From - Wed May 10 15:24:35 2000 Return-Path: Received: from gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au ([131.170.42.16]) by mx6.mindspring.com (Mindspring Mail Service) with ESMTP id shh54j.8v2.37kbi14 for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 18:43:30 -0500 (EST) Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA23309 for agora-official-list; Tue, 9 May 2000 22:32:18 GMT Received: from fw.serc.rmit.edu.au (fw-in.serc.rmit.edu.au [131.170.42.1]) by gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA23306 for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 22:32:15 GMT Received: (from mail@localhost) by fw.serc.rmit.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.1) id IAA33964 for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 08:53:21 +1000 (EST) Received: from msuacad.morehead-st.edu(147.133.1.1) by fw.serc.rmit.edu.au via smap (V2.1) id xma033962; Wed, 10 May 00 08:53:00 +1000 Received: (from mpslon01@localhost) by msuacad.morehead-st.edu (8.7.1/8.7.1) id SAA19101 for agora-official@gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au; Tue, 9 May 2000 18:35:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Slone Message-Id: <200005092235.SAA19101@msuacad.morehead-st.edu> Subject: OFF: CFJ 1213 DISMISSED To: agora-official@gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au (agora-official) Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 18:35:08 EDT X-Mailer: Elm [revision: 212.4] Sender: owner-agora-official@gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au Precedence: bulk Reply-To: agora-discussion@gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au X-Mozilla-Status: 8001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 X-UIDL: shh54j.8v2.37kbi14 ============================== CFJ 1213 ============================== Rule 1927 prevents the Executor of (the Mintor of) a Bank Currency from Minting a number of units of that Currency, unless e makes an announcement as described in clause a) and specifying that e intends to Mint that number of units of that Currency. ======================================================================== Called by: Murphy Judge: Palnatoke Judgement: DISMISS Judge selection: Eligible: Blob, Chuck, Crito, Elysion, Kelly, Palnatoke, Peekee, Sherlock, Steve, Taral, Wes, else...if, harvel, lee, t Not eligible: Caller: Murphy Barred: - Had eir turn: - Already served: - Defaulted: Harlequin By request: Michael On Hold: Novalis Zombie: Anthony, Harlequin, Schneidster ======================================================================== History: Called by Murphy 06 May 2000 11:58:47 -0700 Assigned to Palnatoke: 06 May 2000 18:42:17 -0400 Dismissed by Palnatoke: 09 May 2000 12:20:11 +0200 Judgement published: As of this message ======================================================================== Caller's Arguments: ======================================================================== Caller's Evidence: ======================================================================== Judge Palnatoke's Arguments: Rule 1927/0 restricts the minting of a Bank Currency, so that in order to Mint new units of that Currency, the Executor (of the Mintor of) the Bank Currency must announce eir intent between seven and fourteen days prior to the time of minting. Now, what is it "to announce one's intent"? The words 'intent' or 'intend' can be found in a number of rules: Rule 478/10 (Power=1) The Public Forum: Sending a message, by any medium or combination of media, to every Active Player, is equivalent to sending it to the Public Forum, provided that the message bears a clear indication that it is intended to be a message to the Public Forum, and it is verifiable that the message was in fact sent to every Active Player. Rule 1003/2 (Power=2) No Coercive Proposals: Proposals whose obvious and direct intent is to coerce a Player into voting against eir conscience shall not take effect even if adopted, any Rule to the contrary notwithstanding. Rule 1370/9 (Power=1) How to Get a Degree: No Degree may be Granted to any recipient unless the recipient has posted a Thesis to the Public Forum authored by eirself, along with a statement explicitly indicating that the Thesis is being submitted with the intent to qualify for a Degree. The Rulekeepor shall retain a copy of each Thesis posted in this manner. Rule 1483/7 (Power=1) Definition of Proposals: A Proposal is created when a Legislator who is not Mute sends a body of text to the Public Forum with the clear indication that it is intended to become a Proposal. The collection of text becomes a Proposal and the entity delivering that text becomes the Proposer of that Proposal. This process is known as Proposing or submitting a Proposal. The delivery of text identical to another Proposal which was Proposed less than three weeks previous does not create a new Proposal unless accompanied by a clear and explicit indication that the intent was to Propose a duplicate Proposal. Rule 1728/7 (Power=1) Dependent Actions: A Player may, in a Public Forum, unambiguously describe a particular Dependent Action which e is authorised by the Rules to perform Dependently, and announce eir intent to perform it. That Player may perform that action if and only if: (a) e announced eir intent at most fourteen days before attempting to perform it, and, in the case of Actions Without N Objections, at least four days before attempting to perform it; Rule 1917/2 (Power=1) General Currency Taxation: a) All elements required to be specified in the announcement of the levy must also be specified in the annoucement of intent to issue the levy. ... d) The annoucement of intent to issue the levy may not take place while another attempt to levy a tax on that Currency is pending under the authority of this Rule. Rule 1927/0 (Power=1) Bank Currency Creation: a) E announces eir intent between seven and fourteen days prior to the time of minting. Rules 478, 1370 and 1483 speak of clear/explicit indication of intent. Rule 1003 seems to speak of intent 'in the common language sense'. Rules 1728 speaks of Dependent Actions. Rules 1917 and 1927 seem to refer to Rule 1728, because taxation or creation of currency are Dependent Actions, unless the Recordkeepor or Executor, respectively, is a Cabinet member. a) If the Executor of a Currency is a member of the Cabinet, eir Action needs no Support. Needing no Support, the Action is not a Dependent Action. b) If the Executor of a Currency is not a member of the Cabinet, eir Action needs the Support of two Cabinet members. Needing Support, the Action is a Dependent Action. If the Action is Dependent, Rule 1728's procedure must be followed - meaning that the intended Action must be described unambiguously, which I take to mean 'the precise number of units must be mentioned'. In this case, the Statement must be judged TRUE. If the Action is not Dependent, there is no reason to interpret 'intent' in the strict sense of Rule 1728. In this case, the Statement must be judged FALSE. As the Statement speaks of Executor of (the Mintor of) a Bank Currency, but makes no reference to the Executor being or not being a member of the Cabinet. Hence, I DISMISS this CFJ. ======================================================================== Judge Palnatoke's Evidence: Rule 478/10 (Power=1) The Public Forum Whether a given medium is a Public Forum or not is a Nomic Property. The Registrar is authorized to change whether a given medium is a Public Forum or not Without Objection. When such a change is made, in order to be effective, the message announcing the change must be sent to both a medium that was a Public Forum before the change, and a medium that is a Public Forum after the change. (If a single medium is a Public Forum both before and after the change, a single message to that medium satisfies this requirement.) It is the responsibility of each Active Player to ensure that e is able to receive messages sent to every medium which the Registrar has designated as a Public Forum. The temporary inability of a Player to receive a Public Forum does not deprive that medium of any legal significance as a Public Forum. Sending a message, by any medium or combination of media, to every Active Player, is equivalent to sending it to the Public Forum, provided that the message bears a clear indication that it is intended to be a message to the Public Forum, and it is verifiable that the message was in fact sent to every Active Player. Whenever the Rules call upon some Player to "announce", "post", or "distribute" some communication or notification, this shall be accomplished by posting the communication or notification to the Public Forum, unless another rule specifies otherwise. Rule 1003/2 (Power=2) No Coercive Proposals Proposals whose obvious and direct intent is to coerce a Player into voting against eir conscience shall not take effect even if adopted, any Rule to the contrary notwithstanding. Rule 1370/9 (Power=1) How to Get a Degree A Degree is Granted by the operation of an instrument of sufficient Power specifying the Degree to be Granted, and its recipient. The sufficient Power required to Grant a Degree is determined by the Degree to be Granted. All conditions established by this and other Rules for the Granting of the named Degree must have been fulfilled before the Degree may be Granted. No Degree may be Granted to any recipient unless the recipient has posted a Thesis to the Public Forum authored by eirself, along with a statement explicitly indicating that the Thesis is being submitted with the intent to qualify for a Degree. The Rulekeepor shall retain a copy of each Thesis posted in this manner. The Degree of Bachelor of Nomic shall not be Granted unless the Thesis submitted for that Degree contains at least 500 words, and unless the instrument Granting the Degree has Power of at least 1. The Degree of Doctor of Nomic History shall not be Granted unless the Thesis submitted for that Degree contains at least 500 words and contains a narrative covering significant events which have occured in Agora within at least the last eight weeks, and unless the instrument Granting the Degree has Power of at least 2. The Degree of Master of Nomic shall not be Granted unless the Thesis submitted for that Degree contains at least 500 words, and unless the instrument Granting the Degree has Power of at least 2. The Degree of Doctor of Nomic Philosophy shall not be Granted unless the Thesis submitted for that Degree contains at least 500 words, unless the intended recipient has also posted in the Public Forum an additional creative work authored by emself whose topic or theme is related to Agora or Nomic in general, and unless the instrument Granting the Degree has Power of at least 3. Rule 1483/7 (Power=1) Definition of Proposals A Proposal is created when a Legislator who is not Mute sends a body of text to the Public Forum with the clear indication that it is intended to become a Proposal. The collection of text becomes a Proposal and the entity delivering that text becomes the Proposer of that Proposal. This process is known as Proposing or submitting a Proposal. The delivery of text identical to another Proposal which was Proposed less than three weeks previous does not create a new Proposal unless accompanied by a clear and explicit indication that the intent was to Propose a duplicate Proposal. The publishing of the Proposal Queue never creates new Proposals. All Players are Legislators. A Player is Mute while e has more than 5 Blots. Rule 1728/7 (Power=1) Dependent Actions An action is Dependent (or may be performed Dependently) if and only if it is an Action With N Objections or an Action With N Supporters, where N is a positive integer not greater than five. The phrase `Without Objection' is synonymous with `Without 1 Objection', and the phrase `With Support' is synonymous with `With 1 Supporter'. The Rules may authorise classes of Dependent Actions. A Player may, in a Public Forum, unambiguously describe a particular Dependent Action which e is authorised by the Rules to perform Dependently, and announce eir intent to perform it. That Player may perform that action if and only if: (a) e announced eir intent at most fourteen days before attempting to perform it, and, in the case of Actions Without N Objections, at least four days before attempting to perform it; (b) the authorising Rule explicitly indicates who may perform the action Dependently; (c) during the time between the announcement made under (a) of this Rule and the attempt to perform the action, (1) fewer than N Players have posted, in a Public Forum, Objections to the performance of the action, if the action is to be performed Without N Objections; or (2) at least N Players have posted, in a Public Forum, Support for the performance of the action, if the action is to be performed With N Supporters; and (d) e announces, in a Public Forum, that e performs the described action. Properties which would be changed by a Dependent Action do not occur until announced as in (d). The specification in the Rules that an action may be performed Dependently in no way prohibits performing that same action if doing so would otherwise be permissible. Other Rules may specify further restrictions upon the performance of Dependent Actions. Rule 1917/2 (Power=1) General Currency Taxation The Recordkeepor of a Currency may levy a tax on that Currency, subject to the following restrictions: a) All elements required to be specified in the announcement of the levy must also be specified in the annoucement of intent to issue the levy. b) The Effective Time of the levy must be between seven and fourteen days after the time of the annoucement of the intent to issue the levy. c) The Effective Time of a levy is at least one month after the last Effective Time of a levy on that Currency issued under the authority of this Rule. d) The annoucement of intent to issue the levy may not take place while another attempt to levy a tax on that Currency is pending under the authority of this Rule. e) If the Currency is a Bank Currency, then either the Recordkeepor is a member of the Cabinet at the time e levies the tax, or eir action has the support of two current Cabinet members. The tax may include exemptions on a fixed amount of the holdings of every taxable entity, provided that: (i) All Players are exempt identical amounts, (ii) All Non-players are exempt identical amounts, (iii) The Non-players' exemption is less than or equal to the Players' exemption. Rule 1927/0 (Power=1) Bank Currency Creation The Executor of a Bank Currency may Mint new units of that Currency, subject to the following restrictions: a) E announces eir intent between seven and fourteen days prior to the time of minting. b) Either e is a member of the Cabinet at the time e mints the currency, or eir action has the support of two Cabinet members. ======================================================================== Clerk of the Courts harvel -- Michael Slone Zombies sure aren't what they used to be, when they just went around doing their master's bidding. -- Crito, in agora-business