Re: [s-d] [s-b] Paradoxical registration

[Tyler <wisety@xxxxxxxxx>]

Huh? Why isn't it legal again for him to register? Is it because he has been
a player recently? No, that can't be it. I don't get that your logic, Hose.

On 9/4/08, Mike McGann <mike.mcgann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Fails.
>
> Rule 12 states:
> "If it would be legal for the Outsider to take each Game Action within the
> Transaction exactly as specified, and each assertion would be true at the
> time it occurs within the list if the Game Actions were so taken, then the
> Transaction is said to Succeed. Otherwise, the Transaction is said to
> Fail."
>
> No matter what the assertion says, it is not legal to take the Game Action
> as specified by Rule 4:
>
> "Any Human External Force who is not already a Player and who has not been
> a
> player in the current or previous nweek can become a Player by posting a
> message to a Public Forum containing a request to become a Player and a
> uniquely identifying name that e wishes to be known by."
>
> BEGIN TRANSACTION
> Action: I request to register, under the name Hose.
> Assertion: The Red Sox win the 2042 World Series.
> END TRANSACTION
>
> - Hose
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  -Tyler
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