BitTorrent + INDUCE Act + Linspire 5.0

[James Sissel]

What happens over time as Hitler is slowly fogotten?  Will somone else 
replace him, like Ashcroft?

>From: "Dustin Decker" <dustin.decker at 1on1security.com>
>Reply-To: dustin.decker at 1on1security.com
>To: <kclug at 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'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".

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