On 5/31/07, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
root wrote: > My keyboard hereby registers as a player, and none of you can judge > otherwise. Your keyboard is a pineapple. Now we've come full circle. Also, can you prove you have the consent of your keyboard to bind em to an agreement? Or to act on eir behalf? Otherwise you've violated one of eir rights by forcing em to try to claim another one. Ha!
Of course not. But my keyboard has my full consent to act through me. The fact that my keyboard shares my email, signs off as me, and chooses to refer to itself in the possessive third person and to me in the first person is pure coincidence.
Besides, the point of this thread was that, while a CFJ "called" by the entity itself would not be decidable, one called by an outside party (another player) and judged by another player would give reasonable hearing to the player-ness of the entity, and if e was not found to be a player to a certain standard of evidence (probably "beyond a reasonable doubt" to suit the strength of the R101 preamble), it would not be a violation of rights for em to be declared a non-player. Rights are a sliding scale, not absolute, and Facts are Facts.
Fair enough.
If you really want to test this, find a new email address and send in "I, root's keyboard, hereby registers." You might want to do this before misrepresentation comes back!
As it happens, my keyboard was just pondering this while I was away at lunch. Fortunately for everyone involved, my keyboard is more interested in spending its time flirting with my mouse. -root
