Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: the rules are special

2008-12-26 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: > Remind me again... why exactly is having any person (as opposed to the > responsible officer) a Feature? So that ratification works even if we're collectively mistaken about the holder of the office in question.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: A very small partial mousetrap?

2008-12-26 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008, Alex Smith wrote: > On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 10:27 -0800, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> On Thu, 25 Dec 2008, Alex Smith wrote: >>> Any person CAN agree to this contract. The agreement need not be done by >>> announcement; any action, in any nomic, which has the effect of agreeing >>> to

DIS: Re: BUS: hmm

2008-12-26 Thread Roger Hicks
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 20:35, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > I withdraw my objections to all dependent actions. > > Having received objections from only Murphy and Goethe, I make > PerlNomic a contest with me as the contestmaster. > > I intend, without 3 objections, to make PerlNomic a contest with me a

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: the rules are special

2008-12-26 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008, Alex Smith wrote: > On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 10:33 -0800, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> On Fri, 26 Dec 2008, Geoffrey Spear wrote: >>> Amend Rule 2202 (Ratification Without Objection), adding at the end: >>> >>> Ratification Without Objection CANNOT cause the repeal, amendment, >>> enact

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Banking/Farming

2008-12-26 Thread Taral
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 3:15 AM, Roger Hicks wrote: > The PBA didn't have a 4 crop, but I'm considering your harvesting of > 2314 a success as 231X - so the above conditional action fails. He specified exact crops of X314... -- Taral "Please let me know if there's any further trouble I can giv

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: the rules are special

2008-12-26 Thread Ed Murphy
Wooble wrote: > and WHEREAS requiring ratification by proposal of the Rules should be > expected to lead to a more careful examination of the ratified text, "and WHEREAS requiring the Rules to be ratified by proposal" etc.

DIS: small partial mousetrap, eh?

2008-12-26 Thread Elliott Hird
http://normish.org/ "You also agree (binding under the rules of the nomic Agora) to the public document submitted to Agora on December 25 2008 by ais523 whose title was "The Small Partial Mousetrap", and agree to be bound by it as an Agoran binding private contract."

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: the rules are special

2008-12-26 Thread Alex Smith
On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 10:33 -0800, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Fri, 26 Dec 2008, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > > Amend Rule 2202 (Ratification Without Objection), adding at the end: > > > > Ratification Without Objection CANNOT cause the repeal, amendment, > > enactment, or mutation of any Rule, rules to the

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: the rules are special

2008-12-26 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > Amend Rule 2202 (Ratification Without Objection), adding at the end: > > Ratification Without Objection CANNOT cause the repeal, amendment, > enactment, or mutation of any Rule, rules to the contrary > notwithstanding. > }} We used to exclude the rules

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: A very small partial mousetrap?

2008-12-26 Thread Alex Smith
On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 10:27 -0800, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Thu, 25 Dec 2008, Alex Smith wrote: > > Any person CAN agree to this contract. The agreement need not be done by > > announcement; any action, in any nomic, which has the effect of agreeing > > to this contract is sufficient to constitute a

DIS: Re: BUS: A very small partial mousetrap?

2008-12-26 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Thu, 25 Dec 2008, Alex Smith wrote: >> Any person CAN agree to this contract. The agreement need not be done by >> announcement; any action, in any nomic, which has the effect of agreeing >> to this contract is sufficient to constitute agreement to this

DIS: Re: BUS: A very small partial mousetrap?

2008-12-26 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008, Alex Smith wrote: > Any person CAN agree to this contract. The agreement need not be done by > announcement; any action, in any nomic, which has the effect of agreeing > to this contract is sufficient to constitute agreement to this contract, > as long as such agreement is per

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: I Intend Happy Holidays for All!

2008-12-26 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008, Benjamin Schultz wrote: >> My suggestion: holidays: The time between Dec 24 and Jan 2 Just Does >> Not Exist. Anything happening during that time is deemed to happen >> on Jan 3 (though in the order it was sent over the holidays), and >> for duration-based-spells, er, rules

Re: DIS: Re: [s-b] BUS: BF joust begins!

2008-12-26 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Roger Hicks wrote: > It is not necessary to specify a chord when sending a public message. > However, just in case the rules have changed while I wasn't looking: > c# diminished. Proto: each public message may include a musical score to which its text can be sung,

DIS: Re: BUS: Banking/Farming

2008-12-26 Thread Roger Hicks
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 15:19, Charles Reiss wrote: > I PBA-withdraw an 8 crop. > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 14:09, Charles Reiss wrote: > [snip] >> I harvest 2314 (using X314; recent CFJ number) for 2 WRV. > > If the above failed (likely due to the PBA not having a 4 crop for me > to withdraw), I