On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Ian Kelly wrote: >> Rule 2148/2 reads, in part, "A foreign nomic may grant certain powers >> and privileges to Agora's ambassador." "Power" is defined by R1688/4 >> to be a non-negative rational number which, if positive, makes its > > I'm not recording this as a win unless it's shown that "certain powers" > in the generic sense that a foreign nomic might grant them is the same > as power in the specific. I don't think it is. I also think that even > if they were the same, R2148 does not raise the foreign nomic (as an > instrument) to any power above zero, which would be a necessary first > step to allow the foreign nomic to grant the ambassador a power above > zero (R2140).
It may be that R2148 itself causes the Ambassador's power to become non-zero. -root
