff beyond passing the class. A lot of times its easy to get stuck with classes that don't have anything to do with your major and aren't any fun, for electives and other classes you aren't going to need to know the material once you pass and it doesn't really matter. If for example you cheat your way through trigonometry you're going to have a hard time with calculus and any other math classes that you might take after it, but if its a class where you need to memorize a bunch of artists and identify their artwork, you're not going to need to remember that if your degree has nothing to do with art.
Anyways the guy who cheated missed out on learning the material properly, but maybe he had good reason he couldn't study beforehand. Its not really anyone's business what he's doing except maybe the teacher and she doesn't need people giving her more to stress over by complaining over other people cheating.
It's not my business if someone out there is taking actions that directly affect the value of the degree I expect to hold? I strongly disagree.
We've all had times when we didn't study as much as we wanted. I took the grade I deserved and moved on.
Finally, the idea that getting a degree is only about learning things in your major has 2500 years of precedent against it, and I don't know of any reputable school that subscribes to such a nearsighted view of education.
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Not all colleges are accredited, if a you go to one that isn't accredited you can still get a degree, although you can't transfer your credits to one that is.
Yes, and you'll get a worthless degree if you go to a non-accredited school (unless it's a degree in religion), same as the "degrees" you can order based on your "life experiences" online. As for me, I expect my doctors to have passed their MCAT and my lawyers to have passed the state bar exam, and I wouldn't consider cheating on these exams to be in any way "just as valuable" as learning the skills their certifying organizations expect them to have.
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Most classes have nothing to with your major and the employer should really be checking what skills you really have, depending on the type of college someone goes to they might know nothing about their major and just paid for the degree pretty much. There is no rule stating a college needs to teach someone a certain amount of stuff before they can give a degree to someone.
Yes, there are such rules, actually. That's why college programs are accredited.
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I read it end to end. He said starting out in University making the guy 16, 17 or 18 unless he was a mature student. Intentional humiliation by people in power no matter the age of the victim is pathetic and people who admire...well, no comment.
Age of majority here is 18, which is also the starting age for our universities. But I agree with you here, the proper response to cheating isn't to humiliate the student; it's to initiate academic dishonesty procedures which at my school ended with expulsion. This student got lucky.
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Alterego, this is a university course and the student is an adult. It may help to read the whole story before commenting on it.
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I wonder, Methrage, can you really be so dense as to not understand the fact that when a university tells an employer that a graduate has certain skills that they do not possess (in the form of a degree), that there is no net harm to anyone other than the cheater? Do you believe that it is fine in society if we have future doctors, engineers, and architects that lack the knowledge that their professional organizations say that they should have?
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Attacking unaligned nations with no provocation is attacking them for no reason.
Oh, so this is another tech raiding argument when it comes down to it. Sorry, we've had enough of those before.
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I'm going to have to see some proof, in the form of confirmation from the alliance you joined or of the form of confirmation of a protectorate of the AA you are flying.
I'll get to your other junk later, if I have time.
And yes the members push the mercy board, but the raid targets always have the option to join a real alliance or get a protectorate.
Or just wait for the war to expire.
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If you like what Hidraca has posted, you're free to register on our boards and see what the mercy board is like for yourself. We keep all our negotiations in public. Even the ones where we weren't able to reach a successful resolution are still up. You don't have to "trust us"; you're welcome to come see for yourselves.
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in Your Argument Sucks
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Put another way: With the forces arrayed against us, there is really no excuse for why your side is not forcing me to fight defensive wars. I've fought exactly 1 defensive war since the start of this conflict.