Re: DIS: Proto: Players' Guide

2013-08-06 Thread omd
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Charles Walker charles.w.wal...@gmail.com wrote: To subscribe to the mailing lists, go to http://agoranomic.org/ which has links to all five lists. I would really like to decrease the burden of this, incidentally. V. The Rules But first, a brief interlude

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Possibly Registrar] Census

2013-08-05 Thread omd
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Charles Walker charles.w.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 August 2013 20:49, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Geoffrey Spear woo...@nomictools.com wrote: An alternate viewpoint: CoE since ratification will probably be fixed in the next

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Possibly Registrar] Census

2013-08-05 Thread omd
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:32 PM, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: Can someone please give me a counterargument to When created, switches have their default values == new switches have their default values? Rule 1586. By the way, the rules didn't actually say when created, switches have

DIS: proto

2013-08-05 Thread omd
Proto: I Am Wearing A Unicorn Horn (AI=3, PF=100) aka Unnecessary Nebulous Intricacies Complexities Oblige Repeal Now Amend Rule 101 (The Rights of Agorans) by removing item i., and renumbering the following items accordingly. [Meaningless.] Repeal Rule 2125 (Regulation Regulations). Amend

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement in R. v. everyone but Fool, CFJ 3381

2013-08-05 Thread omd
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: One more CoE: As we see, people appeal judgements out of spite, and I expect they pass judgements out of spite as well. In fact, in a discussion some time ago it was already mentioned that this was expected in dictatorship cases. I

DIS: Re: CoE Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 7567-7582

2013-08-05 Thread omd
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/08/2013 7:15 PM, omd wrote: [...] Rule 107 says that for a notice of distribution to be valid it must include any additional information defined by the rules as essential parameters (unless this error goes unnoticed

DIS: Re: CoE Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 7548-7564

2013-08-05 Thread omd
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: Same problem -- doesn't list parties of authors. (And omd is not Promotor.) Was it really necessary to post this out a week - 3 hours after initiation, requiring a revote?

DIS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] (re-)Distribution of proposals 7569-7573

2013-08-05 Thread omd
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: Fool's party is the Serious party, and that party has set a 3-line Whip on 7572. No other Whips are set. By the way, this is the first accidental rule violation on your part I've noticed, but it only applies if your interpretation

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 3381 assigned to ais523

2013-08-05 Thread omd
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 1:02 AM, Tanner Swett swe...@mail.gvsu.edu wrote: Arguments: I'm not sure whether I agree with you or not. I agree that 00:53 tswett If a rule were to say if it is POSSIBLE to do X, then it is POSSIBLE to do Y, I think we would treat this as meaning

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement in R. v. everyone but Fool, CFJ 3381

2013-08-04 Thread omd
On Sunday, August 4, 2013, Fool wrote: On 03/08/2013 9:47 PM, com...@gmail.com wrote: The main problem is that you have actively worked to prevent the controversy from being settled, e.g. by attempting to judge the case yourself. I've done nothing to prevent the controversy from being

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement in R. v. everyone but Fool, CFJ 3381

2013-08-04 Thread omd
On Sunday, August 4, 2013, Fool wrote: c) Sean, omd, et al. should've known that I'd know it. Come on guys, you can do better than that! :) Don't look at me. I don't consider the dictatorship interpretation viable enough to try to counter-scam (which would've been easy by getting someone

DIS: Future of Agora

2013-08-04 Thread omd
On Saturday, August 3, 2013, Fool wrote: (or your attempted invasion of Blognomic would have been, had you succeeded, as you mention). Sorry, one last thing. As I said, some players might have misunderstood, but the text of the invasion CfJ was clear: all it would have done is made Agora

Re: DIS: Future of Agora

2013-08-04 Thread omd
On Sunday, August 4, 2013, Kerim Aydin wrote: If you go back and do this, you will come across some edge cases, where the rules are silent or inconsistent, where you must make some decision. The decision you might make, however logical, might not be the decision I might make, nor omd, Steve

DIS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] VT Auction Rolls

2013-08-04 Thread omd
On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Dice server dicemas...@nomic.net wrote: [...] Note: Perhaps I should have sent this to a-b, but in any case dice server mail should now be accepted on all three fora rather than just a-b, in case it's useful for anyone.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement in R. v. everyone but Fool, CFJ 3381

2013-08-04 Thread omd
On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 10:06 PM, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: No, the original action itself already included two clauses, I can dergeister everyone and no other person can register. So if the original action succeeded at all, then the counter-scam you describe here wouldn't have worked.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement in R. v. everyone but Fool, CFJ 3381

2013-08-04 Thread omd
On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, that's a bit more plausible. But then it means Sean's messages trying to get me to pass it was still an intentional trap, unless he wasn't in on this discussion. I think he's on IRC a fair bit though. (Just because I'm

Re: DIS: Future of Agora

2013-08-04 Thread omd
On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: normally we just CFJ on whether they worked and then let the Registrar's report ratify, but if ratification is broken, that doesn't necessarily work, both due to the possibility of the CFJ having been judged incorrectly

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement in R. v. everyone but Fool, CFJ 3381

2013-08-04 Thread omd
about the rules. -- my fix proposals have a habit of failing omd

DIS: [Promotor] Reminder: 7548-7564 are failing quorum so far

2013-08-04 Thread omd
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DIS: Re: [Promotor] Reminder: 7548-7564 are failing quorum so far

2013-08-04 Thread omd
On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 11:40 PM, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: ┌─┐ │ ⚔ᴬ✐ │ │ │ │ K E E P │ │ │ │ C A L M │ │ ᴬᴺᴰ │ │ V O T E │ └─┘ [best viewed in monospace] Just kidding, two sets of votes came in as I was writing this and they are now at quorum

DIS: Re: BUS: speak your mind

2013-08-04 Thread omd
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:13 AM, Max Schutz maxschutz...@gmail.com wrote: I submit the following proposal title: Speak your mind Power: 2 text: in addition to the full and short logical ruleset there SHALL be a spoken logical ruleset to balance the game for those who may come into it with a

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement in R. v. everyone but Fool, CFJ 3381

2013-08-03 Thread omd
On Saturday, August 3, 2013, Kerim Aydin wrote: sorry I was referring to the BlogNomic invasion actually :)

DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 3365 assigned to woggle

2013-08-03 Thread omd
On Saturday, August 3, 2013, Jonathan Rouillard wrote: = Criminal Case 3365 = Out of curiosity, why this case and not the others?

DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement in R. v. everyone but Fool, CFJ 3381

2013-08-02 Thread omd
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: (a) provide an alternate consistent explanation that blocks the Action and show that (b) it also fits the other logical questions that arise in Agora and (c) it actually does follow from the rules (including R217 of course)

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-08-01 Thread omd
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: As I said right off the bat, I didn't CFJ a free-floating version of Curry's paradox. And that is basically why. Because then you only have to argue some alternate logic for free-floating statements. Typically, for example, just

DIS: Re: BUS: Question for Platonists (not about dictators)

2013-08-01 Thread omd
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: Agora pulls a B (AI=3.1, PF=0, disi.) In rule 1551 (Ratification, Power=3.1), replace the sentence: Ratifying a public document is secured. with: Ratifying a public document is secured with Power threshold 3.

DIS: Re: BUS: publicity

2013-08-01 Thread omd
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Geoffrey Spear woo...@nomictools.com wrote: Wooble, your alternate-reality Registrar. This is for the Switchy interpretation, not simply ratification failing, right?

DIS: Re: BUS: Stuff

2013-07-29 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: In the name of Davy I, Queen of Agora Nomic, CAT 24, and her other realms, I cause the new rule created by proposal 7537 to amend itself to read: Hmm... it is interesting how Rule 101 (iv) might be interpreted in view of there only

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Stuff

2013-07-29 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: How rule 101 might HAVE been interpreted, past tense. Your proposal passed. Hey, wasn't my idea... Good point.

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

2013-07-29 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: I am, as it happens, a mathematical constructivist. The reasoning is fully constructive (goes through in intuitionistic logic). Please elaborate.

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: How do you define iff (in the rules) in the absence of the law of excluded middle? It may not be the same way that the rules themselves do. Ah, yes. That makes sense. ((a - b) - a) - b holds intuitionistically, but (((a - b)

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: How's that. Why is it (~(a-b) - ~a) and not (a - (a-b)) ? IMPOSSIBLE except as allowed ~(allowed) - ~a It's allowed if a - b, therefore ~(a - b) - ~a. So, you admit it's NOT IMPOSSIBLE for me to do this stuff? :-) Possibly.

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread omd
To expand on my previous argument, for what it's worth, I really don't see an interpretation that causes a problem whose solution would be making a rule (about evaluating the rules generally) saying something that (a) is assumed in just about any other context and (b) has always been left to

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 19:15 -0400, Fool wrote: And the time limit? Typically as long as it takes people to determine whether the scam worked or not. Note that this has not always been followed; scshunt kept an unambiguous

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: However, Rule 1688 says except as allowed by an Instrument. I don't think you can point to a single instrument that's doing the allowing here (given that you've constructed your logic based on the interaction of multiple rules),

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: :-) Let's ask if you are a player (c). If I de-registered you, you are NOT a player (b - ~c). But (b - ~c) - (~~b - ~c). So if it was NOT IMPOSSIBLE for me to de-register you, you are not a player. Let's ask if you are a

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

2013-07-29 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Ørjan Johansen oer...@nvg.ntnu.no wrote: I don't see anything in the Rules where activity changes affect votes on proposals after the voting period has already begun. If that was judged to the opposite effect I would suggest a reconsideration. That scam was

DIS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting Results for Proposals 7530-47

2013-07-29 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 9:16 PM, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: x7531 30 O omd Painfully explicit timing x7532 30 O omd Alternative: just ban last-minute actions x7533 30 O omd Referendum on date rewriting I almost prefer the scam version. Don't blame me

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Sean Hunt scsh...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Fool fool1...@gmail.com 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

DIS: Fwd: Bounce action notification

2013-07-26 Thread omd
Hi, I'm the mailing list manager for the Agora Nomic lists. The three recipients of this email have been automatically unsubscribed due to Hotmail rejecting messages for some reason; none of you are players, but if you still wish to receive list mail, let me know. I've filled out a Microsoft

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] Appeal 3365a assigned to Ienpw III, woggle, Yally

2013-07-24 Thread omd
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 3:38 AM, James Beirne james.m.bei...@gmail.com wrote: Furthermore, it seems to me that failure to publish a report should not be considered a minor infraction as (for me, at least), it serves as an important tool to keep up with the game. Well, again, even if there are

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] Appeal 3365a assigned to Ienpw III, woggle, Yally

2013-07-24 Thread omd
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Charles Walker charles.w.wal...@gmail.com wrote: Moreover, most officers are late occasionally and it is definitely not in the interests of the game to drive them away every time they miss a report. In fact I think it's almost always a bad idea to stop someone

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement, Appeal 3365a

2013-07-23 Thread omd
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:21 AM, Tanner Swett swe...@mail.gvsu.edu wrote: I object to this judgement of OVERRULE. Gratuitous: For the record, I think that scshunt's offense is not even close to the levels of negligence various officers have shown over the years; although this has largely been

DIS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 7530-7547

2013-07-22 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 4:23 PM, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: [18 proposals] So what are we really trying to achieve in limiting proposals to MI? Is it largely just a cash sink, or are we really trying to delay a potentially large number of proposals for a week in large distributions to smooth

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] The One That Got Left Behind

2013-07-22 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 4:40 PM, James Beirne james.m.bei...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any particular reason that Standardized election days (sort of, not really) is not included in the pool? Nope, other than apparently even switching to a much better way of sorting through the list archive

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Election!

2013-07-22 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 7:54 PM, James Beirne james.m.bei...@gmail.com wrote: As an aside, are non-integer denominations of Yaks permitted? No, since units of currency are merely fungible instances of assets.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: I can't be arsed to remember / how many days hath September

2013-07-22 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Tanner Swett swe...@mail.gvsu.edu wrote: I'd definitely prefer just saying within 3 months before and letting the IADoP handle any disputes. Just say 12 weeks; we already use N days before/after to mean a span of time lasting N full days after, not the Nth

DIS: Re: BUS: Votes, votes, votes...

2013-07-21 Thread omd
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Jonathan Rouillard jonathan.rouill...@gmail.com wrote: I vote PRESENT on every proposal I haven't voted on yet, but CAN vote on. I believe that's all proposals ever submitted that you haven't voted on. HTH!

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Returning Officer] And what you've all been waiting for...

2013-07-20 Thread omd
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Charles Walker charles.w.wal...@gmail.com wrote: I believe the precedent is that the CAN lasts until the action is performed, as the obligation persists as well. omd recently argued that an obligation does not persist after the deadline (with regard

DIS: Re: OFF: [Returning Officer] And what you've all been waiting for...

2013-07-20 Thread omd
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 12:58 PM, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Charles Walker charles.w.wal...@gmail.com wrote: I hereby resolve the Agoran decision to elect the Speaker. This is also probably insufficiently clear, as it sounds like a standard election

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposals

2013-07-20 Thread omd
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Sean Hunt scsh...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: How about a timer to expiration? Could use a timer, but not much point, since there is no reason for an expiration timer to pause. And I'm a fan of platonic destruction here. You mean pragmatic? I could change it

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposals

2013-07-20 Thread omd
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Sean Hunt scsh...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: More flexibility this way. What if we want to make the tokens created before the auction with paused timers, so that you know what you're bidding on beforehand? You do know what you're bidding on with this proposal.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposals

2013-07-20 Thread omd
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: Create a Power-2 Rule titled Auctions: Don't we already have an auction rule? Can we fix it or get rid of it? It was repealed. When in effect, unless a fine for that case has already been satisfied, the ninny

DIS: Re: BUS: Protection of historical artifacts

2013-07-19 Thread omd
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Tanner Swett swe...@mail.gvsu.edu wrote: A proposal CANNOT amend Rule 104 First Speaker or Rule 2029 Town Fountain unless that proposal explicitly states, using the rule's title, that it is amending that rule. Probably ineffective due to precedence.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Protection of historical artifacts

2013-07-19 Thread omd
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Tanner Swett swe...@mail.gvsu.edu wrote: Rule 106 states, Except as prohibited by other rules, a proposal that takes effect CAN and does, as part of its effect, apply the changes that it specifies. So I don't see a precedence issue here. Good point, I forgot

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal

2013-07-18 Thread omd
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 2:51 PM, John Smith spamba...@yahoo.com wrote: ii. Prior to the introduction of Rule 2277, 101ii part 2 was the only reason that persons not currently playing Agora could appeal criminal cases against them; this hit me at least once and was the original motivation for

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

2013-07-17 Thread omd
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, omd wrote: Hopefully this creates a single obvious meaning for the time date-stamped on that message in R478, so we can finally stop arguing about the timing of messages. ;p In this case, it's

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

2013-07-17 Thread omd
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: /me vaguely glares at omd for choosing defaults that make sense only with Gmail. Many Agorans use /proper/ email clients... Well, 18/26 players use Gmail... and the on behavior is very annoying in Gmail. maybe I should make

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

2013-07-17 Thread omd
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Sean Hunt scsh...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 4:27 PM, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: maybe I should make it default only if you're using Gmail? that sounds like a lot of magic. This isn't about the carbon copy, which anyone can

DIS: Re: BUS: Power of attorney

2013-07-17 Thread omd
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Ed Murphy emurph...@socal.rr.com wrote: I destroy this promise. I believe you need notice.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: some minor actions

2013-07-17 Thread omd
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: While I know this NOW, I might be able to compensate in future play. However, for interpreting actions made PRIOR to this investigation, any interpretation favoring receipt time (rather than send time) would put me at a

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Disabled. Let's do it this way

2013-07-17 Thread omd
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: :) Hmm, I need to fix this for messages sent manually to all players too. I'll wait for other comments before resubmitting.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Disabled. Let's do it this way

2013-07-17 Thread omd
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, omd wrote: (1) If the message contains a single reasonable date-stamp added by the forum as part of its canonical means of marking the date of messages, then it is used

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: what everyone wants to know is...

2013-07-17 Thread omd
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Benjamin Schultz ben.dov.schu...@gmail.com wrote: I play stones on (-4, 4), (-4, 3), and (-4, 2). NttPF.

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

2013-07-17 Thread omd
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: How many of those players are using Gmail's web interface? If it's that many, I'd be surprised, because web interfaces aren't very good for email (especially if they go crazy when the subject line of an email sent to a

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

2013-07-17 Thread omd
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:47 PM, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway, from a quick awk, the following players seem to have sent messages via Gmail's web interface recently: (obvious correction: I meant people, not players.)

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: some minor actions

2013-07-16 Thread omd
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: (Note that vps.qoid.us's clock is wrong, with me receiving both emails before the mailing lists sent them; however, the difference between the times it states is presumably constant, unless its clock was adjusted in between.)

DIS: Re: Is this thing on?

2013-07-16 Thread omd
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 5:56 PM, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 5:51 PM, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 5:49 PM, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: Testing list upgrade. And again. Now it should work. Maybe now?

DIS: Re: Is this thing on?

2013-07-16 Thread omd
2013/7/16 omd c.ome...@gmail.com: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 5:56 PM, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 5:51 PM, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 5:49 PM, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: Testing list upgrade. And again. Now it should work. Maybe now

Re: DIS: Re: Is this thing on?

2013-07-16 Thread omd
2013/7/16 omd c.ome...@gmail.com: Derp. Apologies for the spam/brief outage; I was switching Mailman to a local bzr checkout in order to properly implement Date-restamping later.

Re: DIS: Re: Is this thing on?

2013-07-16 Thread omd
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: Also, if you're upgrading the lists, then at least for a bit you're preventing me from participating in the fora :( According to scshunt's recent arguments, Rule 101 platonically prevented me from doing so! So I guess the

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

2013-07-16 Thread omd
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 copies of list mail if the subject was

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

2013-07-15 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Charles Walker charles.w.wal...@gmail.com wrote: Very interesting, but AGAINST so long as it repeals Sir Humphrey. Hmm... I suppose I can give em another job. I'd like to see an example of what you would have done with this on a past proposal. - As someone

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 3375, 3376 assigned to scshunt

2013-07-15 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Sean Hunt scsh...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: There is an additional wrinkle in the Agoran context. Rule 101 says that that no interpretation of Agoran law or binding agreement may substantially limit or remove a person's rights as defined by this Rule. This

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 3375, 3376 assigned to scshunt

2013-07-15 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Sean Hunt scsh...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: Additionally, I would think that A person's defined privileges are assumed to exist in the absence of an explicit, binding agreement to the contrary. would be construed as allowing explicit (but not implicit)

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Voting auctions

2013-07-15 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: Starting 6 individual simultaneous VT auctions (where for example you have to say I bid in auction #3) seems very broken. I think the auction rule has to take into account multiple lots (final price being the Nth

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 3373, 3374 assigned to scshunt

2013-07-15 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 9:31 PM, John Smith spamba...@yahoo.com wrote: I suppose I should have added a Rule 217 quote to my Evidence: Differences in... capitalization... are generally inconsequential in interpreting rules or communications. If I were a player, I'd call for reconsideration.

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 7516-7525

2013-07-12 Thread omd
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Benjamin Schultz ben.dov.schu...@gmail.com wrote: I cast as many votes as I can AGAINST Props 7516-7525. (This is mainly a test of whether I am eligible to vote on these proposals, or if I have to wait until next Week.) OscarMeyr As you registered before

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 7516-7525

2013-07-12 Thread omd
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Charles Walker charles.w.wal...@gmail.com wrote: 7517 10 O Lindar (untitled) ENDORSE AGORA Since Agora is no longer a person, I am interpreting this per Proposal 5637.

Re: DIS: are agreements currently binding?

2013-07-11 Thread omd
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: If a public agreement exists (Rule 2328), is there currently any Agoran mechanism for penalizing breaches in the agreement? [*] I can't find anything explicit, but the fact that it can be created as an agreement

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: are agreements currently binding?

2013-07-11 Thread omd
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: I submit the following document with the intent that it become a person, pending agreement of omd (I agree to it): G. and omd agree to disagree. I think the intent to become a person has to be part of the text :)

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ Rule 2394

2013-07-11 Thread omd
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: Wait... so if I cash something like the Assurance promise scshunt recently made*, then wouldn't I be guilty of Taunting the Police by Proxy? *http://www.mail-archive.com/agora-business@agoranomic.org/msg25261.html Yep.

DIS: mbox test

2013-07-10 Thread omd
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DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Returning Officer] General Election

2013-07-09 Thread omd
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 4:22 PM, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Sean Hunt scsh...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: I vote for omd. I vote for myself. Campaign Speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxBW4mPzv6E

DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ Rule 2394

2013-07-09 Thread omd
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Lindar Greenwood lindartheb...@gmail.com wrote: I announce a CFJ on the following text: { Announcing in Agora-Business the creation of a promise that, upon being cashed, causes the player cashing said promise to break a rule, does not cause the creator of said

DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement in R. v. Machiavelli, CFJ 3357

2013-07-09 Thread omd
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: This judgement takes effect immediately. Long live the Queen. You have six more days. ;p

Re: DIS: (no subject)

2013-07-08 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: On Mon, 8 Jul 2013, Steven Gardner wrote: Class-3 Hazing, Roujo? A trend/tradition of the second half of Agora's life actually. The phrase '[x] is a player' has 80+ hits in the CFJ statement database. And the Class-3

Re: DIS: Assess This

2013-07-08 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Jonathan Rouillard jonathan.rouill...@gmail.com wrote: Let the order of votes be known as a rank, such as the first person to have voted on a proposal be the Rank 1 voter, and so forth. For every vote I've made that I can change, I change it to ENDORSE X, where

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

2013-07-08 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: Apparently, you were registered contiguously from 2 Mar 06 to 31 May 07, easily long enough to satisfy the buggy requirement. Gratuitous: I have been interpreting it as non-buggy. If I say I've been here for two hours, it

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

2013-07-08 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Matt Berlin arkes...@gmail.com wrote: An Elder is a first-class player who has been registered continuously for at least 32 days Future Perfect Progressive Tense ( ie, happened in the past, is still going on, and may continue in the future) requires the present

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

2013-07-08 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: Sure, a party can do this. And then splinter off and be a nomic. BUT IN DOING SO, IT IS NO LONGER THE PARTY that the officer Is tracking. fwiw, I agree that splintering off doesn't count, but I think that a system of

Re: DIS: (no subject)

2013-07-07 Thread omd
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 authorized to perform the action,

DIS: Re: BUS: YMRC

2013-07-07 Thread omd
On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Tanner Swett swe...@mail.gvsu.edu wrote: I intend, without 35 objections, to destroy one yak, under the condition that I CANNOT resolve this intent successfully. Gratuitous: By the precedent of CFJ 2879-80, this is not scammable. By more recent precedent, it is.

Re: DIS: (no subject)

2013-07-07 Thread omd
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 yet.) Yes. In fact, it could

DIS: Re: BUS: YMRC

2013-07-07 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 12:27 AM, John Smith spamba...@yahoo.com wrote: CfJ: Did Machiavelli successfully attempt to to take an action in the quoted message? It would be better to CFJ on whether such an intent could be followed through on, although I don't think a CFJ is necessary, see below.

Re: DIS: (no subject)

2013-07-07 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 12:35 AM, Ørjan Johansen oer...@nvg.ntnu.no wrote: Um no, if Elders object _before_ the attempt to act, Rule 2357 says that Agora is not Satisfied with the intent, and so point (c) of Rule 1728 would not be complied with. What I'm unsure of is whether, and how long, it

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: YMRC (contains CFJ)

2013-07-07 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 1:29 AM, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: However, if not, there is a conflict between both of them and 3334, 3249, 3212, 2878, all the recent paradox wins One more gratuitous argument: Actually, this goes back to CFJ 1787.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Gerontocracy Fix

2013-07-04 Thread omd
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 5:42 AM, Charles Walker charles.w.wal...@gmail.com wrote: [ This includes the fix to CAN but SHALL NOT, see paragraph 3 of the first Rule. ] I don't see the fix. award for the next thirty next after the end of the time limit. *days?

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Gerontocracy Fix

2013-07-04 Thread omd
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Charles Walker charles.w.wal...@gmail.com wrote: I don't see the fix. CAN but SHALL NOT, except where *explicitly* required? Contract requirements aren't implicit, they're just indirect. How about SHALL NOT, except where otherwise explicitly permitted? And

DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ

2013-07-04 Thread omd
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Charles Walker charles.w.wal...@gmail.com wrote: I CFJ on: A party is a nomic. UNDETERMINED. Party constitutions may provide means for amendment, but need not.

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