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=============================== CFJ 4014 =============================== Rule 2643 contains the text 'A stone is immune if and only if'. ========================================================================== Caller: Janet Judge: Murphy Judgement: FALSE ========================================================================== History: Called by Janet: 28 Feb 2023 01:47:43 Assigned to Murphy: 03 Mar 2023 22:25:36 Judged FALSE by Murphy: 05 Mar 2023 22:17:09 ========================================================================== Caller's Arguments: P8906 attempts to insert a "paragraph", but the text to insert has two paragraphs. This may be sufficiently ambiguous as to render the change ineffective under Rule 105/23. I am not aware of any on-point precedent. Caller's Evidence: ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ID: 8906 Title: Stone Immunity Correction (Keeping Our Stones) Act Adoption index: 2.0 Author: Janet Co-authors: [Restore the definition of immunity, and add security to it.] Amend Rule 2643 ("Collecting Stones") by prepending the following paragraph: { A stone is immune if and only if it is defined as such by the rules of power not less than 2. A stone is immune if it is owned by Agora. A stone is immune if it has been granted immunity since the last collection notice. The granting of immunity is secured. } [Explicitly prohibit the Soul Stone from transferring stones owned by Agora. This isn't technically needed with the previous change, but it's better to just make it explicit to prevent accidentally it breaking again in the future.] Amend Rule 2645 ("The Stones") by replacing "When wielded, the Soul Stone is transferred to the owner of a different specified non-immune stone, then that stone is transferred to the wielder." with "When wielded, the Soul Stone is transferred to the owner of a different specified non-immune stone not owned by Agora, then that stone is transferred to the wielder.". [Disallow theft of Protected stones, and add a tiebreak.] Amend Rule 2645 ("The Stones") by replacing the list item beginning "Anti-Equatorial" with the following { - Anti-Equatorial Stone (Monthly, 5): When wielded, the mossiest non-immune stone is transferred to the wielder. If more than one such stone is tied for mossiest, a specified one is transferred. When this happens, the Anti-Equatorial Stone's mossiness is incremented by 1. } ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 105/23 (Power=3) Rule Changes When the rules provide that an instrument takes effect, it can generally: 1. enact a rule. The new rule has power equal to the minimum of the power specified by the enacting instrument, defaulting to one if the enacting instrument does not specify or if it specifies a power less than 0.1, and the maximum power permitted by other rules. The enacting instrument may specify a title for the new rule, which if present shall prevail. The ID number of the new rule cannot be specified by the enacting instrument; any attempt to so specify is null and void. 2. repeal a rule. When a rule is repealed, it ceases to be a rule, its power is set to 0, and the Rulekeepor need no longer maintain a record of it. 3. reenact a rule. A repealed rule identified by its most recent rule number MUST be reenacted with the same ID number and the next change identifier. If no text is specified, the rule is reenacted with the same text it had when it was most recently repealed. If the reenacting proposal provides new text for the rule, the rule SHOULD have materially the same purpose as did the repealed version. Unless specified otherwise by the reenacting instrument, a reenacted rule has power equal to the power it had at the time of its repeal (or power 1, if power was not defined at the time of that rule's repeal). If the reenacting instrument is incapable of setting the reenacted rule's power to that value, then the reenactment is null and void. 4. amend the text of a rule. 5. retitle (syn. amend the title of) a rule. 6. change the power of a rule. A rule change is any effect that falls into the above classes. Rule changes always occur sequentially, never simultaneously. Any ambiguity in the specification of a rule change causes that change to be void and without effect. An inconsequential variation in the quotation of an existing rule does not constitute ambiguity for the purposes of this rule, but any other variation does. A rule change is wholly prevented from taking effect unless its full text was published, along with an unambiguous and clear specification of the method to be used for changing the rule, at least 4 days and no more than 60 days before it would otherwise take effect. This rule provides the only mechanism by which rules can be created, modified, or destroyed, or by which an entity can become a rule or cease to be a rule. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Judge Murphy's Arguments: The usual definition of "paragraph" is at odds with the usual practice of curly braces as delimiters, which is enough to create significant ambiguity. I judge FALSE. ==========================================================================