On Fri, 9 May 2008, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Thu, 8 May 2008, Ian Kelly wrote: >> I can also go to the bank and deposit my cash, provided I have the >> cooperation of the muggers not to intercept me en route. By this >> argument then, depositing cash at the bank would analogously not be "a >> possible action I could take". > > Oh, this is just a specious analogy. "Without objection"'s public > mechanism and waiting period strongly implies that you are asking for > tacit permission from the public to perform the action, and that you > can't perform the action without that permission.
Oh, to add to this, the phrase "dependent action" itself clearly means that you take that action DEPENDENT on others' actions or inactions, in other words, not on your own. -Goethe
