DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 1895-97 assigned to Murphy

2008-02-04 Thread Zefram
Ed Murphy wrote: A judgeship is such a position. Mm, applying deputisation to judges. That's ringing alarm bells. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Vote Market change

2008-02-04 Thread Zefram
Ben Caplan wrote: Since we are assuming I was already under 50 VP when this was first proposed, I would have no way of avoiding being bound by these new terms. You could simply have not agreed to the contract that allowed itself to be amended in this way. Once you have agreed, yes, you're tied

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Re: [Tailor's Report] (Fixed) - Because Everyone Tummy Grew Two Sizes Too Big

2008-02-04 Thread Iammars
On Feb 4, 2008 1:06 AM, Roger Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 3, 2008 11:46 AM, Iammars [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wed 16 Jan 23:38:37 BobTHJ deregisters in a Writ of FAGE. (loses all ribbons) CoE: You've got my deregistration, but not my subsequent registration. BobTHJ How is this

DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] Docket

2008-02-04 Thread comex
On 2/4/08, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1881 pikhq comex*Fri 1 Feb 02:57:42 1890-91 Goethe comex Sat 9 Feb 04:46:32 will get on these today.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ 1892 Judgement

2008-02-04 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Zefram wrote: We have a couple of interesting questions to resolve about contracts, in the light of CFJ 1892. Principally, if an agreement is intended to be a binding contract, but does not in fact impose any obligations of any kind (including indirect obligations or

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: judicial immunity

2008-02-04 Thread Ed Murphy
Wooble wrote: I submit the following Proposal, with AI = 2, entitled Judicial Immunity: In Rule 2158, replace SHALL with SHOULD. This rule contains SHALL twice: for assigning an appropriate judgement, and for the CotC recusing judges more than a week late. Regarding the first instance: A

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: judicial immunity

2008-02-04 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Ed Murphy wrote: Regarding the first instance: A judge who intentionally assigns an inappropriate judgement should be subject to prosecution. I also disagree with this sentiment. Sounds like good grounds for a vote. -Goethe

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Re: [Tailor's Report] (Fixed) - Because Everyone Tummy Grew Two Sizes Too Big

2008-02-04 Thread Roger Hicks
On Feb 4, 2008 6:31 AM, Iammars [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 4, 2008 1:06 AM, Roger Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 3, 2008 11:46 AM, Iammars [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wed 16 Jan 23:38:37 BobTHJ deregisters in a Writ of FAGE. (loses all ribbons) CoE: You've got my

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: judicial immunity

2008-02-04 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Feb 4, 2008 2:43 PM, Ian Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 4, 2008 12:25 PM, Geoffrey Spear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I disagree that making inappropriate judgments should be a criminal offense. I'd support having an appeal of a Judge's decision resulting in a judgment of OVERRULE

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: judicial immunity

2008-02-04 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Feb 4, 2008 1:49 PM, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding the first instance: A judge who intentionally assigns an inappropriate judgement should be subject to prosecution. A judge who assigns a judgement that e believes in good faith is appropriate, but later turns out to be

DIS: Proto: Intelligent Dependent Action reporting

2008-02-04 Thread Kerim Aydin
Proto-Proposal: Intelligent Dependent Action reporting, AI-2. [I don't think this clashes with Proposal 5418 changes, I could be wrong] - [To resolve a dependent action, you just have to report the voters casting the appropriate

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 1895-97 assigned to Murphy

2008-02-04 Thread Zefram
Ed Murphy wrote: Why so? Surely a bad judgement could still be appealed as normal. That's still a lot of extra bother. But the really dangerous bit is deputisation on an appeal case. Judicial panels are relatively often late, and I think it's now possible to deputise as judge of an appeal case

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Registrar] Here and Gone Again: a Registrar's Report

2008-02-04 Thread Ian Kelly
On Feb 4, 2008 3:24 AM, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ian Kelly wrote: 25 Jan 2008 03:47:47 Pavitra registers as a watcher, pending CFJ 1882. Welcome back! 28 Jan 2008 02:29:51 Jeremy registers. Welcome to Agora! - time of last report - 30 Jan 2008

DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 1889 assigned to woggle

2008-02-04 Thread Zefram
Ed Murphy wrote: = Criminal Case 1889 = History: Called by Wooble: 01 Feb 2008 14:14:33 GMT Assigned to woggle: 04 Feb 2008 11:49:45 GMT This history really ought to include the notification of the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: judicial immunity

2008-02-04 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Ian Kelly wrote: What if the judgement in question is unappealable, such as the judgement of an appeal panel itself? You know, if there's a conspiracy of the CotC and a majority of an appeals court, we're in trouble anyway even if make abuse a criminal offense. Best

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: judicial immunity

2008-02-04 Thread Ian Kelly
On Feb 4, 2008 12:25 PM, Geoffrey Spear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I disagree that making inappropriate judgments should be a criminal offense. I'd support having an appeal of a Judge's decision resulting in a judgment of OVERRULE either automatically or perhaps at the option of the Panel

DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ 1892 Judgement

2008-02-04 Thread comex
On 2/3/08, Kerim Aydin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A second point made by comex is that plenty of contracts have been created that do not impose obligations. However, this is the first time any of those have been tested in Agoran Courts (and in fact, if a contract claimed to not impose

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ 1892 Judgement

2008-02-04 Thread Zefram
comex wrote: 2. The AFO can by announcement dissolve or amend the contract. This means that the AFO can bind comex to arbitrary terms, including ones that directly impose obligations. There is therefore an indirect obligation here. 3. By joining this contract, comex authorizes the AFO to submit

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: judicial immunity

2008-02-04 Thread Ian Kelly
On Feb 4, 2008 11:32 AM, Geoffrey Spear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I submit the following Proposal, with AI = 2, entitled Judicial Immunity: In Rule 2158, replace SHALL with SHOULD. Which instance(s)? -root

Re: DIS: Proto: Intelligent Dependent Action reporting

2008-02-04 Thread Ian Kelly
On Feb 4, 2008 1:39 PM, Kerim Aydin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Zefram wrote: You brought back the bug where the initiator is otherwise disqualified from voting. That wasn't a bug, it was a feature. I never understood the purpose of getting rid of it. -Goethe It was to

Re: DIS: Proto: Intelligent Dependent Action reporting

2008-02-04 Thread Ian Kelly
On Feb 4, 2008 1:23 PM, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kerim Aydin wrote: You no longer count yourself in support. You brought back the bug where the initiator is otherwise disqualified from voting. You know, I'm no longer convinced that

Re: DIS: Proto: Intelligent Dependent Action reporting

2008-02-04 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Zefram wrote: You brought back the bug where the initiator is otherwise disqualified from voting. That wasn't a bug, it was a feature. I never understood the purpose of getting rid of it. -Goethe

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: judicial immunity

2008-02-04 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Ed Murphy wrote: If the CotC can be corrupt, then why can't the Justiciar? This made me realize something else, though; proposal coming up. The point is that you have an alternate path if you know one is corrupt. If both are corrupt, along with the judicial panel...well,

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: judicial immunity

2008-02-04 Thread Zefram
Geoffrey Spear wrote: And yet they seem more palatable to me than letting a corrupt judicial system punish corrupt judges. Er, we don't have a corrupt judicial system. We have individual corrupt judges. If we had a completely corrupt judicial system, wouldn't you want to abolish criminal cases

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Crop for sale

2008-02-04 Thread comex
On Feb 4, 2008 3:12 PM, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could simplify this sort of thing by amending the Vote Market agreement to allow the poster of a ticket to explicitly limit who can fill it. Is specifying multiple costs even legal?

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: judicial immunity

2008-02-04 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Feb 4, 2008 3:21 PM, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Geoffrey Spear wrote: Right now such a judgment would need to be overturned by a Proposal anyway, if I'm not mistaken. If the inappropriateness is egregious enough, the members of the panel could always be horribly punished in the same

DIS: Draft II: Intelligent Dependent Action reporting

2008-02-04 Thread Kerim Aydin
Draft II: Intelligent Dependent Action reporting, AI-2. - [Draft II changes: - No double-votes if you support your second-class person's actions (amendment to (d)) - cleaned up reporting requirements (simplified them by

Re: DIS: Proto: Intelligent Dependent Action reporting

2008-02-04 Thread Zefram
Kerim Aydin wrote: No, I changed N+1 to N and then disqualified the initiator from being a voter. Net effect: Still takes two first-class people to do it, same as before. No, because you allow a non-first-class player to initiate it. That allows a non-first-class player plus *one* first-class

Re: DIS: Proto: Intelligent Dependent Action reporting

2008-02-04 Thread Zefram
Ian Kelly wrote: You know, I'm no longer convinced that that bug really needs a solution. Dependent actions are meant to be quick and simple, not precise, and a change that makes them simpler is a good thing. For a with support (with 1 support), it makes the difference between requiring two

Re: DIS: Proto: Intelligent Dependent Action reporting

2008-02-04 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Zefram wrote: Ian Kelly wrote: You know, I'm no longer convinced that that bug really needs a solution. Dependent actions are meant to be quick and simple, not precise, and a change that makes them simpler is a good thing. For a with support (with 1 support), it makes

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: judicial immunity

2008-02-04 Thread Ian Kelly
On Feb 4, 2008 1:48 PM, Geoffrey Spear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In any case, I'm not sure objections to a majority of a comparatively tiny legislative body being able to hand out punishments really apply in a direct democracy. Is the whim of a majority of all Players really worse than the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: judicial immunity

2008-02-04 Thread Zefram
Geoffrey Spear wrote: Right now such a judgment would need to be overturned by a Proposal anyway, if I'm not mistaken. If the inappropriateness is egregious enough, the members of the panel could always be horribly punished in the same proposal. Bill of attainder, eh. Opposition to those

DIS: Re: BUS: AAA Change - End of Drought

2008-02-04 Thread Ed Murphy
BobTHJ wrote: With the majority consent of the Farmers, I intend to make the following changes to the AAA agreement: I consent to these changes.

DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 1896a assigned to panel of root, Wooble, pikhq

2008-02-04 Thread Josiah Worcester
On 15:47 Sun 03 Feb , Ed Murphy wrote: Detail: http://zenith.homelinux.net/cotc/viewcase.php?cfj=1896a Appeal 1896a Justice:root Decision: Justice:Wooble

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 1894 assigned to pikhq

2008-02-04 Thread Josiah Worcester
On 16:18 Mon 04 Feb , Ian Kelly wrote: On Feb 4, 2008 3:09 PM, Josiah Worcester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By rule 754, a difference in spelling, grammar, or dialect is inconsequential, so long as the difference is nonambiguous. A question in the role of a statement to be inquired into

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: judicial immunity

2008-02-04 Thread comex
On Feb 4, 2008 6:02 PM, Ian Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The former doesn't really bother me too much. Blue VCs anyone? (Well, if it had worked.)

Re: DIS: Draft II: Intelligent Dependent Action reporting

2008-02-04 Thread Ian Kelly
On Feb 4, 2008 4:15 PM, Kerim Aydin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I'm of two minds here. If a person want eir partnership to do something, e is hindered in supporting actions as partners can't support, but helped in objecting actions as partners can't object. I'm torn on whether this is

Re: DIS: Proto: Intelligent Dependent Action reporting

2008-02-04 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Zefram wrote: No, because you allow a non-first-class player to initiate it. That allows a non-first-class player plus *one* first-class player to do it. Fixed. -G.

Re: DIS: Draft II: Intelligent Dependent Action reporting

2008-02-04 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Ian Kelly wrote: On Feb 4, 2008 2:58 PM, Kerim Aydin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (d) The eligible voters are those entities that were active first-class players at the start of the voting period, except for: (a) members of the basis of the initiator

Re: DIS: Draft II: Intelligent Dependent Action reporting

2008-02-04 Thread Zefram
Kerim Aydin wrote: (d) The eligible voters are those entities that were active first-class players at the start of the voting period, except for: (a) members of the basis of the initiator of the decision; and (b) any entities disqualified by the rule

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: judicial immunity

2008-02-04 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: Amend Rule 101 by appending after paragraph viii. the text: ix. Every person has the right to not be penalized by bill of attainder or by any rule or proposal that operates in an ex post facto or retroactive manner. This would arguably break any

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Crop for sale

2008-02-04 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Feb 4, 2008 3:30 PM, comex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 4, 2008 3:12 PM, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could simplify this sort of thing by amending the Vote Market agreement to allow the poster of a ticket to explicitly limit who can fill it. Is specifying multiple costs

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: judicial immunity

2008-02-04 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: You know, if there's a conspiracy of the CotC and a majority of an appeals court, we're in trouble anyway even if make abuse a criminal offense. Best defense against that sort of thing is a Justiciar, but that was voted down. If the CotC can be corrupt, then why can't the

Re: DIS: Proto: Intelligent Dependent Action reporting

2008-02-04 Thread Zefram
Kerim Aydin wrote: You no longer count yourself in support. You brought back the bug where the initiator is otherwise disqualified from voting. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: judicial immunity

2008-02-04 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Feb 4, 2008 3:35 PM, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Geoffrey Spear wrote: And yet they seem more palatable to me than letting a corrupt judicial system punish corrupt judges. Er, we don't have a corrupt judicial system. We have individual corrupt judges. If we had a completely corrupt

DIS: Draft III: Intelligent Dependent Action reporting

2008-02-04 Thread Kerim Aydin
Draft III: Intelligent Dependent Action reporting, AI-2. [Since the fix is about reporting, not the count, keeps the current method of first/second class vote counting and eligibility, just changes the tally report requirements for SUPPORT. Slightly ugly in the Rule, but prettier in the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 1894 assigned to pikhq

2008-02-04 Thread Ian Kelly
On Feb 4, 2008 4:27 PM, Josiah Worcester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the context of a CFJ, it *is* trivially equvilent. With a CFJ on The name of the game is Agora, we are, in essence, asking: Is 'The name of the game is Agora' true? Compare with Is 'Is the name of the game Agora?' true?. Is

Re: DIS: Proto: Intelligent Dependent Action reporting

2008-02-04 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, comex wrote: Just little annoyances, but they seem unnecessary. I'll vote for anything that makes an incorrect tally a SHALL NOT rather than a CANNOT. Actually, for with Support and Object, you should only be required to report N people who supported it, or note N people

Re: DIS: Draft II: Intelligent Dependent Action reporting

2008-02-04 Thread Ian Kelly
On Feb 4, 2008 2:58 PM, Kerim Aydin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (d) The eligible voters are those entities that were active first-class players at the start of the voting period, except for: (a) members of the basis of the initiator of the decision; and (b) any

Re: DIS: Proto-Judge 1831

2008-02-04 Thread Ian Kelly
On Feb 4, 2008 2:59 PM, Iammars [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: B2. The webpage is not authored by comex. I'm under the impression that the phrase I SUPPORT this appearing in the flash animation was authored by comex, but that the rest was authored by a third party. B5 wouldn't be considered a vote

DIS: Proto-Judge 1831

2008-02-04 Thread Iammars
This is a proto judgment for CFJ 1831. This was a hard one to decide, but this is what I came up with. { There are five possibilites that this attempt at a vote could be. They are: A1. No Vote A2. A Vote of SUPPORT. A3. A Vote of OBJECT. A4. A Vote of both SUPPORT and OBJECT, with SUPPORT

DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 1831 judged FALSE

2008-02-04 Thread Iammars
On Feb 4, 2008 11:16 PM, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: History: Called by pikhq:10 Dec 2007 01:25:39 GMT Assigned to Goethe: 10 Dec 2007 10:24:26 GMT Judged TRUE by Goethe: 10 Dec 2007 18:22:07 GMT Appealed by Goethe:

Re: DIS: Contest Idea

2008-02-04 Thread Iammars
So, I finally got around to fixing this up. Here's the new version. Feel free to poke holes in it. The only other thing I might add is to allow the contestmaster to adjust powers before bidding without some number of objections. 1. Phase is an attribute of the Rumble Contest that behaves as if

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

2008-02-04 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Ian Kelly wrote: Results of Brainfuck Golf Hole #4: There was only one entry. I hereby award 35 points to Goethe. Are any folks still trying, or is it pretty much game over here? -Goethe