Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Distribution of proposals 6063-6069

2009-01-26 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 7:32 PM, comex wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Charles Reiss wrote: Anyone CAN cause this rule to amend itself by announcement. >>> NoV: The PNP violated Rule 1607 by distributing this proposal (a >>> mangled copy of P6069). >> >> I contest this. It's not cl

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: committee cleanup?

2009-01-26 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 7:03 PM, comex wrote: > I just meant that it's not doing any harm by failing to vote and thus > diluting the power of the committee-- the reason I initially assumed > for the inactivations. Actually I just didn't want to track committee memberships consisting of a bunch of

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Distribution of proposals 6063-6069

2009-01-26 Thread comex
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Charles Reiss wrote: >>> Anyone CAN cause this rule to amend itself by announcement. >> NoV: The PNP violated Rule 1607 by distributing this proposal (a >> mangled copy of P6069). > > I contest this. It's not clear to me that actually violates R1607 > (although if

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: committee cleanup?

2009-01-26 Thread comex
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > So you just mean "it doesn't matter because TNP2 never votes on > anything in practice, even though it could in theory"? I just meant that it's not doing any harm by failing to vote and thus diluting the power of the committee-- the reason I ini

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judicial NoVs

2009-01-26 Thread Taral
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Alex Smith wrote: > Note that the intent of the proposal was that contesting NoVs due to a > belief that their punishment is unjust is valid, and a reasonable use of > contestment. There is also precedent, in OscarMeyr punishing ehird with > APOLOGY rather than SI

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: adding to the game

2009-01-26 Thread Taral
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:18 AM, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > In R2158, replace every instance of "SHALL" with "SHOULD". > > In R2143, replace every instance of "SHALL" with "SHOULD". Every instance? AGAINST. -- Taral "Please let me know if there's any further trouble I can give you." -- Unknow

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Notary wiki

2009-01-26 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Ed Murphy wrote: > Goethe wrote: > No, I'm just saying we're playing fast enough that letting high-activity > offices (which high-priority is meant to more-or-less match) fall behind > by as much as a quarter, or even a month, is annoying. Both catch-up > and ongoing maintena

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Notary wiki

2009-01-26 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Ed Murphy wrote: >> Goethe wrote: >>> On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, comex wrote: > I would suggest formalizing the notion of recordkeepors for individual > contracts (e.g. the AAA's SoA) and instructing the Notary to give them > edit privs to just their own

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: Distribution of proposals 6063-6069

2009-01-26 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 14:07 -0800, Ed Murphy wrote: > ais523 wrote: > > > I vote as follows: > > NttPF, and please trim out the text of the proposals. I hit send by mistake, explaining the untrimmed text, the incompleteness of the votes, and the nttpfness. -- ais523

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: Distribution of proposals 6063-6069

2009-01-26 Thread Ed Murphy
ais523 wrote: > I vote as follows: NttPF, and please trim out the text of the proposals.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Notary wiki

2009-01-26 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Ed Murphy wrote: > Goethe wrote: >> On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, comex wrote: I would suggest formalizing the notion of recordkeepors for individual contracts (e.g. the AAA's SoA) and instructing the Notary to give them edit privs to just their own contract. >> >> Old A

DIS: Re: OFF: Distribution of proposals 6063-6069

2009-01-26 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 13:56 -0800, The PerlNomic Partnership wrote: > NUM C I AI SUBMITTER TITLE I vote as follows: > 6063 D 0 2.0 Taral NoV acceptance fix FOR > 6064 D 1 2.0 Wooble Adding to the Game AGAINST; I think the rules can handle this, in that if all

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Notary wiki

2009-01-26 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, comex wrote: >>> I would suggest formalizing the notion of recordkeepors for individual >>> contracts (e.g. the AAA's SoA) and instructing the Notary to give them >>> edit privs to just their own contract. > > Old Agoran system: formalize a recordkeepor, then

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: committee cleanup?

2009-01-26 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: >> comex wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Geoffrey Spear >>> wrote: I intend, without objection, to make The Normish Partnership 2 inactive. >>> I object. (This doesn't have any practical impact on committees

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Notary wiki

2009-01-26 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, comex wrote: >> I would suggest formalizing the notion of recordkeepors for individual >> contracts (e.g. the AAA's SoA) and instructing the Notary to give them >> edit privs to just their own contract. Old Agoran system: formalize a recordkeepor, then require they publish t

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Notary wiki

2009-01-26 Thread comex
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > 1) Spambots Well, accounts given to any requesting player would suffice, I suppose. > 2) Players making incorrect edits, whether through malice or accident I think we can avoid malice on the honor system. As for accident, if anyone messes up

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Rebellion or, Hi Chuck

2009-01-26 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: > Please note that the following NoVs may be invalid due to the holiday: Validity = well-formed-ness, not correctness.

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Notary wiki

2009-01-26 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: > Proposal: Notary wiki (AI=2) > > Amend Rule 2178 (Public Contracts) by replacing: > Changes in the text or list of parties of a public contract do > not become effective until they are published. > > with: > A wiki is a website which can be reasonably accessed an

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: committee cleanup?

2009-01-26 Thread comex
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > comex wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Geoffrey Spear >> wrote: >>> I intend, without objection, to make The Normish Partnership 2 inactive. >> >> I object. (This doesn't have any practical impact on committees >> AFAIK, as only p

DIS: Re: BUS: committee cleanup?

2009-01-26 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Geoffrey Spear wrote: >> I intend, without objection, to make The Normish Partnership 2 inactive. > > I object. (This doesn't have any practical impact on committees > AFAIK, as only players who voted count.) Why would that be? This is just str

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Make the Conductor's job easier

2009-01-26 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: > Proposal: Make the Conductor's job easier (AI=2, II=0) > > Amend Rule 2228 (Rests) by removing ", whose recordkeepor is the > Conductor", and by adding this paragraph after the first paragraph: > > The Anticonductor is an office, and the recordkeepor of Rests. > > [E has en

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Rebellion or, Hi Chuck

2009-01-26 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Alex Smith wrote: > 14 ais523 > 3 avpx > 14 BobTHJ > 4 cdm014 > 26 comex > 2 ehird > 3 Elysion > 7 Goethe > 6 harblcat > 21 Murphy > 12 OscarMeyr > 2 pikhq > 7 Quazie > 22 root > 3 Sgeo > 7 Sir Toby >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ on reward/punishment

2009-01-26 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Alex Smith wrote: > On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 11:27 -0800, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> [Been meaning to call this since Rests were enacted. Seems to be suddenly >> more pressing] >> >> I CFJ on the following statement: If the Rules specify that a player is >> to receive a Note for per

DIS: Re: BUS: Rebellion or, Hi Chuck

2009-01-26 Thread Charles Reiss
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:04, comex wrote: > I move to Beer Hall. > I become Rebellious. [snip] > > I publish the following. > Each of BobTHJ, woggle, OscarMeyr violated Rule 2157 by failing to act > collectively to ensure the panel assigned a judgement to CFJ 2027a > ASAP [15 days, 2:29:04] Arg

DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ on reward/punishment

2009-01-26 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 11:27 -0800, Kerim Aydin wrote: > [Been meaning to call this since Rests were enacted. Seems to be suddenly > more pressing] > > I CFJ on the following statement: If the Rules specify that a player is > to receive a Note for performing a required (i.e. a SHALL) action, an

DIS: Re: BUS: Rebellion or, Hi Chuck

2009-01-26 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 14:12 -0500, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > I contest all of these. I don't necessarily think they're all unfair > or incorrect, but I've carefully weighed the full implications of > doing so anyway, most of which involve me not having to count several > hundred Rests in 4 days and

DIS: Re: BUS: Rebellion or, Hi Chuck

2009-01-26 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 13:04 -0500, comex wrote: > ais523 violated Rule 2158 by failing to assign a judgement to CFJ 2246 > ASAP [8 days, 2:54:02] Looking over this one, it seems I did in fact break the letter of the rules. The context was a mousetrap scam against the Protection Racket, where the di

DIS: Re: BUS: Rebellion or, Hi Chuck

2009-01-26 Thread comex
Please note that the following NoVs may be invalid due to the holiday: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:04 PM, comex wrote: > Goethe violated Rule 2158 by failing to assign a judgement to CFJ 2311 > ASAP [17 days, 18:38:28] > BobTHJ violated Rule 2158 by failing to assign a judgement to CFJ 2314 > ASAP

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Bankruptcy

2009-01-26 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 13:30 -0500, comex wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > > Replacing VP with coins is fine. Giving all the Vote Market parties a > > free ride for the VP they've spent is not. > > I've tried selling my votes several times, even for very cheap (10 > c

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2344 assigned to ehird

2009-01-26 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 18:08 +, Elliott Hird wrote: > On 26 Jan 2009, at 18:04, Alex Smith wrote: > > > I support this appeal, as it's ridiculous that the permanent record > > of a > > case contains no arguments at all (from the judge or anyone else) > > as to > > why the judgement is corre

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Bankruptcy

2009-01-26 Thread comex
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > Replacing VP with coins is fine. Giving all the Vote Market parties a > free ride for the VP they've spent is not. I've tried selling my votes several times, even for very cheap (10 coins), but I don't believe any of my votes have ever been bo

Re: DIS: committee non-CFJ

2009-01-26 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > I don't think they are embassies within the letter of the rules, but > they're definitely embassies in spirit. > > Luckily, embassyness doesn't do anything atm, IIRC. It affects committee membership, which I have to track.

Re: DIS: committee non-CFJ

2009-01-26 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 10:42 -0500, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > To avoid filing excess CFJs, I'll just ask for general opinions on > this one: are PNP and TNP2 embassies? I'm not even sure what it would > mean for their related nomics' rules to designate that they represent > the nomics in Agora since

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Make the Conductor's job easier

2009-01-26 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, comex wrote: > Proposal: Make the Conductor's job easier (AI=2, II=0) > > Amend Rule 2228 (Rests) by removing ", whose recordkeepor is the > Conductor", and by adding this paragraph after the first paragraph: > > The Anticonductor is an office, and the recordkeepor of Res

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

2009-01-26 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 00:02 -0800, Taral wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > > I award Murphy as many y-points as are specified in the contract for > > players who did not give eligible answers (because the Notary website > > seems out-of-date and I'm not sure how many t

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judicial NoVs

2009-01-26 Thread Alex Smith
On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 23:26 -0800, Ed Murphy wrote: > Wooble wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 8:28 PM, comex wrote: > >> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Geoffrey Spear > >> wrote: > >>> comex violated R2158 (power 2) by failing to assign a judgement to CFJ > >>> 2316 as soon as possible af

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2344 assigned to ehird

2009-01-26 Thread Elliott Hird
On 26 Jan 2009, at 18:04, Alex Smith wrote: I support this appeal, as it's ridiculous that the permanent record of a case contains no arguments at all (from the judge or anyone else) as to why the judgement is correct. Just a few sentences explaining the error in my reasoning would have s

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2328 assigned to OscarMeyr

2009-01-26 Thread Ed Murphy
ehird wrote: > On 26 Jan 2009, at 17:49, Ed Murphy wrote: > >> What does this have to do with the "or deregister" addendum, which you >> specifically complained about and I specifically rebutted? > > > "won't get you dinged any harder than failing to publish the report" Please stop assuming th

DIS: Re: BUS: Judicial NoVs

2009-01-26 Thread Alex Smith
On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 20:28 -0500, comex wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > > comex violated R2158 (power 2) by failing to assign a judgement to CFJ > > 2316 as soon as possible after e become assigned to it as Judge. > > > > comex violated R2158 (power 2) by failing

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2328 assigned to OscarMeyr

2009-01-26 Thread Elliott Hird
On 26 Jan 2009, at 17:49, Ed Murphy wrote: What does this have to do with the "or deregister" addendum, which you specifically complained about and I specifically rebutted? "won't get you dinged any harder than failing to publish the report"

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2328 assigned to OscarMeyr

2009-01-26 Thread Ed Murphy
ehird wrote: > On 26 Jan 2009, at 07:05, Ed Murphy wrote: > >> Gratuituous: Failing to deregister won't get you dinged any harder >> than failing to publish the report, so this is no worse than a >> straightforward "ehird SHALL publish on time" etc. (and technically >> better, as it gives you an

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: weekly reports and duties NoVs

2009-01-26 Thread Ed Murphy
ehird wrote: > On 26 Jan 2009, at 17:27, Ed Murphy wrote: > >> Gratuituous: You could have asked comex to agree to amend Bayes to >> let >> it perform its duties under manual control during server outages. > > We already can, but SHOULD NOT. IMO a server outage is sufficient grounds to overr

DIS: Re: BUS: Notarizing

2009-01-26 Thread Ed Murphy
Wooble wrote: > I intend to deputize for the Notary to publish eir reports. > > H. Notary Website Administrator Murphy, can I get editing privs on the wiki? Sure, create an account and let me know the name.

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

2009-01-26 Thread Ed Murphy
Taral wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Alex Smith wrote: >> I award Murphy as many y-points as are specified in the contract for >> players who did not give eligible answers (because the Notary website >> seems out-of-date and I'm not sure how many that is). The website was last update

DIS: Re: BUS: Bankruptcy

2009-01-26 Thread Alex Smith
On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 14:32 -0800, Charles Reiss wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 07:50, comex wrote: > > Vote Points are worthless and nobody knows how many anyone has. > > Perhaps more importantly, the VM doesn't need its own currency > > anymore: there is a viable alternative currency (coins) t

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: weekly reports and duties NoVs

2009-01-26 Thread Elliott Hird
On 26 Jan 2009, at 17:27, Ed Murphy wrote: Gratuituous: You could have asked comex to agree to amend Bayes to let it perform its duties under manual control during server outages. We already can, but SHOULD NOT.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2347 assigned to Taral

2009-01-26 Thread Elliott Hird
On 26 Jan 2009, at 17:22, Kerim Aydin wrote: Except that Rule 1504 contains a standard for what an apology must contain (remorse etc., and the word "apology" has a standard english meaning, neither of which are true for the term "Cantus Cygnus", so your text was not an Apology by either the

DIS: Re: BUS: weekly reports and duties NoVs

2009-01-26 Thread Ed Murphy
ehird wrote: > On 26 Jan 2009, at 07:14, Ed Murphy wrote: > >> Parties of Bayes, I inform you of this equity case (2351) and invite >> you to submit arguments regarding the equitability of the situation. > > I did it, as getting my server running again is one of my least > priorities out-of-game

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: adding to the game

2009-01-26 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > I submit the following AI-2 proposal entitled "Adding to the Game": > {{ > Goethe is a co-author of this proposal. > > In R2158, replace every instance of "SHALL" with "SHOULD". > > In R2143, replace every instance of "SHALL" with "SHOULD". > }} I woul

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2347 assigned to Taral

2009-01-26 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Elliott Hird wrote: > On 26 Jan 2009, at 08:21, Taral wrote: > >> I suggest you look at Rule 1504 a little more closely. > > CFJ: {{ > If I submitted "The following is my Cantus Cygneus: {pigs > are delicious!!}" to the Registrar, it would be a Cantus > Cygneus > }} > > (I arg

DIS: committee non-CFJ

2009-01-26 Thread Geoffrey Spear
To avoid filing excess CFJs, I'll just ask for general opinions on this one: are PNP and TNP2 embassies? I'm not even sure what it would mean for their related nomics' rules to designate that they represent the nomics in Agora since their rules are code and have no place for such abstractions.

DIS: Re: BUS: revenge of the NoVs

2009-01-26 Thread comex
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > I published NoVs accusing players of violating rules in the past week, > none of which were made for personal reasons. comex responded by > digging up violations that occurred months ago, including violations > by panels that e didn't accu

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: weekly reports and duties NoVs

2009-01-26 Thread comex
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Elliott Hird wrote: > I would stop comex doing such things, but I'd have to have his consent > to act on behalf of Bayes. You consented to cause Bayes to accept the nomination. I don't believe you have any outstanding intents to act on behalf of Bayes, so I'm not

DIS: Re: BUS: weekly reports and duties NoVs

2009-01-26 Thread comex
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 6:34 AM, Elliott Hird wrote: > I did it, as getting my server running again is one of my least > priorities out-of-game ATM. I would implore an Agoran court not to > obligate me to take out of game actions such as putting up a server. I would be happy to run Bayes on anoth

DIS: Re: BUS: weekly reports and duties NoVs

2009-01-26 Thread Elliott Hird
On 26 Jan 2009, at 11:40, Geoffrey Spear wrote: I suggest the parties to Bayes stop putting obligations on it that it can't perform. I would stop comex doing such things, but I'd have to have his consent to act on behalf of Bayes.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2328 assigned to OscarMeyr

2009-01-26 Thread Elliott Hird
On 26 Jan 2009, at 07:05, Ed Murphy wrote: Gratuituous: Failing to deregister won't get you dinged any harder than failing to publish the report, so this is no worse than a straightforward "ehird SHALL publish on time" etc. (and technically better, as it gives you an additional option, though

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2344 assigned to ehird

2009-01-26 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:17 AM, Ed Murphy wrote: > Gratuituous: The backing document of props had been restored to legal > standing by the time this CFJ was initiated. If ais523 wanted to ask > whether props remained an asset while it lacked such standing, e should > have done so. I believe ei

DIS: Re: BUS: revenge of the NoVs

2009-01-26 Thread Elliott Hird
On 26 Jan 2009, at 04:35, Geoffrey Spear wrote: I published NoVs accusing players of violating rules in the past week, none of which were made for personal reasons. comex responded by digging up violations that occurred months ago, including violations by panels that e didn't accuse the other

DIS: Re: BUS: Man, that's a lot of NoVs

2009-01-26 Thread Elliott Hird
On 26 Jan 2009, at 03:35, Ed Murphy wrote: and while I just need to record that they happened, the Conductor has to record whether they were contested and/or CFJed, and the Rests thereby produced. I intend, without objection, to flip the Interest Index of the Office of Conductor to 2. I

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2347 assigned to Taral

2009-01-26 Thread Taral
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Elliott Hird wrote: > My apology: I suggest you look at Rule 1504 a little more closely. -- Taral "Please let me know if there's any further trouble I can give you." -- Unknown