From owner-agora-business@gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au Tue Mar 10 03:11:36 1998 Received: by windowsnt from localhost (router,SLMail V2.6); Tue, 10 Mar 1998 03:11:36 -0500 Received: by windowsnt from gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au (144.110.168.141::mail daemon; unverified,SLMail V2.6); Tue, 10 Mar 1998 03:11:35 -0500 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA08477 for agora-business-list; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 19:17:23 +1100 Received: from windowsnt ([38.179.24.2]) by gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA08473 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 19:17:19 +1100 Received: by windowsnt from localhost (router,SLMail V2.6); Tue, 10 Mar 1998 03:11:17 -0500 Received: by windowsnt from friend-computer (206.18.116.90::mail daemon; unverified,SLMail V2.6); Tue, 10 Mar 1998 03:11:12 -0500 From: "Ed Murphy" To: "Agora Business" Subject: BUS: Agoran Weekly Journal (March 9, 1998) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 00:07:15 -0800 Message-ID: <01bd4bfb$89c670c0$5a7412ce@friend-computer> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_03A4_01BD4BB8.7BA330C0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-agora-business@gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au Precedence: bulk Reply-To: agora-discussion@gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_03A4_01BD4BB8.7BA330C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ------=_NextPart_000_03A4_01BD4BB8.7BA330C0 Content-Type: text/plain; name="AWJ.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="AWJ.txt" THE AGORAN WEEKLY JOURNAL VOLUME 42, ISSUE 23 Monday edition March 9, 1998 PROPOSALS --------- 3/3 The following Proposals are distributed: =A0=A0 3698 [Kolja A.]=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Buying points =A0=A0 =A0=A0 3704 [General Chaos]=A0The Omnibus Reform Act of 1998 =A0=A0 =A0=A0 3709 [Steve]=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Groups can vote in = Referenda =A0=A0 =A0 3710 [Swann]=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0The Great Officer's = Veto Scam Proposal =A0=A0 =A0=A0 3713 [Blob]=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Risky Rebellion Proposal 3710 would close two loopholes (after using them to give Wins to Swann and the Threat): First, Rule 1766 (Officer's Veto) lets Officers cast two extra Votes on Proposals affecting their duties; Proposal 3710 would amend this Rule to allow only two extra AGAINST Votes. Second, an instrument may create (or empower the creation of) another instrument with higher Power than its own. Speaker Steve has noted that this Scam was the true motivation for the Threat to gain the Speakership: without it, the Speaker could deny the relevant Officers their two extra votes each, by Calling for Elections (and thus causing the Officers not to hold Office in the normal fashion). 3/4 Steve protoes "Indelible Proposal voting". 3/5 Speaker Steve declares Proposal 3710 a Senate Proposal. Antimatter protoes "Birthrights". 3/6 General Chaos re-protoes "The Industrial Revolution". 3/8 Murphy protoes "Repair Probate" and re-protoes "Plots". The following Proposals are distributed: =A0=A0 3700 [Swann]=A0 Ratification w/o Objection =A0=A0 3701 [Swann]=A0 (Proposal Applications) =A0=A0 3702 [Repeal-O-Matic]=A0Repeal Rule 113 (Players may always = opt out) =A0=A0 3714 [Crito] =A0Limited Indulgence Distribution =A0=A0 3715 [Blob]=A0=A0 Standing Down 3/9 Sherlock re-protoes "The Miscreant". CALLS FOR JUDGEMENT ------------------- CFJ 1086 [Morendil] 2/23 Assigned to Harlequin 3/5 Harlequin commits the Infraction of Judicial Inactivity by going On Hold while a Judge. However, e remains Judge until 3/9, unless e is recused before then. "The Proposal submitted by Crito with title Cantus Cygneus, claimed to be a Silly Proposal, is not, in fact, a Silly Proposal." CFJ 1087 [Antimatter] 3/7 Called "The last sentence of Rule 1766 prevents the remainder of that rule from granting additional votes." PROBATE ------- OFFICES ------- Recent Elections: Accountor - Crito leads General Chaos unanimously; voting ends 3/14 Registrar - Michael is Elected 3/3 Sherlock calls for the Impeachment of ten Offices (plus the Speakership, which isn't an Office). This begins a Referendum for each Office. 3/6 Morendil makes an excellent analysis of what will happen if Speaker-Elect Blob is impeached: * Rule 1647 says the Speaker can't be S-E. Rule 1555 says e can, and takes precedence. Assuming that a Revolt occurs shortly thereafter: * Speaker and S-E Steve would have to perform Rule 402's ceremonial handshake with emself, after which S-E Steve would "become" Speaker. * Before that could happen, S-E would come to hold Office temporarily. Thus, when e "became" Speaker, e would be Tainted. This would trigger an Election for S-E, with the winner becoming (non-Tainted) Speaker. However, this turns out to be incorrect, due to the recently = adopted Proposal 3703. Actually, S-E Steve would immediately "become" Speaker, before the Revolt caused all Offices to become held temporarily; and Promotor Crito would become temporary S-E. INTERNOMIC ---------- 2/24 INP 360 is adopted. Agora will vote for INP 363. 3/2 INPs 361 and 362 are rejected. OTHER ----- 3/4 elJefe becomes Shogun. 3/5 Antimatter registers. 3/6 Kolja A. and Swann become Abiding. 3/9 Kolja A. submits a Bachelor of Nomic Thesis. ERRATA ------ Rule 1486 (Procedure to Impeach an Officer) does define an effect of the Impeachment of an Officer, namely that the Officer is removed from that Office (which then falls temporarily to the Speaker). ------=_NextPart_000_03A4_01BD4BB8.7BA330C0--