What is the temperature at which silicon burns?
I'm fairly certain I said no interruptions.
Buffy ,'Potential'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Polter-Cow - Nov 30, 2011 10:24:33 am PST #16925 of 28282
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Burrell - Nov 30, 2011 10:41:30 am PST #16926 of 28282
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I often wished to include things like "If you plagiarize any of your papers, partial or whole, I will KNOW...and I will CUT you. Caveat. Fear me."
I don't include the "I will CUT you" part, but I do include the rest of it. Because some of them do plagiarize.
Toddson - Nov 30, 2011 11:09:00 am PST #16927 of 28282
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
It always amazes me that people (a) don't realize how easy it is to find out if something's plagiarized and/or (b) don't see anything wrong with it.
Connie Neil - Nov 30, 2011 11:13:58 am PST #16928 of 28282
brillig
don't see anything wrong with it.
I wonder if some of that is the "nothing on the Internet is private" thing.
Hil R. - Nov 30, 2011 12:24:10 pm PST #16929 of 28282
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I've had several students hand in things that were copied directly from the textbook we use in class.
Consuela - Nov 30, 2011 12:36:02 pm PST #16930 of 28282
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Wow, Hil. That's ballsy.
Toddson - Nov 30, 2011 12:48:18 pm PST #16931 of 28282
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
How about the people who lift entire books and pass them off as their own? or remember the Cassie Edwards flap of several years ago? she'd been lifting sections of books, magazines, etc., and just dropping them into her books. When this became public she said something to the effect that she'd always considered that research.
§ ita § - Nov 30, 2011 12:55:42 pm PST #16932 of 28282
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There was that guy recently who lifted a whole bunch of spy thrillers, including James Bond. But he couldn't claim research. He was even more thorough in his plagiarism than Cassie. About whom I will always talk trash when she comes up on IO9, and I know I'm not the only one--it's kinda funny.
hippocampus - Nov 30, 2011 2:54:49 pm PST #16933 of 28282
not your mom's socks.
This guy, ita ! [link]
I admit to skipping the article and going directly to the first comment, which pretty much rocks.
§ ita § - Nov 30, 2011 4:47:44 pm PST #16934 of 28282
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I started reading the article, and it's quite stunning. However, the first comment is flat out good.
And that's a big difference.