THE AGORAN WEEKLY JOURNAL VOLUME 49, ISSUE 8 Saturday, June 14, 2003 FOUR FEET TEN IN ONE SOCK ------------------------- 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/ Murphy - AWJ Archive zenith.homelinux.net/awj/ root - Proposal Pool www.cs.earlham.edu/~kellyia/agora/pool.php t - AWJ Archive www.iki.fi/scurra/agora.html ADOPTED PROPOSALS ----------------- "Shuffle, Stem, Boon, Fix" by Peekee - Proposal 4501 failed quorum 5/27 - Complacent Oligarchy - Proposal 4503 adopted 6/14 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". REJECTED PROPOSALS ------------------ PENDING PROPOSALS ----------------- "Expunge Nomic Properties" by Maud The definition of "Nomic Property" is repealed. Rules 1274 (Definition of Indices) and 594 (Power and Proposals) are re-worded to avoid mentioning Nomic Properties. "Third Time's the Charm, Part 1 of 3" by Murphy - Proposal 4504 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 - Proposal 4505 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 - Proposal 4507 Retroactively avoid the use of mathematical definitions for terms whose primary definition is non-mathematical. "Vote Collector for Offices Does Not Move" by Murphy If the office of ADoP changes hands during an election for office, then the position of Vote Collector for that election does not move with it. "Will Do" by Sherlock - Proposal 4506 An entity may destroy eir will by announcement. PROTO-PROPOSALS --------------- "... und Zeit" by Maud "Day", "week", "month", "quarter", and "year" refer to durations aligned against whatever starting point is specified. A month beginning on (month=m, day=d) ends on (month=m+1, day=d) or, if that is a nonexistent date, (month=m+2, day=1). "Weekly", "monthly", "quarterly", and "yearly" refer to the durations currently defined as "Agoran epochs". 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 ------- 6/14 Registrar election fails quorum, or failed due to the Vote Collector not publishing a list of candidates in time, depending on who the Vote Collector is. (See Murphy's CFJ of June 7.) OLIGARCHS --------- IN OTHER NEWS ------------- 6/9 Maud comes Off Hold. Sir Toby becomes Abiding. Goethe submits a proto-ACO for the Contest "ACE of SPADES III": * Each contestant has a score based on eir hand of cards. * Each contestant may disapprove of a scoring regulation. >50% disapproval makes a regulation ineffective. * The contestmaster may add new regulations, with or without revealing their text, with a three-day delay (to allow disapprovals) before (possibly) taking effect. * Each contestant may transfer cards, or agree to a contract of simultaneous transfer. Anyone unable to satisfy a contract has a zero score until e satisfies it (or an alternate is agreed on). Initial scoring regulations: * Victor = 150+ points (and not tied for first) at Monday 23:59:00 GMT. * Two red = 7 points. * Two green = 10 points. * Two black = 15 points. * [secret] * Three mauve = 25 points. * Fractional points truncated. * No Victor -> each contestant gets another card. 6/13 Maud submits a proto-ACO for a Contest to play Claustronomic, whose initial rules are substantially the same as Agora's initial rules (except for amendment numbers, weekly proposal batches, and different point awards). TRADE OFFERS ------------ Player Date Will sell In return for ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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