On 12 August 2011 12:48, Jonatan Kilhamn <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12 August 2011 12:38, ais523 <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 19:48 +0200, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote:
>>> On 11 August 2011 19:06, Geoffrey Spear <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > I initiate a criminal CFJ alleging that Tiger violated the power-1
>>> > Rule 2352 by failing to attempt to cause Agora to become a player of
>>> > BlogNomic as soon as possible after e became Ambassador.
>>> >
>>> > Unfortunately, it's beyond the scope of this case to determine what
>>> > would actually qualify as attempting to do this duty, since the
>>> > unsuccessful attempt e did make happened more than 4 days after e was
>>> > installed.
>>> >
>>> I plead guilty, though I realise that I have not read the ruleset
>>> sufficiently or I would definitely have objected to the intent to set
>>> the speed to fast. I was away for seven days, and when I left the
>>> election had not even started; I believed it would actually include a
>>> voting period and thus didn't expect to have been installed when I
>>> returned. Still, all faults of mine.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure that the only way to fulfil your obligation is to amend
>> BlogNomic's ruleset to allow other nomics to play it, and also amend
>> Agora's ruleset to allow it to play other nomics (such as, for instance,
>> by allowing the Ambassador to make nomic-gameplay-related decisions on
>> its behalf).
>>
> Doesn't the ordinary-language definitions of "affairs of state (of
> Agora)" and "ambassador" mean anything? When a rule says that
> something completely undefined (Agora playing another nomic) is to
> happen, and introduces the notion of nomics being like states, then
> I'd say this is like saying a country doesn't have diplomatic
> relations to another when their ambassadors are clearly talking and
> making deals.
>
But then again, I realise, Agora Nomic is clearly intended to be a
person and can make its own decisions. It might be impossible after
all.
