>From ford@bayside.net Mon Dec 01 03:41:30 1997 Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 23:50:54 -0800 From: "Ed Murphy" Organization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; I) To: "Ed Murphy" Subject: [Fwd: BUS: Agoran Weekly Journal (November 30, 1997)] -- Ed Murphy http://www.bayside.net/users/ford/ "I see," said Arthur, who didn't.>From owner-agora-business@gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au Mon Dec 01 03:37:19 1997 Received: by windowsnt from localhost (router,SLMail V2.6); Mon, 01 Dec 1997 03:37:19 -0500 Received: by windowsnt from gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au (144.110.168.141::mail daemon; unverified,SLMail V2.6); Mon, 01 Dec 1997 03:37:16 -0500 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA30964 for agora-business-list; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 18:47:38 +1100 Received: from windowsnt ([38.179.24.2]) by gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA30961 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 18:47:25 +1100 Received: by windowsnt from localhost (router,SLMail V2.6); Mon, 01 Dec 1997 03:35:44 -0500 Received: by windowsnt from ford (206.18.125.143::mail daemon; unverified,SLMail V2.6); Mon, 01 Dec 1997 03:35:40 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19971201073438.007a3b40@mail.bayside.net> X-Sender: "Ed Murphy" X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 07:34:38 -0800 To: agora-business@gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au From: "Ed Murphy" Subject: BUS: Agoran Weekly Journal (November 30, 1997) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au id SAA30962 Sender: owner-agora-business@gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au Precedence: bulk Reply-To: agora-discussion@gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au id SAA30964 THE AGORA WEEKLY JOURNAL VOLUME 42, ISSUE 9 Sunday edition November 30, 1997 PROPOSALS --------- 11/23 Murphy protoes "Indefinite Offices", allowing the Speaker to declare that a given Office's Term of Service won't expire (till it changes hands for some other reason). This is a revival of Blob's old proto "Perpetual Offices". Murphy protoes "Make the PVE Permanent", removing the Public Voting Experiment's self-repeal clause. Murphy protoes a repeal of Rule 1744. Murphy protoes "Declaration of Absence", an analogue of Declaration of Presence: Doesn't count toward Quorum, but does count as having deliberately responded to the Proposal. 11/24 Proposal 3614 [Crito] Persistent Style (Style is not reset quarterly; bonus only for beating one's old high Style) Proposal 3615 [Swann] Objects (Sweeping Currency reform) Proposal 3616 [G. Chaos] Nonchallenge of Election Results (Self-ratification after seven days) Proposal 3617 [G. Chaos] No Double Penalties for Officers (who fail to publish weekly Report) Proposal 3618 [G. Chaos] Fix Indulgence Distribution (Base it on Blots executed minus Blots vacated) Proposal 3619 [G. Chaos] Inadvertent Transfers to the Bank (Currency transfers to Bank are reversed unless they state and accomplish a purpose) Proposal 3620 [Steve] Resignation and Consent (Resigning Officer's successor does not take Office till consenting) Proposal 3621 [Michael] Resignation of Offices cleared up (Resigning Officer's successor must consent prior to resignation) Proposal 3622 [elJefe] No nonplayer responsibilities ("role or position to which a Rule assigns any duties or powers") Steve protoes "Judicial Extensions", allowing the Clerk of the Courts to grant a one-week extension to Judges. (If the CotC is Judge, then this extension must be granted by the Speaker.) InterNomic Proposal 350 fails. Swann protoes "Stylish Rules", assigning Style to Rules and setting up some mechanisms for changing the Style of Rules. 11/25 Steve re-protoes "Judicial Extensions", making the CotC apply to the Justiciar rather than the Speaker for an extension. Agora submits InterNomic Proposal 352 (to add Bluesmobile Nomic to the list of voting members). Swann re-protoes "Stylish Rules", which now assigns new duties only to the Wizard (not to the Rulekeepor as well). Swann protoes "Risky Quorum", causing one Proposal per week to have Quorum of one - but the identity of that Proposal is not revealed till the Voting Period ends. Swann protoes "Quorum buyback", allowing Players to spend a P-Note to reduce a given Proposal's Quorum by one. Swann protoes "Quorum without objection", allowing the Speaker to declare Without Objection that a Proposal has met Quorum. 11/26 Blob re-protoes "Perpetual Offices". InterNomic Proposal 351 (a typo fix to Rule 349) is adopted. Agora scores 2 points. Swann protoes "Magnetism", a variant of the old Win Tokens. Chuck protoes "Repeal Rule Attributions". 11/27 Murphy Proposes "Fix Nominations", clarifying the timing of disqualification of Nominees for Office. Murphy re-protoes "Declaration of Absence", also repealing the ABSTAIN Vote (and a few other fixes). 11/28 elJefe protoes "Late Judgements", allowing the CotC to accept same and assign a milder penalty than failing to Judge. Proposal 3623 [G. Chaos] Lowered Quorum (1/3 Active Players or 1/5 Players) 11/30 elJefe protoes "Organizational Payment Orders", authorizing Organizations to execute Payment Orders from themselves or their members, as authorized by their SLC. Proposals 3601-3613 all fail: the Rule defining Transfer Orders is Infected by the Virus, therefore no Voting Tokens could be spent to Vote on those Proposals, therefore no Votes counted. CALLS FOR JUDGEMENT ------------------- CFJ 1062 [Zefram] Final Judgement: TRUE 10/30 Called 11/06 Vlad defaults 11/07-10 Reassigned to Chuck, who declines 11/12-13 Reassigned to Crito, who Judges TRUE 11/16-18 Appealed by Steve, Michael, and General Chaos 11/19 Assigned to Morendil, elJefe, and Steve as Justices 11/24 Judged SUSTAIN by Morendil 11/25 Judged SUSTAIN by Steve Judged OVERTURN/reverse by elJefe "Plato possesses at least 0.9 VTs." CFJ 1070 [Murphy] Judgement: FALSE 11/11 Called 11/12-19 Assigned to Swann, who defaults 11/19-26 Assigned to Calabresi, who defaults 11/26-30 Assigned to Steve, who Judges FALSE "Immediately after becoming Speaker, Morendil was registered as a player." OFFICES ------- Speaker-Elect: 11/24 Speaker Michael announces that Promotor Crito holds Office temporarily, assuming e consents. Chuck declines. Election begins. Morendil Nominates. Commander-in-Chief: 11/24 Harlequin is Elected by acclamation. OTHER ----- 11/24 Crito becomes a Boor for Proposal 3614. Andre comes Off Hold. 11/25 Blob terminates Elde's Probate. Oerjan verifies that the Frankenstein Rule was last mutated on October 12, then carries out six weeks worth of overdue mutations. Among the mutations is a clause that only Frankenstein Monsters may Vote (but, per another clause of the Frankenstein Rule, any Player can become a Frankenstein Monster by creating a Contest and being its Contestmaster). 11/26 The Virus Infects Rule 1598 (Transfer Orders). Blob terminates eir own Probate. Andre creates a Contest: Andre's Frankenstein Contest. The Order of the Evil Eye adds an Ordinance that all its Priests are Frankenstein Monsters. Swann creates a Contest: Swann's Frankenstein Contest. Other Players may join this Contest (for 1 Indulgence) and become Frankenstein Monsters. The Contest is also the Mintor of a Currency named Frankenstein Monsters. 11/27 Oerjan creates a Contest: Å. Murphy creates a Contest: Murphy's Cayman Islands Holding Company. 12/01 The Frankenstein Rule is mutated. As part of this mutation, the provision that all Contestmasters are Frankenstein Monsters is deleted. -- Ed Murphy http://www.bayside.net/users/ford/ "I see," said Arthur, who didn't.