DIS: Re: BUS: Resolving nkep

2007-12-03 Thread Benjamin Schultz
On Dec 3, 2007, at 2:32 AM, Roger Hicks wrote: Action: I intend, on behalf of Agora, with Agoran Consent, to nkeplwgplxgioyzjvtxjnncsqscvntlbdqromyeyvlhkjgteaqnneqgujjpwcbyfrpueo ydjjk. Options: SUPPORT, OBJECT Votes: SUPPORT: root DSPBCORMKPYOAFA: Zefram, Eris AGAINT: OscarMeyr For the re

DIS: Re: BUS: Resolving nkep

2007-12-03 Thread Taral
On 12/2/07, Roger Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Per Fookiemyartug's contract, section 8: > > Fookiemyartug wins the game. > BobTHJ wins the game. > comex wins the game. This fails for an absurd number of reasons. -- Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Please let me know if there's any further trouble

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Resolving nkep

2007-12-03 Thread Ian Kelly
On Dec 3, 2007 11:09 AM, Roger Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So you are denying the existence of nonsensical action? Over 50 > million idiots in this world prove you wrong every day. The CFJ was about whether nonsensical text can be an action, not about whether a nonsensical action is an acti

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Resolving nkep

2007-12-03 Thread Roger Hicks
On Dec 3, 2007 10:29 AM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Also note that nkep really has not been defined. It is still utterly > > nonsensical. > > Then it's still not an action. > > > The Fookiemyartug contract simply indicates an effect > > that occurs when a nomic commits that nonsensica

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Resolving nkep

2007-12-03 Thread Roger Hicks
On Dec 3, 2007 10:25 AM, comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/3/07, Roger Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > doing nkep itself is still an action which has no actual changes > > associated with it. The Fookiemyartug contract simply causes something > > to happen when nkep occurs. I could make

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Resolving nkep

2007-12-03 Thread Ian Kelly
On Dec 3, 2007 10:10 AM, Roger Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > doing nkep itself is still an action which has no actual changes > associated with it. Nonsense. Fookiemyartug defines it as: Whenever a nomic nkeplwgplxgioyzjvtxjnncsqscvntlbdqromyeyvlhkjgteaqnneqgujjpwcbyfrpueoydjjks, they are p

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Resolving nkep

2007-12-03 Thread comex
On 12/3/07, Roger Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > doing nkep itself is still an action which has no actual changes > associated with it. The Fookiemyartug contract simply causes something > to happen when nkep occurs. I could make a contract that says: I think you just killed your own argument.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Resolving nkep

2007-12-03 Thread Roger Hicks
On Dec 3, 2007 10:02 AM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 3, 2007 9:43 AM, Roger Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nothing prevents that. Another contract could define nkep in a > > completely different way. Unless particularly crafted to mess with my > > action, and defined prior t

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Resolving nkep

2007-12-03 Thread Ian Kelly
On Dec 3, 2007 9:43 AM, Roger Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nothing prevents that. Another contract could define nkep in a > completely different way. Unless particularly crafted to mess with my > action, and defined prior to my action taking place, it would have no > bearing on the results of

DIS: Re: BUS: Resolving nkep

2007-12-03 Thread Roger Hicks
On Dec 3, 2007 9:34 AM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also withdraw my previous vote, and vote OBJECT. > My previous announcement was valid, as Goethe's vote was not valid. Therefore this has no effect. > Besides, what makes you think that Fookiemyartug is the *only* > contract that def

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Resolving nkep

2007-12-03 Thread Roger Hicks
On Dec 3, 2007 3:30 AM, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roger Hicks wrote: > >(Note: The votes for DSPBCORMKPYOAFA and AGAINT are invalid as these > >are not possible options) > > Rubbish. You can tell that DSPBCORMKPYOAFA is (a synonym for) a valid > vote value, because of the way in which we

DIS: Re: BUS: Resolving nkep

2007-12-03 Thread Roger Hicks
On Dec 3, 2007 12:56 AM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You missed my vote, so this announcement was not effective. I withdraw > my previous vote, and vote OBJECT. -Goethe > If you are referring to message-ID <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, it was sent in response to a message I sent to the discus

DIS: Re: BUS: Resolving nkep

2007-12-03 Thread Zefram
Roger Hicks wrote: >(Note: The votes for DSPBCORMKPYOAFA and AGAINT are invalid as these >are not possible options) Rubbish. You can tell that DSPBCORMKPYOAFA is (a synonym for) a valid vote value, because of the way in which we used it. You might not be able to tell *which* option it means, but

DIS: Re: BUS: Resolving nkep

2007-12-03 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Ed Murphy wrote: > I also argue that AGAINT is an unambiguous synonym for OBJECT. Even I got that old reference as soon as I saw it though... which might even mean to some of us it counts as FOR. -Goethe