On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't see any need for that. To my eyes, the machine itself is the > nomic. Whether it can become a protectorate in that state is largely > irrelevant. And I disagree with Wooble; a completely pragmatic ruleset > can still be a protectorate through a pragmatic mechanism that allows > the protective decree to directly change the ruleset (e.g., a web > form).
Still, although Goethe's machine does not *presently* have any mechanism by which protective decrees might be automatically enforced, e might still convince Agora to provide em with IT services through such an ethereal quasi-computer.
