BitTorrent + INDUCE Act + Linspire 5.0

[Dustin Decker]

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's_law

D.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kclug-bounces at kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces at kclug.org] On Behalf
> Of Leo Mauler
> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 7:34 AM
> To: Brian Densmore
> Cc: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: RE: BitTorrent + INDUCE Act + Linspire 5.0
> 
> 
> --- Brian Densmore <DensmoreB at 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".