Subject: BUS: Agoran Weekly Journal From: Ed Murphy Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 20:56:57 -0700 To: Agora Business THE AGORAN WEEKLY JOURNAL VOLUME 49, BACK ISSUE 22 Friday, April 15, 2005 ONE PROPOSAL FROM MANU, NINETEEN PROPOSALS FROM QUAZIE ------------------------------------------------------ Andre - Old CFJs http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/stare.txt Elysion - Thesis archive http://www.msu.edu/~boehmejo/agora.html Goethe - Claustronomic http://faculty.washington.edu/kerim/nomic/ Michael - First Speaker http://web.rsise.anu.edu.au/~michaeln/agora/ RCS SLR ~michaeln/yoyo/RCS/short-ruleset,v RCS FLR ~michaeln/yoyo/RCS/full-ruleset,v Murphy - CotC Web http://zenith.homelinux.net/cotc/ Riail - AgoraMOO telnet://mail.feoh.org:4781 root - Proposal Pool http://www.periware.org/agora/ ERRATA ------ Actually, it's more than 19, but I was worried that no one would get the joke if I made it too obscure. ADOPTED PROPOSALS ----------------- "Changeable shares" by Quazie - Proposal 4668 adopted 4/9 New card Divide or Conquer Your Stock (Quota 8, Restricted [Shareholders]; specify a set of your Shares and a set of the deck's Shares with the same total, and discard the first to get the second). "Co-authorship" by Sherlock - Proposal 4664 adopted 4/9 The Rulekeepor shall record explicitly named proposal co-authors. "Deckmastor perks" by Kolja - Proposal 4665 adopted 4/9 The Deckmastor's Voting Power on Ordinary Proposals is increased by the number of Shares in the deck, for a maximum increase of three, and e may vote and count toward quorum even if e is not a Shareholder. "Fix Card Fees" by OscarMeyr and Maud - Proposal 4674 adopted 4/13 The standard fee for drawing cards is not increased due to cards drawn by methods other than paying the standard fee. Replace "one per office, counting the Speakership as an office" with "one per office, plus one for the Speakership". "Fix Patronage" by root - Proposal 4663 adopted 4/9, but failed to specify Rule 2077's new Power - Proposal 4675 adopted 4/13 Patronage gains Powered[2], but is free of the usual Powered[X] fee because it specifies its own fee. "History Lengthened" by Goethe - Proposal 4671 adopted 4/9 The subject of a Doctor of Nomic History thesis need not have occurred within the past 8 weeks. "More cards 3 part 1" by Quazie - Proposal 4666 adopted 4/9 New card Dud Development (Quota 2; discard X Duds to get X free draws). "More cards 3 part 2" by Quazie - Proposal 4667 adopted 4/9 New card Fish your Wish (Quota 5, Handed[2]; pay 1 kudo, specify a gambler not already targeted by this card, and a card [your Wish]; if eir next draw is the Wish, you get it and a free draw; if not, you may pay a kudo to draw a card, and get a free draw if it is the Wish). "Reduce the Linked CFJ Penalty" by OscarMeyr - Proposal 4670 adopted 4/9 A Judge recused from multiple linked CFJs is penalized the standard 3 Blots for the first, but only 1 for each additional. "Shareholders are not liable" by Manu - Proposal 4672 adopted 4/9 Penalties for Infractions are reduced by one's Share holdings, but not below 1. "The Secretary as an office" by Quazie - Proposal 4669 adopted 4/9 The Secretary of the University is an office. Eir report includes Research Grants, Book Club selections, Educations, and cards checked out. Quazie is installed as Secretary. REJECTED PROPOSALS ------------------ "The Proposal Queue" by Sherlock - Proposal 4673 rejected 4/9 Repeal Distrib-u-Matic (grant free draws in its place). The Proposal Pool becomes the Proposal Queue. Proposals enter the Queue in the order they are submitted, each one starting at the bottom unless otherwise specified. Each player may have at most four interested proposals in the Queue at once. Each proposal's Priority is the number of proposals above it in the Queue. A player may move a proposal up or down one place by paying its Queuing Fee (replacing Distribution Cost). Each week's Minimum and Maximum Distribution are the minimum and maximum of the number of proposers with proposals in the Queue and half the number of proposals in the Queue (rounded up). These are measured at the beginning of the week. The Promotor shall distribute the top (Minimum Distribution) proposals, any disinterested proposals, and any proposals that entered the Queue more than a month ago. E may additionally distribute any portion of the remainder of the top (Maximum Distribution) proposals. If the Queue is empty, e shall announce it. Urgent proposals shall be distributed within five days after they move to the top half or exact middle of the Queue. Aborted proposals go to the top of the Queue. Procedure moves a proposal to the bottom of the Queue. Proposals submitted on Guy Fawkes Day go to the top of the Queue. PENDING PROPOSALS ----------------- "...or get off the pot" by Sherlock Each player's Voting Power on Democratic Proposals is increased by the number of offices e held for 16+ days in the previous month, plus the number of eir Interested Proposals which were adopted during that month. "42" by root No switch may be flipped to a state it is already in. "absolve-o-mo-matic" by Goethe - Proposal 4682 Immaculate players may play Absolv-o-Matic to expunge any number of blots from an entity, for a fee of 1 kudo per blot beyond the first. "A Few Small Steps" by Maud - Proposal 4693 Coin flips are no longer explicitly accepted for making random choices with reasonably-close-to-uniform probability. Grace Period holiday extensions are simplified to "sixty days, not including Holidays". A Hive of at least two players may jointly register as a single player. "A More Sanitary Pool" by root The effects of Sanitization are separated from its triggers (Untainted Speaker with 2 support; Policy card). Only an instrument with Power >= 2 may trigger it. "April Fool's Takeover" by root - Proposal 4677 Takeover Proposal. Corporate Raiders are Eris, Goethe, Kolja, Manu, OscarMeyr, Quazie, and Riail. Append this text to Rule 1787 (April Fool's Day): And should it one day be observed by any wag who breaks a Rule, the Speaker will one Boon award to em who was the biggest Fool. "Arch Nemesis" by Quazie - Proposal 4679 Arch Nemesis is a stuck player switch with values null, (all active non-silent players). A player may flip eir Arch Nemesis switch to another player if e has voted against at least two of eir proposals within the last 30 days. If e votes for one of eir Arch Nemesis's proposals, then any player may flip eir Arch Nemesis to null. If Alice's Arch Nemesis is Bob, then Alice is Bob's Harasser. A player's Voting Power on eir Arch Nemesis's non-sane proposals is doubled. A player's Voting Power on eir own non-sane proposals is multiplied by (1 + number of eir Harassers). "A Streamlined Ruleset, Part One" by Sherlock Repeal Organizations, Contests, Monasteries, SLCs, and the Notary. "At least once a month" by Quazie - Proposal 4695 Weekly reports must be published at least monthly, even if their content does not significantly change. "browsing shelf" by Goethe Cards that have been in the Library for less than 24 hours may not be checked out. "Bye Bye Michael Norrish" by Quazie - Proposal 4680 Repeal Rule 104 (First Speaker). "Cabinet? But why?" by Quazie - Proposal 4713 Repeal Rule 1905 (The Cabinet). "Card-Carrying Contests" by Goethe - Proposal 4700 Each player may be Contestmaster of up to one Card-Carrying Contest at a time. It is a gambler, and e is its limited executor. It may (as explicitly permitted by its regulations) draw up to N/3 cards per month (N = number of members at beginning of month), transfer, and discard, but not play. Existing contests may be converted with 2 support and without 2 objections. "Card Counting" by Goethe - Proposal 4694 The Discard Pile is a gambler. Cards played or discarded go to it, unless transferred as part of the Deckmastor's duties. Whenever total pending draws exceed the size of the Deck, the Deckmastor shall Reshuffle (transfer all cards in the Discard Pile to the Deck) before dealing. Discard Picking takes cards from the Discard Pile. New card Reshuffle (Quota 3, Asleep[15]; Deckmastor must Reshuffle now). "Card Experiments" by Sherlock A player may create a new Card type by publishing a Card Blueprint. It is in its Trial Run. It has Quota 1, and a copy is created in the Library's possession, but it cannot be checked out for seven days. It is returned to the Library after it is played. Any player may destroy it by announcement. "Change of Heart" by Sherlock - Proposal 4699 Votes can be changed or cancelled. "Clarity in transference" by Quazie Amend Rules 2069 (Card Actions), 1664 (Rebellion), and Corporate Bankruptcy (possibly ineffective - specifies text but not rule/rules) to say that cards are "transferred" to the Deck, rather than "returned". "Cleaning up the Draw rules" by Quazie Define draws, fee-based draws, and Full Hands / Individual Maximum Hand Size separately, then re-use the latter definition for draws due to one's proposals being adopted. "Critical Mass, Again" by Sherlock If there are more than thirty undistributable proposals in the pool, any player may (with support of 2 players who have not proposed any proposals in the pool) make them all distributable. "Death to the Plebeians" by Quazie Repeal the definition of Plebeian (possibly ineffective - specifies text but not rule/rules). "Easier Card Fees" by Manu Card fees shall be paid as soon as possible. For each kudo not paid on time, the Gambler commits the Class 1 Infraction of Debt Overdue. "Fix the Choas" by Quazie - Proposal 4703 Spelling fix in Rule 2079 (Deckmaster -> Deckmastor). "Fix the Thief" by Quazie The less-than-half provision of Thieves in the Night ignores the Library and Discard Pile. "Flexibility" by Sherlock Votes can be changed. Players can have Power of Attorney over more than two other players. Players can expunge anyone's Blots for a fee. "Fool me thrice" by Goethe - Proposal 4707 Amend Rule 1726 (The Guillotine) to require the ratio of signing to non-signing Active Senators to *not* exceed the proposal's Adoption Index. This is buried in the middle of trivial whitespace amendments to several other rules. "Honorary Degrees" by root - Proposal 4688 An adopted Proposal with Power >= 2 may award an honorary degree to a non-player, who need not complete a thesis. Such degrees are recorded as honorary, and are replaced if the person later earns the same degree by other means. "Inside Agent" by Manu - Proposal 4709 New card Police State (Budgeted, Restricted [Abiding]; for a fee equal to the number of Rebels, decrease the effective number of Rebels by one for seven days). "Instant Library" by Quazie - Proposal 4706 Cards checked out from the Library are automatically transferred to the Borrower. "Is it legal for root to keep changing all my proposal names?" by Quazie New Patent Title Hyperactive (more than ten proposals adopted in one week), awarded to Quazie for the April 11 distribution. "lets try that again" by Quazie New card Fish your Wish (Quota 5, Handed[2]; pay 1 kudo, specify a gambler not already targeted by this card, and a card [your Wish]; if eir next draw is the Wish, you get it and a free draw; if not, you may pay a kudo to draw a card, and get a free draw if it is the Wish). "Library cards" by Quazie - Proposal 4712 New card Library Renewal (Budgeted 2; announce a number from 1 to 5, force Library to discard that many non-reserved cards). New card Library Card (Budgeted 2, Limited [Faculty] [1]; check out a card from the Library with no fee). "Looting the dead" by Quazie New card Loot the Dead (Quota 1; discard a silent player's entire hand). "Magical Mute Refinement" by Quazie - Proposal 4704 The adoption of a Mute Exemption Proposal expunges a maximum of five Blots. "Make It So" by Sherlock New card Live Long and Prosper (Quota 1; expunge all player Blots if less than half the players are Immaculate). New card Highly Illogical (Budgeted; a Student becomes a Faculty Member for 72 hours). New card Hailing... No Response (Quota 1; make a player Noisy). "More Chaos part 1" by Quazie New card Chaos Reborn (Quota 1, Handed 2, Kallisti!; playing this card gives you five minutes to play Chaos Apple, even if Chaos Apple has been played this quarter). "More Chaos part 2" by Quazie Chaos Apple: Shuffle the deck and transfer a random half (rounded down) to the discard pile. "More corporate cards" by root - Proposal 4684 New card Share Split (Quota 1; double quota of all Budgeted Stock Cards). New card Merger (Quota 1; halve quota of all Budgeted Stock Cards). "More Kudo Cards" by Quazie - Proposal 4711 New card Instant Gratification (Limited [players with at least one boon], Budgeted 5; convert one of your boons to a kudo). New card Instant Punishment (Limited [players with at least one albatross], Budgeted; get rid of one of your Albatrosses and lose a kudo). New card Instant Millionaire (Quota 1; convert all of your boons to 2 kudos each). "More Library Cards" by Eris New card Library Recall (Budgeted; a card checked out in the last week must be returned by the player who checked it out within 72 hours, or you may give em an Albatross). "Non transitory rebellion" by Quazie - Proposal 4686 A successful Rebellion does not triggers a Speaker Transition if the Speaker is Rebellious. "Office Condensation" by Goethe - Proposal 4698 Award a boon to the Notary, then repeal it and give its duties to the Justiciar, then retire the Justiciar (forcing an election). "One Revolution per Quarter" by Goethe - Proposal 4701 On May 1, any non-officer may remove an officer by announcement; the non-officer becomes holder but not electee. For CFJs called on March 21, the caller is eligible to judge, and the Clerk of the Courts must assign em as Trial Judge. "Plant Killer" by Quazie - Proposal 4683 Repeal Rule 2050 (The Garden). "POWER TO THE PLEBS!" by Quazie New Proposal Chamber, Plebeian, similar to Ordinary except that each Pleb (non-Shareholder) has a Voting Power of one, everyone else has zero. The Deckmastor may not vote on Plebeian Proposals. The Speaker-Elect may veto Plebeian Proposals with support of 1/3 of Plebs (rounded down). "Promotors Emphemra" [sic] by Quazie New boon UberProposor; the Promotor may award it to the player who e feels submitted the best proposal each month. New ephemeral Patent Title PromotorsBane (Dynamic, initially Albatross); the Promotor may award it to the player who removed the most proposals from the pool each month. "Promotor's Ex-Lax" by Quazie - Proposal 4710 The Promotor may, without 4 objections, pay 3 kudos to make all proposals in the pool distributable. "Protect the Native Fora" by root - Proposal 4690 Rule 478 (Fora) is increased from Power=1 to Power=3, and prohibits changing a forum's Publicity by any but the standard means. "Quack Quack" by OscarMeyr - Proposal 4708 Repeal the Patent Title Quack. "Queue Cards" by Manu and Sherlock New card First In Last Out (Budgeted; reverse the order of the Proposal Queue). New card Twenty Bucks To The Doorman (Budgeted; move a proposal to the top of the Queue). New card Sucks To Be You! (Budgeted; move the proposal at the top of the Queue to the bottom). New card QueueMania! (Quota 1; shuffle the Proposal Queue). New card Information Wants To Be Free (Budgeted; double the size of the next distribution). New card Statu Quo (Budgeted; halve the size of the next distribution). "Raffles, Again" by root - Proposal 4692 New card Raffle Ticket (Grafty; each quarter, a random Raffle Ticket holder gains three Boons, and all Player-held Raffle Tickets are discarded). "Rogue's Gallery" by Sherlock - Proposal 4705 The less-than-half provision of Thieves in the Night ignores all non-player gamblers. Previously, it ignored the Deck but included the University. "Root is still mean but now it works with the discard pile" by Quazie Re-create Divide or Conquer Your Stock, which was overwritten by Proposal 4684. The replacement cards come from the discard pile first, then the deck if needed. "Sherlock smells, but at least he fixed my errors" by Quazie - Proposal 4696 Merge Rules 1678 (Encourage Proposals by New Players), 2061 (Boon of Zeitgeist), and the Boon clause of 2060 (Guy Fawkes Day) into one rule. Ephemeral Patent Titles earned between one week before the end of the last quarter and one week before the end of the current quarter must be awarded before the end of the quarter. Denying the Boon of Tapecutter is subject to the same timing requirement. "Simple free distribution" by Goethe - Proposal 4702 Players may flip others' proposals to distributable by paying the distribution cost minus one, minimum zero. "Slight addenda to two rules" by Quazie - Proposal 4685 When a state ceases to be a state of a switch, all entities in the class that were in that state are flipped to the default state. Rule 1950 (Voting Power) explicitly permits other rules with Power >= 2 to modify a player's Voting Power. "Switch Reform" by root - Proposal 4691 Switches may be set or changed by any instrument, unless prohibited. Instances of "flip" or "switch" are changed to "set". "Flipping" is used only to refer to changing a switch by player announcement. Ephemeral Patent Titles explicitly defined as Boons or Albatrosses are Static. Those not so defined are Dynamic, and are set to their original state during each Turning of a New Parchment. "Takeover fix?" by Eris Submitting a Takeover Proposal makes all other Takeover Proposals undistributable and removes them from the pool. "Takeover Takeover" by root - Proposal 4676 Takeover Proposal. Corporate Raiders are Eris, Goethe, Kolja, Manu, OscarMeyr, Quazie, and Riail. Repeal Rule 2078 (Takeover Proposals). All players have Voting Power on Democratic Proposals equal to their Voting Potential. "Taking over Takeovers" by Goethe - Proposal 4678 New Card element Asleep (same as Delayed, except you are limited by anyone playing the card recently, not just yourself). Mainsail (Tyrannical, Piratical) is a stuck proposal switch. Proposals that become Piratical become democratic and sane. If a proposal is Piratical at the end of its voting period, and specifies a set of Raiders at least a Minimal Crew (one-third the number of active noisy players) but no more than twice a Minimal Crew, then the Raiders gain Sente and everyone else gains Gote (if it is adopted), or vice versa (if it is rejected). New card Hoist the Flag (Quota 5, Asleep[30]; make a proposal Piratical). New card Royal Navy (Quota 2; make a proposal Tyrannical). New card Cannon Fire (Quota 3; abort a Piratical proposal and send it back to the pool). New card Dread Pirate Roberts (Quota 3; make a Piratical proposal Tyrannical and make a different Tyrannical proposal Piratical). New card Not Your Turn (Budgeted[3], Delayed[2]; retroactively undo a card play within the past 48 hours, and prevent the gambler from re-playing it for 72 hours). "The following classes of cards are defined" by Quazie - Proposal 4714 Prepend this phrase to Rules 2076 (Card cards), 2084 (Cash Cards), and "Library Cards" (if it exists), which lack it. "The Map of Agora" by Maud (condensed form below) ,-_|\ / \ \_,-._* <- Port Macquarie v "The President's Marks" by Sherlock - Proposal 4689 The President of the University shall publish a Grade of each proposal, with explanation, after its voting period. A/B/C/D/F are worth +2/+1/0/-1/-2 Credits, respectively, to the author. After each Turning of a New Parchment, all Credits are reset to zero, and the President shall award the Boon of Teacher's Pet to the player who had the highest Credit before the reset. If a player receives this boon thrice in a year, e receives the Patent Title Head of the Class. "Tiny addition to Illegality" by Quazie - Proposal 4681 Bribes nullify only the text of a proposal, not any rule-based side effects triggered by its adoption. "True Pay Raise" by Goethe - Proposal 4697 Paperwork (Low, High) is a stuck office/Speaker/Distributor switch, tracked by the Assistant Director of Personnel. E and the Speaker may flip an office with 2 support and without 2 objections. Once a month, each holder of a High Paperwork office gets an extra boon, and may invoke eir Civil Service Exemption to make one proposal distributable for free. The Herald, Deckmastor, Clerk of the Courts, Promotor, and Assessor are initially High Paperwork. "Two for the price of one" by Quazie - Proposal 4687 New card Two for One (Budgeted 8; make two undistributable proposals with a Distribution Cost of 1 distributable for a fee of 1 kudo). "University Maintenance" by root The Speaker is a Limited Executor of the University, rather than an Executor with a one-off limitation, and is specifically empowered to transfer cards from the University as explicitly permitted by the rules. PROTO-PROPOSALS --------------- "Anti-Critical Mass!" by Sherlock If there are more than thirty proposals from less than ten proposers in the pool, any player may announce it and force the Promotor to remove at least half the undistributable proposals from the pool before the next distribution. "Buttons Are A Choking Hazard" by Murphy Amend Rule 2050 by replacing "the Herald may repeal this rule without objection" with a direct self-repeal clause, which the Herald may trigger without objection. "card fixing" by Quazie Fee-based card actions occur even if the fee is not paid, but if the fee is not or cannot be paid ASAP, then the player gains an Albatross for each unpaid kudo. "Chinify the Sensei" by Manu Rename "Sensei" to "Lama" in Rule 2048 (Enlightenment). "Cleaning up the cards" by Quazie Repeal the following rules and move their Cards/Elements to the Deckmastor's Card Book: 2070 (Card Powerz) 2059 (Legality of Bonus Clauses) 2067 (Cards in Play) 2071 (Wacky Cards) 2076 (Card cards) 2077 (Democratic cards) 2079 (Discord) 2084 (Cash Cards) "First Honorary Degree" by root Swann receives an honorary D.N.Phil for eir fiction work. "Fnordify the Sensei" by Manu Rename "Sensei" to "Episkopos", and "Yin" and "Yang" to "Hodge" and "Podge", in Rule 2048 (Enlightenment). Require the Episkopos to have at least one kudo. "Limited Faculties" by Murphy The Speaker is Limited Executor of the University, rather than Executor with a one-off limitation. The Deckmastor is Limited Executor of the Deck, rather than Executor with a one-off limitation. "make Lawlessness more affirmative" by OscarMeyr Notice of Lawlessness begins Lynching. Herald shall confirm accuracy, remove Lawless player from all offices (a Speaker Transition occurs if e is the Speaker), and publish a Notice of Intent to Deregister. If the Notice of Lawlessness remains valid for a week, then the Herald shall deregister the Lawless player. "Omnibus Spelling Fix" by Maud "nonwithstanding" -> "notwithstanding": 2059 (Legality of Bonus Clauses) 2060 (Guy Fawkes Day) 2078 (Takeover Proposals) 2052 (Voting Potential) "Proposor" -> "Proposer": 1678 (Encourage Proposals by New Players) 2061 (Boon of Zeitgeist) "commonsense" -> "common sense": 217 (Judgements Must Accord with the Rules) "Appelate" -> "Appellate": 911 (The Board of Appeals) 1570 (Announcement of Appeal) 1447 (Final Judgement upon Appeal) 2026 (Appelate Determinations; also in title) 1693 (Appeal of a Judgement) "maintainance" -> "maintenance": 1670 (The Distributor) "transfering" -> "transferring": 2069 (Card Definitions) "Deckmastor" -> "Deckmastor" (?): 2079 (Discord) "Bearor" -> "Bearer": 649 (Patent Titles) "existant" -> "existent": 1370 (How to Get a Degree) "Foundor" -> "Founder": 1533 (Application to Create an Organization) 1446 (Contests) "Portfolio Strength" by root Portfolio Strength is added to Voting Power on Ordinary Proposals, and reset regularly. New card I'm Just Speculating (increase Portfolio Strength by 1). "Proposal Modifiction" [sic] by Quazie Players may modify eir undistributable proposals, but this cancels intent to make disinterested. "Replace Blots With Albatrosses, The Ham-Fisted Way" by Murphy Retcon "Blot" as a synonym of "Weed". "Some new card ideas" by Quazie New card element FakeShares [X] (player is deemed to have X Fake Shares for one week after playing it; Fake Shares increase Share Holdings). New card One Fake Share (Budgeted, FakeShares 1). New card Two Fake Shares (Budgeted, FakeShares 2, Handed 2). New card Three Fake Shares (Budgeted, FakeShares 3, Handed 3). New card One Point Conversion (discard FakeShares 1/2/3 to get One Share from the discard pile if possible, else from the deck; kudos adjusted by -1/0/+1). New card Two Point Conversion (discard FakeShares 1/2/3 to get Two Shares from the discard pile if possible, else from the deck; kudos adjusted by -2/-1/0). New card Three Point Conversion (discard FakeShares 1/2/3 to get Three Shares from the discard pile if possible, else from the deck; kudos adjusted by -3/-2/-1). "Switch Cards" by root New card Peaceful Demonstration (Budgeted, Restricted [Rebels]; pay 2 kudos to make a player Rebellious). New card Government Propaganda (Budgeted, Restricted [Abiding]; pay 1 kudo to make a player Abiding). New card Reverse Polarity (Budgeted; flip Karma of an ephemeral Patent Title). New card Cutting in Line (Budgeted; flip a player's Orientation). New card I Have the Power! (Quota 1, Restricted [Immaculate], Asleep 90; pay half your kudos, minimum 5, to flip any switch). "The New User FAQ" by Quazie The Registrar maintains the FAQ, publishes it at least once every two months, and sends it to new players. Any player may amend the FAQ without objection. The initial FAQ explains Spivak pronouns. "Trading Window" by Goethe The Deckmastor may not perform card actions as emself within 4 hours after performing official duties requiring random determination of cards. CALLS FOR JUDGEMENT ------------------- CFJ 1533 "Rule 1561 cannot prevent an adopted Rule Change from taking effect." [TRUE] 3/6 Called by Goethe Appealed 3/13-20 Assigned to Sir Toby, who is recused 3/20-27 Assigned to Murphy, who judges FALSE 3/27-31 Appealed by Goethe, Sherlock, root, and Maud 4/3-6 Appeal assigned to root, Eris, and OscarMeyr, who move to REMAND 4/15 Murphy judges TRUE (unintentionally) 4/15 Appealed by Murphy, Quazie, root, and Goethe 4/15 Appeal assigned to root, Eris, and Manu Caller's argument (summary): Rule 107 (Rule Changes Must Be Written Down) takes precedence over it, and says that adopted proposals guide play. Judge's refutation (summary): Guiding play is not the same as determining play; "guiding play" is satisfied by triggering the evaluation of the rules determining the effects of adopted proposals, with the specified proposal text as input. Judge's second refutation (summary): Adopted proposals guide play by activating Rules 107 and 594 (Power and Proposals), but are blocked from further effect by Rule 1561. CFJ 1537 "Goethe has a Two Shares card." [TRUE] 4/7 Called by root 4/9-11 Assigned to Quazie, who judges TRUE Caller's argument (summary): Two Shares was recently "returned" to the Deck, but not explicitly discarded (i.e. transferred to the Deck). If it was not discarded, then Goethe failed to acquire it by playing Discard Picking. Judge's argument (summary): The card moved from one Gambler to another, so it was a transfer. CFJ 1538 "A successful play of the Corporate Bankruptcy card causes any shares cards not in the Deck to be discarded." 4/7 Called by Goethe 4/9 Assigned to Riail Caller's argument (summary): Corporate Bankruptcy causes them to be "returned" to the Deck, but not explicitly discarded (i.e. transferred to the Deck). CFJ 1539 "On or about Sun, 10 Apr 2005 23:46:45 -0400, root submitted a Call for Judgement." 4/15 Called by Murphy; part of Linked CFJs 1539-41 4/15 Assigned to Goethe Commentary: root announced that e sued Quazie for attempting to declare Presence on Ordinary Proposals, and claimed that it was equivalent to a CFJ with the statement "[Quazie] attempted to declare Presence on several Ordinary proposals" and a Motion to Order em not to do it again. CFJ 1540 "On or about Sun, 10 Apr 2005 23:46:45 -0400, root submitted a Call for Judgement with the statement 'e attempted to declare Presence on several Ordinary proposals'." 4/15 Called by Murphy; part of Linked CFJs 1539-41 4/15 Assigned to Goethe CFJ 1541 "On or about Sun, 10 Apr 2005 23:46:45 -0400, root submitted a Call for Judgement with the statement 'Quazie attempted to declare Presence on several Ordinary proposals'." 4/15 Called by Murphy; part of Linked CFJs 1539-41 4/15 Assigned to Goethe CFJ 1542 "The rules currently define no card with the caption 'Your Turn'." 4/12 Called by Kolja 4/15 Assigned to Sherlock Caller's argument (summary): Rule 2076 (Card cards) does not explicitly say that the text defines a card. CFJ 1546 "In reports and distributions, the Promotor is permitted to add or delete whitespace or other formatting text to or from a proposal, provided that the substance of the proposal is not altered." 4/14 Called by root 4/15 Assigned to Kolja Caller's argument (summary): May follow from the same line of reasoning as a similar judgement regarding the Rulekeepor. CFJ 1547 "Multiple CFJs are not linked unless they are clearly labelled as Linked CFJs within the message in which they are submitted." 4/15 Called by Murphy 4/15 Assigned to Michael Commentary: Quazie attempted to link three CFJs that e submitted in a previous message. OFFICES ------- 4/3 Speaker Transition occurs. root becomes Speaker. Registrar OscarMeyr becomes Speaker-Elect. Nominations open for Speaker-Elect. Mode is Open. Sherlock nominates emself for Speaker-Elect. 4/4 OscarMeyr declines eir succession to Speaker-Elect. Rulekeepor Michael becomes Speaker-Elect. OscarMeyr nominates Quazie for Speaker-Elect. Quazie declines. 4/11 Sherlock is elected Speaker-Elect. SHAREHOLDERS ------------ 4/5 Goethe receives Two Shares. root receives Three Shares. Quazie receives One Share. 4/6 Manu receives Two Shares. The Library receives One Share. Goethe checks One Share out of the Library, and receives it. Goethe receives Two Shares. Goethe transfers One Share to Quazie. Goethe transfers Two Shares to Quazie. 4/8 Quazie transfers One Share to Goethe. root transfers Three Shares to OscarMeyr. 4/14 Manu receives One Share. Quazie receives One Share. The Library receives One Share. Quazie checks One Share out of the Library, and receives it. 4/15 Quazie transfers One Share to Kolja. CARDS ----- 4/3 OscarMeyr plays Enforced Charity (for Pakaran). OscarMeyr plays Your Turn (for Pakaran). 4/5 Goethe plays Corporate Bankruptcy. Sherlock plays Thieves in the Night (for Sir Toby). root playes Thieves in the Night (for Pakaran). 4/6 root plays two Distrib-u-Matics (for Takeover Takeover and April Fool's Takeover). Manu plays Your Turn (for Goethe). Sherlock attempts to play Absolv-o-Matic (for emself), but fails to specify the fee. Sherlock plays Greedy Bastard (gaining the Albatross of Greed), then attempts to play Albatross Flies Away (on that Albatross), but the latter fails because e is not Immaculate and does not specify the fee. Goethe plays Discard Picking (for Two Shares). 4/7 Sherlock plays Absolv-o-Matic (for emself). Sherlock plays Albatross Flies Away (on eir Albatross of Greed). Goethe plays Greedy Bastard. Goethe plays Thieves in the Night (for Sir Toby). Goethe plays Distrib-u-Matic (for absolve-o-mo-matic). OscarMeyr plays Charity Brings Happiness (for Sir Toby). OscarMeyr plays Thieves in the Night (for Sir Toby). 4/8 Manu plays Thieves in the Night (for Sir Toby). 4/9 Quazie plays Distrib-u-Matic (for Arch Nemesis). 4/12 Murphy plays three Distrib-u-Matics (for Extraordinary Proposals, Greed Works, and Hanging Chad). Murphy plays Procedure (for Proposal 4707). Murphy plays two Charity Brings Happiness cards (for Goethe and Manu). 4/13 OscarMeyr plays Charity Brings Happiness (for Sir Toby). 4/15 Quazie plays three Distrib-u-Matics (for Looting the Dead, POWER TO THE PLEBS!, and Death to the Plebeians). IN OTHER NEWS ------------- 4/2 Secretary Quazie chooses Rule 2017 (Blots) for the Book Club, suggesting that they be replaced with albatrosses in some fashion. 4/3 Quazie makes RedKnight quiet. 4/6 Goethe submits and immediately withdraws an Order to draw fewer cards. Pakaran is deregistered for Lawlessness. Pakaran's Contest lacks an Administrator and is dissolved. 4/8 Quazie orders Goethe to announce that e is a Ninny, and to dance. 4/9 Quazie becomes Ready. 4/11 gazebo_dude deregisters. Goethe orders Quazie to vacate eir Orders within 73 hours. Quazie orders Goethe to vacate eir Orders within 68 hours. Per Rule 1795 (Order Timing), the actual time limit is 72 hours. 4/12 Maud announces eir intent to make Sherlock a Bard. Manu creates the Contest "Work of Art", whose contestants submit textual additions to The Nomicon and vote whether to accept them. 4/13 Goethe supports making Sherlock a Bard (in the middle of a long unrelated sentence, so it may be ineffective). President root offers a 2-boon Research Grant for pragmatizing the interaction between Cards and Fees. 4/14 Quazie publishes a Notice of Abandonment for Sir Toby. Registrar OscarMeyr confirms and publishes a Notice of Intent to Deregister.