ais523 wrote:
> H. CotC Murphy: you have less than a day left to assign these, and they
> aren't listed in your database anywhere. Especially as proposal 6159 is
> pending, this is pretty urgent; otherwise, I'll have to try to exploit
> the possible dictatorship before its existence is ruled on, w
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 16:39 +, Alex Smith wrote:
> I call for judgement on the statement "Murphy's recent attempt to cause
> Rule 2223 to amend itself to read 'This rule intentionally left blank'
> was using the mechanism specified in rule 2223, rather than the
> mechanism specified in the rule
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Alex Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 10:25 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote:
>> In the example ais523 gives for points, the difference matters for
>> it depletes a reserve of points awardable for a particular contest.
>> However, that means the consequences differ. In the curren
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Alex Smith wrote:
> Ambiguous actions are normally taken to fail. I'm not sure whether the
> action Murphy tried was ambiguous enough to cause it to fail, but it
> certainly isn't completely clear-cut. Rule changes are held to a higher
> standard, as is shown by this quote fro
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Ed Murphy wrote:
> What about having the resolution of the proposal count as the win
> announcement?
The idea is that the player's own action should always cause the win,
so e can take care of eir Rests and not have to worry about timing
issues.
Ed Murphy wrote:
> comex wrote:
>
>> Amend Rule 2223 (Win by Junta) by replacing:
>>
>> When a rule comes to state that one or more persons CAN cause it
>> to make arbitrary rule changes by announcement, all those
>> persons satisfy the Winning Condition of Dictatorship.
>>
>> wi
comex wrote:
> Amend Rule 2223 (Win by Junta) by replacing:
>
> When a rule comes to state that one or more persons CAN cause it
> to make arbitrary rule changes by announcement, all those
> persons satisfy the Winning Condition of Dictatorship.
>
> with:
>
> Upon a win
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, comex wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote:
>> Is it that clear cut that the particular win rule works in the instant
>> only? I generally find "When a rule comes to..." to be pretty close to
>> "When it has come to pass that..." which lasts as long a
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote:
> Is it that clear cut that the particular win rule works in the instant
> only? I generally find "When a rule comes to..." to be pretty close to
> "When it has come to pass that..." which lasts as long as the text is in
> the rules. Wrong abo
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Ed Murphy wrote:
>> A win announcement is not required for a Win by Junta; instead, the
>> winning condition is satisfied as soon as the rule comes to contain
>> the dictatorship text. Note that this means Murphy did not win
>> because, at the time the rule came to contain th
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, comex wrote:
> I nominate myself for Assessor.
Note: I will be out of town for 5 days starting just before this
nomination period ends; delays in starting any resulting election
are not due to favoritism. -Goethe.
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, comex wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Ed Murphy wrote:
>> As permitted by the rule created by Proposal 6130, I cause Rule 2223
>> (Win by Junta) to amend itself by appending this paragraph:
>
> This fails because it is unclear whether this is supposed to take
> effe
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