Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Society Creation

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, May 7, 2003, at 08:52  PM, Craig wrote:

> > Mmm.... but Bandwidth doesn't technically come in possessable chunks;
> > it's just a variable. The sentence "Any player may transfer a point of
> > Bandwidth from emself to any society." can be construed to mean, any
> > player may decrease eir Bandwidth by X to cause target society's
> > Bandwidth to increase by X; this doesn't imply that the converse is
> > true.
>
> > By your argument, it seems that any scalar quantity ought to be
> > transferable, just by claiming that we possess individual 'unit 
> > chunks'
> > of them... but I don't see why we should be able to claim that...
>
> Ah, but as Glotmorf pointed out, bandwidth *is* transferable - you can
> transfer it to societies. But the judicial system will instantly end 
> all
> conflict, right? Right?

It's transferable; that doesn't mean it consists of possessable chunks. 
It just means you can move it. It's an 'attribute', not a bunch of 
objects. (unlike Score, which is defined as both)

--
Wonko

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