Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Decision in CFJ 1614: DISMISS

2007-02-27 Thread Benjamin Schultz
On Feb 27, 2007, at 8:21 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: OscarMeyr wrote: Got cite? (On whether the ketchup/vegetable/school lunch thing actually happened, or if it's a legislative urban legend.) http://www.straightdope.com/columns/040716.html is not a primary source but a trustworthy cite in term

DIS: Re: BUS: Decision in CFJ 1614: DISMISS

2007-02-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
OscarMeyr wrote: Got cite? (On whether the ketchup/vegetable/school lunch thing actually happened, or if it's a legislative urban legend.) http://www.straightdope.com/columns/040716.html is not a primary source but a trustworthy cite in terms of legend debunking. In RL I deal with this sort

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Decision in CFJ 1614: DISMISS

2007-02-27 Thread Benjamin Schultz
On Feb 27, 2007, at 6:20 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: OscarMeyr wrote: That is, in part, the idea. Saying "Zefram is an avocado" -- or passing a proposal establishing "Goethe is a banana" -- or transferring elements of a Rules-defined private property to France -- does not automatically mak

DIS: Re: BUS: Decision in CFJ 1614: DISMISS

2007-02-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
OscarMeyr wrote: That is, in part, the idea. Saying "Zefram is an avocado" -- or passing a proposal establishing "Goethe is a banana" -- or transferring elements of a Rules-defined private property to France -- does not automatically make it so. But it might make it "so" in the interpret

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Decision in CFJ 1614: DISMISS

2007-02-26 Thread Benjamin Schultz
On Feb 26, 2007, at 7:44 AM, Zefram wrote: Benjamin Schultz wrote: I DISMISS CFJ 1614. The status of Zefram being an avocado -- indeed, of any player being any type of foodstuff -- is not relevant to the Rules. This judgement is a judicial admission that personhood is not restricted to memb

DIS: Re: BUS: Decision in CFJ 1614: DISMISS

2007-02-26 Thread Zefram
Benjamin Schultz wrote: >I DISMISS CFJ 1614. The status of Zefram being an avocado -- indeed, >of any player being any type of foodstuff -- is not relevant to the >Rules. This judgement is a judicial admission that personhood is not restricted to members of Homo sapiens, but extends at least