Subject: BUS: Agoran Weekly Journal From: Ed Murphy Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:54:54 -0700 To: Agora Business X-Account-Key: account3 X-UIDL: <48FD98DE.9040305@socal.rr.com> X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-Path: Received: from hrndva-mxlb.mail.rr.com ([10.128.255.82]) by hrndva-imta05.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20081021085609.KDDT15157.hrndva-imta05.mail.rr.com@hrndva-mxlb.mail.rr.com> for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:56:09 +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=8WpTSF84cjRhiToN_rsA:9 a=_q_93hgrHujicAC957AA:7 a=St4OR5B9r0NLVKyjZnHUgT05d94A:4 a=8y7tGHue6YMA:10 Received: from [66.219.50.42] ([66.219.50.42:45790] helo=yzma.clarkk.net) by hrndva-iedge02.mail.rr.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.2.34 r(26260M)) with ESMTP id AF/97-00614-8299DF84; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:56:09 +0000 Received: from yzma.clarkk.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by yzma.clarkk.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B67C6807C6; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:56:07 -0500 (CDT) Delivered-To: agora-business@yzma.clarkk.net Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com [71.74.56.122]) by yzma.clarkk.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9665380789 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:55:59 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.0.13] (really [76.87.191.13]) by hrndva-omta04.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20081021085549.FNH8135.hrndva-omta04.mail.rr.com@[192.168.0.13]> for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:55:49 +0000 Message-ID: <48FD98DE.9040305@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 5 Sunday, September 30, 2007 9/1 Distributed proposals include: 5199 (Trust-Busting) 5200 (no indefinite deputisation notice) 5201 (Refactor regulation) 5203 (Easier chromatic wins) 5204 (truthfulness in registration) 5205 (allow non-player wins) 5206 (I feel, therefore I act) 5207 (Refactor elections) 5208 (Identity Crises) 5209 (Support democracy without raising AI) 5211 (Scrub the Watcher's List) 5212 (Refactor ratification) root proposes "Secured wins" (power >= 2, though not using the "secured" mechanism as it had not yet been adopted). 9/3 Zefram proposes "distributor as an office" and "patent title award". Proposal 5187 (Lack of Interest) is rejected. The proposals left over from 2006 fail quorum. 9/4 Distributed proposals include: 5214 (Secured wins) 5218 (distributor as an office) 5220 (patent title award) Murphy protoes "Re-enact perpetuity". 9/5 Adopted proposals: 5191 (Voting period extensions) 5192 (Fix Contests) 5194 (equity court) 5195 (stronger definition of paradox) 5197 (spending multiple VCs on VVLOP) Rejected proposals include: 5190 (infrared VCs) 5196 (empty throne) 5198 (make agora-discussion a Public Forum, aka "Make Bob's messages valid") 9/6 Taral protoes "Lying down on the job" (judges recused with cause become supine). root proposes "Trial Simplification" (criminal defendants notified by Clerk of the Courts rather than a judge) and "Differentiation of Powers" (entities with Power < 3 can only alter entities of equal Power). 9/7 Murphy proposes "Re-enact perpetuity". 9/8 Murphy protoes "Official frequencies" (low-priority offices default to a monthly reporting requirement). Distributed proposals include: 5223 (Trial Simplification) 5224 (Re-enact perpetuity) Adopted proposals include: 5200 (no indefinite deputisation notice) 5205 (allow non-player wins) 5212 (Refactor ratification) Rejected proposals: 5199 (Trust-Busting) 5201 (Refactor regulation) 5203 (Easier chromatic wins) 5204 (truthfulness in registration) 5206 (I feel, therefore I act) 5207 (Refactor elections) 5208 (Identity Crises) 5209 (Support democracy without raising AI) 5211 (Scrub the Watcher's List) 9/10 Murphy protoes "Movement". 9/11 Peekee registers using HTML hex encoding (I etc.), then initiates CFJ 1741 to determine whether it worked. 9/12 Peekee registers (in case the above was unsuccessful). Pavitra protoes "stable patent titles" (Patent Titles explicitly defined by the rules become implicitly defined when the explicit definition is repealed). comex protoes "2158 changes" (convert the open/suspended/judged status of judicial cases to a switch). Murphy protoes "Implicit Switches" (entities with a switch at an implicit value need not be reported). Adopted proposals include: 5220 (patent title award) Rejected proposals include: 5214 (Secured wins) 5218 (distributor as an office) 9/13 Peekee protoes "Colorful" (once a month by request, the Assessor can cause a random player to gain a color of VC that was not owned by any player when the request was made) and "Get some colors" (a player with 6+ different colors can spend all eir VCs to gain one of any color). Murphy protoes "More judicial switches" (a generalization of comex's "2158 changes") and "Generalized conditional actions". 9/14 Murphy protoes "True Partnerships" (partnerships not actively influenced by at least two partners within four weeks can be targeted for deregistration). 9/15 Taral re-protoes "Lying down on the job", making the change to supine a CotC duty rather than automatic. 9/16 pikhq registers and proposes making-another-player-inactive cancelable by the target within a week (to avoid voting scams) and defining the Patent Title of Unscamster (for players who fix potential scams instead of carrying them out). root is elected Speaker. Proposal 5223 (Trial Simplification) is adopted (effectiveness of resolution later disputed, see below). Murphy, comex, and Levi form and register the Association of Federated Organizations (AFO). Unlike previous partnerships, the AFO can be controlled by any partner without any prior consultation with the others. Murphy nominates the AFO to succeed em as Assessor. 9/17 Peekee proposes "Get some colors", and protoes "Variables" (date/integer/float/string values that work like switches) and "Loser" (counterpart to the Patent Title of Champion). comex claims to register a partnership named Big Brother without disclosing its contract or membership. CFJ 1741 is judged in favor of Peekee's message being generally readable within reasonable effort. 9/18 root proposes "Early announcement of voting options" (require vote values to be listed when an Agoran decision is initiated, rather than when it is resolved). Wooble initiates CFJ 1744 to determine whether Big Brother succeeded in registering. comex proposes "reintroduce 'players must follow the rules', albeit at lower power" (Power = 1: in general, the rules are adjudicated as a binding agreement between all players). OscarMeyr attempts to flip eir Truthiness to Fool, but there is no by-announcement mechanism for doing so. Distributed proposals include: 5225 (Lying down on the job) 5227 (Get some colors) 5229 (Early announcement of voting options) (require vote values to be listed when an Agoran decision is initiated, rather than when it is resolved) 9/19 Levi proposes "Contests open to all" (contests must allow any first-class player to join, and must be fair). 9/20 Peekee protoes a contest "Grid" (contestants move at will within a grid, gaining points for three or more being in a row). Murphy proposes a revised "Refactor regulation". Eris proposes "No enshrinement of the courts" (repeal the clause allowing actions to be regulated by judgement). BobTHJ becomes the first player to be judged GUILTY under the new criminal case system. 9/21 comex initiates CFJs 1746-47 to determine whether judicial panels are persons (due to the Partnerships rule), or would be if the rules were re-legislated as being a binding agreement. OscarMeyr protoes preventing players in the chokey from judging. 9/22 Distributed proposals include: 5230 (reintroduce "players must follow the rules", albeit at lower power) 5233 (Refactor regulation) 5234 (Contests open to all) 5235 (No enshrinement of the courts) root initiates CFJ 1748 to determine whether the intended effects of self-ratification of Agoran decisions is blocked by the prohibition on changing the outcome of resolved decisions. 9/23 Murphy (not in this exact order): * Judges CFJs 1746-47 false, on the grounds that panels don't require explicit consent like contracts do. * Leaves Human Point Two. * Installs the AFO as Assessor, boosts its voting power, deregisters (to let First Speaker Michael keep the record for longest continuous registration), then initiates CFJs 1750-51 to determine whether e is still a partner in the AFO and able to control it. * Agrees to the Agoran Credit Union, a would-be contract defining kopecks in the effective role of transferrable centi-VCs. Proposal 5224 (Re-enact perpetuity) is adopted (effectiveness of resolution later disputed, see below). 9/24 The AFO (controlled by Murphy) proposes "Ministers Without Portfolio" (including repealing knaves), "More types of judges" (with Hemming-and-Hawing as default Hawkishness), "Official frequencies", and "Implicit Switches". Peekee protoes "Charges" (positive/negative/neutral switches; players are only regulated by rules of the same or neutral charge) and "Map Patterns" (a revision of "Grid"), and proposes "Loser". root joins the Agoran Credit Union, making it a contract, but it may have been ineffective ("A member CAN join...") Goethe protoes "The Tale of Agora" (call the rules Parables and divide them into metaphors: Decision for proposals, Quest for winning, Reality for recordkeeping, Judgement for adjudication; players are only bound by one at a time). comex proposes "FireRed" (lose a Red VC for proposals that get less than half the support they would need to pass). 9/25 CFJ 1744 is judged UNDETERMINED due to lack of evidence in either direction. Distributed proposals include: 5236 (Ministers Without Portfolio) 5238 (More types of judges) 5239 (Official frequencies) 5240 (Implicit Switches) 5241 (Loser) 5242 (FireRed) 9/26 root protoes "Overturned sentencing fix" (turn off Blue VC loss for overturning if the question is on sentencing, since there is no Blue VC gain for such questions). Murphy protoes "Caveat suffragor" (votes beyond one's limit are valid, but changeable by the vote collector). root protoes a contract "Agoran Astronomical Society" (charter nomic with a planetary-physics metaphor). Adopted proposals: 5225 (Lying down on the job) 5229 (Early announcement of voting options) Rejected proposals include: 5227 (Get some colors) 9/27 Peekee protoes "Water and oil" ("Charges" with different names). After Wooble judges a case on the subject IRRELEVANT, root attempts to initiate a judicial case that is both an inquiry case and a criminal case. Murphy protoes: * Exit clauses (deregistering causes you to leave contracts unless you or the contract says otherwise; contestmasters can leave by announcement; all contracts other than registered partnerships terminate unless a party said otherwise during the voting period) * Encourage contests (Yellow VCs for contestmasters awarding points to multiple players) * Use it or lose it (VCs decay 20% monthly) 9/28 Peekee proposes "Water and oil". Murphy protoes "Resurrect the Notary" (define public/private contracts and make the Notary their recordkeepor). Zefram initiates CFJs 1754-55 to determine whether Proposals 5222-24 were adopted (5222-23 due to missing * = ADOPTED markers, 5224 due to Murphy prepending "If the AFO is the vote collector then it publishes this" without also prepending "If I am the vote collector then I publish this"). They are judged FALSE and TRUE, respectively. root initiates CFJs 1756-57 to determine the effectiveness of eir attempted dual-subclass case. 9/29 Proposal 5244 (Water and oil) is distributed. CFJ 1748 is judged FALSE, on the grounds that errors fixed by ratification are not resolutions (thus not covered by the prohibition on changing outcomes) before they are fixed. 9/30 Proposals 5222-23 are adopted (effective this time). Wooble deregisters. comex proposes repealing Rule 1482 (Precedence between Rules with Unequal Power).