Re: [s-d] Re: [s-b] Nweek 87 Proposal Resolution

[The Voice <voiceofnomic@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/8/05, Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On May 8, 2005, at 10.25 PM, Alex Truelsen wrote:
> 
> > On 5/8/05, Peter Cooper Jr. <pete+bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Proposal 28/2 GNU's Not Unix (BvS):
> >> That text doesn't exist in that rule (nor in rule 3-6 anymore, for
> >> that matter), so the main part of the proposal doesn't do anything.
> >> Only one Genechip will be given out for this proposal's passing, so I
> >> don't know if half of it can be awarded to The Voice. Thoughts?
> >
> > Oh, just that there's more than one Genechip to be paid - the title of
> > the
> > proposal is a recursive acronym. With "GNU" expanding to "GNU's Not
> > Unix,"
> > there is a series of acronyms that title expands into, including "GNU,"
> > "GNUNU," "GNUNUNU," and so on. Therefore, since 3-6 stated at the time
> > of
> > this proposal's passing that a proposal could be worth multiple
> > Genechips, I
> > would say this one is worth an infinite number of Genechips. The Voice
> > gets
> > half of that infinity. The point of the proposal was of course to fix
> > the
> > hole after profiting from it. So, looks like the hole is fixed and
> > everyone's happy, especially me and Voice.
> 
> Two important points:
> 1) The title forms only four acronyms. The fact that the first word is
> entirely capitalized does nothing. Good luck convincing anyone to
> acronymize "gnu's not unix" by "gnununu".
> 2) My tweak removed this flaw.
> 
> Nice try, though.
> 
> --
> Wonko
> 
> "Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the
> money to do it right."
>       -Kurt Herbert Alder

I would respectfully disagree on the first part, because GNU is an
acronym whether or not it is capitalized.  I believe the rule said,
"contains an acronym"... I believe it contained an infinite number of
acronyms.

Anyway, the tweak kind of makes this a moot point, huh?
-- 
.o0(The Voice)
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