From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 16 8:56:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from maynard.mail.mindspring.net (maynard.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07B5C37B554 for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 08:56:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhix@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (user-33qtir8.dialup.mindspring.com [199.174.203.104]) by maynard.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA29474 for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 11:56:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <39217151.2D64D573@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 09:03:29 -0700 From: W Gerald Hicks X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? References: <39210802.4CA91E8A@mindspring.com> <20000516171227.A48641@fling.sanbi.ac.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Johann Visagie wrote: > > 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 > Rats! :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message