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Whales are only protected because they are mega fauna. If they were harvesting some sort of fish no one would cry.
Besides animals have no rights anyways. If they cannot think up and impose moral laws in their community, then why should we give them moral consideration or allow them in ours.
Citan001 said:
Me. Been trying to get people to start playing but most say they want stats and betting back before they will step foot in there again.
they are just saying that because they are looking for reasons not to play.
but i know it is easier to appease than to convince they are retarded.
Citan001 said:
Dont really wanna start a new thread but can we get betting back in the server please?
bet against citan always
the people at wiki can suck mine left pinky toe
nothing beats hours of research looking through the official unlabeled documents of the Roanoke episcopal church in boxes 1-88 for a *edited* research project.
god the wiki page I could write about all that *edited*
Nickname said:
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(11:56:36 AM) Mike: lol http://bit.ly/9iL3kO
(12:00:18 PM) Mitch: speaking of rick rolls
(12:00:25 PM) Mitch: these guys are giving away a free ps3
(12:00:26 PM) Mitch: http://techsmartly.net/PS3.php
(12:01:15 PM) Mike: i really hate you
(12:01:18 PM) Mitch: LOLL
(12:01:31 PM) Mike: I mean like if I was near you
(12:01:33 PM) Mike: and had a knife
(12:01:34 PM) Mike: well
(12:01:36 PM) Mike: you do to math
(12:01:37 PM) Mitch: lol
thank god google chrome as the option to opt out of dialog boxes that pop up
MasterP said:
Real Communist said:
i took this rotation from Adam, because hes not around, just copy and paste. I did not make it
If adam thought it critical he would have sent a txt message to me or Liam about it…
WHATS ADAMS NUMBER
IMMA SPAM HIS INBOX
Ritsuka said:
Duendes said:
depending on when. I so want to do this. LEEEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOY JEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINS!!!
ROFL….
sad thing i was in one of those parties…T. T
Also tell me the time and place i b there…
oh em gee another wowtard
stand over there with kuros and lockem
MasterP said:
So like I said earlier, the science-related majors generally love it and liberal arts hate it.
I found this really interesting. I believe I actually said “hmmm” lol
I think this may be true. From just looking at my friends, the engineers and guys in biochem tend to use wiki as source for equations, chemical compounds, or basic information to help with their electives. Us history majors really only use it as a jumping off point and for date accuracy because we have it beat into us that Wiki is not a proper source.
Not sure how this came to be as I feel both groups need to analyze the information and come up with interpretations of the data. I think the “no wiki” rule that many teachers ascribe to are to merely make the student look at more sources to construct a better argument. (at least in history)
Also,most of my professors currently do not hate wiki. One or two themselves say that wiki is the first place they look when they need to check something. So maybe its a random thing, not a classified by major thing.
HA MAJOR THING MAJORMAJORMAJOR
MasterP said:
Then it suffers no more from this flaw than any other encyclopedia. When you think about it, the people writing the Britanica or Encarta articles didn’t put EVERY fact in there, they couldn’t without making the encyclopedia twice the volumes that it already is. They summarized while maintaining a certain degree of thoroughness, which is exactly what Wikipedia does, only Wikipedia artcles aren’t limited in length based on arbitrary publishing limits and the more thorough topics usually have dozens of cited sources.
I compleletly agree. I graded a project once where someone used Encarta as their main source. While the information was correct, I still penalized them for not finding the information from 1st/2ndary sources like the assignment asked.
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If my senior research findings get published, which could happen in the next couple months btw
Wiki will be one of the primary sources. We won’t be laughed at for doing it either.I will laugh, then realize I have no idea what was said in your paper, then I will look to wiki for the basics.
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MasterP said:
either prove I’m lying or shut the *edited* up
there is no statement in this thread for us TO disprove, so im not sure why you keep stressing this point…
Their bashing is a continuation from the other thread where Bitey accused me of making most of what I posted up. I asked for proof that I made it up and got “you can’t use Wiki as a source you noob” as a reply. It doesn’t really prove what I posted to be wrong but ok…
Which is more likely to contain accurate information: a wiki page written by 8 people or a journal article written by 2?
**a wiki page written by 8 people writing through hear-say or a journal article written by 2 who have done plenty of research in that field. (im just being facetious lol)
That doesn’t matter. It’s still an Encyclopedia. You can have the most exhaustively researched, unbiased, perfect wiki page that no one in the world disputes, but the fact that it has been summarized from primary and secondary sources mean that the information itself loses value. The more steps from a primary document to the final product, the less the value of the information. Wiki is really only bad because of this.
Citing information of wiki is all and fine for forum debates because posting huge documents is retarded and a good summary is fine. When you start asking for specific entries and page numbers like you did with NuRayz, then wiki becomes an improper source and you should not use it as such.
MasterP is right though, Wiki used to be *edited* with terrible information but in the past 3 years it has become respected for this thoroughness in fact checking. Yes there are better sources out there, but for quick reliable information, there isn’t anything better.
Bitey said:
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MasterP said:
either prove I’m lying or shut the *edited* up
I just gave you proof, WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT FROM ME! Clearly in the humor of that comic they were showing how anyone can change anything on Wikipedia, I think it is a great “starting point” for any research that you might be doing, but it should never be the at all end all in any reference you ever make and never in a research paper. Which ever professor told you that is super fail. You can use it to find something and then check real legitimate non-profit or scholarly sources to make sure it is a correct reference, then you can use it. Just saying, but you keep right on using an encyclopedia, that anyone with a peanut for a brain an Internet connection and a computer can change.
This
I use wiki only for the sources on the bottom of the page. Quoting directly from wiki is like using a tertiary source, which is basically useless.
Freezer said:
*edited* i sound like an *edited* on the forums today sorry about that lol
cry moar baddie
you need to hurry and buy 1.6
SPEND THE 10
I keep telling people that the only maps on the server are maps on the rotation because it seems that way
MasterP said:
I know there are three versions of the truth but Wiki has yet to steer me wrong.your truth, my truth, the real truth?
Raven said:
MasterP said:
Raven said:
I have a 5970 and 2 24” monitors….so….yeah.
Notice that is well outside what he said he wanted to spend. Like 3x more than he wanted to spend.
Nice effort though.
Oh no you misunderstand me. I wasn’t suggesting…just needlessly gloating:D
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