Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Todd Carnes Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: instructor's solutions manual for Digital Control & State Variable Methods 2nd Ed by Madan Gopal Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 15:13:59 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <55720c18-560d-4459-a2d3-f3babdad90f4@k3g2000vbz.googlegroups.com> <6yolsbiw1vd4.1hoa7bp3fvfrj.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: uqlV+6kNo2Z0TnMsKGN6tA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.c:8954 On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:40:08 +0100, tactical wrote: > Todd Carnes wrote: > >> On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 07:40:49 +0100, tactical wrote: >> >>> "That idea" is the well-defined meaning of the word 'theft'. Those >>> who call copyright infringment theft are at best making a mistake, and >>> at worst being intellectually dishonest. Copyright infringement is >>> copyright infringement. It is not theft. >> >> You guys can play word games all you want, but a thief is a thief. > > It's not word games --- it's an appeal to use terms correctly. Theft is > one thing; copyright violation is another. Just like murder is one > thing and rape is another. Imagine if people started calling murder > rape. How would that help matters? The OP took something that belong to someone else without their permission. That's theft. Copyight infringement may be the specific type of theft, but it's still theft. Todd