Subject: BUS: Agoran Weekly Journal From: Ed Murphy Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 19:06:17 -0700 To: Agora Business THE AGORAN WEEKLY JOURNAL VOLUME 50, BACK ISSUE 3 Sunday, July 31, 2005 WHERE ARE ALL THE PHASER GUNS? ------------------------------ 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/ Maud - Proto archive http://cokernel.org/agora/proto/ Assessor archive http://cokernel.org/assessor/ Michael - First Speaker http://web.rsise.anu.edu.au/~michaeln/agora/ RCS SLR RCS/short-ruleset,v RCS FLR RCS/full-ruleset,v Murphy - CotC Web http://zenith.homelinux.net/cotc/ AWJ archive http://zenith.homelinux.net/awj/ Riail - AgoraMOO telnet://mail.feoh.org:4781 root - Proposal Pool http://www.periware.org/agora/ Sherlock - Agora Library ftp://ftp.cse.unsw.edu.au/pub/users/malcolmr/ nomic/articles/agora-theses/library.html ERRATA ------ ADOPTED PROPOSALS ----------------- "Aragon" by Manu and Maud - Proposal 4824 adopted 7/17 Patent Titles are awarded by the Herald, rather than the Herald reporting Platonic awards. Duplicate Unique Patent Titles are revoked by the Herald. "Clean up the ADoP's Title" by OscarMeyr - Proposal 4822 adopted 7/17 Update Rule 1686 (Official Reports) to reflect the general renaming of "Assistant Director of Personnel" to "Associate Director of Personnel". "Complacency Kills Proposals" by Goethe - Proposal 4817 adopted 7/10 Repeal Rule 1965 (Complacent Corporation), now that everyone has a vote on Ordinary Proposals. "Dud Raffle" by Goethe - Proposal 4818 adopted 7/10 Repeal Raffle Tickets, replacing existing copies with Duds. Raffles are triggered by a new card Lotto (Asleep [61]), rather than occurring quarterly. "Feexin' Feexins" by root and - Proposal 4819 adopted 7/10 Players performing an action with a fee of zero need not announce the fee. Fees are natural numbers (which may or may not include zero, but a CFJ would probably find that it does in this case). "Graft be ... gone?" by Goethe - Proposal 4826 adopted 7/22 Move the card element Grafty from the rules to the Twopower Cardbook. "Minor Switch Fix" by root - Proposal 4823 adopted 7/17 When a switch state is removed, any entities in that state simply come to be in the switch's default state, rather than being flipped to it. "Omnibus Spelling Fix" by Maud - Proposal 4825 adopted 7/17 "nonwithstanding" -> "notwithstanding": 2059 (Legality of Bonus Clauses) 2078 (Takeover Proposals) "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) "commonsense" -> "common sense": 217 (Judgements Must Accord with the Rules) "maintainance" -> "maintenance": 1670 (The Distributor) "transfering" -> "transferring": 2069 (Card Definitions) "existant" -> "existent": 1370 (How to Get a Degree) "Write" -> "Writ": 1789 (Cantus Cygneus) "losses" -> "loses": 2084 (Cash Cards) "The Cobalt Repairs" by Maud - Proposal 4829 adopted 7/30 Repeal limited eligibility of Shareholders. Remove a redundant clause from Rule 1483 (Definition of Proposals). Repeal Sane Proposals. A player may make eir proposals distributable even if they have already been distributed. Repeal Chamber Procedure. "the Fortinbras Repeal" by Goethe - Proposal 4820 adopted 7/10 Quietness is merged into inactivity. A player may (with support and without 2 objections) make another player inactive, if they have not posted in 30 days; such inactivity is automatically reversed if the player posts again, similar to noisiness. Repeal the card "Loot the Dead". "Welcome All Coauthors" by Maud - Proposal 4828 adopted 7/30 Non-players may be coauthors. REJECTED PROPOSALS ------------------ "PH'NGLUI" by Manu - Proposal 4821 rejected 7/10 Amend the Map of Agora by replacing the mauve-colored whale with the Island R'lyeh. ("Oh no, not again.") "What's a duckway?" by Goethe - Proposal 4827 rejected 7/22 Increase the Power of Rule 1486 (Procedure for an Orderly Witch Hunt) from 1 to 2 (since it requires an Adoption Index of 2), and merge Installing Officers through Proposal (which also requires an Adoption Index of 2) into it. Witch Hunts do not remove non-electees. Repeal Rule 2098 (May Day). PENDING PROPOSALS ----------------- "Card Fixins" by root - Proposal 4834 Site Gamblers are generalized, including the Deck, Discard Pile, Library, and now the Table. Cards are transferred to the Table while they take effect, discarded afterward (unless Persistent). Indications, Impositions, and Feats are explicitly defined as components of card exploits. Individual cards may override their default mechanisms. "Condense ratification" by Maud - Proposal 4832 Merge ratification into a single rule, simplify "not subject to COE/CFJ" to "not in dispute", and allow non-required documents to be ratified. "Let my people know" by Quazie The Short Logical Ruleset shall indicate how many rules it contains. "Move your ors" by Goethe Remove superfluous commas and an "or" from Rule 698 (Always an Eligible Judge). "Rulebooks" by Maud - Proposal 4831 Rulebooks may define terms, enable, require, and regulate their own amendment, but cannot affect amendment of the Rules. Rulebooks have default Power 1, and (if non-blank) their maintainers shall publish them monthly and ASAP after changes. The Codex is a Rulebook with Power 3: The Speaker may appoint a player as Rules Lawyer by announcement. List of Rulebooks. The Codex is maintained by the Rules Lawyer. "Speaker Reforms" by Goethe Proposals are once again ordinary by default. The Speaker may make undistributed proposals democratic for free, and may veto distributed ordinary proposals without needing support (increasing their Adoption Index by 1). Cardinals are continuously defined. Pope selection uses the mechanisms of Agoran decisions, rather than a custom nominate-and-support system. Finish repealing Speaker Taint. New card Debate-o-Matic (Common, initial quota 6; change a proposal's chamber). "Step right up" by Maud When a player becomes active, e becomes eligible to vote on any Agoran decision on which e would have been eligible at the start if active. "Tension makes a tangle" by Maud - Proposal 4833 Regulated activities (which Rule 101, renamed "Agora May I?", allows players to perform only as specified) are activities that are prohibited, are allowed if a condition holds, would modify records required to be kept, would break Agora's Nomic-ness, or have been judicially declared as regulated. Repeal the leftover mention of the Initial Ruleset. Players may not be required to do what they are not empowered to do, and failing to do such actions is still never a crime or infraction. A set of events in a message with ambiguous order and thus effect may be invalidated without invalidating other events in the same message with unambiguous order and effect. Merge the rules for registration and deregistration. Simplify the language of Rule 478 (Fora). "The Random Repeal" by Maud - Proposal 4830 Repeal Rule 1079 (Definition of "Random"). PROTO-PROPOSALS --------------- "Allow Elemental Experimentation" by Maud Blueprints may define either cards or card elements. "Bring Back Arcadia" by Maud Each location on the map of Agora indicated by an arrow is a site (see "Card Fixins"). "Card Reduction Act" by Maud New card element Bounded [X] [Y] (if you are not an X, any number you indicate when playing this card must be <= Y). Replace Distrib-u-Matic and Two for One with Samizdat (Costly [N]; make N+1 proposals distributable). Replace Rebel Rabble and Police State with Action Must Be Taken (Rare, Costly [number of rebels]; increase/decrease the effective number of rebels for a week, depending on your Orthodoxy). Replace Instant Gratification and Instant Punishment with Instant Karma (Rare; convert one of your ephemeral patent titles into an immediate kudo gain/loss; if you don't have one, gain an albatross which is then converted). Repeal Hot Potato. Freedom fries, anyone? Replace Absolv-o-Matic with Indulgence (Costly [N+1], Bounded [immaculate] [1]; expunge N-1 blots from an entity). "Cards for Farming" by Maud New card element Productive [number of boons] (may gain them by announcement once a week). New card element Drain [number and type of boons] (once a week, lose them, lose twice as many kudos, or discard this card). New card Wheat Farm (Rare, Productive [2 Wheat]; replace N boons of Wheat with N-1 of Sheep). New card Sheep Farm (Rare, Drain [1 Wheat]; replace N boons of Sheep with N-1 of People). New card People Farm (Rare, Drain [1 Wheat], Drain [1 Sheep]; replace N boons of People with N-1 of Soylent). New card Soylent Farm (Rare, Drain [1 Wheat], Drain [1 Sheep], Drain [1 People]; replace all your Wheat, Sheep, People, and Soylent with kudos). "Cards for Stealing" by Maud New card Reverse Charges (Rare, Costly [1], Delayed [one week]; gain twice the kudos you spent on a fee-based action in the past week). New card Bouncy Pouncy (Rare, Persistent; whenever someone else plays a specified class of card, take it and discard this card). New card Best Friends Forever (Persistent, Psychotic; attach this card to another player's card, increasing eir hand size and preventing em from playing copies of that card, until they discard a copy of that card, at which point that card and this card return to the deck). "Ecumenical Proposals" by Maud The Envoy shall maintain a Buddy List (Rulebook) of friendly nomics and their members. E may add nomics; any player may remove a nomic with 3 support, after which the Envoy needs that player's support to re-add that nomic. The initial Buddy List is Acka, Claustronomic, the FRC, Garden Nomic, perlnomic (#1), schemenomic, Tabula, Thring, Wikinomic (#2), and an unnamed nomic using Claustronomic's old mailing list. Ecumenical is a proposal chamber. Members of friendly nomics have a vote on ecumenical proposals, but members of Agora have two votes. "Is this basic enough for you?" by Maud New card Twiddle (Rare, Powered[4]; modify the gamestate by replacing one digit of a report with another digit). "preliminary card ideas" by root New card Name Your Poison (Unique; name a card which must be dealt next, if possible). New card Dud Lite (Rare, Handed[0]; draw a Dud). New card Mixed Drink (Rare; swap three cards in the Deck for three cards in the Discard Pile). "Reintroduce recordkeepors" by Maud "Recordkeepor" is abstracted. "The Agoran Datebook" by Maud The Herald shall maintain a Datebook (Rulebook) of Holidays. Read the Ruleset Week becomes a Holiday. The end-of-December holiday is named Midwinter. "The Off-Campus Herald" by Maud The Secretary of the University takes over the tracking of non-honorary degrees (from the Herald) and theses (from the Rulekeepor), and the Speaker's role in choosing the second member of thesis committees. Move the definition of Library from Rule 2089 (Gardner Library) to Rule 2086 (The University of Agora). "The Schoolmarmot" by Maud The Office of Schoolmarmot shall maintain the Agoran dictionary (Rulebook), which initially defines unanimity. "White Smoke" by Goethe Cardinals are continuously defined. Pope selection uses the mechanisms of Agoran decisions, rather than a custom nominate-and-support system. Finish repealing Speaker Taint. CALLS FOR JUDGEMENT ------------------- Requests for ineligibility: CFJ 1453 "As a result of the formation of root's Pay Out Scam Contest (rPOSC), [TRUE] the Bank incurred a debt to root consisting of one or more Appealed properties." 3/4/03 Called by root 3/10-17 Assigned to t, who makes emself ineligible 3/20-24 Assigned to Sir Toby, who Judges TRUE 6/16/05 Appealed by root, Maud, and Goethe 6/19-7/4 Appeal assigned to Murphy, Maud, and Michael, who are recused 7/8 Appeal assigned to Riail, Manu, and OscarMeyr Caller's argument (summary): The Contest required root to pay out Property to emself, and Rule 1594 (Violation of SLCs) requires em to obey the Regulations. Since Rule 1594 requires em to pay out Property, Rule 1479 (Definition of "Pay Out" and "Bill") causes the Bank to incur a debt. Judge's argument (summary): This is backed up by game custom that Orders requiring paying-out create debts because they are also backed by Rule 1594. Counterargument (summary): SLCs and similar entities do not empower in the same way that they restrict. This appeal will provide an analogy for Cardbooks, Contracts, and Agreements. CFJ 1573 "OscarMeyr became Speaker on or about 22:58:35 on 30 June 2005." [FALSE] 7/4 Called by Maud 7/8-11 Assigned to Goethe, who judges FALSE Caller's argument (summary): The relevant result-of-conclave announcement was incorrect, but still effective. OscarMeyr became pope (even though e was not a cardinal) and then Speaker (before eir non-cardinality made em a non-pope). Judge's refutation (summary): The pope-making process explicitly depends on the ADoP choosing a cardinal. CFJ 1574 "All Cards currently defined in the Onepower Cardbook that change Kudos (other than fees) are invalid and have no effect." 7/28 Called by Manu Caller's argument (summary): Such cards are neither the rules nor an instrument with Power >= 2. OFFICES ------- 7/4 OscarMeyr is elected Registrar. SHAREHOLDERS ------------ 7/5 Murphy receives three One Shares. Maud receives One Share. 7/11 Maud receives One Share. 7/12 Chaos Apple redistributes Shares: Player Old New Eris 1,1 Goethe 2 1,1 Manu 2 3,1 Maud 2,1,1 2 Michael 1 Murphy 2,1,1,1 OscarMeyr 2 RedKnight 1 Riail 2,2 root 3 1 CARDS ----- 7/4 Manu plays Divide or Conquer Your Stock (discarding two One Shares in favor of one Two Shares). 7/7 Maud plays Dud Development (for four Duds). 7/11 root plays Enforced Charity (for Eris), but Rule 1016 (Activity Levels) may make it ineffective. 7/12 Eris plays Chaos Apple. Eris plays Dud Development. 7/13 root plays Charity Brings Happiness (for Michael). root plays Thieves in the Night (for Michael). Manu plays Absolv-o-Matic (for Quazie). 7/17 Maud plays Thieves in the Night (for Quazie). Maud plays Enforced Charity (for Riail). Maud plays Presto! (for Goethe's Discard and Draw). Maud plays Discard Picking (for Presto!). Maud plays Reshuffle. 7/18 root plays Enforced Charity (for Maud). 7/19 OscarMeyr plays Your Turn (for Kolja). 7/20 Manu plays Dud Development (for one Dud). 7/25 Maud intends to add these Blueprints: Bouncy Pouncy (see proto-proposal "Card Fixins"). Stock Swap (Rare, Restricted [Shareholders]; exchange all your Stock with another Shareholder). Share the Love (Rare, Restricted [Shareholders]; indicate an ordinary proposal in the pool, invalidate another Shareholder's votes on it unless they match your votes). Eris supports the addition of Stock Swap and Bouncy Pouncy. root intends to add a Blueprint for Scryb Sprites (Unique, Costly [1], Persistent, Flying, Power [1], Toughness [1]; become sole executor of this card until it is killed or leaves the Table, at which point it is discarded). Maud supports the intention. Maud intends to add a Blueprint for Dvoraktion (Dvorak; create a new Blueprint with element Dvorak and quota 1, reduce the quota of Dvoraktion by 1 and destroy this card). IN OTHER NEWS ------------- 7/13 A conclave begins. Cardinals are Goethe, Manu, Maud, Michael, Murphy, and Riail. 7/14 Assessor Maud intends (without objection) to ratify eir report. 7/19 Assessor Maud ratifies eir report. 7/21 A conclave begins. Cardinals are Goethe, Manu, Maud, Michael, Murphy, and Riail. 7/23 Eris comes off hold. University President root offers a 3-boon grant for proposals for new/better/fewer cards, and a 5-boon grant for proposals for something new for cards to affect. 7/29 Riail deregisters. A conclave begins. Cardinals are Eris, Goethe, Manu, Maud, Michael, and Murphy. 7/30 Eris intends to become pope. Maud supports em.