Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Bring Back Executors

2007-05-10 Thread quazie
Ed Murphy wrote: Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: "If an executee is prohibiting from performing an action, each of its executors is prohibited from performing the action on behalf of that executee." That's not the sentence I have trouble with. I was talking about Holding executorship o

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Bring Back Executors

2007-05-10 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: "If an executee is prohibiting from performing an action, each of its executors is prohibited from performing the action on behalf of that executee." That's not the sentence I have trouble with. I was talking about Holding executorship of another entity d

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Bring Back Executors

2007-05-09 Thread Zefram
Ed Murphy wrote: >"If an executee is prohibiting from performing an >action, each of its executors is prohibited from performing the >action on behalf of that executee." That's not the sentence I have trouble with. I was talking about Holding executorship of another entity does not in itsel

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Bring Back Executors

2007-05-09 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: I interpreted it as equivalent to "a given action". Still not specifying which action. Nor does it need to. Okay, here's a third re-phrasing which is hopefully unambiguous: (original) "If an executee is prohibiting from performing an action, each of its exec

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Bring Back Executors

2007-05-09 Thread Zefram
Ed Murphy wrote: >I interpreted it as equivalent to "a given action". Still not specifying which action. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Bring Back Executors

2007-05-09 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Michael Slone wrote: *An* action, just as I wrote. Any action? This is such a strange reading that I'm still not convinced I've understood you correctly. You're placing a restriction on which executors have the power to perform actions on behalf of their executees. The restric

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Bring Back Executors

2007-05-09 Thread Zefram
Michael Slone wrote: >*An* action, just as I wrote. Any action? This is such a strange reading that I'm still not convinced I've understood you correctly. You're placing a restriction on which executors have the power to perform actions on behalf of their executees. The restriction is that they

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Bring Back Executors

2007-05-09 Thread Michael Slone
On 5/9/07, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The power to perform what action? *An* action, just as I wrote. [snip some comments] From some of your comments I get the (distinct, but perhaps incorrect) impression that you believe that I use ``protoproposal'' as a synonym for ``final draft''

DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Bring Back Executors

2007-05-09 Thread Zefram
Michael Slone wrote: > but an executor with the power to > perform an action The power to perform what action? > Executorship of an entity that is not a natural person can be > granted or revoked by the action of a proposal with power as > great a

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Bring Back Executors

2007-05-09 Thread Michael Slone
On 5/9/07, Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are proposals empowered to change executorship? I don't know how to answer your question, but if this protoproposal were adopted, then the two executorship-granting provisions would take effect. See the following, which appears earlier in the proto:

DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Bring Back Executors

2007-05-09 Thread Taral
On 5/9/07, Michael Slone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Grant executorship of the Pineapple Partnership to Goethe and Zefram. Grant executorship of Human Point Two to Murphy and Quazie. Are proposals empowered to change executorship? -- Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "You can't prove anything." --