Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2821-22 remanded to G. by ais523, Wooble, Murphy

2010-08-13 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: > Well, I disagree with that. It is unreasonable to allow X as an > "administrative convenience" shorthand for Y if nobody, not even the > administrators, know what Y is. > > ...How do fungible assets fit into this scheme? Depends whether the rules require one to "specify" or merel

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2821-22 remanded to G. by ais523, Wooble, Murphy

2010-08-13 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, ais523 wrote: > On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 13:59 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > Speaking of which, returning to the matter directly at hand on the specific > > proposal, I didn't think about what considering "all decisions" as a > > conditional "if a proposal is in its voting peri

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2821-22 remanded to G. by ais523, Wooble, Murphy

2010-08-13 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, comex wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > None of these are ideal.  I think #2 is cleaner as (when one of these is > > discovered) it probably involves recalculating for everyone, anyway.  I > > generally dislike going doing the "who knew about w

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2821-22 remanded to G. by ais523, Wooble, Murphy

2010-08-13 Thread ais523
On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 13:59 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Speaking of which, returning to the matter directly at hand on the specific > proposal, I didn't think about what considering "all decisions" as a > conditional "if a proposal is in its voting period, I vote for it" might > imply. You don't

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2821-22 remanded to G. by ais523, Wooble, Murphy

2010-08-13 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, comex wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Sean Hunt wrote: > > On 08/13/2010 01:49 PM, comex wrote: > >>> > >>> "I transfer all my assets to the bank and then deregister".  There's > >>> some precedents here, but unfortunately, those precedents were for when > >>> asse

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2821-22 remanded to G. by ais523, Wooble, Murphy

2010-08-13 Thread comex
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Sean Hunt wrote: > On 08/13/2010 01:49 PM, comex wrote: >>> >>> "I transfer all my assets to the bank and then deregister".  There's >>> some precedents here, but unfortunately, those precedents were for when >>> assets were more strictly controlled and the rules c

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2821-22 remanded to G. by ais523, Wooble, Murphy

2010-08-13 Thread Sean Hunt
On 08/13/2010 01:49 PM, comex wrote: "I transfer all my assets to the bank and then deregister". There's some precedents here, but unfortunately, those precedents were for when assets were more strictly controlled and the rules came out and said you had to be very specific. That's not in the Ru

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2821-22 remanded to G. by ais523, Wooble, Murphy

2010-08-13 Thread comex
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > None of these are ideal.  I think #2 is cleaner as (when one of these is > discovered) it probably involves recalculating for everyone, anyway.  I > generally dislike going doing the "who knew about what when" path.  But I > admit this is all p

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2821-22 remanded to G. by ais523, Wooble, Murphy

2010-08-13 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, Kerim Aydin wrote: > it's hard to have a proposal out there in its > voting period without passing the "most people should know about this" > test. In fact, for rule change proposals, R101 makes it very likely IMPOSSIBLE. -G.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2821-22 remanded to G. by ais523, Wooble, Murphy

2010-08-13 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, comex wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:51 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, comex wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Kerim Aydin > >> wrote: > >> > So what I'm saying is: if you allow those administrative conveniences > >> > to create leg

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2821-22 remanded to G. by ais523, Wooble, Murphy

2010-08-13 Thread comex
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:51 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, comex wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> > So what I'm saying is: if you allow those administrative conveniences >> > to create legal fictions of individual cast ballots >> >> So, you're

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2821-22 remanded to G. by ais523, Wooble, Murphy

2010-08-12 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, comex wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > So what I'm saying is: if you allow those administrative conveniences > > to create legal fictions of individual cast ballots > > So, you're saying, the situation is as if I said "For each decision in >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2821-22 remanded to G. by ais523, Wooble, Murphy

2010-08-12 Thread comex
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > So what I'm saying is: if you allow those administrative conveniences > to create legal fictions of individual cast ballots So, you're saying, the situation is as if I said "For each decision in the list of decisions which a reasonable person

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2821-22 remanded to G. by ais523, Wooble, Murphy

2010-08-12 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, comex wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, comex wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Kerim Aydin > >> wrote: > >> > In other words, if you merely allude to something that may or may > >> > not exist (rather than ack

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2821-22 remanded to G. by ais523, Wooble, Murphy

2010-08-12 Thread comex
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, comex wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> > In other words, if you merely allude to something that may or may >> > not exist (rather than acknowledging something that does exist), >> > you

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2821-22 remanded to G. by ais523, Wooble, Murphy

2010-08-12 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, comex wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > In other words, if you merely allude to something that may or may > > not exist (rather than acknowledging something that does exist), > > you may be referring to it, but you're not "clearly identifying"

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2821-22 remanded to G. by ais523, Wooble, Murphy

2010-08-12 Thread comex
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > In other words, if you merely allude to something that may or may > not exist (rather than acknowledging something that does exist), > you may be referring to it, but you're not "clearly identifying" it, > therefore not voting. This implies th

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2821-22 remanded to G. by ais523, Wooble, Murphy

2010-08-12 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, comex wrote: > The difference is that, while, for Agoran purposes, my message-- every > message-- is parsed platonically with perfect knowledge of the > gamestate, "acknowledgement" only makes sense in the context of > incomplete knowledge-- in this case, basic knowledge of

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2821-22 remanded to G. by ais523, Wooble, Murphy

2010-08-12 Thread comex
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > If the ballot wasn't accepted, by the facts of the time of sending, as clearly > identifying the specific decision in question (among others), it shouldn't > have > been accepted as a valid ballot for that decision.  R683 is one of those > pl

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2821-22 remanded to G. by ais523, Wooble, Murphy

2010-08-12 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, comex wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > Specifically, anything that is interpreted as a valid ballot must be > > interpreted > > as satisfying clause R683(b).  And to "clearly identify" something you must > > acknowledge it.  And I'll further

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2821-22 remanded to G. by ais523, Wooble, Murphy

2010-08-12 Thread comex
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Specifically, anything that is interpreted as a valid ballot must be > interpreted > as satisfying clause R683(b).  And to "clearly identify" something you must > acknowledge it.  And I'll further say, lest you use the "one level of > indirect

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2821-22 remanded to G. by ais523, Wooble, Murphy

2010-08-12 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, comex wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > So, the Assessor's announcement was not a win announcement.  Where does > > > that leave us?  According to the voting record, comex voted for proposal > > > 6

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2821-22 remanded to G. by ais523, Wooble, Murphy

2010-08-12 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, comex wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > So, the Assessor's announcement was not a win announcement.  Where does > > that leave us?  According to the voting record, comex voted for proposal > > 6740, and this is a clear public acknowledgment of

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2821-22 remanded to G. by ais523, Wooble, Murphy

2010-08-12 Thread comex
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > So, the Assessor's announcement was not a win announcement.  Where does > that leave us?  According to the voting record, comex voted for proposal > 6740, and this is a clear public acknowledgment of its existence. > Therefore, comex was not a