From ford@jps.net Sun Aug 26 13:34:06 2001 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 22:45:04 -0700 From: Ed Murphy Reply-To: agora@win.tue.nl To: agora@win.tue.nl Subject: BAK: Agoran Weekly Journal THE AGORAN WEEKLY JOURNAL VOLUME 48, ISSUE 10 Saturday, August 25, 2001 THESE ARE NOT PART OF ARCADIA ----------------------------- 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 Goethe - Land of Arcadia faculty.washington.edu/kerim/agora/map 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 ----------------- REJECTED PROPOSALS ------------------ PENDING PROPOSALS ----------------- "Bond Fraud" by neil A Player who knowingly sells the Bank a bad Bond commits the Class 5 Crime of Bond Fraud. If the issuer's Executor is a different Player and knew this would happen, e commits the Class 4 Crime of Conspiracy to Commit Bond Fraud. "Decrease MUQs and fix currency auctions" by neil - Proposal 4203 The MUQ of Papyri is reduced from 0.1 to 0.001. The MUQ of VEs is reduced from 0.1 to 0.001. The MUQ of Indulgences is reduced from 0.1 to 0.001. Credit Limits and Currency Auctions are adjusted to match. "Filthy Bureaucrat" by Syllepsis - Ordinary Proposal 4198 failed Quorum 8/14; Democratic Proposal 4204 The Patent Title of Filthy Bureaucrat is given to a Player who simultaneously holds three or more Offices as Electee. "Fix Monkhood" by neil - Proposal 4202 A Player is not disqualified from Monkhood for controlling a Property owner unless the owner is an entity other than emself. "Increase MUQs and break currency auctions" by neil - Proposal 4205; Opposite of Proposal 4203 The MUQ of Papyri is increased from 0.1 to 1. The MUQ of VEs is increased from 0.1 to 1. The MUQ of Indulgences is reduced from 0.1 to 1. Credit Limits are adjusted to match. Currency Auctions pay out 10 Papyri/VEs/Indulgences per winning bid. "Moving in Arcadia" by neil A player has 10 Movement Units per week to move to an adjacent location, with cost based on destination: 10 Wilderness/Mountains 5 Wilderness/Hills 3 Wilderness/Forest or Desert 2 Wilderness/none 2 Farmland 1 Urbana A player may spend 10 Movement Units to Explore, assigning a type (as of the beginning of the next week) to all Aether within a Penguin Distance of 2: 10% Wilderness/Mountains 20% Wilderness/Hills 20% Wilderness/Forest 10% Wilderness/Desert 10% Farmland 30% Water PROTO-PROPOSALS --------------- "Fix Zombies" by Murphy Zombies may explicitly be Players. "Hot Potato" by Razl Oerjan starts with a Hot Potato. A Hot Potato may only be minted when one is destroyed. A Hot Potato may only be transferred to Active Players. Owning a Hot Potato for over a week is the Class 1 Infraction of Burning Hands to Little Tiny Smithereens; the Hot Potato is transferred to the Treasuror. CALLS FOR JUDGEMENT ------------------- CFJ 1314 "Peekee is an Active Player." [TRUE] 8/15 Called by Peekee 8/15-19 Assigned to pTang, who Judges TRUE Caller's argument (summary): Peekee sent a message to the Public Forum, attempting to come Off Hold, but eir message was initially rejected because e was not subscribed. Counterargument: Peekee's message is not an announcement until it is sent *via* the PF, not just *to* the PF (Rule 478). Peekee's message was eventually sent via the PF, but only by being quoted as evidence for this CFJ, so the statement was false at the time of calling. CFJ 1315 "In publishing with the Voting Report for Proposals 4184-4194 [TRUE] incorrect text for Proposal 4190, Blob committed the Class 4 Crime of Misrepresentation." 8/16 Called by neil 8/16-18 Assigned to Elysion, who Judges TRUE CFJ 1316 "Zombies may not be Players." [TRUE] 8/16 Called by neil 8/16 Assigned to root, who Judges TRUE 8/22-23 Appealed by Murphy, Steve, root, and Crito Caller's argument (summary): Players have duties (obeying the Rules, from Rule 101) and so Rule 1755 prevents a Zombie from being one. While Rule 1042 states that Silent Players become Zombies, it does not state that they remain Players afterward. Zombies are Property, Players are individuals, international law prohibits slavery, and it is in the best interest of the game not to violate international law. Counterargument: Rules 1976, 1885, 1886, 1755 itself, 1992, 1555, 1963, 1936, and 559 all clearly intend that Zombies remain Players, and cease being Zombies if they cease being Players. Rule 1042 explicitly contains the clause "the Zombie is a Player", though it is embedded within another clause. "Property" does not have its natural language meaning in Agora, and Zombies may escape their Property-ness at any time by becoming Noisy, so anti-slavery law does not apply. CFJ 1317 "A Zombie cannot own another Zombie." [FALSE] 8/16 Called by root 8/16-24 Assigned to Syllepsis, who Judges FALSE OFFICES ------- 8/18 Murphy consents to delegation of Assessor. 8/20 Promotor Elysion resigns, naming neil (who consents) as eir successor. 8/23 Goethe (by eir Attorney Steve) attempts to resign as Mapkeepor, but root was already Elected Mapkeepor on August 16. OLIGARCHS --------- PROPERTY AUCTIONS ----------------- 8/20 AgorEx Share Auction ends. root wins 3 shares and solublefish wins 2 shares, at 1350 mIN (1.35 Indulgences) each. 8/21 Papyrus Auction ends. t wins 17, Oerjan wins 1, Lindrum wins 1, and harvel wins 1, at 50 Stems each. Unofficial Auction for David ends with no bids. Auction for 20 Papyri ---------- 217 Syllepsis - unsuccessful 108 Syllepsis - unsuccessful 100 t 100 t 100 t 100 t 100 t 100 t 100 t 100 t 100 t 100 t 100 Oerjan 84 harvel 85 Lindrum 72 Syllepsis - unsuccessful 54 Syllepsis - unsuccessful 50 t 50 t 50 t 50 t 50 t 50 t 50 t 50 t 50 t 50 t 50 Oerjan 43 Syllepsis - unsuccessful 42 harvel 36 Syllepsis - unsuccessful 33 Oerjan 31 Syllepsis - unsuccessful 28 harvel 27 Syllepsis - unsuccessful 25 Oerjan 24 Syllepsis - unsuccessful 21 harvel 21 Syllepsis - unsuccessful 20 Oerjan 19 Syllepsis - unsuccessful 18 Syllepsis - unsuccessful 16 harvel 16 Syllepsis - unsuccessful 16 Oerjan 15 Syllepsis - unsuccessful 14 harvel 14 Syllepsis - unsuccessful 14 Oerjan 13 Syllepsis - unsuccessful 12 harvel 12 Syllepsis - unsuccessful 12 Syllepsis - unsuccessful 12 Oerjan 11 Syllepsis - unsuccessful 11 Oerjan 10 harvel 10 Syllepsis - unsuccessful 10 Oerjan 9 harvel 9 Oerjan 8 harvel 8 Oerjan 7 harvel 7 harvel 7 Oerjan 7 Oerjan 6 harvel 6 harvel 6 Oerjan 6 Oerjan 5 harvel 5 harvel 5 Oerjan 5 Oerjan 5 Oerjan 5 Oerjan 4 harvel 4 harvel 4 harvel 4 harvel Auction for 5 AgorEx Shares ---------- 1500 solublefish 1400 solublefish 1350 root 1350 root 1350 root 1330 Lindrum 1300 root 1300 solublefish 1240 root 1200 harvel - cancelled 1200 solublefish 1120 root 1100 solublefish 1000 solublefish 940 root 700 root 666 Steve 665 Lindrum 600 harvel - cancelled 550 Taral - cancelled 550 Taral - cancelled 501 harvel 501 harvel 500 Taral - cancelled 500 Taral - cancelled 450 Taral - cancelled 443 Lindrum 400 harvel 337 Taral - cancelled 332 Lindrum 300 harvel 270 Taral - cancelled 266 Lindrum 240 harvel IN OTHER NEWS ------------- 8/20 harlequin deregisters. Elysion goes On Hold. 8/21 David becomes a Blue Yeek. 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 neil 8/21/01 0.2 VEs 2 Papyri per 0.1 VE pTang 8/7/01 Votes for Negotiable 2 months Razl 8/12/01 1 BIT 50 mVEs, 900 mP, or 437 mIN solublefish 4/19/01 $5 1 VE solublefish 7/31/01 0.1 VE 1 Indulgence solublefish 7/31/01 0.5 VE 4.7 Indulgences Steve 2/5/01 2 Indulgences 2 Papyri t 2/6/01 1 Papyrus 2 Indulgences Taral 8/14/01 1 BIT Negotiable A Blue Yeek is a Player who generally intends to Vote on Democratic Proposals based on Blubbery Icky Thing holdings, as follows: * AGAINST, if the proposer has transferred a BIT to a non-Player or destroyed a BIT * FOR, if the proposer has four BITs * AGAINST, if the proposer has one to three BITs * At will, if the proposer has no BITs and to return any BITs transferred to em. Syllepsis and David are Blue Yeeks. -- 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."