Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Orange you glad I didn't...

2007-02-04 Thread Zefram
Kerim Aydin wrote: >Conditions under which patent titles may or must be "awarded" are >listed, but no where does it say that it is done by announcement. Patent titles are awarded by Rules or Proposals, not by Players. No announcement is involved. -zefram

DIS: Re: BUS: Orange you glad I didn't...

2007-02-04 Thread Kerim Aydin
Michael wrote: You can deem all you like, but the rules will pay you no attention. There is a counterexample. The rules say nothing about choosing nicknames. But if I deem my nickname to be something, the Rules pay attention (CFJ 1361). The fact that there is one demonstrable counterexample

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Orange you glad I didn't...

2007-02-04 Thread Michael Norrish
Kerim Aydin wrote: > > Michael wrote: >> Such deeming happens in regulated fashion, so everyone else's >> unregulated deeming is completely irrelevant. > Oho, that seems like a particularly pernicious semantic slip, > changing the regulation of a noun (e.g. deeming regulated quantities > making u