Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] [INH] INH Update

[Wonko <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoth Orc In A Spacesuit,

>> From: Wonko <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> The Pending Ordinances are posted. My feelings on the new ones:
>> 
>> All your base...
>> Nice try, Baron, but Ordinances can't change the gamestate. And even
>> if
>> they could, the charter decrees that nonsensical rules don't apply, so if
>> you make it so that "All your base..." now means, "All non-us members' BNS,
>> points, carryable objects, and control of votes are belong to bd, BvS, Orc,
>> and Wonko", it still doesn't work, 'cuz it doesn't make sense.
> 
> It was I who made the Ordinance "All Your Base Are Belong To Us".  And I
> didn't mean anything by it; it was in the same spirit as your Fnord rule.

The Fnord rule doesn't apply either, as it's also nonsensical. My point is
that the syntax in the 'All you base' ord. doesn't make sense even if
someone goes and defines 'you', 'us', and 'base', so the attempt to force
the transferrence of points fails even if it were otherwise legal.

-- 
Wonko

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