Re: DIS: Proto-proto: The Republic of Agora

2007-07-14 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Amend Rule 2126 to assign each player a state with a population, some portion of which supports em. What will this achieve? Nothing directly, but maybe others will come up with new effects based on these populations. (This is roughly inspired by my "U

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: The org chart is not flat

2007-07-14 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gains two Green VCs if the office has a weekly report, or one Green VC if the office has only a monthly report, What if the office has neither? Then the office has no salary. What about non-report duties? The office of promotor h

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Expanded foreign relations

2007-07-14 Thread Ed Murphy
Eris wrote: On 7/13/07, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Proto-Proposal: Expanded foreign relations Upon the adoption of this proposal, the Ambassador is ordered to seek mutual recognition between Agora Nomic and Canada. Why? Why not?

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: The Republic of Agora

2007-07-17 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Mostly just renaming things for flavor, but there is a bit of substance.] I dislike most of the renaming. Meh. I dislike abstract names. (In the first draft of the Card rules, everything operated directly on "pending draws"; it

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Ambassador] Ambassador's report for July 17, 2007

2007-07-17 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: On 7/17/07, Peekee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On behalf of Agora I hereby repeal all rules, regulations, terms and any and all other parts of the Primo Coporation and its charter. The Primo Coporation no longer exists. ... As Primo unconditionally allows Agora permission to chang

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: assignment of appeal 1684a to HP2/Murphy, Zefram, BobTHJ

2007-07-18 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: [the purported judgement of CFJ 1623] > was also a rather flimsy analysis. It relied upon the assertion that R754 was not clear on the matter, Yes. which is patent nonsense No. as "person" is not primarily a legal term. That's precisely why it asserted that R754 was uncl

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: assignment of appeal 1684a to HP2/Murphy, Zefram, BobTHJ

2007-07-18 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: On 7/18/07, *Ed Murphy* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: root wrote: > [the purported judgement of CFJ 1623] > was also a rather flimsy analysis. It relied upon the assertion that > R754 was not clear on the matter,

DIS: Re: OFF: assignment of CFJ 1701 to Human Point Two

2007-07-18 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: I hereby assign CFJ 1701 to Human Point Two. I intend to cause Human Point Two to judge this FALSE, with the following arguments: Most jurisdictions support a type of partnership in which some or all partners are responsible for a proper subset of the partnership's obligations.

DIS: Re: OFF: assignment of appeal 1684a to HP2/Murphy, Zefram, BobTHJ

2007-07-18 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: If partnerships worked without legislation, the appellate judges for appeal 1684a are Speaker Human Point Two, CotC Zefram, and BobTHJ. If partnerships did not work without legislation, the appellate judges for appeal 1684a are Speaker Murphy, CotC Zefram, and BobTHJ. I proto-ju

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: assignment of appeal 1684a to HP2/Murphy, Zefram, BobTHJ

2007-07-18 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: is insufficient reason for a REVERSE; if the new judge justifies Eris's claim and once again judges TRUE, then the goal can still be reached by ITYM "FALSE" here. Yes.

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: result of CFJ 1694

2007-07-19 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: I call for appeal of Primo's judgement of CFJ 1694. Arguments: [snip] This case has similarities to CFJ 1704. In that case, concerning Primo Corporation, the judge ruled that the possibility of direct modification of Primo's charter by the adoption of an Agoran proposal satisfi

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: result of CFJ 1694

2007-07-19 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Gunneran rule 358 copies Agoran Rule 106's force of law to Gunner in exactly the same fashion as Primo charter section 1 copies it to Primo. No it doesn't. Primo charter section 1 gives Agoran law the capacity to modify Primo by the statement

Re: DIS: rules vs. proposals

2007-07-20 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Kerim Aydin wrote: But a CFJ on the statement "a proposal (in general) can get around R101" would have to be judged on the "current" ruleset, and it's unclear to me whether the judge should judge it using (1) or (2). There's nothing magical about rule changes that prevents a jud

DIS: Re: BUS: post-judicial-reform proposals

2007-07-21 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: [The Order system is obsolete. With Timing Orders gone, the only remaining type of Order would be Legislative Orders, but a proposal can do whatever it wants anyway without requiring this bulky mechanism in the ruleset.] Proposals with ongoing effects have always been a bit fuzz

DIS: Proto: Interest Index

2007-07-21 Thread Ed Murphy
Proto-Proposal: Interest Index (AI = 2, please) Change the title of Rule 2153 to "Interest Index", and amend it to read: The interest index of a proposal is a non-negative integer with a default value of 1 and a maximum value of 3. Before the Promotor distributes a proposal,

Re: DIS: Proto: Interest Index

2007-07-21 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Second thoughts: with Red VC rewards now varying massively in magnitude, the one-per-week clause needs to be refined. I think that in each week each proposer should receive the largest single Red VC reward available from eir proposals that week, rather than whichever was chronolog

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: assignment of CFJ 1707 to Human Point Two

2007-07-22 Thread Ed Murphy
I wrote: Zefram wrote: I hereby assign CFJ 1707 to Human Point Two. I intend to cause Human Point Two to judge TRUE. Arguments: The statement "This nomic allows Agora unrestricted access to make changes to its ruleset" is reasonably equivalent to "This nomic's rules change whenever the rul

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting Limits and Credits Report

2007-07-23 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Player VLDP EVLOP VVLOP VCs (* = Gray) root 1 6 1111* 1B You haven't applied the end-of-week change that copies VVLOP to

DIS: Re: BUS: Intended [IADoP] Org Chart

2007-07-23 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Ambassador Protectorates *Tue 17 Jun 07 Wooble recently reported on protectorates. Message-ID? I don't see this one in the a-o archive. Additional reports that you don't list: * CotC: open judicial cases (R1868) * CotC: post

DIS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting Limits and Credits Report

2007-07-23 Thread Ed Murphy
Rule 1551 says, in part: When a document is ratified, the gamestate is modified so that the ratified document was completely true and accurate at the time it was published. Nevertheless, the ratification of a document does not invalidate, reverse, alter, or cancel any

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Intended [IADoP] Org Chart

2007-07-23 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Zefram wrote: Wooble recently reported on protectorates. Message-ID? I don't see this one in the a-o archive. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It was to a-o. It replaced an earlier attempt at an ambassador's report, also to a-o, on the same day. Oh, I

DIS: Re: OFF: judicial status

2007-07-23 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: open judicial cases For the benefit of those who prefer tables: Case Question Applicable Open Assigned Judge / Panel 1621 veracity 8 Feb 07 26 Jun 07 18 Jul 07 OscarMeyr 1651 verac

DIS: Judicial reform and the CotC DB

2007-07-23 Thread Ed Murphy
I've changed "Lying down" to "Supine". I've added UNDECIDABLE, IRRELEVANT, UNDETERMINED (veracity), AFFIRM and OVERRULE (disposition) to the list of possible judgements. I have not altered any data on past cases. There is no code for recording judgements for culpability or sentencing, nor (due

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting Limits and Credits Report

2007-07-23 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: I recommend a proposal to clarify this paragraph of Rule 1551 (which Proposal 5101 does not attempt to alter), P5101 makes the scope of ratification clearer. What aspect of R1551 do you think needs to be further clarified? What happens if the ratified

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: distribution of proposals 5098-5106

2007-07-23 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ian Kelly wrote: It would be good to have R2117 subsumed into deputation as well, but that's a more complex change. Yes, it seems odd to me that we have such a different procedure for that. R2117 was one of the specific instances from which deputation was generalized; the othe

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: distribution of proposals 5088-5097

2007-07-23 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: The idea with these proposals is that you vote for your preferred minimum quorum and also for all the higher ones. Presumably if you want a minimum quorum of three then you also think that four would be an improvement (though a lesser one) on the present five. If three doesn't at

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Why not to repeal Rule 1795

2007-07-23 Thread Ed Murphy
BobTHJ wrote: On 7/23/07, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Upon the adoption of this proposal, Zefram incurs a requirement to publish a sonnet within three minutes after the adoption of this proposal. That's a bit harsh isn't it? I mean I would give em 5 minutes at l

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Why not to repeal Rule 1795

2007-07-23 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Proto-Proposal: Why not to repeal Rule 1795 R1795 wouldn't do much to stop you if you wanted to do that. My favoured arrangement is that proposals should not be able to impose obligations directly (no more than they can create legal fictions), so i

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: inquiry 1699: assignment of judge BobTHJ

2007-07-24 Thread Ed Murphy
BobTHJ wrote: On 7/23/07, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I hereby change all sitting players to standing. I hereby assign BobTHJ as judge of CFJ 1699. I hereby rule FALSE. From the nature of the message in question it is clear that Comex was not attempting to deliberatly or recklessly mak

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: The Republic of Agora

2007-07-24 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Each player has a State with one or more Districts, a Base, and a Constituency. These names are quite opaque as to the significance of the parameters, and the relationships that the names evoke don't match the behaviour of the concepts. "

DIS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1699: result FALSE

2007-07-24 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: == CFJ 1699 == [snip] Judged FALSE by BobTHJ: 24 Jul 2007 17:12:45 GMT BobTHJ's message was NttPF. Rule 2158.

DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Civil cases revisited

2007-07-26 Thread Ed Murphy
Proto-Proposal: Civil cases revisited A criminal case has the additional purpose of punishing the guilty. A civil case's purpose is limited to determining guilt; any response to this determination is left to the agreement. Alternate version: A criminal case ha

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: The Republic of Agora

2007-07-25 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Unnecessary generality. First come up with a method for non-reflexive registration that we might actually want to use. Not that we want to use it, but it's happened before. I believe you were around when Morendil became Speaker while not a Player, and

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto-verdict on 1684a

2007-07-27 Thread Ed Murphy
Eris wrote: On 7/27/07, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: a) Should Rule 754 (3)'s "primarily used in ... legal contexts" be interpreted as "primarily used by Agora in legal contexts", or "primarily used by the English-speaking populatio

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting results for Proposals 5080 - 5087

2007-07-31 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: On Monday 23 July 2007, Ed Murphy wrote: Wooble wrote: I believe my votes on these proposals were submitted within the voting period to the proper forum and were not counted. Correct. Those votes were as follows: 5080 5081 5082 5083 5084 5085 5086

DIS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1651: recuse, assign Murphy

2007-07-31 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: I hereby recuse BobTHJ from CFJ 1651. I hereby assign Murphy as judge of CFJ 1651. Statement: if a R107 notice initiating an Agoran decision does not contain an explicit list of the eligible voters, and there is later a dispute (evidenced by submission of

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1708: assign Murphy

2007-08-01 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Per the judgement of CFJ 1703, comex's claim was false. However, only "deliberately or recklessly" making a false statement violates Rule 2149, and per the judgement of CFJ 1699, comex did neither. Accordingly, I judge UNIMPUGNED. Y

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Another CFJ

2007-08-01 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: I call for judgement to determine whether CotC Zefram violated Rule 1871 (The Standing Court) by changing all sitting players to standing on or about Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:11:48 +0100. "determine whether" indicates an inquiry case, although your me

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting results for Proposals 5080 - 5087 (corrected)

2007-08-01 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: On 8/1/07, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: For each decision, the options available are ADOPTED, REJECTED, and FAILED QUORUM.] No they're not. The options are FOR, AGAINST, and PRESENT. There's a distinction between the opti

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: proposal: legal

2007-08-01 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: Perhaps I need to read the archives, but I am uncertain of what is the default for regulated actions. Game custom is CANNOT and (not MAY NOT). A simple example of an action allowed only with CAN is in Rule 1868; one allowed only with "MAY" is in Rule 1607. If the actions CAN b

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: proposal: legal

2007-08-02 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: On Wednesday 01 August 2007, Ed Murphy wrote Neither CAN nor MAY is explicitly defined by Rule 2152, so ordinary language applies. Game custom for both is (not CANNOT) and (not MAY NOT). This is severely broken. Certainly MAY/CAN are not capitalized merely for emphasis

Re: DIS: proto: clarify Mother, May I?

2007-08-02 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: proto-proposal: clarify Mother, May I? * CAN : it is POSSIBLE for to . * CANNOT : it is IMPOSSIBLE for to . This eliminates " CAN only if " as a synonym for " CANNOT if not ". Similarly for the other cases. In particular, we might want to amend Rule 101 to

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: Faction anyone ?

2007-08-02 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: On Friday 27 July 2007, Antonio Dolcetta wrote: I was wandering if anyone is interested in creating a faction. Since the faction rules have been introduced no one has made one, Is there any interest at all in playing factions out ? I cause Agora to join B Nomic per rule 5-2.

Re: DIS: proto: clarify Mother, May I?

2007-08-02 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: This eliminates " CAN only if " as a synonym for " CANNOT if not ". Similarly for the other cases. Those semantics are the usual meaning of "only if", aren't they? How else might "only if" be interpreted? As &q

DIS: Re: BUS: RAR

2007-08-03 Thread Ed Murphy
Peekee wrote: I register as a *player* . Channeling Syllep

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: judicial status

2007-08-12 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: On 8/12/07, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dates given are generally from the "Date:" header of the applicable message. This is not the legally effective time (CFJ 1646), but is an approximation of it. See the message in question for exact timing. Eep. Looking at CFJ 1646, I

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Intent to ratify

2007-08-13 Thread Ed Murphy
Peekee wrote: Quoting Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I intend to ratify the VC holdings listed in the Assessor's Report that I published within the past hour. Could that cause problems if it turns out I am not a player anymore? In that situation, the first paragraph of Rule

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Return of Zeitgeist

2007-08-13 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: If such a proposal received no AGAINST votes, its proposer gains one Zinnwaldite VC. Zinnwaldite isn't a colour AFAICT. Otherwise I like the proto. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinnwaldite_(color)

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Re: OFF: judicial status

2007-08-13 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: Incidentally, I don't like these new dependent action rules; all the Agoran decision cruft makes them much more heavyweight than they really have any need to be. When are we ever going to use a dependent action with a majority index other than one? When we think of something impor

Re: DIS: proto: more knaves

2007-08-13 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: Amend the rule titled "Truthiness, or the Island of Knights and Knaves" by replacing the entire text of the rule with: Knight and Knave are player switches with values NAY and YAY, tracked by the Speaker, with default values of YAY and NAY, respectively. Eww. Co

DIS: Re: OFF: map, again

2007-08-13 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: For the agoran decision I initiated in this message: http://www.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-business/2007-August/007098.html (published 7 days ago) the options available are APPROVED and REJECTED. No votes were made. The option therefore selected by Agora is APP

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: map, again

2007-08-13 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: On Monday 13 August 2007, Ed Murphy wrote: No, it isn't. S/(S+O) = 0/(0+0) = 0/0 = 0 (Rule 2146), which is <= 1/2 (Rule 2124), so the OSbA is REJECTED (Rule 955). You're right. Therefore, my notice resolving the decision was invalid, so the decision is still a

Re: DIS: proto: more knaves

2007-08-13 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: On Monday 13 August 2007, Ed Murphy wrote: Eww. I couldn't think of a better way to allow a player to be a Knight and a Knave at the same time. Smullyan is rolling over in his grave. Peekee is jumping for joy, but you can't tell which ones are him and which one

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Contest: The Variety Show

2007-08-13 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: On 8/14/07, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I hereby agree to be bound by the following agreement: This contract does not exist until someone else agrees to it, correct? Someone has. Two someones, in fact. d) 1 point to a contestant who was an officer al

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: The Republic of Agora

2007-08-16 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Sheqalim Typo? Google and Wikipedia both say no. (S, sing. sheqel) are a measure of each player's ability to gerrymander the redistricting process. I dislike the "are a measure of" wording. The important bit here

Re: DIS: Proto: recognize holidays

2007-08-16 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Benjamin Schultz wrote: I'm open to suggestions on an appropriate color. Mauve is my current choice. I suggest sticking to the primary colours, because they have well-known letter abbreviations. So far we're not using any of the subtractive primaries (C, M, Y) or the endpoin

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Re: OFF: judicial status

2007-08-16 Thread Ed Murphy
1) Amend R955(d)(3) to make majority index actions require the ratio be greater than or equal to the index if the actor is an (active) first-class player; strictly greater otherwise. I prefer amending R1728(d) so that the vote collector is generally allowed to vote on actions with Agoran consent

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Two protos

2007-08-16 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: On 8/16/07, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (a) With N Supporters. For this method, the support index is N, and the tally of votes need only include a number of SUPPORT votes sufficient to approve the action. "With

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Republic repair

2007-08-17 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Proto-Proposal: Republic repair I'm opposed to this being a separate proposal from the Republic of Agora. Merge the fixes into the main proposal. I plan to; that was written before I saw the votes swinging roughly 2 to 1 against.

Re: DIS: proto: reward deputisation

2007-08-17 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: proto-proposal: reward for deputisation AI: 2 {{{ Amend rule 2126 by appending to the list of ways that VCs can be gained: d) When a player deputises for an office e gains one Cyan VC, unless someone previously gained a VC in this manner for the same offi

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Transfinite arithmetic

2007-08-17 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Proto-Proposal: Transfinite arithmetic Do you have a use for more of those identities, then? Variety Show agreement, item 6c. Standard arithmetic covers that particular case, but still.

Re: DIS: proto: reward deputisation

2007-08-17 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: I suggest Magenta (opposite of Green) for this, Pavitra already claimed magenta as the celebratory colour. Mauve, actually. I was thinking orange would be suitable for zeitgeist, being adjacent and similar to red. Orange alert. Orange alert. I was

DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Transfinite arithmetic

2007-08-17 Thread Ed Murphy
Proto-Proposal: Transfinite arithmetic d) 0 / Y = 0 +inf / +inf = undefined +inf / Y= +inf otherwise X/ +inf = 0otherwise (-X) / Y = X / (-Y) = -(X/Y) X / 0 = +inf if X > 0 X / 0 = -inf if X < 0 +inf's could also be sorted base

Re: DIS: proto: reward deputisation

2007-08-17 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Here's a list of things that you could get Boons for, about a year ago: What was a Boon? Boons and Albatrosses were Ephemeral Patent Titles. At the end of each quarter, each player's Kudos (used to pay for various interesting actions) were reset to a baseline + #Boons - #Albat

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: The Republic of Agora v1.1

2007-08-19 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Amend Rule 106 (Adopting Proposals) by replacing the paragraph containing "The adoption index of a proposal is" with this text: Since you've moved the change in the "Support Democracy" procedure to a separate proposal, this amendment to R106 should not be inserting the word "init

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Generalize power-based allowance

2007-08-19 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: A permissively regulated attribute CANNOT be modified, and a permissively regulated action CANNOT be performed, except by an instrument with power at least as great as that of the rule defining that attribute or action as permissively

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Refactor regulation

2007-08-19 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: An action is regulated if any of the following is true: What is the effect of an action being regulated? The new Rule 2125 would specify the effect, depending on how it is regulated. Furthermore, Rule 101 (ii) fails to grant players the right to perform

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Generalize power-based allowance

2007-08-19 Thread Ed Murphy
Pavitra wrote: A permissively regulated attribute CANNOT be modified, and a permissively regulated action CANNOT be performed, except by an instrument with power at least as great as that of the rule defining that attribute or action as permissively regulated. How about: A

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Generalize power-based allowance

2007-08-19 Thread Ed Murphy
Pavitra wrote: There's little point in a security level higher than the power of the securing rule. Actually, that's under the old system. Under the new system, there would be little point in a security level higher than the power of the rule defining security levels. (And so that rule shoul

DIS: Re: BUS: proposals: truthfulness

2007-08-20 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Amend rule 2149 by inserting the words "or which e is reckless regarding the veracity of" at the end of each sentence in the second paragraph. I still think this should define "reckless", perhaps by example.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Generalize power-based allowance

2007-08-20 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: e.g. why bother enshrining the basic behavior of some concept in a Power 3 rule if you're going to let Power 2 rules modify that behavior? Perhaps some aspects need to be power=3 difficult to modify, but other aspects should be modifiable at power=2 in ce

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: distribution of proposals 5147-5171

2007-08-20 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Geoffrey Spear wrote: 5158 Di 2Zefram Agora is (nearly) a republic AGAINST ... 5160 Di 2comex Agora is (nearly) a republic FOR When I left in a huff in 1997, I did so largely because I perceived that people bore a grudge against me. I had the impressi

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Refactor regulation, take three

2007-08-20 Thread Ed Murphy
Proposal: Refactor regulation (AI = 3, please) Amend Rule 2125 (Regulation Regulations) to read: An action is regulated if any of the following is true: (a) The rules specify that the action CANNOT be performed, or CAN be performed ONLY IF certain conditions are satis

DIS: Re: BUS: win

2007-08-20 Thread Ed Murphy
Levi wrote: By Rule 2136: A player with 100 or more points may win the game by announcing this fact. Upon such an announcement, each player's score is set to zero. I announce that I now have 100 points. Therefore I win the game. Actually, you have 101 points.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: distribution of proposals 5147-5171

2007-08-21 Thread Ed Murphy
Peekee wrote: Problems are the discussion forums defined in the rules? I suspect there would be little way of regulating protos. Yes, Rule 478: Publicity is a forum switch with values Public, Discussion, and Null (default), tracked by the Registrar.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Votes

2007-08-21 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: 5171 AGAINST (invisible F) Ah, you're in the "unless" == "iff not" camp too? Curious. I had no idea that interpretation of "unless" existed in formal logic. I've always used it to mean "if not". I'm undecided. I think the matter warrants further discussion.

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting Limits and Credits Report

2007-08-21 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Player (* = inactive)VLDP EVLOP VVLOP VCs eekeeP is not listed. I expect CFJ 1724 to be judged FALSE. [When ties for determining Party were broken by alphabetical order, Quazie's Party was Blue. Now that they are broken by order of VC

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: distribution of proposals 5147-5171

2007-08-21 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: On 8/20/07, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's strictly on the merits. With 5159 I nearly voted PRESENT, but I'm worried that it's a scam setup. I had a nightmare two nights ago that involved a R2134 win being sprung, which is probably related.) You're correct in that the

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal

2007-08-21 Thread Ed Murphy
Levi wrote: In Rule 2139 replace the following text: The Registrar's report shall include the following: with: The Registrar's report SHOULD include the following: I agree with the idea of saying "The X's report includes Y", and leaving it to other rules to place requirements on

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Ministers Without Portfolio

2007-08-22 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: a) Default Officeholder. We repealed this for a good reason. And what reason was that, then? b) Default Justice. This is a better way to handle a default justice than what we had before. Why? c) Wielder of Veto. Undemocratic

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Ministers Without Portfolio

2007-08-22 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: And what reason was that, then? Having a default officeholder makes officeholding indeterminate when we're not sure who the default officeholder is. It spreads uncertainty regarding the game state. We ran into this recently regarding the CotC, when reso

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJs 1724-1725: Lets tidy up

2007-08-22 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: (I think there is CFJ evidence that Jon is a person already) CFJ 1700. Murphy wants to appeal it. Not because I doubt the outcome, but because Judge Wooble didn't so much as ask for Jon to send a message from eir own e-mail address.

Re: DIS: Proto: MMI change

2007-08-22 Thread Ed Murphy
Levi wrote: Just noticed that Rule 2160 uses POSSIBLE. If it's the reverse of IMPOSSIBLE, it would be defined the same as CAN. But then, in Rule 2160, I'm not sure POSSIBLE is the right term? There was a proposal to change it to LEGAL, whereupon it was pointed out that many actions are LEGAL

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: VCs for voting

2007-08-22 Thread Ed Murphy
Levi wrote: At the end of a proposal's voting period, each player who was the only player to cast a valid vote for a given option on it gains one Pink VC. Not totally sure this is a good idea. I'd be voting FORx1 AGAINSTx1 PRESENTx1 on all Ordinary proposals, and the higher

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: VCs for voting

2007-08-23 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: At the end of a proposal's voting period, each player who cast at least one valid vote on it, but cast more invalid votes than valid votes on it, loses one Pink VC. Cute. BobTHJ will hate you. It's principle rather than practice. If e believed eir VLOP was some

Re: DIS: proto: VC award for triplication

2007-08-23 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: [I'm concerned that the fiddliness of the condition might increase the assessor's workload unreasonably. Murphy?] I'm already publishing F/A totals, so identical results there would trigger a count of PRESENT votes. However, checking this condition would potentially require dig

Re: DIS: proto: distributor as an office

2007-08-24 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: The distributor is an office. The distributor SHALL send eir weekly report to each non-null forum at least once each quarter. This could be a monthly report; it's not like the fora change very often. I don't know whether the Distributor's workload is large enough to

Re: DIS: proto: allow non-player wins

2007-08-24 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: proto-proposal: allow non-player wins Create a rule titled "Non-Player Wins" with this text: When a non-player wins the game, e becomes a player.

Re: DIS: proto: distributor as an office

2007-08-24 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: This could be a monthly report; Yes. I wanted to make it a monthly report, but that would depend on the ability to report switches monthly. You protoed something to that effect, but it's not in the ruleset yet. I don't recall that offhand, and

DIS: Re: BUS: Resubmitting refactor regulation

2007-08-29 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: I submit the following proposal: Proposal: Refactor regulation (AI = 3, please) Murphy is a coauthor of this proposal. Why? And why did those who voted AGAINST it do so? Perhaps this one could do with some more cooking time.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ on knavitude

2007-08-29 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: On 8/29/07, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: comex wrote: But it is still a quote. Quotation is an aspect of its construction, yes. That doesn't exempt it from R2149. I CFJ, barring Zefram, on the statement: A part of a message sent to a Public Forum that is quoting another m

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1738: assign root

2007-08-29 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: On 8/29/07, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I concur with the Initiator's arguments and enter a judgement of TRUE. I intend, with 2 support, to appeal this. I vote SUPPORT. At least wait for our sole knave to weigh in on the discussion (in a-d, so as to avoid further enta

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Resubmitting refactor regulation

2007-08-29 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: On 8/29/07, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: comex wrote: I submit the following proposal: Proposal: Refactor regulation (AI = 3, please) Murphy is a coauthor of this proposal. Why? And why did those who voted AGAINST it do so? Perhaps this one could do with som

DIS: CotC DB

2007-08-30 Thread Ed Murphy
I've updated the database code to identify criminal cases and recognize the possible judgements on culpability, and filled in the correct values for the past judgements. Please let me know if you spot any problems. Eris, how do I regenerate cotc_amend.pyc from cotc_amend.py? Not that it matters

DIS: Re: BUS: Nominees for Herald

2007-08-30 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: I intend, with Agoran Consent, to make Peekee the holder of the office of Clerk of the Courts. (E will have a chance to register shortly before the 14-day limit expires.) I vote OBJECT.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: I feel, therefore I act

2007-08-30 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: then the knave is considered to /feel/ the announcement to be true, and this rule prohibits neither the announcement nor the action. Yuck. If you want to make such an exception, please do it without this false distinction

DIS: More CotC DB stuff

2007-08-30 Thread Ed Murphy
I added a "Criminal cases" link, just above "All cases". comex, your mirror is broken; please let me know if something on my end's caused it, though I can't think of anything that would.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: I feel, therefore I act

2007-08-30 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: comex wrote: but possibly end up just a useless pain. How exactly was truthiness ever going to avoid this fate? It was perfectly fine in its original form, if you ask me.

DIS: Notes on Herald's report

2007-08-30 Thread Ed Murphy
> TITLES OF HONOUR Listing date-awarded would make for a nice research project. Ephemera were repealed long ago, so that note can be removed. > First Speaker: Michael This is defined by the rules, but not as a Patent Title. If e was awarded the title as a Patent Title at some point, then

DIS: Notes on CotC's report

2007-08-30 Thread Ed Murphy
> open judicial cases Can this be given in tabular format, please? e.g. Inquiry Caller Called Judge Assigned --- 1729 Zefram 21 Aug root21 Aug 1730 Pavitra 22 Aug BobTHJ 22 Aug 1731 Zefram 23 Aug Murphy 23 Aug Criminal

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