Re: Re: Pirate PHP books online?
| From: | Robert Cummings | Date: | Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:02:28 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Pirate PHP books online? | ||
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On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 22:57 -0400, tedd wrote:
> At 7:05 PM -0500 7/18/07, Larry Garfield wrote:
> >On Wednesday 18 July 2007, tedd wrote:
> >
> >> And just because they do, doesn't make it any less accurate either. I
> >> don't care if Hitler agreed with me, there is a fundamental wrongful
> >> act of taking something that is not yours regardless of what you, and
> >> others, may call it.
> >
> >First "Hitler and the Nazis"[1] reference. You lose! Thanks for playing. :-)
> >
> >[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_Law
> >
>
> Wow, that was interesting.
>
> But I can't help but think that if someone wanted to use the worst
> person imaginable to define a limit, I think Hitler would be it.
>
> As such, Godwin's law really doesn't apply here. I wasn't calling or
> inferring anyone or the other side as Hitler. I was using Hilter an
> extreme to make my point that if even he sided with *me*, it wouldn't
> lessen my argument -- guilt by association does not apply here. And,
> that was my point.
Actually Godwin's law does indeed apply here *lol*.
> It's like defining good and evil -- at some point in the conversation
> someone is going to use the words God or satan.
>
> But, if you read further about Godwin's law, you can see that one can
> abuse the law by miscasting the event, as you just did.
>
> So, Bzzzt! You lose! Better luck next time. :-)
>
> Lot of interesting stuff out there, huh?
It's called Quirk's exception... and it applies quite well here.
Cheers,
Rob.
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