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Re: [s-d] [s-b] [CotC] CFJ 5 assigned to Judge 0x44


On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Geoffrey Spear <wooble@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Kerim Aydin <kerim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 26 May 2009, 0x44 wrote:
>>> B Nomic's game custom explicitly permits simultaneous rule changes. If the
>>> rule does not permit them, it is a regression artifact from the unilateral
>>> assumption of Agora's ruleset.
>>
>> Um, if "custom" overrules Rules, why do you have Rules at all?  -G.
>
> I've been asking myself that about Agora for ages.

In theory, where the Rules are ambiguous, custom has no part in their
interpretation.  In practice, I still believe R101 has been judicially
butchered...
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