Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2276-78 assigned to Wooble

2008-11-21 Thread Alex Smith
On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 15:41 -0800, Kerim Aydin wrote: > And R754 says "if it says it is, it is" Very short digest of this disagreement for those watching: as far as I can tell, it doesn't. -- ais523

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2276-78 assigned to Wooble

2008-11-20 Thread Ian Kelly
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Elliott Hird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It was not explicitly specified, as required. Please point out the word "explicitly" in R1504. It seems to be absent from my copy. -root

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2276-78 assigned to Wooble

2008-11-20 Thread Elliott Hird
On 21/11/2008, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Elliott Hird > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 20 Nov 2008, at 23:44, Ed Murphy wrote: >> >>> Did you attempt to use your scam powers to take yourself out of >>> the chokey? Such an attempt would have failed if

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2276-78 assigned to Wooble

2008-11-20 Thread Ian Kelly
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Elliott Hird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 20 Nov 2008, at 23:44, Ed Murphy wrote: > >> Did you attempt to use your scam powers to take yourself out of >> the chokey? Such an attempt would have failed if your original >> in-the-chokey status kept your voting limi

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2276-78 assigned to Wooble

2008-11-20 Thread Elliott Hird
On 20 Nov 2008, at 23:44, Ed Murphy wrote: Did you attempt to use your scam powers to take yourself out of the chokey? Such an attempt would have failed if your original in-the-chokey status kept your voting limits below 51. /me drops bomb of crap gamestate crim cfjs have to specify the mess

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2276-78 assigned to Wooble

2008-11-20 Thread Ian Kelly
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ehird wrote: > >> On 20 Nov 2008, at 22:44, Ed Murphy wrote: >> >>> From the CotC's report: >> >> Sorry, nope. > > Did you attempt to use your scam powers to take yourself out of > the chokey? Such an attempt would have failed

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2276-78 assigned to Wooble

2008-11-20 Thread Ed Murphy
ehird wrote: > On 20 Nov 2008, at 22:44, Ed Murphy wrote: > >> From the CotC's report: > > Sorry, nope. Did you attempt to use your scam powers to take yourself out of the chokey? Such an attempt would have failed if your original in-the-chokey status kept your voting limits below 51.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2276-78 assigned to Wooble

2008-11-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, comex wrote: > Or do you count this as a potential escalator? Seems unlikely to me. Not really, the conflict is either between two power-2 rules or between two power-3 rules, so no power-resolved conflicts. The escalator has been at least partially disabled by the new R754

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2276-78 assigned to Wooble

2008-11-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, comex wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm saying in mathematical definitional terms VL ~ {Caste} by definition. >> VL is defined as a number in the range {Caste}. Changing Caste changes >> VL's allowed range and VL can't be

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2276-78 assigned to Wooble

2008-11-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Alex Smith wrote: > "I just can't find that concept in the rules in a way that would > overrule R754. Further actions have a lower precedence than > definitions" seems to be the core of your whole argument. To me, though, > nowhere does R754 say that definitions take preceden

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2276-78 assigned to Wooble

2008-11-20 Thread comex
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm saying in mathematical definitional terms VL ~ {Caste} by definition. > VL is defined as a number in the range {Caste}. Changing Caste changes > VL's allowed range and VL can't be changed outside of the range {Caste}. >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2276-78 assigned to Wooble

2008-11-20 Thread Alex Smith
On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 14:11 -0800, Kerim Aydin almost wrote (with rule number typos corrected): > I say that VL for a particular OD is a R754(2) Rules-defined term and > that R2156 clearly defines VLOD. It doesn't say "is set to" or "is > initially" but it is a Rules-based term definition "VLOD *i

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2276-78 assigned to Wooble

2008-11-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, comex wrote: > So you're arguing that increasing a voting limit means increasing > caste which is secured? That seems like a stretch to me... "in X case > the voting limit is caste [in other cases the voting limit is > something else]" + "increase voting limit" = "increase ca

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2276-78 assigned to Wooble

2008-11-20 Thread Elliott Hird
On 20 Nov 2008, at 22:44, Ed Murphy wrote: From the CotC's report: Sorry, nope.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2276-78 assigned to Wooble

2008-11-20 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I support. The judge doesn't even address the issue of whether or not >> the increases are affected by chokey. > > ehird is not in the chokey. >From the CotC's report: Sentences (active between dates shown)

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2276-78 assigned to Wooble

2008-11-20 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I support. The judge doesn't even address the issue of whether or not > the increases are affected by chokey. If they work, they're clearly not. Only the rule defining caste-based voting limit even mentions the chokey.

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2276-78 assigned to Wooble

2008-11-20 Thread comex
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I support. The judge doesn't even address the issue of whether or not > the increases are affected by chokey. ehird is not in the chokey.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2276-78 assigned to Wooble

2008-11-20 Thread comex
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Alex Smith wrote: >> There isn't a problem here: R1586 isn't triggered at all. It's to do >> with things such as Contracts, which are rules-defined and exist outside >> the rules somehow, and which can

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2276-78 assigned to Wooble

2008-11-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Alex Smith wrote: > (1) A difference in spelling, grammar, or dialect, or the use of > a synonym or abbreviation in place of a word or phrase, is > inconsequential in all forms of communication, as long as > the difference does not create an amb

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2276-78 assigned to Wooble

2008-11-20 Thread Alex Smith
On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 14:11 -0800, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Alex Smith wrote: > > There isn't a problem here: R1586 isn't triggered at all. It's to do > > with things such as Contracts, which are rules-defined and exist outside > > the rules somehow, and which can continue to exist

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2276-78 assigned to Wooble

2008-11-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Alex Smith wrote: > There isn't a problem here: R1586 isn't triggered at all. It's to do > with things such as Contracts, which are rules-defined and exist outside > the rules somehow, and which can continue to exist when the contract > rules are amended. As I said, I apologi

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2276-78 assigned to Wooble

2008-11-20 Thread Alex Smith
On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 13:48 -0800, Kerim Aydin wrote: > It's R754 that says a term defined in the rules is tied to its definition, > and that its definition takes precedence. So if R2126 causes something to > take a value outside its defined range, it conflicts with R754. I hope, by > your curre

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2276-78 assigned to Wooble

2008-11-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Alex Smith wrote: > Implicit claims don't affect precedence; R1030 explicitly requires > precedence claims to be explicit. There is definitely no comparison of > strength of implicit claims! If there is a claim on both sides, or a > claim on neither side, go numerical; and R21

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2276-78 assigned to Wooble

2008-11-20 Thread Alex Smith
On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 13:41 -0800, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Alex Smith wrote: > > This argument fails utterly: quote the first half of that sentence > > {{{ > > If the documents defining an entity are amended such that they > > still define that entity but with different

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2276-78 assigned to Wooble

2008-11-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Alex Smith wrote: > This argument fails utterly: quote the first half of that sentence > {{{ > If the documents defining an entity are amended such that they > still define that entity but with different properties, > }}} > and the then clause fails to apply. No way

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2276-78 assigned to Wooble

2008-11-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Alex Smith wrote: > Imagine R1 saying "Goethe CAN deregister by paying > 1 Stem" and R2 saying "Goethe CANNOT deregister"; Both of these are claims on what can and can't be done by an action, and neither defines the state of (de)registration. It's a bad example. A better e

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2276-78 assigned to Wooble

2008-11-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, comex wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I recommend REMAND with instructions to explicitly evaluate the two >> competing interpretations: >> >> +S) 2126 takes precedence, so 2156 implicitly defines the initial >> limit and

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2276-78 assigned to Wooble

2008-11-20 Thread comex
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recommend REMAND with instructions to explicitly evaluate the two > competing interpretations: > > +S) 2126 takes precedence, so 2156 implicitly defines the initial > limit and 2126's increases stick. > > -S) Even tho

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2276-78 assigned to Wooble

2008-11-20 Thread Ed Murphy
Pavitra wrote: > I also support. The judgement of these CFJs should at least have > addressed this line of argument. I recommend REMAND with instructions to explicitly evaluate the two competing interpretations: +S) 2126 takes precedence, so 2156 implicitly defines the initial limit and

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2276-78 assigned to Wooble

2008-11-20 Thread Pavitra
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Geoffrey Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Alex Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I intend to appeal this with 2 support. Increasing a player's voting >> limit on a decision causes it to be higher than it otherwise would have >>

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2276-78 assigned to Wooble

2008-11-20 Thread Elliott Hird
On 20 Nov 2008, at 16:40, Geoffrey Spear wrote: R2156 says "the voting limit is" not "the voting limit defaults to" or "begins at, subject to modification" "is" could be interpreted, and IMO in the prescense of the one-offs rule, should be interpreted as "is set to".

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2276-78 assigned to Wooble

2008-11-20 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Alex Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I intend to appeal this with 2 support. Increasing a player's voting > limit on a decision causes it to be higher than it otherwise would have > been. Eir voting limit was 1, increased by 50 (or however many it was, I > can't

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2276-78 assigned to Wooble

2008-11-20 Thread Pavitra
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Elliott Hird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 20 Nov 2008, at 16:31, Alex Smith wrote: > >> I intend to appeal this with 2 support. Increasing a player's voting >> limit on a decision causes it to be higher than it otherwise would have >> been. Eir voting limit was