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

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 12:43  AM, Glotmorf 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...
>
> Perhaps that's true for most scalar quantities.  Problem is, r578 
> talks about bandwidth in terms of "unit chunks"; "Any player may 
> transfer a point of bandwidth from emself to any society": this 
> measures bandwidth in unit chunks of points.  Plus the rule says 
> societies may "possess" bandwidth; if we can transfer it to an entity 
> that possesses it, that implies we possess it first.

We do possess Bandwidth; but that doesn't mean it's an object. You can 
possess wine as well, but you can't give somebody 'a wine'. If you had 
a *bottle* of wine, you could give it away; similarly, if bandwidth 
came in 'unit chunks' (like WC's old Proposal Chit prop), then it would 
be covered by the object transferance rule; but without objects of 
bandwidth to give, "Societies may possess any objects that players can 
legally possess" doesn't apply.

--
Wonko

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