Why do I get the feeling that this site is used only for students who can not do their own homework?

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6 months ago

Thank you LMurray for that rousing infomercial that had nothing to do with my question.

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There are definitely a bunch of idiot kids on here that ask some pretty dumb questions and would rather risk using the information some stranger gives them on the internet than looking it up from a legitimate source which would be quicker and more effective. At the same time I have relied on this site for information regarding my thesis work after I have spent countless hours trying to figure it out on my own, asked several professors, and done endless research to find that someone on Yahoo Answers knows. For that I don%26#039;t mind answering a bunch of dumb questions some 12 year old is too lazy to look up. There is also a ton of other positive information exchange going down on this site. I think it is an amazing resource that allows people to discuss or ask questions in an anonymous yet not fully void of individual responsibility kind of forum.

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• Yeah, I%26#039;ve noticed that its more 50% of the questions are homework related.
• not so much can%26#039;t as dont want to.
  
  Just give the obvious home workers some really crazy answers now and then......good for a laugh!
  If you see a really crazy answer, just support it!
• I dont use this for homework either, I use it to ask questions i need to know like i just asked if anyone knew any good books to read. i also asked whether the cloud i saw was a funnel and if i should have reported it, I ask about health issues and things like that so its not just for students who don%26#039;t want to do their own homework
• i dont use this for my homework.
  i use it for questions for myspace, life, and anything that pops into my head
• Their questions make it more than obvious. Text messaging is more important.
• you think this is bad, go over to %26quot;history%26quot; and see the number of homework questions cut and pasted in.......
• Today here is what we know: many of mankind’s advancements cause earth surface to warm, destroy the ozone layer, kill off endanger species, heat cities, and in some way cause more destruction. Blacktop (roads and parking lots), buildings, air pollution (causes lung and other diseases), deforestation, duststorms (which increase hurricanes and cyclones and cause lung diseases), fires (cause pollution, mud slides, and deforestation), refrigerants (like CFC%26#039;s), solvents (including benzene destroy the ozone layer raising skin cancer rates) and plastics; cars, airplanes, ships and most electricity production (causes pollution including raised CO2 levels) are human problems we need to fix to keep life on earth sustainable! The federal government needs to adopt a pollution surcharge to balance the field and advance new technologies. We must pay the real price of oil (petrochemicals) including global warming, cleanup and for health effects. But with that we must understand we have never seen what is now happening before. CO2 has never lead to temperature change, but temperature change has led to increases in CO2. The models have to be made as we go along with little evidence! The result is: change is on the way, we just do not know what changes. But again adding a small amount of CO2 to the atmosphere enlarges the earths sun collection causing warming; increase water in the atmosphere and they form clouds cooling earth but causing flooding. Even natural events are warming earth and causing destruction. The sun has an increased magnetic field causing increases in earthquakes (more destruction), volcanoes (wow, great destruction), and sun spots. Lighting produces ozone near the surface (raising air pollution levels). But humans have destroyed half of the wetlands, cut down nearly half of the rain forest, and advance on the earths grasslands while advancing desertification which increases duststorms. The USA Mayor%26#039;s have taken a stand and I believe are on the right track, we can have control and can have economic growth. With the peak of oil in the 1970’s, the peak of ocean fishing in the 1980’s, humans must stop procrastinating and make real changes to keep earth sustainable including in the energy debate, finance and regulation. The sun is available to produce energy, bring light to buildings and makes most of human’s fresh water. Composting is the answer to desertification. New dams are the answer to fresh water storage, energy and cooling earth by evaporation, we need many small one all over (California needs 100 by 2012 and has not even started).
  President Bush has made a choice of energy (ethanol) over food and feeding the starving people around the world; this is a choice China has rejected. That is why I founded CoolingEarth.org, a geoengineering web sight.
• What are you talking about? Yahoo Answers is a cool %26quot;hang out spot%26quot; where you can be free and interact with random people in a safe and positive way.
  It gives you people%26#039;s view points from all around the world and it just allows you to learn so much stuff.