Again, you misunderstand. Editor75 did not mean that you were trying to be offensive, but that the way you try to make excuses for your errors is offensive. Just because you weren't trying to be offensive doesn't mean that what you're doing is not offensive.

This entire thing would have ended much sooner if you had just said something like "Oh, my bad... it was wrong of me to use "in the first place" there." Instead you went for "Oh.. I meant to do that. You see, that makes sense too if you know what I know" which is just b*llsit.

No, I'm not. What I am saying is that your use of "in the first place" was downright wrong. It was not a "linguistic deviation" as you like to call it or even a "slip," but a complete misunderstanding of what fits where in the language.

Edited to add (Happy, Meo?):


Precisely.

ROFLMAO!! That was precisely what I thought you meant. Oh, did you think that I was calling you on some prescriptive error? No. I was expressing my amusement on how desperate you are in claiming that your .com dictionary is better than any other resource.


Except I'm not. My claim is that "are" is the prescriptively correct word to use in the given sentence, but that it doesn't matter since it has no descriptive significance.

Catch.

none
4.
(used with a plural verb) no or not any persons or things: I left three pies on the table and now there are none. None were left when I came.

Since none has the meanings "not one" and "not any," some insist that it always be treated as a singular and be followed by a singular verb: The rescue party searched for survivors, but none was found. However, none has been used with both singular and plural verbs since the 9th century. When the sense is "not any persons or things" (as in the example above), the plural is more common: ... none were found.

Source: dictionary.reference.com/browse/none

You really should look before you leap. :p

Which is why like I said:


"... and then there were none." The closing words of this well-known nursery rhyme should dispel the notion that none can only take a singular verb. People opposing the plural use base their argument on the fact that none comes from the Old English word an, meaning "one." But the citational evidence against restricting none is overwhelming. None has been used as both a singular and plural pronoun since the ninth century. The plural usage appears in the King James Bible as well as the works of John Dryden and Edmund Burke and is widespread in the works of respected writers today.

- The American Heritage Book of English Usage: A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English

I'm sure potential clients would be glad to know this. ;p


No. Your use of "in the first place" is completely whack. You have it completely confused with "at first." This is similar to your confusion between "flare" and "flair."


Awww... nice shield. Sadly, it doesn't apply to you. I actually also do not believe in prescriptive language. My opinion is that in order for a sentence to be correct, it should in the first place, make sense. Prescriptive correctness is only a secondary concern, and one that can sometimes be ignored. At first, you may find it difficult to grasp the difference between prescriptive and descriptive language. In the first place, you are a non-native speaker like you said. Yet although you may never develop a flair for the English language, it should not be a cause for you to flare up in this forum.


Sorry, but I agree with editor75. I think that you're a confused homo too. ROFLMAO!!!

Edit:


Yes, I usually edit when I add to my previous post since the system does not allow double posts. Your point? :p

By the way, "As you can see" would have been much better. Also, if I was a prescriptive fu*- (like our confused homo), I'd point out that it should be "None of my posts are..." However, I'm not, and I think that "is" and "are" in that position are both acceptable.

Stats and SPSS are not as complex as they seem at first.


Double negative, missing "s."

Improvement: I think others (including you) have had such slips.

IMO, it would also sound better with a "that" between "think" and "others."

Sigh...


Tsk tsk...I wonder how often your "slips" find their way in your "projects." ^___^

... you end up becoming WB, a creature that's all bark! bark! and no bite! bite!

ROFLMAO!

Hmm....


Phone number and biochemistry talk

editor75 - abuse of posting privileges
- Criminal record of Yuri, owner of essaywriters.net, bestessays.com, superiorpapers.com, etc.

Posted the same thing in three threads... tsk tsk. You haven't been taking your meds again. You really should take your DID seriously.

*DID (Dissociative identity disorder)

No. Most of my clients at the moment are all direct clients. I still hold membership in a number of sites, but I rarely take any orders from them. Once you've built a strong reputation as an excellent writer, orders will come to you.

Sigh...

What precedent are you talking about? As far as we can see here, EW still operates across the world, writers from the Philippines are still able to write for EW, and based on a previous thread, it seems that these writers are still able to write for writers.ph

Yet even if the ruling somehow did hurt EW...

That's true. Despite facing overwhelming humiliation, you never admit your faults and back down. What point are you trying to make here?


Sigh...


So carry on. I don't mind. If WB says that I'm Sgt. Margaret, a native English writer/army officer who graduated from Texas Tech (right?) and pretended on this board to be an ESL writer, then people are free to believe that. ^___^


Bark! Bark! ^_________^

You are PATHETIC.


Sigh.. still touting this:

sec.gov.ph/decision/mar%202011/case%20no.%2006-10-119.pdf

Even after this:


Tsk tsk.... mental. :p

and then there are those who have a flair for neither, but say (and sometimes even think) that they do. ^____^

Sigh...

1.) Ordering a page to check if the company can provide good output has been a suggestion of many writers here. Your comment is as expected as it is nonsensical.

2.) It's a pity that each time you get cornered in a thread, you withdraw and just jump into the next thread to attack the same people. I think that until you actually expose my real identity (which you haven't) and get editor75's account terminated (which you haven't), you remain to be the ONLY mrn AND fraudster that's posting on this thread.

That's the proverbial litmus test in my book.

Yes. Thesis writers have to be adept with a diverse array of data analysis techniques. Some may specialize in quantitative methods (those that use statistics) while others in qualitative methods (those that do not use statistics), but the best thesis writers are those who know their way around both. ^___^


You don't need to update SPSS to its latest version. I own a full version of SPSS v 17 which I acquired years ago. Despite how complicated many of the projects that I undertake are, I have never felt the need to get an upgrade.


Very true. ^______^ That's why thesis orders are more expensive than essay orders. The expertise needed to conduct either quantitative or qualitative analysis is often absent in the typical writer.

Hey, I got a question.

Why did AA close Essaybay down?

Yes, you should.

Hahaha... who does this remind me of? ^____________________________^

I've been doing this for years. However, I have what many would consider a prestigious day job that involves (among other things) carrying out and presenting quantitative research for public and private entities. It pays considerably well by local standards, plus I get to travel (mostly locally) and rub elbows with high-ranking corporate and government officials (even with the president once), but the money from this sideline is just too good to leave. Still, I get what you mean by wanting to "crawl into a hole" when you're asked what you do. I'd feel that way too if all I did with my life for the past 10 years was write other people's homework for them.

IMO, there's nothing new in this thread. It's just another writer's mildly creative attempt to draw potential clients in. *yawn*

What goes around... :p

I have neither gripes with nor prejudices against American companies. What I present are logical arguments based on fact and affirmed by statements of the people in this forum.


Gosh, really? and you never heard of IP scramblers and the use of remote servers? Ooooohh... and you thought I was referring to companies when I was talking about cases where it is even impossible to ascertain that the payments were made for essays? No, I wasn't. Your WBig talk about "IP addresses" and "cookies" is cute. Pity you don't have the actual knowledge to back them up.

Oh, and what about if we stick to facts:

Have U.S.-based essay companies ever been compelled to give information about their clients?

YES.

Can the same be said for offshore companies?

NO.

Game over. ^___^

Records of what? Even if this was possible, all the courts would be able to see from such records are transactions of money from person X to company/writer Y. Would payment processors be able to give the courts actual essays for it to compare with the students' work? In many cases, it would even be impossible to ascertain whether the payments made were for purchased essays.

You lose... again. ^_^

Hey, just checking. I'm glad that you and I both agree that legitimate companies in the U.S. are legitimate enough to abide by the law and surrender any information that the courts find necessary, just as the defendants in the BU case so willingly gave information about their clients.

My points are simple. The BU case shows that:

1.) Companies keep the essays that you buy from them.
2.) Companies keep the financial details that you give them for purposes of payment.
3.) Companies may be compelled to give the information above to authorities particularly if they are within reach of the jurisdiction of such authorities.


Thus, U.S. companies/writers are much more likely to be forced to give out information about clients than offshore companies/writers.

Exactly. ^__________^ Thank you.

Are you really willing to argue that courts in the U.S. are just as capable of compelling term paper companies physically located in the U.S. to give information about purchased essays as such courts would be in compelling some offshore writer in some Third World country to do so? :p


If BU could do it, any other university in the states where selling homework is illegal can do it. ^_^ Oh wait, are you trying to argue that legitimate companies in the U.S. can effectively protect the students who misuse the products purchased from them?

It's not.


Who said I was? I'm not against anything. I make a ton of money from students who use my services and I don't have any control over how they use my work. I was just pointing out that using a purchased paper as "just a guide" for your own work is still as bad as plagiarism in as far as your school is concerned unless you provide complete bibliographic details of the paper you bought (which would of course have a very similar if not the same title as the paper you supposedly wrote on your own).


Again, you misunderstand. I never claimed that you'd go to jail for buying a paper. The case of Boston University (which is in the USA last time I checked) clearly shows that a court of law can compel a company in the U.S. to reveal the essays that were purchased by students so that a university can check if the company (not the students) violated laws against selling homework. Of course, this would mean that the university can also use the evidence in the case to expel and ruin the academic history of students who cheated.


Err.. it can be considered a felony in some states given certain conditions. However again, this was never the point. >.<

I hope this clears things up for you.

I'd like to point out that even if JG simply used the essay as a guide for his own work, it is still cheating unless he cited the work properly both in the text and in his list of references. Any idea lifted from an external source whether used verbatim or paraphrased must be cited.

Please note that I am not saying that JG is a bad person. I am just pointing out that if academic institutions or professors were privy to all of the essay paper buying dealings of all of their students, our universities would be far less populated. Selling a paper to serve as a guide for the client's own work may put companies in a legally safe position, but it does not protect the client should his professor deem that his work is too similar in structure or content to the work that he bought from a term paper site.

That said, clients should always remember the following inferences that can be drawn directly from the BU case:

1.) Companies keep the essays that you buy from them.
2.) Companies keep the financial details that you give them for purposes of payment.
3.) Companies may be compelled to give the information above to authorities particularly if they are within reach of the jurisdiction of such authorities.

Gosh... you really can't read, can you?

Like I said, it does not even matter whether or not the cheating BU student was punished for being found out. The point is that the student was found out because...

1.) Companies keep the essays that you buy from them.
2.) Companies keep the financial details that you give them for purposes of payment.
3.) Companies may be compelled to give the information above to authorities.


Sheesh.. did I ever claim that you denied this? Allow me to reiterate that the main value of the BU case has nothing to do with your argument.

I did not concede because of your "evidence." In conceded because an "ALL" argument can almost never (I say "almost" because just saying "never" turns this very statement into another "ALL" argument) be defended properly.

But hey, if you were NEVER trying to imply that most students do not use the papers that they purchase for credit then there's really no argument anymore.

Like I said, there's little point in arguing about it. What matters is that based on the BU case, it is clear that:

1.) Companies keep the essays that you buy from them.
2.) Companies keep the financial details that you give them for purposes of payment.
3.) Companies may be compelled to give the information above to authorities.


So he/she was forgiven by his professor for cheating and he/she eventually graduated with honors? Seriously... we don't even need to know precisely what happened to the student. Even in the bizzaro world where the student was forgiven, what happened between the student and the university cannot be considered as the same thing that would happen to another student who gets caught red-handed in another university. The point is, STUDENTS CAN GET CAUGHT IF THEY DO NOT CITE THE PAPER THAT THEY BOUGHT PROPERLY. ^__^

Jeez... here's a classic case of wanting to have your pie and eat it too. WB wants to limit her position to "NOT ALL people submit the essays they buy for credit." This statement is very easy to defend because all one needs to do is to cite an instance when a student did not submit a purchased essay for credit. Furthermore, the statement is actually the direct contradictory of the statement "ALL people submit the essays they buy for credit" which is something that EVERYONE has conceded to be false.

Yet WB is trying to pass off her evidence for "NOT ALL people submit the essays they buy for credit" as evidence for "Only 1 out of 8 people submit the essays they buy for credit." Nobody is contesting the statement that "NOT ALL people submit the essays they buy for credit." (although I still find this hard to believe). However, you clearly do not have any hard evidence to support that "Only 1 out of 8 people submit the essays they buy for credit" or even that "Most people do not submit the essays they buy for credit."

However, my post was not intended for you at all. Like I said, debating on how many students use the papers they buy for credit has little practical worth. The BU case is useful primarily for showing students that if they use anything from a paper that they purchased from a company, they have to cite the paper properly. Otherwise, they can end up like that one person in the BU case who was proven to not have misused the paper that he bought.

The BU case also brought up the following points:
1.) Companies keep the essays that you buy from them.
2.) Companies keep the financial details that you give them for purposes of payment.
3.) Companies may be compelled to give the information above to authorities.

Now, doesn't that make everyone feel all warm and tingly inside? ^_^

While only a loon would trust any inference made from a sample size of 8 and only a loonier loon would do so without reviewing the court case in question in detail, one thing is clear from the BU case (without making any loony statistical inferences): students can GET CAUGHT if they DO NOT cite the essays that they buy properly. Remember, only 7 out of 8 students were cleared in the case, I don't think we need to guess what happened to the 1 who wasn't.

If the courts were able to compel the company in the BU case to confirm that the 8 students in question did buy essays from them, and further compel them to provide copies of the purchased essays for comparison with the students' own work, any student who buys from a company and misuses what he/she buys is at risk of ruining his or her academic reputation.

Let that be a warning. If you're a client, next time you buy from a company, make sure that you cite the work properly.

This means that you need to indicate in your reference/works cited/bibliography page the author of the work you bought, the title of the work (which of course would be very similar to if not exactly the same as the title of your own work), and the company that you bought it from. Here is a sample citation for a report on labor laws in the U.S.

Mann, H. (2011). A Report on Labor Laws in the United States. Essay Mill Inc.

Keep safe. ^_^

I said that I found it hard to believe that anyone would properly cite a paper that he/she bought from a term paper mill. I still do. However, I have admitted that it is a mistake to claim that no student ever does this as that statement is impossible to defend. Much like:


...which you also conceded was incorrect.


Oh, and this is still cheating by the way. Unless the student is able to find and read all of the sources that he will use in his own paper and them cite the paper that he bought including its source (the term paper mill that he bought it from) in his work.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have a ton of work to finish. The only reason I posted was because WBoring's trying to make it seem that retracting support from an "all" argument is some sort of a big loss. It's not. I retracted it because there was no possible way to defend it. The case is similar to many other "all" arguments.

I think it's called "cutthroat competition."

I don't think that this is what the "Armageddon" of posts that come before yours is about. >.<

They are welcome to do so.

No.

Yes, I did.


No, I won't bother because it serves me no purpose. Also, It's not like what you're asking can be accomplished in a minute. I'm not even certain which email I used to make the inquiry and it's likely that I made a dummy account for making the inquiry. Since I made the inquiry in 2007, you'd understand why I won't go to the trouble of finding one email just to humor you. ^_^

Yes I did. I can try to find it, but I won't bother. You can yell out that you think I'm lying but that also doesn't matter. I don't think there's anything wrong with FRP offering to write a paper for $55 in 2007. Btw, I contacted FRP. Also, charging clients $16/page or even $18/page is not very impressive at all. >.< If a company charges a client $18, how much do you think the writer would get? o.O However, thank you for the info because this confirms the information that I got from an Free Research Paper writer regarding how much the company pays of the average for short, easy orders.

I never changed the subject, you did. The point of the matter is still that I DID talk about FRP's practices to respond to the debates in the forum.

Excuses for what? What exactly is it that I did in those three posts? o.O

Lied about Free Research Paper's prices? O.O I didn't lie about anything. I did contact them to ask about their prices way back in 2007 and they did write back that the price for a 5-page book report was $55. >.< What does it matter? During that time, you claimed that their minimum cpp is $12. Now THAT is a lie based on the new info that I recently got. Yet what does it matter? I posted in that thread not to bash ET but to rebut against your statement that they paid a minimum of $12/page. Once again, you WBust because of your own WBlunder.