Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Sure, it looks important, but it doesn't actually /do/ anything

2013-01-28 Thread Alex Smith
On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 20:58 -0500, Tanner Swett wrote: I think I agree that rule 754 is useless, except that I think this part of it is very significant: A difference between two nonempty spans of whitespace is inconsequential in all forms of communication for all purposes. Maybe we should

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Sure, it looks important, but it doesn't actually /do/ anything

2013-01-28 Thread comexk
Dammit, I never thought of that. The problem that it solves is that I rewrapped all text before adding to the FLR - it would get pretty messy otherwise. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 28, 2013, at 4:40 AM, Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: Right, that part does do something. However, it

DIS: Re: BUS: Sure, it looks important, but it doesn't actually /do/ anything

2013-01-27 Thread Tanner Swett
I think I agree that rule 754 is useless, except that I think this part of it is very significant: A difference between two nonempty spans of whitespace is inconsequential in all forms of communication for all purposes. Maybe we should amend it to say just that. —Machiavelli

DIS: Re: BUS: Sure, it looks important, but it doesn't actually /do/ anything

2013-01-27 Thread Pavitra
On 01/27/2013 06:48 PM, Alex Smith wrote: I become active. I submit a proposal, cleanup, AI 3: {{{ Repeal rule 754. }}} I become inactive. First off, I promise in the ordinary-language sense that I don't currently have a scam in mind involving this; I haven't tried to think of one, and