[s-d] Re: Winding the Coil

[pete+bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Peter Cooper Jr.)]

Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> r1898 defines the bonus as "the goodies that the first player to Wind
> the Coil receives."
>
> That means I get the goodies when I Wind it, and apparently 10 points
> extra, which I hadn't noticed earlier.

Well, I was just trying to put together a persuasive argument that
since they're both trying to define what you get for completing the
coil, r33 says that the one appearing later in the rule is the one
that gets followed. But now I'm realizing that r33 is only if two
parts can't both be followed, and in this case it's abundantly clear
that they can in fact both be followed.

I guess the best argument I could make would be that the Bonus's
description is just a description, and not an instruction to actually
give out the Bonus upon the Winding of the Coil, but that seems like a
rather weak argument, too.

And since I still don't want to get on Wonko's bad side :), and am
coming up with less and less reasons to refuse the points, I'll
recognize the extra 50 points. Roster updated //R//.

> I don't find it particularly shady - I requested a program back when I
> didn't have time to write it, and nobody wrote it in the time between
> then and now; now I've spent a fair bit of time writing it and am
> collecting the fee.

In this case, I agree that it's a reasonable payment for a job
presumably well done. But in general, I don't like the fact that
people can give themselves points that way. It just seems way too open
to abuse.

And since the description of the Weaver includes that "E must provide
some way for the Ministers ... to automate their tasks if they so
choose", one could claim that making the occasional program like that
is why the Weaver is getting paid a salary of 20 points an nweek all
along. (Otherwise... why do we have the position?)

Heh... my random signature for this email seems particularly
appropriate, somehow.

-- 
Peter C.
"As part of the conversion, computer specialists rewrote 1,500
programs; a process that traditionally requires some debugging."
 -- USA Today, referring to the IRS switchover to a new computer system.

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