Re: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Flipping the Circuit Breaker

[Wonko <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoth Glotmorf,

> On 4/15/02 at 5:29 PM Rob Speer wrote:
> 
>> I propose a rule:
>> {{
>> __Flipping the Circuit Breaker__
>> 
>> Immediately after any Player is awarded a Win, a new Rule is
>> created with a Chutzpah of 9, with the text:
>> {{ __No Win For You__
>> 
>> Players may not win.
>> 
>> }}
>> }}
>> 
>> [[ This gives time for the Nomic to get back into a normal state, at
>> which time someone may propose to repeal the rule. It's hard to get one
>> Win; it should be twice as hard to get two. ]]
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Rob Speer
> 
> Would "concurrent with" rather than "immediately after" work?  Is there
> anything that says events have to be sequential?
> 
> Glotmorf
> 
> 
If it's concurrent, isn't that a paradox? It's illegal for it to happen, if
and only if it successfully happens?
-- 
Wonko