Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2853 assigned to Taral

2010-09-13 Thread omd
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Sean Hunt wrote: > On 09/13/2010 07:15 PM, Taral wrote: >> >> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:23 AM, Ed Murphy  wrote: >>> >>> ==  Criminal Case 2853 (Interest Index = 0)  === >>> >>>    ais523 committed the Class-1 Crime of Tardiness by breaking

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2861 assigned to Tanner L. Swett

2010-09-13 Thread omd
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > I intend with 2 Support to appeal this judgement.  To postulate an > office doesn't make any sense as taking over the office.  In any > event, ais523 held the office and was able to make it postulated by > announcement; it was only Assumed b

DIS: Re: BUS: Democracy

2010-09-13 Thread omd
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > Having also received support from Wooble, I make each of these > proposals (well, the decisions on whether to adopt them, which > should have been reasonably clear) democratic. (There is precedent that this is clear.)

DIS: Re: BUS: Assumption bug

2010-09-15 Thread omd
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Keba wrote: > So we should either add some rewards or make ergs more useful. Perhaps > the main problem is we don't have a real goal to aim for. Any ideas for > adding some sub-game again? How about making Fans only increase based on unused ergs?

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Assumption bug

2010-09-16 Thread omd
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 4:21 PM, ais523 wrote: > Part of my motivation for introducing Teams was to try to make ergs more > useful, but nobody seems to care about them. Perhaps we should just > repeal them again? That should be the fate for all mechanics that don't > really catch on; what normally

DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2857a assigned to Tanner L. Swett, ais523, Murphy

2010-09-16 Thread omd
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:34 AM, Ed Murphy wrote: > > > Appellant G.'s Arguments: > > I intent to appeal this case with 2 support.  This will hopefully > find the declaration inappropriate and cause the judgement, and > ther

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Herald NoV

2010-09-17 Thread omd
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Sean Hunt wrote: > On 09/17/2010 01:05 PM, com...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> Gratuitous: The interpretation suggested by the caller is absurd. > > Would you prefer the interpretation that the list published in the message > was rearranged to match the List of Successio

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2860 assigned to Taral

2010-09-19 Thread omd
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Taral wrote: > 9. omd is the Pariah, and Rule 2312 applies to all players, including judges. No I'm not.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2860 assigned to Taral

2010-09-19 Thread omd
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Taral wrote: > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 5:35 PM, omd wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Taral wrote: >>> 9. omd is the Pariah, and Rule 2312 applies to all players, including >>> judges. >> >> No I'm not. >

Re: DIS: Proto: Clean up eligibility and limits

2010-09-21 Thread omd
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > and appending this paragraph: > >      Casting ballots without explicitly specifying the number of >      ballots to be cast (e.g. "FOR" instead of "FOR*1" or "FOR*3") >      is equivalent to conditionally casting a number of such ballots >    

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: No Voting Limit Timing Scams

2010-09-22 Thread omd
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: > Woulsn't it remove the Assessor's ability to influence timing scams, > by making eir choice of when to resolve the decision meaningless for > this prupose? Better that the Assessor can pull timing scams than everyone can.

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2867 assigned to Wooble

2010-09-22 Thread omd
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 5:19 PM, ais523 wrote: > Further gratuitous arguments: This is a case of "if X, then ..." where X > is impossible being trivially true. It's different from "if the rules > were somehow modified such that X could come about, then most > likely ...", which is what the judgeme

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: No Voting Limit Timing Scams

2010-09-22 Thread omd
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Locking it at the end of the voting period as now is similar to locking it > at the beginning of the week, except that if someone pulls a last-minute > spend, there's no time for others to respond (by for example trying to > veto proposals or s

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 6842-6846

2010-09-23 Thread omd
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Taral wrote: > On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Warrigal wrote: >>       AI   II Proposer Date        Num   Title >>       2.0  1  omd      2010-09-07  6842  Capa > AGAINST Too late.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Last-minute proposals

2010-09-24 Thread omd
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 4:05 PM, ais523 wrote: > As far as I can tell, rule 754 allows the Rulekeepor to do this > unilaterally anyway, or even to revert the change immediately after it's > made. Not now that "except for the purpose of reporting on or quoting the text of a legal document" has bee

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Last-minute proposals

2010-09-24 Thread omd
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 4:22 PM, omd wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 4:05 PM, ais523 wrote: >> As far as I can tell, rule 754 allows the Rulekeepor to do this >> unilaterally anyway, or even to revert the change immediately after it's >> made. > > Not now

DIS: Re: OFF: [Deputy Sysadmin] Our new website! [attn Taral]

2010-09-26 Thread omd
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 6:35 PM, ais523 wrote: > On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 22:43 +0100, ais523 wrote: >> On Sun, 2010-09-12 at 20:03 +0100, Alex Smith wrote: >> > I deputise for the Sysadmin to initiate an Agoran Decision as to which >> > Website Submission to select. The options available are Website

DIS: Re: BUS: Caesaris > Dbftbsjt

2010-10-02 Thread omd
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > The de-shifted message is >  "Denuntio consilium meum ut in tabulas ludi referam." "I give notice of my plan that I should bring back into the records of the game."

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Referee] Letter Of The Rules League Table

2010-10-03 Thread omd
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > No they aren't, the report is "as of the last PSM's report" which > pre-dated omd's attempts. E's still required to publish an up-to-date list of Allegiances, just not Fan holdings.

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2876 assigned to Wooble

2010-10-04 Thread omd
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > The original judgement suggests that the pre-"substantial" version of > Rule 101 implicitly blocked both Proposal 5086 (imposing the two-week > limit on appeals, adopted 5F 0A 2P) and Proposal 5769 (which amended > Rule 101 to include "substantial

DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2878 assigned to omd

2010-10-07 Thread omd
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Ed Murphy wrote: > Detail: http://zenith.homelinux.net/cotc/viewcase.php?cfj=2878 > > ===  CFJ 2878 (Interest Index = 0)   > >    Due to Rule 2215, it would be illegal for me to make an >    unqualified public statement that is i

DIS: Re: BUS: Space alert, yet again

2010-10-07 Thread omd
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: > I intend, with 3 support, to cause Space Alert to cease to be a > contest. Or has someone succeeded with this yet? Because last time I > didn't even get the support. If that's to be taken as people actually > wanting to play it, one of you'l

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CfJ regarding my ability to register

2010-10-08 Thread omd
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > Trivially true.  You CAN register by publishing any message indicating > that you intend to register; an explicit announcement that you do so > is a published message that indicates just that. I hereby register.* I do not intend to registe

DIS: Re: BUS: Resetting and empowering myself

2010-10-08 Thread omd
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Warrigal wrote: > I resign from all offices and become supine. I describe my becoming > supine just now as earning me 2*3^35,000 farads; for this action, I > award myself 3^35,000 ergs. I pay fees to destroy all my rests, then > pay fees to destroy ergs in my posses

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Resetting and empowering myself

2010-10-08 Thread omd
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: >> Actually, they all fail, by the precedent of CFJ 1774. > > Counterargument:  the disparity of effort between Tanner announcing > "I perform $BIGNUM times" and the relevant > officer recording that e did so is much less than in CFJ 1774, which >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Resetting and empowering myself

2010-10-08 Thread omd
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > Alternatively, they could have been given chaotic numbers like 1401 > through 1401, so that the orderly numbers would still roughly > reflect the number of distinct statements. That's roughly what you tried, isn't it? Zefram and you att

DIS: Re: BUS: Hmm...

2010-10-11 Thread omd
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 4:31 PM, ais523 wrote: > I pay a fee to move on the list to Grand Vizier (thus moving coppro out > of that position). > > With Notice, I win the game. Gratuitous: In this case, winning the game is not an action, but the result of an action (making a Win Announcement about

DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ remake

2010-10-14 Thread omd
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:26 PM, scshunt wrote: > > I CFJ {Declaring one's intent to perform a dependent action is, in itself, > an action.} > > Arguments: > I don't really see anything that directly supports this interpretation, > but I do not see anything that directly contradicts it either. >

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2890 assigned to coppro

2010-10-18 Thread omd
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Side note:  When I proposed this, I thought for a while about sneaking > an "only" between "CAN" and "perform" for the final draft and hoping > no-one noticed it would shut off all other ways of doing things > associated with a fee.  Didn't, th

DIS: Re: BUS: (no subject)

2010-10-20 Thread omd
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Zac Sipes wrote: > zac0...@gmail.com Do you want to register as a player? If so, you should say so-- sorry, I think this is a bit too unclear.

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 1631a assigned to ais523, Yally, Wooble

2010-10-24 Thread omd
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 3:18 AM, ais523 wrote: > The caller has provided no argument why the verdict in question is > necessarily incorrect, so AFFIRM seems appropriate here. Thinking about > it, I'm going to violate a SHOULD and opine AFFIRM WITH PREJUDICE, and > hope that other judges do likewis

DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2892 assigned to ais523

2010-10-24 Thread omd
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Ed Murphy wrote: > Detail: http://zenith.homelinux.net/cotc/viewcase.php?cfj=2892 > > ===  CFJ 2892 (Interest Index = 2)   > >    Due to Rule 2215, it is illegal for any current player who has >    read Rule 2215 to make an unqua

DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement, CFJ 2892

2010-10-25 Thread omd
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > Believing the statement in question is obviously completely unreasonable > [...] therefore the statement is true. what

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: Loophole found

2010-11-05 Thread omd
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: >> I announce my intent > > I announce my object I announce my subject

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: rebellion

2010-11-05 Thread omd
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Elliott Hird wrote: > On 5 November 2010 22:50, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> did someone attach a simplfied Bayes to ehird's mail? > > as if bayes could quote properly it actually could, remember?

DIS: Re: BUS: Non-coup

2010-11-07 Thread omd
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Ed Murphy wrote: > I believe omd's announcement of shelling the palace had no effect, > as e was no longer Crown Prince at the time due to my becoming > Speaker a few days earlier.  omd then moved the player above em > (Yally) down one position, th

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

DIS: Re: BUS: As per ais523's interpretation

2010-11-07 Thread omd
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 2:39 PM, John Smith wrote: > This is a Win Announcement.  CfJ 2878 has continuously been a tortoise for no > greater than four and no less than two weeks. I claim that this is not a win announcement, because CFJ 2878 is not on the legality of an action: it is, effectively,

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Herald] Rebellion resolution

2010-11-09 Thread omd
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Elliott Hird wrote: > On 9 November 2010 03:56, Geoffrey Spear wrote: >> You acknowledged yourself that you didn't quote the message, and >> message headers are generally ineffective, so I assumed it was >> uncontroversial that you weren't a rebel. >> >> But at le

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Registering

2010-11-09 Thread omd
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Sean Hunt wrote: > On 10-11-09 11:02 PM, omd wrote: >> >> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Flameshadowxeroshin >>  wrote: >>> >>> I, a first-class citizen named Flameshadowxeroshin, indicate my intent to >>> be

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Registering

2010-11-09 Thread omd
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Nope. "Citizen" is not a synonym for registered player.  "Citizenship is > an entity switch with values Unregistered (default)..." I had forgotten about that, but that seems to demonstrate that it /is/ a synonym for player, assuming that citiz

DIS: Re: BUS: Ienpew III

2010-11-10 Thread omd
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Aaron Goldfein wrote: > I intend, without objection, to make Ienpew III inactive. I object.

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2895 assigned to Wooble

2010-11-11 Thread omd
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > I appeal this verdict as it sets a bad precedent: in cases where an > Officer has contradictory duties, it is reasonable for em to choose > the lesser rules breakage, and not reasonable, in terms of the game, > for em to be essentially required

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2895 assigned to Wooble

2010-11-11 Thread omd
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > The important point is that the clause "reasonably" is in that rule > for a purpose.  What if deregistering was the only way out of such a > conundrum, is that reasonable?  If not, why is deregistering > unreasonable but resigning an elected po

DIS: Re: BUS: Ahem:

2010-11-11 Thread omd
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 4:42 PM, omd wrote: > I am initiating an auction for one lot of one Ultraviolet Ribbon.  The > currency is Leadership Tokens.  The Starting Bid is one Token, which > is presumably also that currency's Minimum Unit Quantity. > > This probably fail

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 6877-6894

2010-11-11 Thread omd
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:45 PM, John Smith wrote: > CfJ(inquiry, barred:the author of the message quoted above):"Hillary Rodham > Clinton has a prop." > > Argument:The prop transfer rule (2287) requires that the player performing > the transfer explain why e chose the *player* to transfer it to

DIS: Re: BUS: Retracting my proposal

2010-11-11 Thread omd
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Flameshadowxeroshin wrote: > I retract my proposal, #6893. Sorry, but you can't: it's not in the Proposal Pool anymore.

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Herald] Rebellion resolution

2010-11-13 Thread omd
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Mon, 8 Nov 2010, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> On Mon, 8 Nov 2010, Geoffrey Spear wrote: >> > Murphy gets a Leadership Token; omd gets 2 Rests, and G. coppro, >> > ais523, coppro, and Wooble each get 1 Rest. >> >

DIS: proto: Marks

2010-11-15 Thread omd
proto: Marks (yay nostalgia) Create a new Rule (Power=2) entitled "Marks": Marks are a currency restricted to players. After a person registers, e gains 6 Marks. Marks in the possession of a player CANNOT be destroyed. The Banker is an office; its holder is responsible

Re: DIS: proto: Marks

2010-11-15 Thread omd
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 8:50 PM, omd wrote: >      If the owner of a Mark CAN transfer it to another player, or to the >      Lost and Found Department, by informing the Banker e does so. s/If //

Re: DIS: proto: Marks

2010-11-15 Thread omd
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 8:50 PM, omd wrote: > proto: Marks (yay nostalgia) I just noticed that this entire proto is completely broken. I really should not write proposals when I have a cold...

Re: DIS: proto: Marks

2010-11-15 Thread omd
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 9:44 PM, omd wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 8:50 PM, omd wrote: >> proto: Marks (yay nostalgia) > > I just noticed that this entire proto is completely broken.  I really > should not write proposals when I have a cold... Specifically, it does not

Re: DIS: proto: Marks

2010-11-15 Thread omd
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > I think you should just scrap ergs entirely and turn marks into > an accumulatable currency that you earn X a month, were X is > ~100 for granularity, and actions cost 20-50 marks (or marks > can be used to bid on action tokens). Thus making

DIS: Re: BUS: Registration

2010-11-16 Thread omd
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 8:12 PM, John Smith wrote: > Gratuitous:  Assuming that ais523 can legitimately act on behalf of pikhg to > attempt to register, the attempt should fail because it does not clearly > indicate that it is pikhg's intent to become a player. Nice. Is the contract sufficient

DIS: Re: BUS: oh well

2010-11-20 Thread omd
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > omd wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 12:28 PM, omd wrote: >>> I pay a fee to destroy one of scshunt's Rests. >> >> CFJ: This week, I paid a fee to destroy one of scshunt's rests. >> >> A

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Registrar] Census

2010-11-20 Thread omd
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > Gratuitous:  Failure to consider a non-obvious potential interpretation > of a rule before someone else points it out does not constitute failure > to know that rule, and thus does constitute a reasonable defense. But it constitutes failure to h

DIS: Re: BUS: I judge this TRUE

2010-11-21 Thread omd
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 5:25 PM, ais523 wrote: > On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 16:17 -0800, Ed Murphy wrote: >> Detail: http://zenith.homelinux.net/cotc/viewcase.php?cfj=2897 >> >> ===  CFJ 2897 (Interest Index = 0)   >> >>     ehird was a Rebel in the most recent Rebel

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2897 judged (TRUE? FALSE?) by ais523; Murphy, scshunt, Yally move to reconsider

2010-11-21 Thread omd
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Sean Hunt wrote: > When it is convenient for H. CotC Murphy, could e please update eir DB to > allow for proper description of motions to reconsider? I don't know, why don't you ask him?

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: I judge this TRUE

2010-11-22 Thread omd
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:55 AM, ais523 wrote: >> Oh, this judgement definitely failed, by the way-- it's almost exactly >> parallel to CFJ 1631. > > Not really; CFJ 1361 had a blank body so there was not obviously an > action taking place, my message clearly was indicating a context. Any message

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Getting in on the ground floor

2010-11-22 Thread omd
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Mon, 22 Nov 2010, omd wrote: >> ... It's unfortunate, but I don't think this rule actually does >> anything, other than make some confusing definitions, and potentially >> make a contest and/or the Ruleset

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: I judge this TRUE

2010-11-22 Thread omd
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:45 PM, ais523 wrote: >> Any message sent to the business forum pretty strongly indicates an >> action (evidence: the pseudo-tradition of objecting to empty >> messages), but I wouldn't say a message with a quote does so more than >> an entirely blank one, especially when

DIS: Re: BUS: A messy business

2010-11-22 Thread omd
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > Rule 2230 makes it illegal to knowingly issue an NoV with incorrect > information. (This is not quite the same thing as issuing an NoV with > knowingly incorrect information; you can know you've issued the NoV even > without knowing whether the

DIS: Re: BUS: A messy business

2010-11-22 Thread omd
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > Clearly, in the hypothetical inside the CFJ, the statement "ais523 > violated/is currently violating the power-2 rule 2230, committing the > Class-4 Crime of Libel, by publishing this NoV." is messy, thus > incorrect. First of all, I think this

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: A messy business

2010-11-22 Thread omd
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Sean Hunt wrote: >> I object to both and favor this CFJ. > > Why do you object? I am not trying to raise the II for personal gain. Because I honestly don't think it's a very complicated case. But if there's a reason that I'm missing why it is, tell me and I'll re

DIS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting results for Proposals 6877 - 6894

2010-11-22 Thread omd
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > Proposal 6884 (Ordinary, AI=1.0, Interest=1) by omd > This is basically common sense anyway > Repeal Rule 2161 (ID Numbers). Amendment fails, that rule was already repealed.

DIS: Re: BUS: Crown CFJ

2010-11-22 Thread omd
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > When a player becomes speaker due to rebellion [R2270(b)(ii)], it is > considered a Crowning. > > Arguments: > > R2270(b)(ii) doesn't match the R402 definition of a Coronation, but > it could be said it matches most of the definition (an annou

DIS: Re: OFF: [Speaker] it's not the total, it's the relative difference

2010-11-22 Thread omd
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > I Bestow Favors as follows: > > Taral                K.S Supervisor > Tiger                Chief Justice > Ienpw III            Grand Vizier > Keba                 Head Gardener Oh, that's boring. :( - omd, total

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [IADoP] Organization Chart

2010-11-23 Thread omd
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Geoffrey Spear wrote: >> Speaker        Murphy*    31 Oct 10   (imposed)   1  N/A >> >> * = Disputed; if the most recent Rebellion succeeded, omd became >>     Speaker on 8 Nov 20

DIS: Re: BUS: It's time to stop all of this gardening.

2010-11-23 Thread omd
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Sean Hunt wrote: > Proposal: Carrot Juice (AI=3, II=1, Distributable via fee) > {{{ > Amend Rule 478 (Fora) by replacing >      A public message is a message sent via a public forum, or sent >      to all players and containing a clear designation of intent to >  

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Arguments for CFJ 2895

2010-11-24 Thread omd
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Sean Hunt wrote: >> I don't see how this custom can be described as weak-- you are just >> about to cite four different CFJs where it was decided (and gameplay >> proceeded assuming) that subject lines aren't effective.  Such >> repeated tests make for a quite str

DIS: Re: BUS: Nostalgia

2010-11-28 Thread omd
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Warrigal wrote: > I submit a proposal, titled "Spelling reform begins with Agora", with > AI = 1.0 and II = 1, and make it distributable by fee: > > {In all rules, replace all instances of the string "judge" (and the > string "judg" where it is not followed by an

DIS: Re: BUS: ninja'd

2010-11-29 Thread omd
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > I assume the office of IADoP. > I assume the office of Herald. > I assume the office of Registrar. > > I sit up.  I flip my judicial rank to 3. > > I call for judgement on "Wooble is the judge of CFJ 2908.", and set > the II of this case to

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: ninja'd

2010-11-29 Thread omd
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 3:10 PM, omd wrote: >> Gratuitous: The report includes "Wooble possibly deregisters" in the >> "Recent events" section, although I don't think this affects anything. >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: ninja'd

2010-11-29 Thread omd
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Aaron Goldfein wrote: >> Oh, and the report also lists you as a Senator, which is a statement >> that is impossible to make correct by any modification of the >> gamestate; this may make it impossible to ratify the document. > > Senator-ness doesn't self-ratify. I

DIS: Re: BUS: Heavy lies the Head of State

2010-11-29 Thread omd
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > I make myself Inactive. > I crown omd (highest-ranked active player). > I make myself Active. Thanks... although there's a good chance this fails, because none of the attempted players I attempted to make popes were ready for it. :o

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Fear cleanup

2010-11-29 Thread omd
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: >         1) Select a rule at random, and submit a proposal whose effect >            is limited to repealing that rule (and, if necessary, This removes eir choice of which of the two selected rules to repeal, and which to amend, which might decr

DIS: Proto: Achievement Unlocked

2010-11-30 Thread omd
Proto: Achievement Unlocked Enact a new Rule titled "Achievements": Achievements are a class of Patent Titles. Each Achievement includes a condition, traditionally expressed as an imperative. When a person who does not have a particular Achievement satisfies its condition

Re: DIS: Proto: Achievement Unlocked

2010-11-30 Thread omd
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Aaron Goldfein wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 16:53, omd wrote: >> Proto: Achievement Unlocked > > I don't like the idea of the achievements requiring persons to be > deregistered... it seems bad for the game. Also, the Maverick > ach

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Registrar] Census

2010-12-01 Thread omd
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Aaron Goldfein wrote: > even publish. It's clearly mpossible for both of these things to be > true. Therefore, e MUST have known that at least one of these NoVs > contained incorrect information. Nonsense, failing to know that does NOT violate the rule in question!

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Promotor Election and Nominations

2010-12-03 Thread omd
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Aaron Goldfein wrote: > Proto: Ergs no longer reset each week, make a certain erg total result in a > win, and give large erg rewards for certain small investments (like > authoring a passing proposal). Then ergs, like teams used to sort of do, > would be more about

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Registrar] Census

2010-12-03 Thread omd
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > I contest this.  My opinion on CFJ 2908 strongly implies that I don't > believe I was a player at the time it was purportedly assigned to me. > This assignment was purportedly made after I deregistered and before > the self-ratification of th

DIS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting results for Proposals 6895 - 6907

2010-12-05 Thread omd
e Referee). > Repeal Rule 2305 (Fans). > Repeal Rule 2306 (Team Tactics). All but 2305 fail. > Proposal 6901 (Ordinary, AI=1.0, Interest=1) by omd > muk > > Amend Rule 2166 by appending to the final paragraph: > >      The Minimum Unit Quantity (MUQ) of each currency is on

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Promotor Election and Nominations

2010-12-06 Thread omd
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:42 PM, ais523 wrote: > I rather like the Support Democracy rule. Because players generally > don't invoke it except when they notice an obvious scam, it means that > scamming is more interesting as you need to put effort into flying under > the radar, rather than just forc

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Promotor Election and Nominations

2010-12-06 Thread omd
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, Aaron Goldfein wrote: >> You could bribe the Assessor (or be the Assessor), and buy just before >> the voting period ends, assessing just after. I seem to remember I was >> part of a scam that dodged democratisation like that

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Briefly Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 6908-6913

2010-12-06 Thread omd
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Flameshadowxeroshin wrote: >>  6908 O 1 2.0 G                   Pay To Sit > AGAINST NttPF.

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Briefly Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 6908-6913

2010-12-06 Thread omd
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > I support and do so.  -G. Bah, it was so close to just passing without any voting limit increases at all.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Promotor Election and Nominations

2010-12-06 Thread omd
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, omd wrote: >> On the other hand, submitting a proposal with an intentional loophole >> is bordering on dishonesty and violation of trust, and, indeed, can be >> illegal unless the title is sufficiently v

DIS: Re: BUS: Speaking of which...

2010-12-06 Thread omd
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:09 PM, John Smith wrote: > Specifically, my opinion is that it would be inherently inappropriate to > expect non-player defendants of criminal cases to 'understand and carefully > weigh' the consequences of properly labeling the components of their defense. I'll update

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: revote

2010-12-07 Thread omd
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, ais523 wrote: >> 6913 is a dictatorship for someone who isn't you. > > Ah yes, I retract vote FOR 6913 and vote AGAINST 6913.  -G. That's a bit transparent. :p

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Promotor Election and Nominations

2010-12-09 Thread omd
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > I think part of it for me is balance.  From my hazy memory, in 2001-2002 there > happened to be (because of personalities, really) 2-3 fairly long-term blocs > of opposed players, so a lot of what happened could be described as vying for > power

DIS: Re: OFF: [Fearmongor] auto-picks

2010-12-09 Thread omd
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: >  117 selects Rule 2321/0 (Power=1) to repeal or amend. Please make this one the amendment. :D

DIS: Re: BUS: Pope CFJ

2010-12-09 Thread omd
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > I CFJ on the following: >       Upon publication of a valid notice of papal succession, the >       current Speaker ceases to be Speaker, the pope becomes the new >       Speaker, and the pope ceases to be a pope. I think the pope just stays on

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Speaking of which...

2010-12-09 Thread omd
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 6:14 PM, ais523 wrote: > On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 18:09 -0500, omd wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:36 PM, omd wrote: >> > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 7:45 PM, omd wrote: >> >> Proposal: This gets on my nerves (AI=3, II=0, Distributable) >>

DIS: Re: BUS: I deregister.

2010-12-10 Thread omd
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 5:25 PM, ais523 wrote: > Subject: Re: BUS: I deregister. CFJ: ais523 deregistered. (intentionally nttpf)

DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement, CFJ 2909

2010-12-10 Thread omd
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > gamestate thus isn't affected. Thus, I submit the following proposal > "Fix ratification" at AI 3, II 1, and pay a fee of 1 erg to make it > distributable: Can you please resubmit this at II-0 and make it distributable for free? At the time "m

DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement, CFJ 2909

2010-12-12 Thread omd
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > There's no possible gamestate where the document was true at the time > it was published and I'm not a player, unless I deregistered since the > publication. There is the gamestate where you deregistered since the publication.

DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2918 assigned to omd

2010-12-12 Thread omd
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > ==  Criminal Case 2918 (Interest Index = 0)  === > >    scshunt violated Rule 2283, committing the Class-2 Crime of >    Assaulting the Batteries, by publishing the above quoted >    message. > > ==

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2906 assigned to G.

2010-12-12 Thread omd
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> > To be considered libel and illegal, you must know the information is >> > false.  Since the statement creates a paradox/undecidable loop, you >> > can't know that the statement is false.  FALSE. >> >> I transfer a prop from G. to ais523, be

DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement, CFJ 2909

2010-12-12 Thread omd
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 8:21 PM, omd wrote: > - game custom: Mixed.  An argument could be made that, in the same > vein as subject lines being assumed not to work just because someone > said that, ratification has been assumed to work, and the word > "minimally" to apply

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