On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 08:21:31PM -0600, linux.whiz@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > And once again some dickhead self-appointed list Nazi has to chime in > as if he is the arbiter of The Rules. Uh oh, time for somebody to go look up Goodwins law. http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/G/Godwins-Law.html Godwin's Law: prov. [Usenet] As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.? There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. However there is also a widely- recognized codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful. Godwin himself has discussed the subject. See also Formosa's Law. See also: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.10/godwin.if_pr.html -- Linux/Open Source: Your infrastructure belongs to you, free, forever. Idealism: "Realism applied over a longer time period" http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/ http://kinz.org http://www.fedoratracker.org http://www.fedorafaq.org http://www.fedoranews.org Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.
