Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2623 assigned to Taral

2009-07-16 Thread Benjamin Caplan
Elliott Hird wrote: > 2009/7/16 Taral : >> In an Equitable sense, I believe it actually does. If you both entered >> into the contract without any intention that it have any effect on >> you, it may not even be a contract. > > Oh, we knew it'd have effects; we just didn't care because we were > bu

Re: DIS: All hail Speaker coppro - Maybe?

2009-07-16 Thread Sean Hunt
Roger Hicks wrote: > Thinking about how to automate this is giving me a headache. Your > logic seems sound however (apart from coppro's addition) > > BobTHJ The good news is that you don't have to.

Re: DIS: All hail Speaker coppro - Maybe?

2009-07-16 Thread Roger Hicks
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 22:19, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > [BobTHJ and coppro, your opinion on this sequence and logic is very welcome] > [Also, this is a little odd at bootup, but I think more normal afterwards] > > The list of champion awards since March 1 (eldest to youngest) is as follows: > > 1. ai

Re: DIS: Unofficial list of office priorities

2009-07-16 Thread Sean Hunt
Roger Hicks wrote: > If you give me 24 hours I'll have an interface (if you prefer) > available for your use to deal cards that will integrate with my > recordkeeping. I also noticed that players who did not appear on the > Conductor report (because they had no notes) never got their 2 initial > de

Re: DIS: Unofficial list of office priorities

2009-07-16 Thread Sean Hunt
Roger Hicks wrote: > I'm not desperate to be Anarchist, but I do intend to recordkeep for > all cards (even if it is secondary to the primary officer's > recordkeeping). I also intend to make my dealing system available to > all Dealors if they wish to use it. > > BobTHJ I don't really want to tr

Re: DIS: Unofficial list of office priorities

2009-07-16 Thread Roger Hicks
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 20:09, Sean Hunt wrote: > Here is my unofficial list of office priorities. If anyone has any > objections, please list them very specifically. The intent is to allow > BobTHJ and myself to assign deals as appropriate for these so that we > can get Cards into the intended sta

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Going on hold

2009-07-16 Thread Sgeo
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Sgeo wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:16 PM, comex wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 5:37 PM, comex wrote: >>> Starting tomorrow I will be unable to send or receive messages for two >>> weeks.  Accordingly, I go on hold.  After publishing this week's SLR >>> I'l

DIS: Re: BUS: Going on hold

2009-07-16 Thread Sgeo
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:16 PM, comex wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 5:37 PM, comex wrote: >> Starting tomorrow I will be unable to send or receive messages for two >> weeks.  Accordingly, I go on hold.  After publishing this week's SLR >> I'll resign Rulekeepor; if anyone wants to keep track o

Re: DIS: All hail Speaker coppro - Maybe?

2009-07-16 Thread Sean Hunt
Kerim Aydin wrote: > [BobTHJ and coppro, your opinion on this sequence and logic is very welcome] > [Also, this is a little odd at bootup, but I think more normal afterwards] > > The list of champion awards since March 1 (eldest to youngest) is as follows: > > 1. ais523 > 2. G. > 3.

DIS: Re: BUS: well, we know he was in a hurry...

2009-07-16 Thread Roger Hicks
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 19:33, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Geoffrey Spear wrote: >> I come off hold.  I Form a Government as follows: >> >> I CFJ on: {{c. is Justiciar.}} >> > > Gratuitous:  When Wooble went on hold, e ceased to be on the List of > Succession.  When e came off hold,

DIS: All hail Speaker coppro - Maybe?

2009-07-16 Thread Kerim Aydin
[BobTHJ and coppro, your opinion on this sequence and logic is very welcome] [Also, this is a little odd at bootup, but I think more normal afterwards] The list of champion awards since March 1 (eldest to youngest) is as follows: 1. ais523 2. G. 3. OscarMeyr 4. ais523 5. root

Re: DIS: Cards Web Interface

2009-07-16 Thread Roger Hicks
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 19:50, Sean Hunt wrote: > Roger Hicks wrote: >> All activity related to cards since their inception is available for >> perusal at my web-interface: http://nomic.bob-space.com/agoralog.aspx >> >> It is still rather rough at the moment. Changes to account for ehird's >> sugge

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2631 assigned to c.

2009-07-16 Thread comex
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > I agree with c. here; rule changes have a special standard and absolute > and precise specification is required.  I screwed up.  -G. On my part, I apologize that I have to leave in the middle of what looks like some controversy over the rulese

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: well, we know he was in a hurry...

2009-07-16 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Sean Hunt wrote: > >> So both eir recent governments failed, correct? > > The Major Arcana rule was never created, so yes either way. > Why don't you actually read the proposal? They were platonically created in the ha

DIS: Unofficial list of office priorities

2009-07-16 Thread Sean Hunt
Here is my unofficial list of office priorities. If anyone has any objections, please list them very specifically. The intent is to allow BobTHJ and myself to assign deals as appropriate for these so that we can get Cards into the intended state. I've also included II and some notes on the high-pri

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: well, we know he was in a hurry...

2009-07-16 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Sean Hunt wrote: > So both eir recent governments failed, correct? The Major Arcana rule was never created, so yes either way.

Re: DIS: Cards Web Interface

2009-07-16 Thread Sean Hunt
Roger Hicks wrote: > All activity related to cards since their inception is available for > perusal at my web-interface: http://nomic.bob-space.com/agoralog.aspx > > It is still rather rough at the moment. Changes to account for ehird's > suggestions as well as a text-only version for recordkeepor

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2623 assigned to Taral

2009-07-16 Thread Elliott Hird
2009/7/16 Taral : > In an Equitable sense, I believe it actually does. If you both entered > into the contract without any intention that it have any effect on > you, it may not even be a contract. Oh, we knew it'd have effects; we just didn't care because we were busy giggling about it.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: well, we know he was in a hurry...

2009-07-16 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Sean Hunt wrote: > Kerim Aydin wrote: > So both eir recent governments failed, correct? Ah yes, just checked; any speaker activity e tried after e went on hold and came back would have failed. I'll try to assemble a full "list of succession" history tomorrow to confirm the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: well, we know he was in a hurry...

2009-07-16 Thread Sean Hunt
Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Roger Hicks wrote: >> Tiger - July 6 >> c. - July 6 (and previously on Jun 24) >> Wooble - July 6 >> ais523 - July 6 (twice) >> coppro - June 24 > > Ah, but here's the thing. Wooble has been on the "last 5" list continuously > since... well, for a while.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: well, we know he was in a hurry...

2009-07-16 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Roger Hicks wrote: > Tiger - July 6 > c. - July 6 (and previously on Jun 24) > Wooble - July 6 > ais523 - July 6 (twice) > coppro - June 24 Ah, but here's the thing. Wooble has been on the "last 5" list continuously since... well, for a while. So e was "added" to that list

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2631 assigned to c.

2009-07-16 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Roger Hicks wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 14:08, comex wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Taral wrote: >>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Roger Hicks wrote: I intend (with 2 support) to appeal. A request to set a rule AI to 2 seems fairly unambiguous to

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2631 assigned to c.

2009-07-16 Thread Ed Murphy
coppro wrote: > Roger Hicks wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 14:08, comex wrote: >>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Taral wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Roger Hicks wrote: > I intend (with 2 support) to appeal. A request to set a rule AI to 2 > seems fairly unambiguous to

DIS: Cards Web Interface

2009-07-16 Thread Roger Hicks
All activity related to cards since their inception is available for perusal at my web-interface: http://nomic.bob-space.com/agoralog.aspx It is still rather rough at the moment. Changes to account for ehird's suggestions as well as a text-only version for recordkeepor copy/paste use are in the wo

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2631 assigned to c.

2009-07-16 Thread ais523
On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 14:48 -0600, Roger Hicks wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 14:46, Sean Hunt wrote: > > AI is a term defined and used in many places in the rules. There is no > > qway to say that setting a rule's AI is unambiguously setting a rule's > > power. My interpretation would be that it

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2631 assigned to c.

2009-07-16 Thread Roger Hicks
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 14:46, Sean Hunt wrote: > AI is a term defined and used in many places in the rules. There is no > qway to say that setting a rule's AI is unambiguously setting a rule's > power. My interpretation would be that it simply sets its AI. The > alternative interpretation, which i

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2631 assigned to c.

2009-07-16 Thread Sean Hunt
Roger Hicks wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 14:08, comex wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Taral wrote: >>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Roger Hicks wrote: I intend (with 2 support) to appeal. A request to set a rule AI to 2 seems fairly unambiguous to me as a request to se

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2623 assigned to Taral

2009-07-16 Thread ais523
On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 19:18 +0100, Elliott Hird wrote: > 2009/7/16 Taral : > > By the initiator's own admission, e did not envision anything by the > > contract. I proto-judge {The parties to (2008-11-22-ehird) SHALL act > > to terminate it ASAP.} > > > > Comments? > > That parenthical was a joke;

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2631 assigned to c.

2009-07-16 Thread Roger Hicks
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 14:08, comex wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Taral wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Roger Hicks wrote: >>> I intend (with 2 support) to appeal. A request to set a rule AI to 2 >>> seems fairly unambiguous to me as a request to set power to 2. >> >> I sup

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2631 assigned to c.

2009-07-16 Thread comex
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Taral wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Roger Hicks wrote: >> I intend (with 2 support) to appeal. A request to set a rule AI to 2 >> seems fairly unambiguous to me as a request to set power to 2. > > I support. More common sense please. Rule 217 only goes

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: well, we know he was in a hurry...

2009-07-16 Thread Roger Hicks
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 13:48, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> The issue indeed is CFJ-worthy. I wondered this exact question at the time >> I published the card holder list, and can see arguments both ways, in that >> the "list of the last 5 champions" certainly a

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2623 assigned to Taral

2009-07-16 Thread Taral
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Elliott Hird wrote: > That parenthical was a joke; are you seriously suggesting that being > reckless absolves us of the obligations? In an Equitable sense, I believe it actually does. If you both entered into the contract without any intention that it have any ef

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: well, we know he was in a hurry...

2009-07-16 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Roger Hicks wrote: >> I believe that would make coppro the speaker as of the adoption of the >> cards proposal... HALT. *Within* the proposal, proposal cards were created *before* the Speakership was redefined. So the card creation was in relation to the *old* speaker.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: well, we know he was in a hurry...

2009-07-16 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Kerim Aydin wrote: > The issue indeed is CFJ-worthy. I wondered this exact question at the time > I published the card holder list, and can see arguments both ways, in that > the "list of the last 5 champions" certainly arbitrarily existed as a > platonic entity (to which peop

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: well, we know he was in a hurry...

2009-07-16 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Roger Hicks wrote: > Since the Coda proposal defined a new list, members were only added to > the list at the time the proposal was adopted. As a result here is the > list of succession (in order of most recent champion to least recent): First, we're a few hours away from se

DIS: Re: BUS: well, we know he was in a hurry...

2009-07-16 Thread Roger Hicks
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 13:28, Roger Hicks wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 09:05, Geoffrey Spear wrote: >> I come off hold.  I Form a Government as follows: >> >> Minister without Portfolio: c. >> Majority Leader: BobTHJ >> Cabinet Secretary: Murphy >> Chief Whip: Wooble >> Justiciar: ais523 >> Ad

DIS: Re: BUS: well, we know he was in a hurry...

2009-07-16 Thread Roger Hicks
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 09:05, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > I come off hold.  I Form a Government as follows: > > Minister without Portfolio: c. > Majority Leader: BobTHJ > Cabinet Secretary: Murphy > Chief Whip: Wooble > Justiciar: ais523 > Admiral of the Navy: Taral > > I go on hold.  I come off hold.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Speed Things Up

2009-07-16 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Sean Hunt wrote: > Kerim Aydin wrote: >> On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Sean Hunt wrote: >>> For each proposal currently in the Proposal Pool, I intend, without 3 >>> objections, to distribute it. >> >> I object. Every person is allowed one free by announcement per week >> right now.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Speed Things Up

2009-07-16 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Sean Hunt wrote: > I'm not anti-Distributability, I'm > anti-the-lull-in-distribution-indirectly-caused-by-cards-through-no-fault-in-the-proposal's-design. Maybe the proposals in the pool just aren't that good.

DIS: Re: BUS: Speed Things Up

2009-07-16 Thread Sean Hunt
Geoffrey Spear wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Sean Hunt wrote: >> For each proposal currently in the Proposal Pool, I intend, without 3 >> objections, to distribute it. > > I object to all of these. I nominate myself as Promotor, but will > drop out in favor of any pro-Distributability

DIS: Re: BUS: Speed Things Up

2009-07-16 Thread Sean Hunt
Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Sean Hunt wrote: >> For each proposal currently in the Proposal Pool, I intend, without 3 >> objections, to distribute it. > > I object. Every person is allowed one free by announcement per week > right now. That should be plenty fast. -G. It would be

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: well, we know he was in a hurry...

2009-07-16 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Ed Murphy wrote: > G. wrote: >> On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Geoffrey Spear wrote: >>> I come off hold. I Form a Government as follows: >>> I go on hold. I come off hold. I Form a Government as follows: >> >> Ooh, that's a nice little bug. And a sum of unintended consequences >> ra

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: well, we know he was in a hurry...

2009-07-16 Thread Ed Murphy
G. wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Geoffrey Spear wrote: >> I come off hold. I Form a Government as follows: >> I go on hold. I come off hold. I Form a Government as follows: > > Ooh, that's a nice little bug. And a sum of unintended consequences > rather than just a straightforward "bad card pr

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2623 assigned to Taral

2009-07-16 Thread Sean Hunt
Elliott Hird wrote: > 2009/7/16 Taral : >> By the initiator's own admission, e did not envision anything by the >> contract. I proto-judge {The parties to (2008-11-22-ehird) SHALL act >> to terminate it ASAP.} >> >> Comments? > > That parenthical was a joke; are you seriously suggesting that being

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: well, we know he was in a hurry...

2009-07-16 Thread Elliott Hird
2009/7/16 Kerim Aydin : > Ooh, that's a nice little bug.  And a sum of unintended consequences > rather than just a straightforward "bad card proposal writing". That's not possible; Wooble didn't write it.

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2623 assigned to Taral

2009-07-16 Thread Elliott Hird
2009/7/16 Taral : > By the initiator's own admission, e did not envision anything by the > contract. I proto-judge {The parties to (2008-11-22-ehird) SHALL act > to terminate it ASAP.} > > Comments? That parenthical was a joke; are you seriously suggesting that being reckless absolves us of the ob

DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2623 assigned to Taral

2009-07-16 Thread Taral
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Ed Murphy wrote: > ==  Equity Case 2623  == > >    comex - who (dubiously) counts as the CotC when performing >    Justiciar duties - rotated the bench without intending to >    mislead others as to the pointless conce

DIS: Re: BUS: well, we know he was in a hurry...

2009-07-16 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > I come off hold. I Form a Government as follows: > I go on hold. I come off hold. I Form a Government as follows: Ooh, that's a nice little bug. And a sum of unintended consequences rather than just a straightforward "bad card proposal writing". I

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: AAA Actions

2009-07-16 Thread Roger Hicks
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 08:50, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Roger Hicks wrote: >> I harvest 2631, 2632, 2633, 2634, 2635 (CFJ numbers) for two WRV each, >> using X crops as needed. If I am unable to harvest all of these >> numbers I instead harvest as many as possible.

DIS: Re: BUS: AAA Actions

2009-07-16 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Roger Hicks wrote: > I harvest 2631, 2632, 2633, 2634, 2635 (CFJ numbers) for two WRV each, > using X crops as needed. If I am unable to harvest all of these > numbers I instead harvest as many as possible. Note: the Date: header on this message is earlier than th

DIS: Re: BUS: Buzz buzz

2009-07-16 Thread Roger Hicks
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 01:39, Ed Murphy wrote: > I transfer a prop from coppro (because a prop given sarcastically > defeats the intended purpose) to BobTHJ (for deal automation). > > I have the automation in place to track Airstrip One as I did previously. If you'd like me to take over recordkeep

DIS: Re: BUS: Recusals

2009-07-16 Thread Sean Hunt
Ed Murphy wrote: > I recuse Rodlen from CFJs 2582 and 2624. > > I recuse allispaul from CFJ 2621 and make em supine. (Has the > amendment passed yet to allow me to recuse em from 2610 for > being inactive?) > Yes.

Re: DIS: Card delays (and attn BobTHJ)

2009-07-16 Thread Ed Murphy
BobTHJ wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 19:04, comex wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Roger Hicks wrote: Can I supply a hefty bribe from my nonexistent pot of currency to make sure that the new system is as little like the previous one as possible? >>> What specifical