While intrepidly exploring rec.food.drink.tea, Space Cowboy rolled
initiative and posted the following:

> Oh I can talk all day long about a particular website's
> plagiarism and copyright violation which is certainly Ad Nauseum
> but not Ad Hominem. I'll let you substitute who you think is the
> webmaster and even if you came up with Bin Laden it still isn't
> an Ad Hominem argument (Hitler is bad even after rebuilding the
> German economy in the thirties where the Jews prospered more
> than the Germans). So try something different than a troll
> attack which is by definition Ad Hominem. The Rosetta Stone is
> an historical artifact. I can distort the meaning anyway I want
> which means protection under the CopyRight Act Doctrine of
> Qualification meaning "not the same as". I used it first to
> specifically mean translation of Chinese English tea terms and
> any similar use by anybody else is a copyright violation. Don't
> pull a John Kerry on me if you know someone who used rosetta in
> a similar way.

The Ad Hominem was contained in your accusation that I support
plagiarism based upon the generation in which I was born. That was
simply an attempt to discredit me based on a characteristic over
which I have no control. That is, by definition, Ad Hominem.

As for the troll accusation being Ad Hominem, you've got it
backwards. I don't discount your claims because I think you're a
troll. I think you're a troll because of the outrageous, poorly
reasoned, confrontational demands you make in this group.

As for the pitiful "John Kerry" accusation, it was Tony Ruggiero,
the owner of my local tea shop, La Societe du The. He showed me
what he called his "rosetta sheet" for tea names that he used to
translate between Chinese, English and French. The year was 1998
and we were building his first web site.

Again, the only thing you get credit for is being the first to
post it in this group. The idea is neither unique nor original.
And, as such, you don't hold the copyright...

.... no matter how frequently or loudly you insist that you do.

--
Derek

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.