Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Brief for Moot on CFJ 3429

2014-10-23 Thread omd
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:32 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > H. omd, > > Are the unterminated "'s a copy-pasted error, or is weird string > termination part of your fiendish scheme here? Just a (rather ugly) copy+paste mistake.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Brief for Moot on CFJ 3429

2014-10-23 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 22 Oct 2014, omd wrote: > I hereby retract my brief, recommending TRUE as part of the retraction. > I publish the following brief: "I recommend FALSE. > I hereby retract my brief, recommending TRUE as part of the retraction. > I publish the following brief: "I recommend FALSE. > I hereby

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: 4 CFJs

2014-10-23 Thread omd
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Linked, you think? -G. The last three, maybe. The first one is independent and shouldn't be.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Fast Track

2014-10-23 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014, Kerim Aydin wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2014, Eritivus wrote: I guess the power of rules enacted by illicit fast track ratification actually can't be more than 3, since the fast track rule has power 3? So not as worrisome as I thought. If you want to make higher-powered rules

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: A little briefer than hoped

2014-10-23 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014, Alex Smith wrote: > On Thu, 2014-10-23 at 15:06 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > I'm interested in how trapped it makes the Case itself, though, > > as a mechanism. Can't be resolved after 14 days, but can't be > > restarted either. > A long time ago, I went to quite a bit of e

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: A little briefer than hoped

2014-10-23 Thread Alex Smith
On Thu, 2014-10-23 at 15:06 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > I'm interested in how trapped it makes the Case itself, though, > as a mechanism. Can't be resolved after 14 days, but can't be > restarted either. A long time ago, I went to quite a bit of effort to set up a CFJ that nobody was obligated to

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: A little briefer than hoped

2014-10-23 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014, Alex Smith wrote: > On Thu, 2014-10-23 at 14:37 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > By the way, my own way of monkeying with the Moot process > > is just failing to resolve it within the 14 day Notice > > dependency window. It's not clear at all what happens then! > > It may le

DIS: Re: BUS: 4 CFJs

2014-10-23 Thread Kerim Aydin
Linked, you think? -G. On Thu, 23 Oct 2014, omd wrote: > At this point, the present Moot is clearly not going to end with > resolution of the issues involved. Therefore, I call: > > CFJ: The original version of Rule 2437 (The Dungeon Master) generally > allows/allowed the Dungeon Master to se

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: A little briefer than hoped

2014-10-23 Thread Alex Smith
On Thu, 2014-10-23 at 14:37 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > By the way, my own way of monkeying with the Moot process > is just failing to resolve it within the 14 day Notice > dependency window. It's not clear at all what happens then! > It may leave the case in permanent limbo... that's bad > ru

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: A little briefer than hoped

2014-10-23 Thread Kerim Aydin
By the way, my own way of monkeying with the Moot process is just failing to resolve it within the 14 day Notice dependency window. It's not clear at all what happens then! It may leave the case in permanent limbo... that's bad rule writing on my part. -G.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: A little briefer than hoped

2014-10-23 Thread omd
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > In any case, I hope that the resulting actual /verdict/ of the judgement > ends up completely irrelevant and doesn't guide gameplay, especially > because we're still debating what actually /happened/. I think the verdict of this particular Moot

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: A little briefer than hoped

2014-10-23 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014, Alex Smith wrote: > Proto: remove TRUE/FALSE/DISMISS verdicts from judgements, just have the > judge's reasoning. I think we should encourage some endpoint or "point of decision" somehow. I'm not sure it hurts to have T/F/D. For example, there's been plenty of times where

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: A little briefer than hoped

2014-10-23 Thread Alex Smith
On Thu, 2014-10-23 at 17:12 -0400, omd wrote: > With the "house rules" interpretation I think there is an implicit > assumption that the judgement must actually have been made in good > faith, following a reasonable process, etc. Your statement here > suggests that a judgement would have to be tak

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: A little briefer than hoped

2014-10-23 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014, omd wrote: > that just leads to the kind of Lindrum World type scams snap!

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: A little briefer than hoped

2014-10-23 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014, Alex Smith wrote: > On Thu, 2014-10-23 at 09:46 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > I think about judgements like House Rules. > > > > For any boardgame, when the Rules are unclear, you have to figure out how > > to play. So everyone argues, and either you come to some consens

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: A little briefer than hoped

2014-10-23 Thread omd
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > There are a few possible interpretations of what that action just did. > With my view on matters, what it does is to cause the CFJ to have to be > decided TRUE, while its statement is actually FALSE; in other words, it > simply causes us to have

DIS: Re: Two Days to Bet... place bets please!

2014-10-23 Thread Kerim Aydin
CORRECTED RESULTS FROM LAST WEEK LAST WEEK'S RESULTS GNP: 36 ODDS for 27-36: 7 to 4 Sprocklem bet 70 returning 193 Tiger bet 30 returning 83 Sprocklem bet 30 on losing bets. Tiger bet 70 on losing bets. CURRENT PURSES PLAYERBET WON TAKE

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Minister for GNP Evaluation] Weekly GNP Analysis Report

2014-10-23 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Thu, 23 Oct 2014, omd wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > So the dice server sent a message via the public forum. Isn't that > > > the definition of a public message? What am I missing? > > > > I think the idea is t

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Minister for GNP Evaluation] Weekly GNP Analysis Report

2014-10-23 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014, omd wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > So the dice server sent a message via the public forum. Isn't that > > the definition of a public message? What am I missing? > > I think the idea is that since the dice server's message contains a > ful

Re: DIS: Two Days to Bet... place bets please!

2014-10-23 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
On 23 October 2014 22:10, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > ODDS for CURRENT WEEK'S GNP > > Bet up to 100 Florins via Discussion or Private Message > > BETTING CLOSES 24 HOURS BEFORE WEEK ENDS (SATURDAY 23:59:59.... GMT) > > GNPODDS > 43+10 to 1 > 37-42 2 to 1 >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Minister for GNP Evaluation] Weekly GNP Analysis Report

2014-10-23 Thread omd
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > So the dice server sent a message via the public forum. Isn't that > the definition of a public message? What am I missing? I think the idea is that since the dice server's message contains a full copy of your message, it would count as two

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Minister for GNP Evaluation] Weekly GNP Analysis Report

2014-10-23 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014, omd wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > But it DOESN'T say that a non-person can "publish" anything. So we may > > have a case were an automated message is a public message that was > > never "published". > > > > Thoughts, anyone else? My readi

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Minister for GNP Evaluation] Weekly GNP Analysis Report

2014-10-23 Thread omd
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > But it DOESN'T say that a non-person can "publish" anything. So we may > have a case were an automated message is a public message that was > never "published". > > Thoughts, anyone else? My reading would be that "public" = "published" > and

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Minister for GNP Evaluation] Weekly GNP Analysis Report

2014-10-23 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014, Eritivus wrote: > On Thu, 2014-10-23 at 19:47 +, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > CoE: I came up with 37, not 36. Here are the date strings (dunno if > > it's helpful). The x means I eyeballed it in the archive text file. > > Thanks for checking my work! > > > Sun, 19 Oct 201

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Minister for GNP Evaluation] Weekly GNP Analysis Report

2014-10-23 Thread Sean Hunt
On Oct 23, 2014 4:17 PM, "Eritivus" wrote: > I guess it might be arguable whether such an embedded message counts for > GNP. The MfGNPE's position is that it does not count, since this makes > eir job easier. > > The MfGNPE will make no official comment at this time, but unofficially > can confirm

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Minister for GNP Evaluation] Weekly GNP Analysis Report

2014-10-23 Thread Eritivus
On Thu, 2014-10-23 at 19:47 +, Kerim Aydin wrote: > CoE: I came up with 37, not 36. Here are the date strings (dunno if > it's helpful). The x means I eyeballed it in the archive text file. Thanks for checking my work! > Sun, 19 Oct 2014 15:02:17 -0700 => 2014-10-13 x I don't have this on

DIS: Two Days to Bet... place bets please!

2014-10-23 Thread Kerim Aydin
ODDS for CURRENT WEEK'S GNP Bet up to 100 Florins via Discussion or Private Message BETTING CLOSES 24 HOURS BEFORE WEEK ENDS (SATURDAY 23:59:59.... GMT) GNPODDS 43+10 to 1 37-42 2 to 1 36 Exacta 5 to 1 31-35 2 to 1 25-30 8 to 1

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Fast Track

2014-10-23 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014, Eritivus wrote: > I guess the power of rules enacted by illicit fast track ratification > actually can't be more than 3, since the fast track rule has power 3? > > So not as worrisome as I thought. If you want to make higher-powered rules but can get a power-3 proposal thro

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Fast Track

2014-10-23 Thread Alex Smith
On Thu, 2014-10-23 at 19:51 +, Eritivus wrote: > I guess the power of rules enacted by illicit fast track ratification > actually can't be more than 3, since the fast track rule has power 3? > > So not as worrisome as I thought. A Power-3 rule can do anything, though, because the Power restri

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Fast Track

2014-10-23 Thread Eritivus
I guess the power of rules enacted by illicit fast track ratification actually can't be more than 3, since the fast track rule has power 3? So not as worrisome as I thought.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Fast Track

2014-10-23 Thread Eritivus
On Thu, 2014-10-23 at 18:33 +, omd wrote: > That it ignores the AI=1 requirement is accidental, but probably not > important. If someone makes an obviously deficient fast track > attempt, that's what a Claim of Error is for. Sure, I just don't have a feel for how likely it is that skilled Rid

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Fast Track

2014-10-23 Thread omd
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Eritivus wrote: > The "self-ratifying" clause seems worrisome, because it is not obvious > to me that it requires the conditions in the first paragraph (AI=1, 7 > days notice, etc) to be satisfied. That ratification can occur regardless of any failures in the actu

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Fast Track

2014-10-23 Thread Eritivus
Suppose I send the following message, having sent no previous relevant messages (i.e. no previously published intent). I hereby fast track the following proposal: Proposal: Eritivus Regnat AI: 4 Create a new Power-4 Rule titled "Eritivus Regnat": Eritivus CAN cause this

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Minister for GNP Evaluation] Weekly GNP Analysis Report

2014-10-23 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sun, 19 Oct 2014, Eritivus wrote: > On Tue, 2014-10-14 at 19:24 +, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > NOW TAKING BETS for GNP for the Week of 2014-10-13! > > I see no reason not to bet at 23:59... except that that would be no fun. > > So I bet 90 Florins on 27-36, 10 on 37+. Betting actually closed

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: A little briefer than hoped

2014-10-23 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014, Eritivus wrote: > On Mon, 2014-10-20 at 06:31 +, Alex Smith wrote: > > You know what? I'm actually really concerned with the current Moot > > process. By making things into a vote, not a discussion, it's pretty bad > > at actually finding the truth. And at this point, I'm