Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Ramroding the CFI's

["Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/22/02 at 5:26 PM bd wrote:

>On Friday 22 November 2002 05:14 pm, Orc In A Spacesuit wrote:
>> I change my name to David E. Smith.  By rule 25, I am now the
>> administrator.
>
>I attach the following analysis to my previous CFI:
>{{
>By rule 2, "Any similarity between the string of characters that
>constitute
>the name of a Player and a string of characters in the text of a Proposal,
>Rule, or Judgment shall have no impact on the implementation of that
>Proposal, Rule, or Judgment, unless the language of the Proposal, Rule, or
>Judgment specifically indicates the string of characters is referring to a
>Player of that name. ".
>
>Rule 25 states: "The Administrator is David E. Smith." Rule 25 does not
>specifically indicate the string of characters, "David E. Smith" is
>referring
>to a Player of that name.
>
>Therefore "the player formerly known as Orc in a Spacesuit" is not the
>Administrator, but he is "the player named David E. Smith".
>}}

A corrolary to this argument is that since the rules defined the existence of the Administrator, and then says the Administrator is David E. Smith, that means "David E. Smith" is an alias for the Administrator.  Therefore, there already existed an entity known as David E. Smith, so Orc's renaming emself to be David E. Smith is a violation of the uniquely identifying names rule.

						Glotmorf

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