On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Zefram wrote: > Quazie wrote: >> I was just surprised to find that Bribing wasn't illegal, thats all, >> so I decided to see what would happen. > > Precedent is that it gets voted down. The *first* bribery attempt of > a novel type generally succeeds, but reiterations are frowned upon. > (Your prisoners' dilemma proposal might be sufficiently novel to garner > interest, but the other two have been done before.)
Precedent doesn't mean much in a legislature: in fact its the nature of a new government or legislative collection to reverse the previous administration's votes. -Goethe
