Mark Steyn: How ‘None of the Above’ Won

The Spectator [UK] ^ | January 31 2004 | Mark Steyn

[quidnunc]

Gritty wrote: If you follow Jim's Rules, there should be no problem.

Go read the Free Republic terms-of-use agreement carefully.

[M. Thatcher]

Kwitcherbellyakin.

Did you happen to notice the number of posters you annoyed? One can only wonder why you would enjoy irritating people on a forum you frequent.

[cookcounty]

"Senator Lieberman, the only unabashedly pro-war Democrat on the ballot, had been claiming at every campaign stop for the last week to have something called ‘Joe-mentum’, which is like ‘momentum’, but apparently much smaller, if not entirely undetectable."

Thanks, I needed some comic relief.

[6ppc]

Howard Dean will have a job again in America. It won’t be President of the United States. But there’s no reason why he couldn’t be a spokesperson for Ben & Jerry’s premium Vermont ice cream, perhaps dressed up as a Holstein in the late stages of BSE. (‘I scream for ice cream. And you will, too.’)

Badaboom! That one cost me a keyboard!

[Paul Ross]

LMAO! Joe-verestimate, indeed!

[quidnunc]

M. Thatcher wrote: Did you happen to notice the number of posters you annoyed? One can only wonder why you would enjoy irritating people on a forum you frequent.

Ignore the threads I start — pretend they don't exist — and you won't be annoyed anymore.

[petercooper]

But her husband has 57 varieties of his position on Iraq, and Democratic voters seem to have figured that one or other of them is likely to be more politically viable than Dean’s.

Best line

[small_l_libertarian]

Well, it took me forever, but I just got the Joe-ish thing.

Bwah. I looooooove Steyn.

[Gritty]

Go read the Free Republic terms-of-use agreement carefully

Sure. Here it is, posted for your enlightenment...

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So, what are you violating by posting the entire article from an open source?

[COBOL2Java]

So, what are you violating by posting the entire article from an open source?

Especially when the full text includes a hyperlink to the original source...

[quidnunc]

In my estimation, Free Republic is not entitled to the fair-use exemption: Ipso facto copyrighted material posted in toto is copyright infringment, and therefore actionable.

And here's the part of the terms-of-use agreement that you should have highlighted in red: "Posting user agrees to indemnify Free Republic for any copyright claim on original works."

[Pokey78]

Also the brilliance of FR's software is that if you TRY to post a WP (or Newsweek) article, the software tells you that it must be excerpted. Also, if youy try to post something from Counterpunch or some like minded source, the software tells you that anything from that particular source is not welcome on FreeRepublic.

In other words, a 3 year old can figure out what needs to be excerpted and what doesn't.

[gridlock]

Mark Steyn is a national treasure...

Too bad it's somebody else's country!

[M. Thatcher]

Again, do you see how many people you ticked off?

[M. Thatcher]

In my estimation, Free Republic is not entitled to the fair-use exemption

Since you have a problem with the entire premise of the site...WHY ARE YOU HERE?

[quidnunc]

M. Thatcher wrote: Again, do you see how many people you ticked off?

I repeat, if you don't like the way I post stuff then ignore my threads — don't go there.

The concept is so simple that even a child should be able to grasp it.

If you continue to allow yourself to get so upset you're liable to have a stroke, die all tensed up and leave a really bad-looking corpse for the moirtician to deal with.

[M. Thatcher]

Save everyone you ticked off from an early grave. Don't excerpt Steyn.

[buwaya]

"However, if the Duke manipulated his sister into a relationship with the king, with his own political future in mind, then he would be on par with Kerry...because then he would be pro-actively using the girl for his own gain."

Well, he was quite young at that time, but he was introduced to court on the basis of the relationship.

He also had an affair with another mistress of James II and got preferment that way.

This was hardly uncommon at the time of course. Any number of French statesmen had to deal with mistresses of Louis XIV.

[stands2reason]

It's rather like your partner getting a major leg cramp whilst doing the naughty....

[stands2reason]

New Hampshire's still in America, last I checked...