Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Fun and games

2009-03-03 Thread Taral
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > ais523's "fix" is not to be trusted.  Read it.  "If a rule mentions > the possibility... that someone can modify the rules by announcement, > then someone can modify the rules by announcement."  If it passes, > whether or not mine succeeds, it m

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Pre-emptive support, sorta

2009-03-03 Thread Taral
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Elliott Hird wrote: > Y'know, I don't think anyone's going to spoof you for Agora. I used to sign everything. I would still, but gmail doesn't support PGP. -- Taral "Please let me know if there's any further trouble I can give you." -- Unknown

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Fun and games

2009-03-03 Thread Elliott Hird
2009/3/3 Kerim Aydin : > Ah well ais523, they've seen through our little "build the actual scam > into the scam fix" thing.  -G. JOKE - O - METER 2000 Analyzing text _ . ~ ^ ~ . _ . ~ ^ ~ . _ . ~ ^ ~ . Result: UNKNOWN

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Fun and games

2009-03-03 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: > 2009/3/3 Alex Smith : >> On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 22:36 +0100, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: >>> 2009/3/3 Taral : On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Alex Smith wrote: > Voting for this one could be useful insurance against whatever Goethe is > trying.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Pre-emptive support, sorta

2009-03-03 Thread Elliott Hird
2009/3/3 Benjamin Caplan : > I believe that people should use strong encryption by default, > regardless of whether a specific reason to do so exists. A commendable goal; unfortunately building such things on email is quite a pain. > Is PGP/MIME (as in this message) less obtrusive? (this will dep

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Fun and games

2009-03-03 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: > 2009/3/3 Taral : >> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Alex Smith wrote: >>> Voting for this one could be useful insurance against whatever Goethe is >>> trying. We already have H. Cassandra Goethe, don't make me a Cassandra >>> too... >> >> Change amend

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Fun and games

2009-03-03 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
2009/3/3 Alex Smith : > On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 22:36 +0100, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: >> 2009/3/3 Taral : >> > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Alex Smith wrote: >> >> Voting for this one could be useful insurance against whatever Goethe is >> >> trying. We already have H. Cassandra Goethe, don't make

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Fun and games

2009-03-03 Thread Alex Smith
On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 22:36 +0100, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: > 2009/3/3 Taral : > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Alex Smith wrote: > >> Voting for this one could be useful insurance against whatever Goethe is > >> trying. We already have H. Cassandra Goethe, don't make me a Cassandra > >> too... >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Fun and games

2009-03-03 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
2009/3/3 Taral : > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Alex Smith wrote: >> Voting for this one could be useful insurance against whatever Goethe is >> trying. We already have H. Cassandra Goethe, don't make me a Cassandra >> too... > > Change amend to repeal, and I'll vote for it. > Me too. What was

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Pre-emptive support, sorta

2009-03-03 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Benjamin Caplan wrote: > I believe that people should use strong encryption by default, > regardless of whether a specific reason to do so exists. > > Is PGP/MIME (as in this message) less obtrusive? (this will depend on > whether your email client properly handles MIME encodin

DIS: Re: BUS: Fun and games

2009-03-03 Thread Taral
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Alex Smith wrote: > Voting for this one could be useful insurance against whatever Goethe is > trying. We already have H. Cassandra Goethe, don't make me a Cassandra > too... Change amend to repeal, and I'll vote for it. -- Taral "Please let me know if there's a

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Pre-emptive support, sorta

2009-03-03 Thread Benjamin Caplan
Elliott Hird wrote: > 2009/3/3 Benjamin Caplan : >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) >> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org >> >> iD8DBQFJrZAvyUdQDqgQe30RAgGoAJ9l4B/LS1VpCIoLq3C7mShcEeX5ugCdF8IC >> pW2cK5cpl/4g+cnyDCoM9dQ= >> =8KOh >> ---

Re: DIS: Foreign relations

2009-03-03 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
2009/3/3 Elliott Hird : > 2009/3/3 Benjamin Caplan : >> This seems like an excellent reason /for/ Agora to interfere. >> >> R2147: "...Agora, being the superpower of nomics, has an inherent >> responsibility to lead the nomic world; and ... Agora desires to >> encourage growth and promotion of the

Re: DIS: Foreign relations

2009-03-03 Thread Elliott Hird
2009/3/3 Benjamin Caplan : > This seems like an excellent reason /for/ Agora to interfere. > > R2147: "...Agora, being the superpower of nomics, has an inherent > responsibility to lead the nomic world; and ... Agora desires to > encourage growth and promotion of the nomic community..." They die o

DIS: Re: BUS: Pre-emptive support, sorta

2009-03-03 Thread Elliott Hird
2009/3/3 Benjamin Caplan : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFJrZAvyUdQDqgQe30RAgGoAJ9l4B/LS1VpCIoLq3C7mShcEeX5ugCdF8IC > pW2cK5cpl/4g+cnyDCoM9dQ= > =8KOh > -END PGP SIGNATURE- Y'kn

Re: DIS: Foreign relations

2009-03-03 Thread Benjamin Caplan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Elliott Hird wrote: > 2009/3/3 Elliott Hird : >> Any activity. >> >> einos is run by our player Craig/Teucer, and since we can make it a >> Protectorate we might as well. >> >> The Ambassador handles recognition changes. >> > > Although, let's not rec

DIS: ISO-8859-1?B?UmU6IERJUzogUmU6IEJVUzogKGJlbGXpcnR2ZSBhI GZvcmTtdOFzaSBzem9sZ+Fs?= [ISO-8859-1] tatás )

2009-03-03 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Aaron Goldfein wrote: > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Ed Murphy wrote: >> It was reasonably clear that you intended to initiate a case, but the >> details were considerably less clear; presumably an inquiry case on >> "I am a person", but the Yoda-esque alteration of word o

DIS: Re: DIS: Re: BUS: (beleértve a fordítási szolgál tatás)

2009-03-03 Thread Aaron Goldfein
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Ed Murphy wrote: > ais523 wrote: > > > On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 09:37 -0800, Ed Murphy wrote: > >> Oh, so you're interpreting R2150 as "must include". Again, though, this > >> is trivially satisfied by your theoretical ability to hire one or more > >> sufficiently c

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Another corner case

2009-03-03 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> The relevant question here isn't whether she can communicate, but whether >> she can understand well enough to be her own legal person (e.g. it might >> rely on being able to communicate consent, etc

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Another corner case

2009-03-03 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Elliott Hird wrote: > 2009/3/3 Kerim Aydin : >> The relevant question here isn't whether she can communicate, but whether >> she can understand well enough to be her own legal person (e.g. it might >> rely on being able to communicate consent, etc.).  Something of the sort >> c

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Another corner case

2009-03-03 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > The relevant question here isn't whether she can communicate, but whether > she can understand well enough to be her own legal person (e.g. it might > rely on being able to communicate consent, etc.).  Something of the sort > came up around CFJ

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Another corner case

2009-03-03 Thread Elliott Hird
2009/3/3 Kerim Aydin : > The relevant question here isn't whether she can communicate, but whether > she can understand well enough to be her own legal person (e.g. it might > rely on being able to communicate consent, etc.).  Something of the sort > came up around CFJ 1856; following that attempte

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Another corner case

2009-03-03 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Elliott Hird wrote: > 2009/3/3 Ed Murphy : >> CFJ:  Murphy's daughter Victoria is a person. >> >> Caller's arguments: >> >> Victoria is five years old, with the typical physical and mental >> capabilities thereof.  Obviously she meets the ordinary-language >> definition; this

DIS: Re: BUS: Another corner case

2009-03-03 Thread Elliott Hird
2009/3/3 Ed Murphy : > CFJ:  Murphy's daughter Victoria is a person. > > Caller's arguments: > > Victoria is five years old, with the typical physical and mental > capabilities thereof.  Obviously she meets the ordinary-language > definition; this case pertains to the Rule 2150 definition. > > In p

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: still not here, but...

2009-03-03 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: > 2009/3/2 Kerim Aydin : >> >> On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Elliott Hird wrote: I nominate myself for Anarchist (now *that* I can handle) >> >> I nominate tiger for Anarchist (not wholly fair to make a new player/ >> officer who's doing a good job have to kee

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2397 assigned to Goethe

2009-03-03 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Alex Smith wrote: > It doesn't claim to be a pledge, and it only has one party (if that). > Therefore, it cannot by definition be a contract. Murphy offers a service which is binding onto em. You accept by acting on it. This is a common-language agreement. There is no curr

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: (beleértve a fordítási szolgáltatás)

2009-03-03 Thread Alex Smith
On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 09:57 -0800, Ed Murphy wrote: > ais523 wrote: > > > On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 09:37 -0800, Ed Murphy wrote: > >> Oh, so you're interpreting R2150 as "must include". Again, though, this > >> is trivially satisfied by your theoretical ability to hire one or more > >> sufficiently

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: (beleértve a fordítá si szolgáltatás)

2009-03-03 Thread Ed Murphy
ais523 wrote: > On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 09:37 -0800, Ed Murphy wrote: >> Oh, so you're interpreting R2150 as "must include". Again, though, this >> is trivially satisfied by your theoretical ability to hire one or more >> sufficiently competent human translators. > > Is a theoretical ability enoug

Re: DIS: Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [ISO-8859-1] (beleértve a fordítá[ISO-8859-1] si szolgáltatás)

2009-03-03 Thread Alex Smith
On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 09:44 -0800, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Ed Murphy wrote: > > ais523 wrote: > >> On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 09:26 -0800, Ed Murphy wrote: > >>> Rule 2150 does not specify the type or quality of the translation > >>> service. Also, English-to-Hungarian-to-English is no

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: (beleértve a fordítási szolgáltatás)

2009-03-03 Thread Alex Smith
On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 09:37 -0800, Ed Murphy wrote: > Oh, so you're interpreting R2150 as "must include". Again, though, this > is trivially satisfied by your theoretical ability to hire one or more > sufficiently competent human translators. Is a theoretical ability enough, though? For instance,

DIS: Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [ISO-8859-1] (be leértve a fordítá[ISO-8859-1] si szolg áltatás)

2009-03-03 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Ed Murphy wrote: > ais523 wrote: > >> On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 09:26 -0800, Ed Murphy wrote: >>> Rule 2150 does not specify the type or quality of the translation >>> service. Also, English-to-Hungarian-to-English is not an ideal test >>> of native-Hungarian-to-English. >> Rule 2

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2397 assigned to Goethe

2009-03-03 Thread Alex Smith
On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 09:34 -0800, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Alex Smith wrote: > > I interpreted this as relatively clear consent to allow me to act on > > Murphy's behalf support such an intent, although not as being a > > contract. Note that my intent to protectorise Einos came aft

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: (beleértve a fordítá si szolgáltatás)

2009-03-03 Thread Ed Murphy
ais523 wrote: > On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 09:26 -0800, Ed Murphy wrote: >> Rule 2150 does not specify the type or quality of the translation >> service. Also, English-to-Hungarian-to-English is not an ideal test >> of native-Hungarian-to-English. > Rule 2150 requires me to be able to participate via

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2397 assigned to Goethe

2009-03-03 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Alex Smith wrote: > I interpreted this as relatively clear consent to allow me to act on > Murphy's behalf support such an intent, although not as being a > contract. Note that my intent to protectorise Einos came after Murphy's > comment quoted above, although before the CFJ w

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: (beleértve a fordítási szolgáltatás)

2009-03-03 Thread Alex Smith
On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 09:26 -0800, Ed Murphy wrote: > Rule 2150 does not specify the type or quality of the translation > service. Also, English-to-Hungarian-to-English is not an ideal test > of native-Hungarian-to-English. Rule 2150 requires me to be able to participate via a translation service.

DIS: Re: BUS: [ISO-8859-1] (beleértve a [ISO-8859-1] fordítási[ISO-8859-1] szol gáltatás)

2009-03-03 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Alex Smith wrote: > I call on the conviction of the person I am. " > > Arguments: > The only rule in 2150 through the definition of what a person: > ((( >Any organization that is generally capable of biological >communicating by email in English (including tr

DIS: Re: BUS: (beleértve a fordítási szo lgáltatás)

2009-03-03 Thread Ed Murphy
ais523 wrote: > I call on the conviction of the person I am. " Ineffective, the statement is not clearly identified. > Arguments: > The only rule in 2150 through the definition of what a person: > ((( > Any organization that is generally capable of biological > communicating

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Fun and games

2009-03-03 Thread Alex Smith
On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 09:05 -0800, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Alex Smith wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 14:20 +, Elliott Hird wrote: > >> 2009/3/3 Alex Smith : > > > > I'm all for legitimate scams. > > > > I'm all for legitimate wins, too > > What's the difference? Not all sc

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Fun and games

2009-03-03 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Alex Smith wrote: > On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 14:20 +, Elliott Hird wrote: >> 2009/3/3 Alex Smith : > > I'm all for legitimate scams. > > I'm all for legitimate wins, too What's the difference?

DIS: Re: BUS: Fun and games

2009-03-03 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Alex Smith wrote: > Voting for this one could be useful insurance against whatever Goethe is > trying. We already have H. Cassandra Goethe, don't make me a Cassandra > too... To be a proper Cassandra, you've got to prophesize what's actually going to happen in a way to actuall

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Pre-emptive support, sorta

2009-03-03 Thread comex
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Ed Murphy wrote: >> Wow, I'm making lots of mistakes today.  Sorry.  I retract that CFJ. > > Note to others:  that CFJ was sent to both a-b and a-d.  (I, at least, > got both copies routed to my a-b folder, and thought it had been > double-posted to a-b until the d

DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2397 assigned to Goethe

2009-03-03 Thread Ed Murphy
I wrote: > ais523 can act on Murphy's behalf to cause Murphy to support > ais523's own intent to make Einos > (http://einos-nomic.blogspot.com/) a protectorate. Gratuituous arguments: > But contracts have been the only mechanism by which we have thus far > allowed act-on-behalf where

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Pre-emptive support, sorta

2009-03-03 Thread Elliott Hird
2009/3/3 comex : > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Ed Murphy wrote: >> ais523 can act on my behalf to cause me to support eir own intent to >> make Einos (http://einos-nomic.blogspot.com/) a protectorate. > > I CFJ on the statement: { ais523 can act on Murphy's behalf to cause > me to support eir

DIS: Re: BUS: Pre-emptive support, sorta

2009-03-03 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:55 AM, comex wrote: >> I CFJ on the statement: { ais523 can act on Murphy's behalf to cause >> me to support eir own intent to make Einos >> (http://einos-nomic.blogspot.com/) a protectorate. } > > Wow, I'm making lots of mistakes today. Sorry. I retrac

DIS: Re: BUS: Pre-emptive support, sorta

2009-03-03 Thread comex
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Ed Murphy wrote: > ais523 can act on my behalf to cause me to support eir own intent to > make Einos (http://einos-nomic.blogspot.com/) a protectorate. I CFJ on the statement: { ais523 can act on Murphy's behalf to cause me to support eir own intent to make Einos

Re: DIS: Re: agora-official digest, Vol 1 #2474 - 2 msgs

2009-03-03 Thread Ed Murphy
Tiger wrote: > 2009/3/3 Ed Murphy : >> Tiger wrote: >> 6120 D 1 2.0 Murphy Increase the ticket ration >>> I vote FOR this proposal. >> NttPF > > I'm sorry, until now I thought I could just watch that being aid > everywhere and figure out what it meant on my own, but now that it'

DIS: Re: BUS: Fun and games

2009-03-03 Thread Ed Murphy
ais523 wrote: > On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 18:21 -0800, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> I submit the following proposal, Nothing Original, AI-3: >> -- >> >> Create a Rule with the following text and a power of 3: >> >>Goethe CAN cause this rule

Re: DIS: Foreign relations

2009-03-03 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
2009/3/3 Alex Smith : > On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 14:53 +, Elliott Hird wrote: >> 2009/3/3 Elliott Hird : >> > Any activity. >> > >> > einos is run by our player Craig/Teucer, and since we can make it a >> > Protectorate we might as well. >> > >> > The Ambassador handles recognition changes. >> > >

Re: DIS: Foreign relations

2009-03-03 Thread Alex Smith
On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 14:53 +, Elliott Hird wrote: > 2009/3/3 Elliott Hird : > > Any activity. > > > > einos is run by our player Craig/Teucer, and since we can make it a > > Protectorate we might as well. > > > > The Ambassador handles recognition changes. > > > > Although, let's not recogniz

Re: DIS: Foreign relations

2009-03-03 Thread Elliott Hird
2009/3/3 Elliott Hird : > Any activity. > > einos is run by our player Craig/Teucer, and since we can make it a > Protectorate we might as well. > > The Ambassador handles recognition changes. > Although, let's not recognize xkcd's, because they die out after a week or so. I know because I ran one

Re: DIS: Foreign relations

2009-03-03 Thread Elliott Hird
2009/3/3 Jonatan Kilhamn : > How active is another nomic required to be for Agora to recognize it? > I am thinking of two nomics, first the Einos found here: > (http://einos-nomic.blogspot.com/) which already has the "We submit to > Agora as our benevolent protector" rule in its ruleset, and second

Re: DIS: Foreign relations

2009-03-03 Thread Alex Smith
On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 15:48 +0100, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: > How active is another nomic required to be for Agora to recognize it? > I am thinking of two nomics, first the Einos found here: > (http://einos-nomic.blogspot.com/) which already has the "We submit to > Agora as our benevolent protector"

DIS: Foreign relations

2009-03-03 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
How active is another nomic required to be for Agora to recognize it? I am thinking of two nomics, first the Einos found here: (http://einos-nomic.blogspot.com/) which already has the "We submit to Agora as our benevolent protector" rule in its ruleset, and secondly the Nomic in the Forum Games sec

Re: DIS: Re: agora-official digest, Vol 1 #2474 - 2 msgs

2009-03-03 Thread comex
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:48 AM, Alexander Smith wrote: > As you can guess, it's a pretty common mistake; most players here have > posted to the wrong forum dozens of times. Though only one player has posted a message, accidentally to a-b, trying to get B Nomic to declare war on Agora.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Fun and games

2009-03-03 Thread Alex Smith
On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 14:20 +, Elliott Hird wrote: > 2009/3/3 Alex Smith : > > I submit the following proposal, Open It Up, AI 3: > > -- > > > > Create a Rule with the following text and a power of 3: > > > > If a rule exists tha

DIS: Re: BUS: Fun and games

2009-03-03 Thread Elliott Hird
2009/3/3 Alex Smith : > I submit the following proposal, Open It Up, AI 3: > -- > > Create a Rule with the following text and a power of 3: > >   If a rule exists that mentions the possibility of a player >   causing a rule to make rul

RE: DIS: Re: agora-official digest, Vol 1 #2474 - 2 msgs

2009-03-03 Thread Alexander Smith
Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: > Oh, just realized I'm in the wrong forum. I guess it's something about > Public Forum, but I'd still like to know the exact acronym. Iäll > repost in business. The usual acronym is "TTttPF", meaning "this time to the public forum", but it's just an abbreviation; any sort o

DIS: RE: Re: BUS: The quorum is way too low

2009-03-03 Thread Alexander Smith
comex wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > > Without objection, I make Billy Pilgrim inactive. > > Without objection, I make j inactive. > > Without objection, I make cmealerjr inactive. > > The AFO goes on hold. > > I spend C Eb G to reduce OscarMeyr's caste to Savage.

DIS: RE: BUS: still not here, but...

2009-03-03 Thread Alexander Smith
Wooble wrote: > I don't think the prerogative assignments for March were even > effective; CFJ 2121 established that they couldn't be done earlier > than 7 days before the beginning of the month. I'm not sure if R2019 > changed significantly since then. I thought they were 7 days before the begin