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You may fire at your discretion and bearing in mind any hard rules on LOS or a weapon being unable to fire, up to all of your weapons, some of your weapons or none of your weapons, as you see fit.

They must all (those firing) be fired at the same target.

hellsguardian316 wrote:The sentence says you MAY buy all of the candy, it is not saying you must buy all of them only that you may do so. The "May" part is a choice, you can do so, you can choose not to. I vote buy 5pieces

Exactly. "May" is permissive, allowing choice, as is "can" in this sense. "Must" is used for ordering, or obligation, allowing no choice. Choice. No choice

All valid views, but you have missed the most important point.

What flavour is it? Cos if its liquorice I ain't gettin in your van!

Ohhhh shineys!

Permissive in the sense that you may choose to buy the candy. The word may doesn't comment on the form of the purchase you can choose to make.

notprop wrote:All valid views, but you have missed the most important point.

What flavour is it? Cos if its liquorice I ain't gettin in your van!

Ohhhh shineys!

You Sure?, he told me he had bonbons in the back .. .. right at the bottom shelf, you know, the ones you have to bend over real far to reach

JEB_Stuart wrote:Does your store normally tell customers what they can and cannot buy? If so, how are you in business!?!?

It's common in Japan to limit customers to one piece of a popular new game or console, on launch day.

hellsguardian316 wrote:

notprop wrote:All valid views, but you have missed the most important point.

What flavour is it? Cos if its liquorice I ain't gettin in your van!

Ohhhh shineys!

You Sure?, he told me he had bonbons in the back .. .. right at the bottom shelf, you know, the ones you have to bend over real far to reach

Okay, we've smoked the deviant heretic out, send in the stormtroopers! : hup, hup, hup, hup, hup, hup, hup, hup, hup, ..................

I don't like my options. You have:

If you buy any of the candy, you must buy all ten pieces.
and
You can buy as many pieces as you would like.


However the right answer should be:
You can buy as many pieces as you would like up to the total amount of candy in the jar.

Also, there is no price listed so I will say that I may buy all of the candy in the jar and pay 1 penny on an installment plan over the next 1,000 years with no interest.

Or, threaten him with a gun and take the candy thereby negating the need to "buy" the candy and the limit imposed on how many you can have.

Everyones a winner, you get the candy you want, and he learns a valuable lesson on writing clear and elligable signs.

I'm just gonna walk up and take 5 pieces of candy.

I was told that I may buy it, but I don't want to. I don't see a rule against not paying though!