DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ, Truthiness

2008-01-30 Thread Zefram
of the statement, and so would not believe it to be true, so they would indeed by violating rule 2149 if they stated it. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 1882a assigned to Levi, Goethe, root

2008-01-30 Thread Zefram
think the use of watcher in the statement of the CFJ is not as well supported as root makes out. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Corporate judges

2008-01-29 Thread Zefram
Ed Murphy wrote: So two partnerships with the same basis can both be qualified? Yes, but Rule 2144 still lets any player deregister one of them with Agoran Consent. R2144 only applies to partnerships with identical bases. I'm also concerned about overlapping non-identical bases. -zefram

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Corporate judges

2008-01-29 Thread Zefram
be qualified? -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1879: assign Goddess Eris

2008-01-29 Thread Zefram
accepted by the courts as authoritative, er, codification of the uncodified law. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1879: assign Goddess Eris

2008-01-29 Thread Zefram
to distinguish between nomics and non-nomic rule systems. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Corporate judges

2008-01-29 Thread Zefram
. Or, for a slight finesse, the basis of another otherwise-well-qualified player. The CotC has to track bases and apply the knowledge case by case, but of course partnerships are public now. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1879: assign Goddess Eris

2008-01-29 Thread Zefram
with whether such redefinition is possible in Agora. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Brainfuck Golf] Hole #4

2008-01-29 Thread Zefram
digit rotation done alongside rot13. I'd say leaving digits unchanged is canonical behaviour. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1863: assign Goethe

2008-01-28 Thread Zefram
to deregister. Please get on with it. -zefram

Re: DIS: Proto: Scale back ribbons

2008-01-26 Thread Zefram
-amended current rule, and in fact the second-most-ameneded rule ever (after R1671, the Frankenstein Rule). Now it's in danger of being repealed, due to the unpopularity of ribbons, even though the concept that got it amended so much is still going strong. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Watcher

2008-01-25 Thread Zefram
Ian Kelly wrote: Yes, but we still require explicit redefinition, don't we? There's no rule saying so. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Watcher

2008-01-25 Thread Zefram
that is is of course determined by the time-honoured custom of the registrar listing watchers in eir report. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Watcher

2008-01-25 Thread Zefram
Ed Murphy wrote: CFJ 1659 found that even a contract can't override an explicit rule definition, much less a long-standing but still unlegislated custom. And as a result we amended the rule that led to that judgement. Contextual modifications now can override rule definitions. -zefram

DIS: Re: OFF: Resolving CotC election, Take II

2008-01-23 Thread Zefram
Levi Stephen wrote: I hereby install Murphy as Clerk of the Courts. I've just posted an up-to-date judicial status report. I presume that Murphy has up-to-date case files for the open cases, by virtue of eir database. -zefram

Re: DIS: Canada

2008-01-22 Thread Zefram
, such as law enforcement and public roads. Agora serves to better Agoran society by providing essential services, such as rule enforcement and public recordkeeping. -zefram

Re: DIS: Not judging CFJ 1828

2008-01-21 Thread Zefram
, for this as well as the reasons you pointed out. If CFJ 1860 is not judged on time then I'll reassign it to you. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1831: remanded to Goddess Eris

2008-01-20 Thread Zefram
. -zefram

Re: DIS: Canada?

2008-01-19 Thread Zefram
might go with one of the offices located in the geographically dominant nomic in your region: http://geo.international.gc.ca/can-am/main/offices/default-en.asp -zefram

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Fix Rule 1586

2008-01-17 Thread Zefram
. For that matter, it's also a good idea to explicitly delimit your proposal text to separate it from the surrounding message. -zefram

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: More permanant patent titles

2008-01-17 Thread Zefram
in multiple parts, a better form is Amend rule 649 by ... and by ... and by ... and by -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: distribution of proposal 5409

2008-01-17 Thread Zefram
stays vacant, but we'd still have deputisation available. -zefram

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Generalise deputisation

2008-01-17 Thread Zefram
to be the office of assessor.) I don't see a need for deputisation for any other Agoran Decisions. -zefram

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: More permanant patent titles

2008-01-17 Thread Zefram
-person, the PT is recognising something that was achieved by a person. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: CFJs 1873-1875: assign OscarMeyr

2008-01-17 Thread Zefram
. -zefram

Re: DIS: On second thought, let's not wait

2008-01-17 Thread Zefram
. And I'd have to change the dates in the ruleset records, and add another tranche of date correction records to my historical rule data aggregator. -zefram

Re: DIS: Proto-Judgement on CFJ 1860

2008-01-16 Thread Zefram
some nomic. Since Steve Wallace is not a game, he cannot be a nomic either. Since he is a nomic, ^ not -zefram

Re: DIS: Proto-Judgement on CFJ 1860

2008-01-16 Thread Zefram
this isn't a forum ... says Iammars in the discussion forum. so I don't have avatars to associate you with. What, our writing styles and opinions aren't distinctive enough? -zefram

Re: DIS: Proto-Judgement on CFJ 1860

2008-01-16 Thread Zefram
up than a picture next to your names. Pictures. How quaint. -zefram

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Non-Assessor] Voting Limits Non-Report

2008-01-16 Thread Zefram
Benjamin Schultz wrote: A player CAN deregister by announcement. E CANNOT register within thirty days after doing so. BobTHJ was deregistered by writ, not by eir own announcement. There's no auto-exile in this case. -zefram

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Non-Assessor] Voting Limits Non-Report

2008-01-16 Thread Zefram
of deregistration. I suggest that it should be fixed by adding an auto-exile clause to the Cantus Cygneus rule. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1872: assign BobTHJ

2008-01-15 Thread Zefram
Ian Kelly wrote: Good point. I suggest that this illustrates a flaw in our definition of person. I think it's a good reason why obligations ought to survive an interruption of personhood. -zefram

DIS: Re: BUS: CotC election

2008-01-15 Thread Zefram
comex wrote: -- From CFJ 1750 to 1800, the average time from being called to assignment was about 13 hours. Daunting, As e's doing such a good job of advertising my achievements, I hereby assign comex as my re-election campaign manager. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: judicial status

2008-01-14 Thread Zefram
Ed Murphy wrote: 1831 was omitted here (but included under appeals), as was 1864. Eh? 1831 was present in the message you're responding to. 1864 was missing because I hadn't recorded it yet; fixed in my current document. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1864: assign Goddess Eris

2008-01-14 Thread Zefram
Ian Kelly wrote: These don't match. Fixed in my copy. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1831b: recuse, assign Iammars, Murphy, root

2008-01-14 Thread Zefram
resolution to this problem is that a URI on its own is uninterpretable. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1831b: recuse, assign Iammars, Murphy, root

2008-01-14 Thread Zefram
completes its HTTP response, although this means that a separate message is sent to each viewer. Of course, HTTP dialogue is not a public forum, so analysing it this way it's clearly not a public message anyway. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: pushover

2008-01-14 Thread Zefram
business flowing as I have done so far. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1855: recuse, assign woggle

2008-01-14 Thread Zefram
viewpoint. See CFJ 1687 for a similar application of this principle. -zefram

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1863: assign Goethe

2008-01-14 Thread Zefram
, and presence of doubt results in a SLIPPERY judgement. Your judgement of EXCUSED cannot be supported by such doubt. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: pushover

2008-01-14 Thread Zefram
in a message that has other concerns. -zefram

Re: DIS: Drafting CFJ 1861

2008-01-11 Thread Zefram
. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Nominations

2008-01-11 Thread Zefram
be to ignore the lessons of history. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: recent CotC-tracked VC awards

2008-01-10 Thread Zefram
Ed Murphy wrote: I lost one for 1840 being reassigned. Oh yes, I missed that. OscarMeyr gained one for judging 1851; No e didn't; e was late. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: distribution of proposals 5390-5404

2008-01-10 Thread Zefram
Ed Murphy wrote: Zefram wrote: (Disclaimer: I'm not convinced about the accuracy of the most recently reported voting limits, so some of the following votes may well be invalid due to VLOP.) Explain please? The report shows a reset of VVLOP due to an award of Champion, but that award came from

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Accountor] Voting Credits Report

2008-01-10 Thread Zefram
Ian Kelly wrote: I think this has already self-ratified. Eir possession of those VCs may have self-ratified, but in that case e still didn't gain the VCs at the time or in the manner indicated. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement of CFJ 1850

2008-01-07 Thread Zefram
Iammars wrote: We're aloud to post judgements now? Yes. The holiday ended almost 18 hours ago. You have 54 hours left to post judgements whose due date was affected by the holiday. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1836b: assign Murphy, root, Zefram

2008-01-07 Thread Zefram
Ian Kelly wrote: I intend, with the agreement of my fellow panelists, to cause the panel to judge AFFIRM in this case with the following concurring opinion, revised from the prior judge's arguments: I consent. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Nonpublic deregistrations

2008-01-03 Thread Zefram
Geoffrey Spear wrote: s/degregistered/deregistered/ No, the rule text actually says degregistered. -zefram

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: distribution of proposals 5375-5389

2008-01-02 Thread Zefram
within the holiday, the assessor is not obliged to publish the results until a week after the holiday ends. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: distribution of proposals 5375-5389

2008-01-02 Thread Zefram
of the voting period did not occur during a holiday. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: distribution of proposals 5375-5389

2008-01-02 Thread Zefram
. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Nonpublic deregistrations

2008-01-02 Thread Zefram
the contract text nor any of the three options for the notice of intent. I think it is therefore not effective in making the AFO a public contract. -zefram

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: distribution of proposals 5375-5389

2008-01-01 Thread Zefram
Ian Kelly wrote: (Some or all of these votes may be too late to be valid.) Holidays don't extend voting periods. A quorum problem would, however. -zefram

DIS: Re: BUS: A CFJ

2007-12-29 Thread Zefram
be adjudicated within Agora. Your statements therefore seem to be contradictory. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1845: assign OscarMeyr

2007-12-27 Thread Zefram
with the defendant and action. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1845: assign OscarMeyr

2007-12-24 Thread Zefram
Benjamin Schultz wrote: Given that comex did not meet the requirement (b) for submitting a criminal CFJ, I rule FALSE. That matches my logic. You could perhaps do with expanding your discussion of what constitutes clarity. -zefram

Re: DIS: Draft decision on CFJ 1851

2007-12-23 Thread Zefram
rules. What's possible under the current version remains undetermined. The precedents of CFJ 1711 and CFJ 1810 point in opposite directions. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1845: assign OscarMeyr

2007-12-23 Thread Zefram
Benjamin Schultz wrote: This CFJ may hinge on an adequate specification of clearly specify. Yes. I think clearly specify is a stronger requirement than specify. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Winnation

2007-12-23 Thread Zefram
, but we are on holiday. . . You're entitled to call a CFJ. I'm just not allowed to assign a judge for the next two weeks. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Winnation

2007-12-23 Thread Zefram
Nick Vanderweit wrote: I CFJ on this. To CFJ (of the inquiry variety) you need to provide a distinct statement whose truth is to be determined. You also need to do it in the public forum. I suggest CFJing on a statement such as it is possible to spend a VC that one does not possess. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Championship form

2007-12-22 Thread Zefram
. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Real currency

2007-12-22 Thread Zefram
Nick Vanderweit wrote: What do you mean? How does anyone come to possess a peso? You didn't define any way for pesos to be gained by persons or to be transferred from the Treasury to persons. Btw, it seems strange to call it real currency when it can't be transferred freely. -zefram

DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Prices track income

2007-12-22 Thread Zefram
Ed Murphy wrote: [Rather than limit the minting of currency, simply devalue it. This is both simpler and more realistic.] Been done before, and it was horrendous. Making currency units decay (as we now have them do) involves a lot less paperwork. -zefram

DIS: Re: BUS: Real currency

2007-12-22 Thread Zefram
. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Prices track income

2007-12-22 Thread Zefram
of the experience is relevant. Alternatively, the decay rate could be changed from 1-of-every-5 to (AU formula, max 4)-of-every-5. No need to change it, I think. The money supply just hasn't reached its stable level yet; give it time. -zefram

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Scorekeepor] Scoreboard

2007-12-21 Thread Zefram
Josiah Worcester wrote: As Scorekeepor, I request to know why nobody wants me as Scorekeepor anymore. Because you abused the position some 55 minutes ago by creating an unearned point. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Scorekeepor] Scoreboard

2007-12-21 Thread Zefram
Ed Murphy wrote: Then again, e previously used the same scam writ large to effectively gain 3 VCs and wipe out all other points, and no one attempted to sack em in response to that. That was a legitimate scam. Now that e's got eir win, further use of the same loophole is Not Fun. -zefram

DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement of CFJ 1840

2007-12-20 Thread Zefram
as making that definitively valid, but it's a distinct possibility.) In any case, redefining words until an action becomes valid seems a dangerous approach to interpreting public messages. -zefram

DIS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1844: assign Iammars

2007-12-20 Thread Zefram
Statement: submitting a protective decree to Steve Wallace is a violation of rule 2159 I note that this is asking about submitting a *real* protective decree, not (as the prior discussion) about falsely claiming something to be a protective decree. -zefram

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1831: recuse, assign Goddess Eris

2007-12-20 Thread Zefram
at all. I agree with the judgement of FALSE, however, so appeal is not appropriate. New CFJ, anyone? -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: recent CotC-tracked VC/mark awards

2007-12-20 Thread Zefram
Ed Murphy wrote: I interpret (+b)'s except as noted below as except when a person calls for judgement within the narrower circumstances noted below. No doubt that's what was intended, but it's not what it says. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1831: recuse, assign Goddess Eris

2007-12-20 Thread Zefram
. Now the partnership would need votes from three first-class players, the same number that were always required for a with 2 support when the vote collector is first-class. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1847: assign comex

2007-12-20 Thread Zefram
. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: CFJs 1837-1838: notify BobTHJ

2007-12-20 Thread Zefram
on the balance of probabilities. Retroactivity doesn't seem at all like the sort of thing that Agorans would be likely to allow, and I'm sure a reasonable player would judge that the same way. But BobTHJ is the epitome of unreasonableness. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1845: assign OscarMeyr

2007-12-20 Thread Zefram
wasn't identified at all. -zefram

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1847: assign comex

2007-12-20 Thread Zefram
. Where the text is silent, inconsistent, or unclear, it is to be augmented by game custom, common sense, past judgements, and consideration of the best interests of the game. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: CFJ 1847

2007-12-20 Thread Zefram
as causing mark awards or penalties. There are further situations that are not so grammatically distinct. -zefram

DIS: Re: OFF: CFJs 1837a, 1838a: assign Murphy, pikhq, Zefram

2007-12-20 Thread Zefram
Zefram wrote: I hereby assign the judicial panel of Murphy, pikhq, and Zefram as judge of CFJ 1837a and CFJ 1838a. I intend, with support of the other panel members, to have the panel judge REMAND in both of these CFJs. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal

2007-12-19 Thread Zefram
publicly claimed that Fookiemyartug was a person. There's another false statement. CFJ 1779 was judged TRUE directly on the basis of your false statement. -zefram

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1836: assign pikhq

2007-12-19 Thread Zefram
Josiah Worcester wrote: I cannot judge this, since the H. CotC Zefram seems to think a different case, which WALRUS initiated, is not a case. I don't see the link between these cases. There is no doubt regarding the identity of the initiator of CFJ 1836, and Fookiemyartug has a clear referent

DIS: Re: BUS: Overdue judgement

2007-12-16 Thread Zefram
comex wrote: I judge CFJ 1811 (late) in this manner: Your judgement was not late. You still had two days left. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: distribution of proposals 5358-5372

2007-12-14 Thread Zefram
comex wrote: It purports to limit the R101 right of persons to initiate CFJs. A partnership can still effectively initiate CFJs via its first-class person members. I believe this satisfies the R101 right. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Brainfuck Golf, Hole #1

2007-12-12 Thread Zefram
Ian Kelly wrote: The task doesn't disallow it. If it's somehow helpful to do that, go for it. The task specification doesn't explicitly disallow printing out non-primes either. Would a program that prints all integers from 0 to 255 qualify? -zefram

DIS: Re: BUS: Fantasy Rules Contest, take three

2007-12-12 Thread Zefram
Iammars wrote: I join the above contest. There is no contest above. There was a contest *below* that sentence. A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it destroys the flow of conversation. Q: Why is top-posting bad? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in email? -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Fantasy Rules Contest, take three

2007-12-12 Thread Zefram
-zefram film showed scenes in rev... no wait, they did that one. Imagine if a novel had the chapters printed in reverse order. Or if a with having to repeatedly jump backwards. really need to be read in chronological order. The same issue arises the newest post first, but as themes

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Brainfuck Golf, Hole #1

2007-12-12 Thread Zefram
, in general. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Brainfuck Golf, Hole #1

2007-12-11 Thread Zefram
compression is actually the arithmetical generation program. -zefram

Re: DIS: Proto: Depth

2007-12-10 Thread Zefram
earlier in the same week. This is unrelated to the rest of the proposal and should be proposed separately. -zefram

Re: DIS: Proto: Structured victory

2007-12-10 Thread Zefram
between the proposal and the win condition. * Trigger: Awarding a win to one or more persons on behalf of Agora. I'm opposed to allowing this. Leave winning as an internal matter only. -zefram

Re: DIS: Proto: Digits

2007-12-10 Thread Zefram
is incompletely specified. I suggest instead: ... the expression is evaluated. If the result is a well-defined real number, e gains one crop corresponding to the units digit of the number's decimal representation. -zefram

Re: DIS: Early 2000s records?

2007-12-10 Thread Zefram
lists. None of the others have any mail for the period you're interested in. Maud has an archive from Kelly covering the entire period, but hasn't put it online yet. -zefram

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1831: assign Goethe

2007-12-10 Thread Zefram
, either as an explicit abstention or due to one of the lobbies having been entered in error or under duress. (Carrying an unconscious legislator through a lobby is a normal part of parliamentary procedure, especially after dinner.) -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Countersuit!

2007-12-09 Thread Zefram
the CFJ. -zefram

Re: DIS: Question for the Rulekeepor

2007-12-07 Thread Zefram
messages, manually using commands such as: $ mutt -s'CFJ 1803: result FALSE' [EMAIL PROTECTED] cfj1803 $ { echo 'I hereby assign OscarMeyr as judge of CFJ 1818.'; echo; cat cfj1818; } | mutt -s'CFJ 1818: assign OscarMeyr' [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's pretty low-tech. It seems that Zefram, like me, has

Re: DIS: Proto: Fix revocation of judicial salary

2007-12-06 Thread Zefram
Ed Murphy wrote: What about the case where a judge whose verdict of GUILTY is overturned after e delivers sentence? Interesting one. Perhaps e should ultimately lose a VC for the sentence having become inapplicable, but still I think a blue one. -zefram

Re: DIS: Question for the Rulekeepor

2007-12-06 Thread Zefram
; $_ = $nextline; redo; } exit 0; -zefram

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1811

2007-12-05 Thread Zefram
. This is the most important bit under equity. Some reading for comex: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equity_%28law%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxims_of_equity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equitable_remedy -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: distribution of proposals 5345-5352

2007-12-05 Thread Zefram
the parts regarding external actions. -zefram

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1812: assign BobTHJ

2007-12-04 Thread Zefram
definitely been given). You don't need any support to do so. -zefram

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