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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
rather than reverting to Dan Webster and his ilk Im going to plead to everyones common sense
any interpretation of a rule that causes a team to sit and stare at state of the art engineering, design and fabrication tools and NOT use them cannot possibly be in the intended spirit of the rule
because it is comletely against the intended goals of FIRST. We want HS students to experience the magic and wonder of modern science and technology. To tell them they cannot use something as incredible as an SLA machine, because the fluid does not come in one gallon containers, is absurd.
I searched for 'prorated' and 'materials' and found a thread from two years ago, that quoted the previous version of this rule:
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Ken, I'm pretty sure you're not on the GDC. It's absurd for you, or anyone else not on the GDC to claim to know the intent of the rules.
You definitively say that you are right, and you must be so, because Dean Kamen couldn't possibly be against teams taking advantage of all their resources. In reality, you have no idea what Dean thinks on the subject matter. Nor does it matter, because the rules are quite clear, regardless of what Dean does or does not think.
Passing your
opinion off as
fact is incredibly misleading to the average onlooker. None of us here are FIRST. None of us say what the rules are or aren't (except Dave
). To pretend otherwise is detrimental to everyone. It's entirely possible that someone who doesn't know any better could believe every word you've said, and unknowingly violate the rules, because they thought they were told what the rule was, but in reality it was something completely different.
I won't even get started on how patently wrong it is that you try to cite previous years rules to prove your point.