From: Stephen Turner (sret1_at_ntlworld.com)
Date: Thu Jan 31 2002 - 06:39:21 PST
On 31 Jan 2002, Richard S. Holmes wrote: > Stephen Turner <sret1_at_ntlworld.com> writes: > > > Judgement: A tough one to judge but I'm calling it invalid. The problem is > > the "ISO-6842". 6842 = 9000 base 10, and ISO 9000 is a well-known standard > > about business processes and quality control. Nothing to do with alphabets > > at all. > > The ROs require Fantasy Rules to be consistent with the ROs and with > previous valid Fantasy Rules. Nothing requires them to be consistent > with reality. Hence the word Fantasy. > > I recommend the Judge reverse eir decision on this one. > Re-judgement: OK, I accept that I made a mistake here. I did consider this point -- that rules are only obliged to be consistent with previous rules, not with reality -- and concluded that to some extent at least, rules _do_ have to be consistent with reality. Otherwise whenever a rule was invalid, you could just say "ah, but the word means the opposite in my world". What I failed to take into account in this case, however, was that the word was _explicitly_ redefined in the fantasy world, and that has to be allowed. I reverse my previous judgement. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ROUND 176 Round start: Wed 2002-01-30 15:32:50 Player Style Valid until ------ ----- ----------- Ed Murphy - 1.5 Wed 2002-02-06 19:44:52 Jonathan Van Matre - 2.5 Wed 2002-02-06 18:03:06 Alan Riddell + 2.0 Wed 2002-02-06 16:50:44 Others 0 Wed 2002-02-06 15:32:50 All times are in GMT and base ten. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rule By whom When Judgement Style ---- ------- ---- --------- ----- 176:1 Alan Riddell Wed 2002-01-30 16:50:44 VALID +2.0 176:2 Jonathan Van Matre Wed 2002-01-30 18:03:06 VALID -2.5 176:3 Ed Murphy Wed 2002-01-30 19:44:52 VALID -1.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01 -- Rule Date: 2002-01-31 14:41:05 GMT
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