>From owner-agora-business@gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au Sun Nov 09 19:43:08 1997 X-Sender: "Ed Murphy" X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Sun, 09 Nov 1997 15:38:17 -0800 To: agora-business@gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au From: "Ed Murphy" Subject: BUS: Agoran Daily Journal (November 9, 1997) Cc: malcolmr@cse.unsw.edu.au Sender: owner-agora-business@gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au Reply-To: agora-discussion@gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au THE AGORAN DAILY JOURNAL VOLUME 42, ISSUE 6 Sunday edition November 9, 1997 RECENT PROPOSALS [October 30] * The following Proposals are adopted: 3569 Zefram Fix Currencies [P-Notes and Indulgences] 3571 Murphy (none) [October 16, 1997, is Lost In Space Day] 3572 Steve Prohibit Retroactivity [Strengthen Rule 108] 3573 Steve Majority Appeal decisions [Method of overturning decided by majority decision of Board of Appeals; unanimous agreement unneeded] 3574 Kolja A. Judicial Cleanup [Tweak Rule 1563; cosmetic fixes to Rule 1565] 3575 Kolja A. Fix Internomic referenda [Protect against overly short Voting periods] * The following Proposals fail to be adopted: 3570 Zefram No Win Situation [Repeal all definitions of Winning] 3576 Zefram (none) [Currencies and related mechanisms unexist] * Vlad submits a proto stating that Payment Orders may be divided into smaller Payment Orders for the purpose of partial payment. * Swann re-protoes Objects, which would subsume Currencies, Blots, Kudos, and possibly other things. [October 31] * Chuck protoes the following: 1) The first full week of February is Read the Ruleset Week. 2) 13-VT reward to the creator of Rule 1776. [November 3] * The following Proposals are distributed: 3579 G. Chaos Stranded Currencies [Chancellor transfers Currency possessed by odd entities back to the Bank] 3580 G. Chaos Improper Transfers [Judges compensate for illegal Transfer Orders] 3581 Oerjan Exorcise Probate [Executors in Probate are no longer Executors] 3582 Swann Repeal-O-Matic [Promotor randomly selects five Rules each week, chooses one to three of them, and Proposals to repeal those Rules are automatically generated] 3583 Swann Repeals Without Objection [Anyone may repeal a Rule Without Objection] 3584 Swann Free-for-All [Speaker may declare Duty-Free Days once per term; all required payments except fines for Crimes and Infractions are suspended] 3585 Kolja A. (untitled) [Repeal P-Notes] 3586 Vlad Pardons [Clerk of the Courts may Pardon the Lawless] 3587 Vlad Reduce Frivolous Appeals [Infraction of Frivolous Appeal (1 Blot penalty) against Appealers when Board of Appeals sustains original Judgement unanimously] 3588 Vlad We Don' Need No Stinking Game Custom! [Remove "game custom" from Rule 217] 3589 Vlad Sunset Stare Decisis [Limit "past Judgements" in Rule 217 to recent ones] 3590 Swann The Internomic Encouragement Act [Bonuses to submitters of Internomic Proposals] 3591 Andre Repeal Pitchfork [Winning by Pitchfork, that is] 3592 Andre Remove Silliness 3593 Andre InterNomic Proposal cleanup [Remove limit of one Internomic Proposal per Player per week; remove the old Virus sentence] 3594 Andre Shorten InterNomic Voting Period [Replace "until one week before" with "until 72 hours before"] 3595 Andre Liaison? Which Liaison? [Replace all instances of "Liaison" with "Ambassador"] 3596 Kolja A. (untitled) [Replace "Assessor" with "Vote Collector of..." in Rule 1715; fix the spelling of the title] [November 4] * Morendil Proposes "Finish Amnesty", which would remove all Fugitive Blots and vacate all due Payment Orders for Indulgences due to Rule 1473. * Andre Proposes "Blot Amnesty Extension", which would merely remove all Fugitive Blots. * Morendil declares Proposal 3581 a Senate Proposal. * Swann re-protoes "Objects". * Swann protoes a method for non-Proposing Entities to submit Proposals via their Executor. [November 6] * Swann either re-protoes or Proposes eir method for non-Proposing Entities to submit Proposals. * The following Proposals are adopted: 3577 Zefram Fix Lawlessness [Only Overdue Blots count toward Lawlessness] 3578 Steve Straighten Out Absence [Improve terminology] [November 7] * elJefe Proposes a fix to prevent Group Wills from replacing their Ordinances. CALLS FOR JUDGEMENT * CFJ 1047 [Morendil] Abbreviated history: 09/27 Called 10/07 Judged TRUE by Michael 10/10-15 First Appeal results in reassignment to Vir 10/22 Judged TRUE by Vir Assigned to Steve, Andre and elJefe as Justices 10/23 Judged OVERTURN/reverse by Steve Judged OVERTURN/reverse by elJefe 10/29 Justice Andre defaults 11/05 Assigned to Oerjan as Justice "General Chaos committed the Crime of Wrongful COE denial." * CFJ 1053 [Murphy] 10/28 Judged TRUE by Oerjan 11/05 Judgement published Appealed by General Chaos 11/06 Appealed by Steve and Crito 11/07 Assigned to Morendil, Andre and elJefe as Justices 11/08 Judged OVERTURN/reverse by elJefe Oerjan attempts to Appeal elJefe's Judgement "Elde is Blob's Executor in Probate." * CFJ 1058 [Morendil] 10/31 Judged FALSE by General Chaos 11/05 Judgement published "elJefe committed the Crime of Persecution, a Class A Crime, in incorrectly alleging in the Public Forum that Morendil was Lawless on October 14." * CFJ 1059 [Crito] 10/30 elJefe's Judgement of TRUE published "Rule 1714 should be interpreted such that an allegation of Lawlessness sent to the PF must contain an explicit declaration that a particular Player is Lawless." * CFJ 1061 [Morendil] 10/30 Assigned to Steve 11/02 Judged TRUE by Steve 11/05 Judgement published "Rule 1585 should be interpreted such that a Player who is newly installed into an Office does not commit the Infraction of Failure to Report (insofar as that Office is subject to such duties) if e posts the required Report within a week of eir being installed into Office." * CFJ 1062 [Zefram] 10/30 Assigned to Vlad 11/06 Vlad makes late Judgement of FALSE 11/07 Reassigned to Chuck "Plato possesses at least 0.9 VTs." * CFJ 1063 [Zefram] 10/30 Assigned to Michael 11/03 Judged FALSE by Michael Appealed by Swann Crito attempts to Appeal, but posts to a-d 11/04 Appealed by Crito 11/06 Appeals published "There exists at least one VT that possesses at least 1 VT." * CFJ 1064 (1065?) [Swann] 10/30 Assigned to Kolja A. 11/04 Judged FALSE by Kolja A. 11/06 Judgement published "I (the caller of this CFJ) am my own Executor." * CFJ 1066 [elJefe] 11/03 Called 11/06 Assigned to Vlad "The Office of Speaker-Elect is not now being held in the normal fashion." * CFJ 1067 [Kolja A.] 11/04 Called 11/06 Assigned to General Chaos 11/07 Proto-Judged FALSE by General Chaos "The sentence 'If this leads to a Voting Period that is shorter than three days, the Voting Period shall instead last for three days or until two days before the InterNomic Voting Period on the relevant InterNomic Proposal is over, whichever is earliest.' has been added to the third paragraph of R1632." * CFJ 1068 [Antimatter] 11/04 Called 11/07 Assigned to elJefe 11/08 Judged FALSE by elJefe Appealed by Oerjan (and General Chaos?) 11/09 Appealed by elJefe and General Chaos "Chaos Harlequin has violated Rule 1738." OFFICES 10/30 Murphy Nominates for Notary 10/31 Election begins for Wizard Michael Nominates for Registrar General Chaos Nominates for Wizard 11/03 Elections begin for Ambassador, Justiciar, Mad Scientist, and Promotor elJefe re-Nominates for Justiciar General Chaos re-Nominates for Assessor Swann Nominates for Justiciar, Mad Scientist, and Promotor Crito attempts to re-Nominate for Promotor, but posts it to a-d 11/04 Elections begin for Ambassador, Archivist, Cartographor, Chancellor, Clerk of the Courts, Commander-in-Chief, Herald, Rulekeepor, and Speaker-Elect Steve Nominates for Speaker-Elect Michael Nominates for Speaker-Elect Speaker Morendil unsuccessfully attempts to Nominate for Speaker-Elect Kolja A. re-Nominates for Ambassador Crito re-Nominates for Herald and Promotor Chuck re-Nominates for Rulekeepor 11/05 Harlequin resigns as Commander-in-Chief, appointing Vlad as eir successor Vlad Nominates for Commander-in-Chief 11/06 Crito resigns as Herald, appointing Morendil as eir successor Morendil resigns as Herald, appointing Crito as eir successor Oerjan re-Nominates for Mad Scientist 11/09 elJefe retracts eir Nomination for Justiciar elJefe Nominates for Clerk of the Courts Crito Nominates for Justiciar REBELLION 10/30 Kolja A. becomes Abiding 11/02 Vlad Rebels 11/03 Crito and Kolja A. Rebel A Rebellion occurs Speaker-Elect Morendil becomes Speaker, and thus a Player (Rule 103), but is Tainted (Rule 1648) [Harlequin's power as Morendil's Executor in Probate is an interesting topic] Promotor Crito becomes temporary Speaker-Elect All Offices become held temporarily All Rebellious Players (Andre, Crito, Kolja, Murphy, Vir and Vlad) become Abiding OTHER [October 30] * Oerjan alleges that Vanyel and Calabresi have each Abandoned the game. As previously noted, this delays their deregistration for inactivity by making em Maybe Absent. * Swann submits an Internomic Proposal defining formal protests and sanctions. * General Chaos notes that Rule 833's P-Note penalty for failed Proposals does not exclude Disinterested Proposals, and states eir intention to submit Payment Orders for all such Proposals since the last Amendment to Rule 833. [October 31] * Notary pro-tem Steve appoints Murphy as Zefram's Executor in Probate. [November 1] * Voting ends on Internomic Proposal 349: Ammend R215 by replacing the string "Rishonomic" with the string "New Rishonnomic" Votes are 3 FOR, 3 AGAINST, 1 declaration of Presence, so Agora abstains. * All Fugitive Blots are halved: 46 -> 23 Elde 68 -> 34 Morendil 28 -> 14 Blob 2 -> 1 Zefram [November 2] * Vlad executes an Application to Create an Organization, specifically the Group "Agoran Society for the Promotion of Chaos and Anarchy". * The Virus Infects Rule 1728 (defining "Without Objection"). [November 3] * Wizard pro-tem Steve pays out 1 P-Note each to Oerjan and Steve, per Rule 1705. * Internomic Proposal 350 (Swann) is sent to the Internomic list twice; this might be interpreted as two Proposals, or as one Proposal attempting to create two Rules. * Assessor General Chaos declares that he needs a hot bath and a warm toddy. elJefe replies "If possible, I hereby transfer a warm toddy to General Chaos. The hot bath will have to wait until the Cartographer creates it..." [November 4] * KoJen makes another attempt to perform a countably infinite number of actions. [November 5] * Notary pro-tem Steve names emself as Blob's Executor in Probate; however, Elde may still be Blob's Executor in Probate (see CFJ 1053). * Harlequin goes On Hold. * Vir goes On Hold. [November 9] * Calabresi becomes Not Absent. -- Ed Murphy http://www.bayside.net/users/ford/ "I see," said Arthur, who didn't.