Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Fearmongor] changes of the week

2010-11-07 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 12:12 AM, omd wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > >> AI=Mutable > > > > Hmm... > > I'm treating that as submitting an AI-1 proposal, as I don't believe > one CAN set a proposal's AI to an impossible

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Fearmongor] changes of the week

2010-11-07 Thread omd
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 1:34 PM, ais523 wrote: > Surely the common-sense interpretation is that e reserves the right to > change the AI later, e.g. via veto? I wouldn't say so; "A=Y" is only equivalent to "A is Y" in very awkward speech, and game custom suggests e was attempting to use Mutable as

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Fearmongor] changes of the week

2010-11-07 Thread ais523
On Sun, 2010-11-07 at 13:29 -0500, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 12:12 AM, omd wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > >> AI=Mutable > > > > Hmm... > > I'm treating that as submitting an AI-1 proposal, as I don't believe > one CAN set a proposal's AI to

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Fearmongor] changes of the week

2010-11-07 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 12:12 AM, omd wrote: > On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> AI=Mutable > > Hmm... I'm treating that as submitting an AI-1 proposal, as I don't believe one CAN set a proposal's AI to an impossible value.

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Fearmongor] changes of the week

2010-10-31 Thread omd
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > AI=Mutable Hmm...

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Fearmongor] changes of the week

2010-10-25 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> I submit the following proposals, "Auctions", AI-1, II-0: > > H. Promotor, do you consider the stray typo s after proposal > to make this fail?  -G. I think it was reasonably unambiguous what yo

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Fearmongor] changes of the week

2010-10-25 Thread ais523
On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 14:40 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > [Not part of the gratuitous: I personally wonder about the "specify > only to amend its rule" clause. Arguably that means I'm required to > write only "Amend rule X" without specifying an actual textual > amendment.] This reminds me a lo

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Fearmongor] changes of the week

2010-10-25 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, ais523 wrote: > Repealing rule 104 would surely cause a max exodus of everyone who cared > about Agora, thus causing the game to break. Thus, the game would be > broken by the repeal, and thus the proposal arguably fails to fulfil > Fearmonger duties. Heh. Gratuitous: I am