DIS: no free votes
What happened to the no free votes proto? Seems best to propose it now, before there's a real explosion of non-natural persons. -zefram
DIS: Re: BUS: Army of Ghosts
On Sunday 13 May 2007 7:55 pm, Ed Murphy wrote: Human Point Two and I have made a R1742 binding agreement, the text of which is: [...] I had that idea just a few minutes ago. :( pgpU9Ry2dM1mW.pgp Description: PGP signature
DIS: Credit where credit is due
I should point out that the multi-level partnership scam was originally Quazie's idea; I launched it solely because I was available to do so just before the end of the Agoran week.
DIS: Re: BUS: Army of Ghosts
On 5/13/07, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Human Point Two and I have made a R1742 binding agreement, the text of which is: 1. Did Quazie agree to let Human Point Two let Human Point Three make an agreement with you? 2. And people said we didn't need Senators. Pah! -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) When you people agree to shrink the ruleset a bit, I'll be back. -- The Goddess Eris, in agora-business
Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Army of Ghosts
Michael Slone wrote: On 5/13/07, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Human Point Two and I have made a R1742 binding agreement, the text of which is: 1. Did Quazie agree to let Human Point Two let Human Point Three make an agreement with you? 2. And people said we didn't need Senators. Pah! I agreed to all of this. In fact it was all my idea
Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Army of Ghosts
Michael Slone wrote: On 5/13/07, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Human Point Two and I have made a R1742 binding agreement, the text of which is: 1. Did Quazie agree to let Human Point Two let Human Point Three make an agreement with you? 2. And people said we didn't need Senators. Pah! Rather not all my idea, I thought it up and Murphy planned it out, and then the ghosts now run a muck.
DIS: Re: BUS: Doomsday
Being that Primo Corporation is not a partnership, I don't believe it would exist as a player under this new rule. As CEO, I am gravely concerned by this language... BobTHJ On 5/13/07, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Human Point Two submits the following proposal. Proposal: Delete, Delete, Delete! (AI = 2, please) Upon the adoption of this proposal, Human Point Two wins the game. Upon the adoption of this proposal, the following players are deregistered: Human Point Three Human Point Four Human Point Five Human Point Six Human Point Seven Human Point Eight Human Point Nine Human Point Ten Human Point Eleven Human Point Twelve Human Point Thirteen Human Point Fourteen Amend Rule 1023 (Common Definitions) by appending this text: (f) The term person shall mean natural person or partnership of natural persons. Create a rule titled Limited Partnerships with this text: If a partnership contains exactly the same members as another registered partnership, then it is prohibited from registering. If a registered partnership's membership changes such that it contains exactly the same members as another registered partnership, then it is deregistered.
Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 1651 assigned to Quazie
On 5/13/07, Michael Slone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What if someone is simply recalcitrant and maintains that Peter Abelard is always an eligible voter if no list of eligible voters is provided? Here it seems that the failure of public agreement is contingent and that it is the intent of the individual rather than the ambiguity of the description which prevents public agreement. You, sir, are cited for the use of domain-specific meanings in a general context. :P -- Taral [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can't prove anything. -- Gödel's Incompetence Theorem
Re: DIS: Proto: Clarify actions
Maud wrote: Persons have certain rights and privileges. Those rights which are enumerated in the rules or recognized by the Agoran courts may not be abridged, reduced, limited, or remove by Agoran law, ^^ removed and any provision of an otherwise binding agreement which would do so is unenforceable. Those privileges which are enumerated in the rules or recognized by the Agoran courts are assumed to exist in the absence of an explicit, binding agreement to the contrary. This rule takes precedence over all other rules. Merely possessing a right does not by itself provide a mechanism by which the right can be exercised. However, the rules must provide mechanisms by which the following rights can be exercised. I suggest adding R1698-style protection against the rules coming to lack such mechanisms. (f) Each person who is a player has the right to perform unregulated actions. Why not just player? Ends and their Means shall be considered equivalent in the following technical sense. Whenever a person performs an action which is a Means to some End, e shall be considered to have performed the End, even if the End could not naturally be performed. If a person somehow would simultaneously peform perform ^^ multiple Means with the same End, e shall be considered to have thereby performed the End only once. A person cannot perform an End unless there is at least one Means to that End which e can naturally perform. A player publishes or announces something by sending an appropriate message to a public forum. A player performs an action by announcement by announcing that e performs it. A player performs an action by private message to some player by sending an appropriate private message to the specified player. Any action performed by sending a message is performed at the time date-stampted on that message. stamped Enact a rule, titled The Orderly Comparison of Threats, reading: The Order of the Evil Eye, or more briefly the Order, is a total order consisting of all nonnegative real numbers in their standard mathematical order together with a special element called Unanimity, which is strictly greater than any other element of the Order. Whenever the rules indicate that two indices are to be compared, they shall be compared as though they were members of the Order. Nice re-use of name. But why not define the Order as being a Threat?
DIS: Proto: Economy
This proto-proposal goes with my previous two on Currency and the Treasury,
and rounds out the other two. It attempts to create an economy with supply
and demand and gives currency a reason for existing. The caveat is that it
is somewhat complex. I'm sure it will need a lot of work:
Economy
AI: 1
Create a rule called Certification with Power 1 that reads:
{
A Player must be certified to perform any of the following actions:
* Submitting a ballot for distributed proposals
* Supporting or opposing a dependent action
* Submitting a proposal for distribution
If a player who performs one of the above actions and is not certified to
perform that action then that action is void and is treated as if the Player
never attempted to perform that action.
Players become certified for an action by obtaining a Certificate. A
Certificate is owned by a player, but is not property and may not be traded
or exchanged. Each Certificate allows a Player to perform one specific
action. Each certificate has an expiration date. The holder of a Certificate
may exercise the action specified in the certificate freely while that
Certificate is valid. When the expiration date of a Certificate is reached,
it becomes invalid and ceases to exist.
A Player may hold any number of Certificates, and holding a Certificate does
not prevent another Player from holding a Certificate of the same type.
}
Create a rule called Licenses with Power 1 that reads:
{
Certain activities are regulated under Agoran law. These activities may only
be conducted by an Agoran Player who holds a license for that activity. Any
Agoran Player may purchase a License for one of the activities regulated by
this rule by making an announcement to the Public Forum and paying the cost
of that License in Currency to the Agoran Treasury. An Agoran Player who
holds a License for a paticular activity may perform that activity on behalf
of other Agoran players, and is entitled to collect a fee for such services.
Each License has an initial cost to purchase, and in addition each License
requires a monthly renewal fee to be paid to the Agoran Treasury. Unless
otherwise specified, the cost to purchase a License shall be $2,500, and the
renewal fee for a license shall be $500. The Secretary of the Treasury shall
collect renewal fees from each Licensee as soon as possible after the first
of each month.
A Player may hold as many licenses as e wishes, and each license is
available to all Agoran Players to purchase, unless otherwise specified in
another rule of equal or higher power.
A Player may choose not to pay a License renewal fee for a license e holds
by posting an announcement to the Public Forum. A player who is unable or
unwilling to pay a license renewal fee shall lose that license, and if e
wishes to become re-licensed in that activity again, e shall have to pay the
initial license purchase fee.
The following Licenses are available for purchase:
Voter Certification License
A Player holding this license may issue a Voter's Certificate to any Player.
This Certificate must have an expiration date no further than one week
beyond the date of issue. The holder of a Voter's Certificate is certified
to submit ballots on distributed Proposals.
Dependent Action License
A Player holding this License may issue a Supporter's Certificate or an
Objector's Certificate to any Player. This Certificate must have an
expiration date no further than two weeks beyond the date of issue. The
holder of a Supporter's Certificate may support any dependent action and the
holder of an Objector's Certificate may object to any dependent action.
Proposer Certification License
A Player holding this License may issue a Proposer's Certificate to any
Player. This Certificate must have an expiration date no further than two
weeks beyond the date of issue. The holder of a Proposer's Certificate may
submit proposals for distribution.
Contractor's License
A Player holding this License may once per week create one Land as described
in the rule Land Ownership.
Digit Farming License
A Player holding this License may farm Digit Ranches, as described in the
rule Land Ownership.
Equator's License
A Player holding this License may process equations using Equation
Factories, as described in the rule Land Ownership.
Demolitions License
A Player holding this License may once per week destroy any one Land owned
by any Player.
}
Create a rule called Digits with Power 1 that reads:
{
Digits are property that may be owned by Players. There are ten types of
digits, represented by the numbers 0 through 9. All Digits of the same
numerical value are fungible and identical. As property, a player may freely
transfer digits e owns with other Players by making an announcement to the
Public Forum. Digits are regulated by the rules and may only be created or
destroyed when specified in a rule. A player may own any amount of each of
the ten Digit types.
After an Ordinary Proposal is distributed, but before voting ends,
