Re: spoon-discuss: Proposed r0 proposal

[bd <bdonlan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 31 May 2002 12:13 am, Glotmorf wrote:
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> Actually, precedent can take precedence, at least in common law.  Hence you
> have things like easements, squatters' rights, common-law marriages,
> palimony and other things that legally exist solely because they'd been
> allowed to continue for a long enough period of time.  Granted, we don't
> explicitly acknowledge common law in the rules, but then we're back to
> things like game custom, common sense and other things that allow us to use
> English and email without explicitly saying so.
>
> Under the assumption that no one's score is known right now, no, my score
> isn't known.  The Voice had tied it to dimships, though.

IMHO, the rules don't _need_ to have power over us. If we all decide to do 
something else(even the admin), the rules don't have any power at all.