Re: DIS: Re: BUS: May as well REALLY settle this

2013-07-30 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Tue, 30 Jul 2013, Michael Slone wrote: I think I'm missing something in the rules, though. Actions performed with notice require Agoran Satisfaction (1728(c)). Rule 2124, which defines Agoran Satisfaction, appears to require the action to fall into one or more of the following categories:

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, Fool wrote: The sentences in question are not directly self-referential or even mutually-referential. This is more of a Curry-flavoured confused deputy, with rule 2337 as the deputy. It says that the author can destroy a promise with notice IFF the sentence in its

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, Fool wrote: On 29/07/2013 6:20 PM, Ørjan Johansen wrote: On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, Fool wrote: The sentences in question are not directly self-referential or even mutually-referential. This is more of a Curry-flavoured confused deputy, with rule 2337 as the deputy. It says

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, Alex Smith wrote: If they dispose of their dictatorship quickly via win+trophy, Agora typically tolerates them. (Sometimes there's a race where someone with a power-1 dictatorship tries to get it at a higher power; normally the time limit for that is long enough for the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting Results for Proposals 7530-7547

2013-07-29 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, Fool wrote: On 29/07/2013 7:33 PM, Ørjan Johansen wrote: On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, Fool wrote: I assume Assessor. Voting results for Proposals 7530-7547: COE: By Rule 1950, the eligible voting entities are set at the _distribution_ of the proposal. I am not sure whether

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting Results for Proposals 7530-7547

2013-07-29 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, Fool wrote: On 29/07/2013 7:46 PM, Ørjan Johansen wrote: See the recent TIME OUT scam... making someone not an eligible voter does set their voting limit to 0. I'm claiming you haven't made them not eligible voters in the first place, even if you deregistered them

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judgements

2013-07-26 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Fri, 26 Jul 2013, Ørjan Johansen wrote: I would correspondingly find it natural for the TDoC of the sender to be consulted for when a message is _sent_, if the rules were otherwise silent, which however they currently are not (date stamps), albeit in a not very clarifying way. Oh also I

DIS: Re: BUS: Judgements

2013-07-26 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Fri, 26 Jul 2013, Alex Smith wrote: Finally, CFJ 866 seems to be relevant background reading too (and also supports this verdict), and may be responsible for the TDoC confusion (in that it holds that the /recipient's/ TDoC is what matters, not the /sender's/ TDoC). FWIW IMO as the original

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judgements

2013-07-26 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Fri, 26 Jul 2013, Alex Smith wrote: received is what the recent precedents indicate. (The rules require the message to be sent via a public forum, rule 478, and it hasn't gone via the forum until both the sender has sent it, and the recipient has received it. Also I can't construct a

Re: DIS: [Distributor] Date munging is back, receive-copies-of-own-mail default changed

2013-07-17 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, omd wrote: Right. Mailman is really vintage code... The list should now: - rewrite date headers to be the actual time of receipt, as briefly attempted before; - include a new X-Timestamp header to provide additional precision if required; - by default, only send back

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Ambassador-at-Large] Foreign Relations

2013-07-16 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, Steven Gardner wrote: Entreco Rule 8, Idealism: The state of Entreco is determined by what its players believe that it is. The state of the game can be changed by the consensus (including unintentionally, if a mistake is made in applying the rules,

DIS: Re: BUS: Let's make timing scams more interesting

2013-07-16 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, Alex Smith wrote: More Interesting Timing Scams (AI 3, Proposal Fee Y20) Add a new paragraph to rule 478, just before its last paragraph: {{{ As an exception to the rest of this rule, no message is a public message if, during the 1-hour period that ends when that

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: The Wisconsin Line-Item Veto

2013-07-13 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Sat, 13 Jul 2013, omd wrote: Proposal: The Wisconsin Line-Item Veto (AI=2) When a Signed Copy is submitted, its Power is set to the minimum ^^^ of four and adoption index of the proposal, and then it takes

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: The Wisconsin Line-Item Veto

2013-07-13 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Sat, 13 Jul 2013, Tanner Swett wrote: On Jul 13, 2013, at 4:01 AM, Ørjan Johansen wrote: On Sat, 13 Jul 2013, omd wrote: Proposal: The Wisconsin Line-Item Veto (AI=2) When a Signed Copy is submitted, its Power is set to the minimum

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Alliance Shennanigans

2013-07-12 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Fri, 12 Jul 2013, Kerim Aydin wrote: On Fri, 12 Jul 2013, John Smith wrote: I intend with 1 ais523 support to join the alliance containing ais523. CfJ, barring ais523: If ais523 immediately replies to that intent with 'I support and do so', I become a member of the same alliance as

DIS: Re: several messages

2013-07-10 Thread Ørjan Johansen
Oh hm, reading further it seems I must also include proof that the conditions are satisfied. I once again attempt to cash this promise, with the message further below as proof the conditions are satisfied. Greetings, Ørjan. On Thu, 11 Jul 2013, Ørjan Johansen wrote: On Wed, 10 Jul 2013

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: several messages

2013-07-10 Thread Ørjan Johansen
...and on second thought, I don't think including the proof was actually necessary, since that only applies to the _text_ of the promise, not its condition. :P Greetings, Ørjan. On Thu, 11 Jul 2013, Ørjan Johansen wrote: *sigh* pf On Thu, 11 Jul 2013, Ørjan Johansen wrote: Oh hm

Re: DIS: Would I be an Elder if I registered?

2013-07-09 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Mon, 8 Jul 2013, Alex Smith wrote: I meant buggy requirement as a hypothetical in my quote (as in, satisfies the requirement if it's bugged). FWIW, I meant omd's interpretation when I wrote the rule originally. Not that that really counts for anything. (And not that either interpretation is

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 3362 assigned to G.

2013-07-09 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Mon, 8 Jul 2013, Kerim Aydin wrote: On Mon, 8 Jul 2013, Fool wrote: Generally I don't think it's true the meta-agreement is subject to amendment by even true nomic. There are still limits. What if we made Agora purport to be played by the NZ All Blacks? This would paralyze the rule until

DIS: Re: BUS: My First CFJ

2013-07-09 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Mon, 8 Jul 2013, omd wrote: On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Lindar Greenwood lindartheb...@gmail.com wrote: I initiate a CFJ on the following: The common vernacular for someone who does something is Xor, where a Xor Xes. By rule 2408 the 'recordkeepor' is the title for one who keeps

DIS: Re: OFF: [IADoP] Ambassador-At-Large and Promotor Elections

2013-07-09 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Tue, 9 Jul 2013, Sean Hunt wrote: I hereby initiate the Agoran Decisions to select the holders of the offices of Ambassador-At-Large and Promotor. The vote collector is the IADoP; the eligible voters are the active first-class players. The candidates for Ambassador-At-Large are Walker and

Re: DIS: (no subject)

2013-07-07 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Sun, 7 Jul 2013, omd wrote: On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Tanner Swett swe...@mail.gvsu.edu wrote: Pretty sure the Gerontocracy is irrelevant. The only things that matter (pretending Lindar's message was effective) are that Fool announced intent within the correct time period, Fool is

Re: DIS: Would I be an Elder if I registered?

2013-07-07 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Mon, 8 Jul 2013, Steven Gardner wrote: R2357: An Elder is a first-class player who has been registered continuously for at least 32 days, and also registered for at least 128 days total (not necessarily contiguously). I was registered continuously from 1 July 1994 until

Re: DIS: (no subject)

2013-07-07 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Mon, 8 Jul 2013, omd wrote: On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 12:21 AM, Ørjan Johansen oer...@nvg.ntnu.no wrote: Did 4 days pass since the declaration of intent already, and if it did so, given the strong precedence claims, does that mean the action can now be performed? (Since no Elders have objected

RE: DIS: Agora XX: 13th and final report

2013-07-03 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Wed, 3 Jul 2013, Steven Gardner wrote: My dim recollection is that it took a kind of high level scam (in the sense of loophole exploitation, there was no attempt to win) to move away from the Mutable/Immutable distinction. But we didn't get straight to the Power system - that came later. The

DIS: Sudden epiphany

2013-07-03 Thread Ørjan Johansen
Agora is older than Eternal September... Greetings, Ørjan.

DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement, CFJ 3343

2013-07-03 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Wed, 3 Jul 2013, Sean Hunt wrote: On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Ed Murphy emurph...@socal.rr.com wrote: 3343: FALSE If any party's constitution actually authorized party members to act on its behalf, then such an inference would be valid. However, no party's constitution currently does

DIS: Re: BUS: hi oerjan

2013-07-03 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Thu, 4 Jul 2013, Elliott Hird wrote: I intend, with 3 elder support, to declare a gerontocracy. Is the joke that I've been a Player before y'all and still am not an Elder? (Or even registered.) Greetings, Ørjan.

RE: DIS: Agora XX: 13th and final report

2013-07-01 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Mon, 1 Jul 2013, Chuck Carroll wrote: A very similar thought had occurred to me, except the Speaker could do even better than independently selecting a Judge for each possible set; e could link the sets in such a way to maximize the probability that the same Judge is selected for each set.

RE: DIS: Agora XX: 13th and final report

2013-07-01 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Mon, 1 Jul 2013, Chuck Carroll wrote: I also have an idea or two about how a group of players could get around the requirement of unanimity for making a rule mutable against a single player determined to prevent all such transmutations. My vague memory is that something like that is how

DIS: Re: OFF: [Registrar] Census

2013-07-01 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Mon, 1 Jul 2013, omd wrote: INACTIVE PLAYERS (8) PlayerInactive since ---- Pavitra 31 Mar 13 Kolja 7 Apr 13 Wooble 7 Apr 13 Machiavelli 13 May 13 Tomas

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 13th and final report

2013-06-29 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Sat, 29 Jun 2013, Fool wrote: And we have a last minute registration, Ørjan. Just in time to lose! Yay! * resolves to read proposals before voting on them in the future :P Greetings, Ørjan, still an old-timer in spirit.

DIS: You know...

2013-06-29 Thread Ørjan Johansen
Someone should probably update the agoranomic webpage not to say 2010 everywhere hth. Greetings, Ørjan.

DIS: Informally Happy birthday

2013-06-29 Thread Ørjan Johansen
Happy birthday, Agora! Greetings, Ørjan.

Re: DIS: irc session reminder (XX players may be interested)

2013-06-29 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Sat, 29 Jun 2013, Charles Walker wrote: There will be an irc session in celebration of Agora's birthday in the ##nomic channel on Sunday 30th June (tomorrow) starting at 21:00 UTC. I am a little confused by this. Agora's birthday is Sunday 30th June, but in the +1200 (New Zealand)

DIS: Boo!

2013-06-28 Thread Ørjan Johansen
Sometimes you just have to be there. Greetings, Ørjan.

Re: DIS: Boo!

2013-06-28 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Sat, 29 Jun 2013, Steven Gardner wrote: Hello old friend! I thought of you several times today. How are you? It's complicated. Greetings, Ørjan. (I haven't said this for years!)

DIS: Registration

2013-06-28 Thread Ørjan Johansen
I register as a player in Agora XX (I hope this is how it is done.) Greetings, Ørjan.

Re: DIS: Re: Boo!

2013-06-28 Thread Ørjan Johansen
Of Ørjan Johansen Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 9:58 AM To: Agora Discussion List Subject: DIS: Boo! Sometimes you just have to be there. Greetings, Ørjan.

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