Not a thief!

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  1. fnhayes

    fnhayes New Member

    Having been accused by RC Douglas of being a thief (amongst a whole swag of other 'evil' things) I'm considerably relieved to find that UMI have declared that I am not a thief, viz:

    "The dissertation written by Richard Coleman Douglas is not
    available from us. On our website we show only the citation
    and abstract of this dissertation.
    We would only charge you if the entire dissertation were
    available."

    I can now sleep easy!
    Dr Anatidae (Knightsbridge)
     
  2. galanga

    galanga New Member

    NOW will you answer my questions...

    ...in that other thread please?

    I am glad to hear you are not a thief, by the way.

    G
     
  3. DaveHayden

    DaveHayden New Member

    "Yeah, Judge I used the key I found in the park. Yeah, I went there at 1 am. BUT, the cash register was empty! It is clear I committed no crime! AND, if there WAS cash there I definately would have left it there!"
     
  4. Ian Anderson

    Ian Anderson Active Member

     
  5. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    1. Union sent my Program Summary to UMI.
    2. UMI published it, thinking it was the dissertation.
    3. Suhar bought an electronic copy, giving him a link to it for 72 hours.
    4. French got the link and posted it to a.e.d.
    5. It was downloaded 63 times from the single link, 62 of which were not paid for.
    6. You (according to you) were one of them.

    The Program Summary is my intellectual property. I hold the copyright. It is not in the public domain. You had no right to download it, just as you would have no right to enter someone's house just because the door was unlocked.

    I'm glad you sleep well. Having worked in prisons, I can authoritatively say that most theives do. :cool:
     
  6. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    Re: Re: Not a thief!

    "Thieves."
     
  7. Gus Sainz

    Gus Sainz New Member

    What I believe is the most interesting thing about UMI’s comments is that they were addressed to a certain Dr. Kristensen, and originally posted in an identically entitled (now apparently deleted) thread on CollegeHints.
     
  8. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    IIRC, "thief," "liar," and "degree mill shill" is about it. Perhaps two other things constitute a "swag."
     
  9. Dennis Ruhl

    Dennis Ruhl member

    Does anyone really care if the good doctor's freaking term paper is stolen by anyone?

    The word is interlibrary loan combined with a copier or scanner. Then share with your friends.

    It ain't the code to MS Windows.
     
  10. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    Dennis is right. It shouldn't matter. Please see the poster who originated this thread. He keeps this stuff going. I posted about it 4 months ago, and have only been responding to mis-truths like the one Hayes used to originate this thread.

    Not a term paper. A Program Summary. (Not to be confused with a Project Demonstrating Excellence, the dissertation.)

    A term paper is what comes at the end of a CCU DBA. ;)

    (I've been critical for years about the lack of a dissertation in the CCU DBA. It has nothing to do with Dennis, who I hope is successful in earning his CCU MBA and DBA. And I understand that the DBA does have a significant project at the end which seems to function like a comprehensive exam.)
     
  11. Jeff Hampton

    Jeff Hampton New Member

    Right. If it is not MS Windows, it does not deserve to be subjected to copyright. In fact, a person can specifically agree to certain terms, and then violate those specific terms to which they agreed and then justify it by saying that it is not MS Windows. Is this what you learned in your doctoral program? Nothing other than MS Windows deserves to be copyrighted, right?

    By the way, will your dissertation be available through UMI? Oh, that's right, you won't be doing a dissertation. I can understand why you think it is fine to violate the copyright of other people's dissertations, since you will earn an "accredited doctorate" without ever having to face such considrations.

    I suppose you are going to a suprerior school. Only those riduculous "Regionally Accredited" schools require things like dissertations. The best schoools (meaning self-validated) will give a doctorate on whatever basis they please. No dissertation necessary. No accreditation necessary. One piece of paper is as good as any other, right?
     
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  12. fnhayes

    fnhayes New Member

    Re: Re: Not a thief!

    I suggest you re-read all your obnoxious posts RC - there's a swag more of them and there's little wonder that you have been banned from most DL forums. There is also little wonder that you have chosen to hide/bury your dissertation - you are obviously not very proud of either its quality or its value.
    But you obviously did a great job in preventing Union from sending me a copy.
    Dr Anatidae (Knightsbridge)
     
  13. Mike Albrecht

    Mike Albrecht New Member

    Actually that would be a vilolation of the copyright. If by any chance you are interested in what the law is about see: http://www.copyright.gov/

    Oh, I beleive the issue with Windows has to do with patent rights, and registered trade secrets instead of copyright.
     
  14. John Bear

    John Bear Senior Member

    Hayes to Douglas: "...There is also little wonder that you have chosen to hide/bury your dissertation - you are obviously not very proud of either its quality or its value."

    Bear: Oh, thank goodness. I was really feeling neglected, not having been attacked by the man with the two silly doctorates for a long time. I was one of the two experts on Dr. Douglas' committee, along with the Provost of the regionally accredited Bellevue University. We both thought he did a terrific job.
     
  15. Jack Tracey

    Jack Tracey New Member

    I like that. "Silly doctorates" Silly Doctorates. Silly Doctorates. Silly Doctorates. Silly Doctorates. Silly Doctorates. Silly Doctorates. Silly Doctorates. SILLY DOCTORATES.
    Every time Hayes signs his post "Dr." he compounds the lie.
    Jack
     
  16. galanga

    galanga New Member

    harumph

    Dr. A:

    Could you please answer my questions? I suspect that you are not able to support your previous assertions with facts.

    Earlier (different thread) you made a quantitative statement in reference to the expense of generating the list: "cost the Oregon tax payers' millions!"

    You also expressed a suspicion that the content of the ODA list depends, in part, on a flow of ...cash? from RA schools: "list may be finacially supported by a number of RA schools."

    You said you "plan to lay a formal complaint about the Oregon list with the US Ambassador in Wellington and with the Governor of Oregon" based, in part, on these unsupported views.

    1. Could you please show us your calculation of the cost of the list?

    2. Which RA universities do you suspect of influencing the ODA list through their "financial support?"

    3. How did you come to identify these particular schools as participants?

    4. Do have a way to verify the accuracy of the information on which you base your conclusions?

    G
     
  17. fnhayes

    fnhayes New Member

    Two silly Doctorates - what an incredibly disappointing comment Dr Bear! One may be, but definitely not two!
    If the RC dissertation was so great why has it been hidden from the very people who have a wealth of experience in DL education and who are genuinely interested in reading it?
    Dr Anatidae (Knightsbridge)
     
  18. fnhayes

    fnhayes New Member

    Re: harumph

    Galanga,
    Please do a little research of your own.
    At this stage it seems that Alan C is about to re-write his list - without the assistance of self-styled DL 'experts'.
    Dr Anatidae (Knightsbridge)
     
  19. fnhayes

    fnhayes New Member

    More unbelievable garbage. Please say something sensible and related to the thread under discussion. Are you a 'yes man' or just another who 'runs with the hare and hunts with the hounds'?
    Dr Anatidae (Knightsbridge)
     
  20. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    Of course, everyone else is wrong, not you.

    I appreciate that others (all others, it appears) seem to agree regarding you. The very same things in you that drove you to buy fake degrees and attempt to pass them off as real (in a forum of experts on the subject, no less!) drives you to post the lies you do. Can't you see that everyone sees through them?
     

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