DIS: Re: BUS: Auction bids due! Attn Baron von Vaderham, omd, Rance, R. Lee

2019-06-19 Thread Rebecca
(I argue that although this conditional appears to rest on a future CFJ's interpretation, making it inextricable, there is objectively only one "law" which judges in the Agoran system merely discover, so this conditional should work) On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 7:31 AM Rebecca wrote: > If I am requi

DIS: Re: BUS: Auction related proposals

2018-10-19 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Thu, 18 Oct 2018, Reuben Staley wrote: Amend the last paragraph of rule 2551 'Auction End' by removing the final sentence. This also removes a clarifying part about Agora and the relevant CAN, which may not be obvious otherwise, since Agora is AFAICT not commonly presented as an agent in

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Auction related proposals

2018-10-18 Thread Reuben Staley
I mean, all someone has to do to run an unofficial auction is say that they'll give a number of assets to someone who gives them the most of some currency and then maybe back it by a pledge. On Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 16:28 Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > On Thu, 18 Oct 2018, Reuben Staley wrote: > > Create

DIS: Re: BUS: Auction related proposals

2018-10-18 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 18 Oct 2018, Reuben Staley wrote: > Create a new power-1 rule entitled 'Free Auctions' with the text: > > A player who is not the auctioneer of an existing Auction > specified by this rule CAN, by announcement, initiate an auction > with emself as the auctioneer The lo

DIS: Re: BUS: Auction related proposals

2018-10-18 Thread ATMunn
Any rule messiness regarding auctions is to be blamed on me. :) On 10/18/2018 5:06 PM, Reuben Staley wrote: I submit the following two proposals: - title: Auction cleanup ai: 1 author: Trigon coauthors: [ Comment: I noticed that there are an entire eight rules defining   auctions and I th

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Auction related proposals

2018-10-18 Thread Reuben Staley
All of these are valid except the last. If a player is the auctioneer, e becomes the announcer as well. On Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 16:00 Timon Walshe-Grey wrote: > Good idea! Minor comments on the second one: > > > A player who is not the auctioneer of an existing Auction > > specified by this rule C

DIS: Re: BUS: Auction related proposals

2018-10-18 Thread Timon Walshe-Grey
Good idea! Minor comments on the second one: > A player who is not the auctioneer of an existing Auction > specified by this rule CAN, by announcement, initiate an auction > with emself as the auctioneer The lots, minimum bid, and currency > of the Auction shall be set by said player. - This says

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Auction

2008-11-28 Thread Benjamin Schultz
On Nov 27, 2008, at 2:15 AM, Pavitra wrote: of geeksquee(*), on my part at least, would be lost by its removal. (*) I just invented this word because I couldn't think of one to mean what I meant: the feeling of inordinate glee you get from an obscure reference, like that one time on Family Guy w

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Auction

2008-11-28 Thread Alex Smith
On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 09:19 +1100, Michael Norrish wrote: > Nonetheless, I don't actually have a problem with your example > involving ais523. Perhaps this is because it's not much of a name. > If you put "Bill" in for ais523, my sensibilities might be more > offended. As a data point, ais523 refe

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Auction

2008-11-27 Thread comex
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Elliott Hird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 27 Nov 2008, at 22:19, Michael Norrish wrote: > >> Perhaps this is because it's not much of a name. > > It was apparently assigned by a computer from their initials, Whose initials? ...oh.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Auction

2008-11-27 Thread Elliott Hird
On 27 Nov 2008, at 22:19, Michael Norrish wrote: Perhaps this is because it's not much of a name. It was apparently assigned by a computer from their initials, so that's not very surprising. [[I change my nick to a9*&D(987([EMAIL PROTECTED](~``bz. My gender is !&%~F vZ.]]

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Auction

2008-11-27 Thread Michael Norrish
comex wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Roger Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now can we get rid of Spivak? I second this motion. It worked for B. "they" is fine for unknown referents, but I'm not going to say "I transfer a prop to ais523 because they did a fine job in their judgemen

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Auction

2008-11-26 Thread Pavitra
On Wednesday 26 November 2008 10:19:56 pm Roger Hicks wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 16:04, Elliott Hird > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 26 Nov 2008, at 22:41, Michael Norrish wrote: > >> I've never used Spivak by choice. English has perfectly good > >> gender-neutral third person singular

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Auction

2008-11-26 Thread comex
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Roger Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Now can we get rid of Spivak? > I second this motion. It worked for B. "they" is fine for unknown referents, but I'm not going to say "I transfer a prop to ais523 because they did a fine job in their judgement". We could

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Auction

2008-11-26 Thread Roger Hicks
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 16:04, Elliott Hird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 26 Nov 2008, at 22:41, Michael Norrish wrote: > >> I've never used Spivak by choice. English has perfectly good >> gender-neutral third person singular pronouns: "they", "them" etc. (Nor are >> these some kind of PC inven

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Auction

2008-11-26 Thread Elliott Hird
On 26 Nov 2008, at 22:41, Michael Norrish wrote: I've never used Spivak by choice. English has perfectly good gender-neutral third person singular pronouns: "they", "them" etc. (Nor are these some kind of PC invention of the 20th century; they occur used in this way in Shakespeare, the Ki

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Auction

2008-11-26 Thread Michael Norrish
Elliott Hird wrote: On 26 Nov 2008, at 04:46, Pavitra wrote: On Tuesday 25 November 2008 01:27:59 pm Elliott Hird wrote: time, unless the winner has transferred the VP to him. Y'know, you B players really need to get used to the way we use pronouns around here. I started playing B much aft

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Auction

2008-11-26 Thread comex
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Elliott Hird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I started playing B much after Agora. > > I do not like Spivak. Funny, I started playing B much before Agora. When it used Spivak.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Auction

2008-11-26 Thread Elliott Hird
On 26 Nov 2008, at 04:46, Pavitra wrote: On Tuesday 25 November 2008 01:27:59 pm Elliott Hird wrote: time, unless the winner has transferred the VP to him. Y'know, you B players really need to get used to the way we use pronouns around here. I started playing B much after Agora. I do not l

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Auction

2008-11-25 Thread Pavitra
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 01:27:59 pm Elliott Hird wrote: > time, unless the winner has transferred the VP to him. Y'know, you B players really need to get used to the way we use pronouns around here.

DIS: Re: BUS: Auction

2008-11-25 Thread Elliott Hird
On 25 Nov 2008, at 19:26, Elliott Hird wrote: I publicly pledge that, where the winning bidder is defined as the Vote Market party who, at the end of 5 days after this pledge was made: I terminate that pledge. I publicly pledge that, where the winning bidder is defined as the Vote Market part