On 4/22/06, Wilko Bulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:37:39PM -0400, Coleman Kane wrote.. > > On 4/19/06, Wilko Bulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 03:36:17PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote.. > > > > Mark Linimon wrote: > > > > >On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 10:48:30PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote: > > > > >>>Are you absolutely sure that the corruption isn't > intentional? Note > > > > >>>that the only non-printable characters are \a; it seems to me > that > > > the > > > > >>>point of this truncated entry is precisely to leave the reader > > > > >>>wondering what the punchline is and cursing the "line noise". > > > > >>I think the line noise should be replaced with something about > Hitler. > > > > > > > > > >Godwin's Law invoked. Film at 11. > > > > > > > > Can I claim to have invented a law also? > > > > > > Sure you can. And maybe you should commit it to the fortune/datfiles > to > > > preserve it for historical purposes? :-P > > > > > > > Nate's law: > > > > 1. Each commit to fortune/datfiles generates at least 20 comments > > > > 2. People only commit to fortune/datfiles to keep their commit bit > from > > > > expiring > > > > Conclusion: expiring commit bits cause the most discussion > > Hmmm... infinite recursion in the fortune file... 8-) > > -- > Wilko Bulte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't think that I could necessarily agree with that assessment. Each commit simply generates comments. So we've postulated that each commit generates at least 20 comments (as per rule #1 above). This means that activity on fortune/datfiles causes a directly proportional amount of activity on [EMAIL PROTECTED], albeit magnified by at least a factor of twenty. Now if we go further to hypothesize that the 20-fold increase in activity spurs further commits to fortune/datfiles (of which there has been one commit since the time T=0 commit event, but which cannot necessarily be attributed to resultant activity/discussion) then we can conclude that these resulting actions will also result in further commits (and thus, the infinite recursion you speak of) in our universe. -- coleman _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
