http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
On 7 Aug 2009, at 20:25, evan.raskob [lists] wrote:
> If you're talking about Nazism and other such dark topics, you've
> either got to be dead serious or damn funny. Anything in between
> just doesn't work... lets just let it be for now and move on, cool?
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> On Aug 7, 2009, at 7:46 PM, alex wrote:
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>> 2009/8/7 evan.raskob [lists] <lists_at_lowfrequency.org>:
>>> Kassen: nice one, bringing the Neuremberg defense into the
>>> conversation...
>>> yes I do have a sense of humor, and a dark one at times, but
>>> really, did
>>> you have to casually bring Nazism into it? I'm not demanding an
>>> apology or
>>> anything like that, only asking, for the sake of us all, not to
>>> lightly take
>>> the conversation of giving people light-hearted instructions into
>>> the realm
>>> of bureaucratic mass-slaughter unless we *really* want to go
>>> there. And I
>>> vote emphatic no on that one.
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>> Sorry if our banter was offensive, like Kassen I thought of the
>> Nuremberg defense as more general than its origins, the milgram
>> experiment was in my head before Nazis. That could be my poor sense
>> of history though, have taken note...
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>>> Alex: where can we find these videos? Searched ABC's website and
>>> found
>>> nothing. I want proof for future generations that when livecoding
>>> finally
>>> becomes the rage and displaces skinny jeans and ironic comedians
>>> with bad
>>> hair that I WAS THERE FIRST.
>>
>> I got the impression that the ABC news slot would take a couple of
>> weeks to come up. I think the BBC have a faster turnaround, probably
>> a few days though.
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>> Cheers,
>>
>> alex
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>> http://yaxu.org/
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