Re: DIS: Ideas from a bastion of democracy

2016-10-23 Thread Aris Merchant
On Thursday, October 20, 2016, Aris Merchant < thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thursday, October 20, 2016, Kerim Aydin > wrote: > >> >> >> I'll see how it looks for the next report, though if anyone wants to do >> it for themselves (to choose the order and grammar) I'll take t

Re: DIS: Ideas from a bastion of democracy

2016-10-21 Thread Luis Ressel
On Fri, 21 Oct 2016 05:44:27 + Alexis Hunt wrote: > Would people be interested in a thesis explaining what can be found > about the various patent titles? +1

DIS: Ideas from a bastion of democracy

2016-10-20 Thread Aris Merchant
On Thursday, October 20, 2016, Alexis Hunt > wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 12:51 AM Aris Merchant < > thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Would people be interested in a thesis explaining what can be found about > the various patent titles? > > -Alexis > I certainly would. I assume

Re: DIS: Ideas from a bastion of democracy

2016-10-20 Thread Alexis Hunt
On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 12:51 AM Aris Merchant < thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thursday, October 20, 2016, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > No hurry! Don't think there's a Herald's duty until November, > unless someone earns a title meanwhile. > > > I'll keep that in mind, it'll probab

Re: DIS: Ideas from a bastion of democracy

2016-10-20 Thread Aris Merchant
On Thursday, October 20, 2016, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > No hurry! Don't think there's a Herald's duty until November, > unless someone earns a title meanwhile. I'll keep that in mind, it'll probably take longer than I think it will. In the meantime, I have some editorial questions. I think the b

Re: DIS: Ideas from a bastion of democracy

2016-10-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Aris Merchant wrote: > ais523's email prompted me to get the Herald's report up (read: made me > feel > guilty), but I'm happy to hand over the Office if you come up with a > Creative > New Look for it. > > > Thanks! Didn't realize the whole thing was yo

DIS: Ideas from a bastion of democracy

2016-10-20 Thread Aris Merchant
> ais523's email prompted me to get the Herald's report up (read: made me > feel > guilty), but I'm happy to hand over the Office if you come up with a > Creative > New Look for it. > Thanks! Didn't realize the whole thing was your idea, or rather that you were herald. It may take a while to go th

Re: DIS: Ideas from a bastion of democracy

2016-10-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Aris Merchant wrote: > On Thursday, October 20, 2016, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > I'll see how it looks for the next report, though if anyone wants to do > it for themselves (to choose the order and grammar) I'll take their > version, as in the version for

Re: DIS: Ideas from a bastion of democracy

2016-10-20 Thread Aris Merchant
On Thursday, October 20, 2016, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > I'll see how it looks for the next report, though if anyone wants to do > it for themselves (to choose the order and grammar) I'll take their > version, as in the version for H. Dr. ais523, 6LSA, SQ, Sc > That was quick. I'll see if I can

Re: DIS: Ideas from a bastion of democracy

2016-10-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, ais523 wrote: > On Thu, 2016-10-20 at 13:04 -0700, Aris Merchant wrote: > > On Thursday, October 20, 2016, Kerim Aydin > > wrote: > > > "Serene Lord of the Town Fountain, Knight of the Fifth Oligarchy, > > > Supreme Protector of the Elder Scrolls..." > > I like these. Seriou

Re: DIS: Ideas from a bastion of democracy

2016-10-20 Thread Aris Merchant
On Thursday, October 20, 2016, ais523 wrote: > On Thu, 2016-10-20 at 13:04 -0700, Aris Merchant wrote: > > On Thursday, October 20, 2016, Kerim Aydin > > > wrote: > > > "Serene Lord of the Town Fountain, Knight of the Fifth Oligarchy, > > > Supreme Protector of the Elder Scrolls..." > > I like t

Re: DIS: Ideas from a bastion of democracy

2016-10-20 Thread ais523
On Thu, 2016-10-20 at 13:04 -0700, Aris Merchant wrote: > On Thursday, October 20, 2016, Kerim Aydin > wrote: > > "Serene Lord of the Town Fountain, Knight of the Fifth Oligarchy, > > Supreme Protector of the Elder Scrolls..." > I like these. Seriously. Let's implement them. Want to pass some > gu

Re: DIS: Ideas from a bastion of democracy

2016-10-20 Thread Aris Merchant
On Thursday, October 20, 2016, Aris Merchant < thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thursday, October 20, 2016, Kerim Aydin > wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Alexis Hunt wrote: >> > On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 1:04 PM Kerim Aydin >> wrote: >> > On Wed, 19 Oct 2016, Aris M

Re: DIS: Ideas from a bastion of democracy

2016-10-20 Thread Aris Merchant
On Thursday, October 20, 2016, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Alexis Hunt wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 1:04 PM Kerim Aydin > wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Oct 2016, Aris Merchant wrote: > > > - People are not to be permitted to talk about themselves, only > > > to

Re: DIS: Ideas from a bastion of democracy

2016-10-20 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
On 20 October 2016 at 19:01, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Alexis Hunt wrote: > > - One set of election rules is too much centralized power. > > We should divide Agora into multiple segments, each with their own > > distinct rules for election, which are all combined together at t

Re: DIS: Ideas from a bastion of democracy

2016-10-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Alexis Hunt wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 1:04 PM Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Wed, 19 Oct 2016, Aris Merchant wrote: > > -  People are not to be permitted to talk about themselves, only > > to say bad things about their opponent. > > We should go Brit

Re: DIS: Ideas from a bastion of democracy

2016-10-20 Thread Alexis Hunt
On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 1:04 PM Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > On Wed, 19 Oct 2016, Aris Merchant wrote: > > - People are not to be permitted to talk about themselves, only > > to say bad things about their opponent. > > We should go British on this one. We must address each other as "Right > Honou

Re: DIS: Ideas from a bastion of democracy

2016-10-20 Thread ais523
On Thu, 2016-10-20 at 10:02 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > On Wed, 19 Oct 2016, Aris Merchant wrote: > > -  People are not to be permitted to talk about themselves, only  > > to say bad things about their opponent. > > We should go British on this one.  We must address each other as "Right > Ho

Re: DIS: Ideas from a bastion of democracy

2016-10-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Alexis Hunt wrote: > - One set of election rules is too much centralized power. > We should divide Agora into multiple segments, each with their own > distinct rules for election, which are all combined together at the > end to pick the officers. We actually tried this one

Re: DIS: Ideas from a bastion of democracy

2016-10-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 19 Oct 2016, Aris Merchant wrote: > -  People are not to be permitted to talk about themselves, only > to say bad things about their opponent. We should go British on this one. We must address each other as "Right Honourable Colleagues", doubly-so when being insulting.

DIS: Ideas from a bastion of democracy

2016-10-19 Thread Aris Merchant
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 7:42 PM, Alexis Hunt > wrote: > It has occurred to me that Agora is perhaps not the paragon of democracy > that it should strive to be. There are many examples of excellent > democracies out there, including the World's Greatest Democracy, with which > we are now all intima

DIS: Ideas from a bastion of democracy

2016-10-19 Thread Alexis Hunt
It has occurred to me that Agora is perhaps not the paragon of democracy that it should strive to be. There are many examples of excellent democracies out there, including the World's Greatest Democracy, with which we are now all intimately familiar regardless of whether we'd like to be or not. Wit