DIS: Re: BUS: New Versions

2009-07-08 Thread Charles Reiss
On 7/8/09 3:43 PM, Sean Hunt wrote: [snip] > {{ > d) The rules explicitly state that it MAY be performed while > certain conditions are satisfied. Except as allowed by the > rules, performing such an action is a violation of the m

DIS: Re: OFF: [Tailor] Still No Witty Name Report

2009-07-08 Thread Sgeo
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Sean Hunt wrote: > Murphy                   ROGCBK MUVIY      11 How much would Murphy be willing to give me in order for me to name em as my mentor?

DIS: Re: OFF: A Really Long Post To Test UTF-8

2009-07-08 Thread Sean Hunt
Sean Hunt wrote: > [This message is to test if SCHWA is handled correctly on the lists. > It doesn't actually have a blue ribbon.] Erk, forgot to change to discussion, not official. Sorry.

Re: DIS: [ACD] 10 Government cards for G.

2009-07-08 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, Sean Hunt wrote: > Try sending these to yourself :) Did that for a while; just making sure there wasn't anything with the headers that agoranomic didn't like. -G.

Re: DIS: [ACD] 10 Government cards for G.

2009-07-08 Thread Sean Hunt
Kerim Aydin wrote: > [The following is a test. No action is implied]. > > G. has requested that 10 cards from the deck of Government be dealt > to em using the web request service described in the [not yet > existing] Agoran Card Dealership (ACD) contract. If the Dealer of the > Government deck i

DIS: [ACD] 10 Government cards for G.

2009-07-08 Thread Kerim Aydin
[The following is a test. No action is implied]. G. has requested that 10 cards from the deck of Government be dealt to em using the web request service described in the [not yet existing] Agoran Card Dealership (ACD) contract. If the Dealer of the Government deck is currently required to deal sa

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: IADoP Poobah

2009-07-08 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, comex wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Benjamin > Caplan wrote: >> Oh come on. We assign powers and responsibilities to offices all the >> time, and we've never required offices to be persons for it to work >> before now. It makes perfect sense for the vote collector to

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: IADoP Poobah

2009-07-08 Thread comex
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Benjamin Caplan wrote: > comex wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Benjamin Caplan wrote: >>> Does it have to be exactly one /natural person/? Or can the vote >>> collector be "the IADoP"? >> >> The IADoP is a natural person (or undefined)-- the vote collector

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: This is dumb

2009-07-08 Thread Sean Hunt
Benjamin Caplan wrote: > comex wrote: >> I intend, without objection, to ratify the following incorrect document: >> { The office of Grand Poobah is empty. There are no ongoing elections >> for the office of Grand Poobah or decisions to determine a new >> officeholder for that office. } >> >> The

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 6395-6402

2009-07-08 Thread Sean Hunt
Benjamin Caplan wrote: > Sean Hunt wrote: >>> Proposal 6397 (Democratic, AI=2.0, Interest=0) by Pavitra >>> Support Diplomacy >> AGAINST, this defeats the purpose of the rule in the first place. > Not really. The purpose of the rule in the first place is to prevent > arbitrary creation of corporate

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: IADoP Poobah

2009-07-08 Thread Benjamin Caplan
comex wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Benjamin Caplan wrote: >> Does it have to be exactly one /natural person/? Or can the vote >> collector be "the IADoP"? > > The IADoP is a natural person (or undefined)-- the vote collector > could, I suppose, theoretically be the *office* of IADoP, b

DIS: Re: BUS: This is dumb

2009-07-08 Thread Benjamin Caplan
comex wrote: > I intend, without objection, to ratify the following incorrect document: > { The office of Grand Poobah is empty. There are no ongoing elections > for the office of Grand Poobah or decisions to determine a new > officeholder for that office. } > > The document is incorrect because

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 6395-6402

2009-07-08 Thread Benjamin Caplan
Charles Reiss wrote: >> 6397 D 0 2.0 Pavitra Support Diplomacy > AGAINST (should not be disinterested) Um, what? "Should be disinterested" is a sensible enough reason to vote AGAINST a proposal, because the author of a passing interested proposal gets paid for it, but... /what/? Is ther

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Encoding Proposal

2009-07-08 Thread comex
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Benjamin Caplan wrote: > Sean Hunt wrote: >>       For the purposes of this message, an encoding is any manner of >>       interpreting text, including the base character encoding and any >>       encodings layered on top of that. > > I think that "any manner of inte

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: IADoP Poobah

2009-07-08 Thread comex
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Benjamin Caplan wrote: > Kerim Aydin wrote: >> On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, ais523 wrote: >>> On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 15:15 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: I think what happens is that in R208, "exactly one collector...defaulting to the initiator" forces the latter part of

DIS: Re: BUS: Encoding Proposal

2009-07-08 Thread Benjamin Caplan
Sean Hunt wrote: > For the purposes of this message, an encoding is any manner of > interpreting text, including the base character encoding and any > encodings layered on top of that. I think that "any manner of interpreting text" is too broad. It includes things like the Englis

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: IADoP Poobah

2009-07-08 Thread Benjamin Caplan
Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, ais523 wrote: >> On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 15:15 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: >>> I think what happens is that in R208, "exactly one collector...defaulting >>> to the initiator" forces the latter part of the paragraph to not work when >>> the office is vacant (some

DIS: Re: BUS: New Versions

2009-07-08 Thread Sean Hunt
Sean Hunt wrote: > I retract my proposal entitled "That's Just Criminal" and submit the > following: I retract that proposal and submit the following: Proposal (AI=3, II=3) That's Just Criminal {{{ Amend Rule 2230 to read as follows: {{ Any person CAN publish a document alleging that a sing

DIS: Re: BUS: New Versions

2009-07-08 Thread comex
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Sean Hunt wrote: >      announcement if e done so less than 3 times in the same Agoran Grammar.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Enigma results

2009-07-08 Thread Taral
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Sgeo wrote: > When I get around to it, I have a puzzle to submit.. *insert appropriate contract here* I create a Round Tuit in Sgeo's possession. -- Taral "Please let me know if there's any further trouble I can give you." -- Unknown

DIS: Re: BUS: Enigma results

2009-07-08 Thread Sgeo
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:02 AM, ais523 wrote: > Again, no puzzles this week or last week. Come on, people; now point > output has been reduced, points are more valuable than ever; and when > nobody else is submitting puzzles, the potential rewards for them are > larger (based on the new rules chan