Re: DIS: Re: BUS: The Bank of Agora

2008-04-11 Thread ihope
On 11/04/2008, comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 6:00 PM, ihope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I agree to the following, to become a contract as soon as one other > > person agrees to it: > > Just because you don't have to proto contracts doesn't mean you shouldn't.. I

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: The Bank of Agora

2008-04-11 Thread Taral
On 4/11/08, ihope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I make the change. Also, I intend to change "The Banker who has been a > Banker for the longest period of time shall ensure that this contract > fulfills all of its obligations." to "The Bankers shall ensure that > this contract fulfills all of its ob

DIS: Re: BUS: The Bank of Agora

2008-04-11 Thread comex
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 6:00 PM, ihope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree to the following, to become a contract as soon as one other > person agrees to it: Just because you don't have to proto contracts doesn't mean you shouldn't..

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: The Bank of Agora

2008-04-11 Thread Benjamin Schultz
On Apr 11, 2008, at 6:43 PM, ihope wrote: On 11/04/2008, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 4:00 PM, ihope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The Bank needs to be a party to the Agoran Agricultural Association before it can hold Crops and Water Rights Vouchers; since these

DIS: Re: BUS: The Bank of Agora

2008-04-11 Thread ihope
On 11/04/2008, Roger Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This could lead to a lot of changes, and a difficulty in knowing the > current exchange rates. What about allowing Bankers to increment or > decrement by a fixed value and then have all those changes occur at a > set interval (say once per

DIS: Re: BUS: The Bank of Agora

2008-04-11 Thread Ben Caplan
On Friday 11 April 2008 5:00 ihope wrote: > The Bank needs to be a party to the Agoran Agricultural Association > before it can hold Crops and Water Rights Vouchers; since these are > almost the only liquid currency we have, this is pretty important. If > you agree to this, make sure you have it jo

DIS: Re: BUS: The Bank of Agora

2008-04-11 Thread Ian Kelly
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 4:00 PM, ihope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If a currency has a deposit rate, a person can exchange X instances of > that currency for Y pens, where Y is X divided by the deposit rate for > the currency, rounded down. The currency is transferred to the Bank of > Agora an

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Notary Report, Take 1

2008-04-11 Thread Taral
On 4/11/08, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The set of parties to the Pineapple Partnership is now, and has been > since 14 June 2007, { Zefram, comex }. No surprise there. :) -- Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Please let me know if there's any further trouble I can give you." -- Unknown

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Shruggery

2008-04-11 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:24 PM, ihope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm already a user. When I became a user, I had not had reasonable > > opportunity to review the PNP (I don't think I'd heard of it); now I > > have.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Shruggery

2008-04-11 Thread ihope
On 11/04/2008, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you not read metarules.txt? > > 7. Players agree to be bound by the terms of the Contracts in the Contracts > directory. I don't think I did, no. --Ivan Hope CXXVII

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Shruggery

2008-04-11 Thread Ian Kelly
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:24 PM, ihope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm already a user. When I became a user, I had not had reasonable > opportunity to review the PNP (I don't think I'd heard of it); now I > have. My message above constituted explicit, willful consent, which > makes me a party

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Shruggery

2008-04-11 Thread ihope
On 11/04/2008, Geoffrey Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 2:12 PM, ihope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I join the PerlNomic Partnership. > > You can't join by announcement, you need to use PerlNomic's adduser mechanism. > http://nomic.info/perlnomic I'm already a user. Wh

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Shruggery

2008-04-11 Thread Ian Kelly
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Geoffrey Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 2:12 PM, ihope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I join the PerlNomic Partnership. > > You can't join by announcement, you need to use PerlNomic's adduser > mechanism. > http://nomic.info/perlnomi

DIS: Re: BUS: Shruggery

2008-04-11 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 2:12 PM, ihope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I join the PerlNomic Partnership. You can't join by announcement, you need to use PerlNomic's adduser mechanism. http://nomic.info/perlnomic

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: AAA offer (and proposal!)

2008-04-11 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, comex wrote: >> One thought I had is that >> an informal statement that doesn't use the word "contract" or "binding" >> might become binding only when the first part of the exchange takes place >> (rather than when someone says "okay" off the cuff). > I don't think there's any

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: AAA offer (and proposal!)

2008-04-11 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, comex wrote: > {{ > 1. comex is the only party to this contract. > }} > it would be sufficient to identify the contract as a pledge, since no > other type of contract besides a location allows only one party. This is where I disagree. R1742 allows an arbitrary type of contr

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: AAA offer

2008-04-11 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 6:08 AM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> As ihope pointed out, you have to use the word "pledge" for it to be a >> pledge, the rule says so (I didn't know that). > > I think I've been doing that with my pledges, but I've

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: AAA offer

2008-04-11 Thread Ian Kelly
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 6:08 AM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As ihope pointed out, you have to use the word "pledge" for it to be a > pledge, the rule says so (I didn't know that). I think I've been doing that with my pledges, but I've been verbing it. Does that count? -root

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: Notary Report, Take 1

2008-04-11 Thread ihope
On 10/04/2008, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can this part be table-ified? Maybe with the members listed in the > same section. What do you mean? Make a table with the contracts as rows and people as columns and put an X wherever the person is a party to the contract? --Ivan Hope CXXV

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: AAA offer

2008-04-11 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, comex wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, ihope wrote: >> > If Eris gives me up to four 4 crops within seven days, I agree to, as >> > soon as possible, give Eris the same number of 9 crops in exchange. >