Subject: BUS: Agoran Weekly Journal From: Ed Murphy Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:55:52 -0700 To: Agora Business THE AGORAN WEEKLY JOURNAL VOLUME 50, ISSUE 5 Sunday, October 16, 2005 BACK TO THE PRESENT ------------------- 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 ----------------- "Kudononsuch" by Goethe - Proposal 4837 adopted 10/2 Pending draws are either free or heavy (stuck switch Encumbrance). Only free pending draws increase hand size. Heavy pending draws cannot be satisfied if the gambler's hand size exceeds the maximum hand size. If a gambler has both heavy and free pending draws, the heavy ones must be satisfied (to the extent possible) first. If a gambler loses a pending draw, e loses free ones first. If e has no draws, e loses a card; if e has no cards, e loses eir next pending draw. Each player gets three heavy draws and one free draw per month, and one heavy draw for each of eir adopted proposals. Boons give free draws. Albatrosses take away draws. Checking out cards from the Library is done by spending draws. When the deck is frozen, all heavy draws are lost. Repeal kudos, fees, and expunging blots for a fee. "Move your ors" by Goethe - Proposal 4835 adopted 10/2 Remove superfluous commas and an "or" from Rule 698 (Always an Eligible Judge). "New game in town" by Goethe - Proposal 4838 adopted 10/2 Replace Winning Hands in the Deckmastor's budget with Scoring Instructions in the Cardbooks. Blueprint Scoring Instructions may be amended with M support and without N objections (M >= N >= 1 at the time of the change). Initial Scoring Instructions in the Onepower Cardbook: 0. Each SI has a unique index, default (highest existing + 1). Each hand has a complex score, default 0. 1. SIs are applied in order of increasing index, affecting all hands simultaneously. 9999. Winning score is > 250 and > any other non-site score. Initial Scoring Instructions in the Blueprints Cardbook: 10. Each card adds to score based on the first letter of its caption (A -> 1, B -> 2, ..., Z -> 26). "Odds and Ends" by Goethe - Proposal 4839 adopted 10/2 Repeal Prime Executors. Repeal Nth Anniversary Ribbon, and closing the courts on Agora's Birthday. "Speaker Reforms" by Goethe and Maud - Proposal 4836 adopted 10/2 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). The Speaker may rubberstamp ordinary proposals during their voting period, setting their quorum to 3. 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 10; change a proposal's chamber). Repeal Chamber fees, in anticipation of repealing fees in general (see "Kudononsuch"). REJECTED PROPOSALS ------------------ PENDING PROPOSALS ----------------- "Clarify Rule 1567" by Murphy Requests like e.g. "all CFJs for the next two weeks" are interpreted as "all CFJs called within the next two weeks". "Generalize Compensation for Ex-Cards" by Murphy When a class of cards is repealed, non-site instances are converted to pending draws. "Order categorical" by Goethe - Proposal 4841 Merge Rule 1048 (Rule Categories) into Rule 1681 (The Logical Rulesets). New rules are assigned to categories at the Rulekeepor's discretion. All other category operations are without 2 objections. "some fixup" by Goethe - Proposal 4840 Replace the Grace Period kudo clause with three free draws. Add a missing word to Rule 2019 (The Speaker's Veto) ("Assessor shall [place] a copy"). PROTO-PROPOSALS --------------- "Andre would have wanted it this way" by Murphy (backlogged from April) Return to one player, one vote. Repeal Chambers, Sane Proposals, Shares, and Voting Potential. "Appellate Stability" by Murphy (backlogged from June) Each appeal increases by two the number of appeals required for a new appeal. "Bicycle" by Murphy (backlogged from April) Define Rank and Suit as card elements, and Hand Rank based on standard poker rules (except with Dead Man's Hand - AS AC 8S 8C JH and nothing else - beating royal flush). Each week, a player may ante a Kudo. At the end of the week, the pot goes to the gambler with highest hand rank. "boon cash-out" by Goethe Convert boons at the time of "Kudononsuch"'s adoption to heavy draws. "Diebold Electronic Voting Machines" by Murphy (backlogged from April) Gaining Sente increases Voting Potential to 4 (if needed), and never reduces Voting Power on Democratic Proposals below the 1 that those with Gote have. Players need not be Shareholders when voting on Ordinary Proposals. Define Mainsail as a proposal switch (from "Taking Over Takeovers") and some cards to manipulate it. Corporate Raiders must include the proposal author. "Don't Get Stuck on Stupid" by Murphy Allow the Associate Director of Personnel to conduct eir own election, unless someone objects, in which case the Speaker conducts it as before. "Fix Contempt" by Murphy (backlogged from April) If an order is invalid or improper, there shall be no penalty for either obeying or disobeying it. "Pending Draw Reform" by Murphy Replace pending draws with chips. "Simplify Orders" by Murphy (backlogged from April) Define the Commander, Commanded, Positive Orders (to act) and Negative Orders (to refrain from acting). If an Order commands an Office, a change in holder does not absolve the old holder of past violations. Centralize the definitions of when orders are issued and become effective. An Order's Base Time is its issue date, effective date, or (if commanding an Office) the last time the Office changed hands, whichever is most recent. Default time limit is ASAP after the Base Time. Propriety of Orders is explicitly left to judicial discretion. Define Orders to Cancel, and reword specific stay/vacation of Orders to use them. Collapse several short rules into a few longer ones. "Two-Tone Economics Reloaded" by Murphy (backlogged from April) Generalize fees in terms of multiple cost indexes: Red/Green/Blue Quarks, Parchments, Ballots, and Kudos. Red + Green -> Parchment, Red + Blue -> Ballot, Green + Blue -> Kudo. All cost indexes are reset quarterly. A player's voting power is one, plus one for every five ballots e possessed at the start of the voting period, plus one for every ballot e spends on that proposal. A player's proposing power (number of proposals e may submit per week) is one, plus one for every five parchments e possessed at the start of the week, plus one for every parchment e spends that week. CALLS FOR JUDGEMENT ------------------- Requests for ineligibility: 9/18 Quazie (all CFJs "for the next 298 hours 256 minutes and 34 seconds" 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 8/26/05-10/16/05 Motion assigned to root; e fulfills eir (buggy) requirement to judge by judging TRUE 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 1575 "root is required to deliver a legal judgement for CFJ 1278." [TRUE] 8/26 Called by Goethe 9/18-25 Assigned to Eris, who judges TRUE Caller's argument (summary): root was only assigned to consider a motion, but Rule 408 still requires em to judge. OFFICES ------- 9/4 Maud nominates Murphy for Assessor. 9/5 Murphy is elected Deckmastor. Nominations open for Deckmastor. Mode is Open. 9/11 Maud nominates Goethe for Deckmastor. 9/13 Goethe is elected Deckmastor, with a privately submitted 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) 9/15 Nominations open for Clerk of the Courts, Herald, and Promotor. Mode is Open. Nominations do not open for Associate Director of Personnel because the Speaker must initiate that election. Maud attempts to nominate Murphy for Associate Director of Personnel. Maud nominates Manu for Clerk of the Courts. Maud nominates root for Herald. Maud nominates OscarMeyr for Promotor. root nominates emself for Promotor. OscarMeyr nominates Quazie for Clerk of the Courts, Herald, and Promotor, and attempts to nominate em for Associate Director of Personnel. 9/16 Manu declines eir nomination for Clerk of the Courts. Quazie declines eir nominations for Clerk of the Courts, Herald, and Promotor (and eir ineffective nomination for Associate Director of Personnel). 9/18 Murphy nominates emself for Clerk of the Courts. 9/20 OscarMeyr declines eir nomination for Promotor. OscarMeyr nominates emself for Herald. 9/26 Murphy is incorrectly announced as being elected Associate Director of Personnel. Voting is incorrectly announced as opening for Clerk of the Courts, with Manu (who declined) and Murphy as candidates. Voting opens for Herald. Candidates are root and OscarMeyr. root is elected Promotor. root stands down from the Herald election. 9/27 OscarMeyr is elected Herald. Murphy is elected Clerk of the Courts. Nominations open for Associate Director of Personnel. Mode is Open. 9/28 OscarMeyr nominates Maud and Murphy for Associate Director of Personnel. Maud declines eir nomination for Associate Director of Personnel. SHAREHOLDERS ------------ CARDS ----- 10/7 Goethe intends (with more support than objections) to add a Scoring Instruction to the Blueprint Cardbook, and Eris supports it: 20. Each player's score is increased by i for each of eir pending draws. IN OTHER NEWS ------------- 9/14 Quazie comes off hold.