If you want X, you know where to find it (was Re: do...until wisdom needed...)
Aahz Maruch
aahz at panix.com
Wed Apr 18 01:42:17 EDT 2001
In article <3ADCF9D4.CD1500E5 at alcyone.com>,
Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> wrote:
>Aahz Maruch wrote:
>> In article <slrn9dooe0.cor.grey at teleute.dmiyu.org>,
>> Steve Lamb <morpheus at here.not.there> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yess, that was an attempt at Godwin. No offense, Alex. :)
>>
>> One of the corollaries to Godwin is that deliberately invoking Godwin
>> doesn't count.
>
>Except that Godwin's law is just a statistical observation. It's the
>_convention_ that people often use that talks about threads ending;
>Godwin's law proper says nothing at all about that.
I don't understand why you're using "except"; that's the whole point of
the corollary.
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