DIS: Re: OFF: Judgement, CFJ 3381

2013-08-07 Thread Michael Slone
for taking the time to write this up carefully. -- Michael Slone

Re: DIS: Proto: Players' Guide

2013-08-06 Thread Michael Slone
: A distribution is where the Promotor starts I'd reword this. You initiate an infraction case in the same way as a criminal case, specifying the defendent, the violated rule and the alleged ^ This should be defendant. -- Michael

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-30 Thread Michael Slone
On 2013-07-30, Fool wrote: Anyways, you can't leave. Pretty sure I explained that right off the bat... It's easy to leave. Staying away is another matter. -- Michael Slone

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: May as well REALLY settle this

2013-07-30 Thread Michael Slone
Short Logical Ruleset, so I might not have the current rules. -- Michael Slone

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: May as well REALLY settle this

2013-07-30 Thread Michael Slone
the and befuddled me into misinterpreting the ifs. -- Michael Slone

Re: DIS: Proto: Tyop O Increment

2013-07-25 Thread Michael Slone
On 2013-07-25, omd wrote: Just noticed something to add - it's recognition in 2369. Thanks! Added. -- Michael Slone

DIS: Proto: Tyop O Increment

2013-07-23 Thread Michael Slone
at which at least one person won the game. When used as a period of time, a game is the period of time between a pivot and the next pivot. Revision history. 2013-07-23. * First version. -- -- Michael Slone

Re: DIS: [Distributor] Date munging is back, receive-copies-of-own-mail default changed

2013-07-20 Thread Michael Slone
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:47 PM, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: m.sl...@gmail.com Don't use me in support of your argument. Just because I'm not using a proper email client doesn't mean I have to like it. -- Michael Slone

DIS: Happy birthday

2013-06-30 Thread Michael Slone
Happy birthday, Agora! -- Michael Slone aka Maud

DIS: These are the Daves I know

2008-07-27 Thread Michael Slone
root wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Ian Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Elliott Hird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is your first post, right? I can't see anything else by you in the logs. If so, do you know what Agora Nomic is? This isn't a

Re: DIS: proto: renumeration

2007-06-19 Thread Michael Slone
/lurk On 6/19/07, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Never mind all the rules that carry out mathematics without using number, in which case R1023(a) may not apply anyway. I suggest amending it to All mathematics is restricted to real numbers unless explicitly specified otherwise. You mean

DIS: Re: BUS: proposals

2007-06-12 Thread Michael Slone
is executed by announcement.. ^ Speling era. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) There must be evil in the rules somewhere -- Quazie, in agora-discussion

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal - Make 1.1 ordinary

2007-06-11 Thread Michael Slone
On 6/11/07, Taral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Spurious of? It's just reification of indices. I don't see the problem. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) 5. You literal-brained, procedural-minded, bozos. :) -- Goethe, in agora-discussion

Re: DIS: proto: no private messages

2007-06-10 Thread Michael Slone
of the Courts by private message. I don't see a good reason to delete this sentence. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) You know you're not abusing your station enough when people don't want you out. -- root, in agora-discussion

DIS: Re: BUS: The Hanging Judge

2007-06-09 Thread Michael Slone
On 6/9/07, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hereby cause the Hanging Judge to be deregistered, provided that this does not cause me to cease to be a player. What grants you the power to deregister the Hanging Judge? -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) Agora: a self-supporting cycle of evil

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: The Hanging Judge

2007-06-09 Thread Michael Slone
? -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) I tried once, but according to Kelly I only said I did. -- Goethe, in agora-discussion

DIS: Re: BUS: Bob's Quality Cards

2007-06-07 Thread Michael Slone
, there's no such thing as an infinite number. In any case, I don't understand why y'all seem to think that someone not party to an agreement can modify properties which essentially supervene on that agreement. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) I am, nonetheless, curious to see what y'all have been up

DIS: Re: BUS: Bob's Quality Cards

2007-06-07 Thread Michael Slone
. Maud Image (Michael Slone) Ah, finally an excuse to have some vindictive fun! -- Oerjan, in agora-business

DIS: Re: BUS: Judicial catch-up

2007-06-07 Thread Michael Slone
On 6/7/07, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While we have a great tradition of not being speciesist regarding personhood (CFJ 1614 et al), the phrase root's keyboard proposes What tradition? -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) Well, it's succinct, at least. -- Kelly, in agora

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Primo Share transfers

2007-06-06 Thread Michael Slone
that's been changed recently. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) Yes. -- Sherlock, in agora-discussion

DIS: Re: BUS: Proto Proposal - simplify annotations

2007-06-06 Thread Michael Slone
. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) I dance a dance of welcome. A welcomy kind of dance. Come dance with me well. Well, come dance. Welcome dance! -- Blob, in agora-discussion

DIS: Re: BUS: proposal: power law quorum

2007-06-03 Thread Michael Slone
On 6/3/07, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The quorum for an Agoran decision is NEV^0.55, rounded up, where Quorum should be asymptotically linear. This is too low (in general). -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) What is this fixing? -- The Goddess Eris, in agora

Re: DIS: proto: square root quorum

2007-05-31 Thread Michael Slone
On 5/31/07, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The quorum for an Agoran decision is ceil(sqrt(NEV)), where NEV ^^^ This would look better written out. I can't say I support the decrease in quorum. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) Aww

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Disambiguate voter eligibility

2007-05-31 Thread Michael Slone
should consider another ``case'' here. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) Channeling Mojo Jojo, are we? -- Chuck, in agora-discussion

DIS: Re: BUS: Inactivity

2007-05-25 Thread Michael Slone
. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) I'm not at work so I don't have my SLR handy[.] -- Manu, in agora-discussion

Re: DIS: BUS: Re: yin yang

2007-05-25 Thread Michael Slone
by the Pineapple Partnership, and I don't accept that the Pineapple Partnership judged CFJ 1623. I'll try to remember to appeal both of these when I reregister, even though the first was never called and the second was never judged, if it will make you happy. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) Upon

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal

2007-05-24 Thread Michael Slone
are the consequences of em doing so? -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) I'm not at work so I don't have my SLR handy[.] -- Manu, in agora-discussion

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal

2007-05-24 Thread Michael Slone
. Maud Image (Michael Slone) I'm on vacation. Sorry about that. -- root, in agora-discussion

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal

2007-05-24 Thread Michael Slone
to make it matter or not matter; I was not sure what ``nested bullets'' meant, so I picked something I knew how to define. I also walk near lightposts when I've lost my keys in a dark alley. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) But I won't try to explain Latin grammar to people who have no need

Re: DIS: Proto: Nomic Protectorates

2007-05-23 Thread Michael Slone
of protectorate nomics, as well as Not the Ambassador? I'm not convinced any nomic would agree to such a ``deal''. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) Channeling Mojo Jojo, are we? -- Chuck, in agora-discussion

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJs on Nemo

2007-05-23 Thread Michael Slone
force to register, and so allows AIs, teams, RL corporations, and so on. I strongly dislike B Nomic's model of the game. Look at rules 1-15 and 1-16. Ick ick ick. Rule 0 is okay, I guess. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) This is a straightforward case of the classic I say I do, therefore I do

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJs on Nemo

2007-05-23 Thread Michael Slone
deb bob playing before, during, or after 30 September 1993, when rule 498 (``A player is any person who is registered as a player...'') was enacted? -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) I would, given the chance, repeal about 70% of the current ruleset. -- Kelly, in agora-discussion

Re: DIS: BUS: Re: yin yang

2007-05-22 Thread Michael Slone
(Michael Slone) Argh! You mean I've been participating in a Ponzi scheme? -- Oerjan, in agora-discussion

Re: DIS: Proto: Generalize Dependent Actions, version 2

2007-05-21 Thread Michael Slone
. 3. (Semi-customary) ``Within 72 hours from the time a proposal is distributed, the Promotor shall assign it a proposal number for reference.'' -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) You know you're not abusing your station enough when people don't want you out. -- root, in agora

Re: DIS: Proto: Generalize Dependent Actions, version 2

2007-05-21 Thread Michael Slone
as a synonym for the maximum element of the extended real numbers, so there's no reason to use the term ``positive infinity'' where ``unanimity'' will do. Third, I'd like to know the historical reasons for why the Speaker's veto doesn't just kill the proposal. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) Well

DIS: yarg

2007-05-21 Thread Michael Slone
I don't see what enjoyment y'all get out of making stacks of puppets. I know that the puppets vary slightly, but I fail to see the interest in any of this. In any case, it's too meta for me, and *I'm* a mathematician. Your pal, -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) I blame these homology functors

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Quorum CFJs

2007-05-21 Thread Michael Slone
On 5/21/07, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: R955 curiously does not simply describe a mathematical recipe Why is it curious? pythonomic and other formal nomics are that way -- -- _ C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) _/ \_/| - TOWNSVILLE To read

Re: DIS: proto: truthfulness

2007-05-20 Thread Michael Slone
on behalf of an entity includes an implicit claim that it is possible to do so. Remember that until 2005, attempting to act on behalf of an entity of which one is not the executor constituted the Crime of Impersonation. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) I see them down, I see them quiet, the crazy I sees

DIS: Proto: Generalize Dependent Actions, version 2

2007-05-20 Thread Michael Slone
rule 2117 (Replacing the Vote Collector). Repeal rule 2124 (Agoran Consent). Repeal rule 2127 (Conditional Votes). -- -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) Whooops! Free Kudos! -- Manu, in agora-discussion

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Don't force redundant elections

2007-05-19 Thread Michael Slone
of a particular office is announced in a given quarter, then the IADoP shall ensure that such an attempt is made during the subsequent quarter. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) Upon reading this, a most curious sensation overcame me. -- Sherlock, in agora-discussion

DIS: Proto: Generalize Dependent Actions

2007-05-18 Thread Michael Slone
, and an action without objection is an action without one objection. -- -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) (This makes me sad.) -- Sherlock, in agora-discussion

DIS: Proto: The New Office Plan

2007-05-18 Thread Michael Slone
instance of the text reading Registrar with text reading Herald. -- -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) I'm pretty sure the proposer of such a thing would receive a Genuine Agora Smackdown. [TM] -- Sherlock, in agora-discussion

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 1646 assigned to Eris

2007-05-18 Thread Michael Slone
for the other side of the issue.'' -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) I don't understand this proto, although it makes me vaguely uncomfortable for some reason. -- Goethe, in agora-discussion

DIS: Proto: Clarify actions

2007-05-17 Thread Michael Slone
a message is performed at the time date-stamped on that message. with text reading: A message is public if and only if it is sent via a public forum or is sent to all players and contains a clear designation of intent to be public. -- -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone

DIS: Bounty

2007-05-17 Thread Michael Slone
I hereby place a bounty of one magic cookie and a (virtual) pat on the back to the first person to write a good proto or proposal which would repeal rules 1688, 1482, and 1030. Goodness of protos and proposals will be evaluated relative to my biases, of course. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone

Re: DIS: personhood

2007-05-17 Thread Michael Slone
On 5/10/07, Michael Slone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I no longer wish to discuss anything at all with you. Okay, I'm done with the above pointless nonsense. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) Don't you mean I say I don't, therefore I don't, I say I do, therefore I don't, or I don't say I do

Re: DIS: Bounty

2007-05-17 Thread Michael Slone
offered. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) It's your fault, H. Notary! -- Manu, in agora-discussion

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Proto: Reintroduce indices

2007-05-17 Thread Michael Slone
hand, we have too many rules with power 1, 3, or 4 and not enough with power 2, so I have no objections to this modification. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) You make it sound as if publishing out-of-copyright works is somehow morally suspect. -- Michael, in agora-discussion

DIS: wrapping error in rule 2139

2007-05-16 Thread Michael Slone
to the next line and reattached to the stray ``(es)''. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) At least one out of three Active Noise Agorans disagree. -- Goethe, in agora-discussion

DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC, on behalf of] State of the Bench Not-Report

2007-05-15 Thread Michael Slone
On 5/15/07, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mon 14 May 18:00:12 Maud deregisters This time has not been converted to UTC. My deregistration occurred at 18:00:12 -0400, which I believe is 22:00:12 UTC. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) I couldn't possibly monkey with that! Or could I

Re: DIS: no free votes

2007-05-14 Thread Michael Slone
is tenuous anyway, this would hardly be a change.) On the other hand, forcibly deregistering players who are members of in partnerships would be an overreaction. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) I support this, partly because it makes sense and partly for the marvyness of having a useful rule

DIS: Re: OFF: Re: BUS: Promotor candidacy

2007-05-14 Thread Michael Slone
On 5/14/07, Benjamin Schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 14 May 2007 18:52:21 Sherlock deregisters. 14 May 2007 18:00:12 Maud deregisters. I think the time you give for my deregistration is incorrect, since I deregistered after Sherlock did. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) In Australia

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 1651 assigned to Quazie

2007-05-14 Thread Michael Slone
On 5/13/07, Taral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You, sir, are cited for the use of domain-specific meanings in a general context. :P I would expect a goddess to know not to call me ``sir''. -- C. Maud Image There's your clue right there, Your Chaoticity! -/ I'm not invited to

DIS: Re: BUS: Army of Ghosts

2007-05-13 Thread Michael Slone
(Michael Slone) When you people agree to shrink the ruleset a bit, I'll be back. -- The Goddess Eris, in agora-business

Re: DIS: Proto: Currency

2007-05-12 Thread Michael Slone
? Whenever a Player registers, Currency shall be created in the amount of $1,000 and given to em. When a Player de-registers, any Currency they possess shall be destroyed. What does it mean to create or destroy Currency? -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) I dance the dance of the objectionable; no, that's

Re: DIS: Proto: Currency

2007-05-12 Thread Michael Slone
in place, and I don't see myself proposing the Switches proto until executors are back in place. It does not look like that will happen for at least five months. So please, don't let me stop you from proposing things. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) That's scary. -- The Goddess Eris

Re: DIS: Proto: Ecumenical Proposals

2007-05-11 Thread Michael Slone
voting only by those members that are persons. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) I am hereby issuing a challenge to write a good proposal that incorporates this awesomely bad idea. -- Sherlock, in agora-discussion

Re: DIS: personhood

2007-05-10 Thread Michael Slone
interviewed in English via an interpreter; e could in principle use email and attempt to register as a player of Agora. I no longer wish to discuss anything at all with you. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) -- Kelly, in agora-discussion

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: proposal: fix judicial turns

2007-05-09 Thread Michael Slone
the text if e was not standing when it was called with if e is not standing. There's no need for conditional edits here. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) Sorry about that. -- root, in agora-discussion

Re: DIS: Proto: Mother, May I?

2007-05-09 Thread Michael Slone
. There is no *point* to outlawing something impossible, but there is also no contradiction in doing so. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) my record has been stained -- Andre, in agora-discussion

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Ilegal or invalid?

2007-05-09 Thread Michael Slone
On 5/8/07, Kerim Aydin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Illegal must be explicitly defined. One could make a good argument for the claim that the word ``illegal'' is primarily used in legal contexts. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) I would, given the chance, repeal about 70% of the current ruleset

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

2007-05-09 Thread Michael Slone
that requires a deontic logic to include it as an axiom. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) Well, it's succinct, at least. -- Kelly, in agora-discussion

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

2007-05-09 Thread Michael Slone
something more useful to say on the subject after that. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) Haha! This is mildly amusing! -- Manu, in agora-discussion

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Return of the Son of Property Magnate

2007-05-08 Thread Michael Slone
On 5/8/07, Taral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. I hate this terminology. I don't understand your complaint. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) I flip such-and-such switch to mango -- Murphy, in agora-discussion

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

2007-05-08 Thread Michael Slone
On 5/8/07, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We need something akin to RFC 2119. I have tried before with little success to introduce a semantics for modal logic (or if you like, deontic logic) into Agora. Perhaps the time has come? -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) I tried once

Re: DIS: BUS: Proto: Return of the Son of Property Magnate

2007-05-08 Thread Michael Slone
an old proto on notices which I may dust off. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) We could really cut down on unnecessary duplication by having the Speaker do everything. :) -- Kelly, in agora-discussion

Re: DIS: BUS: Proto: Return of the Son of Property Magnate

2007-05-08 Thread Michael Slone
, not making it impossible. Are you thinking of ``A player can not transfer Fee to Foo''? -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) So, as usual, the truth of the statement may be decided on issues completely orthogonal to its original intent. How Agoran. -- Blob, in agora-discussion

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

2007-05-07 Thread Michael Slone
rewrite of rule 1871 is not an attempt to counteract it, if that's what you mean. I included a rewrite of this rule because my first version of Switches reborn did and the rule still exists. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) That's scary. -- The Goddess Eris, in agora-discussion

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

2007-05-07 Thread Michael Slone
want to come back five years later and say, ``Oh wait, e wasn't Lexicographor, e could not have flipped those switches.'' It would be much better to say, ``Oh, wait, e wasn't Lexicographor, e should not have flipped those switches, but e did.'' -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) It is axiomatic

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

2007-05-07 Thread Michael Slone
. This proposal read: -begin quote- Upon the adoption of this Proposal, all outstanding debts in VEs that arose from Rule 1946 prior to July 14, 2001, are forgiven. --end quote-- -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) [I can do this by hand, so I will. Besides, it's raining. -G.]

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

2007-05-04 Thread Michael Slone
. Maud Image (Michael Slone) Give me all your money or I'll pinch you. -- Steve, in an example

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Votes 4947-4957

2007-05-04 Thread Michael Slone
. As I argued above, these are the only players who can submit valid ballots on the decision. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) If anyone has ideas or thinks this is laudable or stupid please do chime in. -- Riail, in agora-discussion

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Votes 4947-4957

2007-05-04 Thread Michael Slone
. See rule 107. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) Thanks for playing. Tell your friends! -- OscarMeyr, in agora-discussion

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Votes 4947-4957

2007-05-04 Thread Michael Slone
On 5/4/07, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I note, in passing, that we don't in practice require the notice defined by R107 to be explicit. The rules do not vanish when we choose to ignore them. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) I think someone has a comprehension problem here. I don't think

DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 1627 assigned to Maud

2007-05-04 Thread Michael Slone
for as long as we can than to pin it down to a theory drafted in seven days to deal with one issue. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) Maud, whatever they're putting in your coffee, I want some of. -- Steve, in agora-discussion

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

2007-04-30 Thread Michael Slone
be dismissed as excess. These were CFJs 945-1044. No one claimed that this was excessive. This is only true because I was not a player in 1997. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) I'm pretty sure the proposer of such a thing would receive a Genuine Agora Smackdown. [TM] -- Sherlock, in agora

DIS: Re: BUS: Objection and Agreement

2007-04-30 Thread Michael Slone
On 4/30/07, Kerim Aydin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't make an agreement with myself, but I agree, inasmuch as is possible, to assign all judgements by random draw until further notice. Let me know if anyone feels that I should corroborate my randomness. It would help. -- Michael Slone

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

2007-04-30 Thread Michael Slone
a poor prototype of professional performance as Clerk of the Courts. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) Don't you mean I say I don't, therefore I don't, I say I do, therefore I don't, or I don't say I do, therefore I do? -- Goethe, in agora-discussion

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Registration request

2007-04-30 Thread Michael Slone
On 4/30/07, Roger Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well...let's see. I'm off to a good start. It's good that you brought your own CFJ. I hereby register for Agora Nomic. BobTHJ Welcome to Agora, BobTHJ! You definitely picked an interesting time to register. -- C. Maud Image (Michael

DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement

2007-04-29 Thread Michael Slone
a rule change was implemented based on the rule number mentiioned, even though an incorrect title was also used. -- C. Maud specious and parochial Image (Michael Slone) I take my right to vote seriously, and I take offense at your derogatory denigration of my defense of democratic dogma

DIS: Re: BUS: I register

2007-04-29 Thread Michael Slone
On 4/28/07, comex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: comex, I don't think the text in the Subject: line has any legal effect, so you might want to post a message to agora-business with body ``I register'' to make sure. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) Holy cow! This means This Time to the Public

DIS: Re: OFF: CFJs 1628-1630 assigned to Zefram, Peter, Levi

2007-04-29 Thread Michael Slone
all pretty clearly be DISMISSED as irrelevant to the rules. Or did we get rid of that? -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) Hmmm... maybe if I lift this blindfold just a little I can see who the Mafiosi are without them noticing. -- Macross, in a game of Mafia

DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] Turning

2007-04-29 Thread Michael Slone
this to be the purpose of the clause. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) Fish exist. -- Goethe, in agora-business

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

2007-04-29 Thread Michael Slone
to an expert. A judicial expert who tries this is penalized and after judgement is disbarred. Or something like that. That would allow you to get rid of cases of particular types and would be Phase One of my devious plan to reintroduce A Separation of Powers. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) As far

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

2007-04-29 Thread Michael Slone
On 4/29/07, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You'll have to contend with Rule 1450, though. Ah, I hadn't noticed that you were Speaker. -- Michael Slone

DIS: Proto-judgement (Was: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 1627 assigned to Maud)

2007-04-29 Thread Michael Slone
the argument about rule 101 (v). The proposal would provide a filter on proposals, not force particular proposals to pass. I am therefore inclined to judge FALSE, as much as I'd rather judge the other way. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) The Registrar isn't some two-year old who can only be trusted

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

2007-04-24 Thread Michael Slone
= Mellow.) 4937 PRESENT 4938 AGAINST (I don't like the definition of ``paragraph'', and we ought to change ``number'' to mean ``rational number''.) 4939 PRESENT (IADoP should be promoted to ``Director of Personnel''.) 4940 FOR -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) I move to OVERTURN

DIS: Re: OFF: ruleset erratum

2007-03-31 Thread Michael Slone
conspire To (from a Bard), this Title to erase: Or Bard (plus 2 Bards) make a Bard retire. But lest we ruin some poor minstrel's fun No bard will be dis-bard for eir bad pun. --end quote-- -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) Whooops! Free Kudos

DIS: Re: OFF: Appeal 1594a hereby assigned to Maud

2007-03-30 Thread Michael Slone
that the named player be deregistered at the moment the Writ is published. Hence the decision of the Trial Judge was incorrect. Accordingly, I move to REVERSE the decision of Judge Sherlock on CFJ 1594. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) I make harvel an Artichoke. -- Goethe, in agora

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

2007-03-29 Thread Michael Slone
to submit a concurring opinion. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) It's your fault, H. Notary! -- Manu, in agora-discussion

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

2007-03-28 Thread Michael Slone
to challenge a proposal passed with unanimous consent, but I would not be particularly surprised to see it happen here. If I am misinterpreting which argument you intend, please let me know. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) What an interesting culture we've built! -- Goethe, in agora

DIS: Re: BUS: proposal: contracts - rules

2007-03-23 Thread Michael Slone
, the judiciary, and the legislature and declaring the rights of players. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) (Look, sooner or later somebody's going to become Speaker.) -- OscarMeyr, in agora-business

DIS: eligibility

2007-03-16 Thread Michael Slone
Is there any way I can make myself eligible to judge CFJs, or do I have to wait for a Notice of Rotation? -- Michael Slone

DIS: Re: OFF: Herald's Report on Everybody

2007-03-11 Thread Michael Slone
On 3/11/07, Benjamin Schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maud [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07 Mar 2007 While I don't mind the theoretical lack of spam, that's not my email address. -- Michael Slone

DIS: Re: BUS: pineapple

2007-02-26 Thread Michael Slone
that can be the subject of rights and duties, including corporations and partnerships. Where is your argument for the claim that the Pineapple Partnership is actually a partnership? This term also has a legal definition. -- Michael Slone

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: pineapple

2007-02-26 Thread Michael Slone
On 2/26/07, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's only the Australian law on the matter. Not applicable here. If Austrian law does not apply to Agora, then how do you explain the Map? -- Michael Slone

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: pineapple

2007-02-26 Thread Michael Slone
of an inward state, namely the state of Victoria. Hope this clears things up for you. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) Bring back PROSIRUP!

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

2007-02-19 Thread Michael Slone
On 2/19/07, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's some bogus line wrapping there. That wasn't in the proposal as written. The format of whitespace in rules is up to the Rulekeepor, so this shouldn't end up making a difference. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) Am I to understand

DIS: Re: BUS: Decision in CFJ 1599: TRUE

2007-02-01 Thread Michael Slone
for the interpretation of the construction used in the quoted sentence, so that similar cases don't have to be resolved with new CFJs. I therefore propose that we appeal the judgement of CFJ 1599. -- Michael Slone

Re: DIS: A better argument for Unanimous working

2007-01-14 Thread Michael Slone
along proposal being dismissed as handwaving. Then take it up with Kelly, not me. If I have misrepresented Kelly's position, I'm sure she will let me know. -- Michael Slone

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