| James Baxter on Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:52:35 -0700 (MST) |
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| Re: [s-d] [s-b] Reassignment of Consultation 203 |
I claim this to be CONSISTENT. > Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 10:37:28 -0500 > From: wooble@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To: spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [s-b] Reassignment of Consultation 203 > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Ed Murphy <emurphy42@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I assign Consultation 203 to Priest Wooble. > > I answer YES. > > Rule 5E10 says "To perform a Game Action, an Outsider must post a > message to a Public Forum specifying that they are taking that > action." I hold that this "must" establishes a necessary but not > sufficient condition to perform game actions, and doesn't provide > blanket possibility for doing something simply because doing that > thing would be a Game Action were it possible. > > 5E57 does indeed allow a contract to be modified by any mechanism > specified by the contract, but it does *not* allow any particular > person to modify arbitrary contracts. Were it worded using the active > voice as something like "any Player may/can modify a contract by > performing actions specified in that contract", it might be > legitimately argued that 5E57 creates the ability to perform any > action specified in a contract. Using the passive voice, it does not > have this effect, and the contract can only grant the power to modify > it, not the power to perform the actions it says are necessary to > modify it. > -- > Wooble _________________________________________________________________ Make a mini you and download it into Windows Live Messenger http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/111354029/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ spoon-discuss mailing list spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/spoon-discuss