Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Voodoo

2019-01-10 Thread D. Margaux
Arg. The registrar resignation and subsequent emails got caught in my spam filter. Sorry. On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 8:15 AM Kerim Aydin wrote: > > The Registrar just resigned, but it was due first week of Jan. > > The auctions may still be broken. > > On 1/9/2019 4:41 PM, D. Margaux wrote: > >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Voodoo

2019-01-10 Thread Kerim Aydin
The Registrar just resigned, but it was due first week of Jan. The auctions may still be broken. On 1/9/2019 4:41 PM, D. Margaux wrote: Speaking of zombies, hasn’t it been a while since we’ve had a zombie auction? I think we are overdue On Jan 6, 2019, at 3:34 PM, Timon Walshe-Grey

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Registrar] Zombie Auction

2019-01-10 Thread D. Margaux
> On Jan 10, 2019, at 1:17 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > I terminate this auction, as per R2552. > > > I CFJ: The zombie auction for January 2019 has been terminated. Gratuitous counterarguement: The CFJ is FALSE, because a necessary implication of the Rules is that Agora CAN transfer a

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Registrar] Zombie Auction

2019-01-10 Thread Timon Walshe-Grey
Well this is an interesting argument. The implication would seem to be that rules can redefine what other rules mean. I.e., in this case, there is a rule that says there is a process by which zombies can be transferred as part of an auction, so there is such a process, even though the rules

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Registrar] Zombie Auction

2019-01-10 Thread Timon Walshe-Grey
On Friday, January 11, 2019 2:02 AM, Timon Walshe-Grey wrote: > All right, I'll concede the text of the rules is technically a "physical" > reality. *technically _not_ a "physical" reality. -twg

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Registrar] Zombie Auction

2019-01-10 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Thu, 10 Jan 2019, Timon Walshe-Grey wrote: I think this argument doesn't work because, according to the FLR, CFJs 1911-1914 set the precedent that "Physical realities supersede the Rules by default" - in this case, the physical reality that no rule defines a process for zombie transferral

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Registrar] Zombie Auction

2019-01-10 Thread Timon Walshe-Grey
All right, I'll concede the text of the rules is technically a "physical" reality. But if, say, we had a rule saying "All rules begin with the word 'Tangelo'.", a statement which is manifestly untrue (at least at present), surely that should not be interpreted as a requirement to play the game