bd on 20 Sep 2002 18:36:04 -0000


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Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] NWEEK 22 VOTING RESULTS


On Thursday 19 September 2002 09:20 pm, Wonko wrote:
> Quoth bd,
>
> > On Thursday 19 September 2002 05:53 pm, Wonko wrote:
> >> As for the first, the existing rule does not say that going public is a
> >> prerequisite for existence of Stocks, it only says that going public
> >> creates stocks. That doesn't affect stocks that already exist.
> >
> > CFIs don't have to be true. They just have to be *ruled* TRUE. :-P
> >
> >> So how about I do this: I issue a proposal to give me the hundred thou,
> >> I don't use my shareholder power except to push that proposal through
> >> (and maybe one or two of my other ones? ;), and, as part of the
> >> proposal, I dispose of all my shares? I'd basically be just using
> >> Glotmorf's proposal to undo the damage done to my by Glotmorf's
> >> proposal. Does that sound fair?
> >
> > How about someone says TRUE to my CFI? That fixes things nicely, even
> > though it is a perversion of the judicial system :)
>
> Except it will fail. For the same reason Uin's old "I and the judge of this
> proposal can change the gamestate at will" CFI failed. Regardless of how
> it's judged. CFI's can't contradict something which is true.

Mmm? Well, the interpretation is ambiguous, and we'd have to use a CFI to 
overturn the CFI...

-- 
bd
"This is the kind of castle King Arthur would have lived in... if he were a
fiddler crab." -Fry 

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