Nope. The one you replied to merely posted a joke summary of Godwin's post, the original of which mentions nothing that would invoke Godwin's law. But even if Godwin had mentioned Hitler or Nazis, that would not be breaking Godwin's Law, that would be a fulfillment of the law, which merely states:
"As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."
The government has a monopoly on force, so only they could get away with forcing anyone to do anything - there's no higher power to which they must answer.
Most people nowadays tend to forget that civilized governments do indeed have a higher power they should be ready to answer to.
That higher power is known as the citizens who allow those governments to continue to exist. The ballot box is the tool that is supposed to be our primary weapon to keep our elected leaders and those who they appoint to other positions in check.
There are some people do refer to Americans as USians.
Referring to the citizens of the United States of America as USians makes as much sense as calling the citizens of The Peoples' Republic of China PRians, or the citizens of Los Estados Unidos de Mexico EUians, or the citizens of the Federal Republic of Germany FRians.
Copyright does not protect names, titles, slogans, or short phrases. In some cases, these things may be protected as trademarks. Contact the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, 800-786-9199, for further information. However, copyright protection may be available for logo artwork that contains sufficient authorship. In some circumstances, an artistic logo may also be protected as a trademark.
In short, if the revolution comes, the wireless carriers will be up against the wall right after we finish with the Wall Street Executives and RIAA lawyers.
and PETA
Why are you lumping People Eating Tasty Animals in with the Wall Street execs, RIAA lolyers, and wireless carriers?
Just because we enjoy assorted properly prepared meaty dishes doesn't make us evil.
And if you see a big building with lots of long, yellow vehicles in its parking lot you can guess that it's a school.
And if you just see a big blur there instead, then you may very well think that whatever it is being hidden there must be a suitable target for whatever nefarious scheme that you are developing, if you are the type that partakes in nefarious schemes against the public.
Why not just follow the lead of one particular town right there in California?
Chico has a law on the books declaring a $500 fine for detonating a nuclear device within the city limits. It apparently has been a decent deterrent, since no nuke has been detonated within Chico, California.
Um, you do realize that OR is the state that has mysterious crossing signals for walking along portions of sidewalk, right? Having seen that more than a few times, I'm not sure if anything down there would surprise me.
It is also the state where it is illegal to eat ice cream on Sunday. And because of this, when I went to visit my family for Thanksgiving, I, my brother, and his family all became stars of America's Least Wanted due to us having root beer floats on the night of 2008-11-30.
And my question about this proposal...
What about cars that do not have GPS devices installed? Free pass for their owners?
I highly doubt she might have put it that way. Word choice is very heavily geared toward how things sound and flow in the Alice books, and "interestinger" sounds terrible. It chokes up the sentence.
So instead, Alice might have put on a WWII German uniform and said, Very eenterestink.
You counter with Ninjas, then they counter with Pirates. You think the Ninja's will stand a chance against Kung-Fu Pirates? I shudder at the thought of what they will be stopped with.
Then we counter their pirates with RIAA lawyers. They will be sued into such deep debt that not a single virgin (let alone 72 virgins) will have anything to do with them.
I can see it now...someone hacks the system and substitutes subliminal porn images for the bin Laden pictures. Talk about provoking a physiological reaction...
Only the coward or the accomplice follows unjust laws.
Ah. Thanks for the reminder. I think I will have me a dish of ice cream sometime tomorrow. What does that have to do with the above quoted text? Well, I am visiting family in Oregon at the moment. And here in Oregon, it is against the law to eat ice cream on Sunday.:)
Has the possibility of reducing the market by one. You're assuming the only causal function of creating an ebook copy will be not to buy the used tree copy.
Case in point:
I downloaded the entire John Carter of Mars series in electronic (plain ASCII) format. Granted, a good portion of those are public domain now, but that's beside the point.
Anyway, I am still interested in getting the entire series in paperback format, and will continue to buy them when they show up at my preferred used book resellers (mostly thrift stores), but only the ones with cover art by Whelan (one of my favorite SF artists). Having them electronically has not discouraged me from trying to get traditional copies at all.
The three IBM 'inventors' were stymied by users named Pat, who as a result will be assigned a 'generic, genderless human figure image as his or her avatar.'
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Did Godwin just break his own law?
Nope. The one you replied to merely posted a joke summary of Godwin's post, the original of which mentions nothing that would invoke Godwin's law. But even if Godwin had mentioned Hitler or Nazis, that would not be breaking Godwin's Law, that would be a fulfillment of the law, which merely states:
"As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."
And that is all.
He's fucking finished
or
FINISH HIM!
(distant moans)
Gamers WIN!
Flawless victory... Legality.
That's an XKCD reference, boy. You know what we do to XKCD referencers around here?
I'll get around to answering that later. I have a more important matter to attend to.
Someone is wrong on the Internet.
And who will fight censorship?
Generic 003 442 658 881! Of course.
And Generic 003 442 658 882, his faithful sidekick, or should I say flag bearer.
Oops. Looks like someone petitioned the GMs over those names. :)
The government has a monopoly on force, so only they could get away with forcing anyone to do anything - there's no higher power to which they must answer.
Most people nowadays tend to forget that civilized governments do indeed have a higher power they should be ready to answer to.
That higher power is known as the citizens who allow those governments to continue to exist. The ballot box is the tool that is supposed to be our primary weapon to keep our elected leaders and those who they appoint to other positions in check.
At least, that is the way it is supposed to work.
Of course! No one would admit to actually BEING a lawyer.
Yet strangely, many of them will happily admit to thousands of total strangers here that they do anal. ;)
There are some people do refer to Americans as USians.
Referring to the citizens of the United States of America as USians makes as much sense as calling the citizens of The Peoples' Republic of China PRians, or the citizens of Los Estados Unidos de Mexico EUians, or the citizens of the Federal Republic of Germany FRians.
So those would have put out something to the effect of, "Bow-chicka-whirr-whirr-buzz-buzz-click-click-wow-wow."
How do I copyright a name, title, slogan or logo?
In short, if the revolution comes, the wireless carriers will be up against the wall right after we finish with the Wall Street Executives and RIAA lawyers.
and PETA
Why are you lumping People Eating Tasty Animals in with the Wall Street execs, RIAA lolyers, and wireless carriers?
Just because we enjoy assorted properly prepared meaty dishes doesn't make us evil.
And if you see a big building with lots of long, yellow vehicles in its parking lot you can guess that it's a school.
And if you just see a big blur there instead, then you may very well think that whatever it is being hidden there must be a suitable target for whatever nefarious scheme that you are developing, if you are the type that partakes in nefarious schemes against the public.
The only tool that can be used to write on this paper is a #2 pencil.
Why not just follow the lead of one particular town right there in California?
Chico has a law on the books declaring a $500 fine for detonating a nuclear device within the city limits. It apparently has been a decent deterrent, since no nuke has been detonated within Chico, California.
Um, you do realize that OR is the state that has mysterious crossing signals for walking along portions of sidewalk, right? Having seen that more than a few times, I'm not sure if anything down there would surprise me.
It is also the state where it is illegal to eat ice cream on Sunday. And because of this, when I went to visit my family for Thanksgiving, I, my brother, and his family all became stars of America's Least Wanted due to us having root beer floats on the night of 2008-11-30.
And my question about this proposal...
What about cars that do not have GPS devices installed? Free pass for their owners?
I highly doubt she might have put it that way. Word choice is very heavily geared toward how things sound and flow in the Alice books, and "interestinger" sounds terrible. It chokes up the sentence.
So instead, Alice might have put on a WWII German uniform and said, Very eenterestink.
You counter with Ninjas, then they counter with Pirates. You think the Ninja's will stand a chance against Kung-Fu Pirates? I shudder at the thought of what they will be stopped with.
Then we counter their pirates with RIAA lawyers. They will be sued into such deep debt that not a single virgin (let alone 72 virgins) will have anything to do with them.
"Apparently, Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting.."
Great, now I have that song in my head...
Here ya go... This should help get that song out of your head.
I can see it now...someone hacks the system and substitutes subliminal porn images for the bin Laden pictures. Talk about provoking a physiological reaction...
Sir, is that an AK-47 in your pocket?
I'm not advocating zero government here, but we need to be wary about giving the government more work to do on such basic services
My big concern here is that the funding for this will mean less funding available for me to continue refining this silly walk I have been developing.
Only the coward or the accomplice follows unjust laws.
Ah. Thanks for the reminder. I think I will have me a dish of ice cream sometime tomorrow. What does that have to do with the above quoted text? Well, I am visiting family in Oregon at the moment. And here in Oregon, it is against the law to eat ice cream on Sunday. :)
Better put in a call to America's Least Wanted.
Has the possibility of reducing the market by one. You're assuming the only causal function of creating an ebook copy will be not to buy the used tree copy.
Case in point:
I downloaded the entire John Carter of Mars series in electronic (plain ASCII) format. Granted, a good portion of those are public domain now, but that's beside the point.
Anyway, I am still interested in getting the entire series in paperback format, and will continue to buy them when they show up at my preferred used book resellers (mostly thrift stores), but only the ones with cover art by Whelan (one of my favorite SF artists). Having them electronically has not discouraged me from trying to get traditional copies at all.
Careful, though. If you say their name three times whilst looking in a mirror, they'll pop out and sue you.
Wouldn't that only be a concern if the accuser's name was Hastur...
Hastur...
Hastur?
The three IBM 'inventors' were stymied by users named Pat, who as a result will be assigned a 'generic, genderless human figure image as his or her avatar.'
Congratulations! It's a patent!
That hardware solution is the KG-175 from General Dynamics. I can't say for certain, but I highly doubt they outsource that to China.
So, which side has the mavericks? (takes a drink).
Personally, I would write in a third party candidate: Lord Recluse. :)