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