Re: [GNC] GNC Addition of Mailing List Subject Prefix

2018-04-10 Thread Buddha Buck
On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 10:34 AM Alain Williams wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 01:48:13PM +0000, Buddha Buck wrote: > > > I concur. Gmail does server-side filtering and labelling, not > client-side. > > Please be aware that not everyone uses gmail. > The topic of conv

Re: [GNC] GNC Addition of Mailing List Subject Prefix

2018-04-10 Thread Buddha Buck
On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 8:37 AM Colin Law wrote: > On 10 April 2018 at 12:51, Adonay Felipe Nogueira > wrote: > > 2018-04-10T09:51:58+0200 Saša Janiška wrote: > >> E.g. gnucash-users list uses Mailman which does provide e.g. List-Id > >> header for simple filtering... > > > > Probably some weak

Re: emojis everywhere, seeking understanding / clarity / opinion

2018-04-07 Thread Buddha Buck
On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 2:12 AM Wm via gnucash-devel < gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> wrote: > background: > > gnc 3.0 allows emojis in places I think inappropriate > > e.g. > > account names > account codes > securities > I do not think it is GnuCash's place to dictate what is "appropriate" or not fo

Re: beginning balance of income and expense accounts

2018-03-24 Thread Buddha Buck
In general, I wouldn't bother entering starting balances for income and expense accounts from before the period I am accounting for. Traditionally, those accounts were temporary, and at the end of the accounting period the balances would be reset to zero, being transferred to equity. That isn't nec

Re: General Ledger

2018-02-26 Thread Buddha Buck
It's not an Australian accounting thing, unless I managed to grab Australian book out of my small-city upstate New York library system some 30 years ago... On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 5:38 AM elvis wrote: > On 25/02/18 07:54, Dave H wrote: > > Well from my point of view that is confusing. Nobody i

Re: General Ledger

2018-02-23 Thread Buddha Buck
I suspect that GnuCash terminology regarding journals and ledgers is somewhat confused and non-standard. My basic understanding of classical accounting is that transactions were first entered into journals, and then posted into ledgers, one per account. The collection of ledger books was the "gene

Re: importing splits

2018-02-23 Thread Buddha Buck
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 10:08 AM Jeff Abrahamson wrote: > Thanks. I see my question wasn't clear. My problem is that I want to > import the splits and it seems I can only import transactions. > Splits do not exist independently of transactions. Transactions have a collection of splits. The col

Re: Getting started

2018-02-04 Thread Buddha Buck
I don't know if it is what new users usually do, but I think it's probably one of the better ways to do it. A lot of the difficulties I see on the gnucash-users list come from trying to import data from other programs, especially multi-year Quicken imports. On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 6:52 PM Graham Ja

Re: info about action field in double-line view

2018-01-29 Thread Buddha Buck
Here's the workflow that I ideally go through. During the month, I order something online using a credit card. When I enter the transaction into GnuCash, the split associated with the transaction in the credit card account is tagged "n". The next day, I check my online banking, and I see that th

Re: Double Entry of Informal "Loan" & Repayment

2018-01-14 Thread Buddha Buck
I would account for it as your original thought: debit cash, credit gift expense. As far as you are concerned, you paid for half of the gift, so your total expense is half the cost of the gift. Not all money you receive is income. On Sun, Jan 14, 2018, 14:00 Keith Lewis wrote: > I'm new to GC,

Re: How to best keep track of tax liabilities of a sole proprietorship

2018-01-10 Thread Buddha Buck
My basic approach to such questions is to think about the "5 W's" of reporting (after all, "accounting" is fundamentally about telling an accurate story of what is going on with your money. How you tell that story is dependent on what the standard practices in your local jurisdiction, as well as h

Re: Unable to create liability account under expense account

2017-11-23 Thread Buddha Buck
. > > Regards. > > > On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 1:33 AM, Buddha Buck > wrote: > >> You should talk to your accountant about how to set up your accounts to >> handle this type of transaction. Your proposed solution (a liability >> account under the concrete expense

Re: Unable to create liability account under expense account

2017-11-23 Thread Buddha Buck
You should talk to your accountant about how to set up your accounts to handle this type of transaction. Your proposed solution (a liability account under the concrete expense account) is not how I would do it, and I believe is generally not considered the proper method of doing it. Things may be d

Re: has GnuCash code been reviewed for security?

2017-11-09 Thread Buddha Buck
GnuCash also doesn't do any network access, either as a client or server. For things like financial quote lookup, it calls 3rd-party tools. That's another way that GnuCash minimizes its security footprint. On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 8:44 AM Aaron Laws wrote: > On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 8:35 PM, Marcus

Re: importing

2017-10-09 Thread Buddha Buck
It's entirely possible that Frank has a "mybooks.gnucash" file that doesn't have everything, and a bunch of "mybooks.gnucash..gnucash" files which have (incrementally) more of everything, as well as the "*.log" files which go along with them, but beign a new user doesn't realize what those timestam

Re: What's the best way to model "in-flight" transactions?

2017-09-28 Thread Buddha Buck
Remember that your books are supposed to reflect your view of the transactions you are making, not those of other entities. Instead of a credit card payment or an account-to-account transfer, consider the more traditional case of paying a vendor with a check. On January 1st, you buy a CD from a f

Re: How to deal with the cash flow and the credit card.

2017-09-25 Thread Buddha Buck
What might be a nice feature for GnuCash to have is the ability to generate an "available credit" column for credit cards in some sort of report. As long as I pay more to credit cards than I spend each month, I pay no interest on the balance. As such, I sort of treat debit and credit cards interch

Re: Deleting an invoice or credit

2017-09-19 Thread Buddha Buck
You can't delete a credit note or invoice. But you can edit it, including changing the customer involved and the invoice number. So the next time you need an invoice or credit note, you can just reuse this practice one instead of generating a new one. You might want to create a customer of "Unuse

Re: Basic Register - Removing Unwanted Columns

2017-09-13 Thread Buddha Buck
Keith, The "Transfer" column isn't ever going to go away. It's fundamental to the concept of double-entry bookkeeping as GnuCash implements it. Double-entry bookkeeping tracks flows of value, and the transfer column says what the other side of the flow is. As for debit and credit, roughly speakin

Re: GnuCash Files names

2017-08-09 Thread Buddha Buck
You probably also have a "den.gnucash", a "den.gnucash.20161107142750.gnucash", a "den.gnucash.20161107142750.gnucash.20161201140745.gnucash", and a "den.gnucash.20161107142750.gnucash.20161201140745.gnucash.20170208132409.gnucash" as well. When you are using GnuCash to work on the file "foo.gnuc

Re: recovering accounting system

2017-08-09 Thread Buddha Buck
As a continuation/clarification of Geert's remarks... If you do end up doing a search for files with the .gnucash extension, you will likely see many files with names like mydata.gnucash.20170324180307.gnucash in addition to mydata.gnucash. The long ones with the timestamp in the name are backups

Re: For UK users: Will gnucash get ready for Making Tax, Digital ?

2017-08-01 Thread Buddha Buck
As far as I am aware, there shouldn't be any licensing issues on the FOSS side about including a government-granted key in the distribution. There are severe technical issues, which may impact licensing, in keeping the government-granted key a secret. Since the last bit is the important part, as fa

Re: Methods to Track Gift Cards and Similar Items

2017-07-31 Thread Buddha Buck
All those cards represent something that you own and can convert into stuff of value. As such, they are assets, much like cash. They are not, in and of themselves income, any more than cash is. They are not your liabilities, which makes them different than credit cards, and should not be tracked th

Accounting for contractors using GnuCash?

2017-07-27 Thread Buddha Buck
I seem to be transitioning from full-time employment to software dev contracting. I don't know really what's involved in that, accounting-wise, in the US. Does anyone know of any resources for how to do the proper accounting as a contractor in the US, especially using GnuCash? Thanks, Buddha __

Re: For UK users: Will gnucash get ready for Making Tax, Digital ?

2017-07-26 Thread Buddha Buck
On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 6:53 PM wrote: > >The need for a secret code to identify approved software was mentioned. >Secret or not, why is it against OpenSource ideals when HMRC wants to >assure that only software with the right capabilities can be used? > One of the ideals of FOSS is

Re: Automating home mortgage splits?

2017-06-27 Thread Buddha Buck
On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 11:46 AM Dan Rawson wrote: > Is it possible to automate the splits associated with a home mortgage > transaction? I am > downloading the checking account transactions as QFX from my bank, so from > their point of > view, it's a single check. As an example: > This is a

Re: Profit and loss/Cash Flow reporting question

2017-05-31 Thread Buddha Buck
On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 4:13 PM Martijn Heuts wrote: > Good afternoon and thank you for your answer.So I understand now that the > cash flow report and P&L can be different and you explained why. > I owe a business loan to the previous owner (owner financed). I made a > payment to her and I was t

Re: Current terminology

2017-05-22 Thread Buddha Buck
I would mention both on a glossary, cross-referenced. I would probably also consider changing references in the text to FinTS, with the first reference mentioning that it used to be HBCI. On a Wiki, I would redirect HBCI to FinTS, and mention on the page the naming history. But I'm not a user of t

Re: Gnucash wiki

2017-05-19 Thread Buddha Buck
ow up to "that is not > readily > > available elsewhere". In the latter case I would prefer to be pointed at > the > > proper source (for example to the Guide, or another external reference). > > > > Let's see what others can still add... > > > &

Re: Gnucash wiki

2017-05-18 Thread Buddha Buck
I just went and looked at the Wiki, to get an idea of what the task is. I'm all for Wikis containing everything, as long as it is clearly identified and organized. Currently, I agree that the Wiki doesn't meet that standard. Even the front page is a "mixed bag" of content, and could/should be orga

Re: When does GnuCash create .log files?

2017-05-16 Thread Buddha Buck
I believe, perhaps incorrectly, that the .log files are updated when a change is made, and are dated based on the last (auto)save. So the most recent log file will have an entry for each transaction since the last save. On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 3:32 PM David Carlson wrote: > I didn't say that cor

Re: Need a static version of GNUCash

2017-05-12 Thread Buddha Buck
I think it is *possible* to make a static version of GnuCash, but it is impractical. >From the GnuCash side, it would involve modifying the build engine's calls to the compilers and linkers to build and link statically instead of dynamically. The problem is that when it tries to link against, say

Re: Using AsciiDoc for Documentation

2015-09-02 Thread Buddha Buck
On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:20 AM Geert Janssens wrote: > As with markup the primary drawback I currently see is the lack of a > wysiwyg capable editor > that's present on all platforms we support. > By "markup" here do you mean "Markdown"? If so, there are a number of wysiwyg-like editors availa

Re: gnucash maint: Remove bare percent sign in taxinvoice.scm, replace with English.

2014-10-21 Thread Buddha Buck
But in the message to be translated, "10%" and "32px" are not English, they are CSS. Translating them as if they were English would give the wrong result -- you can't, in a Chinese-translated version, enter "10百分" into the text box specified and have it work right; it has to be "10%". The same goes

Re: Namespaces, file names,...

2014-09-05 Thread Buddha Buck
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 11:08 AM, John Ralls wrote: > So the question becomes: > * Is Gnc OK for the namespace name? > * Do we want to use camel-case or underscore-separated function and > variable names? > > N.B. The C++ code above mirrors the old C code to emphasize the different > naming and ca

Re: [Pharo-users] [Article] Elegant Pharo Code

2014-07-09 Thread Buddha Buck
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: > > I don't know how this could be useful besides doing many things: "Split > a string on dashes, reverse the order of the elements and join them using > slashes". If you could find a example with some real application would be > nice

Re: Number to Words and licencing

2013-11-03 Thread Buddha Buck
In the US at least it is customary to write out the amount and put it in digits. My checkbook in front of me has a form like: Pay to the order of _ $ __ ___ Dollars I am expected to f

[Pharo-users] How do I get UIPainter to work on Pharo 3.0?

2013-10-21 Thread Buddha Buck
I am trying to learn Spec (which seems to be a moving target), and I don't know how all the various widgets and tools are supposed to work. Given that there is a Spec-based UIPainter project as part of this years Google Summer of Code (recently completed), I thought it would be a good idea to chec

Github repo

2013-06-21 Thread Buddha Buck
Is https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash the proper repo to fork if I want to do work on Gnucash development? I'd like to develop some command-line utilities that use the Gnucash API to manipulate Gnucash files. If that works, I'd like to contribute them back to Gnucash.

Re: Peanut gallery comment. Was: Gnucash reports

2013-05-29 Thread Buddha Buck
I would be happy with the reports, including report options, being available via Python bindings, or even Guile bindings. It may be easier to make that interface generic than a command-line based one. In which case, the particular command-line reporting Mr. Rout is looking for could be easily wri

Re: Proposed feature requests on uservoice: Do we want them, or decline them?

2013-05-10 Thread Buddha Buck
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > [ This message is sent deliberately in private ] > Oops. ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel

Re: Base And Gnucash

2013-05-02 Thread Buddha Buck
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:10 PM, wrote: > Huh? What?? > > > It is inappropriate for GNUcash to interact with OpenOffice? > That is not what Derek said. He said it is inappropriate to discuss replicating GnuCash's functionality here. I'd tend to agree. > > > The debate between canned a

Re: Base And Gnucash

2013-04-29 Thread Buddha Buck
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Graham Leggett wrote: > On 29 Apr 2013, at 7:28 PM, John Ralls wrote: > > > Because Gnucash isn't that kind of a program. It's an accounting > program, the exact domain for which SQL was invented. "Basically Available, > Soft state, Eventual consistency" are all

Re: GSOC

2013-03-21 Thread Buddha Buck
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 7:16 PM, John Ralls wrote: > I figured after the at best luke-warm reception in January that there > wasn't enough interest to follow up. It's pretty late to do a web page. > GSoC isn't going to entertain an org with only one proposal and available > mentor. If someone's

Re: Recommend IDE for coding in "C" -- some historical context

2013-03-21 Thread Buddha Buck
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:13:00 -0400, Buddha Buck wrote: > > > Paul, > > > > > > It should be noted that in Linux/Unix, all the development tools are > > command-line based, and so any IDE is going to call

Re: Recommend IDE for coding in "C"

2013-03-20 Thread Buddha Buck
Paul, As should be clear from the other responses, there's no clear "if you work in C/C++, then this is the IDE you should use". Both languages have been around for a very long time (C since the early 1970's, C++ since the mid 1980's), and have been used across a large number of different environ

Re: Beyond 2.6

2013-02-12 Thread Buddha Buck
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > My peronal interest is simplified multi-platform support. If we can achieve > that by slowly moving away from GLib/GObject by using C++ I welcome that as > well. I don't mind it will take me some time to get used to C++. The > language in it

Re: How to handle multiple long-term branches (was Re: Notification mails for git repos)

2013-01-31 Thread Buddha Buck
I believe Geert's assumption is right -- git sees D as in the history of both F and G, and won't try to remerge the A->D changes back into G'. This should be easy enough to test, just create a new git repository, and make the appropriate set of edits to see if that's the case. The problem I can s

Re: Date or Date-and-time for transactions

2012-11-30 Thread Buddha Buck
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: >> Right. Since ISO8601 specifies that date-times are converted to UTC >> (Z), we currently convert to-and-from the local TZ when we instantiate >> objects with a Timespec field. I'm saying we should stop doing that >> and just use UTC for time

Re: dimensionality in Perl 6

2010-11-18 Thread Buddha Buck
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Jon Lang wrote: > Buddha Buck wrote: >> I don't think a Num is necessary, but I could see a Rat. > > As is, is Duration implemented by means of a Num, or a Rat?  Whichever > it is, that's the type that the difference of two Instan

Re: dimensionality in Perl 6

2010-11-18 Thread Buddha Buck
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Jon Lang wrote: > Buddha Buck wrote: >> I don't think a Num is necessary, but I could see a Rat. > > As is, is Duration implemented by means of a Num, or a Rat?  Whichever > it is, that's the type that the difference of two Instan

Re: dimensionality in Perl 6

2010-11-18 Thread Buddha Buck
Jon Lang asked me if I intended to send this message to him privately. The answer is "No"... -- Forwarded message ------ From: Buddha Buck Date: Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:39 PM Subject: Re: dimensionality in Perl 6 To: Jon Lang On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Jon L

Re: dimensionality in Perl 6

2010-11-18 Thread Buddha Buck
Jon Lang asked me if I intended to send this message to him privately. The answer is "No"... -- Forwarded message ------ From: Buddha Buck Date: Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:39 PM Subject: Re: dimensionality in Perl 6 To: Jon Lang On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Jon L

Re: Tweaking junctions

2010-11-01 Thread Buddha Buck
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Moritz Lenz wrote: > On 10/22/2010 06:16 AM, Damian Conway wrote: >> That is, a C<$value> is an eigenstate of a C<$junction> if-and-only-if: >> >>     $value !~~ Junction  &&  $value ~~ $junction > > In general this definition makes it impossible to return a list of

Re: Tweaking junctions

2010-11-01 Thread Buddha Buck
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Moritz Lenz wrote: > On 10/22/2010 06:16 AM, Damian Conway wrote: >> That is, a C<$value> is an eigenstate of a C<$junction> if-and-only-if: >> >>     $value !~~ Junction  &&  $value ~~ $junction > > In general this definition makes it impossible to return a list of

Re: Temporal seems a bit wibbly-wobbly

2010-02-22 Thread Buddha Buck
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > The biggest difference proposed by the use of TAI is that when you ask > for the number of seconds between "2008-12-31T23:59:59+" and > "2009-01-01T00:00:00+" you'll get 2 because of the leap second. But > you don't need to know how ma

Re: Temporal seems a bit wibbly-wobbly

2010-02-22 Thread Buddha Buck
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > The biggest difference proposed by the use of TAI is that when you ask > for the number of seconds between "2008-12-31T23:59:59+" and > "2009-01-01T00:00:00+" you'll get 2 because of the leap second. But > you don't need to know how ma

Re: [twist-tabletweaving] What to charge for tablet weaving?

2009-12-15 Thread Buddha Buck
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:53 PM, nsmothergill wrote: > Someone has offered to buy a tablet weaving from me.  I have no idea what to > charge.  The piece is done in double faced with calligraphy, woven in cotton. >  Any suggestions about how to price your work? How much do you think your time is

Re: [twist-tabletweaving] Warp weights

2009-11-15 Thread Buddha Buck
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Di wrote: > > > I've another question about warp-weighting the selvedge when weaving on an > inkle loom. > > What do you tie the other end to? Normally the ends of the threads in > each card are tied to themselves in a continuous loop, but with > warp-weighting,

Re: time complexity of searching elements in hash tables in Perl

2009-08-22 Thread Buddha Buck
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Forrest Sheng Bao wrote: > Oh, I mean both Perl 5 and Perl 6. I couldn't find proper list to ask this > question. So I asked in this list. I'm not sure perl6-language is the proper place to be asking about the time-complexity of hashes in Perl6, or at least, not th

Re: time complexity of searching elements in hash tables in Perl

2009-08-22 Thread Buddha Buck
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Forrest Sheng Bao wrote: > Oh, I mean both Perl 5 and Perl 6. I couldn't find proper list to ask this > question. So I asked in this list. I'm not sure perl6-language is the proper place to be asking about the time-complexity of hashes in Perl6, or at least, not th

Re-thinking file test operations

2009-07-09 Thread Buddha Buck
Resent to list as I intended to in the first place On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Darren Duncan wrote: > Mark J. Reed wrote: >> >> A few months ago (or maybe more) I proposed making pathnames their own >> type, distinct from (or perhas a subclass of) strings, but easily >> constructed from st

Re-thinking file test operations

2009-07-09 Thread Buddha Buck
Resent to list as I intended to in the first place On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Darren Duncan wrote: > Mark J. Reed wrote: >> >> A few months ago (or maybe more) I proposed making pathnames their own >> type, distinct from (or perhas a subclass of) strings, but easily >> constructed from st

renaming or adding some operators

2009-05-29 Thread Buddha Buck
Resending to list On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Darren Duncan wrote: > I had some thoughts lately about the Perl 6 operators, and wanted to bounce > some ideas. > > > > Secondly, regarding the Bool type, I think it would be useful for Perl 6 to > define the full complement of dyad

renaming or adding some operators

2009-05-29 Thread Buddha Buck
Resending to list On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Darren Duncan wrote: > I had some thoughts lately about the Perl 6 operators, and wanted to bounce > some ideas. > > > > Secondly, regarding the Bool type, I think it would be useful for Perl 6 to > define the full complement of dyad

Re: Amazing Perl 6

2009-05-29 Thread Buddha Buck
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Jon Lang wrote: > On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 6:52 AM, John Macdonald wrote: >> Yep, I've done that. >> >> But comparing the difference in effort between: >> >> - press a key >> - Google for a web page that has the right character set, cut, refocus, paste >> >> means

Re: Amazing Perl 6

2009-05-29 Thread Buddha Buck
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Jon Lang wrote: > On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 6:52 AM, John Macdonald wrote: >> Yep, I've done that. >> >> But comparing the difference in effort between: >> >> - press a key >> - Google for a web page that has the right character set, cut, refocus, paste >> >> means

DIS: Re: BUS: Reformed Bank of Agora report

2008-07-24 Thread Buddha Buck
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Quazie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I try one more time, and then give up if i fail > > Without 3 objections I intend to chagne the RBOA contract as follows: Is "to chagne" a term of art I'm not aware of?

Re: DIS: Proposal idea

2008-06-11 Thread Buddha Buck
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:03 AM, Nick Vanderweit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I actually rather like this Bank idea. So, if Alice and Bob deposit 3G > each, and then Carol makes change for 2Y with a 1% fee, then she may > request 19O and 8R, and the remaining 2R would go to Alice and Bob, > with e

Re: DIS: Proposal idea

2008-06-11 Thread Buddha Buck
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Nick Vanderweit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well here's an idea. We could use a linear currency, with colors > representing place values. For example, we could go ROYGBIV for the > values of the currencies, with a violet unit being worth 10^6 times as > much as a r

Re: DIS: Proposal idea

2008-06-11 Thread Buddha Buck
On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Nick Vanderweit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since I've been thinking a lot about proposals I could submit that > might benefit Agora, I decided I'd throw an idea out there for you > guys to give me feedback. > > My idea is an official currency, the Napier, abbreviat

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting results for Proposals 5521-5527

2008-06-02 Thread Buddha Buck
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 1:30 PM, comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm not sure. We haven't had a Win by Points in quite a while, nor >> are we likely to have a non-scam one for a while. Given the rarity of >> wins by points,

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 1944 assigned to Pavitra

2008-05-29 Thread Buddha Buck
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Ben Caplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 27 May 2008 4:09:46 ihope wrote: >> --Ivan Hope NTTPF > > Uh > My interpretation of that was that the "proposal" he included in that message was intentionally not sent to the public forum, and thus not to be ta

DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] Docket

2008-05-18 Thread Buddha Buck
Hey Ivan Hope On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 7:10 AM, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Clerk's Docket > > (All times are UTC) > > 1944 Blaise Pascal Ivan Hope*Sun 18 May 04:44:26 I know you've done a proto-judgement, and I know that the CFJ is rather unimportant in the ge

Re: DIS: Why can't non-players be contestmasters?

2008-05-16 Thread Buddha Buck
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Geoffrey Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm not a player (and would rather >> maintain my non-playerhood as long as possible). > > Umm, why? If yo

DIS: Why can't non-players be contestmasters?

2008-05-16 Thread Buddha Buck
I have an idea for a contest, but I'm not a player (and would rather maintain my non-playerhood as long as possible). Rules 1742 and 2178 allow persons to make contracts, to be bound by them, and to make them public, all prerequisites for contesthood. Rule 2136 allows a contract to be turned into

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 1944 assigned to Ivan Hope

2008-05-11 Thread Buddha Buck
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:13 AM, ihope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 12:44 AM, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>If I were to post to a public forum any of the following >>statements, I would be a player: 1. I am a player. 2. I >>declare myself to be a p

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: RE: [CotC] CFJ 1932 assigned to ais523

2008-05-09 Thread Buddha Buck
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. A person can declare emself a person, but can't declare emself a player > other than through the registration process. I'm not sure I agree. I call for judgement on the following issue: { If I were to post to a public f

Re: MMD thoughts 2008

2008-05-06 Thread Buddha Buck
Sorry to reply to the wrong comment, but I lost the original thread in my mail archives and didn't notice this until now. On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:54 PM, John M. Dlugosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TSa Thomas.Sandlass-at-barco.com |Perl 6| wrote: > > > > > The fundamental flaw of metric mmd is th

Re: MMD thoughts 2008

2008-05-06 Thread Buddha Buck
Sorry to reply to the wrong comment, but I lost the original thread in my mail archives and didn't notice this until now. On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:54 PM, John M. Dlugosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TSa Thomas.Sandlass-at-barco.com |Perl 6| wrote: > > > > > The fundamental flaw of metric mmd is th

DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ 1921 Judgment

2008-05-02 Thread Buddha Buck
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 11:19 PM, comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Iammars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 5. As in 4, but in discussion forum. > > 6. As in 4, but in private emails. > > 7. As in 4, but on phone/chat/ephemeral medium. > > Rule 2149/8 does

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: I wish to register

2008-04-29 Thread Buddha Buck
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:03 PM, ihope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Benjamin Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Welcome to the game, H. New Player Offhanded! > > Why the H? An abbreviation for "Honorable", I believe. > > --Ivan Hope CXXVII >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: I wish to register

2008-04-29 Thread Buddha Buck
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Iammars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow. 2 new people in just a couple days! We're growing at a nice speed. > Welcome to Agora! (Join Fight Arena!) I'm not sure that Offhanded actually registered, though. I think game tradition is such that stating an intent or

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: We haven't had any good partnership scams in a while

2008-04-25 Thread Buddha Buck
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 5:58 PM, ihope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not everybody likes a nomic where taking advantage of loopholes is > explicitly encouraged. One-liner: Then what are you doing here? I've been watching Agora Nomic for a while. While I wouldn't say that taking advantage of lo

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 1925 assigned to Iammars

2008-04-21 Thread Buddha Buck
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Ben Caplan wrote: > > A contract need only be "made by" persons. Once the contract is > > created, there is no reason why a nonperson might not be a party. In > > this case it is only necessary that

Re: DIS: Proto-Contest: The Fight Arena

2008-04-15 Thread Buddha Buck
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Iammars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Iammars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:3

Re: DIS: Proto-Contest: The Fight Arena

2008-04-15 Thread Buddha Buck
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Iammars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >3. These should be fixed by the new Rule 8. I already have the rule > in my head, and I added a bit so you can punish me if I change it. If you > want, I can send it to somebody so they know I'm not cheating, but I'd have

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Contest proposal: Agoran Twister

2008-03-16 Thread Buddha Buck
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My thoughts, as a watcher (and not a player in either Agora or Agoran > > Twister) is that a necessary conditio

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Contest proposal: Agoran Twister

2008-03-16 Thread Buddha Buck
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 15 Mar 2008, Ed Murphy wrote: > > How about a minimum period of one week and a prohibition on Spots to > > perform impossible or illegal acts? > > We have to be careful in the phrasing of prohibitions like thi

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Contest proposal: Agoran Twister

2008-03-11 Thread Buddha Buck
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, note that the objections can come from anybody, not just Keiths, > which is an important aspect to avoid abuse. Anybody? Including me? > > -root >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 1879: woggle recused, Wooble assigned

2008-03-05 Thread Buddha Buck
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > > ...nomic rulesets of which I am aware, is the provision that Players of a > > nomic are only bound by the rules as long as they choose to be, and > > that players can, in ge

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 1881 judged FALSE

2008-02-07 Thread Buddha Buck
On Feb 7, 2008 4:28 PM, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ed Murphy wrote: > >Admitted (and corrected in the database). The system eats > >backslashes unless I remember to double them up during entry. > > Well fix it then. There's no excuse for the code discriminating against > certain (ASCII p

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 1886 assigned to Zefram

2008-01-29 Thread Buddha Buck
On Jan 29, 2008 12:00 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 29, 2008 9:31 AM, Roger Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here I am attempting to use the normal english definition of the word > > 'deregister'. Note that R869 does not define this word. It defines "to > > deregister" and "

DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ 1860 - Judgment

2008-01-21 Thread Buddha Buck
On Jan 21, 2008 3:10 PM, Iammars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dictionary.com 's Relevant Definitions of a Game > > 3. a competitive activity involving skill, chance, or endurance on the part > of two or more persons who play according to a set of rules, usually for > their own amusement or for that

DIS: Re: BUS: [Brainfuck Golf] Hole #3

2008-01-20 Thread Buddha Buck
On Jan 20, 2008 9:51 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the mathematical tasks may be tiring to some, so I'm going to > try something else this time. The third task for Brainfuck Golf is to > implement Unix sort. The input is to be read as a sequence of ASCII > lines, each termina

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Winnation

2007-12-24 Thread Buddha Buck
On Dec 24, 2007 2:21 PM, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > pikhq wrote: > > > Common sense dictates that, when you spend something, you have also lost it. > > The rules do not say otherwise, so common sense prevails. > > This whole case is centered around whether or not "to spend" is sufficien

Re: DIS: Proto-proto: Chambers

2007-12-18 Thread Buddha Buck
On Dec 18, 2007 7:51 PM, Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/17/07, Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oh wait, I'm not playing this Nomic... > > Easily fixed. If I wanted the obligations of playing this Nomic, I'd send a message saying "I re

Re: DIS: Proto-proto: Chambers

2007-12-17 Thread Buddha Buck
On Dec 17, 2007 7:42 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 17, 2007 3:54 PM, Roger Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A Chamber is an instrument with a positive power. When a player > > submits a proposal they must designate which Chambers they are > > submitting that proposal to (the

Re: DIS: ParaNomic XP (proto-initial rules)

2007-12-12 Thread Buddha Buck
On Dec 12, 2007 5:54 PM, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would anyone be interested in starting a new game using the rules > below? Are there any problems that would kill it before it started? > > I'm interested. I don't see any problems myself. I will point out that, in keeping with the

Re: DIS: Brainfuck Golf Draft 6

2007-12-07 Thread Buddha Buck
On Dec 7, 2007 8:06 PM, Josiah Worcester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -- > Brainfuck Golf > 1) Every week, the contestmaster SHALL announce a new task to be implemented > in Brainfuck. > > 2) A week after the announcement, the contestmaster SHALL select one program > which implement

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