From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1Ewp9C-0005e4-Ro for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 23:12:55 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k0BN9dMj023051; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 23:09:39 GMT Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (cumulus.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.72]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k0BN67Lp013277 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 23:06:09 GMT Received: from orpheus (unknown [150.101.6.82]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BBB87D9B3 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 10:06:05 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20060111133946.66f948a1@hactar.digimed.co.uk> References: <43C32CC4.4080508@saviourlinux.com> <43C3FB17.80001@gmail.com> <43C5025B.1030408@ut.ee> <200601111234.17189.martin.eisenhardt@wiai.uni-bamberg.de> <1136983883.19099.5.camel@orpheus> <20060111133946.66f948a1@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:36:01 +0930 Message-Id: <1137020761.31470.3.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 30bb87b3-e209-4c84-a3f3-809adc4d4bc2 X-Archives-Hash: 54c50acbac3ea7f8bf9672c93b6bb184 On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 13:39 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:21:23 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > I think once we've got to the stage of UK (and AU) vs US spelling, I can > > invoke "Godwin's Law"[1] hereby ending the discussion completely and > > immediately ;) > > > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law > > [quote] > It is considered poor form to arbitrarily raise such a comparison with > the motive of ending the thread. There is a widely recognized codicil > that any such deliberate invocation of Godwin's Law will be unsuccessful. > [/quote] [quote] Godwin developed the law as a counter-meme and began posting it in Usenet discussions after such a comparison occurred. [/quote] I took the spelling of words as being a "good enough" reason to invoke Godwin's Law, and hence posted it "after the comparison occurred". I did not, in fact, raise the comparison of iou to ou just to raise Godwin's Law, and therefore my invocation should not be unsuccessful. ;) -- Iain Buchanan Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three -- and paradise is when you have none. -- Doug Larson -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list