Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Oops

[bd <bdonlan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Wednesday 06 August 2003 08:05 pm, Glotmorf wrote:
> --- Mark Karasek <mkarasek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > B Nomic is (was?) a soverign nation. The laws of a
> > nation are the rules
> > created by that nation governing its citizens; in
> > our case, the ruleset. As
> > for your second point, I took a different view that
> > would allow us to keep
> > playing. Was I wrong? Maybe. If so, I guess it's
> > time for C Nomic.
>
> Okay, I took another look at the rules and
> proposals...
>
> R1637 was created by p1596.  R1 was modified by p1597.
>  Does that mean the world's nations' laws were
> repealed prior to B Nomic becoming a nation, since
> p1596 got passed before p1597?  Or were the rules not
> active since the clock was off, and therefore both
> rules became active at once when the clock went back
> on?
>
> While the ruleset uses words such as "simultaneous" to
> describe events within the vote-tallying period, there
> nevertheless is precedent for the results of one
> proposal affecting the possibility of applying the
> results of a later proposal in the same nweek.  If so,
> the world's laws were wiped before B Nomic officially
> became part of the world.
>
> Then again, is r1637 supposed to represent some steady
> state, so that the world's rules are wiped in
> perpetuity?  If so, doesn't that prevent there being a
> C Nomic too? :)

No - it erases itself in the process :)
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bd
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