For the record: Berland's law
Berland's law, which I've stated in private to many individuals, as well as on several mailing lists (mostly google internal ones) could be considered a corollary to Godwin's Law. For those unfamiliar, Godwin's Law is a relatively old law relating to usenet (and by extension mailing list) discussions. Nowadays, amongst a group of geek discussing something esoteric on a mailing list, a discussion of Godwin's law often occurs. The extent of this sub-thread is itself a pretty good indicator of how worthless the parenthing thread. Thus, Berland's law:
Berland's law: as the length of a subthread on a thread discussing godwin's law increases, the probability of the parent thread having never had any value approaches 1.
This is being stated here for posterity.
Berland's law: as the length of a subthread on a thread discussing godwin's law increases, the probability of the parent thread having never had any value approaches 1.
This is being stated here for posterity.