Re: DIS: Re: BUS: end of month card dump

2009-07-31 Thread comex
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > ais523 wrote: > >> genuine paradoxes (e.g. the 'paradox win', which strangely appears to >> have no attached CFJ (were the relevant rules different back then), >> about assigning Goethe to CFJ 1596; just because there are two > > Yes, per http://

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: end of month card dump

2009-07-31 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> In any case, there's still trust involved... if the vote is strongly FOR, >> a refusal to vote could kill it where as a PRESENT is as good as a FOR. > > Except we met quorum long ago anyway. Yeah

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: end of month card dump

2009-07-31 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > In any case, there's still trust involved... if the vote is strongly FOR, > a refusal to vote could kill it where as a PRESENT is as good as a FOR. Except we met quorum long ago anyway.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: end of month card dump

2009-07-31 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Pavitra wrote: > Kerim Aydin wrote: >> I understand, will you trust me enough if I say 6407-6409 are straightforward >> and needed bug fixes (by Wooble, coppro, and me) that everyone I think has >> voted FOR so far, so a simple FOR would be greatly appreciated there? > > In th

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: end of month card dump

2009-07-31 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Ed Murphy wrote: > Proto-proto: Replace the first with "If ..., then an attempt made by > the player to play a card in eir possession still causes the card to be > destroyed, but e CAN re-create the card in eir possession by correctly > announcing that this was the case withi

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: end of month card dump

2009-07-31 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, ais523 wrote: > On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 07:25 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, ais523 wrote: >>> Arguments: Contradiction != paradox. We have R217 for this sort of >>> thing. >> >> Huh. R217 allows judging in the best interests of the game to sort out >> "incon

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: end of month card dump

2009-07-31 Thread ais523
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 09:05 -0700, Ed Murphy wrote: > ais523 wrote: > > Here's a potentially related issue: what happens if something very > > relevant to the gamestate (e.g. playership of someone who holds several > > offices) is genuinely UNDETERMINED? (i.e. not paradoxical, just nobody > > knows

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: end of month card dump

2009-07-31 Thread Ed Murphy
ais523 wrote: > genuine paradoxes (e.g. the 'paradox win', which strangely appears to > have no attached CFJ (were the relevant rules different back then), > about assigning Goethe to CFJ 1596; just because there are two Yes, per http://agora.qoid.us/rule/2110 (side note: messy, evidently auto-co

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: end of month card dump

2009-07-31 Thread Pavitra
Kerim Aydin wrote: > I understand, will you trust me enough if I say 6407-6409 are straightforward > and needed bug fixes (by Wooble, coppro, and me) that everyone I think has > voted FOR so far, so a simple FOR would be greatly appreciated there? In that case, shouldn't PRESENT work just as well

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: end of month card dump

2009-07-31 Thread Ed Murphy
G. wrote: > On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Geoffrey Spear wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: >>> 1. Caste is also secured-2 so no dice. >> Well, playing the cards ineffectually to get them out of my hand works too. > > R2256 is pretty clear here: > If the information is inc

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: end of month card dump

2009-07-31 Thread ais523
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 07:25 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, ais523 wrote: > > Arguments: Contradiction != paradox. We have R217 for this sort of > > thing. > > Huh. R217 allows judging in the best interests of the game to sort out > "inconsistent" sets of rules, which is basical

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: end of month card dump

2009-07-31 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, ais523 wrote: > Arguments: Contradiction != paradox. We have R217 for this sort of > thing. Huh. R217 allows judging in the best interests of the game to sort out "inconsistent" sets of rules, which is basically sorting out paradoxes among other things. Wins aside, it coul

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: end of month card dump

2009-07-31 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, ais523 wrote: > On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 06:49 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> 1. Caste is also secured-2 so no dice. >> 2. If voters weren't slackers, this would be fixed by now. I guess ais523 >>would rather complain than vote to fix? > > I'm too confused to take game actions

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: end of month card dump

2009-07-31 Thread ais523
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 06:49 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > 1. Caste is also secured-2 so no dice. > 2. If voters weren't slackers, this would be fixed by now. I guess ais523 >would rather complain than vote to fix? I'm too confused to take game actions atm; Agora's currently sufficiently complic

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: end of month card dump

2009-07-31 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> 1. Caste is also secured-2 so no dice. > > Well, playing the cards ineffectually to get them out of my hand works too. R2256 is pretty clear here: If the information is incorrect, or the expl

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: end of month card dump

2009-07-31 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > 1. Caste is also secured-2 so no dice. Well, playing the cards ineffectually to get them out of my hand works too.

DIS: Re: BUS: end of month card dump

2009-07-31 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > I set my Salary to {Change, Government, Justice, Justice}. > I play Local Election to decrease Murphy's caste. 1. Caste is also secured-2 so no dice. 2. If voters weren't slackers, this would be fixed by now. I guess ais523 would rather complain t