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For those who are confused about what plagiarism looks like, here's an example from 1918:

Plagiarism In 1918 http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2012/05/06/plagiarism-in-1918...

Looks awfully similar to Plagiarism in 2012.

I love Zee comment when he tries to teach him that 50% of web is a rewrite. What an asshole!

Wonder if an average theft or rapist should be walking around with recent statistics of population being behind bars and why it should be ok to steal or rape.

while he may be being an asshole, your comparison is ridiculous.

I agree with your 1st sentence, but not your 2nd. Citation is the act of declaring a source.

http://web.mit.edu/academicintegrity/citing/whatandwhy.html

(To be honest, I got this link from wikipedia :)

That's my entire point: declaring a source does not save you from plagiarizing. It is still possible to give the reader the impression that something is your work even though it is not, yet still citing a source. I think that the revised post on TNW is just that.