On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, ais523 wrote: > > Gratuitous: regardless of the "real" sequence of events, the Legal Fiction > > established at power-3.2 is that Bucky's conditional was never satisfied, so > > e was never a player in the first place. This case is an important > > precedent > > for the question "what is truth?" -Pontius G. > > Gratuitous: I'm not so sure. Registration depends on intent, not on > actual truth. So what's important is whether Bucky thought at the time > (adjusted for retroactive behaviour) that the message in question > worked. I don't see why retroactively sending a message nttpf would > necessarily cause Bucky to retroactively change eir opinions; e might > not have noticed the nttpfness, for instance.
Heh. Like getting married using a false priest, eh?