[Nomic] Proposals 328-330

[Ben Harris]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Duncan Richer wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Ben Harris wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Duncan Richer wrote:
> > 
> > > Proposal 329 - Slakko
> > > Over Compensation
> 
> > This doesn't seem to prevent the transfer of negative numbers of points.  
> > I think such transfers should be explicitly banned.  The existence of
> > negative numbers of points has already been demonstrated by the fact that
> > Wild Card has some.
> 
> Has some points, or some negative points?

I think I meant "has one", ie has a negative number of points.

> Or maybe he owes a debt of points?

To whom does he owe that debt?  A debt with no creditor seems like a
strange concept.

>  I think that standard English usage for "some" includes the
> condition that it is more than zero, and hence that the rule only permits
> transfers of positive numbers of points between players anyway.  

<ponder> I agree.

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Ben Harris
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