Re: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: The Daily Recognizer (Friday night)

[Wonko <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoth Rob Speer,

> On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 05:14:24PM -0400, Wonko wrote:
>>> R155 also says:
>>> 
>>> "If a proposal, by adding, changing, or repealing rules, will generate
>>> effects
>>> which are based on the way players vote on that proposal, or any other
>>> specific proposal or proposals identified in the proposal, then those rules
>>> generate no effects based on the way players vote on that particular
>>> proposal."
>>> 
>>> It says this in R155/1.  The CFJ was on R155/0, which didn't say this.  CFJ
>>> 254 doesn't apply to R155/1, then, because R155/1 is a significantly
>>> different
>>> rule.
>> 
>> 
>> Nonetheless, the same logic applies. The proposal does not generate effects
>> based on how players voted. The rule may, but the rules are not the
>> proposal.
> 
> What part of "by adding, changing, or repealing rules" don't you
> understand? Is it the word "by"?
> 
> In this case, the preposition "by" means "using the method of", and the
> rules are the method of generating these effects, so the rule applies.

The sentence is useless. A proposal, by adding, changing, or repealing
rules, will *never* generate effects. That's what the CFJ decided - that the
proposal is not generating those effects, the rules created by the proposal
are.


-- 
Wonko