Posts by mark taslov
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...and when examining it from a chicken and egg perspective, I'm fairly confident that it's a natural cultural manifestation rather than a response to the education system. My main point, I think, (if I have one) is; the introduction of this testing, favors the Chinese students in New Zealand (of which there are a few), which leads me to wonder whether the rest will be content to be left behind in the good name of honesty, or will be forced to compete on a new more sinister playing field....
Tim Flannery-The Future Cheaters
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haha
And, in general, cheaters do eventually get caught out (if not by being caught in the act then by having to admit incompetence in a "real-world" situation they are only technically qualified for).
hence: Made in China, and the various connotations of that label on products. However, I feel, 50,000 hospitalized children isn't a humane 'caught in the act' scenario (and I'm sure Fonterra and FOnterra shareholders would agree on that point). So I'm interested to see if the same trends will come to pass in NZ, especially as NZ kids are already competing against them in the tertiary sector, and you only have to look online to find the various cheat sites that enabled them to successfully pass the IELTS exams to gain admittance to study in NZ, and that's not even taking into account the FTA's job allocation system.
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Okay, I guess it's a fair question. Never, ever ever. Nor would I, nor would I tolerate that in my children.
Why not? What if, in response to this new testing system, cheating becomes the norm? Meaning your children are competing not just with individual cheaters but whole networks of children cheating for a better future?
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stumbled on this version, recently at youtube, absolutely love what John Cale's doing on the piano, real tender, lou's last great swig of hippiedom before his metamorphosis into the prized faggot he portrays in 1974
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was really disappointed that PA mainstay 'conflate' wasn't on the list.
Russell, watched this other night, couldn't help but find a striking similarities between this man and you -
assimilate! assimilate!
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strap was a good laugh, I guess I was a little young for the cane.
I'm interested, reading about all this rebellion here, how many people here, cheated on exams?
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...in contrast to the Lada VAZ-2101, which is unlikely to ever achieve the mildest semblance of sportiness to even the laxist of croquet sideliners... ok, I think I'm getting there, thanks Tom.
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so why not call comparatives contrastives?
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Thanks Ben and James. obviously I'm the type that gets strung out over the finer points. Set me off searching for a word emphasizing the similarities, which I found to be 'compare', at least in the dictionary.com thesaurus with this
emphasizes the similarities between or among things, though not losing sight of the differences; contrast emphasizes the differences
this really upset me. 'this is as heavy as that?' better qualifies as a comparison than 'this is heavier than that?' ye gods.