> --- Brad DeLong <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu> wrote: > >On Tue, 4 Sep 2001,
>Brad DeLong wrote:
> > >> Now, now. Remember Godwin's Law...
> > >
> > >I was under the mistaken impression that Godwin's Law applied only to
> > >use-net discussions...
> >
> > An interesting possibility. The branch of the oral tradition from
> > which I hang interpreted it more broadly to include all
> > computer-mediated communications...
yeah, but you still got it wrong. Godwin's Law is a law of probability. The claim that mention of Nazism or Hitler ends a thread and the person who invokes Nazism/Hitler loses the argument is just a practical tradition or norm.
haHAHAHAHAHAHA you lose, pussy! :)
>what has doubling processor speed got to do this?
>
>http://www.adequacy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/7/18/64812/1284
>
>dd