Declan ~~/\~~ McCullah said: > On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 12:41:26PM -0500, Aimee Farr wrote: > > > That European governments which collaborated with the Nazis, and are > > > even now collaborating with the Nazis in Bonn and Paris, are hardly > > > good candidates for being an "escrow service" for sensitive data? > > > > Godwin's Law. > > Perhaps I'm just being difficult today, I called you a pecky mockingbird, and you are just going to peck me to death. Merc mockingbird. > but it strikes me as this is > in invalid invocation of GL. The law says: > "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison > involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." A joke. Tim PLONKED me when I said he was "no Godwin." > First, this isn't a Usenet discussion. Second, this isn't a comparison > involving the Nazis -- this is citing history. Godwin's Law, even > if we agree with it, is not meant to make all historical references > invalid, but to avoid cheapening the Holocaust, etc. "Godwin's Law." He is part of Usenet lore, and has a great sense of humor about it. Still, sometimes I think it almost insulting in light of the his other contributions. ~Aimee
