Re: DIS: Re: BUS: the next CFJ

2011-04-19 Thread omd
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: >> I interpret Rule 478 as requiring that in the definition of "by >> announcement": >> >>       Where the rules define an action that CAN be performed "by >>       announcement", a person performs that action by unambiguously >>       and clearl

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Distribution of Proposals 7016-7020

2011-04-19 Thread omd
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Ed Murphy wrote: > omd wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: >>> CFJ 2972 already found that eir registration in early February 2011 >>> succeeded. >> >> By the way, if G.'s CFJ is judged

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Pool Report

2011-04-20 Thread omd
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Charles Walker wrote: > On 4 April 2011 00:02, Geoffrey Spear wrote: >> }{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{ >> >> title: Too many exceptions >> ai: 2.0 >> proposer: omd >>

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 3002 assigned to G.

2011-04-22 Thread omd
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 4:44 PM, John Smith wrote: > I strongly disagree with your reasoning here.  The statement on a scrap of > paper in Thailand is a different statement than the one I posted.  I > challenge this by initiating another CfJ using the following statement: > > Two instances of th

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Missing Rules

2011-04-23 Thread omd
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Eric Stucky wrote: > First, I agree that ehird's content -is- a large bundle of cells and water, > but I argue that it -takes the form- of text in the context of Agora, which > is all that is required. Eh. That's stretching the definition of "content". > Secon

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Missing Rules

2011-04-23 Thread omd
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 4:31 PM, omd wrote: > Most of these "restrictions" are intended to explicitly empower rules > to do things, not to restrict what might be a rule. (And yes, this is a chicken and egg scenario.)

Re: DIS: Proto: Betting

2011-04-23 Thread omd
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Charles Walker wrote: >      c) at least one of the Bets was for the correct outcome. So if everyone bets for the wrong outcome, nobody loses points? >      (or in the same message) Not necessary to state.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Missing Rules

2011-04-23 Thread omd
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Eric Stucky wrote: > Gratuitous: Ratifications, by definition in 1551, make minimal possible > changes to the game state. In particular it "cannot include a rule change > unless the ratified document purports to include the text, title, and/or > power of the rul

Re: DIS: Proto: Betting

2011-04-23 Thread omd
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Eric Stucky wrote: > If (c) is true, the player(s) involved should get their original points back > (up to fungibility), regardless of whether a betting market exists. If no betting market exists, no points are destroyed.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Missing Rules

2011-04-24 Thread omd
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 10:23 AM, ais523 wrote: >> Gratuitous silliness: If ehird is a rule, then thanks to Rule 105, e >> has not changed since 2007 in any way that affects eir operation. >> Luckily, eir mother narrowly escaped violating the rules by creating >> em, because rules were not explici

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Distribution of Proposals 7021-7026

2011-04-24 Thread omd
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Elliott Hird wrote: >> 7022 1.7 Walker, etc.  Not worth the paper it's not printed on > AGAINST; the Rulekeepor is Wise, and should be allowed some discretion. You should denounce the Rulekeepor instead.

Re: DIS: Bets v.2

2011-04-24 Thread omd
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Eric Stucky wrote: > I don't think anything in these rules prevent me from betting all my points, > then spending all my points. If I then bet wrong, the rule is impossible to > satisfy since the way currencies are defined I think you can't have negative > poin

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: gggrumble

2011-04-24 Thread omd
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Aaron Goldfein wrote: > Proto: War FOR

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: Distribution of Proposals 7021-7026

2011-04-25 Thread omd
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:46 AM, Charles Walker wrote: > On 24 April 2011 04:30, omd wrote: >> I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating the Aogran >> Decision of whether to adopt it.  For this decision, the eligible >> voters are the active first-class player

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Criminal Punishments

2011-04-25 Thread omd
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > So, every single exchange: > "NoV: You did/didn't do X." > followed by either: > "I contest this, you missed message Y." > "Sorry, my bad." > or > "ok I admit it, no contest." But we don't actually do that. I don't have statistics, but as I r

DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement

2011-04-25 Thread omd
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Aaron Goldfein wrote: >> By eir own admission, Yally deliberately broke the rules multiple times >> to find out how long e could avoid effective punishment, creating more >> work for others in the process.  On the other hand, e demonstrated a >> loophole by example

DIS: Re: BUS: Bribery

2011-04-25 Thread omd
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Sean Hunt wrote: > Oops; I publish a promise identical except that has the additional condition > {This promise is not destroyed upon being cashed}. N.b.: This promise will probably be destroyed if it's cashed before "Fix promises" passes.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement

2011-04-25 Thread omd
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Elliott Hird wrote: > On 25 April 2011 22:56, omd wrote: >> Proto: A person SHALL NOT appeal a judgement unless e believes it it >> inappropriate. > > Since when does SHALL NOT stop Yally? It allows the ninny to be punished with an increased

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement

2011-04-25 Thread omd
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Aaron Goldfein wrote: > CFJ: Murphy's assignment of judges to the appeal case of this case's > decision on sentencing was invalid, because he did not define Max(3, 1+2*R) > judges. That is, e did not assign a panel of size undefined. Arguments: Not having any qual

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement

2011-04-25 Thread omd
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Aaron Goldfein wrote: > Arguments: Not having any qualified judges violates my R101 right to > initiate a formal procedure for reconsideration of punishment. Sure, but I wouldn't think you'd want to exercise it.

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 3008 assigned to G.

2011-04-25 Thread omd
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > I stand up. You can't.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 3008 assigned to G.

2011-04-25 Thread omd
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Elliott Hird wrote: > On 26 April 2011 03:38, Elliott Hird wrote: >> Um, yes? All purple bananas are poisonous, and all FLRs published in >> April are incomplete. "The FLR published in April" = "The member of >> the empty set". "All" and "the" are not quite the

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: War

2011-04-26 Thread omd
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 2:36 AM, Aaron Goldfein wrote: > Proposal: War (AI = 2) > Hostility is a switch for subsets of players of size 2 tracked by the Missing "create a rule".

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2993 assigned to omd

2011-04-26 Thread omd
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Ed Murphy wrote: > omd wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Elliott Hird >> wrote: >>> On 17 April 2011 04:29, omd wrote: >>>> Oh, fine. Â I judge TRUE. >>> >>> I intend to Motion to Reconsider

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: Proposal: War

2011-04-26 Thread omd
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Aaron Goldfein wrote: > Proposal: War (AI = 2) I don't think this addresses the issue with simultaneous point gains, does it?

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 3004b assigned to G., omd, ais523

2011-04-29 Thread omd
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Aaron Goldfein wrote: >> However, the punishment isn't being "replaced." I would be >> simultaneously punished with two TIME OUTs. > > Since "two simultaneous time-outs" is still an identical net > punishment, this argumen

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 3004b assigned to G., omd, ais523

2011-04-29 Thread omd
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Aaron Goldfein wrote: > Note that because appeal a was judged AFFIRM, the sentence of TIME OUT > has already been reassigned. Thus, judging this case AFFIRM would be > violating my R101 right to not be punished more than once for a single > action as I would recei

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 3013 assigned to G.

2011-04-29 Thread omd
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Note, even though the Appeals cases in practice cannot be assigned due > to high numbers of justices needed, this does not violate a R101 > right to appeal a sentence.  The appeal was successfully initiated by > the defendant, and (importantly)

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 3004b assigned to G., omd, ais523

2011-04-29 Thread omd
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> No, because I appealed, and so the sentence was suspended. Then I >> appealed again. Then the first appeals panel voted AFFIRM, so the >> sentence was reapplied. If then second panel votes to affirm, it would >> be applying a second sentence w

DIS: Re: BUS: Initializing notability

2011-05-05 Thread omd
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Ed Murphy wrote: > For each of the following CFJs Whew... for a second I thought you wanted me to write annotations for all those cases!

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 3011 assigned to scshunt

2011-05-05 Thread omd
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > You just judged that the promise was uncashable.  I don't think > that omd's use of "caching" instead of "cashing" matters, nor > do I see any other implicit loopholes in the issue. volatile promise *

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Yep yep yep

2011-05-12 Thread omd
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Trying to remember; I know there was at least one case before where > the same action could be performed by announcement or dependently; > there was quite some discussion on whether if a dependent "attempt" > failed whether the by-announcement

DIS: Re: BUS: huh

2011-05-17 Thread omd
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > Arguments:  Here are all the questions of interpretation that I see: > >  1) Does support implicitly withdraw one's earlier objection? Gratuitous: Why would it?

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting results for Proposals 7028 - 7051

2011-05-17 Thread omd
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:20 PM, Sean Hunt wrote: > On 05/17/11 20:17, omd wrote: >> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Ed Murphy  wrote: >>> Amend Rule 683 (Voting on Agoran Decisions) by replacing "one" with >>> "two". >> This amendment mo

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting results for Proposals 7028 - 7051

2011-05-17 Thread omd
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:17 PM, omd wrote: > This amendment modifies two clauses; the unexpected one is this (sigh): > >      An eligible voter on a particular Agoran decision submits a >      ballot to the vote collector by publishing a valid notice >      indicating which two o

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting results for Proposals 7028 - 7051

2011-05-17 Thread omd
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:38 PM, omd wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:17 PM, omd wrote: >> This amendment modifies two clauses; the unexpected one is this (sigh): >> >>      An eligible voter on a particular Agoran decision submits a >>      ballot to the vote coll

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Fwd: Your message to agora-official awaits moderator approval

2011-05-17 Thread omd
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:20 PM, omd wrote: >> Yes, it still is that big. :) > > Good thing we voted agora-public out of existence, then. We didn't.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 3000 assigned to omd

2011-05-20 Thread omd
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> > > Since an "action statement" states that the performer is performing >> > > the action, "This may be ineffective." is equivalent to "This >> > > statement might be false."  The precedent of 2069 etc. is that some >> > > actions, including

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 3000 assigned to omd

2011-05-20 Thread omd
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > I think the 2069 precedent is irrelevant here (as Judge Tanner L. Swett says > in 2830). I disagree; even though 2069 was FALSE because an announcement is an action, ais523 made a stronger argument in eir reasoning. > I think your 3000 judgem

Re: DIS: Proto

2011-05-22 Thread omd
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Charles Walker wrote: >      Priority is an undistributed proposal switch with values of the >      integers (default zero), tracked by the Promotor. A player CAN >      destroy a Point in eir possession to increase or decrease the >      Priority of a specified p

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 3019-20 assigned to Walker

2011-05-22 Thread omd
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > Interpreting "single" as a noun doesn't make sense, because Rule 2347 > refers to "The" Speed switch.  Rule 2347 mentions exactly one other > singular entity, the Assessor, so it could be interpreted as implicitly > specifying Speed as possessed

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Distribution of Proposals 7046, 7059-7073

2011-06-01 Thread omd
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Tue, 31 May 2011, omd wrote: >> > 7063 2   G.             Switcher Fixer Upper >> AGAINST >> > 7072 1.7 woggle         Judicial Rank is Dead >> AGAINST >> > 7073 3   woggle         Compression Arti

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Distribution of Proposals 7046, 7059-7073

2011-06-01 Thread omd
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Benjamin Caplan wrote: > On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 23:40 -0400, omd wrote: >> > 7068 2   Walker         Spending Points >> AGAINST; I think I can perform multiple spending actions with a single >> destruction (but a general-purpose defin

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: hrm

2011-06-03 Thread omd
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > On Fri, 3 Jun 2011, Charles Walker wrote: >> > take effect >> > 1. To become operative, as under law or regulation. >> > 2. To produce the desired reaction. > > H. Rulekeepor omd, > > Is it p

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: atomicity

2011-06-03 Thread omd
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 2:48 AM, Sean Hunt wrote: >     the proposal's adpotion, constitute a single change to the typo >     gamestate and will all be canceled if the proposal would leave the >     game as something other than a Nomic. Unclear whether this refers to the earlier clause or is a n

Re: DIS: Competitive payments

2011-06-03 Thread omd
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Sean Hunt wrote: > I kind of want to experiment with a zero-sum currency. Some actions, such as > raising the AI for a proposal, would be paid to the person maligned (the > author of the proposal). Other actions would be paid into some system of > roughly equally d

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Competitive payments

2011-06-03 Thread omd
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Elliott Hird wrote: > As another take, the number of coins could be directly tied to the > number of players; if a player leaves, all their coins are destroyed, > and then N coins or the total amount of coins in everything's > possession are destroyed so that the le

Re: DIS: Proto: Abercrombie and Fitch

2011-06-06 Thread omd
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > [Crossing the AAA with some ideas from the board game Puerto > Rico. Thoughts?] Generally: I (personally) don't want to play the AAA again.

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Distribution of Proposals 7074-7076

2011-06-08 Thread omd
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> 7076 1   omd       No harm in knowing there's a betting market > AGAINST Can I ask why?

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: hrm

2011-06-15 Thread omd
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Tanner Swett wrote: > H. Murphy, would it be possible to somehow annotate CFJ 1776 in the > database so that doing a statement text search for "rotating the > bench" would make it show up? I don't know if anyone reads those things, but I just updated the FLR annot

DIS: Re: BUS: Disclaimer

2011-06-15 Thread omd
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > I think the timing of truth values and disclaimers is in fact "more > complex and less clear."  For example, if disclaimers work immediately > forward, it would imply they could work immediately backwards, with > connotations that a "message" n

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: [Assessor] Voting results for Proposals 7074 - 7076 and 7069

2011-06-16 Thread omd
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > CoE on 7069:  Wooble also voted PRESENT.  It is adopted (and, now > that 7074 has taken effect, it also takes effect). I'm confused. Did you ever actually resolve 7069 correctly? (The CoE does not include a list of ballots...)

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: You asked for it

2011-06-16 Thread omd
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Er, maybe in the old version you'd be right, but it's pretty explicit now: >                      For the purpose of protecting this right, a rule >             change which would otherwise take effect without its >             substance being

DIS: Re: BUS: You asked for it

2011-06-16 Thread omd
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > CFJ:  Rule 2344 was amended in the same message that this case > was initiated. > > Evidence:  the above text. Gratuitous: The President's power is 0 because 7067 failed quorum.

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Distribution of Proposals 7081-7083

2011-06-17 Thread omd
While you're at it, two suggestions: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: >    A proposal with a decision on which the option selected by Agora >    is not ADOPTED does not take effect, rules to the contrary >    notwithstanding. This is worded this way due to an old scam. It re

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Distribution of Proposals 7081-7083

2011-06-17 Thread omd
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Yeah, I stared at this for a while when cutting and pasting just now and > wondered why it was this way but just left it.  How's this: > >      If a decision to adopt a proposal does not result in an outcome of >      ADOPTED, it does not take

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Distribution of Proposals 7081-7083

2011-06-18 Thread omd
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Hows: >      "If there is no Agoran Decision to adopt a particular proposal that >       has an outcome of ADOPTED, that proposal CANNOT take effect, rules >       to the contrary notwithstanding." Looks fine-- although, by the way, I'm not s

DIS: Re: BUS: Another test

2011-06-18 Thread omd
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Ed Murphy wrote: > [Disclaimer:  This only works if "the President" in Rule 103 refers >  to Rule 2326 (The President).  I think we have precedent on this, >  but don't remember what to search for.] It was from the Monster era.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Distribution of Proposals 7081-7083

2011-06-18 Thread omd
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> Looks fine-- although, by the way, I'm not sure this clause is >> necessary in the first place. > > Without it, is there anything stopping a Power 1 Rule from being made that > allows a proposal to take effect using the R106 mechanism?  E.g. p

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 3035-36 assigned to woggle

2011-06-19 Thread omd
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Charles Reiss wrote: > R683 (Voting on Agoran Decisions) specifies that an author "submits a > ballot ... by publishing a valid notice indicating which two of the > available options e selects" but also specifies that a ballot is valid > only if "identifies *the* o

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 3037 assigned to Walker

2011-06-20 Thread omd
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > I > think the example was (omd?) publishing an image that actually changed in > text between Support/Object but I'm not finding it... anyone have better > luck? Not quite-- CFJ 1831.

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Distribution of Proposals 7081-7083

2011-06-21 Thread omd
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Elliott Hird wrote: > Arguments: We have precedent that the truth value of an action > statement is true if it succeeds and false if it does not; as many > Perl I/O functions also follow such a convention, we should treat the > boolean value of an AGAINST vote as t

DIS: Re: BUS: They Delved Too Deep

2011-06-22 Thread omd
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > The contestmaster's decision on these awards is final.  Making these awards > ends any ongoing Expedition.  The Contestmaster CANNOT award emself Pitons. > If no Delves occurred during a Delving Period, the Contestmaster CAN instead > announce

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 3035-36 assigned to woggle

2011-06-23 Thread omd
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Charles Reiss wrote: > [Just republishing my protojudgments as judgments.] I'll update the ruleset tomorrow.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Distribution of Proposals 7081-7083

2011-06-24 Thread omd
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Tanner Swett wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> Anyway, I thought 'perl-or' wasn't the Boolean logical 'or'.  I thought >> 'perl-or' was "Do X or die" so that 'or' == 'otherwise'. > > If I'm not mistaken, 'or' in Perl evaluates its lef

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Inactivity

2011-06-26 Thread omd
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Pavitra wrote: > On 06/26/2011 09:03 PM, omd wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Charles Walker >> wrote: >>> I intend, without objection, to make Droowl inactive. >>> I intend, without objection, to make Roujo inacti

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Register

2011-06-26 Thread omd
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Sean Hunt wrote: > On 11-06-26 08:47 PM, Gondola Gorgonzola wrote: >> >> Very well, I maybe got carried away. So when should I expect to be >> accepted as a member? >> Gondolier > > As soon as your earlier email was sent. Indeed, you can see your name on the most

DIS: Re: BUS: Flawless Victory

2011-06-28 Thread omd
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Charles Walker wrote: > I submit the following proposal: > > {{ Flawless Victory (AI 1.7) > > Amend Rule 2343 (Victory Cases) by removing "with support". > > Award the Patent Title Champion to Walker. > > }} Maybe also decrease the appeal period for victory cases

DIS: Re: BUS: Registration

2011-06-28 Thread omd
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 6:17 PM, ais523 wrote: > Arguments: The alleged "statement" of the CFJ created earlier in this > message is not actually a statement, but an email header, which cannot > sensibly have a truth value, and is anyway not a statement in the > ordinary-language sense. Thus, with

DIS: Re: BUS: Chamber CFJ

2011-06-29 Thread omd
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:32 AM, Charles Walker wrote: > I CFJ on "Chamber is a switch." > > Arguments: FALSE as no officer tracks it. The same goes for adoption > index, which means that no recent proposals have actually had an > adoption index. This might mean that proposals with a simple majori

DIS: Re: BUS: Chamber CFJ

2011-06-29 Thread omd
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Sean Hunt wrote: > I intend, with two support, to file a motion to reconsider. While I'm not > sure if I agree at all with the conclusion that AI is a useless property, I > would note that any comparison against an undefined value is, by convention, > false where

Re: DIS: This message may not have been sent by

2011-06-29 Thread omd
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > I'm now seeing this on the first message in any thread to the lists if > it was posted by a gmail user. I wonder if gmail's suddenly not liking > how the mailing list is resending messages "from" gmail users. I bug reported it.

DIS: Re: BUS: Enforcement Enforcement

2011-06-29 Thread omd
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Charles Walker wrote: >      If a player violates a Rule by failing to meet the requirements >      of an office, such as performing eir weekly or monthly duties, >      then the IADoP SHALL initiate a valid criminal case on the >      matter as soon as possible af

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Flawless Victory

2011-06-29 Thread omd
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 3:36 AM, Charles Walker wrote: >      A person can publish a Declaration of Victory by announcement, >      explaining the Victory Condition they believe they have met and >      how they met it. If a Victory Case is initiated regarding a >      Declaration of Victory, no D

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Happy birthday!

2011-06-29 Thread omd
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Joshua Murphy wrote: > Seconded. > > -Math321 aka Joshua aka Math321 FYI, you're still not sending in plain text.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Flawless Victory

2011-06-29 Thread omd
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: >          Such declarations are self-ratifying >          in terms of whether the indicated Victory Condition was met and that >          the person(s) names as meeting the condition have in fact won the >          game. ...but are always false

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Flawless Victory

2011-06-29 Thread omd
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Personally, I'd be happy with: (a) Announce a win (b) Wait 4 days or a week > to see if anyone calls a case about it, for that matter, what's wrong with the old system: (a) announce a win; (b) win platonically succeeds or fails, and Champion

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Flawless Victory

2011-06-29 Thread omd
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > I prefer the old version where the Champion was partial pragmatic; > awarded by the Herald (hopefully when e's pretty sure the dust has > settled) but the award fails if the win failed. Wasn't e technically violating an ASAP requirement by wa

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 3050-51 assigned to omd

2011-07-04 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Pavitra wrote: > Bad form, sir. It's an interesting question; at least provide a sentence > or two of arguments. Perhaps bad form, but it's the kind of failed pedantry that's been CFJed to death and the caller is not a new player.

DIS: Re: OFF: [Delvor] auto-picks

2011-07-05 Thread omd
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > Spelunking the Rules picks for Delve 2 > >   82 selects Rule 2157/6 (Power=1.7). >   57 selects Rule 2138/13 (Power=1). >   35 selects Rule 2338/1 (Power=3). For reference (can you include titles next time?) these are: Judicial Panels The In

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Full Logical Ruleset

2011-07-05 Thread omd
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Tue, 5 Jul 2011, omd wrote: >> THE FULL LOGICAL RULESET > > CoE:  Rule 2344 should include "Murphy CAN cause this rule to make > arbitrary rule changes by announcement." I agree with ais523 in eir gratuitous argu

DIS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting results for Proposals 7081 - 7083

2011-07-05 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > *7083  3.0  Walker      Re-jigged Re-jiggery So, this proposal put language about proposals in a rule titled "Decisions with Adoption Indices". On the bright side, it repealed Priority...

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Distribution of Proposals 7084-7093

2011-07-06 Thread omd
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Charles Walker wrote: > On 4 July 2011 19:56, omd wrote: >> Pool report: The Proposal Pool is empty. > > CoE: Not true. There's "18th Birthday Bash" by scshunt, "Like Me, > Missing Its Birthday By A Few Days" and &quo

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Full Logical Ruleset

2011-07-06 Thread omd
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > R106 says that Proposals can and do > make changes in general and provide a mechanism (just as the president can > take actions in general by way of a different mechanism) Gratuitous: CFJ 2213 is highly relevant. I misremembered the preceden

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Full Logical Ruleset

2011-07-06 Thread omd
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Not a god, no.  An Instrument of the gods. > >> but, as above, I think the implication is "actions that the President CAN >> take". > > ...as an Instrument. Well, you said that "CAN take actions" counts as R105 permission to take the action of

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting results for Proposals 7081 - 7083

2011-07-07 Thread omd
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Charles Walker wrote: > Amend Rule 1607 (Distribution) by replacing the paragraph beginning > "The Promotor CAN distribute a proposal which..." with: > >      Priority is an undistributed proposal switch with values of the >      integers (default zero), tracked by

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Distribution of Proposals 7084-7093

2011-07-08 Thread omd
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Eric Stucky wrote: >> 7086 3   G., etc.         Jig-jiggery jig-jiggery > MURPH/PRESENT Although the intent is clear, I think the language of R2280 makes this evaluate to "MURPH*2, PRESENT*2".

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Distribution of Proposals 7094-7101

2011-07-08 Thread omd
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > Pavitra wrote: > >> The intent is proxied through Rule 2328, which has power 2. > > We've previously determined that the rules aren't an agreement.  Is > Agora as a whole?  Does Agora count as having been "published"? The requirement is that the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Distribution of Proposals 7094-7101

2011-07-09 Thread omd
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > On Fri, 8 Jul 2011, Pavitra wrote: >> On 07/08/2011 10:18 PM, omd wrote: >> > *arguably Agora would cease to be a person in the interval between the >> > adoption of a proposal and the publication of an upda

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Lullz

2011-07-20 Thread omd
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 4:26 AM, Arkady English wrote: > Is there a game-mechanical difference between "support" and "weakly" > support? Or does this simply indicate that omd may be willing to change eir > mind? It was meant as the latter (actually, I intended t

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Surely this has been tried before, but I can't see a reason for it not to work.

2011-07-23 Thread omd
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Eric Stucky wrote: > Someone who is sleeping may not be a person, but they have certainly been > both a person and a first-class person at some point, so there's nothing > wrong with loosening the requirements to: >      A player who is not a person and has never

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: [CotC] CFJ 3038 (if it exists) judged TRUE, 3039 judged FALSE by Yally (not Walker)

2011-07-23 Thread omd
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 4:13 PM, ais523 wrote: > On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 13:06 -0700, Ed Murphy wrote: >> CoE, accepted:  CFJs 3038 (if it exists) and 3039 were judged by >> Yally, not Walker.  (The body was correct, the subject was wrong.) > > CoE: That isn't a CoE because subject lines are not sel

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 3068 assigned to omd

2011-07-24 Thread omd
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Sean Hunt wrote: > Then I do so without resolving the intent. n.b. "without resolving the intent" is meaningless

DIS: Re: BUS: Various

2011-07-25 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 5:07 PM, omd wrote: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Sean Hunt > wrote: >>> I initiate a criminal case accusing omd of violating Rule 1504 >>> (Criminal Cases) by failing to destroy the 13 Points e was FINED in >>> CFJ 3054 within the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 3068 assigned to omd

2011-07-26 Thread omd
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Sean Hunt >> wrote: >>> Then I do so without resolving the intent. >> >> n.b. "without resolving the intent" is meaningless > > No it isn't, it clearly means "I do so by announcement (by virtue of > being the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: further muddying the waters

2011-07-29 Thread omd
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Charles Walker > wrote: >> You can get the SLR and the FLR at agora.qoid.us > > The ones at http://www.nomictools.com/agora/rules/ are actually up to > date, but probably less likely to remain that way once

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: SHALL NOT violate a promise

2011-07-30 Thread omd
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Pavitra wrote: y> It seems like the obvious place to avert that would be while drafting > the bank charter. > > What cap would you suggest? I feel that anything lower than 6 would > block legitimate applications, but that anything higher than 3 would > enable abus

Re: DIS: Proto: Payment

2011-07-31 Thread omd
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Charles Reiss wrote: > Background: Currently, one can pay two FINE and a Spending Action with > the same Points. This is pretty similar to my proposal "General Costs", which failed due to a bug. This reminds me to submit a fixed version, hope you don't mind.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Protect Assets

2011-08-01 Thread omd
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Charles Reiss wrote: > If any modification to the Asset rules would be effective > at changing the properties of Promises, then clearly that gives a > escalation scam at Power 2. The way it's supposed to work now is a compromise: a power-2 scam could transfer exist

Re: DIS: Server outage

2011-08-02 Thread omd
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:53 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: >> - assign static rather than dynamic ip addresses > > The router acts like it allows this, then ignores it. Just be rude and have the server use a static IP rather than DHCP.

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