Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Grabbing a dictatorship loophole, I'll explain later

2009-03-30 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Alex Smith wrote: > (I wonder what effect this has on the ruleset ratification argument? > It's only a historical accident that the Agoran rule was repealed > separately; without a ruleset ratification, we could therefore have been > wrong about the Agoran ruleset for ages due

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Grabbing a dictatorship loophole, I'll explain later

2009-03-29 Thread comex
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 2:17 AM, Ed Murphy wrote: > Wasn't that repealed already?  It's not in the latest SLR nor FLR, > though comex's historical rules browser doesn't explicitly note its > repeal. Which reminds me to scratch an itch... For a while I've been recording repeals in the RCS log, and

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Grabbing a dictatorship loophole, I'll explain later

2009-03-29 Thread Craig Daniel
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Ed Murphy wrote: > ehird wrote: > >> 2009/3/28 Alex Smith : >>> I cause rule 2214 to amend itself by replacing its text with "Indy CAN >>> cause this rule to amend itself by announcement.", using the authority >>> from Open It Up. >>> >>> -- >>> ais523 >> >> Contex

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Grabbing a dictatorship loophole, I'll explain later

2009-03-29 Thread Alex Smith
On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 23:21 -0700, Ed Murphy wrote: > To prove that, you'd have to prove that B's 5th Era was not only broken, > but specifically broken in such a way that their alleged "Export" > proposal was either (a) not a proposal at all, or (b) neither adopted > nor rejected. The proposal wa

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Grabbing a dictatorship loophole, I'll explain later

2009-03-28 Thread Ed Murphy
ehird wrote: > 2009/3/28 Alex Smith : >> I cause rule 2214 to amend itself by replacing its text with "Indy CAN >> cause this rule to amend itself by announcement.", using the authority >> from Open It Up. >> >> -- >> ais523 > > Context: > > This actually works because of B Nomic's gamestate. No

DIS: Re: BUS: Grabbing a dictatorship loophole, I'll explain later

2009-03-28 Thread Ed Murphy
ais523 wrote: > I cause rule 2214 to amend itself by replacing its text with "Indy CAN > cause this rule to amend itself by announcement.", using the authority > from Open It Up. Wasn't that repealed already? It's not in the latest SLR nor FLR, though comex's historical rules browser doesn't exp

DIS: Re: BUS: Grabbing a dictatorship loophole, I'll explain later

2009-03-28 Thread comex
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > I cause rule 2214 to amend itself by replacing its text with "Indy CAN > cause this rule to amend itself by announcement.", using the authority > from Open It Up. Fails; the rule in question was repealed by Proposal 5942. It would be interesti

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Grabbing a dictatorship loophole, I'll explain later

2009-03-28 Thread Elliott Hird
2009/3/28 Elliott Hird : > The Monster rules still exist, and Indy has a dictatorship. > No. Proposal 5942. We murdered the Monster :-(

DIS: Re: BUS: Grabbing a dictatorship loophole, I'll explain later

2009-03-28 Thread Elliott Hird
2009/3/28 Alex Smith : > I cause rule 2214 to amend itself by replacing its text with "Indy CAN > cause this rule to amend itself by announcement.", using the authority > from Open It Up. > > -- > ais523 Context: This actually works because of B Nomic's gamestate. No -- really. The late fourth e