Godwin's Law says: 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 guarantees the existence of an upper bound -------------- on thread length in those groups."
I think this goes as well for mailing lists as for Usenet! Ross :-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Todd Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 5:45 PM Subject: Re: [313]In the Ghetto (was Richie Hawtin is the future of Detroit Techno.) > God damn! > > I truly want to believe that what you just wrote is just a big joke. Dearly held? > Hopelessly biased? Revolutionary? This is musical racism, and you might as well be > Hitler. Or maybe they just aren't informed enough to understand the music? Please > don't write anything to the press, in fact stay away from the media as a whole. You > will only hurt the cause instead of forwarding. This isn't elitism, or better than > anything else, this is simply something we enjoy and others do or don't. I think you > need to humble yourself to the fact that you probably didn't listen to techno your > whole life. I still don't understand how you think techno is morally superior to > other forms of music either. How does music have morals? If music did have morals, > then techno has promoted more drug use, sex and smoking than any other form of music > (and yes I'm including all the music in the 60's, we are the children of the baby > boomers therefore there are more of us, way more). But that is a insipid argument > that I don't care to give anymore thought to. > ah well it's all good though right, yeah right > todd >
