DIS: Re: BUS: Some proposing

2008-03-17 Thread Iammars
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and some non-contestants > will presumably vote AGAINST both. > Hi. -- -Iammars www.jmcteague.com

DIS: Re: BUS: Some proposing

2008-03-17 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, comex wrote: >> > Between when their voting periods begin and end, cast, and do >> > not retract before the voting period ends, a ballot FOR the >> > proposal God-emperor I, INSTEAD OF casting and not retracting >> > a ballot FOR the proposal God-emperor II. > I opine

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Some proposing

2008-03-17 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, comex wrote: Between when their voting periods begin and end, cast, and do not retract before the voting period ends, a ballot FOR the proposal God-emperor I, INSTEAD OF casting and not retracting a ballot FOR the proposal God-empero

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Some proposing

2008-03-18 Thread ihope
On 17/03/2008, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm pretty sure that "instead" is *not* the same as ~(a & ~b). "Instead" > is (A if not B). So if I go to Joe's for lunch, then I'm eating at home instead of going to Joe's for lunch? Looks to me that it's a & ~b: I have to eat at home and

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Some proposing

2008-03-18 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Ed Murphy wrote: > A if not B = A or B Actually, its A xor B. ~(A xor B) = (A & B) | !(A & B) It hinges on whether do "Do X instead of Y" is imperative (what is required if you never intended to do Y in the first place?) -G.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Some proposing

2008-03-18 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 5:39 AM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Ed Murphy wrote: > > A if not B = A or B > > Actually, its A xor B. ~(A xor B) = (A & B) | !(A & B) ~(A xor B) = (A & B) | (~A & ~B) = (A & B) | ~(A | B) > It hinges on whether do "Do X instead of

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Some proposing

2008-03-18 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Ian Kelly wrote: > Then OKAY is impossible and NO WAY is trivial. Yah, honestly, I tried to muddy the waters with "instead of" conditional if. But when it comes right down to it (as I analyzed before doing this), given the truth table for A and B, where A=1 => vote FOR A B=