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Article #4252Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?
From: Dragan Cvetkovic
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 19:46
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 19:46
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Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> writes: > > And in any case, all Godwin's Law states is that the probability of > there being a reference to "the bad guys of WWII" in a message thread > approaches 1. > > So I'd think this represents an evidence of the _truth_ of the Law, > rather than that it doesn't work anymore. > -- From http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/g/Godwin_s_Law.html: Godwin's Law prov. [Usenet] "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. However there is also a widely- recognized codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful. HTH, Dragan -- Dragan Cvetkovic, To be or not to be is true. G. Boole No it isn't. L. E. J. Brouwer
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f8c9b,c2f5a7a6eb2eb0a9 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8c9b,public X-Google-Thread: 1020c6,c2f5a7a6eb2eb0a9 X-Google-Attributes: gid1020c6,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,7144e36039d56e89 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-07-11 12:46:31 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed-east.nntpserver.com!nntpserver.com!feed.cgocable.net!newsfeed-tor.nnrp.ca!newsfeed-tor.nnrp.ca!news.tht.net!53ab2750!not-for-mail Sender: dragan@lokrum.tht.net Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions,gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Difference between Unix and Linux? References: <m3ofdvcs5e.fsf@latakia.dyndns.org> <r7q2iu48qndcr6qk40codmo6vc1dtaagv5@4ax.com> <m3r8imrvi7.fsf@latakia.dyndns.org> <0kddiu8m5t1kq59lc2ejrfkb9dlhedpr8n@4ax.com> <m37kk6uqk7.fsf@latakia.dyndns.org> <uauniuo0frli3me7d8arfsmr60t20kv46h@4ax.com> <m3ofdf62hx.fsf@latakia.dyndns.org> <agk95b$2gpc$1@dunlop.dowcarter.com> <agkd3i$ltm4f$1@ID-125932.news.dfncis.de> <868z4idvik.fsf@potato.vegetable.org.uk> <agkia7$mcd8o$1@ID-125932.news.dfncis.de> <sm5fzyqkroy.fsf@cid.alcatel.com> <lmu1n65aei.fsf@lokrum.tht.net> <agkn4p$m6mv1$1@ID-125932.news.dfncis.de> From: Dragan Cvetkovic <d1r2a3g4a5n.NOSPAM@soli99ton.com> Reply-To: dcvetkovic@gmx.net Message-ID: <lmptxu59pn.fsf@lokrum.tht.net> Lines: 31 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: 11 Jul 2002 15:46:28 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 134.22.68.151 X-Trace: news.tht.net 1026417425 134.22.68.151 (Thu, 11 Jul 2002 15:57:05 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 15:57:05 EDT Organization: NNRP.CA