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2009-09-20
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6005.2 Are Blue Laws Noncepts?

RFJ Case
Creator	Looney
Create Date	2009-03-29 17:45
Statement	Rule 313 has been a blue law since it was adopted. Therefore, it is not (nor ever will be) a noncept.
Arguments	From Rule 346: "If a mutable rule has been in effect for at least three turns, but has not been invoked ... then that rule shall be considered a Noncept." The key phrase here is "has been in effect." Blue laws are not in effect, and therefore their three turn count does not start until they cease to be blue laws. In the particular case of Rule 313, that is a blue law because Jef wasn't able to reuse the original implementation (Round 2 ran on a game engine that was very different from the current one), and it does not seem appropriate to have an officer manually implement Voltaire actions. If someone does find a way to implement the rule, then its effect will be triggered every turn, and it won't become a noncept.
Decision	True
Judge	Physics
Reasoning	Being a blue law means its provisions are invalid. While it's not the same wording as the Noncepts rule, I can't imagine a rule being in effect without having valid provisions.

( 10 - 9: Create [6005.1] by Looney)
( 10 - 9: Ruling [6005.2] by Physics)