pikhq wrote:
> I do all my text editing by controlling butterflies, thereby affecting
> the weather enough to flip bits on my hard drive.
>
> Idea courtesy of Randall Munroe.
Real programmers set the universal constants at the start such that the
universe evolves to contain the disk with the dat
On 20:00 Fri 08 Feb , Kerim Aydin wrote:
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> On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Geoffrey Spear wrote:
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> >>> This message brought to you by GNU Emacs.
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> >> http://www.notepad.org/
> >>
> > Bah, any editor that can't psychoanalyze a pinhead is completely
> > unusable for any purpose.
>
> http://ars.us
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Geoffrey Spear wrote:
>>> This message brought to you by GNU Emacs.
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>> http://www.notepad.org/
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> Bah, any editor that can't psychoanalyze a pinhead is completely
> unusable for any purpose.
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080206
On Feb 8, 2008 7:33 PM, Roger Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Feb 8, 2008 5:05 PM, Josiah Worcester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > You are *insane*.
> >
> > This message brought to you by GNU Emacs.
> >
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> http://www.notepad.org/
>
Bah, any editor that can't psychoanalyze a pinhead is c
On Feb 8, 2008 5:05 PM, Josiah Worcester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> You are *insane*.
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> This message brought to you by GNU Emacs.
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http://www.notepad.org/
On 17:01 Fri 08 Feb , Roger Hicks wrote:
> On Feb 8, 2008 3:08 PM, comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Feb 8, 2008 5:04 PM, Roger Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Ah, yes. The strange ruleset formatting. I typically write my
> > > proposals either in gmail (text-only) or notepad.
> >
On Feb 8, 2008 3:08 PM, comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Feb 8, 2008 5:04 PM, Roger Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Ah, yes. The strange ruleset formatting. I typically write my
> > proposals either in gmail (text-only) or notepad.
> I recommend you get a good Windows editor like notepad+
On Feb 8, 2008 5:04 PM, Roger Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ah, yes. The strange ruleset formatting. I typically write my
> proposals either in gmail (text-only) or notepad.
I recommend you get a good Windows editor like notepad++ or editpad
lite or something. (Not a guarantee that those will
On Feb 8, 2008 2:57 PM, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Roger Hicks wrote:
> >I didn't modify anything except the text.
>
> The text is one of the attributes of a proposal that you can't modify
> after submission. I suggest that you withdraw your existing proposal
> and submit a new one that h
On Feb 8, 2008 2:50 PM, comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Feb 8, 2008 4:43 PM, Roger Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Unwrapped?
>
> Not hard wrapped to 70 characters per line of which 6 at the beginning
> are spaces, i.e.
> As soon as possible after the beginning of each month the IA
Roger Hicks wrote:
>I didn't modify anything except the text.
The text is one of the attributes of a proposal that you can't modify
after submission. I suggest that you withdraw your existing proposal
and submit a new one that has the text that you want.
-zefram
On Feb 8, 2008 11:51 AM, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Roger Hicks wrote:
> >I revise my proposal titled Ostracism v2 as follows:
>
> You can't modify any of these attributes of a proposal after submission.
> I suggest that you withdraw the existing proposal and submit a new one.
>
I didn't m
On Feb 8, 2008 4:43 PM, Roger Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Unwrapped?
Not hard wrapped to 70 characters per line of which 6 at the beginning
are spaces, i.e.
As soon as possible after the beginning of each month the IADoP
SHALL initiate an dependent action to ostracize with a
...
On Feb 8, 2008 11:53 AM, comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2/8/08, Roger Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I revise my proposal titled Ostracism v2 as follows:
> >
> > unwrapped proposal
>
> Call me pedantic, but I still dislike unwrapped proposals. A pity,
> since I otherwise support this
On Feb 8, 2008 11:53 AM, comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Call me pedantic, but I still dislike unwrapped proposals.
So do I, but I wouldn't base my vote upon that.
-root
On 2/8/08, Ben Caplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Clunky and therefore prone to deliberate misinterpretation (hi comex).
/me mumbles something about delibrately ambiguous registration requests.
Ben Caplan wrote:
>> Be careful about the word "registered". We've seen a recent case claiming
>> that it can only refer to playerhood.
>
>That was in fact what I meant.
In that case I suggest that you clarify by expressing it as "protectorate
that is also a player". However, I don't think the d
On 2/8/08, Roger Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I revise my proposal titled Ostracism v2 as follows:
>
> unwrapped proposal
Call me pedantic, but I still dislike unwrapped proposals. A pity,
since I otherwise support this entirely.
On 2/8/08, Geoffrey Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does this mean that a single player can indefinitely delay the
> ratification of any document without violating rule 2149 simply by
> making claims of error that are themselves true statements but that
> are completely irrelevant to the documen
> > A province is a registered protectorate.
>
> Be careful about the word "registered". We've seen a recent case claiming
> that it can only refer to playerhood.
That was in fact what I meant. If a registered partnership's backing document
allows self-amendment, it qualifies as a nomic and
Wooble wrote:
> Does this mean that a single player can indefinitely delay the
> ratification of any document without violating rule 2149 simply by
> making claims of error that are themselves true statements but that
> are completely irrelevant to the document in question? (e.g., claim of
> error
This seems long and cumbersome, two full decisions. Maybe the initial
vote should be Agoran Consent (same 2/3 majority index?). You should
also re-write the first decision to be enabling as well as requiring,
in other words "if the outcome is APPROVED, the IADoP CAN and SHALL as
soon as poss
On Feb 8, 2008 12:04 PM, comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2/8/08, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I hereby initiate a criminal case, alleging
> > that comex violated rule 2149 by claiming in message
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> that proposal
> > 5419 passed while not believing that to be true
Ed Murphy wrote:
>I've just flipped a couple settings that should turn it off. Here's a
>sample, copy+pasted from my draft document as usual:
That's better. No format= in the Content-Type, and correct alignment
in the physical data.
-zefram
On Feb 8, 2008 10:17 AM, Geoffrey Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So your claim of error is that the report of the voting results
> erroneously did not report your claim of error, which itself isn't
> part of the voting results?
>
> Does this mean that a single player can indefinitely delay the
On Feb 8, 2008 10:04 AM, comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2/8/08, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I hereby initiate a criminal case, alleging
> > that comex violated rule 2149 by claiming in message
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> that proposal
> > 5419 passed while not believing that to be true
Zefram wrote:
> It's not just you. The form of it that you quoted, which matches the
> physical layout in Murphy's original message, has all the sharp/flat
> headings one column to the right of the proper place. However, Murphy's
> message had "; format=flowed" in its Content-Type, and my mail r
On 2/8/08, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I hereby initiate a criminal case, alleging
> that comex violated rule 2149 by claiming in message
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> that proposal
> 5419 passed while not believing that to be true.
I did not claim that the proposal passed; rather, I claimed
(corr
On Feb 8, 2008 8:49 AM, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Geoffrey Spear wrote:
> >Is it just my mail client (viewing in monospaced font), or do the
> >flats and sharps not line up correctly with their column headings?
>
> It's not just you. The form of it that you quoted, which matches the
> p
On Feb 7, 2008 9:06 PM, Benjamin Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I object to the appeal. H. Trial Judge Goethe's reasoning is as
> beautiful as a printout of a Whitespace listing.
Yes, but he misspelled "disciple", which is certainly grounds for
appeal of such a literary judgment.
--Wooble
Geoffrey Spear wrote:
>Is it just my mail client (viewing in monospaced font), or do the
>flats and sharps not line up correctly with their column headings?
It's not just you. The form of it that you quoted, which matches the
physical layout in Murphy's original message, has all the sharp/flat
he
On Feb 8, 2008 1:52 AM, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> C#D# F#G#A#
> Player C D E F G A B Total
> DbEb GbAbBb
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