Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Flawless Victory

2011-06-29 Thread omd
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > I prefer the old version where the Champion was partial pragmatic; > awarded by the Herald (hopefully when e's pretty sure the dust has > settled) but the award fails if the win failed. Wasn't e technically violating an ASAP requirement by wa

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Flawless Victory

2011-06-29 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, omd wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > Personally, I'd be happy with: (a) Announce a win (b) Wait 4 days or a week > > to see if anyone calls a case about it, > > for that matter, what's wrong with the old system: (a) announce a win; > (b) win

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Flawless Victory

2011-06-29 Thread omd
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Personally, I'd be happy with: (a) Announce a win (b) Wait 4 days or a week > to see if anyone calls a case about it, for that matter, what's wrong with the old system: (a) announce a win; (b) win platonically succeeds or fails, and Champion

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Flawless Victory

2011-06-29 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, omd wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > >          Such declarations are self-ratifying > >          in terms of whether the indicated Victory Condition was met and > > that > >          the person(s) names as meeting the condition have in fact wo

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Flawless Victory

2011-06-29 Thread Sean Hunt
On 06/29/11 19:36, omd wrote: On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: Such declarations are self-ratifying in terms of whether the indicated Victory Condition was met and that the person(s) names as meeting the condition have in fact won the g

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Flawless Victory

2011-06-29 Thread omd
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: >          Such declarations are self-ratifying >          in terms of whether the indicated Victory Condition was met and that >          the person(s) names as meeting the condition have in fact won the >          game. ...but are always false

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Happy birthday!

2011-06-29 Thread Chuck Carroll
At 09:56 PM 6/29/2011, you wrote: >On 06/29/11 18:23, Chuck Carroll wrote: >>I send many warm wishes to Agora and to all current and former Agorans on the >>occasion of Agora's 18th birthday. >> >>Looking over the ruleset, I find myself doubly astonished at its state, >>compared to its state when

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Enforcement Enforcement

2011-06-29 Thread Ed Murphy
omd wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Charles Walker > wrote: >> If a player violates a Rule by failing to meet the requirements >> of an office, such as performing eir weekly or monthly duties, >> then the IADoP SHALL initiate a valid criminal case on the >> matter as

Re: DIS: This message may not have been sent by

2011-06-29 Thread Ed Murphy
G. wrote: > Pine FTW! Gah, I remember some of my earliest messages being botched due to CLI mail reader issues (I think it was actually /bin/mail).

DIS: Re: BUS: Happy birthday!

2011-06-29 Thread Sean Hunt
On 06/29/11 18:23, Chuck Carroll wrote: I send many warm wishes to Agora and to all current and former Agorans on the occasion of Agora's 18th birthday. Looking over the ruleset, I find myself doubly astonished at its state, compared to its state when I was last a player many years ago: I am a

DIS: Re: BUS: Registration

2011-06-29 Thread Ed Murphy
Joshua Murphy wrote: > I hereby register with the nickname of Math321. No relation.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Flawless Victory

2011-06-29 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, omd wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 3:36 AM, Charles Walker > wrote: > >      A person can publish a Declaration of Victory by announcement, > >      explaining the Victory Condition they believe they have met and > >      how they met it. If a Victory Case is initiated reg

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Enforcement Enforcement

2011-06-29 Thread Joshua Murphy
- Original Message - From: Kerim Aydin To: Agora Discussion Cc: Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 7:31 PM Subject: Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Enforcement Enforcement On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, ais523 wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 12:35 -0400, omd wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Charles W

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Enforcement Enforcement

2011-06-29 Thread ais523
On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 16:31 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, ais523 wrote: > > Replace "the IADoP" with "Wooble", and I'd be in favour of it. > > I submit the following proposal, "might as well": > Enact a Rule with the following text: "Wooble is the Pariah." The idea was more

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Flawless Victory

2011-06-29 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, omd wrote: > What benefit does this offer versus victory cases? Because Walker won last week, there's absolutely no controversy over the win, and e's probably at least a week away (still) from being recognized through an overwrought and unnecessary? (Was writing to agree w

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

2011-06-29 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Sean Hunt wrote: > On 11-06-10 09:28 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > >GRAND HERO OF AGORA NOMIC > > Peter Suber, Chuck Carroll, Douglas Hofstadter > > > > HERO OF AGORA NOMIC > > Murphy >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Enforcement Enforcement

2011-06-29 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, ais523 wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 12:35 -0400, omd wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Charles Walker > > wrote: > > > If a player violates a Rule by failing to meet the requirements > > > of an office, such as performing eir weekly or monthly duties, >

Re: DIS: This message may not have been sent by

2011-06-29 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Elliott Hird wrote: > On 29 June 2011 10:03, Aaron Goldfein wrote: > > Not to my own messages, but I am getting that warning from all > > messages sent by you. > > ditto Pine FTW!

DIS: Re: BUS: You're a man^Wnomic now!

2011-06-29 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Sean Hunt > wrote: > > I come off hold. > > > > Proposal: 18th Birthday Bash > > {{{ > > Award the patent title "Coming of Age" to every person who was an active > > player at some point during Agora's 18th Birthday. > >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Happy birthday!

2011-06-29 Thread Joshua Murphy
From: omd To: agora-discussion@agoranomic.org Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 6:51 PM Subject: Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Happy birthday! On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Joshua Murphy wrote: > Seconded. > > -Math321 aka Joshua aka Math321 FYI, you're still not sending in plain text.   -

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Happy birthday!

2011-06-29 Thread omd
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Joshua Murphy wrote: > Seconded. > > -Math321 aka Joshua aka Math321 FYI, you're still not sending in plain text.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Flawless Victory

2011-06-29 Thread omd
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 3:36 AM, Charles Walker wrote: >      A person can publish a Declaration of Victory by announcement, >      explaining the Victory Condition they believe they have met and >      how they met it. If a Victory Case is initiated regarding a >      Declaration of Victory, no D

DIS: Re: BUS: Happy birthday!

2011-06-29 Thread Joshua Murphy
From: Aaron Goldfein To: agora-busin...@agoranomic.org Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 3:45 PM Subject: BUS: Happy birthday! Seconded. -Math321 aka Joshua aka Math321 Happy 18th birthday, Agora! Since Agora is now a

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Happy birthday!

2011-06-29 Thread Jonathan Rouillard
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Sean Hunt wrote: > On 06/29/11 12:45, Aaron Goldfein wrote: >> >> Agora can make its own decisions. If, at any time, Agora wishes to >> counteract a decision, then that decision, rules to the contrary >> notwithstanding, has no effect. The game of Agora, but not an

DIS: Re: BUS: Happy birthday!

2011-06-29 Thread Jonathan Rouillard
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Aaron Goldfein wrote: > Happy 18th birthday, Agora! > > Since Agora is now a legal adult in most countries, I think it's > appropriate that we stop telling it what to do and let the game decide > for itself how to alter its ruleset, gamestate, etc. > > Proposal: Ag

Re: DIS: This message may not have been sent by

2011-06-29 Thread Jonathan Rouillard
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > I'm now seeing this on the first message in any thread to the lists if > it was posted by a gmail user. I wonder if gmail's suddenly not liking > how the mailing list is resending messages "from" gmail users. > That must be it. =) ~ Roujo

DIS: Re: BUS: Happy birthday!

2011-06-29 Thread Sean Hunt
On 06/29/11 12:45, Aaron Goldfein wrote: Agora can make its own decisions. If, at any time, Agora wishes to counteract a decision, then that decision, rules to the contrary notwithstanding, has no effect. The game of Agora, but not any player of it, can make arbitrary changes to the gamestate.

DIS: Re: BUS: Happy birthday, Agora!

2011-06-29 Thread Tanner Swett
I send the public message ais523 sent approximately one hour and one minute ago with a subject line containing "Happy birthday, Agora!". —Tanner L. Swett

DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday

2011-06-29 Thread Joshua Murphy
- Original Message - From: Eric Stucky To: Business Cc: Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 2:24 PM Subject: BUS: Birthday Happy Birthday! (and hurray to me for being oblivious to timezones! Woot!) I Dance a Powerful Dance. > Happy Birthday Agora! I support. > I award myself a Magenta R

DIS: Re: BUS: Happy birthday, Agora!

2011-06-29 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > I award myself a Magenta Ribbon. I play GGAGCB GGAGDC GGGECBA FFECDC.

DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday

2011-06-29 Thread Joshua Murphy
- Original Message - From: Charles Walker To: agora-business Cc: Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 2:13 PM Subject: BUS: Birthday Happy Birthday Agora! -- Charles Walker - Original Message ends - HAPPY BIRTHDAY! *Blows party blower thingy.*

Re: DIS: Election Proto

2011-06-29 Thread Eric Stucky
> Proto-proposal: > > {{ Unfortunately, babies will die (AI 3) > > Amend Rule 2154 (Election Procedure) by replacing the final paragraph with: > > A valid vote in an election consists of an ordered list of valid > votes (possibly only one). This is problematic. I'm basing the rest of

DIS: Re: BUS: You're a man^Wnomic now!

2011-06-29 Thread Joshua Murphy
- Original Message - From: Sean Hunt To: agora-busin...@agoranomic.org Cc: Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 2:10 PM Subject: BUS: You're a man^Wnomic now! I come off hold. Proposal: 18th Birthday Bash {{{ Award the patent title "Coming of Age" to every person who was an active player a

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

2011-06-29 Thread Sean Hunt
On 11-06-10 09:28 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: GRAND HERO OF AGORA NOMIC Peter Suber, Chuck Carroll, Douglas Hofstadter HERO OF AGORA NOMIC Murphy These should be moved to the forefront. -scshunt

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal

2011-06-29 Thread Charles Walker
On 29 June 2011 17:54, omd wrote: > Proposal: Victory case changes (AI=1.7) Please could you word this not to clash with my related proposal? You just need to change the first line to "If X has been adopted, replace the second paragraph, otherwise the first, with". -- Charles Walker

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Enforcement Enforcement

2011-06-29 Thread ais523
On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 12:35 -0400, omd wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Charles Walker > wrote: > > If a player violates a Rule by failing to meet the requirements > > of an office, such as performing eir weekly or monthly duties, > > then the IADoP SHALL initiate a valid c

DIS: Re: BUS: Enforcement Enforcement

2011-06-29 Thread omd
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Charles Walker wrote: >      If a player violates a Rule by failing to meet the requirements >      of an office, such as performing eir weekly or monthly duties, >      then the IADoP SHALL initiate a valid criminal case on the >      matter as soon as possible af

Re: DIS: This message may not have been sent by

2011-06-29 Thread omd
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > I'm now seeing this on the first message in any thread to the lists if > it was posted by a gmail user. I wonder if gmail's suddenly not liking > how the mailing list is resending messages "from" gmail users. I bug reported it.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Chamber CFJ

2011-06-29 Thread Sean Hunt
On 11-06-29 09:31 AM, omd wrote: On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Sean Hunt wrote: I intend, with two support, to file a motion to reconsider. While I'm not sure if I agree at all with the conclusion that AI is a useless property, I would note that any comparison against an undefined value is,

DIS: Re: BUS: Chamber CFJ

2011-06-29 Thread omd
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Sean Hunt wrote: > I intend, with two support, to file a motion to reconsider. While I'm not > sure if I agree at all with the conclusion that AI is a useless property, I > would note that any comparison against an undefined value is, by convention, > false where

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Chamber CFJ

2011-06-29 Thread Sean Hunt
On 11-06-29 09:03 AM, Charles Walker wrote: On 29 June 2011 16:51, Sean Hunt wrote: On 11-06-29 02:32 AM, Charles Walker wrote: I CFJ on "Chamber is a switch." Arguments: FALSE as no officer tracks it. The same goes for adoption index, which means that no recent proposals have actually had a

DIS: Re: BUS: Chamber CFJ

2011-06-29 Thread Charles Walker
On 29 June 2011 16:51, Sean Hunt wrote: > On 11-06-29 02:32 AM, Charles Walker wrote: >> >> I CFJ on "Chamber is a switch." >> >> Arguments: FALSE as no officer tracks it. The same goes for adoption >> index, which means that no recent proposals have actually had an >> adoption index. This might m

Re: DIS: This message may not have been sent by

2011-06-29 Thread Geoffrey Spear
I'm now seeing this on the first message in any thread to the lists if it was posted by a gmail user. I wonder if gmail's suddenly not liking how the mailing list is resending messages "from" gmail users.

DIS: Re: BUS: Chamber CFJ

2011-06-29 Thread omd
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:32 AM, Charles Walker wrote: > I CFJ on "Chamber is a switch." > > Arguments: FALSE as no officer tracks it. The same goes for adoption > index, which means that no recent proposals have actually had an > adoption index. This might mean that proposals with a simple majori

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Registration

2011-06-29 Thread Elliott Hird
On 29 June 2011 14:48, Joshua Murphy wrote: > Is this better? For now, I can't do the > thing, but at least I've figured > out how to do plain text. This is better, although your style of quoting is a bit confusing/wastes some space in at least my mail client. Nevertheless, not very important, a

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Registration

2011-06-29 Thread Joshua Murphy
- Original Message - From: Elliott Hird To: agora-discussion@agoranomic.org Cc: Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 10:21 PM Subject: Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Registration By the way, no need to be sorry; many new players have problems sending their emails right to start with. Welcome! :)

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Registration

2011-06-29 Thread Joshua Murphy
From: Elliott Hird To: agora-discussion@agoranomic.org Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 10:20 PM Subject: Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Registration On 29 June 2011 01:03, Joshua Murphy wrote: > Sorry again. I'm kinda new at this. I'll use a divider made out of -'s from > now on. Anybody know a way to make yaho

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Registration

2011-06-29 Thread Joshua Murphy
From: ais523 To: agora-discussion@agoranomic.org Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 8:11 PM Subject: Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Registration I can't get to mail classic, Yahoo removed the option to use it because they're "strongly encouraging" people to use the new interface. Also, since I'm not using mai

Re: DIS: This message may not have been sent by

2011-06-29 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Charles Walker wrote: > Are any other Gmail users getting an annoying "This message may not > have been sent by:" at the top of all of their own messages to the > lists? Does this mean that Walker's claims of identity in messages for the next month don't self-rati

Re: DIS: This message may not have been sent by

2011-06-29 Thread Charles Walker
On 29 June 2011 13:17, Elliott Hird wrote: > On 29 June 2011 11:49, Charles Walker wrote: >> It was @googlemail.com but I changed it to @gmail.com a while back. I >> can still sign in as @googlemail.com though, and messages sent to >> either address work. > > It's gone now. Did you change somethi

Re: DIS: This message may not have been sent by

2011-06-29 Thread Elliott Hird
On 29 June 2011 11:49, Charles Walker wrote: > It was @googlemail.com but I changed it to @gmail.com a while back. I > can still sign in as @googlemail.com though, and messages sent to > either address work. It's gone now. Did you change something?

Re: DIS: This message may not have been sent by

2011-06-29 Thread Jonathan Rouillard
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:03 AM, Aaron Goldfein wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 03:54, Charles Walker > wrote: >> Are any other Gmail users getting an annoying "This message may not >> have been sent by:" at the top of all of their own messages to the >> lists? >> >> -- >> Charles Walker >> > >

Re: DIS: This message may not have been sent by

2011-06-29 Thread Charles Walker
On 29 June 2011 11:30, Elliott Hird wrote: > On 29 June 2011 11:19, Charles Walker wrote: >> Just through https://mail.google.com, as per usual. > > Would your account happen to be @googlemail.com rather than > @gmail.com? Or have a different number of dots in its "true" name? > It was @googlema

Re: DIS: This message may not have been sent by

2011-06-29 Thread Elliott Hird
On 29 June 2011 11:19, Charles Walker wrote: > Just through https://mail.google.com, as per usual. Would your account happen to be @googlemail.com rather than @gmail.com? Or have a different number of dots in its "true" name?

Re: DIS: This message may not have been sent by

2011-06-29 Thread Charles Walker
On 29 June 2011 11:09, Elliott Hird wrote: > On 29 June 2011 10:03, Aaron Goldfein wrote: >> Not to my own messages, but I am getting that warning from all >> messages sent by you. > > ditto > > How are you sending them? > Just through https://mail.google.com, as per usual. -- Charles Walker

Re: DIS: This message may not have been sent by

2011-06-29 Thread Elliott Hird
On 29 June 2011 10:03, Aaron Goldfein wrote: > Not to my own messages, but I am getting that warning from all > messages sent by you. ditto How are you sending them?

Re: DIS: This message may not have been sent by

2011-06-29 Thread Aaron Goldfein
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 03:54, Charles Walker wrote: > Are any other Gmail users getting an annoying "This message may not > have been sent by:" at the top of all of their own messages to the > lists? > > -- > Charles Walker > Not to my own messages, but I am getting that warning from all message

DIS: This message may not have been sent by

2011-06-29 Thread Charles Walker
Are any other Gmail users getting an annoying "This message may not have been sent by:" at the top of all of their own messages to the lists? -- Charles Walker

DIS: Election Proto

2011-06-29 Thread Charles Walker
Proto-proposal: {{ Unfortunately, babies will die (AI 3) Amend Rule 2154 (Election Procedure) by replacing the final paragraph with: A valid vote in an election consists of an ordered list of valid votes (possibly only one). The voter is initially considered to have chosen the

DIS: Re: BUS: Registration

2011-06-29 Thread Charles Walker
On 28 June 2011 18:12, Joshua Murphy wrote: > I hereby register with the nickname of Math321. Welcome! -- Charles Walker