James Baxter on Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:56:34 -0700 (MST)


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Re: [s-b] [s-d] Reassignment of Consultation 203


I repeat the following claim, thsi time to spoon-business
 

> From: jebaxter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

> To: spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx

> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:52:30 +0000

> Subject: Re: [s-d] [s-b] Reassignment of Consultation 203

>

> I claim this to be CONSISTENT.

> > Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 10:37:28 -0500

> > From: wooble@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

> > To: spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx

> > Subject: Re: [s-b] Reassignment of Consultation 203

> > 

> > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Ed Murphy <emurphy42@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > I assign Consultation 203 to Priest Wooble.

> > 

> > I answer YES.

> > 

> > Rule 5E10 says "To perform a Game Action, an Outsider must post a

> > message to a Public Forum specifying that they are taking that

> > action." I hold that this "must" establishes a necessary but not

> > sufficient condition to perform game actions, and doesn't provide

> > blanket possibility for doing something simply because doing that
> > thing would be a Game Action were it possible.

> > 

> > 5E57 does indeed allow a contract to be modified by any mechanism

> > specified by the contract, but it does *not* allow any particular

> > person to modify arbitrary contracts. Were it worded using the active

> > voice as something like "any Player may/can modify a contract by

> > performing actions specified in that contract", it might be

> > legitimately argued that 5E57 creates the ability to perform any

> > action specified in a contract. Using the passive voice, it does not

> > have this effect, and the contract can only grant the power to modify 

> > it, not the power to perform the actions it says are necessary to

> > modify it.

> > --  

> > Wooble
> 


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