DIS: Re: BUS: I, for one, welcome our insect overlords!

2012-09-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 26 Sep 2012, Ed Murphy wrote: I create a promise: Text: { For the decision to adopt Proposal 7314, I end the voting period and resolve it as follows: } Condition for cashing: { The cashing announcement is followed by an accurate description of the outcome of the decision in

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: I, for one, welcome our insect overlords!

2012-09-27 Thread Sean Hunt
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: On Wed, 26 Sep 2012, Ed Murphy wrote: I create a promise: Text: { For the decision to adopt Proposal 7314, I end the voting period and resolve it as follows: } Condition for cashing: { The cashing announcement is

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: I, for one, welcome our insect overlords!

2012-09-27 Thread Tanner Swett
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: So what's the end result? The Promise is not cashed, no report is published, and nothing ratifies? —Machiavelli

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: I, for one, welcome our insect overlords!

2012-09-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, Sean Hunt wrote: Possibly my message purporting to cash the promise would be enough to invoke self-ratification. On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, Tanner Swett wrote: The Promise is not cashed, no report is published, and nothing ratifies? Well... yeah. It's probably one of these.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: I, for one, welcome our insect overlords!

2012-09-27 Thread Ed Murphy
G. wrote: On Wed, 26 Sep 2012, Ed Murphy wrote: I create a promise: Text: { For the decision to adopt Proposal 7314, I end the voting period and resolve it as follows: } Condition for cashing: { The cashing announcement is followed by an accurate description of the outcome of the decision in

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: I, for one, welcome our insect overlords!

2012-09-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, Ed Murphy wrote: G. wrote: On Wed, 26 Sep 2012, Ed Murphy wrote: I create a promise: Text: { For the decision to adopt Proposal 7314, I end the voting period and resolve it as follows: } Condition for cashing: { The cashing announcement is followed

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: I, for one, welcome our insect overlords!

2012-09-27 Thread omd
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: Playing with the nesting a bit: scshunt purports [Murphy purports [result]] But such a message would probably include enough context to make it clear that it's purporting to do something that indirectly causes the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: I, for one, welcome our insect overlords!

2012-09-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, omd wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: Playing with the nesting a bit: scshunt purports [Murphy purports [result]] But such a message would probably include enough context to make it clear that it's purporting to do

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: I, for one, welcome our insect overlords!

2012-09-27 Thread omd
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: If a promise when cashed is officially a message from Murphy; Then a failed promise is no message (empty text). If the condition fails, then the promise can't be cashed; but the message says the promise *is* cashed, so

DIS: Re: BUS: New Gameplay Ho!

2012-09-27 Thread Sean Hunt
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Elliott Hird penguinoftheg...@googlemail.com wrote: This is a dictatorship acting well outside of the limited, reward-focused bounds a scam should go. I deregister. What, no Cantus Cygneus? -scshunt

DIS: Re: BUS: New Gameplay Ho!

2012-09-27 Thread Craig Daniel
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Elliott Hird penguinoftheg...@googlemail.com wrote: This is a dictatorship acting well outside of the limited, reward-focused bounds a scam should go. I deregister. This is a scam that frightens off ehird. I register. (NttPF status intentional.)

DIS: Re: BUS: New Gameplay Ho!

2012-09-27 Thread omd
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: Also: fun's fun, but I will also deregister if scshunt persists in these changes. Consider that an objection, as well. Oh, come on. Although I feel obliged to counter-scam (not that it's particularly likely to work,