THE AGORAN WEEKLY JOURNAL VOLUME 49, ISSUE 7 Saturday, June 7, 2003 FISH ARE OUR FRIENDS, NOT FOOD ------------------------------ Andre - Stare Decisis www.win.tue.nl/~engels/stare.txt Eris - Web Judiciary cotc.taral.net/ Michael - First Speaker www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/mn200/games/nomic/yoyo/ root - Proposal Pool www.cs.earlham.edu/~kellyia/agora/pool.php t - AWJ Archive www.iki.fi/scurra/agora.html ADOPTED PROPOSALS ----------------- "Scorekeepor's Budget" by Peekee - Proposal 4498 failed quorum 5/19 - Complacent Oligarchy - Proposal 4502 adopted 6/4 The Scorekeepor's Budget includes the Team Points Goal, PLIMIT, PPP, and Scoring Events. Initial Budget matches the current Rule 1930 (Scoring). Includes the effect of "Team Scores". REJECTED PROPOSALS ------------------ PENDING PROPOSALS ----------------- "A Duty to Vote" by Murphy When an election fails quorum, non-voters commit the Infraction of Apathy. "Shuffle, Stem, Boon, Fix" by Peekee - Proposal 4501 failed quorum 5/27 - Complacent Oligarchy - Proposal 4503 Correct an errant reference to Stems in Rule 2042 (Team Wins) that was changed to a Boon by "Of what price honor?" and then mistakenly changed back to Stems by "Team Shuffling". "Third Time's the Charm, Part 1 of 3" by Murphy Legislate the legal fiction that Annabel and harvel/Maud were separate players (until January 1, 2003). "Third Time's the Charm, Part 2 of 3" by Murphy Retroactively fix Agoran epochs to apply only to absolute durations (e.g. "during the same month") and not to relative durations (e.g. "within one month after"). "Third Time's the Charm, Part 3 of 3" by Murphy Retroactively avoid the use of mathematical definitions for terms whose primary definition is non-mathematical. "Will Do" by Sherlock An entity may destroy eir will by announcement. PROTO-PROPOSALS --------------- CALLS FOR JUDGEMENT ------------------- *** Rule 1567 causes ineligibility by request to expire after one month *** CFJ 1449 "The Proposal entitled 'Full Discretion Fix' would have been [TRUE] Rubberstamped by the message sent by Cecilius today under the Appealed subject line 'Rubberstamping, Take Two,' if that Proposal had not already been Rubberstamped." Linked to CFJ 1448 3/3 Called by Cecilius 3/9-17 Assigned to Goethe, who Judges TRUE 3/20 Appealed by Steve, Sir Toby, and Pakaran 3/20 Appeal assigned to Steve, Eris, and Pakaran 3/24 Steve moves to overturn and reverse 3/31 Eris moves to overturn and remand Judge Steve's refutation (summary): Transfers (even of 0) require a valid Notice of Transfer, and a Notice of Transfer for 0 cannot be valid. Commentary: A Rubberstamped Proposal may be Rubberstamped again. CFJ 1461 "One or more tax debts of one or more bouncy balls were created as a result of a message sent by root on May 27, 2003." 5/26 Called by root 6/5 Assigned to Eris Caller's argument (summary): The first tax notice may have been invalid because it did not include "everyone else: zero" in the required list of currency holdings and tax debts. CFJ ???? "Murphy is the vote collector in the election for Registrar." 6/7 Called by Murphy Caller's argument (summary): The title of vote collector may have moved with the office of ADoP, which changed hands during the nominating period. OFFICES ------- 5/26 Nominations open for Assistant Director of Personnel. Mode is Selfish (by default). Murphy and root nominate (emselves) for Assistant Director of Personnel. 5/29 Registrar Manu is removed for Dereliction of Duty. Nominations open for Registrar. Mode is Selfless. Murphy nominates Pakaran and Peekee for Registrar. 6/2 Voting begins for Assistant Director of Personnel. Candidates are Murphy and root. 6/5 Sherlock attempts to nominate emself for Registrar (unsuccessful, the mode of nominations is Selfless). root nominates Sherlock for Registrar. Murphy stands down for Assistant Director of Personnel. root is elected. 6/7 Voting begins for Registrar. Candidates are Pakaran, Peekee, and Sherlock. (Possibly not; see CFJs.) OLIGARCHS --------- 5/24 Murphy becomes an Oligarch. IN OTHER NEWS ------------- 5/26 root levies a 50% Bouncy Ball tax on non-players. 5/29 Murphy makes Manu quiet. 6/4 root retracts eir will. (The effect of this, if any, is unclear; perhaps it implicitly replaces eir previous will with an empty one.) TRADE OFFERS ------------ Player Date Will sell In return for ----------------------------------------------------------------------- OscarMeyr 09/22/02 Oligarch Votes Rubberstamp eir Proposals Peekee 11/28/02 Game help Currency / Game help Peekee 11/28/02 Rubberstamping Currency / Game help Peekee 11/28/02 Votes Currency / Game help * Peekee's offers are non-binding ERRATA ------ root, not OscarMeyr, extended eir Oligarchic term on May 23. Proposal 4498 was not adopted on May 19; it failed quorum, and a copy of it (Proposal 4502) was adopted on June 4.