Subject: BUS: Agoran Weekly Journal From: Ed Murphy Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:50:19 -0700 To: Agora Business X-Account-Key: account3 X-UIDL: <48F2009B.5010703@socal.rr.com> X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-Path: Received: from hrndva-mxlb.mail.rr.com ([10.128.255.89]) by hrndva-imta07.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20081012135205.CMPR5979.hrndva-imta07.mail.rr.com@hrndva-mxlb.mail.rr.com> for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:52:05 +0000 Return-Path: X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-RR-Connecting-IP: 66.219.50.42 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=80AO_0du7KQA:10 a=Kt0HhMLvKirF+XV7Ru8StA==:17 a=9__GORT2BGw6eoD8Bs8A:9 a=qKA_G2TmxHkth1v8rrkA:7 a=pKgrQ25S9thbgd-8x89V2rEXMQ4A:4 a=8y7tGHue6YMA:10 Received: from [66.219.50.42] ([66.219.50.42:37653] helo=yzma.clarkk.net) by hrndva-iedge08.mail.rr.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.2.34 r(26260M)) with ESMTP id AE/20-28330-50102F84; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:52:05 +0000 Received: from yzma.clarkk.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by yzma.clarkk.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC9608079A; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:52:04 -0500 (CDT) Delivered-To: agora-business@yzma.clarkk.net Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com [71.74.56.124]) by yzma.clarkk.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D7B68077A for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:51:05 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.0.13] (really [76.87.191.13]) by hrndva-omta04.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20081012135102.EZNJ13204.hrndva-omta04.mail.rr.com@[192.168.0.13]> for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:51:02 +0000 Message-ID: <48F2009B.5010703@socal.rr.com> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080914 Thunderbird/2.0.0.17 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: agora-business-admin@agoranomic.org Errors-To: agora-business-admin@agoranomic.org X-BeenThere: agora-business@agoranomic.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: agora-discussion@agoranomic.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Agora Nomic public communications (PF) List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: THE AGORAN WEEKLY JOURNAL VOLUME 52, BACK ISSUE 4 Friday, August 31, 2007 8/1 Wooble becomes active. Zefram protoes "Judicial Self-Recusal and Case Transfer". Adopted proposals include: 5110 (formal ID numbers) 5111 (re-enact switches) 5112 (higher salaries for offices with weekly vs. monthly reports) 5113 (merge dependent actions into Agoran decisions) 8/2 Zefram protoes "statute of limitations" (add OVERLOOKED as a criminal judgement) and "pragmatify officeholding" (allow offices to become vacant). CFJ 1684a determines that partnerships were valid all along. 8/3 Peekee registers. 8/4 Distributed proposals include: 5131 (Judicial Self-Recusal and Case Transfer) 5132 (statute of limitations) 8/6 root proposes "Deadlock avoidance" (panels can act via two members and the Clerk of the Courts). Wooble proposes "right to a speedy trial" (defendant can end the pre-trial phase early). Peekee advertises scripts allowing anyone to send messages attributed to em. Messages sent via these scripts turn out to be recognizable (from the Subject, From, and User-Agent headers), but who triggered the script is not evident. 8/7 Distributed proposals include: 5134 (Deadlock avoidance) 5135 (right to a speedy trial) 5138 (repeal obsolete veto), leaving Support Democracy to fill a similar role) 8/8 "make chokey reduce voting power" fails quorum. Murphy proposes "Truthiness, or the Island of Knights and Knaves" (make Eris a Knave and encourage em not to tell the truth). Zefram protoes "head of state" (defining the purpose of the Speaker) and re-proposes "make chokey reduce voting power". Peekee proposes "Support Ordinary" (counterpart to Support Democracy). 8/9 Zefram proposes "head of state". 8/10 Pavitra registers. 8/11 Distributed proposals include: 5140 (Truthiness) 5141 (make chokey reduce voting power) 5143 (Support Ordinary) 5144 (head of state) Someone uses Peekee's scripts to send "I DEREGISTER!" to agora-business. root promptly initiates CFJ 1719 to determine whether it counted as being sent by Peekee. 8/12 Peekee states that e did not use eir own script to deregister. Adopted proposals include: 5131 (Judicial Self-Recusal and Case Transfer) 5132 (statute of limitations) 8/13 Murphy protoes: Return of Zeitgeist (Zinnwaldite VC) Identity Crises (judgement that a message lied about its sender creates legal fiction that it was sent by the FSM) and proposes: The Republic of Agora (mostly converting voting limits to a Congressional district metaphor) BobTHJ becomes inactive. Zefram proposes "regularise speakership" (installation procedure same as other offices). root protoes "Judicial Reform 2.0" (repeal appeals, leaving new CFJs to fill a similar role). 8/14 Distributed proposals: 5145 (regularise speakership) 5146 (The Republic of Agora) comex proposes "more knaves" (spies are neither knights nor knaves, fools are both; knaves SHALL NOT tell the truth). 8/15 Zefram judges CFJ 1719 false, finding that Peekee delegated eir message-sending to others (as opposed to providing an alternate route for others to send eir own messages) because e did not provide a dedicated method for them to identify themselves. comex admits to using Peekee's script to deregister em, and proposes restoring eir playerhood (temporarily suspending the usual 30-day limit), as well as "Judicial Reform 3000" (based on root's "Judicial Reform 2.0"). root protoes "Second-class registration" (allow players to semi-register quickly after deregistration, making em players but not first-class until the usual time limit expires). comex submits a proposal admittedly identical to one of Zefram's minor fix proposals. This and other similar instances are consistently rejected. 8/16 eekeeP (allegedly), hedgehogcull, and Peekee (ineffective due to the 30-day limit) register. Peekee promptly initiates CFJs 1724-25 to determine the success of the first two attempts. Pavitra and OscarMeyr proto awards during Agora's Birthday. Murphy submits two protoes allowing more implicitness in Agoran decisions on dependent actions, and proposes "Separate rule from act in criminal cases" (requiring them to be specified separately) and "Simplify quorum" (maximum 5). Adopted proposals include: 5134 (Deadlock avoidance) 5135 (right to a speedy trial) 5138 (repeal obsolete veto) root proposes "The right to a speedier trial" (defendant can end pre-trial phase before being informed). 8/17 Zefram protoes Black VCs for sentencing on time, Cyan VCs for deputising, and White VCs for new players, and proposes "Agora is (nearly) a republic" (repeal the Speaker's last prerogative of Rubber Stamp). comex proposes "voluntary reduction of VVLOP" (presumably to allow keeping it in lieu of Win by Clout). Murphy protoes a revised "The Republic of Agora", along with some separate tweaks to proposal chambers, and "Generalize power-based allowance" (defining "permissively regulated"). 8/18 Zefram proposes "win by palette" (by spending one of each color of VC, provided at least 6 colors exist), as well as multiple new colors: Orange for unanimous proposal adoption Black, Cyan, White as previously protoed Magenta for celebrating Agora's Birthday Ultraviolet for winning Distributed proposals include: 5147 (more knaves) 5148 (make Peekee a player) 5149 (Judicial Reform 3000) 5153 (Separate rule from act in criminal cases) 5154 (Simplify quorum) 5155 (The right to a speedier trial) 5158 (Agora is (nearly) a republic) 5159 (voluntary reduction of VVLOP) 5160 (Agora is (nearly) a republic) 5163 (win by palette) 5165-70 (new VC colors) Pavitra proposes "earned citizenship" (reduce base voting power on ordinary proposals from 4 to 0; on a win, each player can only keep 4 VCs of eir choice). BobTHJ becomes active. Adopted proposals include: 5140 (Truthiness) 5141 (make chokey reduce voting power) 5144 (head of state) Rejected proposals include: 5143 (Support Ordinary) Murphy proposes "Refactor regulation" (specify which regulated actions are impossible vs. illegal), "Assets" (generalize VCs and points), and "Interest Index" (expand disinterested / interested to a 0-3 scale). 8/19 Murphy proposes "Generalize security" (a renamed "Generalize power-based allowance", with "permissively regulated" renamed to "secured"). 8/20 BobTHJ protoes "Digits Again", a rule-based version of what eventually becomes the Agoran Agricultural Association contest. Levi and Murphy create and register the partnership "The Host", attempting to give Levi a win by high score using multiple contests. Zefram promptly initiates CFJ 1729 to determine whether the weekly point award limit is per-contest or per-contestmaster. 8/21 Zefram proposes "partially regularise speakership" (same as "regularise speakership" but retaining the provision for keeping it non-vacant). Distributed proposals include: 5173 (Assets) 5176 (Interest Index) 5177 (earned citizenship/1) 5178 (Generalize security) 5181 (Refactor regulation) 5182 (partially regularise speakership) Rejected proposals: 5145 (regularise speakership) 5146 (The Republic of Agora) Murphy protoes "Ministers Without Portfolio" (re-enact Speaker privileges, most of which Zefram had repealed, but distribute them randomly each month among the last few winners). Levi proposes "Lack of Interest" (make a proposal disinterested with 2 support). 8/22 CFJs 1724-25 are judged UNDETERMINED. Peekee then admits that eekeeP is eir sock puppet (thus eir claimed registration was unsuccessful) and states that hedgehogcull is one of eir co-workers. Zefram protoes "empty throne" (permanently vacant Speakership) and "truthfulness in registration" (prohibit persons unable to register from claiming to do so). Pavitra initiates CFJ 1730 to determine whether Knave Eris can act by announcement without explicitly stating that e is ignoring the rules' "knaves SHOULD NOT tell the truth". Murphy protoes "VCs for voting" (Pink VC for being the only player to cast a valid vote for a given option on a proposal) and "Refactor ratification" (define self-ratification, applying it to voting results and claims of identity). 8/23 Zefram protoes "equity court" (equity cases), "triplication" (Amber VC for getting the exact same FOR/AGAINST/PRESENT totals on three of your proposals in a row, lost if the next of your proposals also gets the same totals), and "spending multiple VCs on VVLOP" (more efficiently). 8/24 Zefram protoes "stronger definition of paradox" (based on a relevant judgement of UNDECIDABLE), "distributor as an office" (taking over the portion of the Registrar's report covering fora), and "allow non-player wins" (without defining any specific ways for it to actually happen). Distributed proposals include 5187 (Lack of Interest) and three proposals that missed being distributed in 2006. 8/25 comex proposes "infrared VCs" (for voting for that proposal). 8/27 root proposes "Voting period extensions" (failing quorum instead doubles the voting period, unless that already happened). CFJ 1729 is judged in favor of Levi's scam win. Judge root proposes "Fix Contests" (contestmaster of one contest must give up eir position and wait 7 days before awarding points as contestmaster of any other). root makes bd_ inactive. 8/28 Distributed proposals include: 5190 (infrared VCs) 5191 (Voting period extensions) 5192 (Fix Contests) 5194 (equity court) 5195 (stronger definition of paradox) 5196 (empty throne) 5197 (spending multiple VCs on VVLOP) 5198 (make agora-discussion a Public Forum) Adopted proposals include: 5147 (more knaves) 5153 (Separate rule from act in criminal cases 5155 (The right to a speedier trial) 5163 (win by palette) 5165-70 (new VC colors) 5173 (Assets) 5176 (Interest Index) 5182 (partially regularise speakership) Rejected proposals include: 5148 (make Peekee a player) 5149 (Judicial Reform 3000) 5154 (Simplify quorum) 5158 (Agora is (nearly) a republic) 5159 (voluntary reduction of VVLOP) 5177 (earned citizenship/1) 5178 (Generalize security) 5181 (Refactor regulation) Murphy protoes "A different sort of Infrared VC" (for co-authors). 8/29 Murphy proposes "Trust-Busting" (dissolve the largely abandoned Primo Corporation, distributing its VVLOP to the shareholders unless Levi's scam win succeeded and reset everyone's VLOP). Zefram proposes "no indefinite deputisation notice" (must deputise within 14 days of announcing intent) and protoes "patent title award" (Violet VCs for patent titles, Indigo VCs for degrees). Zefram initiates CFJ 1738 to determine whether prohibiting knaves from telling the truth would violate eir right of participation in the fora; it is promptly judged in the knaves' favor. In between, comex protoes "Neigh" (allow Truthiness to remove this right). Levi protoes "Get your Brooms" (call shenanigans on a contest with Agoran consent, destroying points awarded by it and preventing it from awarding more) and "Contests open to all" (contests must allow all first-class players to join). 8/30 Murphy proposes "Easier chromatic wins" (by spending any 6 colors of VC). CFJ 1730 is judged in favor of Eris having acted by announcement in the usual fashion. Zefram proposes "truthfulness in registration" and "allow non-player wins". root deregisters The Host, which terminated when Levi won. Murphy proposes: I feel, therefore I act (knaves can act by announcement, but are prohibited from telling the truth otherwise; repeal spies and fools) Refactor elections Identity Crises Support democracy without raising AI and protoes: More types of judges (leaning and hawkishness, with Fence-Sitting as the default for the latter) Appellate VCs (Teal for having one's judgement affirmed, Aqua for being on a panel that judges on time) Uncommon Wins (by spending any 6 colors other than Red, Green, or Blue). 8/31 BobTHJ proposes "Scrub the Watcher's List". Murphy proposes "Refactor ratification" and protoes "Color groups" (formalize the use of similar colors of VC for similar types of activity) and "Zen Knaves" (act by announcement that they don't act; repeal spies and fools).