Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 17:12:27 +0200 From: Johann Visagie <johann@egenetics.com> To: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <20000516171227.A48641@fling.sanbi.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005160726290.19841-100000@moo.sysabend.org>; from ragnar@sysabend.org on Tue, May 16, 2000 at 07:28:45AM -0700 References: <39210802.4CA91E8A@mindspring.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005160726290.19841-100000@moo.sysabend.org>
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On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 07:28:45AM -0700, Jamie Bowden wrote: > On Tue, 16 May 2000, W Gerald Hicks wrote: > > :Hitler. The Nazis. Mussolini too. Now, is this thread dead? > > Nowhere in Godwin's law is it stated that the reference of Nazism or > Hitler will kill a thred. Godwin's merely states that if a thread goes on > long enough, chances of references to the above go to one. There is a > corrollary which states that intentionally Godwinating a thread is doomed > to failure I believe. Yes, it's known as Quirk's Exception. See: http://www.killfile.org/~tskirvin/faqs/godwin.faq -- V To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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