From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 16 8:12:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from fling.sanbi.ac.za (fling.sanbi.ac.za [196.38.142.119]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A917937BA77 for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 08:12:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from johann@egenetics.com) Received: from johann by fling.sanbi.ac.za with local (Exim 3.13 #2) id 12rj1H-000Cf9-00; Tue, 16 May 2000 17:12:27 +0200 Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 17:12:27 +0200 From: Johann Visagie To: Jamie Bowden Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <20000516171227.A48641@fling.sanbi.ac.za> References: <39210802.4CA91E8A@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from ragnar@sysabend.org on Tue, May 16, 2000 at 07:28:45AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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