THE AGORAN WEEKLY JOURNAL VOLUME 49, ISSUE 9 Monday, June 23, 2003 UNKNOWN AIR FORCE DOCUMENT -------------------------- 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 ----------------- "Third Time's the Charm, Part 1 of 3" by Murphy - Proposal 4504 adopted 6/19 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 adopted 6/19 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 adopted 6/19 Retroactively avoid the use of mathematical definitions for terms whose primary definition is non-mathematical. "Will Do" by Sherlock - Proposal 4506 adopted 6/19 An entity may destroy eir will by announcement. REJECTED PROPOSALS ------------------ PENDING PROPOSALS ----------------- "Vote Collector for Offices Does Not Move" by Murphy - Proposal 4508 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. PROTO-PROPOSALS --------------- "Awards Within The Budget" by OscarMeyr Point awards in the Scorekeepor's Budget do not need to specify which Rule permits them to take place. 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 [FALSE] a result of a message sent by root on May 27, 2003." 5/26 Called by root 6/5-20 Assigned to Eris, who Judges FALSE 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. If it was invalid, then a judgement of FALSE should be returned. 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 ------- 6/15 Nominations open for Registrar. Mode is Open. Murphy and Sherlock nominate emselves for Registrar. OLIGARCHS --------- IN OTHER NEWS ------------- 6/18 Maud submits a revised proto-ACO for Claustronomic: * Rule 104 is amended automatically to list past Speakers. * Speaker may veto changes to what Speaker is required/forbidden to do. Defeating veto requires 2/3 majority. 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 ERRATA ------