DIS: Re: BUS: An action

2009-06-29 Thread Ed Murphy
Warrigal wrote: I act on behalf of ə to register ə. I figured out how to get this into the database, but why does http://zenith.homelinux.net/cotc/status.php (newly modified to specify charset=utf-8 rather than charset=iso-8859-1) render it incorrectly by default? Here's the main part of the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: An action

2009-06-29 Thread Warrigal
2009/6/29 Ed Murphy emurph...@socal.rr.com: I figured out how to get this into the database, but why does http://zenith.homelinux.net/cotc/status.php (newly modified to specify charset=utf-8 rather than charset=iso-8859-1) render it incorrectly by default? Your HTTP server is sending a

DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2606 assigned to Taral

2009-06-29 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 00:08 -0700, Ed Murphy wrote: Detail: http://zenith.homelinux.net/cotc/viewcase.php?cfj=2606 == Equity Case 2606 == This omits my gratuitous arguments (that it would be more equitable to keep the total number of scrolls

DIS: Re: BUS: Contesting

2009-06-29 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 10:20 +0200, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: As I have said, I don't know for sure when I will next suddenly disappear for over a week, so I leave all contests except AAA and the Cookie Jar. If you disappear for a couple of days, and I notice, I'll intend to make you inactive, to

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Contesting

2009-06-29 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
2009/6/29 Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk: On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 10:20 +0200, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: As I have said, I don't know for sure when I will next suddenly disappear for over a week, so I leave all contests except AAA and the Cookie Jar. If you disappear for a couple of days, and I

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: An action

2009-06-29 Thread Taral
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Ed Murphyemurph...@socal.rr.com wrote: I figured out how to get this into the database, but why does http://zenith.homelinux.net/cotc/status.php (newly modified to specify charset=utf-8 rather than charset=iso-8859-1) render it incorrectly by default? Either

DIS: Re: BUS: A rather flat Happy Birthday

2009-06-29 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 05:10 -0700, Taral wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 5:08 AM, Alex Smithais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: to satisfy the Winning Condition of Musicianship, and I win by Musicianship. Congrats. :) Happy birthday Agora, by the way! Happy birthday Agora!

DIS: Re: BUS: A rather flat Happy Birthday

2009-06-29 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
2009/6/29 Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk: On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 05:10 -0700, Taral wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 5:08 AM, Alex Smithais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: to satisfy the Winning Condition of Musicianship, and I win by Musicianship. Congrats. :) Happy birthday Agora, by the way! Happy

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [3SR-DM] (i)nventory

2009-06-29 Thread Roger Hicks
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 17:46, Ed Murphyemurph...@socal.rr.com wrote: 8. At any time, a nomic may nkeplwgplxgioyzjvtxjnncsqscvntlbdqromyeyvlhkjgteaqnneqgujjpwcbyfrpueoydjjk by announcement. Whenever a nomic nkeplwgplxgioyzjvtxjnncsqscvntlbdqromyeyvlhkjgteaqnneqgujjpwcbyfrpueoydjjks, they are

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 6387-6394

2009-06-29 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
2009/6/29 Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk: 6388 D 1 2.0 Tiger               No more sneaky contestmasters AGAINST, doesn't actually fix the problem (nothing says that second-class persons CANNOT become players) Oh. I'm sure that I thought this through and was certain that id did fix the problem

DIS: Re: BUS: New Contests: CO Set

2009-06-29 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
2009/6/20 Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk: On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 12:16 -0600, Sean Hunt wrote: Ryan Ursenbach wrote: I agree to all of those contracts Sean Hunt wrote:     Agree to these instead:     {     I pledge that I may be referred to in Agora as costanza. Any first-    

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: New Contests: CO Set

2009-06-29 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 17:00 +0200, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: As I'm trying to sort out who gained notes for awarding points - who was this constanza person, and what happened? Could someone who actually understood this scam please explain? constanza was presumably a third-party who agreed to help

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: New Contests: CO Set

2009-06-29 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
2009/6/29 Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk: On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 17:00 +0200, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: As I'm trying to sort out who gained notes for awarding points - who was this constanza person, and what happened? Could someone who actually understood this scam please explain? constanza was

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Pool Report

2009-06-29 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
2009/6/29 C-walker charles.w.wal...@googlemail.com:      A player CAN flip a specified Interested proposal to      Distributable without a number of objections equal to -II + 4      (where II is the Interest Index of the specified proposal). A      player CAN flip a specified Disinterested

DIS: Re: BUS: Cha cha cha

2009-06-29 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 08:43 -0700, Ed Murphy wrote: I spend G# F# F to gain E. I spend G# F# F to gain E. I'm not entirely sure the Note math works here. G# to F# is two semitones, F to E is one. Or have I misread what you were trying to do? -- ais523

DIS: Re: BUS: Happy Birthday

2009-06-29 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
2009/6/29 Roger Hicks pidge...@gmail.com: I spend Db D B to gain a Bb note. I spend 3 Db notes, 2 E notes, 5 Eb notes, 2 G notes, 2 A notes, 2 Ab notes, and 9 Bb notes (...) BobTHJ According to my records, you only have 7 Bb notes - 6 as of the last report on 17 June, none gained since then

DIS: Ex-conductor's overdue report

2009-06-29 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
If Conductor is still vacant when Murphy's and BobTHJ's win attempts have settled, I'll deputise to publish this report for real. And since I have made it anyway, I'll post it for the new conductor to use should e be installed soon. Ex-Conductor's Lead Sheet Date of this report: Mon 29 Jun 2009

Re: DIS: Proto: Charity

2009-06-29 Thread C-walker
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Jonatan Kilhamnjonatan.kilh...@gmail.com wrote: But is it a good idea? As one of several players with effectively no assets, it sounds like a great idea ;). -- C-walker

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Pool Report

2009-06-29 Thread C-walker
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:04 AM, comexcom...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:43 PM, C-walkercharles.w.wal...@googlemail.com wrote: This has been reported as undistributable in the past two proposal pool reports, when I remember spending D to make it Distributable on Fri, Jun 12,

Re: DIS: Ex-conductor's overdue report

2009-06-29 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 19:18 +0200, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: If Conductor is still vacant when Murphy's and BobTHJ's win attempts have settled, I'll deputise to publish this report for real. And since I have made it anyway, I'll post it for the new conductor to use should e be installed soon.

Re: DIS: Ex-conductor's overdue report

2009-06-29 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
2009/6/29 Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk: On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 19:18 +0200, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: If Conductor is still vacant when Murphy's and BobTHJ's win attempts have settled, I'll deputise to publish this report for real. And since I have made it anyway, I'll post it for the new

DIS: Re: BUS: Cookie Jar awards

2009-06-29 Thread C-walker
Murphy wrote: Guesses for June 22-28          Proposals  CFJs --- Tue 16 Jun 16:35:58  c.            15       15 Sun 21 Jun 08:50:09  c-walker      16        9 Sun 21 Jun 08:54:13  Yally          8       12  * 4 x-points to c-walker  * 8

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Contesting

2009-06-29 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
2009/6/29 C-walker charles.w.wal...@googlemail.com: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Jonatan Kilhamnjonatan.kilh...@gmail.com wrote: There's no bad stuff happening when going inactive, so that I can do it for just a few days? I agree to the following {{ This becomes a contract when Tiger

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Contesting

2009-06-29 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 19:35 +0200, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: I was thinking more along the lines of me not wanting to become inactive due to bad stuff happening to, I dunno, maybe my crops or notes or something. But it seems not, and I think that I will at least have time to realize that I'm

Re: DIS: Ex-conductor's overdue report

2009-06-29 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Jonatan Kilhamnjonatan.kilh...@gmail.com wrote: Total 73 31 75 28 73 37 56 47 82 72 48 74 696 On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Jonatan Kilhamnjonatan.kilh...@gmail.com wrote: Total                 73 31 75 28 73 37 56 47 82 72 48 74     696

DIS: Re: BUS: birthday

2009-06-29 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 18:42 +0100, C-walker wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, Wooble wrote: Happy Birthday, Agora! I thought we went by UTC time? Anyway, Happy Birthday, Agora! We do for almost everything, the Birthday's an exception. Also, putting game actions in your sig? -- ais523

DIS: Re: BUS: birthday

2009-06-29 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
2009/6/29 C-walker charles.w.wal...@googlemail.com: On Mon, Jun 29, Wooble wrote: Happy Birthday, Agora! I thought we went by UTC time? Anyway, Happy Birthday, Agora! rock in stormy seas Agora lives on, sane bring on next summer -- C-walker who creates a Magenta ribbon in eir

Re: DIS: Ex-conductor's overdue report

2009-06-29 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
2009/6/29 Geoffrey Spear geoffsp...@gmail.com: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Jonatan Kilhamnjonatan.kilh...@gmail.com wrote: Total                 73 31 75 28 73 37 56 47 82 72 48 74     696 On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Jonatan Kilhamnjonatan.kilh...@gmail.com wrote: Total          

Re: DIS: Ex-conductor's overdue report

2009-06-29 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 19:27 +0200, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: 2009/6/29 Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk: On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 19:18 +0200, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: If Conductor is still vacant when Murphy's and BobTHJ's win attempts have settled, I'll deputise to publish this report for real. And

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Cookie Jar awards

2009-06-29 Thread Ed Murphy
c-walker wrote: I guess 8 CFJs for the next week for which I haven't already guessed. NttPF. Murphy, does the proposal guessing system work by the number submitted or the number distributed? 4) The distribution of a proposal is a point-worthy event (counting at most 5 proposals per author

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Cookie Jar awards

2009-06-29 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Ed Murphyemurph...@socal.rr.com wrote: 4) The distribution of a proposal is a point-worthy event (counting at most 5 proposals per author per week) for the X axis. Considering we can know right before the week starts how many I must legally distribute, it's

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: birthday

2009-06-29 Thread C-walker
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Alex Smithais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 18:42 +0100, C-walker wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, Wooble wrote: Happy Birthday, Agora! I thought we went by UTC time? Anyway, Happy Birthday, Agora! We do for almost everything, the Birthday's an

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: birthday

2009-06-29 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 19:08 +0100, C-walker wrote: Thanks for explaining that (to everyone that did). And are game action in your sig considered bad form? Sorry if they are, that was a one off. It's the sort of sneaky action that makes it look like you're trying to hide something; not

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: birthday

2009-06-29 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Alex Smithais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: It's the sort of sneaky action that makes it look like you're trying to hide something; not necessarily bad form, but it'll make people suspicious. and/or make the recordkeepor miss your action, causing em to violate the rules

Re: DIS: Ex-conductor's overdue report

2009-06-29 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
2009/6/29 Jonatan Kilhamn jonatan.kilh...@gmail.com: 2009/6/29 Geoffrey Spear geoffsp...@gmail.com: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Jonatan Kilhamnjonatan.kilh...@gmail.com wrote: Total                 73 31 75 28 73 37 56 47 82 72 48 74     696 On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Jonatan

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: birthday

2009-06-29 Thread C-walker
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Geoffrey Speargeoffsp...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Alex Smithais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: It's the sort of sneaky action that makes it look like you're trying to hide something; not necessarily bad form, but it'll make people suspicious.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Card proposal

2009-06-29 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sun, 28 Jun 2009, comex wrote: [Various errors in Card proposal] Arggh... will teach me not to try editing a big proposal in airport lounges on a crummy borrowed laptop just to get it out in time for birthday. Looks like a few cards will be broken out of the gate but not dangerously, but

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Happy Birthday

2009-06-29 Thread Roger Hicks
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:06, Jonatan Kilhamnjonatan.kilh...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/6/29 Roger Hicks pidge...@gmail.com: I spend Db D B to gain a Bb note. I spend 3 Db notes, 2 E notes, 5 Eb notes, 2 G notes, 2 A notes, 2 Ab notes, and 9 Bb notes (...) BobTHJ According to my records, you

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2605 assigned to ehird

2009-06-29 Thread Geoffrey Spear
2009/6/29 Craig Daniel teu...@pobox.com: music-currency [which can only mean Notes, in this context] to .kreig. [which is the Lojban form of my real name, and the name by which I am known in the Lojban community], who is .tefkros. [my preferred Lojbanization of teucer, based on the original

DIS: Re: BUS: I'm so Errational

2009-06-29 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, C-walker wrote: I change my name to 2.71828183... or e for short. I'll accept 2.71828..., but don't you think picking the third-person singular pronoun 'e' might have some *slight* chance of being a name that has generally been used to refer to another entity within the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: I'm so Errational

2009-06-29 Thread Craig Daniel
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Alex Smithais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 12:42 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, C-walker wrote: I change my name to 2.71828183... or e for short. I'll accept 2.71828..., but don't you think picking the third-person singular

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: I'm so Errational

2009-06-29 Thread C-walker
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Craig Danielteu...@pobox.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Alex Smithais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 12:42 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, C-walker wrote: I change my name to 2.71828183... or e for short. I'll accept

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: I'm so Errational

2009-06-29 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Craig Daniel wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Alex Smithais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 12:42 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, C-walker wrote: I change my name to 2.71828183... or e for short. No, because technically I believe e

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: I'm so Errational

2009-06-29 Thread C-walker
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Alex Smithais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 12:42 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, C-walker wrote: I change my name to 2.71828183... or e for short. I'll accept 2.71828..., but don't you think picking the third-person singular

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: I'm so Errational

2009-06-29 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 4:05 PM, C-walkercharles.w.wal...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Craig Danielteu...@pobox.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Alex Smithais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 12:42 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009,

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: I'm so Errational

2009-06-29 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Alex Smith wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 12:42 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, C-walker wrote: I change my name to 2.71828183... or e for short. I'll accept 2.71828..., but don't you think picking the third-person singular pronoun 'e' might have some

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: I'm so Errational

2009-06-29 Thread Craig Daniel
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Geoffrey Speargeoffsp...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 4:05 PM, C-walkercharles.w.wal...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Craig Danielteu...@pobox.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Alex Smithais...@bham.ac.uk wrote:

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: I'm so Errational

2009-06-29 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 13:09 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Alex Smith wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 12:42 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, C-walker wrote: I change my name to 2.71828183... or e for short. I'll accept 2.71828..., but don't you think picking

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: I'm so Errational

2009-06-29 Thread C-walker
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Kerim Aydinke...@u.washington.edu wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, C-walker wrote: Also gains of most ribbons and some Notes would go to me. *sigh* see CFJ 1520, last two paragraphs of judge's arguments, please. -G. I said /would/, not really thinking that the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: I'm so Errational

2009-06-29 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Alex Smithais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: Yep, it's the generally that's confusing me here, as I can't figure out if it implies there's an entity that 'e' generally refers to, which is false. Well, it's certainly confusing even if it's not because e generally referred

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2598-99 assigned to coppro

2009-06-29 Thread Sean Hunt
Benjamin Caplan wrote: This feels wrong somehow. The first two paragraphs appear to be arguing for TRUE, but then the last one contradicts their conclusions without refuting their arguments. In light of the reasoning presented in the second paragraph of this judgement, how do you find

Re: DIS: Proto: Charity

2009-06-29 Thread Benjamin Caplan
Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: This is a public contract named the Charity Foundation. Parties to this contract are known as Helpful. Intriguing. I've never seen a contract demonym that was an adjective rather than a noun. Departement to the Charity Foundation, if possible. Helpful players Department.

Re: DIS: Proto: Charity

2009-06-29 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
2009/6/29 Benjamin Caplan celestialcognit...@gmail.com: Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: This is a public contract named the Charity Foundation. Parties to this contract are known as Helpful. Intriguing. I've never seen a contract demonym that was an adjective rather than a noun. Departement to the

DIS: Re: BUS: [3SR-DM] (i)nventory

2009-06-29 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
2009/6/30 Sean Hunt ride...@gmail.com: Sean Hunt wrote: I intend, without party objection, to amend 3-Scroll Rodney as follows:  - Change the Frequency of the Scrolls of Concentration and    Hallucination to 0.12 each.  - Add a new scroll, the Scroll of Fire, with frequency 0.06. When read,  

Re: DIS: Proto: Charity

2009-06-29 Thread Alex Smith
On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 00:08 +0200, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: I'm happy for any thoughts on names, by the way. English is not my first language and I'm not into charity or any kind of business or organisation, so I just picked names that sounded good. I do like the idea of charity; but, I think it

DIS: Re: BUS: ATTN: parties to ə

2009-06-29 Thread Sean Hunt
Warrigal wrote: I intend, with the consent of all parties to ə, to append the following sentence to it: Any party to ə may act on its behalf with the consent of all other parties. I intend, with the consent of all parties to ə, to cause ə to publish the message Happy Birthday, Agora! It's

Re: DIS: Proto: Charity

2009-06-29 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
New draft: (I don't agree to this yet) 1. Purpose of the Foundation This is a public contract named the Charity Foundation. The purpose of this contract is to let assets that are not otherwise used come to benefit the ones who deserve or need them. Parties to this contract are known as Helpful.

DIS: Re: BUS: PNP may be dead

2009-06-29 Thread Elliott Hird
2009/6/29 Sean Hunt ride...@gmail.com: I object. Activity is needed because, in the case of non-embassy But what about

DIS: Re: BUS: ATTN: parties to ?

2009-06-29 Thread Sean Hunt
Warrigal wrote: I intend, with the consent of all parties to ?, to append the following sentence to it: Any party to ? may act on its behalf with the consent of all other parties. I intend, with the consent of all parties to ?, to cause ? to publish the message Happy Birthday, Agora! It's

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: ATTN: parties to ?

2009-06-29 Thread Benjamin Caplan
Sean Hunt wrote to the discussion forum: I consent publicly. No, you don't.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: PNP may be dead

2009-06-29 Thread Ed Murphy
ehird wrote: 2009/6/29 Sean Hunt ride...@gmail.com: I object. Activity is needed because, in the case of non-embassy But what about Fnord!