DIS: Re: BUS: Proto-Proposal: Omnibus Judicial Reform Act of 2007

2007-04-11 Thread Zefram
Ed Murphy wrote: > A player may change emself from sitting or lying down, or vice > versa, by announcement. s/,/ to standing,/ >[What should be done with precedents, besides what Rule 217 does?] I'd like to formalise case law further. I suggest that we wait to see what Goethe's resear

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Agoran Chromodynamics

2007-04-11 Thread Zefram
Ed Murphy wrote: >could go back to charging for proposing and/or voting; Please don't, that really sucked. The current less direct system, of buying voting power which can be exercised on all (Ordinary) proposals, is vastly better. I think generally currency-based systems don't work well in a no

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Agoran Chromodynamics

2007-04-11 Thread quazie
Ed Murphy wrote: Zefram wrote: On the whole, I'm not convinced that the extra complexity here (over VCs) is worthwhile. I'd like to play under the VC system for a while longer. The combining-beads idea dates back to Steve's Separation of Money era, at which time there were more units of cur

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Agoran Chromodynamics

2007-04-11 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Repeal Rule 2126 (Voting Credits). Not going to turn pre-existing VCs into beads? Hey, you're the one who was complaining about VC inflation. :) * One Green Bead to bar a player from judging a CFJ. This would be a nightmare in a crisis. It is best

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Agoran Chromodynamics

2007-04-11 Thread quazie
Ed Murphy wrote: Proposal: Agoran Chromodynamics (AI = 3, please) I like this. This looks like we are starting to have a game as opposed to simply dealing with the courts. I know some people love the whole courts sector, but I'm looking for something to play with, I just haven't had the ti

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Agoran Chromodynamics

2007-04-11 Thread Zefram
Ed Murphy wrote: >Repeal Rule 2126 (Voting Credits). Not going to turn pre-existing VCs into beads? > At the end of each quarter, half of each player's supply of > each type of bead (rounding up) are destroyed. "supply" should presumably be "holding". >Create a rule titled "Combining

DIS: Re: BUS: Request for Murphy

2007-04-11 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: Can you post the last version of the full Stare Decisis (official > or unofficial) as far as you maintained it? Then I can start adding. I always just took this from http://zenith.homelinux.net/cotc/stare.php Also, it looks like the weekly "state of the bench" listing eligi

Re: DIS: web pages

2007-04-11 Thread Taral
Abracadabra! *poof* On 4/11/07, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: *prod* The website's still in its old crap form. Please put up the page that I drafted at . -zefram -- Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "You can't prove anything." -- Gödel's Inc

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: proposal: assessor

2007-04-11 Thread Zefram
Kerim Aydin wrote: > That authority has been pretty much stripped, >yet it is still the prize of winning. I made a list of the roles the Speaker has: * R2128: can initiate a contest to determine a winner * R1006: default office holder * R1006: must attempt to change office

DIS: Re: BUS: proposal: assessor

2007-04-11 Thread Kerim Aydin
Zefram wrote: > [There's no reason to tie vote collection duties to the Speakership. > By making it a separate office, someone can specialise in it.] There is a reason. The Speakership was originally the executive branch and ultimate authority. That authority has been pretty much stripped, yet

Re: DIS: web pages

2007-04-11 Thread Zefram
*prod* The website's still in its old crap form. Please put up the page that I drafted at . -zefram