Goethe wrote:
Murphy wrote:
Upon the adoption of this proposal, each natural person who is part
of a player that is not a natural person is awarded the Patent Title
of Denny Crane.
I object to this being treated as a cheap scam (whose perpetrators
could be bought off with trinkets) rather than as a legitimate
attempts to establish the rights of natural organizations such as
partnerships within Agora's contract laws.
It's not that the Pineapple Partnership is a scam, but that its
validation under the current rules would open the door for boring
scams (any pair of players could create and register an arbitrary
number of partnerships differing only in name).
Proto-Proposal: Civil unions
(AI = 3, please)
Amend Rule 478 (Fora) by replacing each instance of "player" in
the following text with "person":
A player "publishes" or "announces"
something by sending a public message.
A player performs an action "by announcement" by announcing that
e performs it. A player performs an action "by private message"
to some player by sending an appropriate private message to the
specified player.
Create a rule titled "Partnerships" with this text:
A partnership is an agreement between two or more natural
persons, published by at least one of them, that is explicitly
designated as a partnership.
Messages sent by a natural person belonging to a partnership
are deemed to have been sent by the partnership if and only if
they are explicitly designated as having this intent.
Partnerships are not eligible voters.
Amend Rule 1023 (Common Definitions) by replacing this text:
The term "person" shall mean "natural person".
with this text:
The term "person" shall mean "natural person or partnership".
Upon the adoption of this proposal, the Pineapple Partnership created
by Goethe and Zefram on or about Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:17:17 +0000 is
registered.
Upon the adoption of this proposal, the Patent Title of Denny Crane
is revoked from Goethe and Zefram.
