From ford@jps.net Fri Jan 26 15:33:34 2001 Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 22:01:09 -0800 From: Ed Murphy Reply-To: agora-discussion@gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au To: Agora Business Subject: BUS: Agoran Weekly Journal THE AGORAN WEEKLY JOURNAL VOLUME 47, ISSUE 17 January 14, 2001 "I'm sorry, David, I'm afraid I can't do that." ADOPTED PROPOSALS ----------------- REJECTED PROPOSALS ------------------ PENDING PROPOSALS ----------------- "Adjust Elections" by Murphy - Proposal 4103 Terms of Service expire on the 15th of the month, not the 1st. Elections must be initiated as soon as possible after an Office comes to be without an Electee. "Alternate Adoption System" by Elysion - Proposal 4104 All Proposals have an Adoption Index of 1, but (if adopted) a Power equal to their Voting Index. For instance, if a Proposal attempts to amend both a Power=1 Rule and a Power=2 Rule, and it is adopted 7 FOR to 6 AGAINST (thus a Voting Index of 7/6), then the first amendment succeeds but the second fails. "Billing winning bidders" by Steve - Proposal 4094 Rather than creating "liabilities" by announcing winning Bids, the Auctioneer simply bills for them. "Clarify Resignation with Successor" by Murphy A successor must consent within one week of being named, and eir consent has no effect if the Office acquires an Electee in the meantime. "Compensate for Complacent Oligarchy" by Murphy - Proposal 4101 If an Ordinary Proposal fails Quorum, then it becomes Democratic and goes through another week of Voting. "Fixing Rule 1840" by Elysion - Proposal 4096 If an Inciting to Riot penalty is postponed due to a Revolt whose results remain undetermined, and the Revolt succeeds, the penalty is cancelled. "Making Stems Transferrable" by Blob - Proposal 4095 Stems may be freely transferred. "More Ways to Win" by Murphy - Proposal 4102 Not being Immaculate is a Win-Preventing Condition. Being the only Immaculate Player is a Win Condition. Upon such a Win, the Herald shall expunge N Blots per Player, where N is just enough to make at least one other Player Immaculate. An Insane Proposal distributed but receiving no FOR Votes is a Win Condition. "Scores" by t - Proposal 4097 Winning a contested Election is worth 15 Points, not 10. Losing a contested Election is worth 7 Points if you receive at least many Votes as there were Candidates. However, for the purpose of both of these awards, Candidates receiving no Votes are omitted. No penalty from resigning from an Office. Adoption of one's Proposal is worth 9 Points minimum, plus 29 if you have never had a Proposal adopted before. 1 Point for a Proposal that attains Quorum but receives exactly X times as many FOR as AGAINST Votes, where X is the Proposal's Adoption Index. Being the only Player to Vote FOR or AGAINST a Proposal is worth 4 Points, not 10. "Settle the Oligarchy" by Steve Peekee becomes a Low Oligarch. "Spelling Fixes, Part 1 of 2" by Murphy - Proposal 4099 Fix typos in the following Rules: Rule 1926 (The Official Secrets Act) Rule 1727 (Happy Birthday) Rule 1948 (Zombie Transfer Tax) Rule 1789 (Cantus Cygneus) Rule 1755 (No Non-Player Responsibilities) Rule 1431 (Claims of Error) Rule 1764 (Modes of Voting) Rule 1434 (Default Procedure for Referendum Voting) Rule 1810 (Noncompliance with Orders) Rule 1812 (Notices of Infraction) Rule 1369 (Theses) Rule 1370 (How to Get a Degree) Rule 1579 (Mintors) Rule 1917 (General Currency Taxation) Rule 1598 (Property Transfers) Rule 1887 (Default Procedure for Auctions) Rule 1924 (Living Twice Shall Have Its Price) Rule 1446 (Contests) "Spelling Fixes, Part 2 of 2" by Murphy - Proposal 4098 Fix spelling errors in Rules 1664 (Rebellion) and 1937 (Filling Vacancies in the Oligarchy). "The Dole" by Murphy - Proposal 4100 Players may go On The Dole, forfeiting eir Minimum Income to automatically expunge a Blot per month. PROTO-PROPOSALS --------------- "Simplify Blots, Part 1 of 2" by Murphy Rule 1435 (Definition of Indulgences, Blots, and Immaculate) is simplified: * Individual Rules requiring or allowing changes in Blots no longer need specify how the change must be reported to the Herald. Instead, they need only specify the entity required or allowed to perform the change, and that entity's Executor must report it to the Herald. * Provision for removing Blots with Indulgences moved into a new Rule. Rule 1885 (Zombie Auctions) is simplified: * Simpler language, generally. * Removed explicit report-it-to-the-Herald text. * Zombies with <1 Blot subject to same 1-Indulgence Starting Bid as Immaculate Zombies. Rules 1747 (Pardoning Lawlessness) and 1439 (Blots Due to a CFJ) simplified by removing explicit report-it-to-the-Herald text. "Simplify Blots, Part 2 of 2" by Murphy No effect unless Part 1 adopted within the previous week. Rule 1664 (Rebellion) simplified by removing explicit report-it-to-the-Herald text. CALLS FOR JUDGEMENT ------------------- CFJ 1252 "Peekee has a Will." [FALSE] 11/7 Called by Peekee 1/6-13 Assigned to Chuck, who Judges FALSE Caller's argument (summary): Peekee had a Will when Wills last ceased to be defined by the Rules. Now Wills are once again defined by the Rules. Is "Peekee's Will" still an entity? If so, is it once again a Will? Judge's refutation (summary): Wills ceased to exist when they ceased to be defined, and Proposal 4082 (re-defining Wills) contained no provision for bringing previous Wills back into existence. CFJ 1253 "Novalis and Harlequin are not Zombies." [FALSE] 11/16 Called by Andre 1/6-12 Assigned to Crito, who Judges FALSE Caller's argument (summary): The Zombies have sent messages to the Public Forum (e.g. to Vote), which makes them cease to be Zombies. Judge's refutation (summary): The PF messages are sent by the Zombies' Executors, not the Zombies themselves. CFJ 1254 "Peekee possesses at least one Voting Token." 11/20 Called by Murphy 1/6 Assigned to David Caller's argument (summary): Murphy attempted to create a Voting Token and transfer it to Peekee. Counterargument (summary): Even if the creation succeeded, the Voting Token cannot be possessed or transferred, because the Rules do not explicitly define it as being Property. CFJ 1255 "Rule 1586 should be interpreted such that the Rule created by [FALSE] Proposal 4090 (Debt Conversion) has no effect, since any outstanding debts and liabilities in Basic Currencies were canceled when Basic Currencies were abolished from the Rules." 12/8 Called by Oerjan 1/6-13 Assigned to Elysion, who Judges FALSE Counterargument (summary): Only the Currencies themselves were abolished; debts referring to those Currencies continued to exist. CFJ 1257 "Peekee is an Oligarch." [TRUE] 12/18 Called by Murphy 1/8-12 Assigned to Kelly, who Judges TRUE Caller's argument (summary): While Peekee paid eir bid late, e still paid it, and thus became an Oligarch. CFJ 1258 "Peekee is the Notary." 12/18 Called by Murphy 1/8 Assigned to lee Caller's argument (summary): Notary ceased to be an Office on 5/8, at which time Blob held it. Had it remained an Office, a subsequent Election would have transferred it to Peekee. Can that alleged Election be interpreted as effective anyway? OFFICES/OLIGARCHS ----------------- 1/7 Elections begin for Assessor, Herald, Promotor, Speaker-Elect, and Treasuror. Speaker Murphy delegates Office of Promotor to Elysion, pending consent. Quarterly Speaker Transition is announced. Speaker-Elect Chuck becomes Speaker. Registrar Murphy becomes Speaker-Elect. Elysion Nominates for Herald and Promotor. 1/8 t Nominates for Assessor. 1/12 Blob Nominates for Treasuror. Eir Proto-Budget is identical to the current Budget, except that the ex-Offices of Accountor, Notary, and Priest are omitted. OTHER ----- 1/8 Michael comes Off Hold. 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 Elysion 9/7/00 Proposal Votes Denaria; during first four days of Voting Period; unaccepted bribes returned within five days OotEE 9/13/99 1 Iris 1 VT; non-members subject to 9% Tariff Peekee 12/17/00 Oligarch Votes Highest bidder 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Kelly 7/1 1 VE Negotiable Kelly 10/4 9 BTs Negotiable pTang 12/8 5 BTs Crony Declaration, Proposal 4093 Taral 10/4 5 P-Notes 1 BT Wes 10/19 16 IATs 1 Indulgence ERRATA ------ Peekee became an Oligarch on 12/17/00 [CFJ 1257], thus High Oligarch Elysion lost eir position on 12/15/00 [Rule 1938], hence the announcement on 12/31/00 of an Oligarch Auction did not actually cause an Auction because it did not correctly state the number of items up for Bid [Rule 1887 (e)]. -- 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."