while i can see your point..
 

Rudey,
While I can see your point, I think there could have been a more tactful way of bringing it up. Maybe PM zntke and ask him about it privately instead of bringing it out for the entire GC world to comment on. Or maybe PM'ing one of the other moderators with your concerns.

Legality of posting copyrighted works is definately an issue, but like I mentioned, there probably could have been another way of handling it, instead of posting another "frivalous" thread.

Just my 2 cents.

A little bit of humor does this site good now and then, there wasn't anything too malicious about it. At least he didn't slam him in a news article or too, he made his own thread and it almost got deleted.

Who cares if it's illegal, I willing to bet that you had a drink while underage or exceeded the speed limit some time in your life.

Well Rudy, we all know OTW is a Bitch at times ( In Yor Own Words Sandy) and ZNTEKE is a Moron,

They are 2 of the most respected People on Site!

I feel I Know both somewhat well!

Sandy's Problem is she lives in a time zone of Paradise! Da Aint to bad!

Zeke on the other hand lives in Georgia!

Now that is a hog of a different color! What is a color of a hog by the way?

I can be bad, but I am a Pussy Cat!:)

Well I am sure I pissed all of, AH well anit the first woint be the last!

Hell, KC Strip. Salad. Tater TONITE!:)

11 Hrs Sat So will see Ya Sun!:eek: :cool:

Sheesh!
 

Please read the post about using the ignore feature! I do not see what the big deal is. You don't have to read every thread on GC! The news stories aren't half as bad as some of the threads up here. If they spark discussion, then so be it, if not, then so what? They won't be the first threads to be posted with no reply and won't be the last.

$.01

ZA

Okay, I am totally not taking sides on this one, as both arguments have some merit.

I enjoy reading some of the funny articles and I may not stumble across them on sites I normally frequent; they sometimes help to break up the monotony of my horrid job. However, I have to agree at least somewhat with Rudey on the copyright issue. People have to have permission to use AP stories... most newspapers pay an annual fee for AP service.

Of course, we have all done illegal things but if something illegal occurs here and GC gets shut down then some people will be very sad... :(

I'm a little confused how posting an article is illegal. My understanding is when someone doesn post and article here they do not claim it as their own writing, the source of the article is sited and it is purely for informational purposes only. I don;t understand how that is an different if I attached an article to an essay I was writing because the particular article was relevent to my point. As long as I properly cited the source of the article all is well. But hey what do I know.

Re: Sheesh!
 

Please keep your penny. If you take issue with my post, "please read the post about using the ignore feature!"

OTW, you are quite the mature girl. Thank you for ignoring me. They say if someone is immature and you ignore them, they stop with their childish behavior. Maybe there will be some truth to that.

Lady Pi Phi, reproduction of an article is quite different from citation of an article.

Tom, I don't want to move towards name calling. OTW and the others can call themselves whatever they want. I'm just pointing out certain faults just as other people do from time to time. However, this time I did it with a mod. Of course I was fully in the right.

Once again, I haven't attacked anyone and the only thing that really pissed me off was that even though I did not break any rules, my posts were deleted so many times by someone who had broken the rules and was given the ability to do so. I harbor no ill feelings towards zntke, but I'm still waiting to here why he erased my posts so many times. Do tell my little Georgia Peach!

-Rudey
--That Rudey is such a little pisser.

I apoologize for delteing your post it was worded in bad taste and I did delete that post a couple times but after a few mins I agree its ok to stay up because I remember alot of your comments are in bad taste and you mean nothing by it.:D

Oh ap got back to me said there is no harm since this site isn't a pay site. They suggested I link to the news sites which I went back and did. I edited some of them and made it a topic in my own words. I did it for about 4 pages worth of chit chat. Hope you are happy Rudey. If you think I am lieing email ap.:D

Least now I know it is ok to link to the article. Yah I can post a news topic now legally. lol

Re: Re: Sheesh!
 

Exactly.

Yeah, if ap came down on people for re-printing articles on here or other mb's, (even with you or other people giving the article credit) than a bunch of mb's would need some cleaning, lol.

I don't apparently assign the same importance to what's at the top of the topic list as some do... I actually "Chit Chat" about the news all the time. It's actually nice to hear some of these stories. Beats the hell out of the hard news stuff I usually deal with.

And now that you have AP's permission I really don't see any concievable issue here except that someone might have to look at page 2 of the topic list!:eek: