From ford@jps.net Fri Sep 1 21:03:24 2000 Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 04:41:40 -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 47, ISSUE 4 September 1, 2000 ADOPTED PROPOSALS ----------------- "Fix Rule 559" by harvel - Proposal 4057 adopted 8/27 Remove a redundant requirement for the Registrar to report Active/ Inactive status. "Fix the Stupid Bug" by t - Proposal 4056 adopted 8/20 Auctioned Papyri are paid out by the Promotor, not the Accountor. "General budgets" by Oerjan - Proposal 4054 adopted 8/20 Budgets are defined as a general class, with the Treasuror's Budget as one instance. "Minor fix" by Peekee - Proposal 4058 adopted 8/27 Correct a doubled "the" in Rule 1946 (Distribution of Voting Entitlements). "The Grand Warden of the Oligarchy" by harvel - Proposal 4053 adopted 8/20 The GWO tracks the status of the Oligarchy, and must also announce vacancies in the Oligarchy. REJECTED PROPOSALS ------------------ "Respect for the dead" by Peekee - Proposal 4055 failed quorum 8/20 Wills are re-defined, and the Notary may carry them out as e sees fit when handling Abandoned Property. "The CotC's Budget" by Oerjan - Proposal 4059 rejected 8/27 The CotC's Budget determines the Class of all Crimes and Infractions. Once per 30 days, the CotC may amend eir Budget with 2 Supporters, but may not change any one Class by more than 1. (However, e may add or remove a Crime or Infraction.) The Class of a Crime may be from 0 to 15, an Infraction from 0 to 5 (except Dereliction of Duty, which is resolved as an Infraction but may be penalized as if it were a Crime). PENDING PROPOSALS ----------------- "Fix Rule 1614" by harvel - Proposal 4064 Remove a spurious "either" from the Rule. "Judicial Deregulation" by Elysion Repeal Rule 1871 (Turns for All). "One-shot rule cleanup" by Taral - Proposal 4065 Repeal Rules 1943 (Continuity of the Bank) and 1949 (Continuity of Debt), left over from the conversion from Payment Orders to Debts. "Respect for the dead" by Peekee Wills are re-defined, and the Notary may carry them out as e sees fit when handling Abandoned Property. However, before transferring a type of Property according to an entity's Will, all the entity's debts for that type of Property at the time of Abandoning must first be satisfied. "Rule cleanup" by Taral - Proposal 4063 Repeal Rule 1927 (Bank Currency Creation). "The Court of Equity" by Taral Debts found invalid by CFJ are cancelled. Reporting a known-invalid debt is the Class 10 Crime of Extortion. Rule 1742 (Agreements Between Players) is updated from Payment Order style language to Debt style language. Fees are changed from up-front costs to debts. Private Orders are explicitly made valid unless specified otherwise, but are prohibited from requiring or restricting Property transfer except to satisfy debts of the entity being Ordered. "What is Public?" by Wes - Proposal 4066 Any communication sent to a PF is deemed to have been sent to all Players. Any communication sent to a DF (Discussion Forum) is deemed not to have been sent to all Players. Any communication sent to all Players is deemed to have been made Publicly. This collects all PF timing requirements into a single place. Throughout the rest of the Ruleset, requirements to send something to the PF are replaced with requirements to do them Publicly. Oh, and "ProSiRuP is Marvy" is hidden in the middle of the dreary part of the Proposal. (Agora's first known instance of scam by obscurity occurred in early 1997: "Murphy Wins" was embedded in a Proposal assigning names to then-nameless Crimes/Infractions, to avoid ambiguity of Double Jeopardy.) PROTO-PROPOSALS --------------- "Bluff Auctions" by Blob Bluff Auctions are conducted using normal poker rules. Maximum starting Bid is 20 times the MUQ of the Auction Currency. Bids may be raised from a non-winning value, but may not exceed the previously-top Bid by more than 20 times the MUQ. Upon the end of a Bluff Auction, all non-Winning Bids are billed to their Bidders. Winning Bids are determined by Bid amount, with ties broken by poker hand rank. Anyone may conduct a re-deal Without Objection from Players holding at at least four Cards. "Fee Stuff" by Taral Fees are debts defined as such, but may not be Ordered paid. "Judicial Cleanup" by Peekee A CFJ may be Withdrawn by the CotC (thus ceasing to be a CFJ) if: * It contains no single clearly identifiable Statement. * The Caller requests it, and its outcome would be trivial. * It is an Excess CFJ. Executor-related restrictions are moved to Rule 698 (Always an Eligible Judge). The CotC may recuse a Judge: * If e goes On Hold. * With 2 Supporters. * If it is 7 days past the end of the Deliberation Period and e still has not delivered Judgement. The Board of Appeals is deemed to act once an unchangeable majority is attained. Redundant statements of the revocation of Judicial salaries are repealed. Clarifies that a Call for Appeal must be properly executed before it permits the stay of a Judicial Order. "Silencing the People" by Andre Making someone Quiet who has posted to the PF during the past seven days is a Crime. "The Dole" by Murphy Players on the Dole get one Blot expunged per month, but give up receiving eir Minimum Income to do so. CALLS FOR JUDGEMENT ------------------- CFJ 1234 "Kudos are Property." [TRUE] 7/19 Called by Murphy 7/20-27 Assigned to Kelly, who Judges TRUE 7/27-28 Appealed by Steve, Palnatoke, and Peekee (Blob attempts to appeal in a-d) 7/29 Appeal assigned to lee (by mistake), Taral, and Wes 7/30 lee, Taral, and Wes all move to sustain 7/30 Speaker Chuck takes eir proper seat on the Board 8/2 Murphy moves that Judge Kelly return half eir Judicial Salary to the Bank 8/3 Chuck moves to sustain 8/7 Kelly alleges that e is no longer Judge of this CFJ, as Rule 408 makes em ineligible after 7 days (even though e delivered Judgement within that time) 8/20 Wes claims that Kelly is guilty of Slow Motion 8/20 Kelly recused; Motion reassigned to Taral, who denies it Caller's argument (summary): Rule 1062 says that Players possess Kudos. Rule 1942 defines any entity possessible by another Player as Property. CFJ 1237 "The Order issued by Chuck on Sun, 23 Jul 2000 17:17:02 -0500 [FALSE] was valid." Appealed 7/25 Called by Taral 7/26-27 Assigned to Oerjan, who Judges FALSE 7/30 Taral moves that Chuck be Ordered to pay the Bank 24 P-Notes, the amount that Chuck received as a result of the Order in question. 7/30 Oerjan grants the motion 7/30-8/19 Appealed by Murphy, Chuck, Steve, and Oerjan 8/20 Appeal assigned to Chuck, Taral, and Wes 8/20 Taral (ineligible because e is the Caller) replaced by Steve 8/20 Wes moves to overturn and reassign 8/21 Chuck (allegedly ineligible because e made emself ineligible to Judge this CFJ on 8/1; see CFJ xxxx) allegedly replaced by Murphy 8/24 Steve moves to overturn and reverse 8/24 Improperly reassigned to Elysion (Wes's and Steve's motions were noted, but Taral's attempted motion on 8/20 should have been ignored) 8/30 Murphy recused and replaced by Kelly Caller's argument for FALSE (summary): Chuck transferred some P-Notes for the purpose of paying a Fee. The P-Note payment succeeded, but the Fee payment failed. The Rules do not require that Players be reimbursed for failed Fee payments. Rule 1796 permits the validity of Chuck's Order to be proven by CFJ only if its execution is required by the Rules. Counterargument: Rule 1796 also permits the validity of the Order to be proven by CFJ if its execution is "permitted in" the circumstances existing when it was executed; and the Rules do not prohibit or regulate the creation of a Private Order, thus such creation is permitted by Rule 101. Justice Steve's argument (summary): Rule 101's permission is not turned off by the regulation of Orders generally. It *is* turned off by the regulation of Private Orders specifically, by Rule 1808. But the execution of Private Orders is permitted by Rules 1794 and 1808 directly, without involving Rule 101. Concurring opinion (summary): Rule 1808 does not regulate any aspect of Private Orders, except to state that an attempt to execute one is ineffectual unless sent to the Player at whom the Order is directed. CFJ 1240 "Kelly is not the Judge of CFJ 1234." [FALSE] 8/8 Called by Kelly Appealed 8/9-14 Assigned to t, who Judges FALSE 8/14-17 Appealed by Steve, Palnatoke, Kelly, Taral, Wes, and Peekee 8/15 Appeal assigned to Chuck, Taral, and Wes 8/18 Chuck makes emself ineligible 8/20 Taral moves to overturn and reassign 8/20 Wes moves to overturn and reassign 8/30 Chuck recused and replaced by Blob 8/30 Blob moves to overturn and reassign Caller's argument (summary): Rule 408 says that Judge become ineligible seven days after the end of the Deliberation Period, and does not explicitly restrict that clause to cases in which the Judge fails to deliver Judgement by that time. Counterargument (summary): But it may implicitly restrict that clause to such cases. CFJ 1242 "Palnatoke is Off Hold." [FALSE] 8/22 Called by Palnatoke 8/22-23 Assigned to Andre, who Judges FALSE Caller's argument (summary): Palnatoke stated on July 31 that e would come Off Hold at midnight, August 12. Judge's refutation (summary): Rule 1016 says that one may come Off Hold only as specified in the Rules, and is also the only Rule to specify how to come Off Hold. No message stating that one comes Off Hold may be interpreted to take effect later, or else all such messages could be thus interpreted. CFJ 1243 "Chuck is ineligible to serve as a Justice in the Appeal of CFJ [TRUE] 1237." Appealed 8/21 Called by Steve 8/22-24 Assigned to Wes, who Judges TRUE 8/25-26 Appealed by Andre, Crito, harvel, Oerjan, and Kelly 8/25 Andre creates and signs an Application to Submit an Opinion, to force the official recording of eir Dissenting Opinion 8/25 Crito signs Andre's Application 8/27 harvel and Steve sign Andre's Application 8/28 Andre submits and executes eir Application 8/30 Appeal assigned to Chuck, Taral, and Andre Caller's argument (summary): Chuck made emself ineligible to Judge CFJ 1237 on August 1. When CFJ was called, Chuck was ineligible only due to Rule 1871, which does not affect the Board. However, there may be some Rules that use "Judge" to include Justices too. Counterargument (summary): No, there aren't. The Rules restrict the correctness of Judges and Judgements; they restrict Justices only to decide whether the Judge did what e should have. Judge's concurring opinion (summary): The object of "it" in Rule 911's "when it was called" is "the Appeal". Counterargument (summary): No, the object is "the CFJ". The time that an Appeal is called is undefined anyway, though it would presumably be the earliest time at which there exist sufficient insistences on Appeal. Rule 541 iii) and iv) use "the matter the Board is to consider" - a phrase similar to one in Rule 911 - in apparently inconsistent ways, but this is resolved if the phrase is interpreted as "the Judicial process regarding a given CFJ". Transferring that interpretation to the context of Rule 911, the only sensible interpretation of "when a Judicial process was called" is "when the original CFJ was called". CFJ 1244 "A given Rule's title is a substantive property of that Rule, and [FALSE] so may be changed as a Rule Change." 8/23 Called by Peekee 8/24-26 Assigned to Blob, who Judges FALSE Caller's argument (summary): The Rules may refer to a Rule by title. Judge's refutation (summary): The Rules do not currently do so, and until they do, Rule titles will be non-substantive. Rule 1485 explicitly states that Rule titles have no inherent effect on the meaning or application of the Rule. CFJ 1245 "The Speaker has failed to initiate an Election for the Office of Grand Warden of the Oligarchy as required by the Rules." 8/24 Called by Taral 8/24 Assigned to Chuck Caller's argument (summary): GWotO has no Electee, so the Rule "The Order of Temporary Succession" applies. OFFICES/OLIGARCHS ----------------- 8/21 lee improperly announces an Election for Grand High Warden of the Oligarchy, and attempts to Nominate for same. 8/22 High Oligarch Michael initiates an Auction for a Low Oligarch vacancy. 8/30 Taral wins the Low Oligarch Auction with a bid of 105 VTs. Auction for Low Oligarch - Final results ---------- 105 Taral ---------- 100 Steve 95 Taral 90 Steve 85 Taral 80 Steve 55 Taral 54 Wes 50 Taral 45 Wes 30 Kelly 20 Taral 20 Taral 15 Kelly OTHER ----- 8/20 Taral makes all other Active Players (Andre, Anthony, Blob, Chuck, Crito, Elysion, Harlequin, harvel, Kelly, Lee, Michael, Murphy, Novalis, Oerjan, Schneidster, Steve, t, and Wes) Quiet. lee, Kelly, and Wes become Noisy. Kelly makes Taral Quiet. 8/21 Blob, harvel, Andre, Michael, t, Crito, Oerjan, Taral, and Elysion become Noisy. Andre attempts to make Taral Quiet. Treasuror lee announces eir intent to change eir Budget as follows: * Grand Warden of the Oligarchy - 1.4 times the BOS (new Office) * Payroll Clerk - 1.1 times the BOS (was 2.4) harvel supports the change. lee makes the change. 8/22 Steve become Noisy. 8/24 Palnatoke comes Off Hold, as eir attempt to do so on 8/12 via announcement on 7/31 was found to be unsuccessful (CFJ 1242). 8/25 Oerjan attempts to make Chuck Quiet. 8/27 Murphy becomes Noisy. This leaves only Chuck and the Zombies Quiet. 8/29 Rulekeepor Chuck is cited for Failure to Report (twice, for the weeks of 8/14 and 8/21) and Delayed COE Response (twice, for the questionable Amendment Numbers of three Rules as well as the questionable Amendment Number and text of Rule 1051), for a total of 6 Blots. 8/30 Murphy is cited for Failing to Judge an Appeal (for CFJ 1237), for 3 Blots. This may be invalid; see CFJ 1243. Chuck is cited for Failing to Judge an Appeal (for CFJ 1240), for 3 Blots. Auction for 4 Papyri - Final results --------- 122 Chuck 122 Chuck 122 Chuck 100 Taral --------- 96 Kelly 91 Chuck 51 Wes 50 Elysion 49 t 48 Kelly 35 Wes 30 Wes 24 Kelly 15 Wes 12 Wes 12 Kelly 1 Taral TRADE OFFERS ------------ Ongoing offers: Player Date Will sell In return for ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Blob 6/19/00 Vote on Ordinary Highest bidder; minimum 10 of any Proposals Basic Currency, or equivalent Elysion 7/23/00 Herald's Privilege Negotiable Carnival 9/16/99 0.01 VT 1 Denaria Carnival 9/16/99 10 Denaria On a Player's birthday, sing "Happy Birthday" to em in a key with at least four sharps OotEE 9/13/99 1 Iris 1 VT; non-members subject to 9% Tariff Peekee 7/25/00 VTs P-Notes Wes 4/5/00 1 Twig Commenting on and changing a proto Wes 4/5/00 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 Steve 8/16 26 P-Notes Negotiable Taral 7/1 P-Notes VTs Wes 7/7 IATs VTs (directed to Crito) ERRATA ------ Proposal 4039 "Satiric Ballads" was written by Elysion, not Oerjan. -- 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."