From agora-business-admin@agoranomic.org Mon Jul 5 02:29:44 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); Mon, 05 Jul 2004 02:29:44 -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 <0I0D00JJ0GMOL5@ms-mss-01.socal.rr.com> for emurphy42@socal.rr.com; Mon, 05 Jul 2004 02:20:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lamx02.mgw.rr.com (lamx02.mgw.rr.com [66.75.160.13]) by ms-mta-01.socal.rr.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003)) with ESMTP id <0I0D006N3GMOZN@ms-mta-01.socal.rr.com> for emurphy42@socal.rr.com (ORCPT emurphy42@socal.rr.com); Mon, 05 Jul 2004 02:20:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yzma.clarkk.net (yzma.clarkk.net [66.219.50.42]) by lamx02.mgw.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i659Ki7C025169 for ; Mon, 05 Jul 2004 05:20:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from yzma.clarkk.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by yzma.clarkk.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6790733ED1; Mon, 05 Jul 2004 04:20:03 -0500 (CDT) Received: from ms-smtp-01-eri0.socal.rr.com (ms-smtp-01-qfe0.socal.rr.com [66.75.162.133]) by yzma.clarkk.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14E8033D18 for ; Mon, 05 Jul 2004 04:19:08 -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-01-eri0.socal.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id i659J56j027231 for ; Mon, 05 Jul 2004 02:19:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 02:21:18 -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: <1089019278.21789.7.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 17 Monday, July 5, 2004 THIS EDITION OF THE AWJ BROUGHT TO YOU BY NILE SPICE ---------------------------------------------------- Andre - Stare Decisis www.win.tue.nl/~engels/stare.txt Elysion - Notary Web www.msu.edu/~boehmejo/agora.html Goethe - Claustronomic faculty.washington.edu/kerim/nomic/ Michael - First Speaker http://web.rsise.anu.edu.au/~michaeln/agora/ Murphy - CotC Web zenith.homelinux.net/cotc/ root - Proposal Pool dark.clansoft.dk/~apathy/agora/ t - AWJ Archive www.iki.fi/scurra/agora.html Wes - Deckmastor Web www.netgecko.com/agora/ ERRATA ------ ADOPTED PROPOSALS ----------------- "Clarify Judicial Rotation" by Murphy - Proposal 4584 failed quorum 6/20 - Complacent Corporation - Proposal 4596 adopted 7/3 The Clerk of the Courts' Report of May 31 is ratified. Rule 1550 is renamed "Ratification by Proposal". Mass-unturning only occurs when an open CFJ has no Trial Judge and no one eligible to be assigned, and the Clerk of the Courts publishes a Notice of Rotation specifying at least one such CFJ. "Creating the Framework for Cards" by Wes - Proposal 4571 failed quorum 5/2 - Complacent Oligarchy - Proposal 4573 adopted 5/14 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) "Fix Hot Potato" by Sir Toby - Proposal 4585 failed quorum 6/20 - Complacent Corporation - Proposal 4597 adopted 7/3 Change "with 48 hours" to "within 48 hours". "Fix Nominating with Budgets" by Murphy - Proposal 4578 failed quorum 6/14 - Complacent Corporation - Proposal 4589 adopted 7/3 Proto-budgets are no longer tied to the voting period (which single-nominee elections don't have), but to the ends of the nominating period and the overall election. The gamestate is retroactively repaired to account for past elections affected by this bug. "Fix Non-Judicial Separation" by Murphy - Proposal 4586 failed quorum 6/20 - Complacent Corporation - Proposal 4594 adopted 7/3 Whenever the Speaker is Electee to Assistant Director of Personnel, e is retired. The Assistant Director of Personnel cannot be nominated for Speaker-Elect. "Fixed Stalled Proposals" by Elysion - Proposal 4590 adopted 7/3 Stalled Proposals are Undistributable (on top of their current state of "may not be distributed"). "Judicial Separation" by Murphy - Proposal 4577 failed quorum 6/14 - Complacent Corporation - Proposal 4592 adopted 7/3 Whenever a player is both Clerk of the Courts and Justiciar, e is removed as Justiciar. (Previously, this only occurred if e was Justiciar first.) Nominees for Clerk of the Courts may not be nominated for Justiciar. The Speaker, Justiciar, and nominees for Justiciar may not be nominated for Clerk of the Courts. The Clerk of the Courts and Justiciar may be nominated for Speaker-Elect, but are still retired if they become Speaker (and are Electee). "Judicial Tweaks" by Murphy - Proposal 4579 adopted 6/14 If one or more of the Speaker, Clerk of the Courts, Justiciar is ineligible to be an Appellate Judge, replacements are chosen at the discretion of the Clerk of the Courts, rather than randomly. If a Trial Judge is recused from one or more Linked CFJs, they remain linked to each other, but not to any other CFJs to which e is still assigned. If a turned player is assigned as a judge by mistake, and the Clerk of the Courts makes a new assignment before the judge returns judgement, then the mistaken assignment is cancelled. Unready players are directly ineligible to judge, rather than relying on keeping them continuously turned. Non-noisy players are ineligible to become a judge (but remain eligible to judge anything to which they are already assigned). "Oligarch in a Three-Piece Suit" by root - Proposal 4576 adopted 5/31 Oligarchs are replaced by Shareholders, i.e. holders of Stock cards. Each Shareholder's Voting Power on Ordinary Proposals is the number of Shares e has. Stock cards include One Share (initial quota 3), Two Shares (initial quota 2), and Three Shares (initial quota 1). New card - Corporate Bankruptcy - all Stock Cards are discarded (fee of 3 Kudos). A Plebeian is a non-Shareholder. The Corporation is the set of Shareholders. Duties and conditions of the Grand Warden of the Oligarchy regarding the Speaker are transferred to the Assistant Director of Personnel. "Sweeping it under the rug, take three" by Murphy - Proposal 4582 adopted 6/14 Retroactively repair the gamestate to account for an error in tracking Steve's Voting Power during October and November 2003. "Wacky Cards" by Wes - Proposal 4572 failed quorum 5/2 - Complacent Oligarchy - Proposal 4574 adopted 5/14 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) REJECTED PROPOSALS ------------------ "Compressed" by Elysion - Contested Proposal 4575 rejected 5/15 "Fix Team Wins" by Murphy - Proposal 4581 failed quorum 6/14 - Complacent Corporation - Proposal 4593 rejected 7/3 When one Team Wins, no other Team may Win until that Win is announced, and scores are not reset until that Win is announced. "June Tune" by Goethe - Contested Proposal 4583 failed quorum 6/14 "People for the Ethical Treatment of Albatrice" by Murphy - Proposal 4587 rejected 6/20 Retain generic Boons and Albatrosses (Daffodils and Weeds, respectively) so that future proposals can award them for one-time events (without having to create a new Rule for the purpose). "Team Shuffling" by Murphy - Proposal 4580 failed quorum 6/14 - Complacent Corporation - Proposal 4591 rejected 7/3 Following a Team Win: * Each Team's Team Points are divided equally among its members. * All players become unassigned to Teams. * Each player with positive points is assigned to the team with the least combined points so far. Highest scores first. * Each player with negative points is assigned to the team with the most combined points so far. Lowest scores first. * Players with zero points are assigned to equalize the size of teams. PENDING PROPOSALS ----------------- "Card Theft" by root - Proposal 4601 Robin Hood: Steal a specified card from a non-deck gambler and give it to someone else with a smaller hand size. You must be Immaculate and pay 3 Kudos. Card Vacuum: Discard a specified card from a non-deck gambler for 2 Kudos. Pilfer the Trash: Take a card of your choice from the Deck, provided that a card of that Class has been discarded within the past week. "Discard and Draw" by OscarMeyr New card - Discard and Draw - Discard X cards in your hand (not counting this one), then draw an equal number of cards. Fee is X kudos. "Eliminate Redundant Kudos" by Elysion - Proposal 4598 Agora-as-a-whole no longer has a number of Kudos. "Enough Already" by Murphy - Proposal 4595 failed quorum 7/3 - Complacent Corporation Delinquent penalties for Linked CFJs are reduced. Recent penalties against Sherlock and t are reduced. "Excise the vestigial Monk" by Riail - Proposal 4588 failed quorum 7/3 - Complacent Corporation Repeal a remaining reference to Monks. "Fix Bleed" by Wes Bleed cards are auto-discarded whenever the holder has zero points or less. "Fix Chamber-Changing" by root - Proposal 4599 The procedure for changing the Chamber of a proposal in its voting period is generalized from the Chamber Fee to all other methods of change. "Fix Unrestricted Voting" by root - Proposal 4600 If the mode of voting is Unrestricted, then votes (or presence) may be sent to the vote collector by any means; it need not be either public or private; in particular, it may be sent to a Discussion Forum that the vote collector receives. "Half-Baked" by Murphy Repeal remaining references to Politicians. "Sweeping it under the rug, take two" by Murphy Retroactively repair the gamestate to account for an error in tracking Steve's Voting Power during October and November 2003. (This proposal would be ineffective because it fails to set the Power of the rule it creates.) PROTO-PROPOSALS --------------- "Card Discard and Draw Piles" by Sir Toby Replace the Deck with the Draw Pile and Discard Pile. Draws come from the Draw Pile. Played and discarded cards go to the Discard Pile. When the Draw Pile is empty, the Discard Pile's cards are transferred to it. New card - take a card from the Discard Pile. New card - take a card from the Draw Pile. New card - the Discard Pile's cards are transferred to the Draw Pile. "Card Property" by Sir Toby Property Cards remain in play, controlled by the player who played them. New cards for stealing, destroying, and exchanging Property Cards. New Property Card - Printing Press - analogous to Distrib-u-Matic. New Property Card - Laundromatic - analogous to Absolv-o-Matic. New Property Card pertaining to Kudos. New Property Card for drawing more cards. Goals of collecting various forms of Property Cards. "cards are ugly" by Goethe Card definitions are moved to the Card List (part of the Deckmastor's Budget, but only changeable via proposal) and incorporated into the Rules by reference. "Devolve Now!" by Goethe Parts of the ruleset are split out into Quasi-Authoritative Canons (QUACKs) incorporated into the Rules by reference. Each QUACK has a Khodja (Notary by default) required to publish it weekly, and one or more Precepts. Each Precept's Power is the minimum of the Rule defining its QUACK and the Power (if any) that its QUACK assigns to it. Each Precept is treated as if it were a Rule with the same Power, and the same number as the Rule defining its QUACK. Conflicts between same-Power Precepts in a single QUACK are resolved based on the QUACK's numbering of Precepts. "Don't Overcompensate" by Murphy Allow the Assistant Director of Personnel to nominate for Speaker-Elect (but still separate them from Speaker as before). "Down with Degrees!" by Riail Repeal Degrees and Theses. "Dynamic card budgets" by Goethe If the Deck Demand (number of cards in deck minus number of pending draws) is less than the Maximum Hand Size, then the Dealor must increase each budgeted card's quota by one and create the corresponding cards before dealing any cards. Such changes to the budget may be performed by announcement. If a non-deck gambler with a hand size of at least twice the Maximum Hand Size receives a card, e is assigned a Pending Reduction; the Dealor shall discard a random card from that gambler's hand, or (if that is not possible) it may cancel a pending draw. "Fix Team Wins, Mark II" by Murphy When one Team Wins, no other Team may Win until that Win is announced, and scores are not reset until that Win is announced. "ILCs" by Elysion An Independent Legal Code (ILC) is a body of law under an authority other than the Rules, and defined by the Rules as an ILC. ILCs are deemed to be Subordinate Legal Codes. "Melds" by OscarMeyr Points for discarding multiple cards at once, if the cards fit certain patterns. "Minus Monk" by Elysion Repeal a remaining reference to Monks. "New card possibilities" by root Dirty Little Thief: Steal a specified card from a non-deck gambler. Robin Hood: Steal a specified card from a non-deck gambler and give it to someone else. Card Vacuum: Discard a specified card from a non-deck gambler. Stock Market Crash: All Stock cards (i.e. Shares) are discarded. "No Zombie Proposals" by Murphy Proposals discarded from the Pool cease to be Proposals. "Rebel Rabble" by OscarMeyr New card - pay 2X Kudos to increase the effective number of Rebels by 1 for the next X weeks. "Remove Unused Rules" by OscarMeyr Repeal the Guillotine and the Senate. "Rules aren't ugly, but perhaps the Ruleset is..." by Sherlock Split the ruleset into multiple documents, with one to govern their interactions. "The Onyx Repeals" by Elysion Repeal the Oligarchy. Repeal Proposal Chambers. All proposals are treated as Democratic Proposals were treated. "This Time For Sure" by Maud Fix punctuation in Rule 1963. "Timing" by Goethe Deliberately performing ASAP actions in an order other than the order in which the requirements arose, causing material difference in the combined outcome, is the Crime of Stacking the Deck (unless the Rules require another order). by Eris Bleed cards cannot be played by players with zero points or less. CALLS FOR JUDGEMENT ------------------- *** Rule 1567 causes ineligibility by request to expire after one month *** 5/20 RedKnight requests to be ineligible to judge CFJs pertaining to cards 5/27 root requests to be ineligible to judge CFJs assigned between May 27 and June 6, 2004 6/27 Maud requests to be ineligible to judge CFJs 7/4 Maud requests to be ineligible to judge CFJs 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 4/29-5/4 Appeal assigned to OscarMeyr, who moves to REMAND 5/4 Reassigned to Murphy 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 4/30 Goethe 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." [FALSE] 4/20 Called by Goethe 4/20-29 Assigned to Eris, who makes emself ineligible 5/2-16 Assigned to Pakaran, who is recused 5/22-31 Assigned to Cainech, who is recused 5/31-6/4 Assigned to Kolja, who judges FALSE 6/9 Appealed by Eris, root, and Maud 6/15 Appeal assigned to Murphy (C), RedKnight (J), and OscarMeyr (S') 6/21 OscarMeyr moves to SUSTAIN 6/21 Murphy moves to SUSTAIN 6/29 RedKnight is recused 7/3-4 Appeal assigned to root (J'), who moves to REVERSE 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. Judge's refutation (summary): Non-proposed rule changes are generally effective, but this one is specified by the Herald who is not an Instrument with sufficient Power. Counterargument: This rule change is triggered by the Herald's announcement, but specified by Rule 2050 itself. Appellate Judge root's argument (summary): This rule change is specified by both the Herald's announcement and Rule 2050. Rule 1322 only examines instruments, and Rule 2050 meets its Power requirement. CFJ 1500 "Goethe is a Politician." [TRUE] 5/3 Called by Goethe 5/4-12 Assigned to Michael, who judges TRUE Caller's argument (summary): Goethe was a Politician when the definition of "Politician" was repealed. Either e remains a Politician, or eir subsequent statement "I permit myself to be a politician" made em a Politician (Rule 101). Judge's argument (summary): "Politician" has its ordinary-language meaning, and Goethe (elected to Agoran office and participating in its political aspects) fits the definition. CFJ 1501 "All Players who are Electee to one or more Offices are DISMISS Politicians." 5/16 Called by Murphy; part of Linked CFJs 1501 - 1504 5/22-31 Assigned to Maud, who judges DISMISS Judge's argument (summary): "Politician" has its ordinary-language meaning, but "Electee" and "Office" do not. The former is not necessarily implied by the latter. CFJ 1502 "All Players are Politicians." [FALSE] 5/16 Called by Murphy; part of Linked CFJs 1501 - 1504 5/22-31 Assigned to Maud Judge's refutation (summary): Maud is not a Politician. CFJ 1503 "At least one of (Kolja, Maud, Sherlock, Sir Toby, Wes) is a DISMISS Politician." 5/16 Called by Murphy; part of Linked CFJs 1501 - 1504 5/22-31 Assigned to Maud, who judges DISMISS CFJ 1504 "At least one of (Cainech, Oerjan, Pakaran, Steve, t) is a DISMISS Politician." 5/16 Called by Murphy; part of Linked CFJs 1501 - 1504 5/22-31 Assigned to Maud, who judges DISMISS CFJ 1505 "root successfully played the Hot Potato card on Sunday, May 16 [TRUE] 2004." 5/18 Called by root; part of Linked CFJs 1505 - 1509 5/22-31 Assigned to t, who is recused 5/31-6/14 Assigned to Sherlock, who is recused 6/15-20 Assigned to Murphy, who judges TRUE Caller's argument (summary): root performed the action in the Hot Potato's Exploit. E did not specify that e was playing the card, but such specification may be unneeded. Judge's argument (summary): Yes, it is unneeded. CFJ 1506 "The Deckmastor is not empowered to post messages on behalf of [TRUE] the Deck." 5/18 Called by root; part of Linked CFJs 1505 - 1509 5/22-31 Assigned to t, who is recused 5/31-6/14 Assigned to Sherlock, who is recused 6/15-20 Assigned to Murphy, who judges TRUE Caller's argument (summary): The Rule "The Deckmastor" prohibits the Deckmastor from acting on behalf on the Deck except as explicitly permitted by the Rules. No Rule permits em to post messages on behalf of the Deck. Also, CFJ 1303 sets precedent that an entity's Executor cannot post on behalf of the entity. Commentary: Actually, CFJ 1303 sets precedent that "I post as if I were " is ineffective, but does not set precedent for "I post on behalf of ". Judge's argument (summary): The Deckmastor is required (hence permitted) to transfer and announce on behalf of the Deck to satisfy pending draws, but there were no pending draws at the time of this CFJ. CFJ 1507 "Goethe's delegation of the Deckmastor Office to Wes on Tuesday, [FALSE] May 18 2004 extended the deadline of the Deck's requirement to post the phrase "Hot Potato" to "as soon as possible" after the delegation." 5/18 Called by root; part of Linked CFJs 1505 - 1509 5/22-31 Assigned to t, who is recused 5/31-6/14 Assigned to Sherlock, who is recused 6/15-20 Assigned to Murphy, who judges FALSE Caller's argument (summary): Delegation extends the deadline of requirements placed on the Office. However, this requirement is placed on the Deck. Judge's refutation (summary): The Deckmastor is Executor of the Deck, but is not required to cause the Deck to fulfill its obligations; e is merely penalized if it fails to do so. Since the requirement is not placed on the Office, delegation does not extend the deadline. CFJ 1508 "The Deck is guilty of the class 1 Infraction of Dropping the [TRUE] Potato." 5/18 Called by root; part of Linked CFJs 1505 - 1509 5/22-31 Assigned to t, who is recused 5/31-6/14 Assigned to Sherlock, who is recused 6/15-20 Assigned to Murphy, who judges TRUE Caller's argument (summary): If the Deckmastor is not empowered to post on behalf of the deck (see CFJ 1506), then the Deck has committed the Infraction, and is not protected by Rule 2039 because it is not a person. CFJ 1509 "Goethe is the Prime Executor of the Deck with respect to the the [FALSE] requirement to post "Hot Potato" to a public forum as a result of root's play of the Hot Potato card on Sunday, May 16 2004." 5/18 Called by root; part of Linked CFJs 1505 - 1509 5/22-31 Assigned to t, who is recused 5/31-6/14 Assigned to Sherlock, who is recused 6/15-20 Assigned to Murphy, who judges FALSE Caller's argument (summary): The Deckmastor is the Prime Executor of the Deck. Goethe was Deckmastor when the requirement arose, but Wes was Deckmastor when the time limit expired. Judge's refutation (summary): The rules don't check the identity of the Prime Executor until the penalty arises. CFJ 1510 "Riail currently possesses one or more Debate-O-Matic cards." [TRUE] 6/21 Called by root 6/26-7/4 Assigned to Eris, who judges TRUE Caller's argument (summary): Debate-o-Matic cards are ineffective because they are not instruments with a power of at least 2 (as required by Rule 1933). Does Riail still count as having performed the Exploit, thus discarding eir Debate-o-Matic? Judge's argument (summary): Playing exploits is independent of intent, so Riail's intent to play this exploit is irrelevant. The action was not performed, so the card was not discarded. Commentary: Failure of first-order effect (e.g. an exploit says "do X" but you can't do X) means that the action was not performed. Failure of higher-order effects (e.g. an exploit says "do X", you do X, but X can't have side effect Y) means that the action was performed. CFJ 1511 "Proposal 4588 is Democratic." 6/25 Called by Goethe; part of Linked CFJs 1511 - 1513 6/26 Assigned to Michael Caller's argument (summary): Is a Debate-o-Matic capable of changing a proposal's chamber? CFJ 1512 "Proposal 4588 is in its voting period." 6/25 Called by Goethe; part of Linked CFJs 1511 - 1513 6/26 Assigned to Michael Caller's argument (summary): If the Debate-o-Matic changed the chamber of Proposal 4588, then what happened to its voting period? Rule 2021 does not apply, since the chamber was changed by a method other than paying the Chamber Fee. CFJ 1513 "Riall holds a Debate-o-matic card." 6/25 Called by Goethe; part of Linked CFJs 1511 - 1513 6/26 Assigned to Michael Caller's argument (summary): If the Debate-o-Matic failed to change the chamber of Proposal 4588, then does Riail still count as having performed the Exploit, thus discarding it? CFJ 1514 "Murphy's Voting Potential is 42." 7/4 Called by Murphy Caller's argument (summary): The fee for increasing Voting Potential depends on the Political Charge, but the definition of Political Charge has been repealed. If it is zero, then this statement is true. CFJ 1515 "Murphy's Voting Potential is 1." 7/4 Called by Murphy Caller's argument (summary): The fee for increasing Voting Potential depends on the Political Charge, but the definition of Political Charge has been repealed. If it retains its value prior to the repeal, then this statement is true. OFFICES ------- 5/4 OscarMeyr nominates (emself) for Notary. 5/7 Murphy is elected Clerk of the Courts. root is elected Promotor. Voting begins for Notary. Candidates are Elysion and OscarMeyr. 5/14 Elysion is elected Notary. Nominations open for Deckmastor, Grand Warden of the Oligarchy, Registrar, and Scorekeepor. Mode is Open. Murphy nominates Wes for Deckmastor. Sir Toby nominates (emself) for Deckmastor. 5/15 Sir Toby submits a proto-budget for Deckmastor: Maximum Hand Size: 5 Card Quotas: Distrib-u-Matic : 5 Absolv-o-Matic : 3 Debate-o-Matic : 2 Boost-o-Matic : 2 Dud : 3 OscarMeyr nominates (emself) for Grand Warden of the Oligarchy, Registrar, and Scorekeepor. 5/16 Sir Toby submits a new proto-budget for Deckmastor, doubling the quota of each card from eir previous proto-budget. 5/18 Goethe delegates Deckmastor to Wes for three weeks. Consent has already been given. Wes submits a proto-budget for Deckmastor: Maximum Hand Size: 5 Card Quotas: Distrib-u-Matic : 25 Absolv-o-Matic : 8 Debate-o-Matic : 10 Boost-o-Matic : 10 Dud : 10 5/23 Voting begins for Deckmastor. Candidates are Sir Toby and Wes. OscarMeyr is elected Grand Warden of the Oligarchy. OscarMeyr is elected Registrar. Goethe is elected Scorekeepor. 5/30 Wes is elected Deckmastor. 6/1 Wes intends (without objection) to add quotas to the Deckmastor's Budget: One Share : 3 Two Shares : 2 Three Shares : 1 6/17 Nominations begin for Herald and Justiciar. Mode is Open. 6/21 OscarMeyr nominates Riail for Herald. 6/22 Kolja nominates (emself) for Justiciar. 6/25 Riail is elected Herald. Kolja is elected Justiciar. 7/2 Quarterly Speaker Transition occurs. Speaker-Elect Eris becomes Speaker. Promotor root becomes Speaker-Elect, as usual. Nominations open for Speaker-Elect. Mode is Open. OLIGARCHS / SHAREHOLDERS ------------------------ 5/11 Elysion is removed from the Oligarchy. 5/20 RedKnight joins Steve's coalition. 5/31 Adoption of Proposal 4576 replaces Oligarchs with Shareholders. 6/21 Kolja receives Two Shares. Murphy and Wes each receive One Share. 7/2 Goethe receives One Share. CARDS ----- 5/16 Goethe plays It's a Surprise! 21 times. (E creates and distributes cards in an order such that It's a Surprise! is frequently the only card in the deck, ensuring that e gets it at first, and that e gets it back after each time e plays it.) root plays Hot Potato (implicitly, by transferring it to the Deck). 5/17 Goethe attempts to announce "Hot Potato" on behalf of the Deck, but the "on behalf of the Deck" part fails (see CFJ 1506). 6/1 Sir Toby plays Point Mine and Dud Fusion (for 40 points). 6/2 Goethe plays It's a Surprise!. 6/15 Sir Toby plays Point Mine. 6/21 Riail attempts to play Debate-o-Matic (to make Proposal 4588 Democratic), but fails to do so (see CFJ 1510). 6/22 OscarMeyr plays Dud Fusion (for 20 points). 6/25 Riail attempts to play Debate-o-Matic (to make Proposal 4588 Democratic), again; but fails to do so (see CFJ 1510), again. root plays Distrib-u-Matic (for "Card Theft"). 6/26 Elysion plays Distrib-u-Matic (for "Eliminate Redundant Kudos"). 6/27 Sir Toby plays Point Mine. 6/30 root plays Distrib-u-Matic (for "Fix Unrestricted Voting"). 7/1 Goethe plays Boost-o-Matic (for 10 points). 7/2 Sir Toby plays Point Mine. Riail plays Debate-o-Matic twice (for Proposals 4600 and 4601). 7/4 OscarMeyr plays a Distrib-u-Matic (for "Discard and Draw"). IN OTHER NEWS ------------- 5/2 root alleges that Cainech has abandoned the game. 5/4 Registrar OscarMeyr confirms Cainech's silence and publishes a Notice of Intent to Deregister. 5/10 Michael alleges that Steve has abandoned the game. 5/11 Registrar OscarMeyr confirms Steve's silence and publishes a Notice of Intent to Deregister. 5/16 Michael protos a Contest "Fall of the Republic" with physical laws that are unchangeable (unless clearly faulty) and legal laws that are reset every so often (removing the stigma of filling them with faults). 5/19 Riail registers. 5/20 Riail is assigned to Team Duckfield. 5/24 Scorekeepor Goethe announces eir intent (without objection) to replace Player Scoring Event Alpha (based on the Fantasy Rules Committee) with Player Scoring Events Beta and Gamma Ray (based on tag). 6/2 Team Bryzzleoc wins. Goethe moves to Duckfield. Oerjan moves to Bryzzleoc. Teams are renamed as follows: Bryzzleoc -> Order to Compel Vyregurk -> Reasonable Doubt Wuckleshaw -> Dissenting Opinion Duckfield -> Slow Motion 6/6 Elysion attempts to create the Contest "Agora Patent Office", but sends the message to a-d by mistake. root requests patents for (1) acting by announcement and (2) requesting patents. Maud requests a patent for sneaking amendments into an otherwise innocuous proposal. 6/7 Goethe requests a patent for creating Organizations in the right forum. 6/13 Elysion creates the Contest "Agora Patent Office", with a clause allowing the recent patent requests to be approved. Elysion creates the Monastery "Free Artisans". 6/14 OscarMeyr gives eir Power of Attorney to Sir Toby (who consents) until 11 pm UTC on June 28, 2004. 6/19 Cainech and Steve are deregistered. 6/22 OscarMeyr withdraws eir Power of Attorney. 6/28 Wes names root, Maud, Eris, and Goethe as eir mentors. 6/30 OscarMeyr gives eir Power of Attorney to Sir Toby (pending consent) from 12 am UTC at July 5 to 12 am UTC at July 12, 2004. 7/1 Sir Toby consents to OscarMeyr's Power of Attorney. 7/4 Murphy attempts to increase eir Voting Potential by 1, then by 41.