Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement in CFJ 1684

2007-06-20 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: On 6/19/07, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It can (if the Board of Appeals agrees) accomplish the reversal of the judgement of CFJ 1684. Not because I disagree with its reasonableness either, but I find the judgements of CFJs 1622 and 1623 to also be reasonable, and heavily

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Primo Shares

2007-06-20 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: I disagree with both of you. The sqrt(2) shares that I transferred to you were created by charter-specified methods (IPO or CFO salary); and I didn't just offer them, I flat-out transferred them according to the old section 19. Yes, I agree with you on that count, but section 19

DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Regulate CFJ numbers

2007-06-20 Thread Zefram
Ed Murphy wrote: Proto-Proposal: Regulate ID numbers Good generalisation. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Primo Shares

2007-06-20 Thread Ian Kelly
On 6/20/07, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: root wrote: I disagree with both of you. The sqrt(2) shares that I transferred to you were created by charter-specified methods (IPO or CFO salary); and I didn't just offer them, I flat-out transferred them according to the old section 19.

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal

2007-06-20 Thread Zefram
comex wrote: I submit the following proposal: No title. Whereas Rule 955 is titled Determining the Will of Agora, Rule titles have no legal force. I don't think you can claim that Agora has a will based on this. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal

2007-06-20 Thread Ian Kelly
On 6/20/07, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: comex wrote: I submit the following proposal: No title. Whereas Rule 955 is titled Determining the Will of Agora, Rule titles have no legal force. I don't think you can claim that Agora has a will based on this. The rule body uses similar

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement in CFJ 1684

2007-06-20 Thread Zefram
Ian Kelly wrote: I *do* think that the existence of partnerships is damaging to the game. How so? There are certainly a couple of problems with giving partnerships the same status as natural persons, but we've implemented restrictions

DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement in CFJ 1684

2007-06-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
Murphy wrote: * I would still be Speaker; OscarMeyr (I think) would still be IADoP Speaker transitions are also pragmatic by R402, and this one wasn't challenged within a week, either. What happens is probably that suddenly (upon the judgement of 1684? Upon it being sustained?) it turns

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Primo Shares

2007-06-20 Thread Roger Hicks
Section 19 is broken, in that it attempts to contradict reality. Neither section 19 nor the issue that created it did anything to deal directly with shares already in the possession of non-shareholders. Reality is that Primo Corp shares are fictitious, and none of us own any. They're

DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement in CFJ 1684

2007-06-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
Zefram wrote: But if HP2 was never a player then e was categorically incapable of being speaker. R103, imposing that restriction, takes precedence over R402. Does this mean that cutoff for challenges, in the protection of the proposal system, is outweighed any time the challenge is related to

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement in CFJ 1684

2007-06-20 Thread comex
On Wednesday 20 June 2007, Ian Kelly wrote: Again, that may be the interest of the majority of the players, but the players are not the game. Are you sure about that :) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement in CFJ 1684

2007-06-20 Thread Ian Kelly
On 6/20/07, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ian Kelly wrote: I *do* think that the existence of partnerships is damaging to the game. How so? There are certainly a couple of problems with giving partnerships the same status as natural

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement in CFJ 1684

2007-06-20 Thread Ian Kelly
On 6/20/07, comex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 20 June 2007, Ian Kelly wrote: Again, that may be the interest of the majority of the players, but the players are not the game. Are you sure about that :) I certainly don't think of the game as being merely the set of its players.

DIS: Re: BUS: Employment Notice

2007-06-20 Thread Roger Hicks
Just for reference, Employment Notices are governed by sections 16, 17, and 18 of the Primo Corporation charter. Any player who is not a Primo Corp Officer is eligible for employment. The charter can be found here: http://groups.google.com/group/primo-corporation/web/primo-corporation---charter

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement in CFJ 1684

2007-06-20 Thread comex
On Wednesday 20 June 2007, Ian Kelly wrote: * Abuse VCs. A player who controls a partnership can use the partnership's VCs to raise eir own voting limit, and eir own VCs to raise the partnership's voting limit, at a cost of 1 VC per vote. A player outside of a partnership must resort to

DIS: BUS: Proposals

2007-06-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
root wrote: Increase the power of Rule 2142 to 2, and amend it by replacing the text 1.1 with 2. As per my last post, has it occurred to anyone that limiting VC gains to ordinary proposals, which then can increase the ability to pass ordinary proposals without bounds, is a *tad* too much

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement in CFJ 1684

2007-06-20 Thread Ian Kelly
On 6/20/07, Kerim Aydin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frankly, it's far more of an abuse that a single natural player can accumulate 13x (or arbitrarily more) base voting power on something through free submission of trivial fix proposals. That's more of a chilling effect on voting than partnership

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement in CFJ 1684

2007-06-20 Thread Ian Kelly
On 6/20/07, Kerim Aydin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Overall, nothing's changed here in your above general opinion in a long time: in 2001 we were trying to implement teams/partnerships in a meaningful way (that was my first scam, CFJoops the CotC web is offline this moment). Groups weren't

DIS: Re: OFF: distribution of proposals 5027-5041

2007-06-20 Thread Roger Hicks
Below are the votes for BobTHJ and those votes made on behalf of Primo Corporation as CEO (prefaced by Primo:): NUM TYP AI SUBMITTER TITLE 5027 O 1Zefram revocation of speling errors FOR, Primo: FOR x2 5028 O 1Zefram complete generalisation of agreements FOR,

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: distribution of proposals 5027-5041

2007-06-20 Thread Ian Kelly
On 6/20/07, Roger Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 5030 O 1rootRecantus Cygneus AGAINST, Primo: AGAINST x2 I thought you liked that proposal... -root

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: distribution of proposals 5027-5041

2007-06-20 Thread Roger Hicks
On 6/20/07, Ian Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/20/07, Roger Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 5030 O 1rootRecantus Cygneus AGAINST, Primo: AGAINST x2 I thought you liked that proposal... -root I loved it :) I just don't want to see the rule repealed. BobTHJ

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement in CFJ 1684

2007-06-20 Thread Zefram
Kerim Aydin wrote: Does this mean that cutoff for challenges, in the protection of the proposal system, is outweighed any time the challenge is related to a rule with higher precedence? Not sure what you envision in related to. It's not outweighed due to the proposal attempting to modify a

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement in CFJ 1684

2007-06-20 Thread Zefram
comex wrote: I hereby deregister Human Point Two via R869. Are you claiming that HP2 has lost person status by a change of partners? If not, if partnerships don't (and didn't) qualify as persons then HP2 was never a person and so could never register as a player. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement in CFJ 1684

2007-06-20 Thread Zefram
Ian Kelly wrote: Partnerships can still: Some of these there's a good case for restricting. I don't see a problem with them holding office, in general, though, or voting on non-democratic proposals. -zefram

Re: DIS: BUS: Proposals

2007-06-20 Thread Zefram
Kerim Aydin wrote: As per my last post, has it occurred to anyone that limiting VC gains to ordinary proposals, which then can increase the ability to pass ordinary proposals without bounds, is a *tad* too much positive feedback to call the current system functional? Yeah, I've been pondering

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposals

2007-06-20 Thread Zefram
Ian Kelly wrote: The ballot allotment time of a proposal of which the chamber The term chamber is no longer defined. Would be clearer if you define it. Increase the power of Rule 2142 to 2, and amend it by replacing the text 1.1 with 2. Been thinking about this. Kicking a proposal up to

DIS: Re: BUS: Registration

2007-06-20 Thread Taral
On 6/20/07, bd_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I register as a player of Agora Nomic under the name bd_ (excluding quotes). Welcome! (By the way, your MUA is generating your signatures with Content-Disposition: inline. Can you change it to attachment so they don't show in mailers that don't

DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Single Use VCs

2007-06-20 Thread Zefram
Roger Hicks wrote: A player may expend one VC to increase eir own voting limit on an ordinary proposal by one. This makes a VC effectively an EV (Extra Vote), as existed in the early years. Spending capital to influence a single proposal does not make for a good game. If you want to

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Single Use VCs

2007-06-20 Thread Taral
On 6/20/07, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This makes a VC effectively an EV (Extra Vote), as existed in the early years. Spending capital to influence a single proposal does not make for a good game. If you want to cast your EVs AGAINST a proposal, then you may well succeed in voting it

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Regulate CFJ numbers

2007-06-20 Thread Zefram
Taral wrote: I can't wait to get my hands on this... Memo to Agora: don't put Eris in charge of numbering anything if e's got a seventeen-digit number secreted about eir person. -zefram

DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Regulate CFJ numbers

2007-06-20 Thread comex
On Tuesday 19 June 2007, Ed Murphy wrote: such player, the Speaker) SHALL assign an ID number to it by ... announcement as soon as possible; such an assignment is INVALID I do fervently hope Mother, May I? fails. Unfortunately it does not seem that it will. My objection is not

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Single Use VCs

2007-06-20 Thread Ian Kelly
On 6/20/07, Taral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/20/07, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This makes a VC effectively an EV (Extra Vote), as existed in the early years. Spending capital to influence a single proposal does not make for a good game. If you want to cast your EVs AGAINST a

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Regulate CFJ numbers

2007-06-20 Thread Ian Kelly
On 6/20/07, comex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 19 June 2007, Ed Murphy wrote: such player, the Speaker) SHALL assign an ID number to it by ... announcement as soon as possible; such an assignment is INVALID I do fervently hope Mother, May I? fails. Unfortunately it does

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Regulate CFJ numbers

2007-06-20 Thread Taral
On 6/20/07, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Taral wrote: I can't wait to get my hands on this... Memo to Agora: don't put Eris in charge of numbering anything if e's got a seventeen-digit number secreted about eir person. Memo to Zefram: Look up computable numbers. -- Taral [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Single Use VCs

2007-06-20 Thread Zefram
Taral wrote: How about if you keep them if you use them AGAINST, but not if you use them FOR? Mm, that's more interesting. I suppose one would have a voting-limit-AGAINST-ordinary-proposals and a voting-limit-FOR-ordinary-proposals; one can raise the former permanently, but the latter only for

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Registration

2007-06-20 Thread bd_
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 06:21:38PM -0500, Taral wrote: On 6/20/07, bd_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I register as a player of Agora Nomic under the name bd_ (excluding quotes). Welcome! (By the way, your MUA is generating your signatures with Content-Disposition: inline. Can you change it to

Re: DIS: another approach to VC balance

2007-06-20 Thread Levi Stephen
We have a lovely system where all the influences on voting power are persistent (for a period of time), not per proposal. It is marred by per-proposal rewards. We've just discussed per-proposal voting power, which has been done before. Let's consider the other approach: time-based rewards

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement in CFJ 1684

2007-06-20 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: If partnerships were composed of non-player entities, e.g. if Wal-Mart were to register, then I don't think there would be a problem. But in practice the partnerships are constructed by players, resulting in uneven representation of the natural players. This goes beyond just

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: distribution of proposals 5027-5041

2007-06-20 Thread Ed Murphy
BobTHJ wrote: Below are the votes for BobTHJ and those votes made on behalf of Primo Corporation as CEO (prefaced by Primo:): Not to the PF.

DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Regulate ID numbers

2007-06-20 Thread Taral
Sorry I didn't notice this before, but you almost certainly want a statement that ID numbers must be unique. On 6/20/07, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Proto-Proposal: Regulate ID numbers (AI = 3, please) Create a rule titled ID Numbers with this text: If a rule defines a type of

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Regulate ID numbers

2007-06-20 Thread Ed Murphy
Eris wrote: Sorry I didn't notice this before, but you almost certainly want a statement that ID numbers must be unique. Huh? Oh, I see the problem. Revised text: (b) Such an assignment is INVALID unless the number is a natural number distinct from any ID number, and

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Regulate ID numbers

2007-06-20 Thread bd_
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 10:25:52PM -0400, bd_ wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 07:07:13PM -0700, Ed Murphy wrote: Proto-Proposal: Regulate ID numbers (AI = 3, please) (b) Such an assignment is INVALID unless the number is a natural number greater than any orderly ID

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Regulate ID numbers

2007-06-20 Thread Ed Murphy
bd_ wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 07:07:13PM -0700, Ed Murphy wrote: Proto-Proposal: Regulate ID numbers (AI = 3, please) (b) Such an assignment is INVALID unless the number is a natural number greater than any orderly ID number previously assigned to an

DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: still support democracy

2007-06-20 Thread Ian Kelly
On 6/20/07, Levi Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Repeal Rule 2142 Modify Rule 106 by replacing the following text: (This might have to be changed depending on other proposals) The adoption index of a proposal is an integral multiple of 0.1, with a default and minimum value of

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: A Suffusion of Yellow

2007-06-20 Thread bd_
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 10:32:31PM -0500, Endymion wrote: On 6/20/07, comex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 20 June 2007, Ed Murphy wrote: Proto-Proposal: A Suffusion of Yellow I submit the following proposal, titled A Suffusion of Yellow: (AI=4) Replace all numbers in the

Re: DIS: another approach to VC balance

2007-06-20 Thread Ian Kelly
On 6/20/07, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a lovely system where all the influences on voting power are persistent (for a period of time), not per proposal. It is marred by per-proposal rewards. We've just discussed per-proposal voting power, which has been done before. Let's

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement in CFJ 1684

2007-06-20 Thread Ian Kelly
On 6/20/07, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: root wrote: * Hold office. This creates an obvious loophole around Rule 1450, easily fixed using partnership bases. Don't over-fix the problem. For instance, if the Speaker is a partnership and the CotC is a natural-person member of that

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Regulate ID numbers

2007-06-20 Thread Roger Hicks
I forsee problems. I assign a chaotic number 1 to a proposal. Ten years from now, the Neo-proposal Promoter assigns number 1 to a proposal, blissfully unaware that the number was already assigned 10 years ago. BobTHJ On 6/20/07, Taral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry I didn't notice this

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: still support democracy

2007-06-20 Thread Ian Kelly
On 6/20/07, Ian Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/20/07, Levi Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Repeal Rule 2142 Modify Rule 106 by replacing the following text: (This might have to be changed depending on other proposals) The adoption index of a proposal is an integral multiple of

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: still support democracy

2007-06-20 Thread Levi Stephen
Ian Kelly wrote: On 6/20/07, Ian Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/20/07, Levi Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Repeal Rule 2142 Modify Rule 106 by replacing the following text: (This might have to be changed depending on other proposals) The adoption index of a proposal is an

DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Regulate ID numbers

2007-06-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
Murphy wrote: Create a rule titled ID Numbers with this text: Can someone explain, and use small words so I'm sure to understand, precisely why a system that has worked very well for a very long time needs a new, long, rule? The current system will have the occasional glitch that requires a

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: still support democracy

2007-06-20 Thread Ian Kelly
Maybe it would be worthwhile adding in the qualifier that ordinary/democratic is decided at distribution time (as the proposer is only allowed to modify the adoption index before that time). i.e., A Proposal with an Adoption Index of less than 2 at the time it is distributed by the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement in CFJ 1684

2007-06-20 Thread Ian Kelly
On 6/20/07, Kerim Aydin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: root wrote: I'm too lazy to be that proactive about it, nor do I want to get bogged down in the extra requirements of multiple R1742 agreements just to keep up with the Joneses. That's an argument against implementing VCs, cards, currencies,

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Regulate ID numbers

2007-06-20 Thread Ed Murphy
BobTHJ wrote: I forsee problems. I assign a chaotic number 1 to a proposal. Ten years from now, the Neo-proposal Promoter assigns number 1 to a proposal, blissfully unaware that the number was already assigned 10 years ago. That's what (e) is for. But even if we do make a mistake,