I have awareness of many other things. Isn't the fact I have awareness better evidence for my existence (and for my existence as a self-aware being) than the fact I can think?
Frankly, I think that it has become so cliché to say that Descartes' "I think, therefore I am" (Cogito ergo sum) proves nothing... when there really is a fairly powerful statement being made there
It's a powerful statement, but the way he arrived at it is flawed. He's trying to establish his own existence. Ah, so there's a thought! And the thought must have a thinker. Therefore he exists.
The problem with this is - how do we know there's a thought? There's less evidence for the thought existing than for Decartes existing.
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Plenty of churches meet in school halls and the like, and I don't think many of them consecrate the hall first.
He debido especificar que sea español, francés o inglés gramatical. Su traducción no es más fácil de comprender que el original, porque el problema fue la cantidad de errores gramaticales y deletreos; babelfish no los corrige.
I haven't heard them complaining - in both Kent and Cambridge commercial stations seem to have a much bigger mindshare than the local BBC stations. I remember one occasion when my brothers' school was closed due to heavy snow, and almost everyone turned up - because the headmaster had informed BBC Radio Kent, but not Invicta FM, so no-one had heard it was closed.
Wikipedia:Minuet. It doesn't say what the standard tempo is, though, which precludes comparison with the English waltz (25 bars / min), the Viennese waltz (50 bars / min) and the many other styles of waltz (the St. Bernard's, for example is somewhere in between the English and Viennese).
I saw this article yesterday evening, and Googled "Picard topology" to find out more. Two hits, and both of them were the article (one at the New Scientist website and one on the Guardian website).
You can modify a copyrighted work all you want if you don't distribute the result.
Depends on the jurisdiction. In the UK, the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (which is Crown Copyright) states that
16.--(1)The owner of the copyright in a work has, in accordance with the following provisions of this Chapter, the exclusive right to do the following acts in the United Kingdom--
(a)to copy the work (see section 17);
(b)to issue copies of the work to the public (see section 18);
(c)to perform, show or play the work in public (see section 19);
(d)to broadcast the work or include it in a cable programme service (see section 20);
(e)to make an adaptation of the work or do any of the above in relation to an adaptation (see section 21);
Note that (e) refers to distribution only because (b) is included in "any of the above".
Compilation and Installation, well, it is obvious that if you were legally given a copy of a copyrighted piece of software the author/copyright holder intended for you to compile and install it.
No it's not. I believe, for example, that Sun make the code for the Java standard libraries available without licensing you to compile it. There's nothing unreasonable about a licence which allows you to audit code but not to compile it. Apart from anything else, supporting your product is easier if you know precisely which compiler and flags were used to compile it.
Modification is creating a derivative work, and that is the subject of copyright legislation. The same argument applies to compilation. Installation is trivially copying.
You forgot to mention the RIAA street raids - there's a difference between taking someone to court for infringing your copyright and intimidating someone into surrendering copies of material which isn't necessarily infringing copyright, and even if it is might not be infringing your copyright.
He can't have been referring to the parent. The word he used was "this". Why he wanted to mod his own post down, and what its siblings had done to annoy him, we can only wonder.
Clearly copyright violations should be civil offenses, as should anything dealing with intellectual property, because it's all make-believe anyway (no humans were harmed in the violation of this copyright!)
I disagree for a couple of reasons. Firstly, largescale IP infringement can, in principle, deprive someone of their ability to support themselves, which is harmful. Secondly, if all copyright infringement is a civil offense, it makes it rather difficult to extradite largescale infringers.
what do you mean? Does your country's constitution state this? International copyright treaties?
The reason I ask is that in the UK copyright infringement as a business model (i.e. with an intent to profit) is a criminal offence, and that seems reasonable to me.
I don't really need directions to find my way around Cambridge city center as you could almost throw a rock from the center and hit just about every building around
I think it would be more intended for tourists, but they wouldn't find it very helpful in Cambridge either - it's my experience that they usually want directions to "The University" or "The University campus", and that won't be in the list of known destinations.
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I have awareness of many other things. Isn't the fact I have awareness better evidence for my existence (and for my existence as a self-aware being) than the fact I can think?
The problem with this is - how do we know there's a thought? There's less evidence for the thought existing than for Decartes existing.
Plenty of churches meet in school halls and the like, and I don't think many of them consecrate the hall first.
I'm glad I didn't go to your school.
He debido especificar que sea español, francés o inglés gramatical. Su traducción no es más fácil de comprender que el original, porque el problema fue la cantidad de errores gramaticales y deletreos; babelfish no los corrige.
I haven't heard them complaining - in both Kent and Cambridge commercial stations seem to have a much bigger mindshare than the local BBC stations. I remember one occasion when my brothers' school was closed due to heavy snow, and almost everyone turned up - because the headmaster had informed BBC Radio Kent, but not Invicta FM, so no-one had heard it was closed.
Could the person who modded parent informative please translate it into English? (Spanish or French will do, I'm not too fussy).
I ran Ad-aware on my brother's computer last weekend and it tagged the Wizards of the Coast cookie. I'm guessing it just looks at the expiry date.
Wikipedia:Minuet. It doesn't say what the standard tempo is, though, which precludes comparison with the English waltz (25 bars / min), the Viennese waltz (50 bars / min) and the many other styles of waltz (the St. Bernard's, for example is somewhere in between the English and Viennese).
Glad someone quoted Red Dwarf.
Most songs aren't "programs". Or is your argument that stripping the DRM is for the purpose of interoperability between iTunes and another mp3 player?
I saw this article yesterday evening, and Googled "Picard topology" to find out more. Two hits, and both of them were the article (one at the New Scientist website and one on the Guardian website).
Throw in caesious.
Modification is creating a derivative work, and that is the subject of copyright legislation. The same argument applies to compilation. Installation is trivially copying.
You forgot to mention the RIAA street raids - there's a difference between taking someone to court for infringing your copyright and intimidating someone into surrendering copies of material which isn't necessarily infringing copyright, and even if it is might not be infringing your copyright.
He can't have been referring to the parent. The word he used was "this". Why he wanted to mod his own post down, and what its siblings had done to annoy him, we can only wonder.
Geek tries to impress prospective female? Is this because the geek knows that trying to impress an actual female won't work?
The reason I ask is that in the UK copyright infringement as a business model (i.e. with an intent to profit) is a criminal offence, and that seems reasonable to me.
One of a handful of English words to contain each English vowel once. (If you count 'y' as a vowel, then "facetiously" still works).