Re: DIS: BUS: Card trades

2009-09-08 Thread Sean Hunt
Pavitra wrote: Come to think of it, I'm unlikely to use Minister without Portfolio either. I think the Major Arcana are tradeable. They are. -coppro

Re: DIS: BUS: Card trades

2009-09-08 Thread Pavitra
ais523 wrote: > Because the banks are kind-of weird to understand right now, let's > settle for some old-fashioned haggling. > > I'm willing to consider trading the following cards for something of > roughly equal value: > > Distrib-u-matics > Kill Bills (redundant for me atm) > Roll Calls > > A

Re: DIS: Agora: the Movie

2009-09-08 Thread Pavitra
Ian Kelly wrote: > http://agorathemovie.com/ > > Strangely, it doesn't seem to cover the Mousetrap or any of Agora's > other defining moments. When was the last time any movie adapation was remotely faithful to the source material? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ

2009-09-08 Thread Pavitra
Kerim Aydin wrote: > Interesting. Making random choices is one of those things that used to > be covered by the Rules, but it was repealed because a precedent was > straightforward. All of R1079's (a-e) below are reasonable precedents > where the rules are silent (especially as (e) defers to the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ

2009-09-08 Thread Sean Hunt
Kerim Aydin wrote: On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Sean Hunt wrote: Kerim Aydin wrote: (d) For the purposes of this Rule, tossing a platonic solid that is not specially weighted has a probability distribution among the possible outcomes that is reasonably close to unifor

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ

2009-09-08 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Sean Hunt wrote: > Kerim Aydin wrote: >> (d) For the purposes of this Rule, tossing a platonic solid that >> is not specially weighted has a probability distribution >> among the possible outcomes that is reasonably close to >> uniform. > > M

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ

2009-09-08 Thread Sean Hunt
Kerim Aydin wrote: (d) For the purposes of this Rule, tossing a platonic solid that is not specially weighted has a probability distribution among the possible outcomes that is reasonably close to uniform. Mmm... vague definition of "toss". -coppro

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ

2009-09-08 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, ais523 wrote: > On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 15:56 -0500, Pavitra wrote: >> Either the rule is broken platonically (UNDETERMINED is appropriate), or >> it's broken pragmatically (it's possible to exploit it as I described). >> In no case is it working properly. > > I see what you mean

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Three-tier voting limits

2009-09-08 Thread Sean Hunt
Ed Murphy wrote: Wooble wrote: On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Roger Hicks wrote: With as easy as it is to democratize and/or veto a proposal using cards why not just make all proposal-decisions ordinary by default? Because then when someone breaks dependent actions you can just submit N+1 hi

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Three-tier voting limits

2009-09-08 Thread Ed Murphy
Wooble wrote: > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Roger Hicks wrote: >> With as easy as it is to democratize and/or veto a proposal using >> cards why not just make all proposal-decisions ordinary by default? > > Because then when someone breaks dependent actions you can just submit > N+1 high-AI p

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Three-tier voting limits

2009-09-08 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Roger Hicks wrote: > With as easy as it is to democratize and/or veto a proposal using > cards why not just make all proposal-decisions ordinary by default? Because then when someone breaks dependent actions you can just submit N+1 high-AI proposals where N is the n

Re: DIS: Agora: the Movie

2009-09-08 Thread Elliott Hird
2009/9/8 Aaron Goldfein : > Well, you know movies these days; they're nothing but sex and violence. You forgot drug abuse. Also Poland.

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Three-tier voting limits

2009-09-08 Thread Roger Hicks
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 10:12, Ed Murphy wrote: > Proposal:  Three-tier voting limits > (AI = 3, please) > With as easy as it is to democratize and/or veto a proposal using cards why not just make all proposal-decisions ordinary by default? BobTHJ

Re: DIS: BUS: Personal Actions

2009-09-08 Thread Roger Hicks
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 08:52, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: > 2009/9/5 Jonatan Kilhamn : >> 2009/9/4 Roger Hicks : >>> I play Lobbyist x4 to increase my caste to Alpha. >>> >> Fails, Lobbyist can only increase other players' caste. >> >> -- >> -Tiger >> > Which means that you had 11 cards when auditing y

Re: DIS: Agora: the Movie

2009-09-08 Thread Aaron Goldfein
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Ian Kelly wrote: > http://agorathemovie.com/ > > Strangely, it doesn't seem to cover the Mousetrap or any of Agora's > other defining moments. > > -root > Well, you know movies these days; they're nothing but sex and violence.

DIS: BUS: Card trades

2009-09-08 Thread ais523
Because the banks are kind-of weird to understand right now, let's settle for some old-fashioned haggling. I'm willing to consider trading the following cards for something of roughly equal value: Distrib-u-matics Kill Bills (redundant for me atm) Roll Calls Anyone who wants any of these, sugges

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ

2009-09-08 Thread ais523
On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 15:56 -0500, Pavitra wrote: > Either the rule is broken platonically (UNDETERMINED is appropriate), or > it's broken pragmatically (it's possible to exploit it as I described). > In no case is it working properly. I see what you mean... I'm inclined to think it's broken plato