I found reference to the reliability of Wikipedia in an article about Wikipedia on Wikipedia.
Ironic, eh?
Ironic, eh?
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You can lead a fool to wisdom but you can't make him think. -
When I were a lad we had no google, and if I wanted to find something out I would either ask some other ignoramus (Most likely anyway) or give up, unless I came across it reading something at some later stage.
It's a BS question, we have knowledge at our fingertips - how we interpret/filter it is a different thing however.Hang on - there is actually a place called Cheddar?? - cailin maith
Any forum is a collection of assorted weirdos, cranks and pervs - Board Game Geek
That will be a simply fab time to catch up for a beer. - Tay
Have you ever seen somebody lick the chutney spoon in an Indian Restaurant and put it back ? - CyberghoulComment
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The funny thing is Lightng, that's almost the same as the lady's daughter I mentioned earlier.
The mother said that the daughter said that the homework questions just needed a quick google and a linky to answer. Her reasoning is that she's not being asked questions which nobody knows the answers to, so why bust a gut when someone else out there has answered them ?Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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It was a question posed on the front cover of Intelligent Life magazine this month, but you know best I suppose?Originally posted by snaw View Post
You can lead a fool to wisdom but you can't make him think.Comment
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No I don't. It was an opinion, not a statement of fact.Originally posted by Amiga500 View PostIt was a question posed on the front cover of Intelligent Life magazine this month, but you know best I suppose?Hang on - there is actually a place called Cheddar?? - cailin maith
Any forum is a collection of assorted weirdos, cranks and pervs - Board Game Geek
That will be a simply fab time to catch up for a beer. - Tay
Have you ever seen somebody lick the chutney spoon in an Indian Restaurant and put it back ? - CyberghoulComment
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You said that in your nursery troll too I believe, it can become your catchphrase...Originally posted by snaw View PostYou can lead a fool to wisdom but you can't make him think.Comment
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OMFG God.Originally posted by Amiga500 View Post
You've got me on that one.
Imagine someone on a internet forum offering an opinion on something.
Whatever next, people talking about house prices and Russian dudes talking bollox about the economy?
Where will it end ...Hang on - there is actually a place called Cheddar?? - cailin maith
Any forum is a collection of assorted weirdos, cranks and pervs - Board Game Geek
That will be a simply fab time to catch up for a beer. - Tay
Have you ever seen somebody lick the chutney spoon in an Indian Restaurant and put it back ? - CyberghoulComment
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And the answer is, or should be, that she is being asked not just to answer some old questions, but to learn about a subject. The homework questions are intended to guide her learning, not to replace it.Originally posted by Board Game Geek View PostComment
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And what happened next? What is the official parental answer to this totally accurate statement?Originally posted by Board Game Geek View Post
Did your parents and teachers try to stop you using electronic calculators or CD-ROM encyclopaedias when they became available, because they never had them themselves? Should undergraduates have been forbidden from watching Open University programmes on television because the generations before them never even had television?
Honestly, the future just wants to get on with it, not trawl around ancient libraries full of out-of-date books just because that's what old people had to do. Wiki may well be laced with inaccuracies, but for the vast majority of the time it is a superb resource which we could only have dreamed of when we were at school ourselves. In fact, we had Douglas Adams to dream it up for us.
It's completely absurd to try to stop children from using Wiki or the web. I don't understand this stance at all.Comment
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A bit like IBM manuals years ago used to state that someone has probably already written something close enough to what you need so just take a copy and modify it which was why there were bugger all examplesOriginally posted by Board Game Geek View Post“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”Comment
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