DIS: Re: BUS: Brakes (was Re: BUS: Impossible job is impossible)

2011-08-11 Thread Arkady English
On 11 August 2011 20:51, Aaron Goldfein wrote: > I support any attempts to flip the speed to normal, and object to any > attempts to flip the speed to slow. > I object to both attempts to flip the speed.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: (With apologies to the Horton) Vote-swap scheme.

2011-08-11 Thread Charles Walker
On 11 August 2011 05:16, Pavitra wrote: > On 08/09/2011 09:35 AM, Arkady English wrote: >> (Note: I believe this means I create 21 copies, and transfer one to >> each of these players: >> >> Wooble >> Benu >> ais523 >> BobTHJ >> Droowl >> ehird >> Flameshadowxeroshin >> G. >> Gondolier >> Math321

DIS: Re: BUS: Impossible job is impossible

2011-08-11 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
On 11 August 2011 19:06, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > I initiate a criminal CFJ alleging that Tiger violated the power-1 > Rule 2352 by failing to attempt to cause Agora to become a player of > BlogNomic as soon as possible after e became Ambassador. > > Unfortunately, it's beyond the scope of this cas

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Impossible job is impossible

2011-08-11 Thread Charles Walker
On 11 August 2011 18:41, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: > On 11 August 2011 19:41, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: >> On 11 August 2011 19:25, omd wrote: >>> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Geoffrey Spear >>> wrote: I initiate a criminal CFJ alleging that Tiger violated the power-1 Rule 2352 by fail

DIS: Re: BUS: Impossible job is impossible

2011-08-11 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
On 11 August 2011 19:41, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: > On 11 August 2011 19:25, omd wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Geoffrey Spear wrote: >>> I initiate a criminal CFJ alleging that Tiger violated the power-1 >>> Rule 2352 by failing to attempt to cause Agora to become a player of >>> Blog

DIS: Re: BUS: Impossible job is impossible

2011-08-11 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
On 11 August 2011 19:25, omd wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Geoffrey Spear wrote: >> I initiate a criminal CFJ alleging that Tiger violated the power-1 >> Rule 2352 by failing to attempt to cause Agora to become a player of >> BlogNomic as soon as possible after e became Ambassador. >>

Re: DIS: Failed entry into BlogNomic

2011-08-11 Thread Aaron Goldfein
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 09:42, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: > On 11 August 2011 16:26, Arkady English > wrote: > > On 11 August 2011 15:20, Charles Walker > wrote: > >> On 11 August 2011 14:57, Jonatan Kilhamn > wrote: > >>> On 11 August 2011 00:09, Elliott Hird > wrote: > Agora cannot play Blo

Re: DIS: Failed entry into BlogNomic

2011-08-11 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
> I suppose this might depend on what BlogNomic considers Agora being a > player of it to consist of. In Agora, legal (second-class) persons > have to meet certain criteria and can only act as defined by the > Rules. Does BlogNomic allow legal persons to play, or have certain > restrictions in plac

Re: DIS: Failed entry into BlogNomic

2011-08-11 Thread James Beirne
I'm a blognomic player. Our rules state that "anybody" can be a player. To me, at least, a game is not "anybody", but this question of interpretation would likely be settled by CFJ. On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Charles Walker wrote: > On 11 August 2011 16:10, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: >> On 11

Re: DIS: Failed entry into BlogNomic

2011-08-11 Thread Charles Walker
On 11 August 2011 16:10, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: > On 11 August 2011 17:03, Charles Walker wrote: >> On 11 August 2011 15:42, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: >>> I don't see why it can't be the mission of the Ambassador to act in >>> Agora's best interest. That's pretty much what an ambassador used to >>>

Re: DIS: Failed entry into BlogNomic

2011-08-11 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
On 11 August 2011 17:03, Charles Walker wrote: > On 11 August 2011 15:42, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: >> I don't see why it can't be the mission of the Ambassador to act in >> Agora's best interest. That's pretty much what an ambassador used to >> be about: the guy who was entrusted to hang out in oth

Re: DIS: Failed entry into BlogNomic

2011-08-11 Thread Charles Walker
On 11 August 2011 15:42, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: > I don't see why it can't be the mission of the Ambassador to act in > Agora's best interest. That's pretty much what an ambassador used to > be about: the guy who was entrusted to hang out in other countries and > know what the people back home wou

Re: DIS: Failed entry into BlogNomic

2011-08-11 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
On 11 August 2011 16:26, Arkady English wrote: > On 11 August 2011 15:20, Charles Walker wrote: >> On 11 August 2011 14:57, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: >>> On 11 August 2011 00:09, Elliott Hird >>> wrote: Agora cannot play BlogNomic without some construct in the rules allowing it to; the

Re: DIS: Failed entry into BlogNomic

2011-08-11 Thread Arkady English
On 11 August 2011 15:20, Charles Walker wrote: > On 11 August 2011 14:57, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: >> On 11 August 2011 00:09, Elliott Hird >> wrote: >>> Agora cannot play BlogNomic without some construct in the rules >>> allowing it to; the only affect this will have is to spam the lists. >>> >>

Re: DIS: Failed entry into BlogNomic

2011-08-11 Thread Charles Walker
On 11 August 2011 14:57, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: > On 11 August 2011 00:09, Elliott Hird wrote: >> Agora cannot play BlogNomic without some construct in the rules >> allowing it to; the only affect this will have is to spam the lists. >> > Well, obviously the game of agora, now an entity capable o

Re: DIS: Failed entry into BlogNomic

2011-08-11 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
On 11 August 2011 00:09, Elliott Hird wrote: > Agora cannot play BlogNomic without some construct in the rules > allowing it to; the only affect this will have is to spam the lists. > Well, obviously the game of agora, now an entity capable of taking action within itself, couldn't really do such a

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: (With apologies to the Horton) Vote-swap scheme.

2011-08-11 Thread Arkady English
On 11 August 2011 06:04, Pavitra wrote: > On 08/10/2011 11:52 PM, Sean Hunt wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 21:41, Pavitra wrote: >>> On 08/10/2011 11:24 PM, Sean Hunt wrote: I destroy my copy of this Promise. >>> >>> I'm not sure this actually works. I vaguely remember an attempt to fix >