Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: The Republic of Agora v1.2

2007-10-17 Thread Ed Murphy
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

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: The Republic of Agora v1.2

2007-10-17 Thread Zefram
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

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: The Republic of Agora v1.2

2007-10-16 Thread Ed Murphy
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

DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: The Republic of Agora v1.2

2007-10-16 Thread Zefram
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"