Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Fwd: [Arbitor] CFJ 3796 Assigned to omd

2020-02-01 Thread omd via agora-discussion
On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 9:25 PM Tanner Swett via agora-discussion wrote: > Would this ordinance have any "fighting chance" against the United > States Constitution? One may say that yes, it would. After all, the > Constitution is part of United States law, and the ordinance is also > part of Unite

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Fwd: [Arbitor] CFJ 3796 Assigned to omd

2020-01-31 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 9:25 PM Tanner Swett via agora-discussion wrote: > > Gratuitous postmortem arguments on CFJ 3796: > > I don't think it's necessary to bring Rule 217 into this at all; scams > of this type simply can't work. I'll explain why I think that. > > Imagine that the city of Grand R

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Fwd: [Arbitor] CFJ 3796 Assigned to omd

2020-01-31 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
Gratuitous postmortem arguments on CFJ 3796: I don't think it's necessary to bring Rule 217 into this at all; scams of this type simply can't work. I'll explain why I think that. Imagine that the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan enacts an ordinance which states that, the United States Constitution

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Fwd: [Arbitor] CFJ 3796 Assigned to omd

2020-01-31 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 2:09 AM omd wrote: > This leaves the text as "inconsistent", and Rule 217 informs us to > augment it by the usual factors. In this case, "game custom" clearly > supports higher-power rules taking precedence over lower-power ones. > So does "common sense": the ruleset as a w