Re: DIS: proto: 2158 changes

2007-09-12 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: On Wednesday 12 September 2007, Ed Murphy wrote: This would require the CotC's report to track all judged cases. Honestly I don't think this is such a bad thing (with a time limit to excuse the absence of ancient CFJs)... why/when was the Stare Decisis removed from the ruleset?

Re: DIS: proto: 2158 changes

2007-09-12 Thread comex
On Wednesday 12 September 2007, Ed Murphy wrote: > This would require the CotC's report to track all judged cases. Honestly I don't think this is such a bad thing (with a time limit to excuse the absence of ancient CFJs)... why/when was the Stare Decisis removed from the ruleset? signature.asc

Re: DIS: proto: 2158 changes

2007-09-12 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: Within a judicial case, one or more judicial questions may arise. Each judicial question is either inapplicable (default) or applicable, as defined by the rules. Status is a judicial question switch, tracked by the CotC, with values of open (default),

Re: DIS: proto: 2158 changes

2007-09-12 Thread Ian Kelly
On 9/12/07, comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Within a judicial case, one or more judicial questions may > arise. Each judicial question is either inapplicable (default) > or applicable, as defined by the rules. Status is a judicial > question switch, tracked by the CotC,

DIS: proto: 2158 changes

2007-09-12 Thread comex
Amend Rule 2158 by replacing: Within a judicial case, one or more judicial questions may arise. Each judicial question is either inapplicable (default) or applicable; this is not a persistent status but is evaluated instantaneously. Each judicial question either is open

DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ: CFJs with no subclass

2007-09-12 Thread comex
On Wednesday 12 September 2007, Pavitra wrote: > I CFJ on the following statement, barring Levi: > It is possible for a judicial case to exist that has no subclass. Have you read http://www.nomic.net/~nomicwiki/index.php/MousetrapThesis ? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed me

DIS: Re: CFJ: CFJs with no subclass

2007-09-12 Thread Pavitra
> It is possible for a judicial case to exist that has no subclass. If this comes back TRUE, I recommend against patching it out. A general-purpose way to resolve unforseen controversies would be a very useful failsafe if the need ever came up. Perhaps a General Case should be initiable with (say

DIS: proto: stable patent titles

2007-09-12 Thread Pavitra
AI=1 II=? Amend rule 1922 by appending the following paragraph (e): If any type of Patent Title was formerly explicitly defined by the rules, and is so no longer, than it is implicitly defined. No Patent Title can cease to exist as the result of its def

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: We play on the internet after all

2007-09-12 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: On 9/12/07, Peekee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If I am not a player then I register as a player. (Do such conditionals work?) Traditionally no, apart from conditional votes, which are explicitly legislated. However, it is customary to allow it in cases such as this where the resul

DIS: Re: BUS: We play on the internet after all

2007-09-12 Thread Ian Kelly
On 9/12/07, Peekee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I am not a player then I register as a player. (Do such conditionals work?) Traditionally no, apart from conditional votes, which are explicitly legislated. However, it is customary to allow it in cases such as this where the resulting game state

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: We play on the internet after all

2007-09-12 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On 9/11/07, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wooble wrote: > > > On 9/11/07, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The only textual file format that is reliably legible > >> is text/plain with strict ASCII. We have done very well by keeping our > >> game documents in this format. I'd favou

DIS: Re: BUS: Poll on CFJ 1741

2007-09-12 Thread Peekee
Quoting Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: So I'm going to poll the players and watchers: Upon first seeing Peekee's message, were you able to understand it within a reasonable amount of effort? If so, was a knowledge of HTML required? My web based mail client (That I use for agora) did not pick