Re: BUS: Re: DIS: audits

2009-10-12 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:50 PM, comex com...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Roger Hicks pidge...@gmail.com wrote: Perhapsmy program can be easily changed, though this really has nothing to do with automation, it has to do with how I (a human person) interpreted the

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: audits

2009-10-12 Thread comex
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Geoffrey Spear geoffsp...@gmail.com wrote: It matters when the person we elect as recordkeepor uses someone else's broken program and an annoying act-on-behalf system to avoid doing the job at all. then surely we can elect someone else as recordkeepor? -- -c.

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: audits

2009-10-12 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:02 AM, comex com...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Geoffrey Spear geoffsp...@gmail.com wrote: It matters when the person we elect as recordkeepor uses someone else's broken program and an annoying act-on-behalf system to avoid doing the job at all.

DIS: Re: BUS: Audit Card Destruction Cleanup

2009-10-12 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Roger Hicks pidge...@gmail.com wrote: When any other entity is audited the auditing entity (or the Accountor if the auditing entity is a non-person) CAN and SHALL as soon as possible (by announcement) I don't think the current rule is ambiguous at all. And

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Audit Card Destruction Cleanup

2009-10-12 Thread Roger Hicks
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 09:27, Geoffrey Spear geoffsp...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Roger Hicks pidge...@gmail.com wrote: When any other entity is audited the auditing entity (or the Accountor if the auditing entity is a non-person) CAN and SHALL as soon as possible (by

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Audit Card Destruction Cleanup

2009-10-12 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Roger Hicks pidge...@gmail.com wrote: Address: what if the auditing entity is a non-person? A non-person shouldn't be able to hold one of the Dealor offices or take an action such as playing a Penalty Box card. If it can, that's a bug.

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: audits

2009-10-12 Thread Roger Hicks
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 09:26, Geoffrey Spear geoffsp...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:02 AM, comex com...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Geoffrey Spear geoffsp...@gmail.com wrote: It matters when the person we elect as recordkeepor uses someone else's broken

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Audit Card Destruction Cleanup

2009-10-12 Thread Roger Hicks
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 09:34, Geoffrey Spear geoffsp...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Roger Hicks pidge...@gmail.com wrote: Address: what if the auditing entity is a non-person? A non-person shouldn't be able to hold one of the Dealor offices or take an action such as

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Audit Card Destruction Cleanup

2009-10-12 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Roger Hicks pidge...@gmail.com wrote: Irrelevant. The audit rule specifically attempts to address what would occur if there is no auditing entity (and by this we can only infer that the author's intent was non-person entity). Since it would be impossible for

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Audit Card Destruction Cleanup

2009-10-12 Thread comex
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Geoffrey Spear geoffsp...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Roger Hicks pidge...@gmail.com wrote: Irrelevant. The audit rule specifically attempts to address what would occur if there is no auditing entity (and by this we can only infer that

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Audit Card Destruction Cleanup

2009-10-12 Thread Roger Hicks
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:12, Geoffrey Spear geoffsp...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Roger Hicks pidge...@gmail.com wrote: Irrelevant. The audit rule specifically attempts to address what would occur if there is no auditing entity (and by this we can only infer that the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Audit Card Destruction Cleanup

2009-10-12 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:17 PM, comex com...@gmail.com wrote:      When a judicial question is applicable and open, and its case      has a judge assigned to it, the judge CAN assign a valid      judgement to it by announcement, and SHALL do so as soon as      possible, unless e is recused

DIS: Re: OFF: [Herald] The Scrolls of Agora

2009-10-12 Thread Charles Walker
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Roger Hicks pidge...@gmail.com wrote: ais523   Majority Leader Total: 1, Hand Limit: 5 Major Arcana cards do not affect Hand Limits. -- Charles Walker

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Herald] The Scrolls of Agora

2009-10-12 Thread Sean Hunt
Charles Walker wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Roger Hicks pidge...@gmail.com wrote: ais523 Majority Leader Total: 1, Hand Limit: 5 Major Arcana cards do not affect Hand Limits. They do, however, BobTHJ's reports are somewhat misleading as they imply that hand limits are on a

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Herald] The Scrolls of Agora

2009-10-12 Thread Charles Walker
coppro wrote: Charles Walker wrote: BobTHJ wrote: ais523  Majority Leader Total: 1, Hand Limit: 5 Major Arcana cards do not affect Hand Limits. They do, however, BobTHJ's reports are somewhat misleading as they imply that hand limits are on a per-deck basis, which they are not. They

DIS: Re: BUS: BobTHJ's Actions (automated)

2009-10-12 Thread Roger Hicks
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:35, Sean Hunt ride...@gmail.com wrote: pidge...@gmail.com wrote: Acting on behalf of Grand Poobah (if required): { coppro is dealt the following card(s) from the deck of Government: Lobbyist } Reason: Janitor weekly salary Fails, I wasn't the Janitor for last

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: BobTHJ's Actions (automated)

2009-10-12 Thread Sean Hunt
Roger Hicks wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:35, Sean Hunt ride...@gmail.com wrote: pidge...@gmail.com wrote: Acting on behalf of Grand Poobah (if required): { coppro is dealt the following card(s) from the deck of Government: Lobbyist } Reason: Janitor weekly salary Fails, I wasn't the

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Herald] The Scrolls of Agora

2009-10-12 Thread Sean Hunt
Roger Hicks wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:10, Charles Walker charles.w.wal...@googlemail.com wrote: coppro wrote: Charles Walker wrote: BobTHJ wrote: ais523 Majority Leader Total: 1, Hand Limit: 5 Major Arcana cards do not affect Hand Limits. They do, however, BobTHJ's reports are

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: BobTHJ's Actions (automated)

2009-10-12 Thread Sean Hunt
Roger Hicks wrote: For the week beginning Oct 12. Unless I recorded the date wrong you assumed the office of Janitor shortly before the new-week rollover: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:33 - coppro assumes the office of Janitor BobTHJ That was Walker. -coppro

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: BobTHJ's Actions (automated)

2009-10-12 Thread Roger Hicks
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:55, Sean Hunt ride...@gmail.com wrote: Roger Hicks wrote: For the week beginning Oct 12. Unless I recorded the date wrong you assumed the office of Janitor shortly before the new-week rollover: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:33 - coppro assumes the office of Janitor BobTHJ

DIS: Re: BUS: Accusations

2009-10-12 Thread Sean Hunt
Roger Hicks wrote: I contest all of these. Borrowing from the practice of the previous Insulator Murphy (a practice which was discussed on the lists and mutually agreed upon to be valid) I announced the validity of these NOVs as part of the weekly Insulator report. BobTHJ You did until you

DIS: Re: BUS: Accusations

2009-10-12 Thread Roger Hicks
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 13:59, Sean Hunt ride...@gmail.com wrote: Roger Hicks wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 13:45, Sean Hunt ride...@gmail.com wrote: I publish an NoV alleging that BobTHJ violated Rule 2230, a Power-2 Rule, by failing to announce publicly the validity of the NoV identified

DIS: Re: OFF: [Ambassador] NomicWiki

2009-10-12 Thread Ed Murphy
Walker wrote: NomicWiki has been updated as per my Ambassador duties. Any comments or requests for addition to the page are welcome. PerlNomic no longer participates. LiveNomic used to (I assume the recent claim to terminate/deregister the LNP were effective). The FRCommittee awards points

DIS: Re: OFF: [Ambassador] NomicWiki

2009-10-12 Thread Ed Murphy
Walker wrote: NomicWiki has been updated as per my Ambassador duties. Any comments or requests for addition to the page are welcome. Oh, and AgoraTheses should include http://www.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-business/2007-November/008338.html for a Bachelor of Nomic

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Protect intent

2009-10-12 Thread comex
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Ed Murphy emurph...@socal.rr.com wrote: Proposal:  Protect intent Amend Rule 2215 (Truthiness) by appending this text:      The above notwithstanding, a person stating that e intends to      perform an action in the future does not thereby violate this      

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Chamber (Caste Replacement)

2009-10-12 Thread Ed Murphy
Walker wrote: Chamber is a proposal switch, possessed only by proposals which are in the proposal pool or have an ongoing Agoran Decision to adopt them, tracked by the Promotor, with values Green (default), Red and Purple. In the same message in which a player

Re: DIS: NoV issue?

2009-10-12 Thread Ed Murphy
Sgeo wrote: [[A player CAN publish a Notice of Violation (with N support, where N is the number of valid un-Closed Notices of Violation e previously published during the same week, or by announcement if N is zero) alleging that a single entity (the Accused) has broken

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Accusations

2009-10-12 Thread Ed Murphy
Pavitra wrote: Roger Hicks wrote: I humbly request the CotC refuse the excess cases initiated above. That would effectively dismiss some of the charges; should the CotC have the power to arbitrarily impose an upper limit on the severity of criminal punishment? That sounds like a job for

DIS: Re: BUS: Epimenides is boring, wh at about Gödel?

2009-10-12 Thread Ed Murphy
Pavitra wrote: Note that both of the above CFJs are Disinterested. I believe that this is appropriate, since they appear to be trivially UNDECIDABLE and FALSE respectively. Crap, how did I miss this change? Will review archives and patch the DB; the possibly-affected CFJs are

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Chamber (Caste Replacement)

2009-10-12 Thread Sean Hunt
Ed Murphy wrote: Also, oi, another revision to the Assessor scripts (albeit a minor one). I do not believe that the effect on a programmer's ability to program the game state should be a valid reason why Agora should choose to support/oppose a given rules change. I haven't taken it into

DIS: Re: BUS: Epimenides is boring, wh at about Gödel?

2009-10-12 Thread Ed Murphy
I wrote: Pavitra wrote: Note that both of the above CFJs are Disinterested. I believe that this is appropriate, since they appear to be trivially UNDECIDABLE and FALSE respectively. Crap, how did I miss this change? Will review archives and patch the DB; the possibly-affected CFJs are

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 6517-6521

2009-10-12 Thread Ed Murphy
coppro wrote: 6520 O 1 1.0 ais523 Open-ended duties are bad FOR x 12 6521 O 0 1.0 BobTHJ Flag Anarchy FOR x 12 According to my records, your caste is Savage, and Wooble is Chief Whip. If you play cards to change your voting limit, please remind me to add some/all

DIS: Re: OFF: [Grand Poobah] Revised Caste report

2009-10-12 Thread Ed Murphy
Tiger wrote: Savage: (Voting Limit: 0) - ə coppro The LNP The Normish Partnership II *The People's Bank of Agora IBA CoE: The LNP was allegedly deregistered on Sat 10 Oct 12:35:05 UTC.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Chamber (Caste Replacement)

2009-10-12 Thread Ed Murphy
coppro wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Also, oi, another revision to the Assessor scripts (albeit a minor one). I do not believe that the effect on a programmer's ability to program the game state should be a valid reason why Agora should choose to support/oppose a given rules change. I haven't

DIS: Re: BUS: Recusals

2009-10-12 Thread comex
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Ed Murphy emurph...@socal.rr.com wrote: I recuse c. from CFJs 2696 and 2698 and make em supine. crap. I was going to make a big long judgement, even this is why I'm a terrible judge. -- -c.

DIS: Re: BUS: Recusals

2009-10-12 Thread Pavitra
Ed Murphy wrote: I recuse Pavitra from CFJs 2704 and 2706 and make em supine. Sorry about that, everyone. I might as well post my incomplete attempt at working through 2706: I accept the arguments by ehird and G. to the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Recusals

2009-10-12 Thread comex
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Pavitra celestialcognit...@gmail.com wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: I recuse Pavitra from CFJs 2704 and 2706 and make em supine. Sorry about that, everyone. I might as well post my incomplete attempt at working through 2706: Heh, here's mine: There is definitely

DIS: Minor update to CotC DB

2009-10-12 Thread Ed Murphy
Mostly in case it affects c.'s mirror: * matters.interest is now null for CFJs pre-dating IIs * viewcase.php and format.php both display II whenever it's non-null (Previously, these were 1 and not equal to 1 respectively.)

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Recusals

2009-10-12 Thread Ed Murphy
c. wrote: Heh, here's mine: Is this for 2696 or 2698 or both? I'm throwing it in as gratuitous arguments (already have done for Pavitra and 2706).

DIS: Judge status

2009-10-12 Thread Ed Murphy
There are still 10 inquiry cases and 3 criminal cases requiring judges, and we have all of 5 active non-supine players. Anyone else want to jump in before the next rotation?

DIS: Suggestion for the Janitor

2009-10-12 Thread Ed Murphy
R2215: s/that is effective/that it is thereby effective/

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Recusals

2009-10-12 Thread comex
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Ed Murphy emurph...@socal.rr.com wrote: Is this for 2696 or 2698 or both?  I'm throwing it in as gratuitous arguments (already have done for Pavitra and 2706). That was 2696; I didn't notice the linked case 2698. For the record I would have judged trivially

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Ratification of disclaimered documents

2009-10-12 Thread Sean Hunt
comex wrote: asset creation and destruction have the same weight? What if widgets are a class of position cards and a rule (over which R1551 takes precedence) says they can't be created? This one at least, is clear. R1551 takes precedence. -coppro

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Ratification of disclaimered documents

2009-10-12 Thread comex
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Ed Murphy emurph...@socal.rr.com wrote: [If e.g. a report saying X has either Y or Z widgets is ratified, then if X had Y widgets, then e still does; if X had Z widgets, then e still does; if X had neither Y nor Z widgets, then that needs to be sorted out by

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Ratification of disclaimered documents

2009-10-12 Thread Ed Murphy
c. wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Ed Murphy emurph...@socal.rr.com wrote: [If e.g. a report saying X has either Y or Z widgets is ratified, then if X had Y widgets, then e still does; if X had Z widgets, then e still does; if X had neither Y nor Z widgets, then that needs to be

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Ratification of disclaimered documents

2009-10-12 Thread comex
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Ed Murphy emurph...@socal.rr.com wrote: Again, these are arguably problems with the current version of the rule as well.  It might well be better to specify that any portion of the gamestate disclaimered in the document doesn't change. I would vote for this--

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Ratification of disclaimered documents

2009-10-12 Thread comex
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Sean Hunt ride...@gmail.com wrote: comex wrote: asset creation and destruction have the same weight?  What if widgets are a class of position cards and a rule (over which R1551 takes precedence) says they can't be created? This one at least, is clear. R1551