Re: DIS: Re: BUS: We have a new office

2012-07-09 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > Second, in general, attempting to perform an Agoran action by > announcement is not explicitly prohibited or regulated, thus by R101(i) > persons have the right to so attempt. Specific forms are ILLEGAL (e.g. > Endorsing Forgery), but then R101(v

DIS: Re: BUS: We have a new office

2012-07-09 Thread Ed Murphy
omd wrote: On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Alex Smith wrote: I assume Ambassador-At-Large. In other news, I hereby announce a new Nomic: Nomic 1 1. This is the ruleset for Nomic 1. omd is the only player of Nomic 1, and can amend these rules arbitrarily by posting a message with the new r

DIS: Re: BUS: We have a new office

2012-07-09 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 5:31 PM, ais523 wrote: > On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 17:13 -0700, omd wrote: >> If that's true, then deregistering someone violates their right to >> participate in the fora, since it disallows the vast majority of game >> actions. > Nonplayers don't have a right of participation

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: We have a new office

2012-07-09 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > Counterarguments: > > Those actions are intended to be disallowed for non-players. Arguments: I intend these actions to be disallowed for ais523.

DIS: Re: BUS: We have a new office

2012-07-09 Thread Ed Murphy
ais523 wrote: On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 17:13 -0700, omd wrote: If that's true, then deregistering someone violates their right to participate in the fora, since it disallows the vast majority of game actions. Nonplayers don't have a right of participation in the fora. Despite this not being exp

DIS: Re: BUS: We have a new office

2012-07-09 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 5:41 PM, ais523 wrote: > On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 17:13 -0700, omd wrote: >> "an attempt to perform any Agoran action" is much more general than >> "posting a message with the new ruleset". In any 'normal' nomic, you >> would not interpret a rule that says "posting a message w

DIS: Re: BUS: We have a new office

2012-07-09 Thread Ed Murphy
omd wrote: On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 5:00 PM, ais523 wrote: Arguments: I have several defences to this. First, even if this worked, both rule 478 and rule 101(v) give me the right to participate in the fora. So there's a higher-power rule allowing me to make posts to the fora. Prohibiting peopl

DIS: Re: BUS: We have a new office

2012-07-09 Thread Ed Murphy
omd wrote: On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Alex Smith wrote: I assume Ambassador-At-Large. In other news, I hereby announce a new Nomic: Nomic 1 1. This is the ruleset for Nomic 1. omd is the only player of Nomic 1, and can amend these rules arbitrarily by posting a message with the new r

DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 3242 (if exists) and 3243 assigned to ais523

2012-07-09 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 4:32 PM, ais523 wrote: > Regardless of whether the message has the right form to initiate a CFJ > or not (I think it might do, the effort required to decode it is not too > extreme), it doesn't contain a statement (the characters that appear > after the colon cannot reasonab

DIS: Re: BUS: Agora wears a Sad Hat

2012-07-09 Thread Benjamin Schultz
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > Did I *really* just come back from a weekend AFK and find out > that no-one wished Agora a happy 19th? > > For shame. > > Happy belated birthday, Agora. > > -G. > > > I've been a little busy lately. Okay, a LOT busy. Make that "busy with