From ford@jps.net Sat Jul 21 13:39:15 2001 Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 00:32:40 -0700 From: Ed Murphy Reply-To: agora-discussion@agoranomic.org To: Agora Business Subject: BUS: Agoran Weekly Journal THE AGORAN WEEKLY JOURNAL VOLUME 48, ISSUE 7 Saturday, July 21, 2001 HOW FEW REMAIN -------------- Andre - Stare Decisis www.win.tue.nl/~engels/stare.txt harvel - THE END IS NI tarski.2y.net/~harvel/ Elysion - Field of Dreams www.msu.edu/~boehmejo/agora.html Lindrum - The AgorEx www.panix.com/~lindrum/agorex/ Michael - First Speaker www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/mn200/games/nomic/yoyo/ Murphy - Garden Nomic II groups.yahoo.com/group/garden-nomic/ pTang - Bribe Tokens marknau.editthispage.com/stories/storyReader$44 t - AWJ Archive www.iki.fi/scurra/agora.html Taral - Web Judiciary cotc.taral.net/ Wes - Web Judiciary www.netgecko.com/cotc/ ADOPTED PROPOSALS ----------------- "Another Use for Indulgences" by Elysion - Proposal 4175 adopted 7/3 A Player may pay 1 Indulgence to change eir Role after six weeks, or 3 Indulgences to change it immediately. "Auction Patches" by root - Proposal 4176 adopted 7/3 Items are Auctioned in lots. The owner of an Auctioned lot incurs a debt for that lot to a winning Bidder, skipping the "pay out" mechanism. Vickrey Auctions don't say what happens if there are exactly as many uncancelled Bids as there are lots up for Auction. In this case, the Final Auction Price is the Starting Bid. "Bastille Day" by Oerjan - Proposal 4182 adopted 7/9 On Bastille Day (July 14), each Rebel counts double toward the chance of success if e publicly hums a few bars of "La Marseillaise", but a successful Rebellion leaves each Rebel with one Blot (even if e was previously Immaculate). "Don't be overkill" by Ziggy - Proposal 4185 adopted 7/17 Oligardiness is reduced from a Class 2 to a Class 1 Infraction. "Executors Revamped" by Steve - Proposal 4190 adopted 7/17 An Executor may act on behalf of an Executee, but no longer "as if e is the Executee". Limited Executors is explicitly defined. Entities may have multiple Executors. An entity may have at most one Prime Executor with respect to a certain action. A Player is eir own Prime Executor by default. Power of Attorney is not withdrawn due to the Grantor going On Hold. The Holder of Power of Attorney is Prime Executor of the Grantor. The Treasuror is Prime Executor of the Bank, except for debts in a Bank Currency, for which the Recordkeepor is Prime Executor. Embezzlement covers all Property transfers not explicitly required or permitted by the Rules. Rules 947 (Bonus for Repeal), 1959 (Wills), and 1598 (Property Transfers) no longer explicitly mention Executors. Razl becomes Noisy. "Fix Periodic Compensations" by Taral - Proposal 4179 adopted 7/3 Salaries and Distributor's Gratuity require 16 (not 12) days of holding the appropriate position. "Fix Unready Judges" by root - Proposal 4178 adopted 7/3 A Player who becomes ineligible to Judge due to a Grace Period is treated as if e became ineligible by request; in particular, e may become eligible by request while still in eir Grace Period. "Heroism is Catching" by Kelly - Proposal 4184 adopted 7/17 Douglas Hofstadter becomes a Hero. "Indulgence Auctions Happen" by Goethe - Proposal 4188 adopted 7/17 The Monthly Bank Indulgence Gain (MBIG) is the number of Indulgences transferred to the Bank minus the number transferred from the Bank. If the Indulgence Differential is less than or equal to zero, then the Herald may Auction up to half the MBIG. "LET'S GET THIS SHOW ON THE ROAD ALREADY" by Elysion - Proposal 4180 adopted 7/3 It takes 100 (not 200) Points to Win. "Make Buying Democracy Easier" by neil - Proposal 4187 adopted 7/17 An Untained Speaker may (With 3 Supporters) Sanitise an Ordinary Interested Proposal which no one has attempted to Democratise, making it Democratic and Sane. If this happens during its Voting Period (which requires someone to pay 1 Papyrus), then all Votes are cancelled and the Voting Period is extended to seven days after the Sanitising. A Player may (With Support) attempt to Democratise an Ordinary Interesting Proposal. This costs 0.1 VE except for an Untainted Speaker. Until the end of the Voting Period, Players may pay VEs to Vote FOR or AGAINST Democratisation. If FORs >= AGAINSTs, then all Votes are cancelled and the Voting Period is extended by seven days. "Opposite Proposals" by neil - Proposal 4194 adopted 7/17 Each time the Promotor distributes Proposals, e may randomly select one and add an Opposite Proposal to the distribution. E may (Without 2 Objections) pay out 0.1 Papyri to emself for doing so. "Points Contests" by Goethe - Proposal 4191 adopted 7/17 A Points Contest is one whose ACO says it is. A Player can be Contestmaster of at most one Points Contest per month. Once per month, a Points Contest (that existed at the beginning of the month) may award Points to one or more Players, maximum PPP * NPC where PWIN = Points needed to win PPP = PWIN / 20 NPC = Number of Players who were Contestants during past 14 days A Player may receive at most PWIN / 5 from all Points Contests; awards exceeding this limit are invalid for that Player only. "Raffle Patch" by Elysion - Proposal 4177 adopted 7/3 Players unable to Bid in an Auction cannot buy Raffle tickets either, if the Auction is a Raffle (which does not involve Bidding). "Simplify Organizations" by Murphy - Proposal 4181 adopted 7/9 Rule 1528 (Organizations) is simplified in language, mentions Administrators, and states that all required properties except Class may be changed by unanimous member consent. Rules 1614 (Organizations' Names) and 1612 (Organizations' SLCs) are simplified in language. A Rule is created that explicitly lists Classes of Organizations. Rule 1531 (Administrators and Their Duties) generally allows a Charter or another Rule to separate the identities of the Administrator, Maintainer, and Executor. Rules 1533 (Application to Create an Organization) and 1397 (Dissolution of Organizations) simply refer to the list of properties that Organizations are required to have, rather than reiterating the list. Rule 1617 (Changing the Jurisdiction of an Organization's SLC) is repealed, as it is now redundant with Rule 1528. "Tax Avoidance" by Taral - Proposal 4193 adopted 7/17 Rebels are only tax-exempt if they were Rebellious when the intent to tax was announced. "The Neo-Oligarchy" by Elysion - Proposal 4186 rejected 7/17 There may be any number of Oligarchs. All Oligarchs have the Voting Power that Low Oligarchs currently have. Current Oligarchs become Elder Oligarchs for three months. (The Rulekeepor may repeal this clause Without Objection if there are no Elder Oligarchs.) The GWotO's Budget includes the Oligarchy Auction Rate, from 1 to 4. The GWotO may amend eir Budget Without 2 Oligarch Objections. Each month, the GWotO shall auction a number of Oligarchy positions equal to the Oligarchy Auction Rate, and shall bill each non-Elder Oligarch 0.1 VEs (and remove anyone who doesn't pay within seven days). Rebels remain in the Oligarchy on a successful Rebellion. "The Scribes' Council" by Kelly - Proposal 4174 adopted 7/3 The Scribes' Council is the set of all Scribes. A Player may make a Proposal Distributable for free with the support of a majority of the Scribes' Council. REJECTED PROPOSALS ------------------ 7/7 Promotor Elysion aborts Proposal 4169 ("Fix Rule 1686"); Syllepsis's attempt to Disinterest it was sent to agora-business@agoranomic.org, which was not yet a Public Forum at the time, and so it was never Distributable. Whether this invalidates the effect of Proposal 4169's adoption is unclear. "Fix of the Fix" by Elysion - Proposal 4183 rejected 7/9 Double Papyrus awards due to Proposal 4168 (because the old New Player Award was accompanied by a 1-Papyrus bonus, but it was not part of the NPA) are revoked. "INFLUENZA" by harvel - Proposal 4189 rejected 7/17 Each week, the Promotor randomly selects a message sent to a Discussion Forum of eir choice during the previous weeks, and adds it to the Pool as a Democratic, Distributable Proposal with AI=1, authored by the author of the message. If the Proposal is adopted, then the Promotor shall pay out 0.1 Papyri to the author. "Lobbyists and Butterfly Ballots" by Murphy - Proposal 4192 rejected 7/17 Butterfly Ballots are similar to Voting Entitlements, granting additional Votes on Referenda (and Elections, the Voting portions of which are actually a special form of Referenda). All new Players since January 1, 2001, shall receive 0.5 BBs. PENDING PROPOSALS ----------------- "Clarify Discussion Forum" by Murphy A message sent to a Discussion Forum may be considered to have been sent to all Players (usually because it was simultaneously sent to a Public Forum). "Entitling Oligarchs" by Goethe Oligarch Auction bids are in VEs, not Stems. The MUQ of VEs is reduced from 0.1 to 0.01. Ideal VE circulation is increased from 1 VE per Player to (1 + New Player Award in VEs) VE per Player. VEs are still Auctioned in 0.1 VE blocks. "Fix Bank Debt Bugs" by Murphy Rule 1946 (Distribution of Voting Entitlements) loses an incorrect clause that each winning Bidder gets 1.0 rather than 0.1 VE. The Registrar pays out New Player Awards, rather than Ordering the Treasuror to do so. "Fix Credit Limits" by neil - Proposal 4196 Non-Players have Credit Limits. "Forgive Buggy VE Debts" by Murphy All outstanding VE debts arising from Rule 1946 prior to July 14 are forgiven (because Rule 1946 incorrectly awards 1.0 VE per bid, instead of 0.1 VE). "Good Agoran Rewards" by solublefish Kudos are a Currency. The Recordkeepor is the Herald. The MUQ is 0.1. The Mentor's Bonus is 4 Kudos. The Speaker's Patronage is 1 Kudo. Agora's Birthday gives 1 Kudo to each Player, 0.5 Kudo to each Player who recognizes it, and 2 Kudos to each worthy Contest. The Bonus for Repeal is 1 Kudo. Each candidate in an Election receives extra Votes equal to eir Kudos at the beginning of the Election, and is then billed for those Kudos. "Increase VE Supply" by Murphy Ideal VE circulation is increased from 1 VE per Player to (1 + New Player Award in VEs) VE per Player. Unique Patent Title of Claim Jumper is awarded to the Player with the most VEs (minimum three). "Liquify the Bank" by Kelly The Bank shall mint Currency when properly Ordered to do so. The Treasuror is Ordered to mint 15 Voting Entitlements. "Make Proposing Easier" by Syllepsis The base Distribution Cost of a Proposal is lowered from 1 to 0.5 Papyri. The additional Distribution Cost for making a Proposal Urgent is lowered from 1 to 0.5 Papyri. "Poor Man's Agora" by Syllepsis - Proposal 4195 A Sanctimonious Player is one who meets all these conditions: * Not a Zombie. * Possesses less than 4 times Basic Officer Salary in Stems. * Possesses no VEs. * Is not Executor or Limited Executor of any entity (other than Bank or Monastery) violating the above conditions. * Is a Senator. * Is Immaculate. A Player who is Sanctimonious for at least a week becomes a Monk by notifying the Registrar that e does so. A Monk who is not Sanctimonious for at least 48 hours ceases to be a Monk at the beginning of the week after a Player notifies the Registrar of it. Monks may make Proposals Distributable for half-price. "Raising the Dead" by Goethe Only Acolytes may bid in Zombie Auctions. "Rapid Mutation" by Murphy Stems become generally transferrable. "Read the Ruleset Week" by harvel An index of 4 is greater than any other index (including Unanimity). Each Emperor has power 4 and takes precedence over the Rules. harvel is the one and only Emperor. This Rule may not be repealed or amended. This Rule takes precedence over every other Rule. "Remove Roles" by Elysion Roles are repealed. "The Virus, Mark III" by Murphy Each week, a random Rule becomes ineffective for two weeks. (Rules with AI>1 are immune.) PROTO-PROPOSALS --------------- "AIDS" by Goethe <"ICK! BLEACH! BARF! BLOOEY! NI! NI! NI!" Please consult the a-d archive for July 2, but don't say we didn't warn you.> "A Mutating Virus" and "A Better Mutating Virus" by Syllepsis "AND/OR" by Syllepsis During July and August, all other Power=1 Rules have the meanings of "and" and "or" switched. "Antibodies" by Goethe If a Rule automatically changes the text of a different Rule, then the change is immediately removed. "a simple middle ground" by Goethe Each Player may make one Proposal per month Distributable for free (if its Distribution Cost was 1 Papyrus). "Decrease MUQs" by neil The MUQs of Papyri, VEs, and Indulgences are divided by 10. Credit Limits are still restricted to the same ranges. VEs are still Auctioned in 0.1 VE blocks. "Fix Rule 1981" by Murphy A valid but unauthorized transfer causes the Payee to owe a return to the Payor. (Currently, e owes it to the Bank, regardless of who the Payor is.) "Give Recordkeepors Auction Control" by harvel Each Bank Currency (other than Stems) has an Ideal Circulation Level, an Actual Circulation Level, a Formula, and an Item Size. The Recordkeepor of a Currency may create a Formula (if there is none), or (Without Objection) modify the Formula. The Item Size is a multiple of the MUQ. Each month, if ACL > ICL, then the difference is Auctioned in blocks equal to the Item Size. "Group Roles" by Murphy Groups with at least three members may have Roles. "Insolvency" by Syllepsis When the Bank's debts in a Currency exceed its holdings, any Executor or Limited Executor able to levy a tax in that Currency must levy a tax sufficient to make up the difference (or else levy the maximum possible tax with no exemptions). "Judicial Reform, Part 1 of 2" by Murphy Rule 991 (Invoking Judgement) picks up the core of Rule 1563 (Statement of a CFJ), which is then repealed. "Judicial Reform, Part 2 of 2" by Murphy A CFJ may be filed with the Justiciar for any reason, though this is not recommended in the general case. Rules 897 (Barring Players from Judgement), 1562 (Excess CFJs), 1868 (Selecting a Judge), 408 (Late Judgement), 591 (Legal Judgements), 1575 (Standards of Proof) have their language simplified. Rule 698 (Always an Eligible Judge) is reworded to restore eligibility to groups of Players at a time, rather than changing the overall eligibility formula at each step. Rule 1756 (Delinquent Judges) is repealed. Linked CFJs are Judged by a single Judge. Caller must submit evidence when accusing a Player of shirking a duty. DISMISSED is a Judgement. Other Rules are adjusted accordingly. Justices become Appelate Judges, as opposed to Trial Judges. Rule 1447 (Final Judgement upon Appeal) is split into three parts: how soon a Justice must determine, what determinations e may make, and what e is paid for determining on time. Board of Appeals may overturn and remand to original Judge for re-Judgement. Rule 908 (Formal Apologies) picks up the text of Rule 1832 (Failure to Apologize), which is then repealed. "Modest Oligarch Upkeep" by Goethe Oligarchs pay monthly upkeep equal to the winning bid from the latest Oligarch Auction divided by the number of positions (occupied or vacant) in the Oligarchy. Those who became Oligarchs during the previous month are exempt. Those who don't pay ASAP shall have the debt forgiven, but shall be removed from the Oligarchy. "NEPSTER 2001" by t Stems become Yoyos, with amounts divided by five. The Payroll Clerk pays out 10 Yoyos to emself. The Bank is no longer restricted in minting Bank Currencies. Roles are repealed. Bonds are repealed. Rebellion no longer carries a Stem (Yoyo) award. "Platforms for Scorekeepors" by root The Scorekeepor's Budget contains the Goal (a positive integer), and a Point award/penalty for each event defined by the Rules as Scoreworthy, and up to three other events. All Point awards/penalties are integers from 0 to 30, and the average may be at most 10. "Proposal Lottery" by Blob Each week, before the Promotor distributes any Proposals, a random Player with one or more Undistributable Proposals (excluding the Promotor emself) gets a random one of those Proposals made Distributable for free. "Repeal Bonds" by Murphy All Bonds are accelerated and then destroyed. All Rules pertaining to Bonds are repealed. "Sucked Dry and Tossed Aside" by Murphy Additional Votes on Proposals may be bought by spending 0.1 VE per Vote. If "Lobbyists and Butterfly Ballots" was adopted, then additional Votes on non-Proposal Issues may be bought by spending 0.1 BB per Vote. "Wisdom" by Goethe A Player becomes a Sage or ceases to be a Sage by announcing such. Being a Sage and being eligible to Judge CFJs are mutually exclusive. The Clerk of the Courts cannot become a Sage. The Sacred Keepor of the Holy Agoran Order of Wisdom (Sacred KHAOW) is an Officer who maintains the Body of Agoran Wisdom (similar to the Ruleset) and a list of Sages. The Book of Wisdom constitutes judicial precedent. The Tree of Wisdom indicates precedence between other entries. A Player may Seek Wisdom by paying a Papyrus fee (part of the Treasuror's Budget), or With Support from the Sacred KHAOW, the Justiciar, the Speaker, or any two Players. Eir question(s) are treated similarly to CFJs, with the Sacred KHAOW acting as the Clerk of the Courts. The Sage's Revelation of Truth is added to the Book of Wisdom. If Distilled Wisdom is requested, then the Sage's Revelation of Truth may only be Yes, No, or Depends. Otherwise, e may reveal Undistilled Wisdom. With Support from the Speaker, the Justiciar, or any two Players, a Player seeking Distilled Wisdom may list one or more Entries or CFJs, and request their Synthesis. The Sage may adjust the list With Support in the same fashion. The Sage's Ponderings are added to the Tree of Wisdom. With Support, a Judge or Justice may Seek Wisdom for free. Eir requirement to make a judicial finding is postponed till ASAP after the Sage Reveals. With Support, the submitter of a CFJ that was dismissed (and the dismissal is not pending Appeal) may Seek Distilled Wisdom on the Statement's truth for free. CALLS FOR JUDGEMENT ------------------- CFJ 1303 "Razl is Noisy." [FALSE] 6/24 Called by Goethe 6/24-30 Assigned to Blob, who Judges FALSE Caller's argument (summary): Steve, who has Power of Attorney over Razl, claimed to cause Razl to make emself Noisy. Judge's refutation (summary): A Player becomes Noisy by posting to the Public Forum, not by claiming to become Noisy. CFJ 1304 "If the Executor of an entity posts to the Public Forum - clearly [FALSE] stating that e posts to the Public Forum on behalf of the entity, as if e were the entity - then the entity is considered to have posted to the Public Forum." 6/26 Called by Murphy 6/30-7/7 Assigned to Taral, who Judges FALSE Judge's refutation (summary): In Rule 1478, the phrase "as if e were the entity" does not deem that the entity has acted, but rather that the Executor has acted on the entity's behalf. CFJ 1305 "A Player, while on Hold, may not be made silent by Rule 1042 until [TRUE] two months after going on Hold." 7/3 Called by Goethe 7/3-5 Assigned to pTang, who Judges TRUE Caller's argument (summary): Rule 1042 specifies two ways to become silent: be Quiet two weeks, or be Inactive two months. For Inactive Players, the latter takes precedence. Judge's commentary (summary): There is neither conflict nor precedence between Rule 1042's methods; either may apply. However, the first method implicitly requires the Quiet Player to post and thus become Noisy, and does not explicitly apply itself to Inactive Players, so Rule 1584 makes it ineffective. CFJ 1306 "The Basic Officer Salary is 50 Stems." [TRUE] 7/5 Called by Murphy 7/5-8 Assigned to lee, who is recused 7/8 Reassigned to Oerjan, who Judges TRUE Caller's argument (summary): Rule 1893 specifies a new procedure (Without Objection) for the Treasuror to change eir Budget, but does not specify that it replaces the procedure (With Support) of Rule 1957. CFJ 1307 "Annabel's message, on or about 31 May 2001, reading in part 'So I transfer all of my currencies to the Bank, and then deregister' did not have the effect of transferring any Currencies." 7/10 Called by Kelly 7/14 Assigned to Evantine Caller's argument (summary): The argument for CFJ 1302 applies. Counterargument: It is reasonable to assume that Annabel knew that e possessed some sort of Currency, and thus that e definitely intended to make one or more transfers. "all of my currencies" then constitutes a specification. CFJ 1302 referred to a statement of the form "if X, then I transfer Y"; in that case, it was reasonable to assume that the Player considered it possible for X to be false, and thus that e possibly intended not to make any transfer. CFJ 1308 "If a non-Player entity may Vote on an Insane Proposal, then it may do so in public." 7/11 Called by Murphy 7/14 Assigned to Peekee Caller's argument (summary): Rule 1729 does not explicitly prohibit non-Players from Voting on an Insane Proposal in public, though it does blanket-prohibit discussion of such Votes during the Voting Period. Commentary: False if the Voting Mode on Proposals is Private. But at the time of the CFJ, the Voting Mode on Proposals was Public. CFJ 1309 "If the Vizier of a Group casts on behalf of the Group one or more votes on an Insane Proposal in a Public Forum, e has not thereby bended or violated Rule 1729.". 7/14 Called by harvel 7/14 harvel requests annotation of Rule 1729 7/15 Assigned to Syllepsis CFJ 1310 "Proposal 4168 caused Ian, root, and solublefish to owe the Bank 120 Stems." 7/10 Called by Syllepsis 7/16 Assigned to solublefish CFJ 1311 "No Proposals have passed during the current Nomic Week." [FALSE] 7/18 Called by Goethe 7/18 Assigned to Steve, who Judges FALSE Caller's argument (summary): At the time of this CFJ, the adoption of some recent Proposals had been announced by ex-Assessor Blob, but not by Assessor Goethe. Judge's refutation (summary): The Proposals passed at the end of the Voting Period. Their taking effect is what depends on the Assessor's announcement. OFFICES ------- 6/28 Taral Stands Down in the Notary Election. 7/1 Quarterly Speaker Transition occurs. Speaker-Elect Blob becomes Speaker; Promotor Elysion becomes Speaker-Elect, but not its Electee. Nominations begin for Speaker-Elect. Steve Stands Down in the Notary Election. 7/2 Voting begins for Notary. Candidates are Murphy and Tim. 7/3 Murphy Stands Down in the Notary Election. Tim is Elected Notary. Kelly Nominates for Speaker-Elect. 7/5 Goethe Nominates for Speaker-Elect. 7/9 Voting begins for Speaker-Elect. Candidates are Kelly and Goethe. Nominations begin for Payroll Clerk. Syllepsis attempts to Nominate for Payroll Clerk, but may have done so before the Nomination Period began. harvel Nominates for Payroll Clerk. Speaker Blob delegates (with prior consent) Payroll Clerk to Syllepsis. 7/10 Kelly deregisters. Goethe is Elected Speaker-Elect. Nominations begin for Assessor and Usuror. t, harvel, and Murphy Nominate for Assessor. Neil Nominates for Usuror. 7/15 Speaker Blob Calls for Elections for Notary. Speaker Blob delegates (with consent) Assessor and Usuror to Goethe from July 18 onwards. root Nominates for Usuror, then Stands Down. 7/16 harvel withdraws eir Nomination for Payroll Clerk. Nominations begin for Notary. Syllepsis is Elected Payroll Clerk. 7/18 Voting begins for Assessor. Candidates are harvel, Murphy, and t. neil is Elected Usuror. 7/19 Nominations begin for Speaker-Elect. OLIGARCHS --------- 7/8 Auction begins for one position in the Oligarchy. 7/17 Auction ends for one position in the Oligarchy. neil wins with a bid of 550 Stems. 7/18 Auction begins for one position in the Oligarchy. 7/19 Goethe is removed from the Oligarchy because e is now Speaker. Bidding for one position starting 7/18 ---------- 20 solublefish 11 Murphy 10 solublefish 1 Murphy - cancelled 1 Murphy - cancelled Bidding for one position starting 7/8 ---------- 550 neil 451 Murphy 450 neil - cancelled 341 Murphy 320 neil - cancelled 291 Murphy - cancelled 290 neil - cancelled 221 Murphy - cancelled 220 neil - cancelled 200 Murphy - cancelled 190 neil - cancelled 160 Murphy - cancelled 151 neil - cancelled 150 Murphy - not yet a Politician 128 neil - cancelled 64 neil - cancelled 64 neil 32 neil - cancelled PROPERTY AUCTIONS ----------------- 6/28 Taral Auctions 2 of eir VEs for a three-month lease, with an initial payment and three variable monthly payments in milli-Papyri. "Offers will be considered based on a 20% per month time-value", whatever that means. E later amends this to "10% per month". 6/29 Auction begins for 10 Shares in the AgorEx. Intent of official Auctions is announced for 10 Bonds for 1 Indulgence each, 10 Bonds for 100 Stems each, and 10 Bonds for 1 Papyrus each. Bids are in Treasuror Murphy's private Currency (Little Fluffy Clouds) and e will transfer the Bonds to the winners of unofficial Auctions to be conducted by the AgorEx. 6/30 Unofficial Auctions begin for 10 Bonds for 1 Indulgence each, 10 Bonds for 100 Stems each, and 10 Bonds for 1 Papyrus each. Bids are in mVEs. 7/6 AgorEx Share Auction ends. Lindrum, Steve, and harvel each win 3 Shares, and Blob wins 1 Share, at 105 mVEs each. 7/7 Unofficial Auction ends for 10 Bonds for 1 Indulgence each. Syllepsis wins 4, Steve receives 1, and the AgorEx receives 5, at 107 mVEs each. Unofficial Auction ends for 10 Bonds for 100 Stems each. neil wins 6 and the AgorEx wins 4, at 45 mVEs each. Unofficial Auction ends for 10 Bonds for 1 Papyrus each. Blob wins 5 and the AgorEx wins 5, at 51 mVEs each. 7/9 Official Auctions begin for 10 Bonds for 1 Indulgence each, 10 Bonds for 100 Stems each, and 10 Bonds for 1 Papyrus each. Bids are in Treasuror Murphy's private Currency (Little Fluffy Clouds) and e will transfer the Bonds to the winners of the unofficial Auctions. 7/15 Official Auctions end. Treasuror Murphy receives the Bonds from the Bank and transfers them to the winners of the unofficial Auctions. Private Auction begins for 20 Papyri. 7/16 Auction begins for the Zombie David. Bidding for the Zombie David ---------- 5.1 Lindrum - cancelled 5.0 solublefish 4.0 AgorEx 3.5 solublefish 3.0 AgorEx Bidding for 10 Bonds for 1 Indulgence each starting 6/30 ---------- 125 Syllepsis 125 Syllepsis 125 Syllepsis 125 Syllepsis 110 x5 AgorEx 107 Steve 105 x10 AgorEx - cancelled 101 Steve 101 Steve 100 x5 Blob 100 x5 Syllepsis 91 x5 AgorEx - cancelled 90 x5 AgorEx - cancelled 40 Elysion - cancelled 20 Elysion - cancelled 13 Elysion - cancelled 10 Elysion - cancelled 8 Elysion - cancelled 6 Elysion - cancelled 5 Elysion - cancelled 5 Elysion - cancelled 4 Elysion - cancelled 4 Elysion - cancelled Bidding for 10 Bonds for 100 Stems each starting 6/30 ---------- 60 AgorEx 50 AgorEx 50 AgorEx 50 AgorEx 45 x6 neil 44 harvel - cancelled 44 harvel - cancelled 44 harvel - cancelled 44 harvel - cancelled 43 x6 neil - cancelled 42 harvel - cancelled 42 harvel - cancelled 42 harvel - cancelled 41 x5 Steve 41 neil - cancelled 40 x5 AgorEx - cancelled 39 neil - cancelled 39 x9 AgorEx - cancelled 38 x5 Steve 37 x5 Steve 35 x9 AgorEx - cancelled 32 Tim 32 Tim 32 Tim 31 Steve - cancelled 31 Steve - cancelled 31 Steve - cancelled 31 Steve - cancelled 27 Steve - cancelled 27 Steve - cancelled 27 Steve - cancelled 26 x10 harvel - cancelled 25 x10 AgorEx - cancelled 1 x10 neil - cancelled Bidding for 10 Bonds for 1 Papyrus each starting 6/30 ---------- 100 x5 Blob 91 AgorEx 90 neil - cancelled 81 AgorEx 71 neil - cancelled 71 neil - cancelled 71 AgorEx 70 neil - cancelled 70 x5 AgorEx - cancelled 66 neil - cancelled 66 neil - cancelled 66 neil - cancelled 65 x5 AgorEx - cancelled 61 AgorEx 60 neil - cancelled 60 x5 AgorEx - cancelled 51 x5 AgorEx - cancelled 51 AgorEx 50 Taral 50 Taral 40 neil - cancelled 40 Elysion - cancelled 30 x5 neil - cancelled 25 x10 Syllepsis - cancelled 21 x9 Syllepsis - cancelled 20 Elysion - cancelled 13 Elysion - cancelled 10 Elysion - cancelled 8 Elysion - cancelled 6 Elysion - cancelled 5 Elysion - cancelled 5 Elysion - cancelled 4 Elysion - cancelled 4 Elysion - cancelled 1 x10 harvel - cancelled Bidding for 10 AgorEx Shares starting 6/29 ---------- 418 Lindrum 209 Lindrum 140 Steve 140 Steve 139 Lindrum 107 Steve 106 harvel 106 harvel 106 harvel 105 Blob 105 Blob 104 Lindrum 103 harvel 103 harvel 103 x5 Steve - cancelled 101 Tim 101 Tim 101 Tim 101 harvel 100 Taral - cancelled 100 harvel 100 Blob 100 Blob 100 Blob 100 Blob 95 harvel 90 harvel 85 harvel 83 Lindrum 80 harvel 75 harvel 69 Lindrum 59 Lindrum 52 Lindrum 50 Taral - cancelled 46 Lindrum 41 Lindrum 33 Taral - cancelled 25 Taral - cancelled 20 Taral - cancelled 16 Taral - cancelled 14 Taral - cancelled 12 Taral - cancelled 11 Taral - cancelled IN OTHER NEWS ------------- 6/28 Either Goethe or Kelly makes harvel a Bard. The Anemocrats become Parliamentary. 6/29 Kelly makes David Quiet. 6/30 Chuck becomes a Hero. 7/2 neil creates the Currency "Corruption Tokens". 7/3 Ziggy grants eir Power of Attorney to Goethe from the time e accepts until noon on Sunday, July 8. Goethe accepts. Goethe makes Elysion a Bard. Evantine becomes Noisy. Usuror Kelly sets Credit Limits to 1 Papyrus, 0.5 VE, and 1 Indulgence, and announces eir intent to reduce the Purchase Rate for short-term Bonds of 20+ Stems from 95% to 50%. 7/4 Usuror Kelly announces eir intent to increase the Basic Fee for issuing Bonds from 0 to 10 Stems. S. becomes Vizier of Regroup. Treasuror Murphy reduces the Basic Officer Salary from 100 to 50 Stems. 7/5 Treasuror Murphy announces eir intent to place a moratorium on Bond purchases. 7/6 Treasuror Murphy (With Support from neil) places a moratorium on Bond purchases. 7/7 Razl becomes Noisy. Goethe creates the Currency "Fish". 7/8 Elysion Wins by having more than 100 Points. lee deregisters. Taral becomes Vizier of Ungroup. 7/9 Murphy becomes a Politician. Ziggy deregisters. Assessor Kelly announces eir intent to change the Voting Mode on Proposals to Private. Kelly deregisters in a Writ of FAGE. harvel creates the Currencies "Cumulocerberus Clouds" and "Nimbustyx". 7/10 Elysion and Taral become Rebellious. Payroll Clerk Syllepsis levies a 25% Stem tax, exempting 175 Stems per Player. harvel creates the Currency "Trivia". 7/11 root creates the Currency "Widgets". 7/12 Registrar solublefish makes Taral the Distributor. 7/14 Crito goes On Hold. 7/16 harvel becomes a Scribe. David Abandons the Game. Lindrum becomes a Scribe. 7/18 Usuror neil announces eir intent to replace ">0." with ">=0." in the Usuror's Budget. root objects. neil re-announces eir intent, clarifying that decimal points are part of the specification. solublefish makes Blob Quiet, twice. (Blob became Noisy after the first; see below.) Blob gives up the Speakership. Speaker-Elect Goethe becomes Speaker. Promotor Elysion becomes Speaker-Elect. Herald Goethe announces eir intent to levy a 50% Indulgence tax. 7/19 solublefish becomes a Politician. TRADE OFFERS ------------ Ongoing offers: Player Date Will sell In return for ----------------------------------------------------------------------- AgorEx 3/28/01 1 VE mP; see web page AgorEx 3/28/01 1 Papyrus mVE; see web page neil 7/2/01 1 Corruption Token 0.2 VE, 0.5 Papyrus, 1 Indulgence, or mature Bond for 54 Stems neil 7/2/01 Proposal Vote 1 Corruption Token neil 7/2/01 Referendum Vote 2 Corruption Tokens Peekee 5/3/01 Votes on Proposals Negotiable and Elections Razl 4/17/01 1 Circle 2*pi Slices 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Blob 1/23/01 1 Indulgence 1 Papyrus Blob 3/1/01 Indulgences Papyri Blob 3/1/01 1 VE at least 4 Papyri harvel 2/9/01 Negotiable 3 Papyri harvel 3/22/01 2.0 VEs Papyri / Negotiable Hooloovoo 3/2/01 1 Papyri 1 VE Lindrum 5/18/01 Negotiable Indulgences solublefish 4/19/01 $5 1 VE Steve 2/5/01 2 Indulgences 2 Papyri t 2/6/01 1 Papyrus 2 Indulgences Tim 4/19/01 $25 1 VE ERRATA ------ Goethe failed to create the Currency "Fish" on April 8 because e failed to specify its Recordkeepor. (Rule 1722: "states in that message the values of all properties which the Rules require of Currencies") -- Ed Murphy http://members.fortunecity.com/emurphy/ "Most of the time, it seemed sublimely unaware of its limbs, though it was beginning to suspect it had hands."