DIS: Re: BUS: More potential escalations.

2013-04-10 Thread Alex Smith
On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 01:19 -0400, Sean Hunt wrote: I cause Rule 2380 to cause Rule 2361 to become a Slave Golem. I CFJ { Rule 2361 is a Slave Golem. } If Rule 2361 is a Slave Golem, I cause Rule 2380 to transfer it from the LFD to me. Arguments: The only reason I can think of that

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: More potential escalations.

2013-04-10 Thread omd
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 1:47 AM, Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: Arguments: this fails due to rule 2150; a rule needs power at least 2 to define an entity as a person. Defining a rule as a golem is defining it to be a person, among other things. Arguments: As I mentioned on IRC, clearly if

DIS: Re: BUS: An old flame

2013-04-10 Thread omd
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 2:36 AM, Sean Hunt scsh...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: Proposal: New Beginnings (AI=3) Generally, I was going to respond negatively, criticizing the extra complexity introduced when the latest batch of changes might finally produce a solid basis for gameplay (unlike

DIS: Two proto-proto-proposal-sketches

2013-04-10 Thread Elliott Hird
Proto-proto-proposal-sketch the first: Define almost everything (rules, currency, messages, fora...) as a person and see what goes boom. Preferably allow them to become players in some way. Replace Golems with this or something. Proto-proto-proposal-sketch the second: Give me back Gmail's old

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: An old flame

2013-04-10 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 10 Apr 2013, omd wrote: On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 2:36 AM, Sean Hunt scsh...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: Proposal: New Beginnings (AI=3) Generally, I was going to respond negatively, criticizing the extra complexity introduced when the latest batch of changes might finally produce

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: An old flame

2013-04-10 Thread Sean Hunt
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: I am personally with Wes on this in that we need a clean sweep of personhood (raise the personhood definition security to 3 in rule 2150, state right out only first-class persons can be players, then delete all

DIS: Re-require officers

2013-04-10 Thread Kerim Aydin
Hi folks, I think the current officer system is a key point of our malaise. To wit, we've figured out that offices can lie vacant, and then someone can deputize when they feel like it, and no game penalties. This leads to out-of-sight, out-of-mind; I think lapses in Props and Rubles can be

Re: DIS: Re-require officers

2013-04-10 Thread Sean Hunt
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: Hi folks, I think the current officer system is a key point of our malaise. To wit, we've figured out that offices can lie vacant, and then someone can deputize when they feel like it, and no game penalties. This

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: An old flame

2013-04-10 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 10 Apr 2013, Sean Hunt wrote: On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: I am personally with Wes on this in that we need a clean sweep of personhood (raise the personhood definition security to 3 in rule 2150, state right out only first-class

Re: DIS: Re-require officers

2013-04-10 Thread Tysger B.
But what do we do with Offices that are Vacant right now? I mean you can't force first-class players to held Offices i think. Tomas 2013/4/10 Sean Hunt scsh...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: Hi folks, I think the

DIS: Re: BUS: Protection

2013-04-10 Thread Tanner Swett
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:51 AM, Sean Hunt scsh...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: I intend, with notice, to cause Rule 2380 to enact a new rule with the same text as Rule 2380. Please tell us what you intend to accomplish with this dictatorship and when you intend it to end. Permanent

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Protection

2013-04-10 Thread Tanner Swett
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Tanner Swett swe...@mail.gvsu.edu wrote: Please tell us what you intend to accomplish with this dictatorship and when you intend it to end. Permanent dictatorships are bad form. Actually, come to think of it, it's pretty clear that you intend to implement your

Re: DIS: Re-require officers

2013-04-10 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 10 Apr 2013, Tysger B. wrote: But what do we do with Offices that are Vacant right now? I mean you can't force first-class players to held Offices i think. Tomas Not right now. In the past we had an office (the Speaker) which wasn't allowed to be vacant. The person holding it

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Protection

2013-04-10 Thread Sean Hunt
On Apr 10, 2013 12:45 PM, Tanner Swett swe...@mail.gvsu.edu wrote: On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Tanner Swett swe...@mail.gvsu.edu wrote: Please tell us what you intend to accomplish with this dictatorship and when you intend it to end. Permanent dictatorships are bad form. Actually,

DIS: Re: BUS: More potential escalations.

2013-04-10 Thread Tanner Swett
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 1:42 AM, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Sean Hunt scsh...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: I cause Rule 2380 to cause Rule 2361 to become a Slave Golem. Criminal case: Rule 2361 has violated Rule 101 by failing to treat Agora right good

DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ: Adoption of Proposals

2013-04-10 Thread Tanner Swett
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Wes Contreras w...@antitribu.com wrote: We call for judgment on the following statement: scshunt CAN, by announcement, cause a proposal to take effect. We believe this statement to be false, as it conflicts with Rule 106, which states: If there is no

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ: Adoption of Proposals

2013-04-10 Thread comexk
Arguments: That clause was intended to allow scshunt to cause a high-AI proposal that had previously been adopted (so high-Power) to take effect again. It was ruled in CFJ 3277 that this constitutes a substantive change to the proposal and so fails. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 10, 2013, at

DIS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 7364–7395

2013-04-10 Thread omd
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Tanner Swett swe...@mail.gvsu.edu wrote: The Proposal Pool contains the following proposals: AI CHAMBER AUTHOR TITLE 1.0 Ordinary omd Plan B The above proposal is undistributed because its AI is too small for it to be effective.

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal 7395

2013-04-10 Thread omd
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Tanner Swett swe...@mail.gvsu.edu wrote: I submit a proposal, titled Seventy-Three Ninety-Five: In Rule 2367 Messy Statements, replace inaccurate and incorrect with nonsensical and meaningless. Arguments: considering both a statement and its negation to be

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal 7395

2013-04-10 Thread Sean Hunt
On Apr 10, 2013 4:02 PM, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Tanner Swett swe...@mail.gvsu.edu wrote: I submit a proposal, titled Seventy-Three Ninety-Five: In Rule 2367 Messy Statements, replace inaccurate and incorrect with nonsensical and meaningless.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ: Adoption of Proposals

2013-04-10 Thread Wes Contreras
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Tanner Swett swe...@mail.gvsu.edu wrote: Arguments: for Agoran Decisions that do not have an outcome of ADOPTED, I think the answer is uncontroversially FALSE. For Agoran Decisions that do have an outcome of ADOPTED (and, in particular, ones with a Power

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal 7395

2013-04-10 Thread Tanner Swett
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 4:00 PM, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: This might work, although I don't see anything particularly broken about the current version. I'm mainly thinking about the confused circumstances surrounding CFJ 3244. No harm was done, but I still think the current state of

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 7364–7395

2013-04-10 Thread Tysger B.
I support. 2013/4/10 woggle woggl...@gmail.com On 4/10/13 12:45 , Tanner Swett wrote: [snip] 7382 1.0 Plutocra omd Плутократия! I intend, with 2 Elder support, to make the decision to adopt Proposal 7382 Gerontocratic. I intend, with 3 Agoran consent, to make the decision

DIS: Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 7364–7395

2013-04-10 Thread Tanner Swett
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Tysger B. tysg...@gmail.com wrote: I support. It's not clear whether you're supporting both intents, or just one or the other (although, since you're not an Elder, it would be reasonable to assume you're supporting only the second intent). (Also, messages sent to

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 7364–7395

2013-04-10 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 10 Apr 2013, omd wrote: 7372 1.0 Ordinary G. Monthly Dispatches AGAINST, I think this just makes it part of both reports. I'm pretty sure R2143 disagrees with you, but if you're taking R2143 into account let me know your reasoning. -G.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ: Adoption of Proposals

2013-04-10 Thread Sean Hunt
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Wes Contreras w...@antitribu.com wrote: This is a case where comma placement parses the sentence quite differently. If there is no [[[Agoran Decision to adopt a particular proposal that has an outcome of ADOPTED]]], that proposal CANNOT take effect, rules to

DIS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 7364–7395

2013-04-10 Thread Tysger B.
My votes: IDAI CHAMBER AUTHOR TITLE 7364 1.0 Ordinary G. Ribbon Evolution AGAINST 7365 1.0 Ordinary RoujoMarket Failure PRESENT 7366 1.0 Ordinary RoujoCascading Market Failure PRESENT 7367 3.0 Ordinary scshunt Series Reboot AGAINST 7368

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ: Adoption of Proposals

2013-04-10 Thread Wes Contreras
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Sean Hunt scsh...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: I do not disagree with you, but that was never the intent of that sentence. The intent is to re-enact an already-enacted proposal. Intent is irrelevant. The Rules guide play as written, not as intended. --Wes

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ: Adoption of Proposals

2013-04-10 Thread Sean Hunt
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Wes Contreras w...@antitribu.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Sean Hunt scsh...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: I do not disagree with you, but that was never the intent of that sentence. The intent is to re-enact an already-enacted proposal. Intent

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 7364–7395

2013-04-10 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 10 Apr 2013, Tysger B. wrote: I realised i sent it to the wrong list. I am deeply sorry! This is such a common mistake (for old hands as well as new) that it has a common abbreviation: NTTPF (Not To The Public forum) or, when you resend it, noting PF (This Time To The Public

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Comic Book Guy] What, A Report?

2013-04-10 Thread Sean Hunt
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Tanner Swett swe...@mail.gvsu.edu wrote: On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Sean Hunt scsh...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Tanner Swett swe...@mail.gvsu.edu wrote: Trading card holdings = CoE: You are not the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ: Adoption of Proposals

2013-04-10 Thread Elliott Hird
On 10 April 2013 22:55, Wes Contreras w...@antitribu.com wrote: Intent is irrelevant. The Rules guide play as written, not as intended. The courts can take intent into account. Agora is a strange place.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ: Adoption of Proposals

2013-04-10 Thread Sean Hunt
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Elliott Hird penguinoftheg...@googlemail.com wrote: On 10 April 2013 22:55, Wes Contreras w...@antitribu.com wrote: Intent is irrelevant. The Rules guide play as written, not as intended. The courts can take intent into account. Agora is a strange place. No

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Comic Book Guy] What, A Report?

2013-04-10 Thread Tanner Swett
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Sean Hunt scsh...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Tanner Swett swe...@mail.gvsu.edu wrote: Technically, there's no error, as I never said I was the CBG (except in the subject line, which doesn't count). There is, because your

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ: Adoption of Proposals

2013-04-10 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 10 Apr 2013, Sean Hunt wrote: On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Elliott Hird penguinoftheg...@googlemail.com wrote: On 10 April 2013 22:55, Wes Contreras w...@antitribu.com wrote: Intent is irrelevant. The Rules guide play as written, not as intended. The courts can take intent

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ: Adoption of Proposals

2013-04-10 Thread Wes Contreras
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: Legislative intent isn't particularly useful if it's just the author of the Rule and the Rule is untested (because everyone who voted for it may have read it differently, so the question is whose intent?). If the Rule