The attitude to democracy is more important than the democracy itself.

Sy Ali sy1234-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Thu May 4 02:20:15 UTC 2006


On 5/3/06, Peter <plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > Is that like a division by zero? ;)
>
> If it would be like the division by zero then this thread would continue
> forever ?

I invoke Parkinson's law[1] and claim that a thread can indeed go on
forever, mutating into multiple topics as necessary, assuming there
are participants who still have free time.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law

(Really, I just picked a law at random and found a way to invoke it)
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