Is meh merely a slanted version of Microsoft?

@f00l Not a fan.

@ACraigL
Apologies

Was just trying to win the “Godwin’s Law” contest.

Not any kind fan of Nazis or their associated conspiracies.
(Except when used as in “The Producers” and similar.)

@f00l Gotcha. No need to hurry it along. Also, I don’t think we’d get there in this community.

@ACraigL
I have seen something like Godwin’s Law applied here before (more than once?) in some threads, sometime…

If I remember, kinda in the same spirit as /giphy tho.

@f00l My vocabulary has now increased (Godwin’s Law), and I thought I’d already heard it all. @ACraigL This community is all over the map, but that is one direction I haven’t seen here. Is it possible that geeks and early adopters and such avoid ‘there’? Oh, and this is a fan:
/giphy fan

@OldCatLady
@ACraigL

I only yield to - or fend off - the temptation to “go there” during satirical invocations of conspiracy possibilities. Possibly this is a character flaw and I should desist entirely. Not sure.

@f00l …or in the movie Inglorious Bastards, that film makes me spit my chips on some of brad pitt’s lines about nazi’s

@Yoda_Daenerys
If you have not seen “The Producers”, both the Zero Mostel/Gene Wilder and the Nathan Lane/Matthew Broderick versions are incredible.

Mel Brooks has to be on my desert island.

@f00l no one wins with Godwin’s Law.

@Thumperchick
Except Mel Brooks. And possibly Quentin Tarantino.

@Thumperchick
that image was a no doubt ultra-lame attempt at conspiracy-related satire. /FAIL. I spoze, just take it down.

@ELUNO The actual link is this: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa746475.aspx

Has to do with writing LDAP search filters. I was showing it to someone last week and still had the page open.

@baqui63 What did you order?

@dashbutt You may regret this before I’m done, but wth…

The Gmail tab was showing part of the label “Order/Tracking” (which I just renamed to “Order tracking” because I meant to do that eons ago and forgot).

When I order something from meh, a filter labels the email about the order with “meh.com/orders” and removes it from the Inbox. Another filter labels it with “Order tracking”. (It sucks that a single filter cannot apply multiple labels, but maybe one day GMail will grow up into a real mail client, tho it works fairly well as it stands.) The same filters kick in for the email from meh when an item is shipped.

When I get shit from meh, I remove the “Order tracking” label; the messages remain labeled with “meh.com/orders” so I can reference them later if desired.

Filters also label the daily emails from meh with “meh.com/daily email” (but not with “Order tracking”) and the @mention notifications get labeled with “meh.com” (none of these stay in the Inbox).

I do similar things with labels for orders from other places, though only a few are done automagically with filters (woot, amazon and maybe a couple of others). I also use the Order tracking label for things like Groupons and other coupons and credits from Amazon (e.g. I have five $5.99 Prime Pantry credits left from Prime Day that I need to use by end of September).

TL;DR: When I took that screen cap, I had fourteen outstanding orders/coupons: four from meh, one Amazon order and five Amazon Prime Pantry coupons, one Groupon coupon, two orders from woot and one order from ThatDailyDeal.

@Yoda_Daenerys
In many widely public forums, and in the old days of Usenet, Godwin’s Law had a near mathematically certain application within any long political discussion.

The whiff of it sometimes creeps into modern political debate, but most candidates and partisans won’t go there on tape.