Uh oh, looks like we're going to have to start quoting "Sissel's Law". :)
Seriously, I don't think anyone will let us forget Hitler. No matter how watered down the memory gets, everyone will remember him, at least, as a Really Bad Man Who Did Bad Things To People.
--- James Sissel jamessissel@hotmail.com wrote:
What happens over time as Hitler is slowly fogotten? Will somone else replace him, like Ashcroft?
From: "Dustin Decker"
dustin.decker@1on1security.com
Reply-To: dustin.decker@1on1security.com To: kclug@kclug.org Subject: RE: BitTorrent + INDUCE Act + Linspire 5.0 Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:19:49 -0500
It's not about winning - nor did I myself actually
invoke Godwin's Law
(which if you do your research you'll find isn't
effective); I left that to
someone else.
I _did_ however do my best to make it easy for the
word Hitler to find its
way into this thread by other means. The whole
idea was a hope that this
ridiculous thread, filled with folks who won't even
"agree to disagree",
might come to an end. It's a polite way to say,
"Shut the **** up, you're
dancing with /dev/null!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
D.
-----Original Message----- From: kclug-bounces@kclug.org
[mailto:kclug-bounces@kclug.org] On Behalf
Of Leo Mauler Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 7:34 AM To: Brian Densmore Cc: kclug@kclug.org Subject: RE: BitTorrent + INDUCE Act + Linspire
5.0
--- Brian Densmore DensmoreB@ctbsonline.com
wrote:
Is it possible to invoke Godwin's law by
naming
Eva Braun, it being a circular reference to Hitler? Or does that invoke the corollary of Godwin's law? Or is it in itself a circular reference to Godwin's law?
I think its a good time to point out that
"Godwin's
Law" is nothing more and nothing less a
statement of
the probability of Hitler being mentioned in a
given
discussion, being that the probability of Hitler
being
mentioned in a UseNet discussion ("Godwin's Law"
was
originally developed on UseNet NEWS) is directly proportional to the length of the UseNet
discussion.
It does not make any mention of who "wins" the discussion, a common misconception about
"Godwin's
Law".
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