Re: DIS: Re: [Fwd: Re: BUS: [Enigma] Moderately difficult puzzles]

2008-09-29 Thread Ian Kelly
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Geoffrey Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [lots of deep reasoning] > > My assumption was "it will take about 2 minutes to write a perl script > to brute force this." Ditto, except I used py

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Knocking at the back door

2008-09-29 Thread Ian Kelly
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you want to read CFJ 1966 before continuing this conversation? Agora > took a long time to get to Judge Wooble's final decision, so it's not one > to be discarded lightly. (Sorry I didn't mention the number earlier, I'd

DIS: Re: BUS: [Enigma] This week's moderately difficult puzzle

2008-09-29 Thread Ian Kelly
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:10 AM, ais523 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Last week there was one puzzle submitted for Enigma, by ais523; I hereby > list that puzzle, and start its answer submission period. Hopefully it > won't be as buggy as last week's! (I think it's also a bit more > difficult, but h

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Distribution of proposals 5708-5726

2008-09-29 Thread comex
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 4:51 PM, ais523 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I fill this ticket, specifying AGAINST. > Hmm... would you bribe me to vote on 5709 too? > I retract my votes on 5709 and vote SELL (2VP - Endorse Murphy) on 5709. Sorry, no can do. The 25 VP I have left are all going toward Pa

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Distribution of proposals 5708-5726

2008-09-29 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 29 Sep 2008, comex wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> 5709 D 1 2.0 Murphy Form 2126-EZ >> AGAINST. Sell Ticket 2VP vote as specified. > > I fill this ticket, specifying AGAINST. I hereby...er, right.

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Deputy Promotor] Distribution of proposal 5707

2008-09-29 Thread ais523
On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 08:45 -0700, Ed Murphy wrote: > ais523 wrote: > > > On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 19:03 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > >> In any case. I vote on the proposal in question: > >> 4xAGAINST. I issue a sell ticket 2VP vote as directed. > > I fill that ticket, directing Goethe to change eir

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Knocking at the back door

2008-09-29 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 29 Sep 2008, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> There's nothing that says privileges can't grant ability in general. >> There's nothing that says they can. > > So? There's also nothing that says the privilege of doing what thou >

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Deputy Promotor] Distribution of proposal 5707

2008-09-29 Thread Ed Murphy
ais523 wrote: > On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 19:03 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> In any case. I vote on the proposal in question: >> 4xAGAINST. I issue a sell ticket 2VP vote as directed. > I fill that ticket, directing Goethe to change eir vote on proposal 5707 > to FORx4. The difference between secti

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Enigma] Last week's results

2008-09-29 Thread ais523
On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 11:40 -0400, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:29 AM, ais523 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmm... interesting. But given that I have to award myself "as many > > points as possible" later on, would that give me infinite points? > > Well, it's not possible to

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Enigma] Last week's results

2008-09-29 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:29 AM, ais523 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm... interesting. But given that I have to award myself "as many > points as possible" later on, would that give me infinite points? Well, it's not possible to award more points than the limit, so you wouldn't be required to a

DIS: Re: [Fwd: Re: BUS: [Enigma] Moderately difficult puzzles]

2008-09-29 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [lots of deep reasoning] My assumption was "it will take about 2 minutes to write a perl script to brute force this."

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Enigma] Last week's results

2008-09-29 Thread ais523
On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 09:27 -0600, Roger Hicks wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:05 AM, ais523 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I attempt to award 4 points to ais523 for authoring the puzzle. This > > fails because a contestmaster can't award points to emself, but I have > > to try. > > It wouldn't

DIS: Re: BUS: [Enigma] Last week's results

2008-09-29 Thread Roger Hicks
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:05 AM, ais523 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I attempt to award 4 points to ais523 for authoring the puzzle. This > fails because a contestmaster can't award points to emself, but I have > to try. It wouldn't if Enigma were a member contract of the PRS. BobTHJ

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: nomination

2008-09-29 Thread ais523
On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 09:18 -0400, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Elliott Hird > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yer just in it for the deputization... > > No, I'm just opposed to officers blatantly abusing their powers. You don't want to see what me blatantly abusing Mad

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: nomination

2008-09-29 Thread Elliott Hird
On 29 Sep 2008, at 14:18, Geoffrey Spear wrote: No, I'm just opposed to officers blatantly abusing their powers. The power is a blatant abuse in the first place.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: nomination

2008-09-29 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Elliott Hird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yer just in it for the deputization... No, I'm just opposed to officers blatantly abusing their powers.

DIS: Re: BUS: nomination

2008-09-29 Thread Elliott Hird
On 29 Sep 2008, at 13:32, Geoffrey Spear wrote: I nominate Wooble as Mad Scientist. Yer just in it for the deputization...

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Knocking at the back door

2008-09-29 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's nothing that says privileges can't grant ability in general. CFJ 1966 says it, and it hasn't been overturned legislatively or by another precedent yet.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Prop transfer

2008-09-29 Thread Elliott Hird
On 29 Sep 2008, at 02:27, Ed Murphy wrote: I tried replacing this: with this: max="10"> max="10"> and it generated two pairs of buttons, but one pair was the wrong size, and they both affected the same input control. Ah. Oh dear. I probably should have tested multiple controls. :-)

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Knocking at the back door

2008-09-29 Thread Ian Kelly
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> There's nothing that says privileges can't grant ability in general. > There's nothing that says they can. So? There's also nothing that says the privilege of doing what thou wilt guarantees anything whatsoever. We accept