From ford@jps.net Fri Jun 16 15:14:32 2000 Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 23:48:04 -0700 From: Ed Murphy Reply-To: agora-discussion@gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au To: agora-business@gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au Subject: BUS: Agoran Weekly Journal THE AGORAN WEEKLY JOURNAL VOLUME 46, ISSUE 19 June 15, 2000 ADOPTED PROPOSALS ----------------- REJECTED PROPOSALS ------------------ "Agoran Time" by t - Proposal 4014 failed quorum 6/8 Agora uses GMT generally, with no daylight savings time. Days, weeks, months, quarters, and years are generally defined, as are periodic requirements and relative periods of time. [Curmudgeon's Review - summary: GMT is not a "timezone" (which is a geographic area), and already has no daylight savings time. How would this interact with Rule 1727's explicit use of GMT+12? Midnight ought to be specified as the beginning of the day.] "Fix Scores" by t - Proposal 4015 failed quorum 6/8 Gaining a Patent Title no longer causes a Score increase. Passing a Disinterested Proposal no longer causes a Score increase. Passing an Interested Proposal used to cause a Score increase of (2 * number of AGAINST votes). It now causes (2 * number of AGAINST votes) or (4 * number of AGAINST voters), whichever is greater; but any AGAINST votes cast by the submitter of the Proposal are ignored for this purpose. "Oh, what a tangled web..." by Kelly - Proposal 4016 failed quorum 6/8 To grant or revoke PF status to a medium of communication, the Registrar must send eir announcement via a single medium that is a PF both before and after the change. Sending it via one medium that is a PF before but not after, and another medium that is a PF after but not before, is no longer sufficient. The Registrar may, Without Objection, grant or revoke Discussion Forum status to a medium. Any medium that becomes a PF ceases to be a DF. Sending a message to a DF is not sending it to the PF, even if each Active Player is reasonably certain to receive it via that DF; and is not sending it to a given Player, unless the Player explicitly or implicitly confirms receipt. [Curmudgeon's Review - summary: Would undefine "public" and "publicly", which were defined by Proposal 4011, and upon which several Rules now rely. Places no time requirement on confirming receipt of a message via a Discussion Forum.] PENDING PROPOSALS ----------------- "Agoran Time" by t Agora uses GMT generally, with no daylight savings time. Days, weeks, months, quarters, and years are generally defined, as are periodic requirements and relative periods of time. "Fix Wins" by t - Proposal 4019 An announcement of a Win must identify all Players eligible to Win at that time. "Property and Democracy" by Kelly - Proposal 4018 Property is a generalization of Currency. Units of non-Currency Property are distinguishable. Transfer Orders are replaced with Notices of Transfer. Payment Orders are replaced with Debts. Debts may be satisfied or forgiven. If a Notice of Transfer claims to be for debt payment, but does not correspond to any current debt, then it shall either be retained as payment against future debt, or returned (voluntarily or on demand). One may Order the payment of a debt. Then Persistent Indebtedness occurs every seven days till the debt is paid. Such an Order shall be stayed if the debt is disputed (this can also be done by the CotC or a Judge), or vacated if the debt is satisfied by another entity (this can also be done by a Judge). Property owned by an Executor-less entity is Abandoned. The Notary is a Limited Executor of such an entity, and may use its Property to pay its debts; forgive debts owed to it; and (Without Objection) transfer its Property to the Bank. The Bank is a single entity. The Treasuror is Executor of the Bank. Each Bank Currency's Recordkeepor is a Limited Executor of the Bank, and may access only that Currency. The Treasuror may forgive debts owed to the Bank when Ordered to do so, or Without Objection. Ideal Indulgence Circulation Level (IICL) = # Players + # Player Blots. Actual Indulgence Circulation Level (AICL) = # Indulgences not owned by Bank + # Indulgences auctioned but bids not yet paid. Monthly Indulgence Auction for (IICL - AiCL) Indulgences. Proposals are Democratic if distributed while there are less than three Oligarchs. Voting on Ordinary Proposals is free. A Player may vote on a Proposal once, plus once per Voting Entitlement (a new Currency), minus once per five Blots; minimum 0, maximum 5. A non-Player may vote on a Proposal once per Voting Entitlement, maximum 3. However, the Bank may not vote on any Proposal. Ideal VE Circulation Level (IVECL) = # Players. Actual VE Circulation Level (AVECL) = # VEs not owned by Bank + # VEs auctioned but bids not yet paid. VE Auction for (IVECL - AVECL) VEs whenever this is positive. Bids in VTs. A High Oligarch may retain no VEs, a Middle Oligarch one, and a Low Oligarch two. Possessing more VEs than this for 5 days continuously causes loss of Oligarch position. "Taral's Work for All, Again" by Elysion - Proposal 4017 Players may Nominate for Office, regardless of eir Blots. PROTO-PROPOSALS --------------- "Cleanup of Dismissals" by Murphy Dismissing a CFJ is replaced with Judging DISMISSED. A Judge may always Judge DISMISSED, but such a Judgement may be overturned for the usual (lack of) reasons. "Dependent Actions by Application" by Murphy Applications have Objections as well as Signatures. Dependent Actions are performed by executing an Application, which must bear a certain number of Signatures and/or lack a certain number of Objections. "Fix Legality of Dismissals" by Murphy Any dismissal of a CFJ occurs upon informing the CotC, but may be found illegal for the usual (lack of) reasons. CALLS FOR JUDGEMENT ------------------- CFJ 1219 "CFJ 1217 was not Dismissed." [FALSE] 5/22 Called by Wes 5/22 Assigned to Steve, who Judges FALSE 5/23-24 Appealed by Wes and lee 6/2 Appealed by Murphy 6/2 Appeal improperly assigned to Sherlock, Crito, and Peekee 6/5-6/11 Appeal properly assigned to lee, Taral, and harvel; lee moves to reassign; Taral and harvel move to sustain Caller's argument (summary): Kelly attempted to dismiss CFJ 1217 under Rule 1565 vi), but vi) is not actually true. Rule 1565 says that the dismissal is thus not legal, and does not occur (because the CotC was not notified of a legal dismissal). Why 1565 vi) is not true: Kelly stated that the truth of CFJ 1217's statement changes over time, but Rule 451 gives import only to the truth at the time the CFJ was called. A reasonable effort to determine this for CFJ 1217 would consist simply of getting the current Assessor's answer to "do you understand TYHJÄ as an obvious synonym for one of FOR, AGAINST or ABSTAIN?". Judge's refutation (summary): A Judgement not in accordance with the Rules is still a Judgement. Counterargument: Dismissal is not a Judgement. Rule 1565 may place a technical requirement on dismissal that has no analogue applying to Judgements. Does Kelly's belief in the truth of 1565 vi) count toward dismissing it "for the reasons listed in this Rule [1565]"? Counter-counterargument: Kelly's belief in 1565 vi), even though arrived at by incorrect logic, was still eir reason for dismissal. CFJ 1224 "Elysion's message of 11 April 2000, reading in part, 'The Bank pays [TRUE] all its outstanding IAT POs (50 to Michael and 75 to Chuck)', did not Appealed have the effect of executing a Transfer Order which would satisfy the Payment Order executed by lee in eir message dated 11 March 2000, reading in part, 'I order the Bank to pay Murphy 130 IATs.'" 5/26 Called by Kelly 5/29-6/8 Assigned to Sherlock, who defaults 6/9 Assigned to Chuck 6/15 Appealed by Wes, Crito, and Steve Caller's argument (summary): Due to a mail server glitch, lee's message was not generally distributed till May 23. The falsity of this CFJ would imply that Elysion paid a Transfer Order without knowing that it existed. Judge's clarification (summary): The Payment Order sent on March 11 was not executed till May 23, when it was received by its intended recipient. Counterargument (summary): The Payment Order was an Administrative Order, and Rule 1808 explicitly states that it is executed and takes effect when published in the Public Forum. CFJ 1226 "The Transfer Orders which Peekee issued in the email identified by [FALSE] Message-ID: <20000524113533.52162.qmail@hotmail.com> satisfied the Stem Payment Orders as mentioned in the same email." 5/29 Called by Peekee 5/29-6/4 Assigned to Kelly, who Judges FALSE Judge's refutation (summary): CFJ 1225 found these Transfer Orders to be improperly or invalidly executed. CFJ 1227 "A Low Oligarch who is entitled to cast any vote at all upon a given [TRUE] Ordinary Proposal may cast a vote of ABSTAIN upon that Proposal." 5/29 Called by Kelly 5/30-6/3 Assigned to Murphy Judge's argument (summary): Rule 1935 only requires *multiple* votes by an Oligarch on an Ordinary Proposal to be all-FOR or all-AGAINST. CFJ 1228 "The Treasuror's Salary is 0.2 times the Basic Officer Salary." [TRUE] 6/3 Called by Murphy 6/4-6/10 Assigned to t, who Judges TRUE Caller's argument (summary): lee's Budget change of 5/31 "[set] the monthly officer salaries as follows" without explicitly mentioning the Treasuror's Salary. E clearly intended it to remain at 0.2 times the BOS; this CFJ is intended to rule out the possibility that e accidentally dropped it to zero. CFJ 1229 "Taral distributed at least one Proposal during the Nomic Week beginning May 29, 2000." 6/14 Called by Taral 6/14 Assigned to Elysion Caller's argument (summary): E sent it, but its delivery was delayed due to a mail server crash. OFFICES ------- 6/5 harvel announces eir intention not to re-Nominate for Clerk of the Courts. 6/7 Michael and t select harvel to become High Oligarch. 6/10 harvel selects Michael to become Middle Oligarch, and initiates an Auction for two Low Oligarch vacancies. 6/11 Wes is Elected Clerk of the Courts. OTHER ----- 6/10 Indulgence Auction ends. Elysion wins 8, Blob wins 3, and Michael wins 3, at 50 IATs per Indulgence. 6/13 Novalis joins the Order of the Evil Eye. Harlequin resigns from it. 6/14 Kelly claims that Promotor Taral committed Promotor Tardiness and and Promotor Misrepresentation (for a total of 3.5 Blots), for distributing no Proposals one week and too many the next. See CFJ 1229. Palnatoke goes On Hold. 6/15 Crito makes emself ineligible to Judge CFJs till further notice. TRADE OFFERS ------------ Ongoing offers: Player Date Will sell In return for ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Carnival 9/16 +0.01 VT 1 Denaria Carnival 9/16 10 Denaria On a Player's birthday, sing "Happy Birthday" to em in a key with at least four sharps OotEE 9/13 1 Iris 1 VT; non-members subject to 9% Tariff Wes 4/5 1 Twig Commenting on and changing a proto Wes 4/5 ad space 1 Twig per 30 days Recent one-time offers: Player Date Will sell In return for ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Kelly 5/4 Any Basic Negotiable; e has 170 Stems, no ABC Currency Murphy 5/6 VTs, P-Notes IATs; one-to-one basis Murphy 5/6 33 P-Notes 0.9 Indulgences; directed to t, if Peekee turns down eir offer Peekee 5/2 50 VTs or 1 Indulgence P-Notes t 5/2 0.9 Indulgences 33 P-Notes from Peekee; will not sell at any price to an Immaculate Player Taral 5/20 P-Notes VTs or IATs ERRATA ------ -- Ed Murphy http://rivendell.fortunecity.com/meridian/309/ "Most of the time, it seemed sublimely unaware of its limbs, though it was beginning to suspect it had hands."