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?



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