From agora-business-admin@agoranomic.org Sun May 2 15:06:22 2004 Return-path: Received: from pop-server.socal.rr.com [66.75.160.67] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-6.2.0) for emurphy@localhost (single-drop); Sun, 02 May 2004 15:06:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms-mta-01.socal.rr.com ([10.10.4.125]) by ms-mss-01.socal.rr.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HX300BZ8X477M@ms-mss-01.socal.rr.com> for emurphy42@socal.rr.com; Sun, 02 May 2004 15:00:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lamx03.mgw.rr.com (lamx03.mgw.rr.com [66.75.160.11]) by ms-mta-01.socal.rr.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HX300AKPX47EV@ms-mta-01.socal.rr.com> for emurphy42@socal.rr.com (ORCPT emurphy42@socal.rr.com); Sun, 02 May 2004 15:00:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yzma.clarkk.net (yzma.clarkk.net [66.219.50.42]) by lamx03.mgw.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i42M03aJ019150 for ; Sun, 02 May 2004 18:00:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from yzma.clarkk.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by yzma.clarkk.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB46B33D15; Sun, 02 May 2004 17:00:02 -0500 (CDT) Received: from ms-smtp-03-eri0.socal.rr.com (ms-smtp-03-qfe0.socal.rr.com [66.75.162.135]) by yzma.clarkk.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC35A33D10 for ; Sun, 02 May 2004 16:59:26 -0500 (CDT) Received: from cpe-24-165-82-21.socal.rr.com (cpe-24-165-82-21.socal.rr.com [24.165.82.21]) by ms-smtp-03-eri0.socal.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id i42LxNOD016029 for ; Sun, 02 May 2004 14:59:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 14:59:52 -0700 From: Ed Murphy Subject: BUS: Agoran Weekly Journal Sender: agora-business-admin@agoranomic.org To: Agora Business Errors-to: agora-business-admin@agoranomic.org Reply-to: agora-discussion@agoranomic.org Message-id: <1083535192.21987.2.camel@zenith.homelinux.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Content-type: text/plain Precedence: bulk X-BeenThere: agora-business@agoranomic.org Delivered-to: agora-business@agoranomic.org X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Help: List-Id: Agora Nomic public communications (PF) Original-recipient: rfc822;emurphy42@socal.rr.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit THE AGORAN WEEKLY JOURNAL VOLUME 49, ISSUE 16 Sunday, May 2, 2004 ACTOR'S STRIKE, DAY ONE ----------------------- Andre - Stare Decisis www.win.tue.nl/~engels/stare.txt Goethe - Claustronomic faculty.washington.edu/kerim/nomic/ Michael - First Speaker www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/mn200/games/nomic/yoyo/ Murphy - CotC Web zenith.homelinux.net/cotc/ root - Proposal Pool www.cs.earlham.edu/~kellyia/agora/pool.php t - AWJ Archive www.iki.fi/scurra/agora.html ERRATA ------ ADOPTED PROPOSALS ----------------- "Filibustering Take Two" by Elysion - Proposal 4570 adopted 5/2 Ordinary Proposals may have an Adoption Index of 2 or greater, but are then Stalled and cannot be distributed (until it is Debated, thus changing its Chamber). "Move Or" by Maud - Proposal 4568 adopted 4/26 Correct a grammatical error in Rule 1963 due to a previous broken amendment. "Replacing Roles with Cards" by Wes - Proposal 4569 adopted 5/2 Classes of Cards: * Distrib-u-Matic (Budgeted; make a proposal distributable) * Absolv-o-Matic (Budgeted; Limited Immaculate 1; expunge a blot from any entity) * Debate-o-Matic (Budgeted; flip the chamber of a non-Sane proposal) * Boost-o-Matic (Budgeted; increase a team's points by 5; increase a team's points by 10 for a Fee of 1) REJECTED PROPOSALS ------------------ PENDING PROPOSALS ----------------- "Creating the Framework for Cards" by Wes - Proposal 4571 failed quorum 5/2 - Complacent Oligarchy The Deckmastor tracks Cards and their ownership. The Deckmastor's Budget contains the Maximum Hand Size (an integer from 3 to 10). The Deckmastor is Executor of the Deck, but may only cause it to act as specified by the rules. The Deck may not transfer cards unless required. When required by the rules, the Deckmastor shall create or destroy Cards by announcing the Card and its owner. Players and other rule-specified entities are Gamblers (may own Cards). Unowned Cards are automatically transferred to the Deck. An entity's Hand is the set of eir Cards, and eir Hand Size is the number of Cards in eir Hand. Each class of Card has a Caption (name), a Quota, zero or more Elements, and zero or more Exploits. Cards of the same class are fungible. Each class of Card should have exactly (Quota) instances. If not, Cards are created or destroyed as needed. (The Deck's Cards are destroyed first, followed by randomly selected instances.) Each Element has a rule-defined name and description. All cards with an Element behave according to its description. An Exploit is an action that the holder can take, after which the card returns to the Deck (unless a rule says otherwise). "Playing a card" means using one of its Exploits. Cards may be transferred by announcement. "Discarding a card" means transferring it to the Deck. "Drawing a card" means drawing it from the Deck. An entity may draw a card (for a Fee equal to the number of times e has previously done so this month) if it is permitted to hold Cards, and if eir Hand Size (including pending draws that the Deckmastor has not yet processed) would not exceed the Maximum Hand Size. The Deckmastor shall randomly select one of the Deck's cards for each draw. Elements: * Budgeted (Quota is part of Deckmastor's Budget, default 3) * Handed X (counts as X cards toward Hand Size) * Restricted X (only entities of type X may use Exploits) * Limited X Y (entities not of type X must pay a Fee of Y to use Exploits) * Persistant (not returned to Deck after it is used) * Bleed X (holder loses X points per week) "Remove Redundancy" by Elysion Repeal Rule 1986 (c), which will never occur under the current form of (a). "Wacky Cards" by Wes - Proposal 4572 failed quorum 5/2 - Complacent Oligarchy Classes of Cards: * ZOT! (Quota 1; Handed 3; reduce an entity's points by X*10 points for a fee of X; cannot make an entity's points negative) * Oligarch of the Day (Quota 1; Restricted Senators; Oligarch for rest of day) * Albatross Flies Away (Quota 1; Limited Immaculate 3; revoke one of your Albatrosses) * Point Mine (Quota 1; Persistant; gain 1 point per week) * Dud (Quota 5? Budgeted? Persistant; does nothing) * Dud Fusion (Quota? Bleed 2; discard X Duds to gain X*20 points) * Player Stasis (Quota 1; a player of your choice can't play cards for 88 hours) * Hot Potato (Quota 1; Persistant; transfer to another entity, if they don't announce "Hot Potato" within 48 hours then you can ding them for the Class 1 Infraction of Dropping the Potato) * It's a Surprise! (Quota 1; Handed 2; draw two cards for free) PROTO-PROPOSALS --------------- "Lobbying Strength" by Wes Lobbying Strengths decrease by 25% each month, instead of resetting to the minimum strength. The minimum strength remains at 1. CALLS FOR JUDGEMENT ------------------- *** Rule 1567 causes ineligibility by request to expire after one month *** 4/29 Eris requests to be ineligible to judge CFJ 1499 CFJ 1497 "If a person who is a player of both Agora and Claustronomic [TRUE] ceases to be a player of Agora, then e also ceases to be a Appealed player of Claustronomic." 4/8 Called by Maud 4/8 Assigned to Murphy, who judges TRUE 4/8 Appealed by Maud, Eris, and Goethe 4/10 Appeal assigned to Sherlock, Eris, and Michael 4/10 Eris moves to REMAND 4/13 Michael moves to REMAND 4/24 Sherlock is recused 4/29 Appeal assigned to OscarMeyr Caller's argument (summary): C-as-a-nomic does not equate "player of C-as-a-nomic" with "member of C-as-an-Agoran-contest", so the statement should not be judged TRUE. Judge's refutation (summary): Regardless of C-as-a-nomic's stance, Agora defines membership based on C-as-an-Agoran-contest. Appellant Maud's argument (summary): But the last clause of the statement asked about "player of C-as-a-nomic", not about "member of C-as-an-Agoran-contest". CFJ 1498 "No two Rules may legally have the same Title." [FALSE] 4/12 Called by Wes 4/18-21 Assigned to Sir Toby, who judges FALSE 4/21 Appealed by root, Elysion, and Wes 4/21 Appeal assigned to Goethe, Murphy, and RedKnight 4/28 Murphy moves to REMAND 4/29 RedKnight moves to SUSTAIN Caller's argument (summary): Rules are Rule-defined entities. Rule Titles are names. Rule 1586 (Definition and Continuity of Entities) applies. Judge's refutation (summary): Not all Rule-defined entities have names. Rules are not required to have names. Rules do not have names. Nothing else prevents two Rules from having the same Title. Appellate Judge Murphy's argument (summary): "Name" and "title" may be ordinary-language synonyms, so Rule 754 (4) may apply. A rule's title may include zero or more of ("Rule", number, title). CFJ 1499 "Rule 2050 has been repealed." 4/20 Called by Goethe 4/20-29 Assigned to Eris, who makes emself ineligible 5/2 Assigned to Pakaran Caller's argument (summary): Rule 2050's self-repeal is a rule change (Rule 105), and was not voted on or adopted, so Rule 107 prevents it from taking effect. Commentary: Rule 107 does not explicitly prohibit the Rules from changing themselves, even without any voting or adoption. OFFICES ------- 4/19 Kolja nominates (emself) for Clerk of the Courts. 4/20 Wes and Elysion nominates (emselves) for Promotor. 4/30 Voting begins for Clerk of the Courts. Candidates are Kolja and Murphy. Voting begins for Promotor. Candidates are Elysion, root, and Wes. Notary election ends with no nominees. New election begins. Mode is Open. 5/1 Elysion nominates (emself) for Notary. OLIGARCHS --------- 3/23 Elysion increases eir Lobbying Strength from 0 to 4. 4/1 Elysion increases eir Lobbying Strength from 0 to 3. root increases eir Lobbying Strength from 0 to 3. Eris increases eir Lobbying Strength from 0 to 3. 4/5 Kolja increases eir Lobbying Strength from 0 to 3. 4/6 Eris increases eir Lobbying Strength from 0 to 1. 4/19 Grand Warden of the Oligarchy OscarMeyr amends eir budget by reducing the Potency Threshold from 6 to 4. 5/1 root increases eir Lobbying Strength from 0 to 1. IN OTHER NEWS ------------- 3/3 Goethe increases eir Voting Potential from 0 to 2. 4/20 Herald root repeals Rule 2050 (The Garden), which permitted the existence of unclassified Boons and Albatrosses (Dandelions and Weeds, respectively), and also permitted its own repeal (by the Herald, without objection) while no instances exist. 4/21 Wes becomes a Scribe. 4/25 Goethe intends (without objection) to become leader of Team Bryzzleoc. 4/30 Goethe becomes leader of Team Bryzzleoc. 5/1 Goethe increases eir Voting Potential by 2.