DIS: Re: BUS: An action

2009-06-14 Thread Sean Hunt
Warrigal wrote: I cease to agree to all non-binding agreements. I agree to the following: {The name of this Legalistic public contract is ə (that is, the Unicode character LATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA). The parties to this contract SHALL ensure that it fulfills all of its obligations. A party

Re: DIS: Do card specialty decks?

2009-06-14 Thread Warrigal
2009/6/13 Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu: 3.  Each card type has a frequency in each deck (a matrix).  Legislative is    mostly vote power cards; Judicial (obvious); Academic is Proposal    distribution cards.  Bureucratic deals with offices.  Some chance of    drawing a roll again from a

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: An action

2009-06-14 Thread Warrigal
2009/6/14 Sean Hunt ride...@gmail.com: Disagree, is binding. I'm sorry, but that doesn't seem to be a sentence. Are you saying I disagree; it's binding? 'Disagree' is binding? Something else which would actually make sense to me in this context? --Warrigal

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: An action

2009-06-14 Thread Sean Hunt
Warrigal wrote: 2009/6/14 Sean Hunt ride...@gmail.com: Disagree, is binding. I'm sorry, but that doesn't seem to be a sentence. Are you saying I disagree; it's binding? 'Disagree' is binding? Something else which would actually make sense to me in this context? --Warrigal I'm saying I

Re: DIS: Do card specialty decks?

2009-06-14 Thread Benjamin Caplan
Kerim Aydin wrote: Result: strategy, more cards can be defined with probabilities a mix of choice and random. What do you think, worth the complication with it getting as cross-matrixed as notes but associated with specialties? A better way to do committees? Yes/no/maybe? Interesting. I

DIS: Re: BUS: Gramatically Correct

2009-06-14 Thread C-walker
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Geoffrey Spear geoffsp...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Charles Walkercharles.w.wal...@googlemail.com wrote: I submit the following proposal and intend to make it Distributable without objection: I agree to the following: {{ This is

Re: DIS: Card gameplay balance

2009-06-14 Thread Paul VanKoughnett
1.  Cards are dealt from an infinite deck (with set probabilities) and destroyed when played.  Reason:  the reason cards broke so often in the       * Title:     Discard Picking  (30)         Exploit:   Indicate a card that was played or discarded in the                    past 72 hours.  It

Re: DIS: proto: proto pool

2009-06-14 Thread C-walker
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Charles Walker charles.w.wal...@googlemail.com wrote: I transfer a prop from myself to BobTHJ because I really like his Proposal Review Board idea, and I've stolen parts of it for this proto: What do people think about a proto pool in general? Something like

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: An action

2009-06-14 Thread comex
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Sean Huntride...@gmail.com wrote: I'm saying I dislike this contract, because it is binding to anyone who becomes party to it. I think non-binding contracts were judged to spontaneously implode at some point.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: An action

2009-06-14 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, comex wrote: On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Sean Huntride...@gmail.com wrote: I'm saying I dislike this contract, because it is binding to anyone who becomes party to it. I think non-binding contracts were judged to spontaneously implode at some point. It's just an

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: An action

2009-06-14 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Sean Hunt wrote: Kerim Aydin wrote: On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, comex wrote: On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Sean Huntride...@gmail.com wrote: I'm saying I dislike this contract, because it is binding to anyone who becomes party to it. I think non-binding contracts were

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: An action

2009-06-14 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Kerim Aydinke...@u.washington.edu wrote: It's just an oxymoron, like jumbo shrimp. Jumbo shrimp aren't an oxymoron. You're thinking of swiss cheese.

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [IADoP] Grand Poobah Election

2009-06-14 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Sean Hunt wrote: This is a public contract and a pledge, entitled coppro's Grand Poobah Promotion/Demotion Policy. I'll come out and say this; if you're looking for a scrupulously spelled- out policy, I am not your candidate. In the end, I'm guessing several first-class

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Fixed contest point limits

2009-06-14 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 15:34 -0600, Roger Hicks wrote: NOTE: The above contest thresholds are based on how the contract awards points. AAA and 3-Scroll both award points based on limited actions that members are permitted to perform, thus awards are limited by the contract mechanisms. Cookie

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Being sneaky

2009-06-14 Thread Benjamin Caplan
Alex Smith wrote: On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 20:04 +0200, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: 2009/6/11 Rodlen rodlenj...@gmail.com: I CFJ on the following: What is forced by rule 2029 to Dance a Powerful Dance? Ye Marvy, of course. I call for judgement on the statement A Powerful Dance is an

DIS: Re: BUS: An action

2009-06-14 Thread Alex Smith
On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 02:21 -0400, Warrigal wrote: I cease to agree to all non-binding agreements. As the notary, I think the only effect this has is to cancel any contract creation attempts you made in the past which failed because they weren't taken up by other players. -- ais523 Notary

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [IADoP] Grand Poobah Election

2009-06-14 Thread Sean Hunt
Kerim Aydin wrote: On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Kerim Aydin wrote: On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, C-walker wrote: On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Charles Walker charles.w.wal...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Aaron Goldfeinaarongoldf...@gmail.com wrote: If no player has posted a

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [IADoP] Grand Poobah Election

2009-06-14 Thread Elliott Hird
2009/6/14 Sean Hunt ride...@gmail.com: This does not apply to bribes made prior to em being elected, meaning e could be buying votes. Bit defensive of your office there? C'mon, I know you don't like G., but that's an unfounded accusation.

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [IADoP] Grand Poobah Election

2009-06-14 Thread Benjamin Caplan
Kerim Aydin wrote: On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Alex Smith wrote: I'll amend that; If elected, I pledge not to let material bribes made to myself (or persons I specify) while I hold office (e.g. assets, votes on proposals, props, or promises of same) affect whom I promote; I can terminate this pledge

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [IADoP] Grand Poobah Election

2009-06-14 Thread Warrigal
2009/6/14 Benjamin Caplan celestialcognit...@gmail.com: Gratuitous: contracts, including pledges, generally don't require public messages. It's possible to make a pledge to a-d, or by private email. If G.'s intent was to make a pledge immediately, then that's probably what happened. Or does

DIS: Re: BUS: Banking/farming

2009-06-14 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Jonatan Kilhamnjonatan.kilh...@gmail.com wrote: If any of the above harvesting actions failed, I do those actions again using Xs where needed. This isn't necessary; X crop usage is now implied if necessary.

DIS: Re: BUS: [AAA] SoA Actions

2009-06-14 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
2009/6/15 Geoffrey Spear geoffsp...@gmail.com: On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Geoffrey Speargeoffsp...@gmail.com wrote: I create a digit ranch with a seed of 9 in BobTHJ's possession. I create a digit ranch with a seed of 7 in BobTHJ's possession. One of these was a purchase.  I revoke 3

DIS: Re: BUS: Distributability

2009-06-14 Thread Aaron Goldfein
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Geoffrey Speargeoffsp...@gmail.com wrote: I spend D# D# D# to flip the Distributability of the Proposal entitled No More Distributability to Undistributable. II-2 is unreasonable for a proposal that replaces a rule with the exact text it had very recently.  

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: No More Distributability

2009-06-14 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Kerim Aydinke...@u.washington.edu wrote: I transfer one prop from myself to CotC Murphy for not getting all my ducks in a row before the CFJ: Another gratuitous argument on my most recent CFJ: There was indeed at least one proposal that went into the pool

DIS: With Notes leaving, so should Rests

2009-06-14 Thread Sean Hunt
I think that if we retire Notes, we should retire Rests too. As it stands, Rests are the only punishment Agora has to offer for any infraction whatsoever, which is pretty bad. Consider: Distributability is a mess and has significantly removed the attractiveness of submitting proposals. It is an

DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2579 assigned to allispaul

2009-06-14 Thread Paul VanKoughnett
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Ed Murphyemurph...@socal.rr.com wrote: [Tiger is sitting, thus I cannot honor eir favoring without violating the prohibition against assigning a poorly qualified judge. I could wait for the next rotation, but at risk of violating the requirement to assign a

DIS: Re: BUS: Anarchist vote, in case

2009-06-14 Thread Paul VanKoughnett
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Aaron Goldfeinaarongoldf...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Ed Murphyemurph...@socal.rr.com wrote: I vote PRESENT in the Anarchist election.  (This is effective iff my previous attempt was not.) I CFJ on the following sentence. Murphy cast

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Anarchist vote, in case

2009-06-14 Thread Aaron Goldfein
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Paul VanKoughnettallisp...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Aaron Goldfeinaarongoldf...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Ed Murphyemurph...@socal.rr.com wrote: I vote PRESENT in the Anarchist election.  (This is effective