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?
For those with a curious mind Fidonet's name comes from old Tom's Fido BBS software way back in the 80s.
"The name Fido came from the mishmash of 68000 hardware that Tom was using to run the BBS on ... a real mongrel."
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FIDOnet saw some similar accusations in it's day
I, for one, am curious to know where the name FIDOnet came from. I'm assuming it was named for someone's dog - the only real question is whether it was Eva Braun's dog, or perhaps that of her lover. Either way, I'm sure that poor pup grew up in hell.
--- 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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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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