Zefram wrote:
"Ordinary" proposals are not the most common type.
Maybe a reason for a different name, but "House" doesn't seem any better.
How about "Skewed", to contrast with "Democratic"?
As previously noted, the US House and Senate have voting strengths
directly in line with their propose
Ed Murphy wrote:
>There are currently no ways to make it irrational, and even if there
>were, it would only last until the end of the week.
Yes. Defining it to be restricted to rationals would have explanatory
benefit.
>I still think we should use sheqelim and agorot somewhere or other.)
Yes, I
Zefram wrote:
Ed Murphy wrote:
c) A non-negative number of planned districts (NPD),
Could restrict that to "non-negative rational number".
There are currently no ways to make it irrational, and even if there
were, it would only last until the end of the week.
Amend Rule 2126 (Votin
Ed Murphy wrote:
>c) A non-negative number of planned districts (NPD),
Could restrict that to "non-negative rational number".
>Amend Rule 2126 (Voting Credits) by replacing "voting limits on
>ordinary proposals" with "the redistricting process", and by replacing
>each instance of "VVLOP"
Zefram wrote:
Amend Rule 106 (Adopting Proposals) by replacing the paragraph
containing "The adoption index of a proposal is" with this text:
Since you've moved the change in the "Support Democracy" procedure to
a separate proposal, this amendment to R106 should not be inserting
the word "init
Ed Murphy wrote:
>b) A non-negative integral number of districts (ND),
The abbreviations are helpful.
>or, if Proposal 5141 (make chokey reduce voting power) was adopted,
You can collapse this conditional now.
>Change the title of Rule 2126 to "In Soviet Russia, the government
>controls
Ed Murphy wrote:
>c) A non-negative number of planned districts,
Much improved terminology.
> When one or more players win the game, each state's number of
> districts is set to its district baseline.
Why the change to setting EVLOP directly? This breaks the week-based
structu
On Jul 25, 2007, at 6:07 PM, Zefram wrote:
Benjamin Schultz wrote:
Would it be useful to revise the VC / Sheqelim / whatever name rule
to append to this paragraph "... or by a proposal of power 3 or
higher."?
Perhaps, but I'd make it "... except by an instrument with power at
least as great a
Benjamin Schultz wrote:
>Would it be useful to revise the VC / Sheqelim / whatever name rule
>to append to this paragraph "... or by a proposal of power 3 or
>higher."?
Perhaps, but I'd make it "... except by an instrument with power at
least as great as the power of this rule.". De facto, an
On Jul 24, 2007, at 3:32 AM, Ed Murphy wrote:
Change the title of Rule 2126 to "In Soviet Russia, the government
controls the economy", and amend it to read:
Sheqels ($) are a measure of each player's ability to
gerrymander the redistricting process. $ CANNOT be affected
excep
Zefram wrote:
Ed Murphy wrote:
Unnecessary generality. First come up with a method for
non-reflexive registration that we might actually want to use.
Not that we want to use it, but it's happened before. I believe you
were around when Morendil became Speaker while not a Player, and thus
inv
Ed Murphy wrote:
>Unnecessary generality. First come up with a method for
>non-reflexive registration that we might actually want to use.
Not that we want to use it, but it's happened before. I believe you
were around when Morendil became Speaker while not a Player, and thus
involuntarily became
On Jul 24, 2007, at 3:32 AM, Ed Murphy wrote:
Sheqels ($) are a measure of each player's ability to
gerrymander the redistricting process. $ CANNOT be affected
except as described in this rule.
The in-language plural of "sheqel" is "sheqelim."
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Benjamin Schultz KE3OM
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Zefram wrote:
Ed Murphy wrote:
Each player has a State with one or more Districts, a Base, and
a Constituency.
These names are quite opaque as to the significance of the parameters,
and the relationships that the names evoke don't match the behaviour of
the concepts.
"State" and "
Ed Murphy wrote:
> Each player has a State with one or more Districts, a Base, and
> a Constituency.
These names are quite opaque as to the significance of the parameters,
and the relationships that the names evoke don't match the behaviour of
the concepts.
Is it to be impossible to hav
On 7/17/07, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 7/17/07, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The substance is in fact that of proposal 5050, which was voted down.
>
> F/A was 4/2, and one of those 2 was me. (I think I misunderstood
> the proposal's effect at the time.)
I was the other
On 7/17/07, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The substance is in fact that of proposal 5050, which was voted down.
F/A was 4/2, and one of those 2 was me. (I think I misunderstood
the proposal's effect at the time.)
I was the other vote against, and the only reason I voted against was
b
Peekee wrote:
>What about all the devolved governments?
They are unicameral, and use geographical constituencies, like the Commons.
-zefram
Quoting Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Ed Murphy wrote:
I considered basing the renaming on Parliament, but I don't know
how the houses' votes are weighted;
In the House of Commons each member represents a constituency, which has
sane geographical boundaries and represents an approximately equal
Ed Murphy wrote:
>I considered basing the renaming on Parliament, but I don't know
>how the houses' votes are weighted;
In the House of Commons each member represents a constituency, which has
sane geographical boundaries and represents an approximately equal number
of people. The constituency bo
Zefram wrote:
Ed Murphy wrote:
Mostly just renaming things for flavor, but there is a
bit of substance.]
I dislike most of the renaming.
Meh. I dislike abstract names. (In the first draft of the Card
rules, everything operated directly on "pending draws"; it was
later amende
Ed Murphy wrote:
> Mostly just renaming things for flavor, but there is a
>bit of substance.]
I dislike most of the renaming. The substance is in fact that of proposal
5050, which was voted down. Please develop some new mechanics if you
want to use the population concept.
-zefram
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