Re: DIS: Re: BUS: scorched earth escalation

2011-01-26 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, omd wrote: > However, I'll note that the proposal (both of them actually) > that purportedly fixed ratification was distributed with the same > incorrect description, and I actually deregistered during its voting > period, making it a substantive error. The resolution was al

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: scorched earth escalation

2011-01-26 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, omd wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > What's incorrect about eligible voter description?  It's the boilerplate > > from many previous and I believe it's technically accurate. > > As I saw ais523 mention in the IRC backlog, the class of eligib

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: scorched earth escalation

2011-01-26 Thread omd
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > What's incorrect about eligible voter description?  It's the boilerplate > from many previous and I believe it's technically accurate. As I saw ais523 mention in the IRC backlog, the class of eligible voters you specified ("active players at

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: scorched earth escalation

2011-01-25 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > 2.  At least one absolute ruler is a *byword* for fair resolution (Solomon). > > The proof of the pudding... > > Or maybe it's exceptio probat regulam. Fallacies are fun. And in any case, exc

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: scorched earth escalation

2011-01-25 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > 2.  At least one absolute ruler is a *byword* for fair resolution (Solomon). > > The proof of the pudding... > > Or maybe it's exceptio probat regulam. Fallacies are fun. Less a fallacy and m

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: scorched earth escalation

2011-01-25 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > 2.  At least one absolute ruler is a *byword* for fair resolution (Solomon). > The proof of the pudding... Or maybe it's exceptio probat regulam. Fallacies are fun.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: scorched earth escalation

2011-01-25 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, com...@gmail.com wrote: > > If you were inactive, how could you be an eligible voter? > > I became active last Tuesday (before the scam) but the Losing Condition > of inactivity persists for a week after becoming active (R2130 last

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: scorched earth escalation

2011-01-25 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, com...@gmail.com wrote: > If you were inactive, how could you be an eligible voter? I became active last Tuesday (before the scam) but the Losing Condition of inactivity persists for a week after becoming active (R2130 last sentence) so just ended for me a few hours ago. -

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: scorched earth escalation

2011-01-25 Thread comexk
If you were inactive, how could you be an eligible voter? Sent from my iPhone On Jan 25, 2011, at 1:50 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, John Smith wrote: >> In the interest of maintaining everyone's right to resolve matters of >> controversy, >> If and only if no player is c

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: scorched earth escalation

2011-01-25 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, ais523 wrote: > And I was indeed wondering if the attempted mass deregistration violated > R101 (how can you resolve a matter of controversy in a remotely fair > manner when there's a dictatorship?). Three comments: 1. R101 guarantees an expectation of resolution, but says

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: scorched earth escalation

2011-01-25 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, omd wrote: > On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > This distribution of proposal 6958 > > initiates the Agoran Decision on whether to adopt it.  The eligible > > voters are the active players at the time of this distribution > > In case anyone wants to try

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: scorched earth escalation

2011-01-25 Thread ais523
On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 21:18 -0800, John Smith wrote: > In the interest of maintaining everyone's right to resolve matters of > controversy, > If and only if no player is currently Grand Vizier, > {I register myself as a player. > > I flip my posture to Sitting. > > I intend, with notice, to act a

DIS: Re: BUS: scorched earth escalation

2011-01-24 Thread omd
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > This distribution of proposal 6958 > initiates the Agoran Decision on whether to adopt it.  The eligible > voters are the active players at the time of this distribution In case anyone wants to try to judicially punish this scam, I'll note tha

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: scorched earth escalation

2011-01-24 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, ais523 wrote: > Yep, I think that narrows down our area of disagreement pretty well. I > think the reason I'm interpreting it my way is that the actual text, "I > cause R2324 to make ais523 assume the Pariah office.", to me pretty > strongly implies that you're somehow causi

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: scorched earth escalation

2011-01-24 Thread ais523
On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 08:54 -0800, Kerim Aydin wrote: > I agree with everything you say. > > Where we disagree (or at least discussing) is that you seem to think > that I invoked something like: > >"I cause R2324 to act on behalf of ais523 to make ais523 announce that > e assumes the Offi

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: scorched earth escalation

2011-01-24 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, ais523 wrote: > (The only change is the addition of "e has not already done so that > quarter".) Now, if you cause me to make myself the holder of Pariah, > then that prevents me from assuming any more offices that quarter; and > if you install me directly, then it doesn't. T

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: scorched earth escalation

2011-01-24 Thread ais523
On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 12:20 -0800, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Jan 2011, ais523 wrote: > > There's no need to involve Pariah here at all, players can create Rests > > in eir own possession by announcement. And this scam relies on being > > able to cause players to perform arbitrary actions a

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: scorched earth escalation

2011-01-23 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011, Ed Murphy wrote: > G. wrote: > > I designed failure (I think) such that if some deregistrations failed, > > there would still be a Fix Proposal at Power 3.1 for which I was the > > only eligible voter due to inactivity. That should degrade gracefully. > > Nope, you made a

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: scorched earth escalation

2011-01-23 Thread Ed Murphy
G. wrote: > Since you became inactive, I can Assume the office and do it. > Looking back I realize I have to do so because Fourth Movement > requires "G." to announce the result. Should be okay, you already resigned Promotor (possible loophole in R1450, you can act as Promotor and Assessor for th

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: scorched earth escalation

2011-01-23 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011, Sean Hunt wrote: > On 11-01-23 02:17 PM, Sean Hunt wrote: > > On 11-01-23 01:56 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > This time to the proper forum: > > > > I deregister. > > > > If you are going to deregister everyone for a scam, prepare to live with > > the consequences. > > >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: scorched earth escalation

2011-01-23 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011, ais523 wrote: > There's no need to involve Pariah here at all, players can create Rests > in eir own possession by announcement. And this scam relies on being > able to cause players to perform arbitrary actions at power 1 (making me > assume Pariah, an action, is different f

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: scorched earth escalation

2011-01-23 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011, Ed Murphy wrote: > G. wrote: > > > [I plan to resolve it Assessor in ~four days. > > You missed changing this bit. Of course, you could just as well > cause R2324 to make yourself Assessor when the time comes. Since you became inactive, I can Assume the office and do it.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: scorched earth escalation

2011-01-23 Thread Ed Murphy
ais523 wrote: > There's no need to involve Pariah here at all, players can create Rests > in eir own possession by announcement. And this scam relies on being > able to cause players to perform arbitrary actions at power 1 (making me > assume Pariah, an action, is different from causing me to beco

DIS: Re: BUS: scorched earth escalation

2011-01-23 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Murphy and I are now the only players CoE: comex and I are the only players of Agora Nomic, and this message was not the public forum.

DIS: Re: BUS: scorched earth escalation

2011-01-23 Thread ais523
On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 10:56 -0800, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > [This esclation attempt could be done solo, but I included Murphy > as an auditor to make sure I didn't trash the game, as it's a > rather scorched earth approach. Before I start, be aware (if you > get annoyed while reading) that there's

DIS: Re: BUS: scorched earth escalation

2011-01-23 Thread Sean Hunt
On 11-01-23 02:17 PM, Sean Hunt wrote: On 11-01-23 01:56 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: This time to the proper forum: I deregister. If you are going to deregister everyone for a scam, prepare to live with the consequences. -scshunt Also I heartily encourage all other Agorans to do the same. -scsh

DIS: Re: BUS: scorched earth escalation

2011-01-23 Thread Ed Murphy
G. wrote: > [I plan to resolve it Assessor in ~four days. You missed changing this bit. Of course, you could just as well cause R2324 to make yourself Assessor when the time comes.

DIS: Re: BUS: scorched earth escalation

2011-01-23 Thread Sean Hunt
On 11-01-23 01:56 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: I deregister. -scshunt

DIS: Re: BUS: scorched earth escalation

2011-01-23 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011, Kerim Aydin wrote: > [Bug 1: Activity is not secured; this is a security hole for quorum > and other purposes]. Heh, after going over this for four days and reviewing it with Murphy, of course 5minuts *after* I send it I realize I could have used Inactivity plus A