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Yes, the material has been copied. Material that was in the store for the purpose of sale was removed from the store without the sale occuring. The difference between this case and one where the book itself is shoplifted is immaterial as far as whether stealing has occured. Sure, someone...

First, just because the loss is difficult to assign a dollar value to does not mean that we cannot see that loss has occured. Secondly, it is possible to call someone to account for a indeterminate loss, the trial (ideally) also serving to generate a value based upon an idea of the damage done...

Well, if we think about the idea - and I am using 'idea' in this case to represent the developed work, the content of the hypothetical book in question - in terms of "capital", then it does not have value from intrinsic materials, but it does have value due to the work done by the author, the...

I believe that this discussion came up in a previous discussion (or several previous discussions). "Copyright Infringement" is a legal offense. If any or many people here use "theft" in a colloquial sense to mean the moral failing of the unjustified acquisition of an object that does not...

In my opinion, the quality of Dragon over the last few years has been first-rate. Makes me think of the glory days of issues 55-85, give or take. I agree with Henry's description of the articles that give the best feel of Dragon when Dragon was best. At the end, the only thing enticing me to...

The reason that I make homework myself is due to this story. At the beginning of each semester, I would look through the text and select problems that would be good homework questions. Well, the text has the odd-numbered answers at the back, and some questions line up with my way of...

My method was to say that the students could use any resource but another living person. If they want to go through the physics library, bless 'em, it'll be good for them, or if they want to Ouija up Isaac Newton, give it a go! I can see the use in some classes for encouraging group work...

I do not have a problem with the example that you used, but while every theft might not represent an easily quantifiable immediate economic loss, (1) I do not hold that an action is acceptable or unobjectionable (or, more strongly, unactionable - if that is a word) merely because it does not...

Ah, so we're in the same system. What's it like to actually get support from the state? :)

These were problem-based physics tests. I was trying to use take-homes because for the summer semesters everything is so compressed that in-class tests are hard to schedule and harder to do for the student that has had less time to do the recommended problems. Becasue I was aware that the...

Where I'm from? Long Story. Where I'm at? Kingsville - 45 mi SW of Corpus Christi, assuming that Corpus Christi still exists after last night's storms. How 'bout you?

Well, one of the points of this thread is that people had radically different ideas of what is "cheating", and what is "acceptable". After all, I note that you qualified your statement to say "in any real sense", a nice fuzzy phrase that can conceal a variety of sins. I'm in academia, and...

Is this level ever reached for a leisure pasttime?

It is reasonable to think that some of the downloads might possibly have been by the same people at different times, appearing as different IP's. That seems reasonable. What I cannot agree with is the leap that the author loses nothing if the material is stolen, er, downloaded, by someone...

I recognize that some religions (and denominations of other religions) believe that magic is real. By "magic", I suppose that I mean a method of personal intervention in the universe that results in an outcome that does not have a cause within the natural world. That is why I said it the way I...

I would also like to thank the original poster for starting what has become a quite enjoyable thread, before I respond to Narfellus. I began playing in the early 1980's in the American Southeast, so I did run into a few of these questions myself, though I was fortunate in that the majority of...

I would not say this. The very fact that ENWorld (wisely) makes religion, as well as politics, a topic to be avoided shows that there are many here who take religion *quite* seriously.

To go down this line would slap this thread closed almost instantly, and this is far too positive a thread for me to want that to happen, but as purely an objective note, the U.S. tax rate is drastically lower than it was even historically recently. The maximum tax bracket, which is (I believe...

This is probably the most concise and yet complete good working vision of balance.

Ah, A refinement. "If there is a class that no one will play, it is unbalanced, especially if there is another class that does all that the first class does (edit: as well as another class, or nearly as well), plus some more. Let us refine (or replace) some more. In a campaign where...