[spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Ruling on CFI 1539

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, May 21, 2003, at 10:38  PM, Glotmorf wrote:

> Statement: The apocalypse only lasts an instant.
> Defendant: None
> Plaintiff: SkArcher
> Judge: Glotmorf
>
> Ruling: False.
>
> Analysis:
>
> 	Plaintiff SkArcher's analysis seems focused on the sentence "The 
> period of time between the instant when Universal Entropy exceeds 
> Maximum Entropy, and the end of the nweek in which that occurred, may 
> also be referred to as 'Burning Man'" in Rule 154.  However, this is 
> the sole reference to "Burning Man" in the entire ruleset, and the 
> term is not declared to be any sort of synonym for the Apocalypse.
>
> 	Even if it were, the exact phrasing of the CFI does not tie it to any 
> particular Apocalypse, which means it's making a claim to a general 
> case; as a general case, the statement is still false, since an 
> Apocalypse can occur in the middle of an nweek, such as when a Win has 
> occurred (see Rule 22).
>
> 	Even if it did, the CFI would still be false, since it says clearly 
> in Rule 154 that the Clock is turned off in the event of an Apocalypse 
> for three wdays.  While this theoretically would result in the passage 
> of zero game time, the CFI is not phrased to apply specifically to 
> game time, and the passage of three wdays is considerably longer than 
> an instant.  Plus, "the period of time" referred to in the sentence 
> referenced by Plaintiff isn't tied to game time either, and therefore 
> must include the three wdays.
>
> 	I have said.

The real question that needs to be addressed, then, is in which nweek 
the Apocalypse occurs. Is "the end of nweek X" part of nweek X or at 
the start of nweek X+1?

--
Wonko

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