Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1769: assign Goddess Eris

2007-10-28 Thread Zefram
Ian Kelly wrote: >I think that the arguments were clearly apropos to the CFJ, and that >the physical ordering is irrelevant. On the other hand, the CotC >apparently isn't currently required to reproduce the arguments at all, >so I shouldn't complain too loudly. My policy is to reproduce arguments

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Exit clauses

2007-10-28 Thread comex
On Sunday 28 October 2007, Ed Murphy wrote: > Proposal: Exit clauses You lose the paragraph about public contracts. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

DIS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1772: assign Zefram

2007-10-28 Thread comex
On Sunday 28 October 2007, Zefram wrote: > I hereby assign Zefram as judge of CFJ 1772. (I should have barred you) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

DIS: BUS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1772: assign Zefram

2007-10-28 Thread Kerim Aydin
Quibble-mode on. > However, taking game actions other than registration certainly > does not constitute "explicit, willful consent" to be bound by the rules. Registration does constitute explicit willful consent, and once you've given that consent you don't of course need to "re-consent" for eac

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1772: result FALSE

2007-10-28 Thread Zefram
comex wrote: > This could conflict >with the higher-powered Rule 2169 if there was difficulty in applying >equity cases to the Rules, but there is not. Who do you imagine might judge your equity case, by the way? -zefram

DIS: Re: BUS: pushover

2007-10-28 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: I hereby push pikhq over. This should really cite the CFJ(s) requiring you to do so (I think it's one or more of 1735, 1756, 1757 in this case).

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1772: result FALSE

2007-10-28 Thread comex
On Sunday 28 October 2007, Zefram wrote: > comex wrote: > > This could > > conflict with the higher-powered Rule 2169 if there was difficulty in > > applying equity cases to the Rules, but there is not. > > Who do you imagine might judge your equ

DIS: Re: OFF: distribution of proposal 5269

2007-10-28 Thread Josiah Worcester
On Sunday 28 October 2007 10:57:25 Zefram wrote: > pikhq's proposal remains in the proposal pool. pikhq has the option > to withdraw it. If not withdrawn, it will be distributed in the > next batch (on Wednesday). > > -zefram > I withdraw my proposal.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1772: result FALSE

2007-10-28 Thread Ian Kelly
On 10/28/07, comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 28 October 2007, Zefram wrote: > > comex wrote: > > > This could > > > conflict with the higher-powered Rule 2169 if there was difficulty in > > > applying equity cases to the Rules, but t

Re: DIS: BUS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1772: assign Zefram

2007-10-28 Thread Ian Kelly
On 10/28/07, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However, taking game actions other than registration certainly > > does not constitute "explicit, willful consent" to be bound by the rules. > > Registration does constitute explicit willful consent, and once > you've given that consent you do

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

2007-10-28 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Player (* = inactive)VLDP EVLOP VVLOP VCs -- *Manu 1 4 41W Pavitra1 5 5 *Quazie1 4 4 1R 1B M

DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ

2007-10-28 Thread Zefram
Ed Murphy wrote: >In the message in question, comex satisfied all three of Rule 1504's >requirements to initiate a criminal case: You missed the fourth requirement, "by announcement". Rule 478: A player performs an action "by announcement" by announcing that e performs it. comex cer

DIS: Re: BUS: proposal: truthfulness

2007-10-28 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: I hereby submit the following proposal, titled "truthfulness": {{{ Retitle rule 2149 to "Truthfulness", and amend it to read A person SHALL NOT make a false statement in any public message while knowing that the statement is false or being reckless as to its ve

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: proposal: truthfulness

2007-10-28 Thread Zefram
comex wrote: >[Truthiness is going to die; why not reduce useless clutter at the same >time?] Why remove useful clarification? -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: IADOP Report

2007-10-28 Thread Levi Stephen
On 10/27/07, Levi Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Office Holder Since Last R2154 Stability Speakerroot16 Sep 077 Sep 07 T With the adoption of "Ministers Without

DIS: Re: BUS: Inflation

2007-10-28 Thread Zefram
comex wrote: >On behalf of the AFO: >The AFO hereby initiates 10,000 inquiry cases, I see you've graduated from merely bad play to outright destructive play. -zefram

DIS: Re: BUS: Inflation

2007-10-28 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: On behalf of the AFO: The AFO hereby initiates 10,000 inquiry cases, barring Zefram, for the statement: - This is Sparta If this works, I'm only entering the first and last ones into the database, with an explanatory comment.

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: IADOP Report

2007-10-28 Thread Ian Kelly
On 10/28/07, Levi Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is someone responsible for tracking who the current Ministers Without > Portfolio > are and publishing this information? I can't see where this is in the rules. It's a patent title, so it's tracked by the Herald. -root

DIS: Re: BUS: Jumping right in

2007-10-28 Thread Ian Kelly
On 10/28/07, Levi Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * BobTHJ was thrown in the chokey, but this was changed to an apology sentence >upon appeal Now that you mention it, I don't recall em ever posting eir apology. Too bad e deregistered. -root

DIS: BUS: Inflation

2007-10-28 Thread Kerim Aydin
comex wrote: > The AFO hereby initiates 10,000 inquiry cases, barring Zefram, for the=20 > statement: I say I do, therefore I do is a convenience, but it's not enshrined in the case of abuse, in particular if the difficulty it causes is greater than the convenience it allows. This does not seem

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Inflation

2007-10-28 Thread comex
On Sunday 28 October 2007, Zefram wrote: > I see you've graduated from merely bad play to outright destructive > play. > > -zefram Contrary to this claim, I'm not trying to be destructive. Rather, I'm creating a massive amount of Blue VCs, which temporarily make it much cheaper to modify VVLOP

DIS: Re: BUS: Inflation

2007-10-28 Thread Josiah Worcester
On Sunday 28 October 2007 16:09:39 comex wrote: > On behalf of the AFO: > The AFO hereby initiates 10,000 inquiry cases, barring Zefram, for the > statement: > - This is Sparta > I make the following proposal: Create a rule named "Judicial abuse", with power 1.4, with the following text: A

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Report stability

2007-10-28 Thread Ian Kelly
On 10/28/07, Levi Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >b) The stability of each office. Stability is a switch, so the IADoP is already required to track it for those offices for which it is non-Null. -root

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Report stability

2007-10-28 Thread Ed Murphy
Levi wrote: The IADoP's report includes the following: b) The stability of each office. Already covered by Rule 2162 (c).

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: IADOP Report

2007-10-28 Thread Levi Stephen
Ian Kelly wrote: On 10/28/07, Levi Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is someone responsible for tracking who the current Ministers Without Portfolio are and publishing this information? I can't see where this is in the rules. It's a patent title, so it's tracked by the Herald. -root Ok, th

Re: DIS: BUS: Inflation

2007-10-28 Thread comex
On Sunday 28 October 2007, Kerim Aydin wrote: > I say I do, therefore I do is a convenience, but it's not enshrined in > the case of abuse, in particular if the difficulty it causes is greater > than the convenience it allows. This does not seem to me to be clear > submission of 10,000 CFJs. > > I

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Report stability

2007-10-28 Thread Levi Stephen
Ed Murphy wrote: Levi wrote: The IADoP's report includes the following: b) The stability of each office. Already covered by Rule 2162 (c). Thanks (and root also for your answer) I was looking for something like that, but was looking in the officer's reporting rules. Levi

DIS: Re: BUS: AFO spending

2007-10-28 Thread comex
On Sunday 28 October 2007, Ed Murphy wrote: > The AFO spends 2 Red VCs to increase Murphy's Red VCs by 1. I gave you the VLOP; you could have given Levi or I the VC... signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Inflation

2007-10-28 Thread Ian Kelly
On 10/28/07, Josiah Worcester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 28 October 2007 16:09:39 comex wrote: > > On behalf of the AFO: > > The AFO hereby initiates 10,000 inquiry cases, barring Zefram, for > the > > statement: > > - This is Sparta > > > > I make the following proposal: > > Create a r

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: IADOP Report

2007-10-28 Thread Levi Stephen
Hmmm, I was probably meant to assign people to the prerogatives now that the proposal was adopted, but not being speaker since AFO's win, it's now eir reponsibility :) Levi Actually, I'm not sure this is the case. Speaker is the player who has held the title of Minister Without Portfolio t

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: IADOP Report

2007-10-28 Thread Zefram
Levi Stephen wrote: >Actually, I'm not sure this is the case. Speaker is the player who has held >the title of Minister Without Portfolio the longest. That's a three- or four-way tie. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Inflation

2007-10-28 Thread comex
On Sunday 28 October 2007, Ian Kelly wrote: > It was repealed a year ago because it was deemed restrictive and > unnecessary (apparently a mistake), and because crimes and infractions > were going out the window. No, it wasn't. Excess CFJs were in the ruleset immediately before the switch to cri

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: IADOP Report

2007-10-28 Thread Ian Kelly
On 10/28/07, Levi Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, I'm not sure this is the case. Speaker is the player who has held > the > title of Minister Without Portfolio the longest. > > So, I think Eris was Speaker? Now it might be root? Eris, because e's been registered longer. As to repo

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: AFO spending

2007-10-28 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: On Sunday 28 October 2007, Ed Murphy wrote: The AFO spends 2 Red VCs to increase Murphy's Red VCs by 1. I gave you the VLOP; you could have given Levi or I the VC... Yes, but now I can spend it on one of you guys.

Re: DIS: BUS: Inflation

2007-10-28 Thread Ian Kelly
On 10/28/07, comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 28 October 2007, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > I say I do, therefore I do is a convenience, but it's not enshrined in > > the case of abuse, in particular if the difficulty it causes is greater > > than the convenience it allows. This does not see

DIS: Re: BUS: Inflation

2007-10-28 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: On behalf of the AFO: The AFO hereby initiates 10,000 inquiry cases, barring Zefram, for the statement: - This is Sparta I recommend assigning chaotic ID numbers to these, if they are indeed successful.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Inflation

2007-10-28 Thread Ian Kelly
On 10/28/07, comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 28 October 2007, Ian Kelly wrote: > > It was repealed a year ago because it was deemed restrictive and > > unnecessary (apparently a mistake), and because crimes and infractions > > were going out the window. > > No, it wasn't. Excess CFJs

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

2007-10-28 Thread Ian Kelly
On 10/28/07, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ed Murphy wrote: > >Assessor's Voting Limits and Credits Report > > There should be some violet VCs floating around due to patent title > awards. And, presuming that that win on points actually occurred, a > violet VC loss for whoever lost the PT of

DIS: Re: BUS: Inflation

2007-10-28 Thread Kerim Aydin
root wrote: > It was over a year ago. My recollection is that there was some > discussion about whether Excess CFJs should be retained or not, but I > could be wrong. It was still in place around Jan-April 2007 when I was CotC. When CFJ 1610 came up there was discussion about removing it, but i

DIS: Re: BUS: Inflation

2007-10-28 Thread Zefram
Josiah Worcester wrote: >I make the following proposal: >The above 10,000 inquiry cases are removed from the game. "The above" only makes sense in the context of your message, and will be quite meaningless in the context of a proposal. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Inflation

2007-10-28 Thread Ian Kelly
On 10/28/07, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It was still in place around Jan-April 2007 when I was CotC. When > CFJ 1610 came up there was discussion about removing it, but it > didn't happen until some other time (maybe we all rightly thought > it was a bad idea to remove, and Zefram sl

DIS: BUS: Inflation

2007-10-28 Thread Kerim Aydin
comex wrote: > This seems destructive. It might deter some people (such as me) who > consider 100kb messages harmful to the game, but it wouldn't really change > the possibility of scams involving a large number of actions. Yes it would have, with you, you just admitted it. If you're going to p

DIS: Re: BUS: Inflation

2007-10-28 Thread Kerim Aydin
Pikhq: > All changes to the game state caused by these cases are > removed from the game. Including the changes contained in this sentence? :) -Goethe

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Inflation

2007-10-28 Thread comex
On Sunday 28 October 2007, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Pikhq: > > All changes to the game state caused by these cases are > > removed from the game. > > Including the changes contained in this sentence? :) > > -Goethe Non-emergency proposals ought not to use the word "gamestate" IMHO. signature.asc De

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: IADOP Report

2007-10-28 Thread comex
On 10/28/07, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/28/07, Levi Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, I'm not sure this is the case. Speaker is the player who has held > > the > > title of Minister Without Portfolio the longest. > > > > So, I think Eris was Speaker? Now it might b

DIS: Prerogatives

2007-10-28 Thread Levi Stephen
comex wrote: On 10/28/07, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/28/07, Levi Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Actually, I'm not sure this is the case. Speaker is the player who has held the title of Minister Without Portfolio the longest. So, I think Eris was Speaker? Now it might be roo

Re: DIS: Prerogatives

2007-10-28 Thread comex
On Sunday 28 October 2007, Levi Stephen wrote: > I assign the following prerogatives: NttPF signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: DIS: Prerogatives

2007-10-28 Thread comex
On Sunday 28 October 2007, Levi Stephen wrote: > > Now that the AFO has won it's you. Assign prerogatives! > > Ah, so it is. I thought root had been registered longer than me, but > that's not the case :) Besides, it's not you, it's root, so far as I can tell. :/ signature.asc Description: Thi

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: IADOP Report

2007-10-28 Thread Ian Kelly
On 10/28/07, comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/28/07, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/28/07, Levi Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Actually, I'm not sure this is the case. Speaker is the player who has > > > held the > > > title of Minister Without Portfolio the longe

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: IADOP Report

2007-10-28 Thread Ian Kelly
On 10/28/07, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now that the AFO has won it's you. Assign prerogatives! > > No, Levi was Speaker when the AFO won. Eris is Speaker now. And in any case, prerogatives can't be assigned until the beginning of the month. -root

DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ 1745a

2007-10-28 Thread Josiah Worcester
On Sunday 28 October 2007 16:42:51 Josiah Worcester wrote: > root argued that proposals are one possible method for creating > judicial cases with more than one subclass. I find this TRUE, > because a proposal, if agreed upon, can make explicit changes to the > gamestate. > > Consider the foll

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Inflation

2007-10-28 Thread Ed Murphy
Pikhq wrote: On 10/28/07, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Josiah Worcester wrote: I make the following proposal: The above 10,000 inquiry cases are removed from the game. "The above" only makes sense in the context of your message, and will be quite meaningless in the context of a proposal.

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

2007-10-28 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Assessor's Voting Limits and Credits Report There should be some violet VCs floating around due to patent title awards. And, presuming that that win on points actually occurred, a violet VC loss for whoever lost the PT of Minister Without Portfolio. I'll work