Re: [s-d] Re: [s-b] Nweek 87 Proposal Resolution

[Alex Truelsen <dichotomousmind@xxxxxxxxx>]

No matter, things just got more interesting on another front.

Join the Spanish Monarchy Party!

[[BvS]]

On 5/8/05, The Voice <voiceofnomic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On 5/8/05, Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On May 8, 2005, at 10.25 PM, Alex Truelsen wrote:
> >
> > > On 5/8/05, Peter Cooper Jr. <pete+bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Proposal 28/2 GNU's Not Unix (BvS):
> > >> That text doesn't exist in that rule (nor in rule 3-6 anymore, for
> > >> that matter), so the main part of the proposal doesn't do anything.
> > >> Only one Genechip will be given out for this proposal's passing, so I
> > >> don't know if half of it can be awarded to The Voice. Thoughts?
> > >
> > > Oh, just that there's more than one Genechip to be paid - the title of
> > > the
> > > proposal is a recursive acronym. With "GNU" expanding to "GNU's Not
> > > Unix,"
> > > there is a series of acronyms that title expands into, including 
> "GNU,"
> > > "GNUNU," "GNUNUNU," and so on. Therefore, since 3-6 stated at the time
> > > of
> > > this proposal's passing that a proposal could be worth multiple
> > > Genechips, I
> > > would say this one is worth an infinite number of Genechips. The Voice
> > > gets
> > > half of that infinity. The point of the proposal was of course to fix
> > > the
> > > hole after profiting from it. So, looks like the hole is fixed and
> > > everyone's happy, especially me and Voice.
> >
> > Two important points:
> > 1) The title forms only four acronyms. The fact that the first word is
> > entirely capitalized does nothing. Good luck convincing anyone to
> > acronymize "gnu's not unix" by "gnununu".
> > 2) My tweak removed this flaw.
> >
> > Nice try, though.
> >
> > --
> > Wonko
> >
> > "Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the
> > money to do it right."
> > -Kurt Herbert Alder
> 
> I would respectfully disagree on the first part, because GNU is an
> acronym whether or not it is capitalized. I believe the rule said,
> "contains an acronym"... I believe it contained an infinite number of
> acronyms.
> 
> Anyway, the tweak kind of makes this a moot point, huh?
> --
> .o0(The Voice)
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