Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: High-Power Deference

2006-09-18 Thread Ed Murphy
Ian Kelly wrote: On 9/9/06, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Proposal: High-Power Deference (AI = 3, please) Amend Rule 1482 (Precedence between Rules with Unequal Power) by appending this text: If the Rule with the higher Power explicitly says of itself that it defers

DIS: Officer shuffle?

2006-12-21 Thread Ed Murphy
Would anyone like to be CotC for a while? I can continue to maintain the database, since it's non-trivial to relocate. It'd also be nice to get a Speakership out of this win (R402), which would require my giving up the Clerkship (R1450). H. Promotor OscarMeyr, are you still out there? There

DIS: FYI: Claustronomic status

2006-12-22 Thread Ed Murphy
http://www.geocities.com/koljag/cn/indexcn.htm Would there be an interest in having Agora explicitly recognize these as subgames? Also, http://www.itsyourturn.com/ supports non-real-time chess and a number of other board games, if we feel like putting up a points-based framework around that or

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Ecumenical Proposals

2006-12-22 Thread Ed Murphy
Michael Slone wrote: (I would MTFO for Garden Nomic III.) There's a Garden Nomic III? Not that I can find, hence would.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ

2006-12-22 Thread Ed Murphy
OscarMeyr wrote: As I understand R1789, the CotC commands the deregistration as part of posting the WoF; the command is not directed AT the Registrar. Only the order to note the method of deregistration is directed at the Registrar. Correct, but CFJ 1594 hinges on the argument that this is

DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ

2006-12-30 Thread Ed Murphy
Sherlock wrote: R2110 (Win by Paradox) limits the number of wins to one person, but does not limit the number of wins that individual may achieve for noting a paradox. Murphy therefore was eligible to receive any number of wins that the Speaker decided to award. Rule 2110/0 (Power=3)

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Rook Promotes to Dragon King

2007-01-04 Thread Ed Murphy
Eris wrote: That's ridiculous. Standard usage is that A, B, C are mutually exclusive X for {A, B, C} \subset X. Doesn't makes sense otherwise. Rules that don't make sense are nothing new. :)

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto-assessing of Proposal 4876

2007-01-07 Thread Ed Murphy
OscarMeyr wrote: On Dec 16, 2006, at 6:50 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: H. Speaker Sherlock, can you please confirm the following? Proposal 4876 FOR: Murphy, Goethe, OscarMeyr PRESENT: Eris Decision: FAILED QUORUM Did this ever get finalized? Sherlock confirmed it on December 18, albeit in a-d.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: registration and CFJs

2007-01-10 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: ps. if you like the new rule 101, want to try to gut the judicial system... I ran out of steam on that one and we still need judicial reform (reform the mechanics to match R101 and the rest). Something along the lines of this outline? i. Every person has the right to

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Distribution of Proposals 4877-4892

2007-01-11 Thread Ed Murphy
Sherlock wrote: 4879 | Dishonor Rolls, redux | Murphy| 1 | 16Dec06 | O I love this... FOR I feel obligated to remind folks that I didn't write this rule, just proposed to patch it in from a previously adopted proposal that accidentally didn't have its full intended effect. 4882

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: registration and CFJs

2007-01-11 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: YAFI, YGI. What does that expand to? You asked for it, you got it. The Clerk of the Courts may, without objection, unlink one or more of the linked CFJs from the others by announcement. If e unlinks more than one as a set, then those CFJs

Re: DIS: proto: broaden annotations

2007-01-11 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: The Judge of any CFJ, the Statement of which alleges that a Rule should be interpreted in a certain way, which is judged TRUE or FALSE, may, at eir discretion, issue an Order requiring the Rulekeepor to annotate the Rule in question accordingly. If

DIS: Re: BUS: two proposals relating to low AIs

2007-01-11 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: H. Promotor, I hereby submit the following Proposal, entitled hoopy: --- Be it therefore resolved that a Rule be created with title Sass That Hoopy and text: When the Clerk of the Courts publishes a Judgement as required by Rule 591, e must accompany the

DIS: Unanimity issue

2007-01-11 Thread Ed Murphy
With the definition of Unanimity in question, would someone like to cast AGAINST votes as needed to prevent any of the proposals currently in their voting period from passing unanimously? I'd propose a fix to the definition, but I need to head offline now (and it's time someone else had a chance

DIS: Re: BUS: proposal: fix proposal efficacy

2007-01-11 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Even after the fixes proposed for Rule Changes, it's still possible for a Proposal to be adopted with AI 1 and take effect with Power=0. That allows anything *except* Rule Changes to be done by an unpopular Proposal. Nope, Rule 955 prevents it: If the voting index

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ on Unanimity

2007-01-12 Thread Ed Murphy
Eris wrote: On 1/12/07, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # If the Rules defining some entity are repealed or amended such that # they no longer define that entity, then that entity along with all # its properties shall cease to exist. So, specifically, the numerical comparison properties of

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ on Unanimity

2007-01-12 Thread Ed Murphy
Eris wrote: On 1/12/07, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This rule does not define Zefram. It does define Zefram's playerhood, but so do some other rules. If a rule says X is a Y., under what circumstances does it then define X? When X does not exist independently of the rules.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ on Unanimity

2007-01-13 Thread Ed Murphy
Eris wrote: On 1/12/07, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When X does not exist independently of the rules. What if it says This Rule defines X. X is a Y.? If X exists independently of the rules, then this rule is either lying, or using This Rule defines X as a gloss for This Rule defines

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ on Unanimity

2007-01-13 Thread Ed Murphy
Eris wrote: On 1/13/07, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If X exists independently of the rules, then this rule is either lying, or using This Rule defines X as a gloss for This Rule defines a property of X. In either case, repealing the rule does not cause X to cease to exist. How

Re: DIS: a bigger bug -- no gamestate changes?

2007-01-13 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: proto-CFJ Proposal 4882 (The Lady, or the Tiger?) can have no effect on Goethe's registration status. Arguments R594/8, no longer in effect, contained the following text: For the purpose of the Rules, the application of an adopted Proposal is a legal

DIS: Upcoming events

2007-01-19 Thread Ed Murphy
In addition to the Rule 1450 issue, it occurred to me that Rule 2110's awarding of the Patent Title of Champion might be interpreted as not synonymous with winning the game (despite the rule's title), hence failing to activate Rule 402. Fortunately, I have a Plan (tm) to sidestep this mess: 1)

Re: DIS: Rule 1868 Paradox

2007-01-26 Thread Ed Murphy
Jacob Sutton wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Jacob Sutton wrote: Rule 1868 states that a CFJ is open if it has not been judged and closed if it is not open So, if a case has been judged, there is no rule keeping it from still being considered open. Correct. So it's not open. (Assuming

DIS: Re: BUS: Appeal of CFJ 1594

2007-01-31 Thread Ed Murphy
Eris wrote: On 1/31/07, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hereby appeal Sherlock's judgement of CFJ 1594. I also appeal this Judgement, because I've always wanted to try this. This is explicitly allowed by Rule 101, but contributes nothing toward Rule 1564's prerequisites for initiating an

Re: DIS: OFF: Judgement of CFJ 1597

2007-01-31 Thread Ed Murphy
Michael Norrish wrote: Kerim Aydin wrote: Let's say, in this case, the decision is OVERTURN AND REVERSE. Did that OVERTURN AND REVERSE apply to Goethe's FALSE or Sherlock's TRUE? There's no legal distinction the appeals court can make to distinguish them. I don't imagine the Appeals

Re: DIS: Proto: Revise Rotation

2007-01-31 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: What's this supposed to mean? Sounds like a barbecuing procedure. cause a player to become turned, then. It's the whole thing that I have a problem with, not the verb turn. I really can't make head or tail of it. What's it for? Shortly after you last

DIS: Bribery

2007-02-12 Thread Ed Murphy
I will increase by 5 the VLOP of the next player who is installed as CotC according to the Agoran Consent procedure in Rule 1006.

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: Distribution of Proposals 4904-4909

2007-02-19 Thread Ed Murphy
Michael wrote: 4904 | some deeming| AGAINST 4905 | Cleaning up after myself| FOR 4906 | Deem deemed harmful | FOR 4907 | Timing without Orders | FOR 4908 | No Silly Orders | FOR 4909 | broaden annotations | FOR Not to the PF.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Initialize Activity

2007-02-22 Thread Ed Murphy
Quazie wrote: Is anyone else defiantly inactive? ^ Is this typo intentional or merely serendipitous? Anyway, some players may reasonably fit the English definition of inactive. There are five things that depend on activity: 1) Requirement to receive PFs 2)

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Paragraphs and pineapples

2007-02-27 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: How about something more radical and simple? Leave persons as referring to all types of persons (not just natural), but insert a single sentence persons consisting of the same set of natural persons are the same person. This would limit the arbitrary issue, and puts partnerships

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: conflict of interest

2007-03-09 Thread Ed Murphy
Quazie wrote: This is exactly the type of change I was talking about, I just have never understood the CFJ system enough to write it myself. Eris, may I publish that short list of bullet points you sent me about a conceptual revamping of the judiciary?

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: conflict of interest

2007-03-11 Thread Ed Murphy
Eris wrote: On 3/9/07, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quazie wrote: This is exactly the type of change I was talking about, I just have never understood the CFJ system enough to write it myself. Eris, may I publish that short list of bullet points you sent me about a conceptual

DIS: Re: BUS: Dear, damn'd distracting town, farewell!

2007-03-13 Thread Ed Murphy
Michael wrote: I hereby deregister. Well, crap. Would anyone else (preferably already familiar with CVS) like to be Rulekeepor?

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Re-divide some offices

2007-03-15 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: as for bringing back the Assessor, ADoP, and the Registrar, do we really need that sheer weight of offices when we don't care enough to contest the ones we've got? We already have the weight of their duties, and under the current regime they're locked together in twos and

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: Rulekeepor's notes for Proposals 4893-4903

2007-03-23 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: I'd suggest the following record for R105: History: Initial Immutable Rule 105, Jun. 30 1993 Mutated from MI=Unanimity to MI=3 by Proposal 1072, Oct. 4 1994 Amended by Proposal 1275, Oct. 24 1994 Renumbered from 1072 to 105 by Rule 1295, Nov. 1 1994 Amended(1) by Proposal 3445

DIS: Re: BUS: proposal: reorientation

2007-03-23 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: H. Promotor, I hereby submit the following proposal, entitled reorientation: --- Amend rule 889 (The Clerk of the Courts) by deleting the text The CotC's Bi-Weekly Report shall include the following: (i) Each Player's Orientation. --- (Orientation isn't defined

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Voting Limits

2007-03-23 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Benjamin Schultz wrote: Zefram 1 1 0 I should have a VC for delivering judgement, and I expect several other players should too. Since 2007-01-22, R2126 includes: A player who submits a judgement during eir Deliberation Period gains one VC. A

Re: DIS: eligibility question

2007-03-23 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: It is not clear to me if eligibility in terms of Appeals judges includes turning: As soon as possible after an Appellate Judge is recused, the Clerk of the Courts shall randomly select an eligible Player to replace em. clause (iv) of R911: iv) E is ineligible to

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1608 assigned to Maud

2007-03-28 Thread Ed Murphy
Maud wrote: On 3/23/07, Kerim Aydin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I assign CFJ 1608 to Maud. Text is here: http://www.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-official/2007-January/002784.html I (proto-)judge the statement of CFJ 1608 to be TRUE. Actually, this may be trivially true due

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1608 assigned to Maud

2007-03-29 Thread Ed Murphy
Maud wrote: On 3/28/07, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, this may be trivially true due to Rule 2034. If I understand the argument you intend, this would depend on Agorans agreeing not to challenge the vote collector's announcement of results. Yes, that's what I had in mind.

Re: DIS: Proto-proposal: Excess CFJs

2007-04-02 Thread Ed Murphy
Levi wrote: Attempt at cleaning up the Excess CFJ rule. I've used the following as a basis for this change 1. The use of 'dismiss' is unclear, due to DISMISS being a valid judgement for a CFJ, but dismissal through a CFJ being an Excess CFJ should be different to dismissal under rule 1565

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Changing officers

2007-04-03 Thread Ed Murphy
Maud wrote: On 4/3/07, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I intend to make Maud Herald by Agoran Consent. You're doing this for the pun, aren't you? What pun? Now if your nickname was Lloyd...

Re: DIS: web pages

2007-04-05 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: as I do only structural markup and not visual design, if someone wants to produce a CSS stylesheet that might be a useful addition. http://www.oswd.org/

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Agoran Chromodynamics

2007-04-11 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Repeal Rule 2126 (Voting Credits). Not going to turn pre-existing VCs into beads? Hey, you're the one who was complaining about VC inflation. :) * One Green Bead to bar a player from judging a CFJ. This would be a nightmare in a crisis

Re: DIS: BUS: Proposal: Return of the Contests

2007-04-12 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: Rule 2128 allows you to specify a contest to determine the next winner. It doesn't say you have to run the contest. If I come up with a good contest and offer to run it, would you be willing to invite players to enter to win as per R2128? I don't see why not. In any case,

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Agoran Chromodynamics

2007-04-12 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: The second point, though, is plain old critical mass. At the time I joined, the game peaked at perhaps 15 players who were actively participating plus another 10 who were semi-active. That's a vastly different dynamic the current ~10 players. When we dismantled the currency

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto-Proposal: Omnibus Judicial Reform Act of 2007

2007-04-13 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: you're standing, then you must wait till you're assigned something (switching you to sitting) before opting out of further judicial work. Sounds unwise. I think one should be able to opt out at any time. The concept of a standing court suggests

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Distribution of Proposals 4930-4940

2007-04-25 Thread Ed Murphy
Maud wrote: 4932 AGAINST -- (I've missed some discussion. Aren't these 4933 AGAINST -- attempting to do basically the same thing?) The difference is whether an Excess CFJ that gets assigned may still be refused. 4935 FOR (Why ``contentiousness''? I mean, I know why, but why?)

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: Distribution of Proposals 4930-4940

2007-04-25 Thread Ed Murphy
quazie wrote: 4930 | Simple VC win | Goethe| 1* | 02Apr07 | D FOR Not to the PF.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Protection Racket

2007-04-28 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: An Oligarch may refuse a proposal by announcement. A refused proposal ceases to be a proposal. Nice try, but I don't think this will work at Power=1. Rule 106 at Power=3 calls for a proposal to be adopted if the vote on it is favourable, which I

DIS: Re: BUS: Set of CFJs (a paradox found)?

2007-04-29 Thread Ed Murphy
quazie wrote: I'm not sure if the rules allow me to do this or not. I request to not judge the above linked CFJs. You're allowed to make the request, but it doesn't actually make you ineligible. Eris, now that you're back (well come!), can you comment on the [bracketed] portions of my

Re: DIS: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 1638-1645 assigned to Goethe

2007-04-29 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: Fair enough. But the point was, when Zefram and I were looking at if we could block Murphy et al.'s proposal, we noticed that a CotC could legally mint an unbounded number of VCs, by an as-long-as-you-want list of linked, trivial CFJs. Instant, overpowering voting, worse than

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Protection Racket

2007-04-29 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Eep, here's another message with datestamps crossing midnight. (I just CFJed about this concerning Quazie's VC spending.) Headers: I think the normal domain of technical control argument should continue to hold. I remove Proposal Racket from the pool. It was titled

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Protection Racket

2007-04-29 Thread Ed Murphy
OscarMeyr wrote: On Apr 29, 2007, at 9:12 PM, Zefram wrote: Oh, this seems a good time to point out: the would-be Oligarchs could have avoided the whole VC race by simply distributing the Oligarch proposal last week, so that it would be contested under that week's unchangeable VLOPs. We

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Registration request

2007-04-30 Thread Ed Murphy
Roger Hicks wrote: Well...let's see. I'm off to a good start. Triggering a CFJ while joining the game is a fine Agoran tradition. How about: I hereby register for Agora Nomic. Alas, this is ineffective because it wasn't sent to a Public Forum. You had the right idea the first time with

Re: DIS: BUS: Registration request

2007-05-01 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: Murphy wrote: I could swear that some variation or other of this issue has been judged in the past, but darned if I can find it. It was the opposite. The rules required that new players request registration. I tried to register by announcing I register. The CFJ was around

Re: DIS: Call for Appeal

2007-05-01 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: CFJ 1630: We're all mad, here. Levi judged: I issue a judgement of DISMISSED as irrelevant to the rules. I call for appeal of CFJ 1630. The truth of CFJ 1630 tells us everything we need to know about the rules. Not to the PF, but it's not clear that Rule 1564 cares.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: No free votes

2007-05-04 Thread Ed Murphy
Maud wrote: On 5/4/07, Taral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I struggled with making it sufficiently generic and yet clear. The intent is that at any point, the voting limit is one less than it would be if the voter was not a natural person. I have a better idea: restrict playerhood to actual

DIS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting results for Proposals 4947 - 4957

2007-05-06 Thread Ed Murphy
The validity of BobTHJ's votes only affects the outcome of Proposal 4953, which has null effect anyway since Proposal 4952 failed. Additional note: The validity of my 8th and 9th votes per proposal did not affect any of the outcomes.

DIS: Proto: Return of switches

2007-05-07 Thread Ed Murphy
Proto-Proposal: Return of switches (AI = 3, please) Create a rule titled Switches with this text: A switch is a property that the rules define as being a switch, pertaining to a type of entity, and having one or more possible values. Each switch has exactly one value.

DIS: Proto: Beads and Wins

2007-05-07 Thread Ed Murphy
Proto-Proposal: Beads and Wins Rename Rule 2126 (Voting Credits) to Beads, change its Power to 2, and amend it to read: Beads are property, but cannot be traded. The Jewelor is an office. The Jewelor's report shall include each player's beads. Create a rule titled Earning

Re: DIS: Proto: Return of switches

2007-05-07 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Loose switches may be changed by announcement. So anyone can change a loose switch at will? Why would you ever want one of these? I think we used to have some, though I forget what they were. Activity is a player switch with values Active

Re: DIS: Proto: Beads and Wins

2007-05-07 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: 5) 2 beads to ban a player from judging a CFJ to which e is not already assigned. Does banning make em ineligible for assignment, or only oblige em to not return a judgement? This should be bar (R897) rather than ban. A player with 42 or more beads is

DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Switches reborn

2007-05-07 Thread Ed Murphy
Maud wrote: Each switch has a collection of possible states, is attached to a specific host entity, and has the power to modify a specific property of the host, called its feature. An entity is a switch only if the rules say it is. The default state of a switch is,

Re: DIS: Proto: Agora shall make no law...

2007-05-07 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Kerim Aydin wrote: If it costs something tangible to get a proposal distributed, Proposal distribution is not a scarce resource. I'm opposed to creating artificial scarcity here. Your support concept wouldn't offend in that way, but it sounds like quite a lot of extra work

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Switches reborn

2007-05-08 Thread Ed Murphy
Eris wrote: On 5/7/07, Michael Slone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In an earlier draft, I limited the capacity to flip certain switches to certain entities. I decided that people would complain about that, so I changed it to the current version, where people can but may not flip certain switches.

DIS: Proto: Mother, May I?

2007-05-08 Thread Ed Murphy
Proto-Proposal: Mother, May I? (AI = 3, please) Create a rule titled Mother, May I? with Power 3 and this text: The following terms are defined: 1. CANNOT (syn. IMPOSSIBLE, INEFFECTIVE, INVALID) Attempts to perform the described action are unsuccessful. 2.

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: Distribution of Proposals 4958-4969

2007-05-09 Thread Ed Murphy
BobTHJ wrote: I vote as follows: Not to the Public Forum, hence ineffective (Rule 683 requires votes to be published, Rule 478 defines publishing). This also seems like a good opportunity to clarify TTttPF = this time to the Public Forum.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Bring Back Executors

2007-05-09 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Michael Slone wrote: *An* action, just as I wrote. Any action? This is such a strange reading that I'm still not convinced I've understood you correctly. You're placing a restriction on which executors have the power to perform actions on behalf of their executees. The

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Bring Back Executors

2007-05-10 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: I interpreted it as equivalent to a given action. Still not specifying which action. Nor does it need to. Okay, here's a third re-phrasing which is hopefully unambiguous: (original) If an executee is prohibiting from performing an action, each of its

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Bring Back Executors

2007-05-10 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: If an executee is prohibiting from performing an action, each of its executors is prohibited from performing the action on behalf of that executee. That's not the sentence I have trouble with. I was talking about Holding executorship of another entity

Re: DIS: Proto: Ecumenical Proposals

2007-05-11 Thread Ed Murphy
Maud wrote: For the Agoran decision of whether to adopt and ecumenical ^^^ an proposal, the eligible voters are all legislators, the quorum is what it would be if only active players of Agora were eligible voters, the

Re: DIS: proto idea - Role call

2007-05-11 Thread Ed Murphy
quazie wrote: Create a rule entitled Roll Call with the folowing text Cambot! Gypsy! Tom Servo! Croow!

DIS: Credit where credit is due

2007-05-13 Thread Ed Murphy
I should point out that the multi-level partnership scam was originally Quazie's idea; I launched it solely because I was available to do so just before the end of the Agoran week.

Re: DIS: Proto: Clarify actions

2007-05-13 Thread Ed Murphy
Maud wrote: Persons have certain rights and privileges. Those rights which are enumerated in the rules or recognized by the Agoran courts may not be abridged, reduced, limited, or remove by Agoran law, ^^ removed and

Re: DIS: Proto: Economy

2007-05-14 Thread Ed Murphy
BobTHJ wrote: Create a rule called Certification with Power 1 that reads: { A Player must be certified to perform any of the following actions: * Submitting a ballot for distributed proposals * Supporting or opposing a dependent action * Submitting a proposal for distribution If a player who

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Army of Ghosts

2007-05-14 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Human Point Two and I have made a R1742 binding agreement, the text of which is: I believe this doesn't work. Obligations on HP3 are translated, by that agreement, into obligations on HP2 and Murphy, and then by HP2's agreement into obligations on Quazie

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Doomsday

2007-05-14 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: If a partnership contains exactly the same members as another registered partnership, then it is prohibited from registering. You haven't constructed such a situation, so this limitation is insufficient. You need to determine the ultimate

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Registration Prohibits Silent Partners

2007-05-14 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: Murphy wrote: If such an agreement is registered, then as soon as possible after its membership changes, it shall announce which players have joined and which have left. This requirement is satisfied if the information is published by a member of the

DIS: Re: BUS: break time

2007-05-15 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: I can't keep up right now. Need to enforce a break in myself, otherwise RL will suffer more (already is, can never seem to not get sucked in). Sincere apologies for leaving the CotC office so far behind. I'll continue to watch the (encouraging) developments with interest. I

DIS: Re: BUS: Inhuman rights campaign

2007-05-15 Thread Ed Murphy
I wrote: I intend, with Agoran consent, to make the Pineapple Partnership the holder of the Office of Registrar. I intend, with Agoran consent, to make Human Point Two the holder of the Office of International Associate Director of Personnel. I'm holding off on these until we come to a

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: break time

2007-05-15 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: I intend, with Agoran Consent, to make Primo Corporation the holder of the office of Clerk of the Courts. I object. IMO partnerships aren't stable enough to hold office yet.

Re: DIS: Proto: Currency, take 2

2007-05-15 Thread Ed Murphy
BobTHJ wrote: A Property Owning Entity (hereafter POE) is a type of entity. POEs may Why not just Owner?

DIS: Regarding Primo as a CotC candidate

2007-05-15 Thread Ed Murphy
To point out the potential problem more explicitly: If CFJ 1668 is judged true, then Primo-the-player ceased to exist when comex became a Shareholder. I strongly urge that we install a natural person as Clerk of the Courts until the statement of CFJ 1668 is confirmed false, either by judgement

DIS: Re: BUS: timing orders

2007-05-16 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: I execute a Timing Order directing the Clerk of the Courts to select a Trial Judge for CFJ 1659. I assume you intend to activate the last paragraph of Rule 1006, but I'm not sure whether it works when the office in question is vacant.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: break time

2007-05-16 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Due to Rules 1006 and 1450, the office of CotC is currently vacant. Or, under a different interpretation, I am being continuously assigned by 1006 and removed by 1450, which is no better. R1006 says that an office that would otherwise be vacant is held

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: break time

2007-05-16 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Unless the Speaker cannot hold that office. Which R1450 doesn't prevent. R1450 only triggers when the Speaker is already CotC. It depends whether you interpret mutually exclusive as a prohibition (with the next clause amounting to if someone pushes me, I

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: distribution of proposals 4970-4975

2007-05-16 Thread Ed Murphy
quazie wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: 4970 FOR 4971 FOR 4972 FOR 4973 PRESENT 4974 PRESENT 4975 FOR I vote in the following manner: If Murphy has voted on a proposal as of 5/16/07 @ 9:50pm (PST), I vote in the same manner as e has. Alas, not to the PF.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: HPn votes

2007-05-17 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: On behalf of Human Point Two: On behalf of Human Point Four: HP2 isn't a partner in HP4, is it? It purports to be, at least. From the announcement in which HP4 was allegedly registered: Human Point Two, Human Point Three, and I have made a R1742 binding

DIS: Re: BUS: Win by Paradox?

2007-05-17 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: On Sunday 13 May 2007 7:09 pm, Ed Murphy wrote: Second-System Effect registers. I call for judgement on the following statement: Second-System Effect registered on or about Sun, 13 May 2007 16:09:28 -0700 Arguments: Without knowledge of the agreement that defines SSE

Re: DIS: Bounty

2007-05-17 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: e) A player may, with Agoran consent with a consent index of H/L, perform an action and cause a rule with Power L to take precedence over a rule with Power H with regard to that action. E must be otherwise permitted to perform

DIS: Re: OFF: IADoP - Letting you know Who's Who in Agora

2007-05-17 Thread Ed Murphy
quazie wrote: his is a mostly complete report from the IADoP. Because we have more than enough CFJs as it is, you should probably state explicitly that you're publishing the report on behalf of IADoP Human Point Two. While I'm at it, I state under penalty of perjury that the membership of

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Re: OFF: IADoP - Letting you know Who's Who in Agora

2007-05-18 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2007 11:41 pm, Ed Murphy wrote: While I'm at it, I state under penalty of perjury that the membership of the HP2 agreement has not changed since its registration, thus HP2's existence as a registered player is not contingent on the outcome of CFJ 1668. I state

Re: DIS: Proto: Generalize Dependent Actions

2007-05-18 Thread Ed Murphy
Maud wrote: In this proto, I attempt to average dependent actions and actions with Agoran consent. I can't help but feel that a proto to adopt proposals with Agoran consent is right around the corner.

Re: DIS: Proto: The New Office Plan

2007-05-21 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: You use the term Speakership in several places where strictly you should say Speaker. (Speakership is not defined; in your terminology Speaker refers to the office.) You also speak of a player *being* the Speaker, where you should apply the strict distinction that a player

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: yin yang

2007-05-21 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: That's all the yin/yang activity we have planned. For the record, all changes of membership of both partnerships have taken place in the public forum. The present membership is: * of Yin Corp: Yin Corp, Yang Corp * of Yang Corp: Yin Corp, Yang Corp Or at least, that's the

DIS: Re: BUS: The Hanging Judge

2007-05-21 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: I assign CFJs 1666-8 to The Hanging Judge. E is still turned. Text at: http://www.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-business/2007-May/006418.html I encourage Zefram and Murphy to submit psuedojudgements. I interpret a partnership's identity, not merely as the set

DIS: More crisis management foo

2007-05-21 Thread Ed Murphy
Ambiguous eligibility can be resolved by making the relevant players turned (lying down) without 2 objections, and/or inactive without objection. (This does nothing for the bug pointed out by fix judicial turns, though.)

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting results for Proposals 4958 - 4969

2007-05-23 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: 4965 | The Standing Court | Murphy| 1 | 06May07 | O 4969 | fix judicial turns | Zefram| 1 | 08May07 | O Aside from failing quorum, both of these passed by a large margin. I presume you'll repropose The Standing Court; if so, you

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting results for Proposals 4958 - 4969

2007-05-23 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: I'll do that later when I have some time. We're interpreting quorum as calculated when the Assessor resolves the Agoran decision, right? Nearly. It's when the Assessor performs the calculations to determine the results, which appears to be a distinct step

Re: DIS: Proto: Nomic Protectorates

2007-05-23 Thread Ed Murphy
Maud wrote: I'm not convinced any nomic would agree to such a ``deal''. It might if you scammed it. Didn't we once plan to saddle Rishonomic with a Governor General or something?

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