While pen-and-paper role playing usually involves thick rule books and sacks of special dice, in D&D Online the computer handles the number-crunching and rules adjudication while the players can see a computerized representation of their actions rather than having to (or being enabled to) imagine them.
At the other extreme, the "thick" rule of law entails the notion that in addition to the requirements of the thin rule, it is necessary for the law to conform with certain substantive standards of justice and human rights.
Access to justice operating under a thick rule of law may be achieved by, among other things, increasing the efficiency of the judicial process, and having a robust legal profession, an incorruptible and independent judiciary, and a set of supporting institutions in order to increase the quality of justice administered.
One of them, Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Va)., has taken to carrying an inches-thick rules book under his arm.
Mr. Gensler was also a constructive voice during the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation, and he has been in the subsequent thick of rule-writing in the process of putting the law into effect.
(If the sub floor above is more than 1 inch thick this rule can be bent in many cases).
THE thicker the rule book, the bigger the headache when it drops on you.
Some people enjoy games that are incredibly complex, with thick manuals full of rules, while others enjoy quicker games with just a few basic rules.
At one stage, the bickering factions even settle a dispute by pulling out a big, thick book of pirate rules.
But Mr. Neff has a thick binder of eligibility rules so he can advise veterans about which federal programs they might qualify for.
