Re: DIS: On the Mister Snuggles cases

2011-10-21 Thread Pavitra
On 10/21/2011 10:22 PM, Mister Snuggles wrote: > unknown is not the same thing as ambiguous. It kind of is.

Re: DIS: On the Mister Snuggles cases

2011-10-21 Thread Mister Snuggles
On Oct 20, 2011 9:25 PM, "Ed Murphy" wrote: > Gratuitous on 3105-06: > > Rule 478, relevant excerpt: > > 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

Re: DIS: recognizing the carnage

2011-10-21 Thread Ed Murphy
ais523 wrote: > On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 12:44 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Kerim Aydin wrote: >>> Alternate thought as I'm typing this: awarding Medals seems like a >>> particularly Speaker or President type job. >> >> Follow-up irony: BlogNomic's Critic is what I'd always ho

Re: DIS: recognizing the carnage

2011-10-21 Thread ais523
On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 13:47 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, ais523 wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 12:44 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > Alternate thought as I'm typing this: awarding Medals seems like a > > > > particularly Speake

Re: DIS: recognizing the carnage

2011-10-21 Thread Sean Hunt
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 16:47, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Come to think of it, the last time Agora had a sufficiently powerful > Speaker it was a wholly elected position orthogonal to winning. Other > times of powerful elected officers have been interesting in a good way, > too (e.g. Poobah). Success

Re: DIS: recognizing the carnage

2011-10-21 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, ais523 wrote: > On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 12:44 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > Alternate thought as I'm typing this: awarding Medals seems like a > > > particularly Speaker or President type job. > > > > Follow-up irony: BlogNomic'

Re: DIS: recognizing the carnage

2011-10-21 Thread ais523
On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 12:44 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > Alternate thought as I'm typing this: awarding Medals seems like a > > particularly Speaker or President type job. > > Follow-up irony: BlogNomic's Critic is what I'd always hoped Agora's > Speak

Re: DIS: recognizing the carnage

2011-10-21 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Alternate thought as I'm typing this: awarding Medals seems like a > particularly Speaker or President type job. Follow-up irony: BlogNomic's Critic is what I'd always hoped Agora's Speaker would be.

Re: DIS: recognizing the carnage

2011-10-21 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, ais523 wrote: > On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 12:02 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > Proto: > > > > Enact the following rule, Honoring our Troops, power = 1.5: > > I like it. Ideally, it should be extended to past invasions, if enough > of the history is available. I like scshun

Re: DIS: Proto: Time travel

2011-10-21 Thread ais523
On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 14:35 -0500, Pavitra wrote: > On 10/21/2011 02:16 PM, ais523 wrote: > > This is going to be absolute chaos. > Yes. > > > Probably best to allow date-stamps > > in the body of the message to take precedence, especially due to the > > existence of "received:" headers, or it mig

Re: DIS: Proto: Time travel

2011-10-21 Thread Pavitra
On 10/21/2011 02:16 PM, ais523 wrote: > This is going to be absolute chaos. Yes. > Probably best to allow date-stamps > in the body of the message to take precedence, especially due to the > existence of "received:" headers, or it might be technically annoying to > use. I don't understand what you

Re: DIS: Proto: Time travel

2011-10-21 Thread ais523
On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 13:54 -0500, Pavitra wrote: > I proto the following proposal, "Temporal Anomaly", AI=3: This is going to be absolute chaos. Probably best to allow date-stamps in the body of the message to take precedence, especially due to the existence of "received:" headers, or it might be

Re: DIS: recognizing the carnage

2011-10-21 Thread Pavitra
>> Purple Heart: To any Agoran who's position in either nomic whose position >> other nomic, if any, who's actions brought about an end to the whose actions > We should also bring back the other few notable ones; in particular Bard. Now that I'm an recordkeepor, I suddenly also care ab

Re: DIS: recognizing the carnage

2011-10-21 Thread ais523
On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 12:02 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > Proto: > > Enact the following rule, Honoring our Troops, power = 1.5: I like it. Ideally, it should be extended to past invasions, if enough of the history is available. -- ais523

Re: DIS: recognizing the carnage

2011-10-21 Thread Sean Hunt
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 15:02, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > Proto: > > Enact the following rule, Honoring our Troops, power = 1.5: > > If a judge delivers a finding of TRUE on a question of whether > Agora has been involved in a substantial invasion attempt with > another nomic (either

DIS: recognizing the carnage

2011-10-21 Thread Kerim Aydin
Proto: Enact the following rule, Honoring our Troops, power = 1.5: If a judge delivers a finding of TRUE on a question of whether Agora has been involved in a substantial invasion attempt with another nomic (either as invader or invadee), and that the crisis has passed,

DIS: Proto: Time travel

2011-10-21 Thread Pavitra
I proto the following proposal, "Temporal Anomaly", AI=3: { Amend Rule 478 (Fora) by replacing 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

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: I support Sgeo

2011-10-21 Thread ais523
On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 12:17 -0400, Tanner Swett wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:03 PM, AmarChandra Ganna > wrote: > > I vote for Sgeo. > > To vote, you must become a player, which you can do by sending a > message to agora-business asking to be one. Then boom, you're > instantly a player. You

DIS: Re: BUS: I support Sgeo

2011-10-21 Thread Tanner Swett
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:03 PM, AmarChandra Ganna wrote: > I vote for Sgeo. To vote, you must become a player, which you can do by sending a message to agora-business asking to be one. Then boom, you're instantly a player. You must also specify which election you're voting in, since a single pe

DIS: Re: BUS: I support Sgeo

2011-10-21 Thread Elliott Hird
What?

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: HELP! (Call to Arms)

2011-10-21 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, ais523 wrote: > On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 08:30 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > Your choice, ais523. I just hadn't reached the end of messages before > > favoring. I don't have any preconceived brilliant notion in mind, but > > if you post consent I'm happy to do it. -G. > > I

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: HELP! (Call to Arms)

2011-10-21 Thread ais523
On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 08:30 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Your choice, ais523. I just hadn't reached the end of messages before > favoring. I don't have any preconceived brilliant notion in mind, but > if you post consent I'm happy to do it. -G. I'll judge it if necessary, but suspect you'd be l

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: HELP! (Call to Arms)

2011-10-21 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Pavitra wrote: > On 10/21/2011 10:18 AM, ais523 wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 08:12 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, 20 Oct 2011, John Smith wrote: > >>> I initiate a criminal case. > >>> The Accused is omd (known elsewhere as comex) > >>> I allege that the Accu

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: HELP! (Call to Arms)

2011-10-21 Thread ais523
On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 16:25 +0100, ais523 wrote: > Ah, he we go; I consent to G./eelpout transferring CFJ 3107 to emself, > if e judges it in the same message. That's meant to read "here we go", ofc. "he" is not a word. -- ais523

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: HELP! (Call to Arms)

2011-10-21 Thread Pavitra
On 10/21/2011 10:18 AM, ais523 wrote: > On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 08:12 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> >> On Thu, 20 Oct 2011, John Smith wrote: >>> I initiate a criminal case. >>> The Accused is omd (known elsewhere as comex) >>> I allege that the Accused has stirred up prejudice and ill-will against >

DIS: Re: BUS: HELP! (Call to Arms)

2011-10-21 Thread ais523
On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 08:12 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Oct 2011, John Smith wrote: > > I initiate a criminal case. > > The Accused is omd (known elsewhere as comex) > > I allege that the Accused has stirred up prejudice and ill-will against > > Agora among the Artists of Blognomic b

DIS: Re: BUS: Deidling

2011-10-21 Thread ais523
On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 13:28 +0100, Charles Walker wrote: > Agoran economies being the closest equivalent to BlogNomic dynasties, > perhaps a BlogNomic style economy* is in order? Relatively large weekly (or sometimes even daily!) salary for everyone that you have to be active that week/day to clai

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: HELP! (Call to Arms)

2011-10-21 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Elliott Hird wrote: > You cannot just accuse someone of violating the rules > based on a whimsical umbrella statement without an actual concrete > violation. You CAN; it's possible that you SHALL NOT (although I think the Libel rule is gone) and you probably SHOU

DIS: Re: OFF: [IADoP] Election update

2011-10-21 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > Promotor: >  * Voting hereby begins >      - Candidates are scshunt and Wooble (Arkady English's attempted >          attempted acceptance was NttPF) >      - Each active first-class player has one vote >  * Office remains held by Arkady English