there's another issue you're overlooking--copying and pasting the entirety of another's work rather than excerpting a portion to support a point or as the basis of commentary (which is permissable under us copyright law). 

there is no such thing as implied permission to reprint.  an author may choose not to defend or neglect asserting ownership rights but posting something on the web most certainly does not automatically dump it into public domain. while it's certainly true that anyone concerned about maintaining control over their intellectual property must exert effort to defend his or her right, it's equally true that those whose friends send them all manner of clever things must exert an effort to locate the source if they plan to benefit from usage. 

there's also a difference between someone who finds an unattended item of value and immediately assumes ownership and another who makes a diligent attempt to locate its owner.   the latter is a person of ethics.

i copied the entire first paraph without alteration. 

anyone who revisits the intellectual trainwreck for which you so kindly provided a link (ain't bad enuff you inflicted it on us the first time i guess) is in for quite the trip; hopefully they'll return unscathed.   in any event, they'll be able to determine which of us has a problem with facts.  i addressed every bit of nonsense you trotted out. 

i really shouldn't take any joy in this, but dammit, it's gonna be more than a bit amusing knowing some of your fawning admirers are about to discover why you give even a severely flawed batch of douchebags such a bad name.

how else to explain why you began by blaming goldwater for "extremism in pursuit of virtue is no vice" only to contradict yourself and the entire concept by warning 'extremism in pursuit of virtue IS a vice"?

4th Lie!  In one thread no less!  You bolded part of it, WITHOUT saying "emphasis mine".  That is clearly as bad as stealing someone else work since you then change the meaning of the quoted work.  Lies, I guess your father did not teach you about them.

Your abortion of a brain seemed to have not suffered for the trip, but then from your rantings and postings, it is plain for all to see that you did not have one to begin with.  if any intellectual person is damaged by the trip, I will apologize to them for inflicting it upon them.  In your case, at best it may have done you some good (apparently not, you still do not know attribution mr. cummings, the truth or even any intelligent discourse), but definitly no harm as anyone can see.

Ah, the kb we all know - resort to name calling. Very good liar.  What is your next act, a "sos youse" or "oh yea?"

I did not blame him for anything.  I quoted him.  And then wrote an article that was not about him.  YOur comments made it about him, which I then rebuked because apparently you could not understand what you were reading.  And still cant.  But that is another thread which anyone can read (now that the truth is out and not kb lies) and if you would like to pick up the debate, then go there, not here.

Liar, and now proven 4 times in one thread.  Yes, this liar surely lives in a glass house.  He not only likes to plagarize, but then (like a typical liberal), change the quoted word.  Fortunately for most, the original is easily found along with the rantings of the liar.

73-0

actually you didn't.  cuz he never said anything of the kind. 

but you certainly went to great effort to put those words--still steaming, having been just been pulled outta your ass--into his mouth.

fortunate indeed. hopefully it'll enable science with valuable clues to solve the mystery of early onset alzheimer's. 

not to mention severe ongoing delusions of grandeur misleading our subject to believe he can simultaneously be player, umpire and scorekeeper.

Yawn!!! 74-0.  The part I quoted was him.  The rest is not a quotation.  You do love being wrong.

For your sake apparently

No, just keeping a talley.  You are perfect in your idiocy and being wrong.  That is what is so good about you.  Even when faced with irrefutable proof, you kling to your delusions.  Alzheimers will just be another day for you.  You have no mind to lose.

Then why did you bring it up when you do not know (nor can even tell the truth).  The best thing for you to do is to at least get your house in order mr. cummings.  And do not worry about your delusions of other people's faults.

Next time, tell the truth.  Instead of saying "Bragging rights", try "I don't know, I just like feeling superior to others even though I am never right".  That may be the first truthful thing you say in your entire life.  Shame your dad did not teach you about truthfulness when he was citing jokes.

still, after all this time, you've still never explained how you managed to journey from your ridiculous imagined mischaracterization of goldwater's words ("extremism in pursuit of virtue is no vice") to eventually conclude "extremism in pursuit of virtue is a vice". 

enlighten us please. 

not a vice?  a vice?  both? neither?

I don't know what this has to do with this discussion, but I think at least I have made my position on those extremists clear in several postings.

ummmm nope!  That's not it.  You can try again if you'd like. 

ya, Leauki. That's kind of how I look at it too. 

It's the normal way to look at it if you are coming from an offline world (which we all ultimately do).

It might still be wrong as per copyright law. But the point here is that this was your intention which was quite obvious, at least to me.