Subject: BUS: Agoran Weekly Journal From: Ed Murphy Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 18:35:57 -0700 To: Agora Business THE AGORAN WEEKLY JOURNAL VOLUME 50, BACK ISSUE 4 Wednesday, August 31, 2005 SIMON SAYS REGISTER ------------------- 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 ----------------- "Card Fixins" by root - Proposal 4834 adopted 8/6 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 adopted 8/6 Merge ratification into a single rule, simplify "not subject to COE/CFJ" to "not in dispute", and allow non-required documents to be ratified. "Tension makes a tangle" by Maud - Proposal 4833 adopted 8/6 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). REJECTED PROPOSALS ------------------ "Rulebooks" by Maud - Proposal 4831 rejected 8/6 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. "The Random Repeal" by Maud - Proposal 4830 rejected 8/6 Repeal Rule 1079 (Definition of "Random"). PENDING PROPOSALS ----------------- PROTO-PROPOSALS --------------- "Fix Power" by Maud An instrument may modify an entity's power to an amount that does not exceed the instrument's power either before or after modification. CALLS FOR JUDGEMENT ------------------- Requests for ineligibility: CFJ 1278 "The Assessor has announced the results of the voting on Proposal [TRUE] 4111." 2/21/01 Called by Murphy 2/26/01-3/8/01 Assigned to Syllepsis, who Judges TRUE 8/10/05 Goethe motions the now-deregistered Syllepsis to consider a spurious argument ("Basset Hounds have Long Ears"); see CFJ 1575 8/26/05 Motion assigned to root Caller's argument (summary): The Assessor's announcement specified the Vote count correctly, but specified the result of that Vote count (adoption or rejection) incorrectly. Judge's argument (summary): Later in the message, the Assessor specified the result of the Vote count correctly. 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 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 7/22 OscarMeyr moves to SUSTAIN 7/28 Manu moves to SUSTAIN 8/29 Riail recused 8/7-11 Appeal assigned to Eris, who moves to REASSIGN 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 1574 "All Cards currently defined in the Onepower Cardbook that change [FALSE] Kudos (other than fees) are invalid and have no effect." 7/28 Called by Manu 8/7-14 Assigned to OscarMeyr, who judges FALSE Caller's argument (summary): Such cards are neither the rules nor an instrument with Power >= 2. Judge's refutation (summary): For the purpose of resolving conflicts, cards are considered part of the rule defining their Cardbook, and are thus able to change Kudos. CFJ 1575 "root is required to deliver a legal judgement for CFJ 1278." 8/26 Called by Goethe Caller's argument (summary): root was only assigned to consider a motion, but Rule 408 still requires em to judge. OFFICES ------- 8/18 Nominations open for Deckmastor and Justiciar. Mode is Open. 8/25 Goethe nominates emself for Deckmastor and Justiciar, with a Deckmastor proto-budget of 20 of each card, maximum deck size reduced from 100 to 90, maximum deck diversity reduced from 30 to 28, winning hands Money Money Money Money (9 Cash cards) alt.boring.hand. (9 Duds) Total Control (9 Card cards) Share Alike (9 Share cards) Quick draw (9 "Instant" cards) root nominates for Deckmastor. 8/26 Maud resigns as Assessor and Justiciar. Offices go to Speaker Eris. 8/28 Goethe is elected Justiciar. Nominations open for Assessor. Mode is Open. Voting opens for Deckmastor. Candidates are Goethe and root. SHAREHOLDERS ------------ CARDS ----- 8/1 Maud adds the Blueprint for Stock Swap (Rare, Restricted [Shareholders]; exchange all your Stock with another Shareholder). IN OTHER NEWS ------------- 8/8 Eris becomes pope, thus Speaker.