Re: [s-d] Re: [s-b] Seals

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 4, 2004, at 11.00 PM, Jeremy Cook wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 06:19:10PM -0500, Daniel Lepage wrote:
> > On Dec 4, 2004, at 5.13 PM, Jeremy Cook wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 05:03:22PM -0500, Daniel Lepage wrote:
> > > > Not knowing which order you've attempted to reserve these in, I'm
> > > > gonna
> > > > have to say you fail, since each Ministry gets only one seal, and I
> > > > have no way of determining which one you reserved first.
> > >
> > > Where does r1906 specify that each Ministry only gets one seal? I
> > > reserved all those simultaneously, and at the time I reserved
> > > them, the Meta-Ministry had not reserved a seal.
> >
> > You also took infinitely many actions, which is illegal by r1896. And
> > you attempted to reserve seals such as "the", which are in common
> > usage. That's illegal by r1906.
> >
> > Oh, and the Ministry of the Roster is also your Ministry, so your
> > Ministry has reserved a Seal already.
>
> Please explain this last point.

If a Minister's Ministry has already reserved a Seal, that Minister 
can't reserve new Seals. Since the Ministry of the Roster has a Seal, 
its Minister (you) is no longer able to reserve new Seals.

Yes, I know this last one's a bit of a bogus argument, since it relies 
on interpreting 'eir Ministry' as 'any Ministry that is eirs'; I'm just 
making a list of all the flimsy arguments that could be used should you 
keep trying to destroy the game.

Another one on the list is that you can't reserve a Seal for your 
Ministry at all, because in order to do so you'd need a Seal to 
reserve, and a set of characters isn't a Seal until it's been reserved. 
Hence no Seals exist for you to reserve, and by the "Glasses of 
Champagne" CFI you can't reserve one.

--
Wonko

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
                -- Buckminster Fuller

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