Re: DIS: Re: OFF: inquiry 1699: assignment of judge BobTHJ

2007-07-24 Thread Ed Murphy
BobTHJ wrote: On 7/23/07, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hereby change all sitting players to standing. I hereby assign BobTHJ as judge of CFJ 1699. I hereby rule FALSE. From the nature of the message in question it is clear that Comex was not attempting to deliberatly or recklessly make

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: The Republic of Agora

2007-07-24 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Each player has a State with one or more Districts, a Base, and a Constituency. These names are quite opaque as to the significance of the parameters, and the relationships that the names evoke don't match the behaviour of the concepts. State

DIS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1699: result FALSE

2007-07-24 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: == CFJ 1699 == [snip] Judged FALSE by BobTHJ: 24 Jul 2007 17:12:45 GMT BobTHJ's message was NttPF. Rule 2158.

DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Civil cases revisited

2007-07-26 Thread Ed Murphy
Proto-Proposal: Civil cases revisited A criminal case has the additional purpose of punishing the guilty. A civil case's purpose is limited to determining guilt; any response to this determination is left to the agreement. Alternate version: A criminal case

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: The Republic of Agora

2007-07-25 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Unnecessary generality. First come up with a method for non-reflexive registration that we might actually want to use. Not that we want to use it, but it's happened before. I believe you were around when Morendil became Speaker while not a Player, and thus

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto-verdict on 1684a

2007-07-27 Thread Ed Murphy
Eris wrote: On 7/27/07, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a) Should Rule 754 (3)'s primarily used in ... legal contexts be interpreted as primarily used by Agora in legal contexts, or primarily used by the English-speaking population in general in legal contexts

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting results for Proposals 5080 - 5087

2007-07-31 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: On Monday 23 July 2007, Ed Murphy wrote: Wooble wrote: I believe my votes on these proposals were submitted within the voting period to the proper forum and were not counted. Correct. Those votes were as follows: 5080 5081 5082 5083 5084 5085 5086

DIS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1651: recuse, assign Murphy

2007-08-01 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: I hereby recuse BobTHJ from CFJ 1651. I hereby assign Murphy as judge of CFJ 1651. Statement: if a R107 notice initiating an Agoran decision does not contain an explicit list of the eligible voters, and there is later a dispute (evidenced by submission of

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1708: assign Murphy

2007-08-01 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Per the judgement of CFJ 1703, comex's claim was false. However, only deliberately or recklessly making a false statement violates Rule 2149, and per the judgement of CFJ 1699, comex did neither. Accordingly, I judge UNIMPUGNED. You seem to have misunderstood

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Another CFJ

2007-08-01 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: I call for judgement to determine whether CotC Zefram violated Rule 1871 (The Standing Court) by changing all sitting players to standing on or about Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:11:48 +0100. determine whether indicates an inquiry case, although your mention

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting results for Proposals 5080 - 5087 (corrected)

2007-08-01 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: On 8/1/07, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: For each decision, the options available are ADOPTED, REJECTED, and FAILED QUORUM.] No they're not. The options are FOR, AGAINST, and PRESENT. There's a distinction between the options available

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: proposal: legal

2007-08-02 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: On Wednesday 01 August 2007, Ed Murphy wrote Neither CAN nor MAY is explicitly defined by Rule 2152, so ordinary language applies. Game custom for both is (not CANNOT) and (not MAY NOT). This is severely broken. Certainly MAY/CAN are not capitalized merely for emphasis

Re: DIS: proto: clarify Mother, May I?

2007-08-02 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: proto-proposal: clarify Mother, May I? * x CAN y: it is POSSIBLE for x to y. * x CANNOT y: it is IMPOSSIBLE for x to y. This eliminates x CAN y only if z as a synonym for x CANNOT y if not z. Similarly for the other cases. In particular, we might want to amend

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: Faction anyone ?

2007-08-02 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: On Friday 27 July 2007, Antonio Dolcetta wrote: I was wandering if anyone is interested in creating a faction. Since the faction rules have been introduced no one has made one, Is there any interest at all in playing factions out ? I cause Agora to join B Nomic per rule 5-2.

Re: DIS: proto: clarify Mother, May I?

2007-08-03 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: This eliminates x CAN y only if z as a synonym for x CANNOT y if not z. Similarly for the other cases. Those semantics are the usual meaning of only if, aren't they? How else might only if be interpreted? As if not z, then the rules do not specify whether x

DIS: Re: BUS: RAR

2007-08-04 Thread Ed Murphy
Peekee wrote: I register as a *player* . Channeling

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: judicial status

2007-08-13 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: On 8/12/07, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dates given are generally from the Date: header of the applicable message. This is not the legally effective time (CFJ 1646), but is an approximation of it. See the message in question for exact timing. Eep. Looking at CFJ 1646, I'm

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Intent to ratify

2007-08-13 Thread Ed Murphy
Peekee wrote: Quoting Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I intend to ratify the VC holdings listed in the Assessor's Report that I published within the past hour. Could that cause problems if it turns out I am not a player anymore? In that situation, the first paragraph of Rule 2126 would

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Return of Zeitgeist

2007-08-13 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: If such a proposal received no AGAINST votes, its proposer gains one Zinnwaldite VC. Zinnwaldite isn't a colour AFAICT. Otherwise I like the proto. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinnwaldite_(color)

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Re: OFF: judicial status

2007-08-13 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: Incidentally, I don't like these new dependent action rules; all the Agoran decision cruft makes them much more heavyweight than they really have any need to be. When are we ever going to use a dependent action with a majority index other than one? When we think of something

Re: DIS: proto: more knaves

2007-08-13 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: Amend the rule titled Truthiness, or the Island of Knights and Knaves by replacing the entire text of the rule with: Knight and Knave are player switches with values NAY and YAY, tracked by the Speaker, with default values of YAY and NAY, respectively. Eww.

DIS: Re: OFF: map, again

2007-08-13 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: For the agoran decision I initiated in this message: http://www.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-business/2007-August/007098.html (published 7 days ago) the options available are APPROVED and REJECTED. No votes were made. The option therefore selected by Agora is

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: map, again

2007-08-13 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: On Monday 13 August 2007, Ed Murphy wrote: No, it isn't. S/(S+O) = 0/(0+0) = 0/0 = 0 (Rule 2146), which is = 1/2 (Rule 2124), so the OSbA is REJECTED (Rule 955). You're right. Therefore, my notice resolving the decision was invalid, so the decision is still active. Would you

Re: DIS: proto: more knaves

2007-08-13 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: On Monday 13 August 2007, Ed Murphy wrote: Eww. I couldn't think of a better way to allow a player to be a Knight and a Knave at the same time. Smullyan is rolling over in his grave. Peekee is jumping for joy, but you can't tell which ones are him and which ones are just

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Contest: The Variety Show

2007-08-13 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: On 8/14/07, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hereby agree to be bound by the following agreement: This contract does not exist until someone else agrees to it, correct? Someone has. Two someones, in fact. d) 1 point to a contestant who was an officer all week

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Re: OFF: judicial status

2007-08-16 Thread Ed Murphy
1) Amend R955(d)(3) to make majority index actions require the ratio be greater than or equal to the index if the actor is an (active) first-class player; strictly greater otherwise. I prefer amending R1728(d) so that the vote collector is generally allowed to vote on actions with Agoran

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Two protos

2007-08-16 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: On 8/16/07, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (a) With N Supporters. For this method, the support index is N, and the tally of votes need only include a number of SUPPORT votes sufficient to approve the action. With Support is synonymous

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Republic repair

2007-08-17 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Proto-Proposal: Republic repair I'm opposed to this being a separate proposal from the Republic of Agora. Merge the fixes into the main proposal. I plan to; that was written before I saw the votes swinging roughly 2 to 1 against.

Re: DIS: proto: reward deputisation

2007-08-18 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Here's a list of things that you could get Boons for, about a year ago: What was a Boon? Boons and Albatrosses were Ephemeral Patent Titles. At the end of each quarter, each player's Kudos (used to pay for various interesting actions) were reset to a baseline + #Boons -

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Generalize power-based allowance

2007-08-19 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: A permissively regulated attribute CANNOT be modified, and a permissively regulated action CANNOT be performed, except by an instrument with power at least as great as that of the rule defining that attribute or action as permissively

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Generalize power-based allowance

2007-08-19 Thread Ed Murphy
Pavitra wrote: There's little point in a security level higher than the power of the securing rule. Actually, that's under the old system. Under the new system, there would be little point in a security level higher than the power of the rule defining security levels. (And so that rule

DIS: Re: BUS: proposals: truthfulness

2007-08-20 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Amend rule 2149 by inserting the words or which e is reckless regarding the veracity of at the end of each sentence in the second paragraph. I still think this should define reckless, perhaps by example.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Generalize power-based allowance

2007-08-20 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: e.g. why bother enshrining the basic behavior of some concept in a Power 3 rule if you're going to let Power 2 rules modify that behavior? Perhaps some aspects need to be power=3 difficult to modify, but other aspects should be modifiable at power=2 in certain

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Refactor regulation, take three

2007-08-20 Thread Ed Murphy
Proposal: Refactor regulation (AI = 3, please) Amend Rule 2125 (Regulation Regulations) to read: An action is regulated if any of the following is true: (a) The rules specify that the action CANNOT be performed, or CAN be performed ONLY IF certain conditions are

DIS: Re: BUS: win

2007-08-21 Thread Ed Murphy
Levi wrote: By Rule 2136: A player with 100 or more points may win the game by announcing this fact. Upon such an announcement, each player's score is set to zero. I announce that I now have 100 points. Therefore I win the game. Actually, you have 101 points.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: distribution of proposals 5147-5171

2007-08-21 Thread Ed Murphy
Peekee wrote: Problems are the discussion forums defined in the rules? I suspect there would be little way of regulating protos. Yes, Rule 478: Publicity is a forum switch with values Public, Discussion, and Null (default), tracked by the Registrar.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Votes

2007-08-21 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: 5171 AGAINST (invisible F) Ah, you're in the unless == iff not camp too? Curious. I had no idea that interpretation of unless existed in formal logic. I've always used it to mean if not. I'm undecided. I think the matter warrants further discussion.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: distribution of proposals 5147-5171

2007-08-21 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: On 8/20/07, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's strictly on the merits. With 5159 I nearly voted PRESENT, but I'm worried that it's a scam setup. I had a nightmare two nights ago that involved a R2134 win being sprung, which is probably related.) You're correct in that the

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal

2007-08-21 Thread Ed Murphy
Levi wrote: In Rule 2139 replace the following text: The Registrar's report shall include the following: with: The Registrar's report SHOULD include the following: I agree with the idea of saying The X's report includes Y, and leaving it to other rules to place requirements on

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Ministers Without Portfolio

2007-08-22 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: a) Default Officeholder. We repealed this for a good reason. And what reason was that, then? b) Default Justice. This is a better way to handle a default justice than what we had before. Why? c) Wielder of Veto. Undemocratic

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Ministers Without Portfolio

2007-08-22 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: And what reason was that, then? Having a default officeholder makes officeholding indeterminate when we're not sure who the default officeholder is. It spreads uncertainty regarding the game state. We ran into this recently regarding the CotC, when resolving

Re: DIS: Proto: MMI change

2007-08-22 Thread Ed Murphy
Levi wrote: Just noticed that Rule 2160 uses POSSIBLE. If it's the reverse of IMPOSSIBLE, it would be defined the same as CAN. But then, in Rule 2160, I'm not sure POSSIBLE is the right term? There was a proposal to change it to LEGAL, whereupon it was pointed out that many actions are

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: VCs for voting

2007-08-23 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: At the end of a proposal's voting period, each player who cast at least one valid vote on it, but cast more invalid votes than valid votes on it, loses one Pink VC. Cute. BobTHJ will hate you. It's principle rather than practice. If e believed eir VLOP was

Re: DIS: proto: VC award for triplication

2007-08-23 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: [I'm concerned that the fiddliness of the condition might increase the assessor's workload unreasonably. Murphy?] I'm already publishing F/A totals, so identical results there would trigger a count of PRESENT votes. However, checking this condition would potentially require

Re: DIS: proto: distributor as an office

2007-08-24 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: The distributor is an office. The distributor SHALL send eir weekly report to each non-null forum at least once each quarter. This could be a monthly report; it's not like the fora change very often. I don't know whether the Distributor's workload is large enough

Re: DIS: proto: allow non-player wins

2007-08-24 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: proto-proposal: allow non-player wins Create a rule titled Non-Player Wins with this text: When a non-player wins the game, e becomes a player.

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1738: assign root

2007-08-29 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: On 8/29/07, Ian Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I concur with the Initiator's arguments and enter a judgement of TRUE. I intend, with 2 support, to appeal this. I vote SUPPORT. At least wait for our sole knave to weigh in on the discussion (in a-d, so as to avoid further

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Resubmitting refactor regulation

2007-08-29 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: On 8/29/07, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: comex wrote: I submit the following proposal: Proposal: Refactor regulation (AI = 3, please) Murphy is a coauthor of this proposal. Why? And why did those who voted AGAINST it do so? Perhaps this one could do with some more

DIS: CotC DB

2007-08-30 Thread Ed Murphy
I've updated the database code to identify criminal cases and recognize the possible judgements on culpability, and filled in the correct values for the past judgements. Please let me know if you spot any problems. Eris, how do I regenerate cotc_amend.pyc from cotc_amend.py? Not that it

DIS: Re: BUS: Nominees for Herald

2007-08-30 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: I intend, with Agoran Consent, to make Peekee the holder of the office of Clerk of the Courts. (E will have a chance to register shortly before the 14-day limit expires.) I vote OBJECT.

DIS: More CotC DB stuff

2007-08-30 Thread Ed Murphy
I added a Criminal cases link, just above All cases. comex, your mirror is broken; please let me know if something on my end's caused it, though I can't think of anything that would.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: I feel, therefore I act

2007-08-30 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: comex wrote: but possibly end up just a useless pain. How exactly was truthiness ever going to avoid this fate? It was perfectly fine in its original form, if you ask me.

DIS: Notes on Herald's report

2007-08-30 Thread Ed Murphy
TITLES OF HONOUR Listing date-awarded would make for a nice research project. Ephemera were repealed long ago, so that note can be removed. First Speaker: Michael This is defined by the rules, but not as a Patent Title. If e was awarded the title as a Patent Title at some point, then

DIS: Notes on CotC's report

2007-08-30 Thread Ed Murphy
open judicial cases Can this be given in tabular format, please? e.g. Inquiry Caller Called Judge Assigned --- 1729 Zefram 21 Aug root21 Aug 1730 Pavitra 22 Aug BobTHJ 22 Aug 1731 Zefram 23 Aug Murphy 23 Aug Criminal

DIS: Notes on Registrar's report

2007-08-30 Thread Ed Murphy
Here and Gone Again: a Registrar's Report EVENT HISTORY This could be trimmed back to the last month or two. PLAYERS (16-18) ACTIVITY LEVEL Can these lists be combined, please? WATCHERS (24) //BethMo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 30 Jun 1993 The significance of // should

Re: DIS: Notes on Registrar's report

2007-08-31 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: PLAYERS (16-18) ACTIVITY LEVEL Can these lists be combined, please? I've considered doing that before, but I haven't found a way to do it within 70 columns such that I'm happy with the legibility. How about this? Nickname E-mail address Registered

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: More types of judges

2007-08-31 Thread Ed Murphy
Peekee wrote: So players willing to sit on appeals only would be welcome. -zefram Persons?! You've got less than two weeks left to wait.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: I feel, therefore I act

2007-08-31 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: A knight SHALL NOT publish a statement unless e believes it may be true, and SHOULD NOT do so unless e believes it is. Too loose. How about the stricter: A knight SHALL NOT publish a statement unless e believes it is true. As long as the paragraph about

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Uncommon Wins

2007-08-31 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Each VC has a color. Red, Green, and Blue are common colors. Add All other colors are uncommon.. This is covered by ordinary language (*), unless e.g. we explicitly define rare as a third type of color. (*) Notwithstanding Peekee, who (in some past

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Zen Knaves

2007-09-03 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: A player performs an action by announcement by announcing that e performs it (unless e is a knave, in which case e performs it by announcing that e does not perform it). Still no way for a knave to publish a report in a rule-satisfying manner

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Zen Knaves

2007-09-03 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: On Friday 31 August 2007, Ed Murphy wrote: Truthiness is a player switch, tracked by the Speaker, with values Knight (default) and Knave. What about spies? This rule does not prohibit any actions during Guy Fawkes Day.

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: distribution of proposals 5214-5221

2007-09-04 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: 5218 D1 3Zefram distributor as an office AGAINST. IMO, R2154's encouragement of frequent officer turnover is incompatible with the responsibilities of the Distributor. R2154 encourages frequent suggestions of officer turnover; the turnover itself won't happen unless

DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ 1739

2007-09-05 Thread Ed Murphy
Eris wrote: CFJ: 1739 Statement: A part of a message sent to a Public Forum that is quoting another message (even if the quote is intended to perform an action) is never a violation of Rule 2149 to publish. Veracity: UNDETERMINED There are at least two reasonable

Re: DIS: Proto-Proposal: Lying down on the job

2007-09-06 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Taral wrote: When a judge is recused with cause, e becomes supine. Such an automatic posture change loses some of the safety of the current system that distinguishes between VALID and LEGAL. I'd prefer to have an explicit step here. When the CotC recuses a judge with

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Variety Show Report

2007-09-07 Thread Ed Murphy
Eris wrote: On 9/7/07, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a) 1 to root(Proposal 5155, VI = 48) b) 1 to Levi(Proposal 5152, VI = 0.2; 5150 also eligible) c) 1 to Zefram (Proposal 5161, VI = 2, AI = 2; 5151 also eligible) d) 1 to Levi e) 1 to Wooble f) none g) 1

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Differentiation of Powers

2007-09-07 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: On 9/7/07, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ian Kelly wrote: Amend Rule 2140 (Power Controls Mutability) by replacing all occurrences of the phrase greater than with not equal to. That would be an awful mess. Proposals with AI3 not allowed to modify rules of more than one power

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Movement

2007-09-10 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: All these hoops to jump through are just going to add extra work to the ordinary business of the game. I predict that players will make a habit of attempting to the appropriate location via the town square before taking actions, so the net effect will be a lot of paperwork for

DIS: Re: BUS: Poll on CFJ 1741

2007-09-11 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: So I'm going to poll the players and watchers: Upon first seeing Peekee's message, were you able to understand it within a reasonable amount of effort? If so, was a knowledge of HTML required? Yes. No, Thunderbird automatically Did The Right Thing (tm). I'm generally familiar

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: We play on the internet after all

2007-09-11 Thread Ed Murphy
Wooble wrote: On 9/11/07, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only textual file format that is reliably legible is text/plain with strict ASCII. We have done very well by keeping our game documents in this format. I'd favour legislation requiring it. I'd definitely support that. I can't

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: We play on the internet after all

2007-09-12 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: On 9/12/07, Peekee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I am not a player then I register as a player. (Do such conditionals work?) Traditionally no, apart from conditional votes, which are explicitly legislated. However, it is customary to allow it in cases such as this where the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Generalized conditional actions

2007-09-14 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: Murphy wrote: Performing an action by announcement CAN be done conditionally; the action is performed if and only if the condition can be reasonably determined, without circularity or paradox, to be true at the time (or, if the action is casting a

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: True Partnerships

2007-09-15 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: or if less than two members of its basis have taken an active role in determining its actions during the past four weeks, Needs to be more precise. Taking an active role in determining its actions could be interpreted

Re: DIS: Proto: Variables

2007-09-17 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: It seems to me that switches are a special case of your variable concept, where the restricting type is an enumeration. It doesn't have to be. A rule could define a switch's valid values as all real numbers from 0 (default) to 1, inclusive, for instance.

Re: DIS: Proto: Variables

2007-09-17 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: On 9/17/07, Geoffrey Spear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/17/07, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zefram wrote: It seems to me that switches are a special case of your variable concept, where the restricting type is an enumeration. It doesn't have to be. A rule could define

DIS: Re: BUS: Nominations

2007-09-17 Thread Ed Murphy
pikhq wrote: Kmail sent my email to discussions by mistake. That's by design. Most responses to a-b are of a discussionary nature, so Reply-To: is set to a-d. As root mentioned, several of us have occasionally forgotten to change it when appropriate. A rarer case is mixing up a-b and a-o

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Speaker] The List

2007-09-20 Thread Ed Murphy
OscarMeyr wrote: On Sep 18, 2007, at 7:47 PM, Ian Kelly wrote: On 9/18/07, Benjamin Schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 17, 2007, at 9:13 PM, Ian Kelly wrote: The List Wed 29 Aug 05:38:44 Adoption of Proposal 5147 adds Spies and Fools This is just too

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting Limits and Credits Report

2007-09-24 Thread Ed Murphy
Eris wrote: On 9/23/07, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Goddess Eris 1 5 5 1R 2B I should have 1 black VC, no? You're right; your judgement on culpability was late, but your judgement on sentencing wasn't (the ASAP timer didn't start ticking until your

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting results for Proposal 5224

2007-09-24 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: If the AFO is not the vote collector, then I implicitly published the results acting as myself. I'm not convinced that you did. I think your ... publish the following: bit makes the entire following report a subordinate clause. Feel free to CFJ. I didn't

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting Limits and Credits Report

2007-09-25 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: On 9/23/07, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My secondary reason for deregistering was to let First Speaker Michael keep the record for longest continuous registration. By the way, Murphy, could you please clear up your registration history for me? The registrar's report

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: distribution of proposals 5236-5242

2007-09-26 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: 5236 D1 3AFO Ministers Without Portfolio AGAINST (Murphy, did you intend for this to repeal R2019 immediately after amending it?) No, I forgot that the proto was re-using that rule rather than creating a new one. Will fix in the next version. comex, as for your

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Caveat suffragor

2007-09-27 Thread Ed Murphy
Eris wrote: On 9/26/07, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: b) Any other votes are unprotected. The vote collector CAN invalidate or change an unprotected vote by announcement when e resolves the decision. Actually, I'm just tired of people voting

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Caveat suffragor

2007-09-27 Thread Ed Murphy
Levi wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Eris wrote: On 9/26/07, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: b) Any other votes are unprotected. The vote collector CAN invalidate or change an unprotected vote by announcement when e resolves the decision. Actually, I'm just

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

2007-09-27 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: On 9/27/07, Geoffrey Spear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/27/07, Ian Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Human Point Twoc/o Murphy 29 Apr 07 A Murphy left the Human Point Two partnership at the time e deregistered. Who are the current members? Quazie and

DIS: Re: BUS: Variety is overrated

2007-09-27 Thread Ed Murphy
Murphy wrote: I leave The Variety Show. Would anyone else like to become contestmaster (if this failed), or re-create it as contestmaster (if it succeeded)? I still like the idea of it, I've just gotten tired of digging through the messages and figuring out who gets what.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Exit clauses

2007-09-28 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: When a player deregisters, e ceases to be a party to all contracts, unless e specifies otherwise at the time, or the contract specifies otherwise. I think that's the wrong default. We've decoupled contractual capacity from playerhood; let's

Re: DIS: Proto: limited rules

2007-09-28 Thread Ed Murphy
Peekee wrote: I'm being a bit lazy here. The rule below would need to be Power 3, do I need to specify that in the proposal or what is a good way to word that. Create a rule with Power 3 and this text: ... Does the AI follow from the power of rules or does that need to be stated also?

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Let the AFO judge

2007-10-03 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: Proto: Let the AFO vote Amend 1950 to read: The eligible voters on a democratic proposal are those entities that were active players at the start of its voting period and are either first class players or partnerships. The voting limit of an eligible voter

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Nominations

2007-10-04 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: On 10/4/07, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The AFO nominates Levi, Peekee, and pikhq for Ambassador, Herald, and IADoP. So you are nominating each person for all three offices? Yes. (Well, the AFO is.)

DIS: Recusals

2007-10-04 Thread Ed Murphy
CFJ 1735 is well overdue for recusal. CFJs 1752-3 and 1756-7 will also be eligible for recusal within the next 24 hours.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Contract: Fifth Third Agoran Bank

2007-10-08 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: 7) A member CAN deposit one of eir withdrawn VCs by announcement; e gains 100 kopecks of that color. A member CAN withdraw one of eir deposited VCs by transferring 100 kopecks of its color to the Bank. A member CAN transfer one of eir IOUs to the Bank

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: judicial status

2007-10-13 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: comex became supine on August 20. Either I missed the message in which e sat up, or eir assignment to CFJ 1763 (and hence eir purported judgement of same) was invalid. I believe you are correct. It appears that e was sitting at the time that e attempted

DIS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1737: corrected case file

2007-10-13 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: == CFJ 1737 == Judge BobTHJ assigned: 29 Aug 2007 09:43:20 GMT Judge BobTHJ recused: 05 Sep 2007 11:47:24 GMT Judge BobTHJ assigned: 13 Sep 2007 08:48:59 GMT Judge

DIS: Re: OFF: judicial status

2007-10-14 Thread Ed Murphy
The CotC database is now fully up to date (I had to patch a couple of things on CFJ 1711). It also includes and recognizes internal flags for leaning judges and Hawkishness (criminal cases now include a list of eligible judges) and equity cases.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Generalize security

2007-10-17 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Amend Rule 1688 (Power) by appending this text: A secured change CANNOT be performed except as allowed by an instrument with power at least as great as that of the rule defining that change as secured. I'm dubious about doing it this way round

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Generalize security

2007-10-17 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: threshold defaults to the securing rule's power, but CAN be altered as allowed by that rule, up to a maximum of 1.1 times the securing rule's power. I think it's stupid to allow a threshold higher than the power of the defining rule

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: The Republic of Agora v1.2

2007-10-17 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ordinary proposals are not the most common type. Maybe a reason for a different name, but House doesn't seem any better. How about Skewed, to contrast with Democratic? As previously noted, the US House and Senate have voting strengths directly in line with their proposed uses

DIS: Re: BUS: Sorry... (CFJ eligibility)

2007-10-20 Thread Ed Murphy
Eris wrote: I'm just not getting to my CFJs. I recuse myself from CFJs 1711 and 1764. I lie down (if possible). You're standing, so it isn't.

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1767: result FALSE

2007-10-21 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: == CFJ 1767 == Initiated by pikhq: 21 Oct 2007 19:53:50 GMT Judge Goddess Eris assigned:21 Oct 2007 20:01:35 GMT Judged FALSE by Goddess Eris: 21 Oct 2007 20:04:29 GMT I suspect

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1767: result FALSE

2007-10-21 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: Measured from assignment, though, the record is 0 s (set or at least tied by some CFJ earlier this month, in which you assigned it to yourself and judged it in a single message). I don't recall doing such a thing, and I can't find it in my files. Neither can

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: CFJ 1711b: assign comex, Goddess Eris, root

2007-10-21 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: All the proposals in question were adopted before ID numbers (proposal 5110), so I believe there would be no invalid rule number assignments. If 5110 had already taken effect, it could have been quite problematic; if any rules had been created with invalid ID numbers, then any

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