Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Who needs ribbons?

2009-04-21 Thread Aaron Goldfein
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Sean Hunt wrote: > Aaron Goldfein wrote: > > Proposal: Who needs ribbons (AI = 2, II = 2) > > > > [Because since the establishment of the rule nobody has ever won by > > Renaissance > > and players do not seem to go out of their way to earn ribbons most of > thes

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Who needs ribbons?

2009-04-21 Thread Sean Hunt
Aaron Goldfein wrote: > Proposal: Who needs ribbons (AI = 2, II = 2) > > [Because since the establishment of the rule nobody has ever won by > Renaissance > and players do not seem to go out of their way to earn ribbons most of these > achievements are already awarded with notesand the number of w

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Scheduled Actions

2009-04-21 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: >> with this text: >> >> Where the rules define an action that CAN be performed "by >> announcement", a person performs that action by unambiguously >> and clearly specifying the action and announcing that e performs

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Scheduled Actions

2009-04-21 Thread comex
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > with this text: > >      Where the rules define an action that CAN be performed "by >      announcement", a person performs that action by unambiguously >      and clearly specifying the action and announcing that e performs >      it, or that e

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Scheduled actions

2009-04-21 Thread Ed Murphy
Billy Pilgrim wrote: > Indeed. Another thing, from B experience, that this should probably > spell out is how what time an action takes place at is actually > specified. Otherwise, things like "one second after X happens" or, more > problematic, "one second before X happens", can be quite problema

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Scheduled actions

2009-04-21 Thread Ed Murphy
ehird wrote: > 2009/4/21 Ed Murphy : >> Well, that and questions about the physical possibility >> of something occurring 10^-100 seconds after something else. > > happy walrus? Ye-es.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Scheduled actions

2009-04-21 Thread Jamie Dallaire
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 14:21 -0400, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Ed Murphy > wrote: > > > Proposal: Scheduled actions > > > > This should probably explicitly spell out the order that actions occur > > in the event

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Scheduled actions

2009-04-21 Thread Elliott Hird
2009/4/21 Ed Murphy : > Well, that and questions about the physical possibility > of something occurring 10^-100 seconds after something else. happy walrus?

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Scheduled actions

2009-04-21 Thread comex
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > That's what "integral number of seconds after midnight" is intended > to prevent. Hmm? That's not in your proposal. > Well, that and questions about the physical possibility > of something occurring 10^-100 seconds after something else. Well,

DIS: Repeating a proto

2009-04-21 Thread Alex Smith
On Oct 20, I wrote: > Ah, a Bayes title so good I had to make a proto around it. Maybe it > wouldn't be a good idea to do this immediately, but let us explore the > corner cases of Caste first; on the other hand, if people don't like > Caste, this might be something interesting to replace it with.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Scheduled actions

2009-04-21 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: >> AGAINST because I think it's broken: if you're going to do this, >> explicitly legislate conditional actions instead of the current mess >> of precedents (and get rid of the conditional voting rule) so we know >> exactly what sort of conditional

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Scheduled actions

2009-04-21 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: >> Proposal: Scheduled actions >> (AI = 3, please) >> >> [Not everyone has access to a server with both cron and mail-sending >> capability. This would allow for things like "At 23:59:59 UTC, if my >> caste is Alpha, then I spend

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Fix point limits

2009-04-21 Thread comex
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: >        c) SHALL award and revoke points as explicitly described >           in its contract (subject to the above limits), or as needed >           to counteract a specified award/revocation not explicitly >           described in its contract o

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: NoV, obnoxious intents

2009-04-21 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 01:42 +0200, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: >> (I'm not sure about how weeks are counted: it's a new calendar week >> since I last published an NoV, but it hasn't been 7 days) > > The rule is that officers must publish a high-prior

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: NoV, obnoxious intents

2009-04-21 Thread Alex Smith
On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 16:12 -0400, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 01:42 +0200, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: > >> (I'm not sure about how weeks are counted: it's a new calendar week > >> since I last published an NoV, but it hasn't bee

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Scheduled actions

2009-04-21 Thread Alex Smith
On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 14:21 -0400, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > > Proposal: Scheduled actions > > This should probably explicitly spell out the order that actions occur > in the event multiple actions are scheduled at the same time and the > order i

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: NoV, obnoxious intents

2009-04-21 Thread Alex Smith
On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 01:42 +0200, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: > (I'm not sure about how weeks are counted: it's a new calendar week > since I last published an NoV, but it hasn't been 7 days) The rule is that officers must publish a high-priority report at least once in each week. So publishing Monday

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Nominations

2009-04-21 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Aaron Goldfein wrote: > If there are no accepted nominations, doesn't the office just become empty? No. The outcome of the election is and nothing happens.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Nominations

2009-04-21 Thread Aaron Goldfein
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Aaron Goldfein > wrote: > > I'm still waiting on Wooble to accept his nominations for Tailor and > > Accountor. > > I didn't even notice I'd been nominated. If no one else consents, I'll > keep the offices b

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Scheduled actions

2009-04-21 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > Proposal:  Scheduled actions > (AI = 3, please) > > [Not everyone has access to a server with both cron and mail-sending > capability.  This would allow for things like "At 23:59:59 UTC, if my > caste is Alpha, then I spend to reduce it" to be

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Scheduled actions

2009-04-21 Thread Ed Murphy
Wooble wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: >> Proposal: Scheduled actions > > This should probably explicitly spell out the order that actions occur > in the event multiple actions are scheduled at the same time and the > order is significant. I was planning to wait for

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Scheduled actions

2009-04-21 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > Proposal:  Scheduled actions This should probably explicitly spell out the order that actions occur in the event multiple actions are scheduled at the same time and the order is significant. Granted this might be a problem even without schedule

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Nominations

2009-04-21 Thread Elliott Hird
2009/4/21 Geoffrey Spear : > Your contributions certainly put you in an excellent position to criticize em. Idling is not comparable.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Nominations

2009-04-21 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Aaron Goldfein wrote: > I'm still waiting on Wooble to accept his nominations for Tailor and > Accountor. I didn't even notice I'd been nominated. If no one else consents, I'll keep the offices by default.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Nominations

2009-04-21 Thread Aaron Goldfein
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:01 AM, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Elliott Hird > wrote: > > Getting Dvorak to do anything but vote? ha! > > Your contributions certainly put you in an excellent position to criticize > em. > I'm still waiting on Wooble to accept his nominat

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Nominations

2009-04-21 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Elliott Hird wrote: > Getting Dvorak to do anything but vote? ha! Your contributions certainly put you in an excellent position to criticize em.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Enigma] This week's puzzles

2009-04-21 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Clearly you've never rowed crew; not too far off, tho by disciplined > dropping down to the lower speed, the added power would probably put you > somewhere in between.  -G. Obviously the time you'd waste instructing the worse rowers in proper