DIS: In defense of 8259

2019-10-30 Thread Gaelan Steele
I’m getting quite a few AGAINST votes on my proposal 8259 ("Clean up your own mess, without making a bigger one”), and not quite sure about why. The proposal’s a bit confusing, so maybe there’s confusion about what it does? I’ll attempt to clarify: The proposal creates an *imposed* office for e

DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: The Carny (Semi-frivolous ways to spend coins)

2019-10-30 Thread Jason Cobb
I agree with Falsifian's comments, so I'll focus more on the implementation side: On 10/28/19 10:26 PM, Nch via agora-business wrote: Once per week the Carny CAN and SHOULD set the Turnip Price switch to a random possible value. Missing a "by announcement" here. Any player except the Car

DIS: Re: BUS: (No Subject)

2019-10-30 Thread omd
(...did this create a proposal? It was sent to business but doesn't say "proposal".)

DIS: Re: [not-ADoP] Tailor election resolution

2019-10-30 Thread Kerim Aydin
Sorry nch, I just realized I dumped this on you right before the end of the month with a report due. I did a quick search on the term "ribbon" and did not find any changes since the last report. Also, I have not awarded a Gray Ribbon for the month. -G. On 10/30/2019 11:54 AM, Kerim Aydin wro

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Revised Ruleset Thesis

2019-10-30 Thread Jason Cobb
On 10/30/19 3:05 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: But the Birthday contains the date definition, which is used in Ribbons and Tournaments, and historically has been used for many fun activities.  So while the wording of that one is flowery (with only the last sentence having any game effect) and it doe

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Revised Ruleset Thesis

2019-10-30 Thread Kerim Aydin
On 10/30/2019 11:47 AM, Jason Cobb wrote: On 10/24/19 6:00 PM, Jason Cobb wrote: Changes from original:  * Small rewrites and rewording, as well as typo fixes.  * Response to comment from G.: R101 is now recorded as depending on    other rules, and there is new analysis on R101.  * Response t

DIS: academic progressions (Jason Cobb's Thesis)

2019-10-30 Thread Kerim Aydin
Hi Jason Cobb, I'm really sorry I've been delayed about your thesis. I keep thinking "this falls between Masters and PhD and I keep meaning to look back for ais523's theses to get advice" and then not getting around to it. One thing for everyone: do we want to support the idea of "academic pr

DIS: Re: BUS: Revised Ruleset Thesis

2019-10-30 Thread Jason Cobb
On 10/24/19 6:00 PM, Jason Cobb wrote: Changes from original:  * Small rewrites and rewording, as well as typo fixes.  * Response to comment from G.: R101 is now recorded as depending on    other rules, and there is new analysis on R101.  * Response to discussion on circular dependencies: reword

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: List Cleaning

2019-10-30 Thread Kerim Aydin
On 10/30/2019 10:57 AM, Jason Cobb wrote: On 10/30/19 1:55 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: so much for consensus :P Isn't bikeshedding fun? :) Ooh somehow I'd missed learning that term, but now that I know it I can think of s many of places to use it in life...

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: List Cleaning

2019-10-30 Thread Jason Cobb
On 10/30/19 1:55 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: so much for consensus :P Isn't bikeshedding fun? :) -- Jason Cobb

DIS: Re: BUS: List Cleaning

2019-10-30 Thread Kerim Aydin
On 10/30/2019 10:08 AM, Jason Cobb wrote: I support all above intents in groups B and C. I express my slight dislike for group A, but I do not object, since other people may prefer that one. so much for consensus :P