root wrote: > On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 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. > > Good point. Try this one instead. A fleet of Vogon bureaucrats can > build a hyperspace bypass, which requires demolishing existing > infrastructure. To do so, they must first deposit plans for the > construction at the local planning office several decades in advance > for public review. But this is not to say that demolishing the Earth > (after waiting the requisite time with no objection) is not something > they could do.
Proto-proto: Insert "solely by announcing eir agreement to it" at the appropriate place in Rule 2169.
