Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Paragraphs and pineapples

2007-03-01 Thread Taral
On 2/28/07, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sigh. But that's the point. If you're not going to grant partnerships any benefits of registering why regulate them at all? It's just a wasted Rule. Voting Credits. -- Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "You can't prove anything." -- Gödel's Incom

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Paragraphs and pineapples

2007-02-28 Thread Kerim Aydin
Eris wrote: Simpler -- don't give Partnerships any free votes. Sigh. But that's the point. If you're not going to grant partnerships any benefits of registering why regulate them at all? It's just a wasted Rule. Murphy has a proposal which says "persons are natural persons only", which ve

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Paragraphs and pineapples

2007-02-28 Thread Taral
On 2/27/07, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Even given that those M people might agree to create additional partnerships out of proper subsets, thus forming a bloc of 2^M-1 voters (including the natural persons)? Granted, this is Not Easy, either. Simpler -- don't give Partnerships any fr

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Paragraphs and pineapples

2007-02-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
Murphy wrote: While leaving both contracts in effect. But "both" contracts would only be one person, so they couldn't both register. Even given that those M people might agree to create additional partnerships out of proper subsets, thus forming a bloc of 2^M-1 voters (including the natural

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Paragraphs and pineapples

2007-02-27 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: How about something more radical and simple? Leave "persons" as referring to all types of persons (not just natural), but insert a single sentence "persons consisting of the same set of natural persons are the same person". This would limit the arbitrary issue, and puts partnersh

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Paragraphs and pineapples

2007-02-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
Murphy wrote: Proto-Proposal: Civil unions (AI = 3, please) After some thought, and with thanks for the writing, I'm not sure I agree with this approach. What it does is impose regulations without benefits... by limiting the "personhood" of partnerships, you've turned them into agreements

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Paragraphs and pineapples

2007-02-27 Thread Ed Murphy
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 t

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Paragraphs and pineapples

2007-02-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
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 legitima