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That was an excellent post, except you dodn't add any links. From the Nazis at Wikipedia:

Godwin's Law (also known as Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies)[1] is an adage formulated by Mike Godwin in 1990. The law states:[2][3]

"As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."

Godwin's Law is often cited in online discussions as a caution against the use of inflammatory rhetoric or exaggerated comparisons, and is often conflated with fallacious arguments of the reductio ad Hitlerum form.

The rule does not state whether any reference or comparison to Hitler or the Nazis might be appropriate, but only asserts that the probability of such a reference increases over time. It is precisely because such a comparison may sometimes be appropriate that Godwin has argued[4] that overuse of Nazi and Hitler comparisons should be avoided, because it robs the valid comparisons of their impact.

In one of its early forms, Godwin's Law referred specifically to Usenet newsgroup discussions.[5] The law is now applied to any threaded online discussion, including electronic mailing lists, message boards, chat rooms, blog comment threads, and wiki talk pages.

From the Uncyclopedia death camps:

"Godwin's Law is precisely like Hitler. The similarities between Godwin's law and the Nazis are uncanny. People who start screaming that the fascist law of Godwin has been invoked are no better then the guards at the Nazi death camps." ~ Godwin's Law on Godwin's Law

You'd better log off. Science says - he's coming for you.Godwin's Law (also known as Godwin's Rule of Nazi Apparition) is a scientific law. It is not a theory!

The law states:

As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of Nazis or Hitler spontaneously materialising and enacting systematic genocide against the poster approaches one. Godwin's Law does not question whether the genocide enacted by Hitler or the Nazis might be appropriate or justified, but only asserts that the enactment of one is increasingly probable.

The most frequent invocation of the law today is found on Wikipedia, where discussion threads for the most trivial of topics cover pages and pages. This explains the origin of the WikiNazis who roam the site, permitting only their warped "NOPV" version of the facts.

There already are competitors: http://en.citizendium.org/ and http://uncyclopedia.org/. The latter may be a bit less useful as Wikipedia, but it is a lot more fun.

I did in fact add two lines to the entry on slashdot.

"In Soviet Russia, slashdot trolls YUO!." ~ Russian Reversal on Slashdot

"On the streets these days, a dime bag of kittens costs a pretty penny." ~ Oscar Wilde on Slashdot's "offtopic" moderation

They actually stayed without anybody messing with them. I thought for sure someone would change "yuo" to "you", but was happily surprised.

Microsoft software is luxurious? Hang on a sec... where'd I put my dictionary?...

Here, I borrowed it. Or actually them.

If you look up dictionary in the dictionary do you get an endless loop? And what's another word for "thesaurus?"

The lost state and local tax revenue from piracy would have been enough to save the lives of five hundred innocent kittens from being pulverized in our patented BSA Kitten Pulverizing Machine

There's a new way to huff kittens? Count me in!

Citation for the previous post here

"Netcraft confirms it - Slashdot *is* filled with Linux fanboys." ~ Bill Gates on Slashdot

"No good editors like Kuro5hin has, No nice layout like Digg.com, Lame !!!." ~ CmdrTaco on Slashdot

"In Soviet Russia, slashdot trolls YUO!." ~ Russian Reversal on Slashdot

"On the streets these days, a dime bag of kittens costs a pretty penny." ~ Oscar Wilde on Slashdot's "offtopic" moderation

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The official religion of Slashdot is GNU, with the holy scripture known as "TFA", written in the archaic and obsolete language Perl. Although GNU is clearly a minority religion that will never find mainstream appeal, it has some of the most vocal and annoying evangelists to be found anywhere in the world. It is not uncommon for Open Source priests to be heard preaching the words of the prophets Stallman, Raymond, and Tux in the streets. An oft-heard chant, popular among the proselytizers and the general public to the point of becoming cliche, is "RTFA! Open source is the future! Free software for all! STFU, n00b!"

All citizens are required by Slashdottian civil and religious law to have Chapter F0, verses 8-A of TFA tattoed upon their back at the age of 13, which reads as follows:

0x0008. And lo, he must be new here,
0x0009. And it was ironic, for he had a low ID, and there was much rejoicing.
0x000A. And verily, did he say, in Soviet Russia, low IDs have YOU!
This excerpt is also found duped on most government buildings, and citizens are required to salute and sing O, Canada whenever they see it or any of the contained words in print.

Slashdot's national holiday is Fsck, predicted in the Book of Jobs (the fourth book in TFA) to be the day Bill Gates dies, and has never been celebrated yet, as there is no official set date. Other religious holidays include Anti-Christmas, National Wanking Sesssion Day and +1 Insightful.

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You are out of your tiny little cowardly mind, son.

1. The US may not be not a fascist state, but it's a police state. Get rid of the secret police (who we call "plainclothes" and "undercover" and start obeying the Constitution and I might agree with you.
2. the statement "Bush lied, people died," is a true statement
3. "The US is losing in Iraq" is so far probably true; we've been there longer than we were in WWII. Show me some evidence to the contrary.
4. Saddam Hussein had WMD, but it was before the first Gulf war. The UN inspectors never found any evidence whatever that there were WMD when they were looking for them.
5. The US sold Saddam Hussein his WMD
6. "Bush claimed Saddam was behind 9/11" Jesus, Dude, if you haven't heard Bush talking about how we're in Iraq in the fight against terrorism you're not paying attention.
7. Downmodding a statement because you don't agree with it is an abuse of mod points
8. You're a troll

Reports say that Obama has a taste for kittens! What a devastating blow to his campaign! Surely he will lose ground in the animal rights voting bloc. We'll cover this next on our 3 hour special "Barack-uriosity Killed the Cat."

Does he huff them?

Yes: http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/GNOME#De-evolution

More precisely: http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Image:Next-gnome.png

Yes: http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/GNOME#De-evolution

More precisely: http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Image:Next-gnome.png

Gnome 3.0

Dorothy: "I don't think we're in Kansas any more, Toto!"

More seriously, Intelligent Design is a belief, not a theory, and doesn't belong in school. It scares the bejesus out of some folks, though.

It needs to be pointed out that even the Catholic Church accepts the theory of evolution, and also that ID does not conflict with evolution. Science and religion answer different questions.

There's a /. sig that reads (and my quote is probably not exact) "poop is a wone word argument against intelligent design". But actually as an engineering solution poop is elegant. Cows eat grass, which turns to poop, which fertilizes the grass. It is akin to making a car whose exhaust helps produce gasoline. The laws of thermodynamics make such a car impossible, of course, but God managed to do it with the cow.

Cows are tasty, too. The US's national religion worships a golden one.

There was a news item about that a couple of days ago. I <:quote:>

Fed Announces New Lending Plan
8 July 2008
WASHINGTON - In an effort to prolong and worsen our economic woes, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday that the Fed will issue new rules next week aimed at ensuring they have a monopoly on shady lending practices. "People can't be trusted to spend their money poorly on their own," Bernanke said today at a press conference on Capitol Hill. "We want to spend it badly for them."

The sweeping plan would include strict new rules against private lenders giving money to people with "subprime credit," - people with a low likelihood of being able to pay back their loans. "Frankly, this is a market only the government should have access to," he said. "We plan on spending money we do not have to bail out companies on Wall Street who have squandered their own money already, and enable them to squander tax dollars as well."

After debriefing the press on what is to come, he congratulated Congress and the President for their accomplishment of sustaining a deep deficit and therefore increasing the effect of the Federal Reserve's lending practices. "Our tactics wouldn't be half as destructive to our nation without the cooperation of Congress, and for this they have my eternal gratitude." In a question and answer session with the press afterwards, one reporter pointedly criticized the Fed for not doing enough, prompting Bernanke to state that the Federal Reserve "still had tricks up it's sleeve," and that the current plan by no means exhausts the options at their disposal. "Interest rates are still at 3.5%, for instance, and that leaves a whole lot of room for future devasting cuts."

Maybe I should have linked this article instead? I wrote jokes on the Internet you know. Sometimes they get rated as funny here. :)

LOL, you took me seriously, even after I used a smiley face to show I was joking?

his Captain Obvious costume again.

Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe and others found ways to use open source software to their advantage using loopholes in open source licenses to close off the source for their commercial projects and putting limits on what code goes into the open source projects they use in their commercial software.

Bill and Melinda Gates charity foundation was created as a tax shelter for Bill and Melinda Gates to give away Microsoft and PC technology to ensure that Microsoft continues to have a high marketshare and forces the poor to buy more proprietary software and avoid open source software.

The good old Proof by Intimidation. Reminds me how I got my PhD.

This can also save your ass or at least give you a good laugh.

Those plants that live on the sun are damned HOT!

I looked up solar power in the uncyclopedia. I was going to quote it but WTF, I can't be bothered.

It is the end of the world as we know it!

And REM feels fine.

I'll supply them for you, you lazy person you!

That must've been a hacker who got onto my computer who was searching for "bunny", "kitties", "puppies" and "babies".

I only search for "fire", "car crashes", "backyard wrestling" and "boobs".

*grunt*

Yes, that was indeed uncalled for. Especially the one about your mom. Sorry.

I'll supply them for you, you lazy person you!

That must've been a hacker who got onto my computer who was searching for "bunny", "kitties", "puppies" and "babies".

I only search for "fire", "car crashes", "backyard wrestling" and "boobs".

*grunt*

Yes, that was indeed uncalled for. Especially the one about your mom. Sorry.

I'll supply them for you, you lazy person you!

That must've been a hacker who got onto my computer who was searching for "bunny", "kitties", "puppies" and "babies".

I only search for "fire", "car crashes", "backyard wrestling" and "boobs".

*grunt*

Yes, that was indeed uncalled for. Especially the one about your mom. Sorry.

I'll supply them for you, you lazy person you!

That must've been a hacker who got onto my computer who was searching for "bunny", "kitties", "puppies" and "babies".

I only search for "fire", "car crashes", "backyard wrestling" and "boobs".

*grunt*

Yes, that was indeed uncalled for. Especially the one about your mom. Sorry.

I'll supply them for you, you lazy person you!

That must've been a hacker who got onto my computer who was searching for "bunny", "kitties", "puppies" and "babies".

I only search for "fire", "car crashes", "backyard wrestling" and "boobs".

*grunt*

Yes, that was indeed uncalled for. Especially the one about your mom. Sorry.

I'll supply them for you, you lazy person you!

That must've been a hacker who got onto my computer who was searching for "bunny", "kitties", "puppies" and "babies".

I only search for "fire", "car crashes", "backyard wrestling" and "boobs".

*grunt*

Yes, that was indeed uncalled for. Especially the one about your mom. Sorry.

I'll supply them for you, you lazy person you!

That must've been a hacker who got onto my computer who was searching for "bunny", "kitties", "puppies" and "babies".

I only search for "fire", "car crashes", "backyard wrestling" and "boobs".

*grunt*

Yes, that was indeed uncalled for. Especially the one about your mom. Sorry.

I'll supply them for you, you lazy person you!

That must've been a hacker who got onto my computer who was searching for "bunny", "kitties", "puppies" and "babies".

I only search for "fire", "car crashes", "backyard wrestling" and "boobs".

*grunt*

Yes, that was indeed uncalled for. Especially the one about your mom. Sorry.

I'll supply them for you, you lazy person you!

That must've been a hacker who got onto my computer who was searching for "bunny", "kitties", "puppies" and "babies".

I only search for "fire", "car crashes", "backyard wrestling" and "boobs".

*grunt*

Yes, that was indeed uncalled for. Especially the one about your mom. Sorry.

I'll supply them for you, you lazy person you!

That must've been a hacker who got onto my computer who was searching for "bunny", "kitties", "puppies" and "babies".

I only search for "fire", "car crashes", "backyard wrestling" and "boobs".

*grunt*

Yes, that was indeed uncalled for. Especially the one about your mom. Sorry.

I'll supply them for you, you lazy person you!

That must've been a hacker who got onto my computer who was searching for "bunny", "kitties", "puppies" and "babies".

I only search for "fire", "car crashes", "backyard wrestling" and "boobs".

*grunt*

Yes, that was indeed uncalled for. Especially the one about your mom. Sorry.

I'll supply them for you, you lazy person you!

That must've been a hacker who got onto my computer who was searching for "bunny", "kitties", "puppies" and "babies".

I only search for "fire", "car crashes", "backyard wrestling" and "boobs".

*grunt*

Yes, that was indeed uncalled for. Especially the one about your mom. Sorry.

I saw that in TFA (eye muss bee knew hear) and looked "watt balance" up on wikipedia.

The watt balance is an experimental electromechanical apparatus that may one day provide a definition of the kilogram based on electronics.

The watt balance is a more accurate version of the ampere balance, in which the force between two current-carrying coils is measured and then used to calculate the magnitude of the current. The principle of the watt balance was proposed by B. P. Kibble of the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in 1975.

The main weakness of the ampere balance method is that the result depends on the accuracy with which the dimensions of the coils are measured. The watt balance method has an extra calibration step in which the effect of the geometry of the coils is eliminated, removing the main source of uncertainty. This extra step involves moving the force coil through a known magnetic flux at a known speed.

The present accuracy record is held by NIST, the standards agency of the USA, with an error of 5.2 × 10-8, and experiments are continuing towards a goal of 1 × 10-8. The long-term goal of these experiments is to produce a new definition of the kilogram based on fundamental SI units, to replace the present definition based on the International Prototype Kilogram, a cylinder of platinum/iridium owned by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures.

Unfortunately, the wikipedia article leaves me as ignorant as before. So I clicked through to Ampere balance

The ampere balance (also current balance or Kelvin balance) is an electromechanical apparatus used for the precise measurement of the SI unit of electric current, the ampere. It was invented by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin.

The current to be measured is passed in series through two coils, and the magnetic force between the two coils is measured. This is used to calculate the magnitude of the current.

Which unfortunately says practically nothing.

Can anyone please explain this better to me? And if so, update the clear-as-mud wikipedia article? I might as well have looked it up on Uncyclopedia, which has no entries on watt balance or ampere balance at all.

Everyone knows wikipedia is unreliable. Uncyclopedia has an article about turtles, too. And Kill Switches. And Bruce. And your mom. And slashdot.

This is a disambiguation page. This means Uncyclopedia is hopelessly confused.

(a shameless mocking of your post)

Everyone knows wikipedia is unreliable. Uncyclopedia has an article about turtles, too. And Kill Switches. And Bruce. And your mom. And slashdot.

This is a disambiguation page. This means Uncyclopedia is hopelessly confused.

(a shameless mocking of your post)

Everyone knows wikipedia is unreliable. Uncyclopedia has an article about turtles, too. And Kill Switches. And Bruce. And your mom. And slashdot.

This is a disambiguation page. This means Uncyclopedia is hopelessly confused.

(a shameless mocking of your post)

Everyone knows wikipedia is unreliable. Uncyclopedia has an article about turtles, too. And Kill Switches. And Bruce. And your mom. And slashdot.

This is a disambiguation page. This means Uncyclopedia is hopelessly confused.

(a shameless mocking of your post)

Everyone knows wikipedia is unreliable. Uncyclopedia has an article about turtles, too. And Kill Switches. And Bruce. And your mom. And slashdot.

This is a disambiguation page. This means Uncyclopedia is hopelessly confused.

(a shameless mocking of your post)

Everyone knows wikipedia is unreliable. Uncyclopedia has an article about turtles, too. And Kill Switches. And Bruce. And your mom. And slashdot.

This is a disambiguation page. This means Uncyclopedia is hopelessly confused.

(a shameless mocking of your post)

I gather they framed Roger Rabbit too.

I have blatantly stolen your paragraph. Pity you're anonymous.

I find it hard to realize that he wouldn't know the technical difficulties in replacing a dll while the system is running, and possible ways around this, and the current state of affairs.

I find it hard to believe that Gates would think that Linux programmers could do something that his well paid staff can't! I don't think I've ever rebooted Linux unless I was replacing the kernel by trying a different distro or updating an existing one. And even then there's only ONE reboot; you put the CD in the drive, reboot, and the distro installs.

If I was Gates, heads would have been rolling years ago. But I agree with you, I think the email is bogus. The line at the bottom:

So after more than an hour of craziness and making my programs list garbage and being scared and seeing that Microsoft.com is a terrible website I haven't run Moviemaker and I haven't got the plus package.

I wouldn't be "scared" and I can't believe Gates would be, either.

many, many years ago now, in the late 90's

The late '90s was only a decade ago, young fellow! Many, many years ago my electric bill came on Hollerith cards.

So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated.

I've been vindicated for all those times I've been modded "flamebait" when I insist that people at Microsoft must be incredibly stupid. How can you NOT anticipate that people just might want to download something from a download page?

Go ahead, Microsoft employees, mod me down again. I'm sure with all the people at Microsoft there are lots of very intelligent folks, but when Pointy Haired Boss is in charge and Catbert is head of HR, it doesn't matter how smart Dilbert is, the product is going to look like it was designed by Uncyclopedia authors who are high on something.

The email reads like something I might have written. Had Microsoft not had a defacto monopoly they would likely have gone out of business years ago.

I'd like to know what idiot came up with some of the Microsoft "innovations" like menus that don't show all the menu items? Don't they try their poorly designed crap out on real people?

"Skews me" while I read the rest of the user rants and shill excuses.

I find it hard to realize that he wouldn't know the technical difficulties in replacing a dll while the system is running, and possible ways around this, and the current state of affairs.

I find it hard to believe that Gates would think that Linux programmers could do something that his well paid staff can't! I don't think I've ever rebooted Linux unless I was replacing the kernel by trying a different distro or updating an existing one. And even then there's only ONE reboot; you put the CD in the drive, reboot, and the distro installs.

If I was Gates, heads would have been rolling years ago. But I agree with you, I think the email is bogus. The line at the bottom:

So after more than an hour of craziness and making my programs list garbage and being scared and seeing that Microsoft.com is a terrible website I haven't run Moviemaker and I haven't got the plus package.

I wouldn't be "scared" and I can't believe Gates would be, either.

many, many years ago now, in the late 90's

The late '90s was only a decade ago, young fellow! Many, many years ago my electric bill came on Hollerith cards.

So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated.

I've been vindicated for all those times I've been modded "flamebait" when I insist that people at Microsoft must be incredibly stupid. How can you NOT anticipate that people just might want to download something from a download page?

Go ahead, Microsoft employees, mod me down again. I'm sure with all the people at Microsoft there are lots of very intelligent folks, but when Pointy Haired Boss is in charge and Catbert is head of HR, it doesn't matter how smart Dilbert is, the product is going to look like it was designed by Uncyclopedia authors who are high on something.

The email reads like something I might have written. Had Microsoft not had a defacto monopoly they would likely have gone out of business years ago.

I'd like to know what idiot came up with some of the Microsoft "innovations" like menus that don't show all the menu items? Don't they try their poorly designed crap out on real people?

"Skews me" while I read the rest of the user rants and shill excuses.

Who needs books? Most scientists read wikipedia.

REAL scientists know wikipedia is unreliable. That's why they use the Uncyclopedia.

Scientific Way of Doing Things
Developed at the precise moment everyone thought science was just a passing fad, the Scientific Way of Doing Things formalized the approach scientists would take to remove knowledge from human minds, allowing the field to flourish and fully separate itself from its mystic beginnings. In the words of metascience expert John "Don't quote me on this" Smith, "The Scientific Way of Doing Things is based on the ancient divination ritual of Guess and Check. Thanks to the innovations of the past century, we've been able to remove the 'Check' phase."

The Scientific Way of Doing Things is strictly adhered to by all respectable scientists and involves 6 steps:

1. Find a piece of information you dislike. In our example, we will use the statement "1+1=2"
   
2. Form a statement which will take its place ("1+1=Dolemite")
   
3. Email this statement to everyone you know. Include the subject line "FWD: Something u didn't know!!! I no i didn't!"
   
4. Publish an article on your Myspace.
   
5. Brush your teeth. A fresh smile adds a layer of believability.
   
6. ?????
   
7. Profit.

The state is called Delmarva. However, IIMN Delmarva kicked Delaware out because he snored too loud, and both Mary and Virginia are lesbians.

Uncyclopedia doesn't mention Delmarva, but it does have an entry on Delaware.

Today I saw a squirrel. For all I know, it might have been the only squirrel in Delaware. Wow! I bet it lives in a tree somewhere. I bet trees here look completely different from trees anywhere else. On the state border, I saw a sign that said
WELCOME TO DELAWARE
POPULATION: 1 SQUIRREL
ALSO: 1 TREE
I noticed they forgot to mention 1 super fun person -- my Uncle Frank -- but they can't get every single person in a state to do the census, so I guess it would be a little off. You have to admit, a difference of 1 ain't bad. I bet no other state comes that close.

They're not my historical anecdotes, they're wikipedia's. You can change it if you want (but they'll change it right back).

Since you obviously have a problem with wikipedia's accuracy, I looked it up on uncyclopedia. Unfortionately, according to the uncyclopedia, petards don't exist. But Picard does. According to uncyclopedia, what Shakespeare said was "He was hoist by his own Picard".

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