From agora-business-admin@agoranomic.org Sat Jan 24 22:15:26 2004 Return-path: Received: from pop-server.socal.rr.com [66.75.160.67] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-6.2.0) for emurphy@localhost (single-drop); Sat, 24 Jan 2004 22:15:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from ms-mta-02.socal.rr.com (ms-mta-02-smtp.socal.rr.com [10.10.4.126]) by ms-mss-01.socal.rr.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.12 (built Feb 13 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HS100JK47R7XR@ms-mss-01.socal.rr.com> for emurphy42@ims-ms-daemon; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 22:09:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from lamx01.mgw.rr.com (lamx01.mgw.rr.com [66.75.160.12]) by ms-mta-02.socal.rr.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.12 (built Feb 13 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HS1005W57R8S9@ms-mta-02.socal.rr.com> for emurphy42@socal.rr.com (ORCPT emurphy42@socal.rr.com); Sat, 24 Jan 2004 22:09:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from yzma.clarkk.net (net-6621950-42.customer.corenap.com [66.219.50.42]) by lamx01.mgw.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i0P694cF019674 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 01:09:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from yzma.clarkk.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by yzma.clarkk.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7772633CF0; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 00:09:03 -0600 (CST) Received: from ms-smtp-01-eri0.socal.rr.com (ms-smtp-01-qfe0.socal.rr.com [66.75.162.133]) by yzma.clarkk.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DFED33CEF for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 00:08:37 -0600 (CST) Received: from cpe-24-165-82-21.socal.rr.com (cpe-24-165-82-21.socal.rr.com [24.165.82.21]) by ms-smtp-01-eri0.socal.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id i0P68ZqG018609 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 22:08:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 22:12:39 -0800 From: Ed Murphy Subject: BUS: Agoran Weekly Journal Sender: agora-business-admin@agoranomic.org To: "agora-business@agoranomic.org" Errors-to: agora-business-admin@agoranomic.org Reply-to: agora-discussion@agoranomic.org Message-id: <1075011159.18048.23.camel@zenith.homelinux.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Content-type: text/plain Precedence: bulk X-BeenThere: agora-business@agoranomic.org Delivered-to: agora-business@agoranomic.org X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Help: List-Id: Agora Nomic public communications (PF) Original-recipient: rfc822;emurphy42@socal.rr.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.3 required=5.0 tests=FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS,KNOWN_MAILING_LIST,LINES_OF_YELLING, MEMBER_2,SPAM_PHRASE_01_02,SUBJECT_FREQ,TO_ADDRESS_EQ_REAL version=2.44 X-Spam-Level: * Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit THE AGORAN WEEKLY JOURNAL VOLUME 49, ISSUE 14 Saturday, January 24, 2004 YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION... -------------------------------- Andre - Stare Decisis www.win.tue.nl/~engels/stare.txt Michael - First Speaker www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/mn200/games/nomic/yoyo/ Murphy - CotC Web zenith.homelinux.net/cotc/ root - Proposal Pool www.cs.earlham.edu/~kellyia/agora/pool.php t - AWJ Archive www.iki.fi/scurra/agora.html ERRATA ------ Eris's nomination for Speaker-Elect on October 6 was prohibited by Rule 1647, so root remained Speaker-Elect until January 16. ADOPTED PROPOSALS ----------------- "Legality of Santa Clauses" by Magu - Proposal 4548 adopted 1/13 After the end of the Christmas holiday, each Naughty player (Blots >= 1) gets a Lump of Coal (Albatross), and each Nice player (Blots < 1) gets a Shiny New Toy (Boon). "Liven Up Team Names" by Sherlock - Proposal 4547 adopted 1/13 The Scorekeepor may rename Teams while announcing a Win. "Nondescript Proposal" by OscarMeyr - Contested Proposal 4543 adopted 12/15 "Team Captains" by OscarMeyr - Proposal 4544 adopted 12/15 Leadership is a team switch with values null, (the team's members). If a team's Leadership is null, any member may flip it Without Teammate Objection. If a team's Leadership is not null, the Team Captain (and Executor of the team) may flip it at will; any other member may flip it With N Supporters, where N+1 is a majority of the team's members. If the Team Captain leaves a team, its Leadership becomes null. "The Points of Champions" by Goethe - Proposal 4546 failed quorum 1/13 - Complacent Oligarchy - Proposal 4550 adopted 1/24 Points Contests are repealed. If there is no Champion's Contest, the Scorekeepor or Speaker may (With 2 Support) name one. The Contestmaster ceases to be a team member. If e ceases to be Contestmaster of a Champion's Contest, e is assigned to a team as if e were a new player. The Champion's Contest begins with zero awardable points. This is increased monthly by the Champion's Grant, part of the Scorekeepor's Budget, initially 60. The Champion's Contest may award its awardable points, according to its SLC. When a Team Win occurs, the Champion's Contest ceases to be a Champion's Contest (and loses all awardable points). "Yappy Hew Near" by Magu - Contested Proposal 4549 adopted 1/13 REJECTED PROPOSALS ------------------ "Power must be an integer" by Magu - Proposal 4545 rejected 1/13 Rule 594 (Power and Proposals) has its Power increased from 3 to pi. Other rules must have integer Power; non-integer Powers are rounded down (and rules that would thus receive Power < 1 are instead repealed). "Sweeping it under the rug" by Murphy - Proposal 4551 rejected 1/24 The gamestate becomes what it would have been if Steve's Voting Power on Democratic Proposals were 2 through October and November 2003. (Proposals 4532, 4533, 4534, 4540, and 4542 would have properly been adopted, regardless of what combination of Steve's attempted votes were valid or invalid, but they have not taken effect because the Assessor mis-reported Steve's pairs-of-votes as valid.) PENDING PROPOSALS ----------------- "Make Monasteries More Meaningful" by Magu Each Monastery may declare some or all of their members to be Monks. Each Monastery's charter may define up to one Unique Patent Title, one Boon, and one Albatross (not Rule-defined or Borne), and award each of them once a month. Each player may join at most one Monastery. "Note the Captains" by Goethe The Patent Title of Admiral is awarded to the Captains of Winning Teams. PROTO-PROPOSALS --------------- "Courtrooms" by Goethe Courtroom is a CFJ switch with values Criminal (alleging that an entity has committed a Crime or Infraction), Civil (alleging that an entity has committed a Civil Breach), and Advisory (everything else). "Estates" by Magu Each of the three Estates (simple majorities of all Politicians, all Scribes, and all Acolytes) has a Voting Power of 1 on both Ordinary and Democratic Proposals (and count toward quorum on Ordinary Proposals). "Judicial Separation" by Murphy A nominee for Clerk of the Courts may not be nominated for Justiciar. Neither the Speaker, the Justiciar, nor a nominee for Justiciar may be nominated for Clerk of the Courts. The Clerk of the Courts and Justiciar may be nominated for Speaker-Elect. "Role With the Changes" by Sherlock New Roles of Patron and Shamus are created. Snitching is a progressive action for Shamuses. The Shamus must report an unreported Crime or Infraction that the target has committed; e takes one Kudo from the target, but the target is immune to further penalty. Donating is a progressive action for Patrons. The target Team gains 3 points. CALLS FOR JUDGEMENT ------------------- *** Rule 1567 causes ineligibility by request to expire after one month *** 1/4 root makes emself ineligible to judge any CFJ assigned between January 5 and January 11. 1/5 OscarMeyr makes emself ineligible to judge CFJ 1480. CFJ 1480 "A Speaker Transition did *not* commence on January 1." [FALSE] 1/5 Called by Goethe 1/5 Assigned to Murphy, who judges FALSE Caller's argument (summary): The quarterly Speaker Transition is timed based on the start of the quarter, so it is postponed due to the Christmas holiday. Judge's refutation (summary): Holidays only postpone future events timed based on past events, but the events in question here are simultaneous. OFFICES ------- 12/21 Nominations open for Assessor, Registrar, and Scorekeepor. Mode is Open. Murphy nominates (emself) for Assessor. 12/25 Magu nominates (emself) for Assessor. 12/30 Goethe attempts to nominate (emself) for Scorekeepor, but misses the end of the nominating period. 1/2 Voting opens for Assessor. Candidates are Murphy and Magu. Nominations open for Registrar and Scorekeepor. Mode is Open. 1/4 root nominates (emself) for Registrar. OscarMeyr nominates (emself) for Registrar. root retracts eir self-nomination for Registrar. Speaker Transition is announced. Speaker-Elect Eris becomes Speaker. Promotor root becomes Speaker-Elect. (This is later discovered to be incorrect; see errata.) OscarMeyr nominates Goethe for Scorekeepor. Nominations open for Speaker-Elect. Mode is Selfish. 1/5 Sherlock nominates (emself) for Speaker-Elect. Goethe nominates (emself) for Scorekeepor. 1/6 RedKnight nominates (emself) for Registrar. 1/12 Voting opens for Registrar. Candidates are OscarMeyr and RedKnight. Goethe is elected Scorekeepor. The Budget changes as follows: * Player Scoring Event Alpha is a sub-game similar to the Fantasy Rules Committee, awarding N points for the Nth valid submission per round. * Winning a contested election is worth 10 points times the number of other candidates who didn't step down. * Resigning from office is not penalized if you name a successor who accepts. * Impeachment is not penalized. * Revolts are neither awarded nor penalized. * Proposal adoption is worth 3 points, plus 3 points per AGAINST vote, regardless of Interest. * Casting the sole FOR or AGAINST vote on someone else's proposal is worth 5 points. * Appealed judgements are neither awarded nor penalized. * Patent Titles are neither awarded nor penalized. * Voting in line with advertising is worth 11 points, minus 2 points per player who voted oppositely, but always at least 1 point. * Voting opposite to advertising is worth 3 points. * All team events are removed, except "no one votes on a Democratic Proposal" and "no one votes in an election". Sherlock is elected Speaker-Elect. Assessor election fails quorum. Nominations open for Justiciar and Assessor. Mode is Open. OscarMeyr nominates Magu for Justiciar. OscarMeyr nominates Magu and Murphy for Assessor. 1/14 Nominations open for Herald, Justiciar, and Grand Warden of the Oligarchy. Mode is Open. Goethe nominates (emself) for Justiciar. 1/15 OscarMeyr nominates (emself) for Grand Warden of the Oligarchy. 1/16 Quarterly Speaker Transition causes root (Speaker-Elect at the beginning of the quarter) to become Speaker. root is Tainted (e was not Electee to Speaker-Elect), so a second Speaker Transition causes current Electee Sherlock to become Speaker. The Order of Succession causes Promotor root to become Speaker-Elect. Nominations open for Speaker-Elect. Mode is Open. 1/18 Scorekeepor Goethe amends the Scorekeepor's Budget so that advertising point awards are keyed to the end of the voting period. 1/20 Voting opens for Assessor. Candidates are Magu and Murphy. OscarMeyr is elected Registrar. RedKnight nominates (emself) for Justiciar. 1/21 Goethe nominates (emself) for Speaker-Elect and Justiciar. 1/22 OscarMeyr is elected Grand Warden of the Oligarchy. Nominations open for Herald. Mode is Open. Voting begins for Justiciar. Candidates are Goethe and RedKnight. 1/23 OscarMeyr nominates all active players (except Peekee, and accidentally including Maud) (Eris, Goethe, Maud, Magu, Michael, Murphy, emself, Pakaran, RedKnight, root, Sherlock, Sir Toby, and t) for Herald. 1/24 OscarMeyr withdraws eir nomination of Maud for Herald. Goethe is elected Speaker-Elect. OLIGARCHS --------- 12/13 GWotO OscarMeyr intends to appoint Sherlock to a half-term (30 days), with eir support and without 3 objections. Sherlock supports it. 12/17 Sherlock is appointed to the Oligarchy. 12/30 Magu joins the Oligarchy, then extends eir Oligarchic Term by 60 days. Sherlock extends eir Oligarchic Term by 60 days. 12/31 root extends eir Oligarchic Term by 60 days. 1/15 Murphy is removed from the Oligarchy, then rejoins it. 1/16 root is removed from the Oligarchy, then rejoins it. 1/18 Sherlock is removed from the Oligarchy. IN OTHER NEWS ------------- 12/16 OscarMeyr intends to become Captain of Team Sliehough, without Sliehough objection. 12/21 OscarMeyr becomes Captain of Team Sliehough. Maud goes on hold. 12/23 Magu registers and becomes a Politician. 12/28 Magu is assigned to Team Kinhatis. 1/5 Murphy announces the Turning of a New Parchment. Murphy makes Peekee quiet. OscarMeyr increases eir Voting Potential from 0 to 1. 1/6 Murphy makes Pakaran quiet. 1/12 OscarMeyr submits an Instruction for Future Submissions: "All future submissions must consist entirely of five-letter words." RedKnight submits an Instruction for Future Submissions: "Honor older rules, speak about games still going. Huzah Agora!" 1/13 Scorekeepor Goethe announces eir intent (without objection) to amend eir Budget so that Advertising awards are triggered by the end of the voting period, not the casting of relevant votes. 1/14 root publishes a Notice of Abandonment for Blob. 1/16 Murphy resigns as Contestmaster of Tournament of Prediction, dissolving it. 1/18 OscarMeyr re-submits eir Instruction for Future Submissions: "All future submissions must consist entirely of five-letter words." RedKnight re-submits eir Instruction for Future Submissions: "Honor older rules, speak about games still going. Huzah Agora!" 1/20 Goethe submits an Instruction for Future Submissions: "First valid after other shall needs enter after other teams. Shout hails FRCer!" Pakaran becomes noisy. 1/21 Notice of Abandonment for Blob is confirmed. The Silent Treatment began on January 14.