From ford@jps.net Mon Jul 10 15:51:54 2000 Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 01:18:36 -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 22 July 10, 2000 ADOPTED PROPOSALS ----------------- REJECTED PROPOSALS ------------------ "Agoran Time" by t - Proposal 4024 failed quorum 7/2 Agora uses GMT (no daylight savings time). Weeks, months, quarters, years, relative times, and periodic requirements are defined. PENDING PROPOSALS ----------------- "72 Hours" by t - Proposal 4026 Auctions end after 72 (not 24) hours with no new winning Bids. "Bring Back the Worm!" by Elysion "Honourless Worm" is re-enacted, now as a Unique Patent Title attaching to the Player (if any) with the least Kudos. "Excess Baggage II" by Elysion A reference to Blots in Rule 1445 (Defaults for Elections) is removed, since Players may now Nominate for Office regardless of Blots. "Power!" by t All limits on Voting are implemented via Voting Power. Oligarchs have a more severely limited Voting Power on Democratic Proposals. "The Medici" by harvel The Medici is a new Officer who tracks the identity of Officers and Oligarchs. E controls Elections, announces Speaker Transitions, and detects Dereliction of Duty. PROTO-PROPOSALS --------------- "Cleanup of Dismissals" by Murphy A Judgement of DISMISSED may be delivered at any time, but should only be delivered for certain reasons. (If no such reasons apply, then such a Judgement should be overturned on Appeal.) "Lacks standing" is reserved for CFJs which should be dismissed for some reason other than being irrelevant or undecidable. Such reasons include Excess CFJs, Double Jeopardy CFJs, CFJs alleging Judge wrongdoing (one should Appeal instead), and CFJs alleging the violation of a private agreement not involving the Caller. "NEP" by t Pennies are a Bank Currency, tracked by the Accountor, and replacing Stems, VTs, IATs, and P-Notes. (Each entity receives Pennies equal to half eir combined holdings in these Currencies.) Slotten are a Bank Currency, tracked by the Promotor, and paid to get Proposals distributed. A Proposal's Distribution Cost is 1, or 1.5 if Urgent. While Disinterested, a Proposal is always Distributable. Interested Proposals start as Undistributable. Any Player may pay a Proposal's Distribution Cost in Slotten to make it Distributable, or twice its Distribution Cost in Slotten to make it Undistributable. The Current Batch contains all Distributable Proposals. The Promotor chooses how many Slotten to Auction each month, but must Auction at least one. If there are at least three Winners other than emself, then e may pay out to emself Pennies equal to the Winning Bid. New Players get one Slotte, plus one Slotte per Interested Proposal adopted during eir Grace Period. Each Legislator gets one Slotte when this Proposal is adopted. Each Player with more than one Blot gets half eir Blots expunged when this Proposal is adopted. "No Bouncing VEs" by Kelly An entity's Voting Power on a Proposal is eir lowest Voting Power from the time it was (distributed or made Democratic, whichever is later) to the time e attempts to Vote. "No Sheltering VEs. And Vacancies Should Be Announced." by Murphy Each reason for a vacancy in the Oligarchy is associated with a Player who must announce the vacancy ASAP after it occurs. If an Oligarch is the Executor of a non-Bank entity possessing VEs, then those VEs count toward eir VE holding limit. CALLS FOR JUDGEMENT ------------------- 7/4 Steve states that a CFJ ought to be overturned and reassigned when the Judge failed to consider an important piece of evidence, or a significant line of argument. E also states that a CFJ ought to be overturned and reversed when the Judge, despite being aware of all relevant facts and Rules, made a mistake in interpreting or applying the Rules. CFJ 1229 "Taral distributed at least one Proposal during the Nomic Week beginning May 29, 2000." 6/14 Called by Taral 6/14-17 Assigned to Elysion, who Judges FALSE 6/17-22 Appealed by Murphy, Taral, and lee 6/22 Appeal assigned to Wes, lee, and Murphy 6/26 Wes moves to sustain 6/28 Murphy moves to overturn and reassign 6/29 lee moves to overturn and reassign 6/29-7/6 Reassigned to Chuck, who Judges FALSE 7/6 Appealed by Taral Caller's argument (summary): E sent it, but its delivery was delayed due to a mail server crash. Judge Elysion's refutation (summary): Late delivery does not cause earlier sending. Counterargument: Earlier sending is just that. Receipt is a separate event. Judge Chuck's refutation (summary): "Distribute" is not specifically defined by the Rules, and is generally defined as "give out or deliver especially to members of a group", which Taral failed to do on June 1. CFJ 1233 "Rule 1927 should be interpreted as requiring the Executor of the Bank to announce eir intent to mint Bank Currencies between seven and fourteen days prior to actually minting them. 7/2 Called by Steve 7/2 Steve submits a Motion requesting an Order to Annotate Caller's argument (summary): "The Executor of a Bank Currency" is strictly undefined, but is a "semanto" (semantic typo) for one of "The Executor of the Mintor of a Bank Currency" or "The Mintor of a Bank Currency" or "The Executor of the Bank". Counterarguments: The Rules used to define "Executor of a Bank Currency" as shorthand for "Executor of the Mintor of a Bank Currency". Thus, "Executor of a Bank Currency" is not a semantic typo, but rather an intentional phrase that has since lost its meaning. (Steve says e was unaware of this when e Called the CFJ, but now agrees with this counterargument.) A Bank Currency is not an entity, but a set of entities, so it cannot (even in theory) have a literal Executor. It might still be argued that "Executor" should be read as "Mintor", or "a Bank Currency" as "the Bank". OFFICES/OLIGARCHS ----------------- 7/2 lee Nominates for Speaker-Elect, but later withdraws. Murphy Nominates for Speaker-Elect and Scorekeepor. High Oligarch Kelly promotes Elysion to Middle Oligarch, and attempts to initiate a Low Oligarch Auction (but fails to include the information required by clause (e) of Rule 1887, "Default Procedure for Auctions"). 7/3 High Oligarch Kelly initiates a Low Oligarch Auction. 7/4 Kelly submits a Proto-Budget. Taral amends eir Proto-Budget. 7/5 Michael Nominates for Registrar. Kelly amends eir Proto-Budget. lee Nominates for Treasuror and submits a Proto-Budget. Taral amends eir Proto-Budget. 7/7 Accountor Crito announces eir desire to delegate that Office for at least the period from 7/16 to 7/22. lee wins the Low Oligarch Election with a bid of 100 VTs. 7/8 Voting begins for these Offices: Scorekeepor (Murphy, Peekee) Speaker-Elect (Murphy, lee) Treasuror (Kelly, Taral, lee) Michael is Elected Registrar. Nominations begin for Payroll Clerk. lee Nominates for Payroll Clerk. 7/9 lee makes the following statements of policy. * As Speaker, e would use the Right of Patronage to reward anyone who acts to benefit Agora; produce Reports for Offices defaulting to the Speaker; and make Proposals Democratic if and only if someone requests such. E makes no comment on eir judicial policy. * If e remains both Treasuror and Payroll Clerk, then e can completely satisfy Stem conversion requests in a single message. * As Treasuror, e would announce Budget amendments in a-d before making them, and e would listen to suggestions and incorporate them into the Budget. Budget Current Taral Kelly lee ------------------------------------------------ BOS 40 36 36 36 Accountor 1.4 1.3 1.1 1.1 Assessor 1.2 1.0 1.1 1.1 CotC 1.2 1.3 1.3 1.3 Herald 1.2 0.9 1.0 1.0 Justiciar 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3 Notary 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.5 Payroll Clerk 2.2 2.4 2.4 2.4 Priest 1.2 1.5 1.5 1.2 Promotor 1.5 1.8 1.8 1.5 Registrar 1.1 0.9 0.8 0.8 Rulekeepor 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.3 Scorekeepor 0.7 0.3 0.3 0.3 Speaker-Elect 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Treasuror 0.2 0.4 0.7 0.7 Speaker 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 Judicial 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 Minimum 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 Distributor 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 New Players 2.7 2.8 2.8 2.8 OTHER ----- 7/1 Kelly's Grace Period ends. 7/2 Notary Taral transfers all P-Notes from Kolja A., Morendil, and Oerjan to the Bank. 7/5 Herald Elysion distributes an Indulgence each to Crito, harvel, Michael, Novalis, Palnatoke, Schneidster, Steve, and t, for being Immaculate all quarter. E also bills Crito an Indulgence for the Zombie Schneidster. No Indulgence Auction this month. Number of Indulgences in circulation (47.5) exceeds number of Players (20) plus number of Blots (24). High Oligarch Kelly creates "Kelly's Property Holding Contest" for the purpose of later transferring eir VE to it. harvel comes Off Hold. 7/7 Sure enough, High Oligarch Kelly transfers eir VE to "Kelly's Property Holding Contest". New Low Oligarch lee follows Kelly's example, creating "lee's Property Holding Contest" (which shall be known as "fred", according to its Regulations) and transfers 2 VEs to it. 7/9 Steve comes Off Hold. TRADE OFFERS ------------ Ongoing offers: Player Date Will sell In return for ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Blob 6/19 Vote on Ordinary Highest bidder; minimum 10 of any Proposals Basic Currency, or equivalent 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Crito 7/6 Negotiable IATs Kelly 7/1 1 VE Negotiable Murphy 5/6 VTs, P-Notes IATs; one-to-one basis Taral 7/1 P-Notes VTs Wes 7/7 IATs VTs (directed to Crito) 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."