On 09/10/2010 06:21 PM, comex wrote:
As judge of CFJ 2857, I publish the following /incorrect/ judicial declarations:{ G.'s position on the List of Succession is unknown. } { coppro's position on the List of Succession is unknown. } { omd's position on the List of Succession is unknown. } { woggle's position on the List of Succession is unknown. } { Wooble's position on the List of Succession is unknown. } { Tiger's position on the List of Succession is unknown. } { Taral's position on the List of Succession is unknown. } { ehird's position on the List of Succession is unknown. } { Sgeo's position on the List of Succession is unknown. } { Tanner L. Swett's position on the List of Succession is unknown. } { ais523's position on the List of Succession is unknown. } { Murphy's position on the List of Succession is unknown. } { Yally's position on the List of Succession is unknown. } Assuming that announcement is a valid way to publish a judicial declaration (no particular mechanism is specified in the rules), I don't know whether that succeeded in doing anything. In CFJ 1971 it was ruled that actions like posting a report don't work with excessive disclaimers (presumably that would include explicitly calling it incorrect), and in the "five lights" scam it was held (I think?) that you can't post a NoV without being Truthfulness-liable for its contents, but we do allow ratifying incorrect documents, and I don't see a clear distinction between that and this-- both are attempts to submit incorrect documents to the Rules. But in any case, since I don't know whether the last action succeeded, I can quite honestly publish the following judicial declarations (same as above): { G.'s position on the List of Succession is unknown. } { coppro's position on the List of Succession is unknown. } { omd's position on the List of Succession is unknown. } { woggle's position on the List of Succession is unknown. } { Wooble's position on the List of Succession is unknown. } { Tiger's position on the List of Succession is unknown. } { Taral's position on the List of Succession is unknown. } { ehird's position on the List of Succession is unknown. } { Sgeo's position on the List of Succession is unknown. } { Tanner L. Swett's position on the List of Succession is unknown. } { ais523's position on the List of Succession is unknown. } { Murphy's position on the List of Succession is unknown. } { Yally's position on the List of Succession is unknown. } ...As a certain person would say, in light of this, the issue between Wooble and Tiger takes on a somewhat academic cast, but I judge FALSE. Although the caller's arguments are tempting, out of the three dictionaries I tried (Merriam-Webster, Google, OS X Dictionary.app), only Google offers The Hierophant as a definition of "pope", and the metaphors of court, church, and Tarot deck are a bit too confused to accept that particular interpretation.
Judicial declarations are only self-ratifying if their publication is required, and these certainly were not.
-coppro
