Re: [s-b] A Statement of the Gamestate

[Jeremy Cook <athena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 02:57:28AM -0500, Daniel Lepage wrote:
> Ok, in my capacity as Adept and therefore de facto minister of damn 
> near everything, I'm going to make a bunch of statements about the 
> state of the game, based on my interpretation of recent events. I'll 
> wait two ndays for anybody to object to any of this; after that, I'm 
> going through and making sure that all the public displays are updated 
> with THIS gamestate.

I object to two things:
> The other attempted rule-changes were illegal: nobody seems to have 
> mistaken Personman's actions for legal actions, Rodney's 'KLC' attempt 
> was either an illegal attempt to create something or simply a false 
> statement about the gamestate, and Zarpint's Taxly Evasive Scam 
> overlooks the clause in the societies rule that says societies may only 
> take actions that the rules say they can.

I object.
Permissibility of the Unprohibited is one of the rules. "Societies
may only take actions that the rules say they can" is the same as
"societies may only take legal actions". It would be different if the
rule said "societies may only take actions the rules explicitly allow",
but it doesn't.

> And Tildex:
> This is where it was at the beginning of the nweek, plus a few 
> watering/weeding changes and a judgment or two; no scams this nweek.
> Note that Zarpint probably wants to take back about half eir Research 
> to avoid getting Taxed, and a bunch of people haven't paid 
> watering/weeding, for what it's worth (Here's to alliteration :) )

I object that Societies are now taxed. Earlier you were arguing that the
intent can't contravene the words of the rules, but the words of r1904
are so vague (what exactly is a "r578 thing" and how does a rule "look
at" one thing as if it were another?) that any specific interpretation
is just guesswork.

> If anyone out there feels that I've overlooked something, done 
> something wrong, or interpreted something badly, you have two ndays to 
> either convince me of the error of my ways or CFI it; any later than 
> that and I may not be able to reprocess all actions again. And I'll be 
> really pissed off if I have to.

Well, SOL gives us 10, so it's not really fair to supersede that by
fiat. But I'll CFI those two tomorrow if necessary.

Zarpint
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