Subject: BUS: Agoran Weekly Journal From: Ed Murphy Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 23:42:27 -0800 To: Agora Business THE AGORAN WEEKLY JOURNAL VOLUME 50, BACK ISSUE 5 Saturday, December 31, 2005 BACK TO THE PAST ---------------- Andre - Old CFJs http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/stare.txt Blob - Thesis library ftp://ftp.cse.unsw.edu.au/pub/users/malcolmr/ nomic/articles/agora-theses/library.html Goethe - Claustronomic http://faculty.washington.edu/kerim/nomic/ Manu - Agora Wiki http://agora.lendemaindeveille.com/ 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/ root - Proposal Pool http://www.periware.org/agora/ ADOPTED PROPOSALS ----------------- "Boon Cash-Out" by Goethe - Proposal 4844 adopted 12/4 Award heavy pending draws based on Boon holdings at the time Kudos were repealed. "Generalize Compensation for Ex-Cards" by Murphy - Proposal 4843 adopted 11/9 When a class of cards is repealed, non-site instances are converted to pending draws. "Order categorical" by Goethe - Proposal 4841 adopted 10/27 Merge Rule 1048 (Rule Categories) into Rule 1681 (The Logical Rulesets). New rules are assigned to categories at Rulekeepor discretion. All other category operations are without 2 objections. "Pragmatize hand limits" by Goethe - Proposal 4846 adopted 12/31 Maximum hand size does not prevent drawing cards, but reduces a player's hand monthly as needed. "some fixup" by Goethe - Proposal 4840 adopted 10/27 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"). REJECTED PROPOSALS ------------------ "Clarify Rule 1567" by Murphy - Proposal 4842 rejected 11/9 Requests like e.g. "all CFJs for the next two weeks" are interpreted as "all CFJs called within the next two weeks". "Recording Orthodoxy" by OscarMeyr - Proposal 4845 failed quorum 12/31 Assigned to the Registrar. PENDING PROPOSALS ----------------- "The Last Vestige of Initiative" by OscarMeyr Finish repealing Initiative. PROTO-PROPOSALS --------------- "Chips" by Murphy Replace heavy pending draws with white chips, and free pending draws with red chips. Award a (useless but pretty) blue chip on a Win. "Fees, please" by root Fees are paid by discarding cards and/or forfeiting pending draws. "Fix Rule 1558" by Maud Elections for Offices may be resolved before the end of the voting period if there are less than three candidates. "Pragmatic infinity" by Goethe The Library gains pending draws in proportion to cars checked out (or a lack of both cards in hand and cards checked out), rather than gaining them whenever eir hand size is below maximum (which may occur infinitely many times if the hand size formula is broken). Reinitialize the Library's pending draws. CALLS FOR JUDGEMENT ------------------- CFJ 1278 "The Assessor has announced the results of the voting on [TRUE] Proposal 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 denies the motion, and 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 1576 "Goethe successfully played Corporate Bankruptcy on or about [TRUE] Oct. 31, 2005." 10/31 Called by Goethe 11/9-16 Assigned to Maud, who judges TRUE Caller's argument (summary): This requires noting a fee (which e did), but fees are not explicitly defined. CFJ 1577 "The Registrar has not legally resolved the Rebellion that occurred on December 15th, 2005." 12/17 Called by Sherlock 12/31 Assigned to Quazie Caller's argument (summary): The Registrar chose a random number from 1 to 12, but was required to choose between 11 equally likely choices. CFJ 1578 "Eris's play of Thieves in the Night naming Riail was successful." Linked to CFJ 1579 12/21 Called by Eris 12/22 Eris attempts to submit this CFJ to the Justiciar Comments: Riail was deregistered at the time. This may be interpreted as Eris falsely asserting that Riail was a player, causing em to gain an albatross. CFJ 1579 "Eris gained an albatross of the Thief from eir play of Thieves in the Night naming Riail." Linked to CFJ 1578 12/21 Called by Eris 12/22 Eris attempts to submit this CFJ to the Justiciar OFFICES ------- 10/18 Voting opens for Associate Director of Personnel. Murphy is the only candidate. 10/28 Murphy is elected Associate Director of Personnel. 11/9 Nominations open for Secretary of the University. Mode is Open. 12/4 Nominations open for Registrar and Secretary of the University. Mode is Open. Murphy nominates OscarMeyr for Registrar, root for Secretary, and Eris, Manu, and Maud for both. Maud declines eir nominations. 12/21 Murphy is retired as ADoP, Assessor, and CotC due to Rebellion. Michael is retired as Rulekeepor due to Rebellion. 12/31 Nominations open for Assessor, CotC, Justiciar, Rulekeepor, and ADoP. Mode is Open. Murphy nominates emself for Clerk of the Courts. Murphy nominates Michael for Rulekeepor. Voting opens for Registrar. Candidates are OscarMeyr, Eris, and Manu. Voting opens for Secretary of the University. Candidates are root, Eris, and Manu. SHAREHOLDERS ------------ 12/5 OscarMeyr receives Three Shares. 12/7 Eris receives One Share. 12/15 root receives One Share. Maud receives Two Shares. Manu receives Two Shares. root discards One Share. 12/16 Eris receives Two Shares. Murphy receives Three Shares. Goethe receives Three Shares. root receives One Share. 12/20 All Shares are transferred to Fate due to Chaos Apple. Murphy receives Two Shares. root receives Three Shares and Two Shares. Manu receives One Share, Two Shares, and Three Shares. Eris receives One Share. OscarMeyr receives Three Shares and Two Shares. The Library receives Three Shares and One Share. Maud checks out Three Shares from the Library. root checks out One Share from the Library. 12/21 Murphy loses Two Shares due to Rebellion. Eris receives One Share. The Library receives One Share. CARDS ----- 12/6 Goethe plays It's a Surprise!. Goethe plays Your Turn, indicating OscarMeyr. 12/7 OscarMeyr plays Library Renewal, indicating 4. Goethe plays Your Turn, indicating Eris. Eris plays Thieves in the Night, indicating Riail. Manu plays Your Turn, indicating Eris. Goethe plays Presto!, indicating Debate-o-Matic and OscarMeyr. Goethe plays Debate-o-Matic, indicating The Last Vestige of Initiative and Ordinary. 12/15 Goethe plays Library Card, indicating Your Turn. Goethe plays Your Turn, indicating Maud. Goethe plays Library Card, indicating Your Turn. Goethe plays Your Turn, indicating Maud. root, with Maud and Goethe's support, amends the Deckmastor's Budget by decreasing many quotas from 20 to either 1 or 9. root plays Charity Brings Happiness, indicating Quazie. Manu plays Instant Millionaire. Maud plays Rebel Rabble. Maud plays Presto!, indicating Discard Picking and Murphy. Maud plays Discard Picking, indicating Rebel Rabble. Maud plays Rebel Rabble. Goethe plays Discard Picking, indicating Rebel Rabble. Goethe plays Rebel Rabble. root plays Discard Picking, indicating Presto!. 12/16 Goethe, with root and Eris's support, amends the Deckmastor's Budget by decreasing more quotas. Goethe plays Not Your Turn, indicating emself and Rebel Rabble. 12/20 OscarMeyr plays Chaos Apple. Maud plays Library Card, indicating Rebel Rabble. Maud plays Rebel Rabble. root plays Bouncy Pouncy, indicating Presto!. root plays two copies of Rebel Rabble. IN OTHER NEWS ------------- 12/1 OscarMeyr, Eris, and Manu rebel. 12/3 RedKnight rebels. 12/4 Notices of Abandonment and Notices of Intent to Deregister are published for Kolja and RedKnight, but are ineffective because the Notices of Abandonment did not allege abandonment. Kolja's notices bounce. Maud changes eir e-mail address. 12/5 Maud posts from eir new e-mail address to confirm it. 12/11 Corrected Notices of Abandonment are published for Kolja and RedKnight. 12/12 Notices of Intent to Deregister are published for Kolja and RedKnight. 12/14 Quazie rebels (possibly: "I am a rebel"). 12/15 Maud and Goethe rebel. Goethe Calls for Revolt. Quazie rebels, in case eir previous attempt was ineffective. 12/16 Rebellion fails. root rebels. 12/20 Goethe Calls for Revolt. 12/21 Rebellion succeeds.