DIS: Re: BUS: Emergency!

2008-05-08 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/9 comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Agora is being INVADED by FOREIGNERS from IRCNomic, our rebellious > once-protectorate! In fact, a rule was proposed to declare war on us! > Among that game's ranks are ais523 and ehird, who certainly are > scamsters born and bred... we must defend ourselves!

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Emergency!

2008-05-08 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/9 Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm not surprised. comex also proposed the B Nomic proposal to > declare war on Agora. > > -root > Of course, rubbish has many uses as well - especially if it can be recycled. ehird

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Ducks & platypuses

2008-05-09 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/9 Geoffrey Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Elliott Hird > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The Rebuttal of the Rebuttal: >> >> I should not be found GUILTY because my religion - >> Agoracontractian - requires me to make t

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Ducks & platypuses

2008-05-09 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/9 Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > To be a pledge, it must identify itself as such, which it does not. It does. I did not claim at any point that I was posting the whole contract - I merely posted a brief explanation and its commandments. > If it were in fact a contract, it would have beco

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Ducks & platypuses

2008-05-09 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/9 Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Breaking the rules is breaking the rules. You can do what you want, > but if you don't follow the rules, then you're not playing Agora. It would seem that EXCUSED provides an avenue for breaking the rules, if the alternative is "at least as serious as tha

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Ducks & platypuses

2008-05-09 Thread Elliott Hird
008/5/9 Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You left out a rather important part of the EXCUSED clause: > > * EXCUSED, appropriate if the defendant could not reasonably >avoid _breaching_ the _rules_ in a manner at least as serious as >that alleged > > (Emphasis added.) Violating

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Ducks & platypuses

2008-05-09 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/9 Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > From an Agoran standpoint, yes. > > -root > But my Religion is a private contract -- it obligated me to post the Ducks & Platypuses contract, and it obligates me to not propose, and oppose any such proposal, of a change to the Ducks & Platypuses contract.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Ducks & platypuses

2008-05-09 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/9 Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Does it also define what the Ducks & Platypuses contract must be? Yes. ehird

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Ducks & platypuses

2008-05-09 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/9 Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Then the Religion contract would inevitably force you to breach one > contract or the other, and so you should not have agreed to it in the > first place. Had you not, the rules breach would have been avoided. My metareligion - Metagoracontractian - requi

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Ducks & platypuses

2008-05-09 Thread Elliott Hird
My previous message had typos. Here is a revised version. 2008/5/9 Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Then the Religion contract would inevitably force you to breach one > contract or the other, and so you should not have agreed to it in the > first place. Had you not, the rules breach would have

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Ducks & platypuses

2008-05-09 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/9 ihope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Elliott Hird > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The Metagoracontractian Metareligion: >> >> This religion is a private contract, and a pledge. It has two commandments, > > I agree. > >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Ducks & platypuses

2008-05-09 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/9 Elliott Hird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Please agree to the typo-fixed version instead. > > ehird > Actually, don't: that's not actually the metareligion, just an excerpt (Like before). ehird

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Ducks & platypuses

2008-05-09 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/9 Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Then you shouldn't have joined that one either. You realize the chain > can't recur infinitely, because the base state is not to be a member > of any contract, so you must have joined these contracts at some point > in the material past. > > -root > Actua

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Ducks & platypuses

2008-05-09 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/9 Ben Caplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You still must have joined the infinite chain (or at least one > contract thereof) in said finite past. > > pavitra > One of the meta-religions along the chain specifies that I have been in existence for an infinite amount of time. So no, maybe not in sai

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Ducks & platypuses

2008-05-09 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/10 Ben Caplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The issue is not whether you have been in existence forever, but > whether you have been a member of the chain forever. Let's assume you > have always been bound by the conditions, even before the > meta-...-religions became Agoran contracts, even before

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Ducks & platypuses

2008-05-10 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/10 Ben Caplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Quoted for great justice. At the time the contract in question was > joined (by each of its parties), there was no way for any party to > avoid violating it. Everyone involved knew exactly what they were > getting into. > > Pavitra. > However, there was

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Emergency!

2008-05-10 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/10 Josiah Worcester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > As a former IRCNomician, I SUPPORT. Let the fun begin. 'Former' is questionable, as you are in #ircnomic and have not opted out. ehird

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Emergency!

2008-05-10 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/9 Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Does IRCNomic actually have enough players to successfully invade Agora? > > -root > s/IRCNomic/Canada/ And no. No it does not. ehird

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Flat as a Pancake, Real Edition

2008-05-11 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/11 Alexander Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You should make Pancake a contract in Canada too. > -- > ais523 'Tis. He agreed to it. The fact that it isn't listed anywhere has no effect. ehird

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 1946 assigned to Goethe

2008-05-12 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/12 Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > WORDS > > Message referred to in quoted message [excerpt]: > > This religion is a private contract, and a pledge. It has two commandments, > > given by God at the beginning of time. These commandments MUST be > > obeyed by its members. I am the only

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 1946 assigned to Goethe

2008-05-12 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/12 ihope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On the contrary, the stipulation you're referring to, "I am the only > member of this religion", does not imply "I am the only party to this > religion". A party and a member are not the same thing. The sentence > "These commandments MUST be obeyed by its

Re: DIS: RE: [CotC] CFJ 1945 assigned to ais523

2008-05-12 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/12 Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 5/12/08, Alexander Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If it's a serious problem to the rest of you I may have to come up with a > > ridiculous solution to it, like a line-wrap script in JavaScript which runs > > from public computers... > > No gmail

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 1946 assigned to Goethe

2008-05-13 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/13 Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > When no definition or distinction is explicitly made in the text It is. Read the contract. > , it is most reasonable to assume that member=party. Otherwise we'd have to > go back through all past contracts to see which terms were used, > which doesn'

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 1946 assigned to Goethe

2008-05-13 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/13 Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Oh, clarification: I was basing it not on the actual private contract, but > on what ihope read, which was all he had in front of em so all e could agree > (or not) to. In that text, there was no distinction made. > > -Goethe OK, this makes sense.

Re: DIS: RE: [CotC] CFJ 1945 assigned to ais523

2008-05-13 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/13 Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -zefram winmail.dat is some kind of pre-mime thingy. Outlook, which ais523 has stated his reasons for using, puts it there. And personally I think that top-posting with the full post is alright if it's short. It can be a helpful memory-jogger. ehird

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: I win

2008-05-14 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/14 Charles Reiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> It's clear that R2186 regulates winning the game in general if it at >> all possible for any rule to do so. It plainly satisfies R2151(b)'s >> criteria "the rules indicate that if certain conditions are satisfied, >> then some player is permitted

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: I win

2008-05-14 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/14 Elliott Hird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > From my previous message: > > { > Rule 2186/0 states "This is the only way to win the game, rules to the > contrary notwithstanding." However, rule 2186/0, being less powerful > than rule 101, cannot take precedence o

DIS: Re: BUS: I win

2008-05-14 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/14 Geoffrey Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I cause ehird to lose. Causing another player to lose is not > regulated, thus by 101(ii) I'm allowed to do it by announcement. > I define losing to mean "a chicken". ehird

DIS: Re: BUS: Nomination for Mad Scientist

2008-05-15 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/15 Geoffrey Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > There having been no other nominations during the nomination period > for this office, I hereby install ais512 as Mad Scientist. > > -IADoP Wooble > What/who is ais512? ehird

Re: DIS: RE: [CotC] CFJ 1945 assigned to ais523

2008-05-15 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/16 Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Wait. What? > > I'm sure this is a very interesting thread but I refuse to read it. ehird

DIS: Psychology of Agora: How is PRESENT viewed?

2008-05-22 Thread Elliott Hird
Dear (fellow) Agorans, How do you view a vote of PRESENT regarding a proposal you made? Do view it as a kind of "wimpy FOR", or do you take it as a sort of "well, I oppose this, but not enough for AGAINST"? Other opinions are welcome, but "I view it as PRESENT" is not. :P ehird

Re: DIS: Psychology of Agora: How is PRESENT viewed?

2008-05-22 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/22 Elliott Hird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > blah Re the replies: I wasn't really asking what it actually _does_, or the opinion it was made to represent, but the kind of _mood_ it inspires if you see it on your proposal. That is, do you see it as helpful or a hinderance? ehird

Re: DIS: RE: Pending court business

2008-05-22 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/22 Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Fixed now. > What was wrong? ehird

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Why can't non-players be contestmasters?

2008-05-23 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/23 Roger Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hmmanyone interested? > > BobTHJ > I agree to the Points Relay Service contract. ehird

Re: DIS: Reaction to B Nomic's failed mildly offensive message

2008-05-29 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/29 Alexander Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > B Nomic attempted to send Agora a mildly offensive message yesterday to a-b, > but failed. (I won't link to it because then I might inadvertently accomplish > what they were trying to do for them; I only noticed myself because I was > reading thro

Re: DIS: Reaction to B Nomic's failed mildly offensive message

2008-05-29 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/29 Alexander Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think they changed their mind. Hmm... you're a B Nomicer, aren't you? Are > you trying to take this opportunity to fix B Nomic's epic mistake? > -- > ais523 > They did change their mind, I meant 'were going to send in the past'. They dismissed it

Re: DIS: RE: BUS: Hmm, so I can resign now?

2008-05-30 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/29 Alexander Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Wooble wrote: >> I nominate Offhanded, ehird, and ais523 as Notary. > I consent. > -- > ais523 > I turtle. Does this involve me doing much work? ehird

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: RE: RE: Salvaging the Gnarly Contract

2008-05-30 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/30 Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I wonder if outright plagiarism like this could be in violation of > R2149 with respect to truthfulness in claim of authorship? > > -root > Does ais523's consent count? ehird

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: RE: RE: Salvaging the Gnarly Contract

2008-05-30 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/30 Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Doubtful. R2149 doesn't offer exemptions just because another player > gave you permission. > > -root > I never claimed I authored that cfj anyway ehird

Re: DIS: RE: BUS: RE: RE: Salvaging the Gnarly Contract

2008-05-30 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/30 Alexander Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Wow, an almost exact copy-paste of my attempt to win by paradox, even > down to copying the same argument with the names changed. I must point out that we were talking over IRC when you said that I could do it. ehird

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: RE: RE: Salvaging the Gnarly Contract

2008-05-30 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/30 Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Perhaps not explicitly, but you never disclaimed authorship either, > and the message has a From: header with your name on it. What would > be the inference of a person unfamiliar with the prior CFJ? > > -root > OK, there may be confusion, but it was uni

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Registrar] Here and Gone Again: a Registrar's Report

2008-05-31 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/5/28 Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Has anybody else noticed that of the 18 current first-class players, > all but 4 are listed at gmail addresses? Apparently, we've been > invaded by Google Nomic. > > -root > Sometime in the near maybe-not-so-near maybe-in-a-while maybe-never future, I mi

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Well, if you want to leave CFJ 1984 open...

2008-06-06 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/7 Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > SHALL NOT and CANNOT conflict. Something is either illegal (possible > but punishable) or impossible. Pick one. If I may, I propose CANNOT. ehird

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA

2008-06-06 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/7 Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well, first we'd have to bring sane proposals back, since it just > wouldn't be the same without the play on words. But the way sane > proposals worked back then is pretty much exactly the way regular > democratic proposals work now. So I think we're stuc

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 1937 judged FALSE

2008-06-07 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/7 Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I missed a piece of the web-based "record decision" form. It's since > been fixed. As has the single-quote bug; PHP is apparently escaping > quotes on its own, but not how PostgreSQL wants, so I'm doing > pg_escape_string(ereg_replace("\\\'", "'", $s)) >

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 1937 judged FALSE

2008-06-07 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/7 comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I missed a piece of the web-based "record decision" form. It's since >> been fixed. As has the single-quote bug; PHP is apparently escaping >> quotes on its own, but not how PostgreSQL w

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA

2008-06-11 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/8 Nick Vanderweit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Could someone explain this to me? I vaguely recall something about a > former rule that made discussion of voting on these things illegal, > but that rule no longer exists, right? > > avpx Insane proposal: proposal ALL IN UPPERCASE You couldn't talk

Re: DIS: Proposal idea

2008-06-11 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/8 Nick Vanderweit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Since I've been thinking a lot about proposals I could submit that > might benefit Agora, I decided I'd throw an idea out there for you > guys to give me feedback. > > My idea is an official currency, the Napier, abbreviated Np, which is > the base-10

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: distribution of proposal 5546

2008-06-11 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/11 Roger Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> NUM FL AI SUBMITTER TITLE >> 5546 D0 2ais523 Monstrous Decrees > > COE: You missed my proposal "Empower the Notary" (though to be fair I > sent it to A-B, and it may

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA

2008-06-11 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/11 Geoffrey Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The ID number should be secret too, and should be assigned after those > given to the other proposals in the same batch, so only the Promoter > knows just how many Insaner proposals are being voted on until the > next batch is sent out. > This would

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA

2008-06-11 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/11 Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Perhaps we should try Insaner proposals: all of the above, plus the > proposal's title, text, author and AI are secret as well. > > -root > Very yes. ehird

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA

2008-06-11 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/11 Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Unless there's some way to double-blind it, that's a lot of power for > the assessor (assessor conspirator is what scammed it previously). > -Goethe A double blind proposal system both makes no sense at all and sounds totally awesome. ehird

Re: DIS: Proposal idea

2008-06-11 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/12 Nick Vanderweit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Why would we set 1 Np = 10^0 of the base unit? What exactly does that achieve? > > I like your other idea, though. But I'm waiting for feedback on my > colors idea :-\ > > avpx > It achives P=NP. ehird

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA

2008-06-12 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/12 Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Can we just stick to contested proposals plz? > > No. :-P ehird

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA

2008-06-12 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/12 comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Compromise on SHA-1? > Probably. Or... SHA-512. It's no harder to implement than SHA-1 (mostly), it is a lot slower, but meh. Note that 2ch BBSs get quite well with a short substring of a crypt() call! Though, they can be cracked in about a week. Their defe

DIS: BobTHJ's voting

2008-06-12 Thread Elliott Hird
Didn't I tell you to vote FORx7 my proposal? Have you? I haven't noticed it. ehird

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA

2008-06-12 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/12 Ben Caplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ah. > > Is MD5 really that easy to brute-force? hmm... > > How about if each ballot also includes a proof-of-work? This should > make searching for collisions harder. > > That is, instead of random noise as your salt, include the MD5 hash > of a string be

DIS: Re: BUS: I want to join

2008-06-12 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/13 Matt Berman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I would like to be registered as a player in agora. > I would also like to use this name: Schrodinger's Cat. > > -- Schrodinger's Cat > I wish to join etc. are defined, but is 'I would like to be registered'? ehird

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: I want to join

2008-06-12 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/13 Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It's the same sentiment, isn't it? > > -root > Yes. And? (I know Schrodinger's Cat from an IRC channel, so this isn't newbie bashing: I'm interested) ehird

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [IADoP] Assessor election

2008-06-12 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/13 Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I rather doubt that can be "reasonably determined...from information > published within the voting period." > > -root > I disagree. ehird

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: I want to join

2008-06-12 Thread Elliott Hird
On 13/06/2008, Matt Berman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Elliott Hird < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I initiate an inquiry CFJ on the statement: {Schrodinger's Cat is a >> player.} >> >> Arguments and counter-ar

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: I want to join

2008-06-13 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/13 Schrodinger's Cat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > According to Rule 869: > A person CAN register, unless prevented by the rules, by > announcing that e registers, wishes to register, requests > registration, or requests permission to register. > > As I currently understand it, po

DIS: Re: BUS: Stop the madness

2008-06-13 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/13 Alexander Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I propose the following proposal (AI=3, II=2): > > Create a power-3 rule with the following text: > {{{ > All attempts to perform an action by announcement fail if > the action is not unambiguously specified. This rule takes > precedence over al

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 1994 assigned to Pavitra

2008-06-13 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/13 Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > If it's true now, then it must have been true then for the same message. > > -root > So if someone will vote V on a proposal P some time in the future, they have _always_ voted V on P? ehird

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Isn't that just silly?

2008-06-13 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/13 Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Are you familiar with CFJ 1774? > > -root > Yes, but I didn't say that. ehird

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Isn't that just silly?

2008-06-13 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/14 ihope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I make everything that has ever been a rule but has never been an > asset a Monster-related case that requires a Monster. I regulate all > actions. > > --Ivan Hope CXXVII > CONTRACT VIOLATER. ehird

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: The ehird Project (which would be "The Ehird Project" if...)

2008-06-13 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/14 Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ihope wrote: >>This contract purports to regulate becoming a party to >>it. > > No it doesn't. It *purports* to purport to regulate it, but doesn't > actually purport to regulate it. > > -zefram > Oh well, I don't really care about that part. ehird

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Pucks & Dlatypuses

2008-06-13 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/14 Nick Vanderweit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This has interesting implications; one cannot leave, for that is an > action. And inaction is still "doing nothing," which is itself an > action. So really, if you join this contract, you cannot *help* but > break the terms of it. > > avpx > Is 'not

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: RE: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 1966 assigned to Pavitra

2008-06-14 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/14 Ben Caplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You already did, by the way, in > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > Yeah, I wasn't sure if that actually worked though.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: The Werewolves of Agora Nomic

2008-06-15 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/15 ihope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well, this is not what I'm used to. I thought roleclaiming and public > voting (which entails bandwagons) were nice aspects of the game. > > /me shrugs > > --Ivan Hope CXXVII > Ditto, add these and I'll play. ehird

Re: DIS: Re: A private contract

2008-06-15 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/15 Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This sort of thing was already shot down by CFJs 1260-61 (basically a > refusal to attempt distinguishing intentional from accidental typos, > no matter how clear-cut it seems). > > Assuming you don't actually object to the change at a conceptual level, >

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: distribution of proposals 5547-5555

2008-06-16 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/16 Geoffrey Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> 5547 D1 2ais523 > FOR > >> 5548 D1 3Murphy Chronological order > FOR > >> 5549 D1 2Wooble Earning Interest > FOR > >> 5550 O1 1Ivan Hope Tongue-tied > AGAINST * 3, FOR * 1 > >> 5551 O1 1BobTHJ Empo

DIS: @BobTHJ

2008-06-16 Thread Elliott Hird
Did you ever vote FORx7 AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA? If not, I initiate a criminal CFJ against you, for, uh, not doing so. Yeah. ehird

Re: DIS: @BobTHJ

2008-06-16 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/16 Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You could, you know, read the voting results and find out. > > -root > WHAT A RIDICULOUS IDEA. ehird

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: The Werewolves of Agora Nomic

2008-06-16 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/16 David Nicol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > sounds like warfare -- the on-going feudal eugenics program -- take > the idiots to battle and bump them off with full honor. Anyone read > http://www.amazon.com/WORLD-WAR-II-INFANTRY-SOLDIER/dp/B000LZG698 > by W. Y. Boyd? There are several scenes of a

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: The Werewolves of Agora Nomic

2008-06-16 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/16 Elliott Hird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This is your first post, right? > > I can't see anything else by you in the logs. > > If so, do you know what Agora Nomic is? This isn't a general discussion list. > > ehird > Extra notes: no, not his first

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: The Werewolves of Agora Nomic

2008-06-16 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/16 Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > E's a former player, by the nickname of Crito. And there's nothing > wrong with the occasional digression. > > -root > Ah, OK then. I apologise. ehird

DIS: Re: BUS: Elder Lurker

2008-06-16 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/16 Quazie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Award Elder Lurker to both Michawl Norrish and David Nichol > MICHAWL NORRISH ehird

Re: DIS: rules?

2008-06-16 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/16 Chester Mealer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On the business thread I noticed there was some talk of harvesting and crops > and what not. I saw no rules for such in the SLR and as a potential player > I'm interested in learning where I can find out more? > > It is possible they are referring t

Re: DIS: rules?

2008-06-16 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/16 Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yes, there are no "secret" rules or anything like that. > > -root > private contracts ehird

DIS: Re: BUS: Judgements

2008-06-17 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/17 Quazie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I CFJ on the following statement: If ehrid was able to act on my > behalf at the time CFJ 1999 and CFJ 2000 were called one or more of > the set of {CFJ 1999, CFJ 2000} would've been TRUE. > > The more interesting question behind these CFJs is what ehrid's >

DIS: Re: BUS: Win announcement

2008-06-17 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/17 Alexander Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The following sentence is a win announcement, as defined in Rule > 2186, and this sentence serves to explicitly label it as one. > > The Call for Judgement with ID number 1980 is a tortoise, and has > continuously been a tortoise for no greater than

Re: DIS: Proto: Emergency exit

2008-06-17 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/18 Nick Vanderweit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hmm. . . First off, this rule takes precedence over all other rules, so it > would have to have higher power than all others. No, power 3 rules don't work like that. Well, the town fountain rules over it I guess. > I do like the idea of a failsafe

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: registration

2008-06-17 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/18 Quazie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What game did you play in person? I was introduced to the concept of > Nomic in a similar way, through playing a game of dots (a nomicified > version of the type of dots game you play where you make squares for > points) at school. > A game of nomic, presum

DIS: Re: BUS: Office of Greeter

2008-06-18 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/18 Chester Mealer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > the player who sends e-mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Murphy

Re: DIS: Fwd: Large messages

2008-06-18 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/19 Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > As a judge, I personally wouldn't allow it without some proof that > the URL contents were outside the technical domain of control of the > sender (though a posted transcription might be a compromise if there > was no debate on content and at least one w

Re: DIS: RE: I win

2008-06-19 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/19 Alexander Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ais523 wrote: >> The following sentence is a win announcement, as defined in Rule >> 2186, and this sentence serves to explicitly label it as one. > > ehird wrote: >> The following sentence is a win announcement, as defined in Rule >> 2186, and this

DIS: Re: BUS: Patent titles?

2008-06-19 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/19 Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Other than possible auto-revocations, I'm not finding any new patent awards > since February save BobTHJ being awarded MwoP in March. Anyone know of any > others? > > -Goethe Well, me and ais523 just won... ehird

Re: DIS: Re: Re: BUS: Public forum

2008-06-20 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/20 comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > FWIW, I did not actually post that message. > I suspect you are lying. ehird

Re: DIS: Re: Re: BUS: Public forum

2008-06-20 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/20 comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Evidence: > I just lied in a cfj invocation for lying > awesome > Counter-evidence: I was lying for humorous effect. I said this almost immediately after. This is grossly out of context. ehird

DIS: Re: BUS: Defendant notifications

2008-06-21 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/21 comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jun 20 10:55:48 I attempt to learn grammar and spelling. - Quazie > Jun 20 10:55:56 hm > Jun 20 10:55:58 that's to a-b > Jun 20 10:56:03 so what if he doesn't? that's illegal? > Jun 20 10:56:48 LOL - TIYAEOTISIDTIDFTHPAFALT > Jun 20 10:57:49 ais523: by t

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Housecleaning

2008-06-22 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/22 Benjamin Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Good Idea: Making a Zombie out of an inactive player. > > Bad Idea: Making a Zombie out of an active player. I agree but the other way around. :-P ehird

Re: DIS: Proto-Contract: The Protection Racket

2008-06-22 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/22 Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Counter-blackmail: if I am replaced due to the above, then I'm not > giving my successor access to the database update interface (especially > since several parts still haven't been webified). This won't make eir > job impossible (cf. Goethe, Zefram), bu

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: trustees

2008-06-23 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/23 comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Oh, my... It really ought not to be possible to continually exploit > the same paradox to get a win. > I guess woggle should be Plagiarist too. ehird

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Wooble, want a PerlNomic win?

2008-06-23 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/23 Geoffrey Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Uh, thanks. I was pretty sure winning PerlNomic myself wasn't worth > 2VP; I can't imagine that letting someone else win could be. > It was the only way I could express the deep love I have for you in my soul. ehird

DIS: Coat of arms thingy.

2008-06-23 Thread Elliott Hird
Has anyone got a copy of http://greyfire.org/picture_library/agora.png? It's down. Is this it: http://zenith.homelinux.net/awj/image/coat_of_arms.png? ehird

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: A MODEST PROPOSAL

2008-06-23 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/23 Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Can I possibly talk you into retracting that? > > This is where you switch to a language that does bignums ;) ehird

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: A MODEST PROPOSAL

2008-06-23 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/23 Alexander Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Apart from proposals whose AI appears to be deliberately set > high so they database can't handle them? > -- > ais523 > It's just a good thing that we all wouldn't stoop to that level. ehird

DIS: Notary (proto-)report: Now in delicious colou^H^H^H^H^HHTML!

2008-06-23 Thread Elliott Hird
http://eso-std.org/~ais523/notary-report If you click that in a web browser, you'll get a nice HTML&CSS version of the Notary proto-report. (Why is ehird writing this? Well, I wrote the script that converts the text version.) It'll make referencing parts of contracts and such a lot easier, as it

DIS: Re: BUS: Freezing shell corps accounts: the AFO example

2008-06-23 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/24 Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Be It So Ordered. > > -Goethe > This is the best judgement I've ever read. ehird

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