Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Parts of the PRS, without cheating

2009-01-21 Thread Taral
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Warrigal wrote: > I would probably most prefer the first of these, except with > "restriction" for "restrictions". That's pretty much what I had in mind too. -- Taral "Please let me know if there's any further trouble I can give you." -- Unknown

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Parts of the PRS, without cheating

2009-01-21 Thread Warrigal
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 14:05 -0800, Taral wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Alex Smith wrote: >> > Players generally CAN transfer points they own to other players, subject >> > to the restrictions that no more than 5 points can be tran

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Parts of the PRS, without cheating

2009-01-21 Thread Alex Smith
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 14:36 -0800, Taral wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > > The intention is that you can't transfer more than 5 points to. You also > > can't transfer more than 5 points from. So you can't have a group of > > players each giving 5 points to someone who

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Parts of the PRS, without cheating

2009-01-21 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Alex Smith wrote: > On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 14:05 -0800, Taral wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Alex Smith wrote: >>> Players generally CAN transfer points they own to other players, subject >>> to the restrictions that no more than 5 points can be transferred this

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Parts of the PRS, without cheating

2009-01-21 Thread Taral
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > The intention is that you can't transfer more than 5 points to. You also > can't transfer more than 5 points from. So you can't have a group of > players each giving 5 points to someone who they want to win; and you > can't have a player giving

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Parts of the PRS, without cheating

2009-01-21 Thread Alex Smith
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 14:25 -0800, Taral wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > > I think I do want "nor", here. > > Eeew. How about "to/from"? > Because that would mean something else, I think. The intention is that you can't transfer more than 5 points to. You also can'

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Parts of the PRS, without cheating

2009-01-21 Thread Taral
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > I think I do want "nor", here. Eeew. How about "to/from"? -- Taral "Please let me know if there's any further trouble I can give you." -- Unknown

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Parts of the PRS, without cheating

2009-01-21 Thread Alex Smith
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 14:05 -0800, Taral wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Alex Smith wrote: > > Players generally CAN transfer points they own to other players, subject > > to the restrictions that no more than 5 points can be transferred this > > way to any one player, nor from any one

DIS: Re: [s-d] [s-b] BUS: Plagiarism

2009-01-21 Thread Alex Smith
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 22:05 +, Elliott Hird wrote: > On 21 Jan 2009, at 22:01, Craig Daniel wrote: > > > I don't care where it passes, it'll be meaningless outside of > > BlogNomic (which defines weekly actions). > > In Agora, game custom can gloss that over. > > In B, ahahahahahahahahaahaha

DIS: Re: BUS: Parts of the PRS, without cheating

2009-01-21 Thread Taral
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Alex Smith wrote: > Players generally CAN transfer points they own to other players, subject > to the restrictions that no more than 5 points can be transferred this > way to any one player, nor from any one player, per week. I think you want "or", not "nor". --

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Distribution of proposal 6059

2009-01-21 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: > This scam was used before; when Rests were called blots, a past scam > blotted most of the players into deregistration-land (before my time; > maybe one of the involved players could describe it---Michael?) Chuck did it, not into deregistration-land but close enough that they agre

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Distribution of proposal 6059

2009-01-21 Thread comex
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > Ah, clever. Most partnerships aren't sufficiently unilateral to be able > to manage that, and arguably the ones that do are sufficient to land > people in enough trouble as it is. (For instance, you could get the > partnership to agree to a con

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Distribution of proposal 6059

2009-01-21 Thread Alex Smith
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 08:52 -0800, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Even if there's no scam per se, do you think that a deregistering > player can't "take members with em" in a fit of pique? For a scam, I > think it could happen quite easily that enough players in end up in > partnerships that a well-connect

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Distribution of proposal 6059

2009-01-21 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> Ah. If you mean to merge the criminal and equity courts, you should just >> come out and say that a "judge of an equity court can create rests" and >> rather than using this backhanded method. > >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Distribution of proposal 6059

2009-01-21 Thread Elliott Hird
On 21 Jan 2009, at 13:57, Kerim Aydin wrote: Ah. If you mean to merge the criminal and equity courts, you should just come out and say that a "judge of an equity court can create rests" and rather than using this backhanded method. The scam is fairly real (not that "eir" thing) though no

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Distribution of proposal 6059

2009-01-21 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Ah. If you mean to merge the criminal and equity courts, you should just > come out and say that a "judge of an equity court can create rests" and > rather than using this backhanded method. But with this method, contracts can be self-policin

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Distribution of proposal 6059

2009-01-21 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Alex Smith wrote: > On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 14:08 -0800, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, comex wrote: >>> It's not a scam (ttPF!). Nor do I think ais523's pronoun argument is >>> very convincing-- the referent is clear. I suppose it'll fail now-- >>> good for me now

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Distribution of proposal 6059

2009-01-21 Thread Alex Smith
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 14:08 -0800, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, comex wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > 6059 D 1 2.0 comex "Voluntary" creation of rests > >>> FOR > >> > >> I've found the scam here I believe; I'm not going to describe