Re: DIS: eligibility question

2007-03-23 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: It is not clear to me if eligibility in terms of Appeals judges includes turning: As soon as possible after an Appellate Judge is recused, the Clerk of the Courts shall randomly select an eligible Player to replace em. clause (iv) of R911: iv) E is ineligible to Ju

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: VC raffle

2007-03-26 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: As soon as possible after announcing the results of an Agoran decision, Why all Agoran decisions, rather than just proposals? Why not? Besides, we don't have any other types of Agoran decisions at the moment.

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1608 assigned to Maud

2007-03-28 Thread Ed Murphy
Maud wrote: On 3/23/07, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I assign CFJ 1608 to Maud. Text is here: http://www.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-official/2007-January/002784.html I (proto-)judge the statement of CFJ 1608 to be TRUE. Actually, this may be trivially true due

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1608 assigned to Maud

2007-03-29 Thread Ed Murphy
Maud wrote: On 3/28/07, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Actually, this may be trivially true due to Rule 2034. If I understand the argument you intend, this would depend on Agorans agreeing not to challenge the vote collector's announcement of results. Yes, that's what I had in mind.

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1608 assigned to Maud

2007-03-30 Thread Ed Murphy
Maud wrote: On 3/28/07, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Actually, this may be trivially true due to Rule 2034. Murphy, Since I was running out of time in which to judge, I had to submit a version of the judgement which did not take into account your argument regarding rule 2034

Re: DIS: Proto-proposal: Excess CFJs

2007-04-02 Thread Ed Murphy
Levi wrote: Attempt at cleaning up the Excess CFJ rule. I've used the following as a basis for this change 1. The use of 'dismiss' is unclear, due to DISMISS being a valid judgement for a CFJ, but dismissal through a CFJ being an Excess CFJ should be different to dismissal under rule 1565

Re: DIS: Proto-proposal: Excess CFJs

2007-04-02 Thread Ed Murphy
Levi wrote: In this vein, everything after the first paragraph of this proposal could be replaced with: "The time limit for assigning a judge to an Excess CFJ is extended by 106 years." Is this only due to the deferral process not being specific enough? or have I missed something else here?

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Changing officers

2007-04-03 Thread Ed Murphy
Maud wrote: On 4/3/07, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I intend to make Maud Herald by Agoran Consent. You're doing this for the pun, aren't you? What pun? Now if your nickname was Lloyd...

Re: DIS: web pages

2007-04-05 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: as I do only structural markup and not visual design, if someone wants to produce a CSS stylesheet that might be a useful addition. http://www.oswd.org/

Re: DIS: proto: instrument mechanics

2007-04-09 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Enact a rule with title "Power Controls Mutability", Power=3, and text: No entity with power below the power of this rule can (a) cause an entity to have power greater than its own. (b) adjust the power of an instrument with power greater than its own

DIS: Re: BUS: Request for Murphy

2007-04-11 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: Can you post the last version of the full Stare Decisis (official > or unofficial) as far as you maintained it? Then I can start adding. I always just took this from http://zenith.homelinux.net/cotc/stare.php Also, it looks like the weekly "state of the bench" listing eligi

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Agoran Chromodynamics

2007-04-11 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Repeal Rule 2126 (Voting Credits). Not going to turn pre-existing VCs into beads? Hey, you're the one who was complaining about VC inflation. :) * One Green Bead to bar a player from judging a CFJ. This would be a nightmare in a crisis.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto-Proposal: Omnibus Judicial Reform Act of 2007

2007-04-12 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: A player may change emself from sitting or lying down, or vice versa, by announcement. s/,/ to standing,/ No, actually I meant "from sitting to lying down, or vice versa". If you're standing, then you must wait till you'r

Re: DIS: BUS: Proposal: Return of the Contests

2007-04-12 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: Rule 2128 allows you to specify a contest to determine the next winner. It doesn't say you have to run the contest. If I come up with a good contest and offer to run it, would you be willing to invite players to enter to win as per R2128? I don't see why not. In any case, yo

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Agoran Chromodynamics

2007-04-12 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: The second point, though, is plain old critical mass. At the time I joined, the game peaked at perhaps 15 players who were actively participating plus another 10 who were semi-active. That's a vastly different dynamic the current ~10 players. When we dismantled the currency sys

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto-Proposal: Omnibus Judicial Reform Act of 2007

2007-04-13 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: you're standing, then you must wait till you're assigned something (switching you to sitting) before opting out of further judicial work. Sounds unwise. I think one should be able to opt out at any time. The concept of a "standing cou

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Distribution of Proposals 4930-4940

2007-04-25 Thread Ed Murphy
Maud wrote: 4932 AGAINST <-- (I've missed some discussion. Aren't these 4933 AGAINST <-- attempting to do basically the same thing?) The difference is whether an Excess CFJ that gets assigned may still be refused. 4935 FOR (Why ``contentiousness''? I mean, I know why, but why?

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: Distribution of Proposals 4930-4940

2007-04-25 Thread Ed Murphy
quazie wrote: 4930 | Simple VC win | Goethe| 1* | 02Apr07 | D FOR Not to the PF.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Protection Racket

2007-04-28 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: An Oligarch may refuse a proposal by announcement. A refused proposal ceases to be a proposal. Nice try, but I don't think this will work at Power=1. Rule 106 at Power=3 calls for a proposal to be adopted if the vote on it is favourable, wh

DIS: Re: BUS: Set of CFJs (a paradox found)?

2007-04-29 Thread Ed Murphy
quazie wrote: I'm not sure if the rules allow me to do this or not. I request to not judge the above linked CFJs. You're allowed to make the request, but it doesn't actually make you ineligible. Eris, now that you're back (well come!), can you comment on the [bracketed] portions of my "Stan

Re: DIS: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 1638-1645 assigned to Goethe

2007-04-29 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: Fair enough. But the point was, when Zefram and I were looking at if we could block Murphy et al.'s proposal, we noticed that a CotC could legally mint an unbounded number of VCs, by an as-long-as-you-want list of linked, trivial CFJs. Instant, overpowering voting, worse than the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Protection Racket

2007-04-29 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Eep, here's another message with datestamps crossing midnight. (I just CFJed about this concerning Quazie's VC spending.) Headers: I think the "normal domain of technical control" argument should continue to hold. I remove "Proposal Racket" from the pool. It was titled "Pro

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Protection Racket

2007-04-29 Thread Ed Murphy
OscarMeyr wrote: On Apr 29, 2007, at 9:12 PM, Zefram wrote: Oh, this seems a good time to point out: the would-be Oligarchs could have avoided the whole VC race by simply distributing the Oligarch proposal last week, so that it would be contested under that week's unchangeable VLOPs. We certa

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Registration request

2007-04-30 Thread Ed Murphy
Roger Hicks wrote: Well...let's see. I'm off to a good start. Triggering a CFJ while joining the game is a fine Agoran tradition. How about: I hereby register for Agora Nomic. Alas, this is ineffective because it wasn't sent to a Public Forum. You had the right idea the first time with a

Re: DIS: BUS: Registration request

2007-04-30 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: Murphy wrote: I could swear that some variation or other of this issue has been judged in the past, but darned if I can find it. It was the opposite. The rules required that new players "request registration." I tried to register by announcing "I register." The CFJ was aro

Re: DIS: BUS: Registration request

2007-05-01 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: Murphy wrote: Thanks, it was CFJ 1266 (and was dismissed because it consisted of multiple statements). Oh yes, I'd forgotten an idiot newbie did that one. Your words, not mine. There's another CFJ right before/after. Look for one called by Blob, judged by Steve, with the

Re: DIS: Call for Appeal

2007-05-01 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: CFJ 1630: We're all mad, here. Levi judged: I issue a judgement of DISMISSED as irrelevant to the rules. I call for appeal of CFJ 1630. The truth of CFJ 1630 tells us everything we need to know about the rules. Not to the PF, but it's not clear that Rule 1564 cares.

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting results for Proposals 4941 - 4946

2007-05-03 Thread Ed Murphy
Eris wrote: On 5/3/07, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 4941 4942 4943 4944 4945 4946 AI 3 3 3 3 1.1 1.1 VI 0.75 7 3.5 *U*1 2.5 4945 looks like failed to pass to me. Or is there some quirk I'm mis

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: No free votes

2007-05-04 Thread Ed Murphy
Maud wrote: On 5/4/07, Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I struggled with making it sufficiently generic and yet clear. The intent is that at any point, the voting limit is one less than it would be if the voter was not a natural person. I have a better idea: restrict playerhood to actual pers

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Votes 4947-4957

2007-05-05 Thread Ed Murphy
Maud wrote: On 5/4/07, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Related question: if Agoran decisions have not been properly initiated on proposals for the past few months, does the last paragraph of R2034 still manage to make the result announcements effective? Rule 2034 does seem to apply here, an

DIS: Re: BUS: proposals on activity

2007-05-06 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: I hereby submit the following proposal, titled "initialise activity", and set its AI to 1.1: {{{ Amend rule 2130 by appending the paragraph: Registration as a player causes the new player to become active. All non-players are inactive. }}} I hereby submit the follo

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: The Standing Court

2007-05-06 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Proposal: The Standing Court The question has recently been raised of whether merely quoting a proposal in this fashion is sufficient to indicate submission of it. You may want to disambiguate. I still think the preponderance of the evidence says "yes", even in the case previo

DIS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting results for Proposals 4947 - 4957

2007-05-06 Thread Ed Murphy
The validity of BobTHJ's votes only affects the outcome of Proposal 4953, which has null effect anyway since Proposal 4952 failed. Additional note: The validity of my 8th and 9th votes per proposal did not affect any of the outcomes.

DIS: Proto: Agora shall make no law...

2007-05-06 Thread Ed Murphy
Proto-Proposal: Agora shall make no law... (AI = 3, please) Amend Rule 101 (Agoran Rights and Privileges) by changing the labels (iv through viii) to (v through ix) respectively, and by replacing this text: iii. Every person has the right to invoke judgement, appeal a judgeme

DIS: Proto: Return of switches

2007-05-06 Thread Ed Murphy
Proto-Proposal: Return of switches (AI = 3, please) Create a rule titled "Switches" with this text: A switch is a property that the rules define as being a switch, pertaining to a type of entity, and having one or more possible values. Each switch has exactly one value.

Re: DIS: Proto: Agora shall make no law...

2007-05-07 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: iv. Every person has the right to invoke a judgement, appeal a judgement, appeal a sentencing or judicial order binding em, and receive judgement in a timely fashion. Might have to detail what appeal achieves, in the light of the judgement on "invoke"

DIS: Proto: Beads and Wins

2007-05-07 Thread Ed Murphy
Proto-Proposal: Beads and Wins Rename Rule 2126 (Voting Credits) to "Beads", change its Power to 2, and amend it to read: Beads are property, but cannot be traded. The Jewelor is an office. The Jewelor's report shall include each player's beads. Create a rule titled "Earnin

Re: DIS: Proto: Agora shall make no law...

2007-05-07 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Should be covered by the "receive judgement" clause. If you apply that to the appeal clause, that implies that a single appeal will have to result in an appeal judgement (where currently three are required). An appeal receives three judgements, yes

Re: DIS: Proto: Return of switches

2007-05-07 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Loose switches may be changed by announcement. So anyone can change a loose switch at will? Why would you ever want one of these? I think we used to have some, though I forget what they were. Activity is a player switch with values Active and

Re: DIS: Proto: Beads and Wins

2007-05-07 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: 5) 2 beads to ban a player from judging a CFJ to which e is not already assigned. Does banning make em ineligible for assignment, or only oblige em to not return a judgement? This should be "bar" (R897) rather than "ban". A player with 42 or more beads

DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Switches reborn

2007-05-07 Thread Ed Murphy
Maud wrote: Each switch has a collection of possible states, is attached to a specific host entity, and has the power to modify a specific property of the host, called its feature. An entity is a switch only if the rules say it is. The default state of a switch is, unl

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Switches reborn

2007-05-07 Thread Ed Murphy
Maud wrote: On 5/7/07, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This takes care of "what if no state is mentioned first?" (e.g. "the values are the players"), but you should also state that null is a possible state of any switch in this situation. It would be simpler

Re: DIS: Proto: Agora shall make no law...

2007-05-07 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Kerim Aydin wrote: If it costs something "tangible" to get a proposal distributed, Proposal distribution is not a scarce resource. I'm opposed to creating artificial scarcity here. Your support concept wouldn't offend in that way, but it sounds like quite a lot of extra work f

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Switches reborn

2007-05-07 Thread Ed Murphy
Eris wrote: On 5/7/07, Michael Slone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In an earlier draft, I limited the capacity to flip certain switches to certain entities. I decided that people would complain about that, so I changed it to the current version, where people can but may not flip certain switches.

DIS: Proto: Mother, May I?

2007-05-08 Thread Ed Murphy
Proto-Proposal: Mother, May I? (AI = 3, please) Create a rule titled "Mother, May I?" with Power 3 and this text: The following terms are defined: 1. CANNOT (syn. IMPOSSIBLE, INEFFECTIVE, INVALID) Attempts to perform the described action are unsuccessful. 2.

DIS: Re: BUS: proposal: fix judicial turns

2007-05-08 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: If possible, amend rule 1871 by replacing the text "if e was turned when it was called" with "if e is turned". Otherwise, amend rule 1871 by replacing the text "if e was not standing when it was called" with "if e is not standing". This would be clearer if worded as "If R1871 co

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: The Standing Court

2007-05-09 Thread Ed Murphy
Maud wrote: On 5/6/07, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Upon the adoption of this proposal, the Speaker and Clerk of the Courts are changed to standing; all other players are changed to lying down. What is the purpose of this provision of the proposal? Orientations need

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: Distribution of Proposals 4958-4969

2007-05-09 Thread Ed Murphy
BobTHJ wrote: I vote as follows: Not to the Public Forum, hence ineffective (Rule 683 requires votes to be published, Rule 478 defines publishing). This also seems like a good opportunity to clarify TTttPF = "this time to the Public Forum".

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Bring Back Executors

2007-05-09 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Michael Slone wrote: *An* action, just as I wrote. Any action? This is such a strange reading that I'm still not convinced I've understood you correctly. You're placing a restriction on which executors have the power to perform actions on behalf of their executees. The restric

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Bring Back Executors

2007-05-09 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: I interpreted it as equivalent to "a given action". Still not specifying which action. Nor does it need to. Okay, here's a third re-phrasing which is hopefully unambiguous: (original) "If an executee is prohibiting from performing an

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Bring Back Executors

2007-05-10 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: "If an executee is prohibiting from performing an action, each of its executors is prohibited from performing the action on behalf of that executee." That's not the sentence I have trouble with. I was talking about Holding executorship of

Re: DIS: Proto: Ecumenical Proposals

2007-05-11 Thread Ed Murphy
Maud wrote: For the Agoran decision of whether to adopt and ecumenical ^^^ "an" proposal, the eligible voters are all legislators, the quorum is what it would be if only active players of Agora were eligible voters, the ado

Re: DIS: proto idea - Role call

2007-05-11 Thread Ed Murphy
quazie wrote: Create a rule entitled "Roll Call" with the folowing text Cambot! Gypsy! Tom Servo! Croow!

DIS: Credit where credit is due

2007-05-13 Thread Ed Murphy
I should point out that the multi-level partnership scam was originally Quazie's idea; I launched it solely because I was available to do so just before the end of the Agoran week.

Re: DIS: Proto: Clarify actions

2007-05-13 Thread Ed Murphy
Maud wrote: Persons have certain rights and privileges. Those rights which are enumerated in the rules or recognized by the Agoran courts may not be abridged, reduced, limited, or remove by Agoran law, ^^ "removed" and a

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 1651 assigned to Quazie

2007-05-13 Thread Ed Murphy
Maud wrote: On 5/13/07, quazie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If a disagreement occurs, then there was not enough information provided to allow the public to agree. What if someone is simply recalcitrant and maintains that Peter Abelard is always an eligible voter if no list of eligible voters is

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Doomsday

2007-05-13 Thread Ed Murphy
BobTHJ wrote: Being that Primo Corporation is not a partnership, I don't believe it would exist as a player under this new rule. As CEO, I am gravely concerned by this language... It assigns rights and obligations to all partners, therefore it's a partnership even if it doesn't call itself on

Re: DIS: Proto: Economy

2007-05-13 Thread Ed Murphy
BobTHJ wrote: Create a rule called "Certification" with Power 1 that reads: { A Player must be certified to perform any of the following actions: * Submitting a ballot for distributed proposals * Supporting or opposing a dependent action * Submitting a proposal for distribution If a player who

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Army of Ghosts

2007-05-14 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Human Point Two and I have made a R1742 binding agreement, the text of which is: I believe this doesn't work. Obligations on HP3 are translated, by that agreement, into obligations on HP2 and Murphy, and then by HP2's agreement into obligations on

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Doomsday

2007-05-14 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: If a partnership contains exactly the same members as another registered partnership, then it is prohibited from registering. You haven't constructed such a situation, so this limitation is insufficient. You need to determine the ult

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Registration Prohibits Silent Partners

2007-05-14 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: Murphy wrote: If such an agreement is registered, then as soon as possible after its membership changes, it shall announce which players have joined and which have left. This requirement is satisfied if the information is published by a member of the agree

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Linked CFJs

2007-05-14 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: I submit the following linked CFJs, barring Zefram, Goethe, and the Pineapple Partnership: You've thus barred all the players that you could be sure would have the knowledge necessary to judge the CFJs. Pessimal. Well, you don't expect me to make i

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Summer break

2007-05-14 Thread Ed Murphy
OscarMeyr wrote: Murphy, that leaves you and me as the only pre-2004 current registrations. Which one of us gets to deregister next? I /can't/.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: proposal: transparent partnerships

2007-05-14 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: quazie wrote: If I start a partnership with zefram, and then we announce that we are in a partnership, and then add comex, do we need to announce this addition under this rule? Not under my proposed rule. I based it on the expectation that the change of partners results in the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Summer break

2007-05-14 Thread Ed Murphy
I wrote: OscarMeyr wrote: Murphy, that leaves you and me as the only pre-2004 current registrations. Which one of us gets to deregister next? I /can't/. No, wait, we changed that bit. Well, I'm still not planning to leave any time soon.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Summer break

2007-05-14 Thread Ed Murphy
OscarMeyr wrote: Unless I win and become Speaker. Oh, /now/ it's on!

DIS: Re: BUS: break time

2007-05-15 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: I can't keep up right now. Need to enforce a break in myself, otherwise RL will suffer more (already is, can never seem to not get sucked in). Sincere apologies for leaving the CotC office so far behind. I'll continue to watch the (encouraging) developments with interest. I dere

DIS: Re: BUS: Inhuman rights campaign

2007-05-15 Thread Ed Murphy
I wrote: I intend, with Agoran consent, to make the Pineapple Partnership the holder of the Office of Registrar. I intend, with Agoran consent, to make Human Point Two the holder of the Office of International Associate Director of Personnel. I'm holding off on these until we come to a consen

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: break time

2007-05-15 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: I intend, with Agoran Consent, to make Primo Corporation the holder of the office of Clerk of the Courts. I object. IMO partnerships aren't stable enough to hold office yet.

Re: DIS: Proto: Currency, take 2

2007-05-15 Thread Ed Murphy
BobTHJ wrote: A Property Owning Entity (hereafter POE) is a type of entity. POEs may Why not just "Owner"?

DIS: Regarding Primo as a CotC candidate

2007-05-15 Thread Ed Murphy
To point out the potential problem more explicitly: If CFJ 1668 is judged true, then Primo-the-player ceased to exist when comex became a Shareholder. I strongly urge that we install a natural person as Clerk of the Courts until the statement of CFJ 1668 is confirmed false, either by judgement o

Re: DIS: Regarding Primo as a CotC candidate

2007-05-15 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: On Tuesday 15 May 2007 6:32 pm, Ed Murphy wrote: To point out the potential problem more explicitly: If CFJ 1668 is judged true, then Primo-the-player ceased to exist when comex became a Shareholder. I strongly urge that we install a natural person as Clerk of the Courts until

DIS: Re: BUS: timing orders

2007-05-16 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: I execute a Timing Order directing the Clerk of the Courts to select a Trial Judge for CFJ 1659. I assume you intend to activate the last paragraph of Rule 1006, but I'm not sure whether it works when the office in question is vacant.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: break time

2007-05-16 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Due to Rules 1006 and 1450, the office of CotC is currently vacant. Or, under a different interpretation, I am being continuously assigned by 1006 and removed by 1450, which is no better. R1006 says that an office that would otherwise be vacant is held by the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: break time

2007-05-16 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Unless the Speaker cannot hold that office. Which R1450 doesn't prevent. R1450 only triggers when the Speaker is already CotC. It depends whether you interpret "mutually exclusive" as a prohibition (with the next clause amounting to "if

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: distribution of proposals 4970-4975

2007-05-16 Thread Ed Murphy
quazie wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: 4970 FOR 4971 FOR 4972 FOR 4973 PRESENT 4974 PRESENT 4975 FOR I vote in the following manner: If Murphy has voted on a proposal as of 5/16/07 @ 9:50pm (PST), I vote in the same manner as e has. Alas, not to the PF.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: HPn votes

2007-05-17 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: On behalf of Human Point Two: On behalf of Human Point Four: HP2 isn't a partner in HP4, is it? It purports to be, at least. From the announcement in which HP4 was allegedly registered: "Human Point Two, Human Point Three, and I have made a R17

Re: DIS: Bounty

2007-05-17 Thread Ed Murphy
Maud wrote: I hereby place a bounty of one magic cookie and a (virtual) pat on the back to the first person to write a good proto or proposal which would repeal rules 1688, 1482, and 1030. Goodness of protos and proposals will be evaluated relative to my biases, of course. This only achieves

DIS: Re: BUS: Win by Paradox?

2007-05-17 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: On Sunday 13 May 2007 7:09 pm, Ed Murphy wrote: Second-System Effect registers. I call for judgement on the following statement: Second-System Effect registered on or about Sun, 13 May 2007 16:09:28 -0700 Arguments: Without knowledge of the agreement that defines SSE, this

Re: DIS: Bounty

2007-05-17 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: e) A player may, with Agoran consent with a consent index of H/L, perform an action and cause a rule with Power L to take precedence over a rule with Power H with regard to that action. E must be otherwise permitted to perform that

DIS: Re: BUS: Hmmm.....

2007-05-17 Thread Ed Murphy
BobTHJ wrote: This should stir the pot a bit... I'm doing this just to see what happens. On behalf of the Pineapple Partnership I take the following action: The Pineapple Partnership deregisters On behalf of Second System Effect I take the following action: Second System Effect deregisters

DIS: Re: OFF: IADoP - Letting you know Who's Who in Agora

2007-05-17 Thread Ed Murphy
quazie wrote: his is a mostly complete report from the IADoP. Because we have more than enough CFJs as it is, you should probably state explicitly that you're publishing the report on behalf of IADoP Human Point Two. While I'm at it, I state under penalty of perjury that the membership of the

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Re: OFF: IADoP - Letting you know Who's Who in Agora

2007-05-18 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2007 11:41 pm, Ed Murphy wrote: While I'm at it, I state under penalty of perjury that the membership of the HP2 agreement has not changed since its registration, thus HP2's existence as a registered player is not contingent on the outcome of CFJ 1668.

Re: DIS: Proto: Generalize Dependent Actions

2007-05-18 Thread Ed Murphy
Maud wrote: In this proto, I attempt to average dependent actions and actions with Agoran consent. I can't help but feel that a proto to adopt proposals with Agoran consent is right around the corner.

Re: DIS: proto: truthfulness

2007-05-19 Thread Ed Murphy
Maud wrote: On 5/19/07, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Players are prohibited from making false statements in any public message. You probably need the word ``willful'' in there somewhere. And "as if they were true". This would de-criminalize things like BobTHJ's recent clai

Re: DIS: proto: truthfulness

2007-05-20 Thread Ed Murphy
Maud wrote: On 5/19/07, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And "as if they were true". This would de-criminalize things like BobTHJ's recent claims to act on behalf of PP and HP2, which (in context) were clearly only presented as if they /might/ be true. I dis

Re: DIS: Proto: The New Office Plan

2007-05-21 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: You use the term "Speakership" in several places where strictly you should say "Speaker". ("Speakership" is not defined; in your terminology "Speaker" refers to the office.) You also speak of a player *being* the Speaker, where you should apply the strict distinction that a playe

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Quorum CFJs

2007-05-21 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: (If either #2 or #3 is judged true, and HP3 through HP14 are players, then by CFJ 1652 they were eligible voters on Proposals 4958-69, which thus failed quorum. Naturally, the attempt to legislate #1 is part of the affected batch, specifically Proposal 4964

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: yin & yang

2007-05-21 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: That's all the yin/yang activity we have planned. For the record, all changes of membership of both partnerships have taken place in the public forum. The present membership is: * of Yin Corp: Yin Corp, Yang Corp * of Yang Corp: Yin Corp, Yang Corp Or at least, that's the memb

DIS: Re: BUS: The Hanging Judge

2007-05-21 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: I assign CFJs 1666-8 to The Hanging Judge. E is still turned. Text at: http://www.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-business/2007-May/006418.html I encourage Zefram and Murphy to submit psuedojudgements. I interpret a partnership's identity, not merely as the set of

DIS: More crisis management foo

2007-05-21 Thread Ed Murphy
Ambiguous eligibility can be resolved by making the relevant players turned (lying down) without 2 objections, and/or inactive without objection. (This does nothing for the bug pointed out by "fix judicial turns", though.)

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: proposals: deregistrations

2007-05-22 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: quazie wrote: They can be removed from being judges on them can't they?? Takes a while. I think we've got some still waiting on Peter. 1657-8, but the deliberation period has expired, so CotC comex may recuse em at will. (The CotC database should be mostly caught up at this

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting results for Proposals 4958 - 4969

2007-05-23 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: 4965 | The Standing Court | Murphy| 1 | 06May07 | O 4969 | fix judicial turns | Zefram| 1 | 08May07 | O Aside from failing quorum, both of these passed by a large margin. I presume you'll repropose "The Standing Cou

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting results for Proposals 4958 - 4969

2007-05-23 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: I'll do that later when I have some time. We're interpreting quorum as calculated when the Assessor resolves the Agoran decision, right? Nearly. It's when the Assessor performs the calculations to determine the results, which appears to be

Re: DIS: Proto: Nomic Protectorates

2007-05-23 Thread Ed Murphy
Maud wrote: I'm not convinced any nomic would agree to such a ``deal''. It might if you scammed it. Didn't we once plan to saddle Rishonomic with a Governor General or something?

DIS: Re: BUS: CotC actions

2007-05-23 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: I approve the Hanging Judge judging CFJs 1666-1667 according to the pseudo-judgement that Murphy published in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. ... On behalf of the Hanging Judge, CFJs 1666-8 are judged FALSE. ... I pseudo-judge CFJs 1666 and 1667 false, as direct consequences of th

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJs on Nemo

2007-05-23 Thread Ed Murphy
Maud wrote: Look at rules 1-15 and 1-16. Ick ick ick. What's wrong with 1-16?

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJs on Nemo

2007-05-24 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: On 5/24/07, comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/24/07, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BEGIN TRANSACTION; > > UPDATE RULE 106 > SET TEXT = 'SQL script' > WHERE TEXT = 'document'; > > COMMIT TRANSACTION; Query OK, 0 rules affected (0.00 sec) Rules matched: 0 Changed: 0 Wa

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJs on Nemo

2007-05-24 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: On 5/24/07, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: root wrote: > On 5/24/07, comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 5/24/07, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > BEGIN TRANSACTION; >> > >> > UPDATE RULE 106 &g

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: The Standing Court

2007-05-25 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: On 5/25/07, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A player may change emself from sitting to lying down, or vice versa, by announcement. Why can't standing players change themselves to lying down? Seems a bit arbitrary. The general concept of this pro

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