Night Owl Chatterboxes - Part XLVII!
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good good.. you were working late today?
Originally posted by zoragirl:back home.....
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I want beer
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so do i but i don't have any
Originally posted by sbst275:I want beer -
juz stay a while only....Originally posted by the Bear:good good.. you were working late today?
thinking what materials to put together for my boss for his presentation next week at the seminar....
if i cannot finish by tomorrow, i may go back to work on sat...(T.T) -
Originally posted by sbst275:I want beer
go to the nearest 7-11 to buy....Originally posted by the Bear:so do i but i don't have any -
oh no
hope you can finish everything tomorrow...
had dinner yet? hope you have...Originally posted by zoragirl:juz stay a while only....
thinking what materials to put together for my boss for his presentation next week at the seminar....
if i cannot finish by tomorrow, i may go back to work on sat...(T.T) -
exOriginally posted by zoragirl:go to the nearest 7-11 to buy....
rather go chap huey tiam and buy -
i hope so....Originally posted by the Bear:oh no
hope you can finish everything tomorrow...
had dinner yet? hope you have...
making the presentation is easy....writting the script is difficult... -
Malaysia kena owned
Using Plagarised info from Wiki -
I just asked MPB if he wanted to join us next Friday and he said maybe
He said he will let me know on Tuesday -
News plsOriginally posted by sbst275:Malaysia kena owned
Using Plagarised info from Wiki -
Goodbye dietOriginally posted by elindra:I just asked MPB if he wanted to join us next Friday and he said maybe
He said he will let me know on Tuesday
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Posted by tamago at SC
Originally posted by ^tamago^:
[b]Blog with disputed photo lifted Wiki content
Netizens hit out at KL legal team in Pedra Branca case after plagiarism is uncovered
Straits Times, The (Singapore)
22 November 2007
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IN THE HAGUE (NETHERLANDS) - A PICTURE Malaysia produced to argue its case in the Pedra Branca dispute has sparked a controversy on the Internet.
Several netizens, notably Malaysian bloggers, are chiding the country's legal eagles for relying on an anonymous blog that has been shown up for plagiarism.
Some have also gone onto the blog www.leuchtturm3.blogspot.com to post harsh criticisms of the author, who pleaded with them yesterday not to use four-letter words.
'My younger sibling, who is 11 years old, also visits my blog and these words are not appropriate for her,'' he wrote in a posting titled 'Why the anger?'.
Malaysia had cited the blog as the source of a photograph it produced last week in an international court, to show Pedra Branca's supposed closeness to Johor.
Singapore, in its response, raised questions about the blog and this was reported in The Straits Times on Tuesday.
The report led the writer of a Singapore blog called Simplyjean to analyse the blog.
Simplyjean found its author had lifted chunks of text from Wikipedia, whose contents can be edited by anyone.
The discovery fired up several Singaporean and Malaysian blogs.
One blogger, Malaysian Jeff Ooi, yesterday bemoaned in a post his country's use of a suspect photo from an anonymous blog containing plagiarised content to 'present its case at all places, the International Court of Justice'.
Another Malaysian Tony Yew said on his website muststopthis.blogspot.com: 'How lame can our guys be?
'Putting up an argument with plagiarised work from Wikipedia! Sheesh...there goes Pulau Batu Puteh!'
Pulau Batu Puteh is Malaysia's name for Pedra Branca.
Singapore and Malaysia are appearing before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to resolve their dispute over the sovereignty of Pedra Branca, an island 40km east of Singapore and which stands at the eastern entrance of the Singapore Strait.
On Monday, Singapore's Attorney-General Chao Hick Tin said the photo Malaysia produced was shot using a camera with a telephoto lens, which exaggerated the closeness of Pedra Branca to the Johor coast.
In questioning the blog, Mr Chao saidthe photo had been put up just four days before the start of the ICJ hearing.
In the blog, its author claims to be a lover of lighthouses and 'leuchtturm' is the German word for lighthouse.
Simplyjean found the following sentence on the design of lighthouses was lifted from Wikipedia: 'Often these are cylindrical to reduce the effect of wind on a tall structure on less stable soil. An example of this is Pulau Batu Puteh Lighthouse.'
The only change the author of leuchtturm3 had made was to use Pulau Batu Puteh Lighthouse in place of Cape May Lighthouse. But it was done in a way that anyone who clicks on the hyperlinked words Pulau Batu Puteh is led to a page on Cape May Lighthouse in Wikipedia.
Meanwhile, some netizens posted criticisms on the leuchtturm3 blog of what they called the 'doctored picture'.
Yesterday, its author confessed he knew little about Singapore or Malaysia and hoped to visit the region one day when he had the money.
As for Simplyjean, its writer confessed in a post that the Pedra Branca case held little interest initially. 'But when they decided to bring the blogosphere into the news, then I felt that I had to do some justification for the community.'
Simplyjean has this message for the person behind the leuchtturm3 blog: 'To the author (and all other implied parties), you suck.'
[email protected]
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It's in ST today...The m'sian lawyers took a photo of the pedra blanca from someone's blog and presented it to the Int'l court (to show the island is much nearer to Msia), then someone found that parts of the info. on the blog was copied wholesale from Wiki.Originally posted by sbst275:Malaysia kena owned
Using Plagarised info from Wiki -
Malaysia Boleh!
I wonder wat this teaches our young abt plagarism?
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malaysia bodoh!!
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Wah liao this is damn xia suay manOriginally posted by Wanda:It's in ST today...The m'sian lawyers took a photo of the pedra blanca from someone's blog and presented it to the Int'l court (to show the island is much nearer to Msia), then someone found that parts of the info. on the blog was copied wholesale from Wiki. -
yeah.. i think so too..
but i got people who'd rather write the script than give the presentation
unfortunately, i write a better script
Originally posted by zoragirl:i hope so....
making the presentation is easy....writting the script is difficult... -
Yalor. Now many netizens from Msia and Sg are reacting and scolding them.Originally posted by elindra:Wah liao this is damn xia suay man -
well, heads should roll.. how can they do 'research' this way?Originally posted by Wanda:Yalor. Now many netizens from Msia and Sg are reacting and scolding them.
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KNNBCCB, the snow patrol CD I bought from Borders is pressed in Singapore!!
Then WTF did it cost me $24?!
That's US pressing price!!!KNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -
should i laugh hysterically at you?
Originally posted by av98m:KNNBCCB, the snow patrol CD I bought from Borders is pressed in Singapore!!
Then WTF did it cost me $24?!
That's US pressing price!!!KNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -
Msians should be angrier coz it is their tax money and make them lose faceOriginally posted by Wanda:Yalor. Now many netizens from Msia and Sg are reacting and scolding them.
AV I think you should start reading the labels ><Originally posted by av98m:KNNBCCB, the snow patrol CD I bought from Borders is pressed in Singapore!!
Then WTF did it cost me $24?!
That's US pressing price!!!KNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -
CCB, its a good thing the other CD I bought, red hot chilli peppers' californication, is a US pressing. If both turned out to be local pressed I'd have gone back to Borders to cry bloody murderOriginally posted by the Bear:should i laugh hysterically at you?
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dunno what's going on with me?
i'm sleepy all the time
hopefully, i get a good sleep in on saturday..