add proposal 365/1 l,a 7 December 2000 20:43:22 21 December 2000 01:53:54 Poulenc The Price of Nomic 1. Enact a new rule entitled "The Price of Nomic" which reads as follows: The submission fee and the revision fee are values associated with the game; each may be changed only as specified by the rules. Initially the value of each is zero. Once per week the Tax Collector may set the value of the submisison fee and the revision fee, such that the value of the proposal submission fee is neither greater than twenty nor less than zero, and the value of the proposal revision fee is neither greater than five nor less than zero. 2. Amend rule 120 to read as follows: The Agent who submits a Motion is its owner. An Agent may never own more than ten live Motions of any one type, and may never submit more than ten Motions of any one type in a single day; otherwise an Agent may make a new Motion of any type at any time. Upon the submission of a Motion its owner owes one submission fee to the bank, due at the end of the next voting period. New Motions are live and active by default. Motions are revisable. Unless the Rules allow other Agents to do so, only the owner of a live Motion may alter its parts, or activate, deactivate, or withdraw it. Withdrawn Motions are dead. Only live Motions may be altered or be Under Consideration. No Motion may be altered while Under Consideration. Upon performing a revision, withdrawal, activation, or deactivation of a Motion the revising agent owes one revision fee to the bank. Each Motion is either Approvable or Unilateral, and Primary or Secondary. Approvable Motions are subject to voting or unanimous consent, as per the Rules. Unilateral Motions need no such approval to take effect. Primary Motions are assigned serial numbers by type, while Secondary Motions are assigned serial numbers as a group. ---- add proposal 368/0 l,a 7 December 2000 20:46:48 21 December 2000 01:53:54 Poulenc rescinding actions fix Amend rule 301, "Rescinding Actions", to read as follows: An Agent may rescind any unrecognized action e has taken at any time by publicly indicating that e is doing so. The recognition of a rescinded action by any Officer is prohibited. If the rescinded action created a debt then that debt is also rescinded. ---- add proposal 369/0 l,a 7 December 2000 20:57:53 21 December 2000 01:53:54 Poulenc The price of justice 1. Enact a new rule titled "The price of Justice", text as follows: The court fee is a value associated with the game that can only be changed as specified by the rules. Initially the value of the court fee is zero. Once per nweek the Tax Collector may change the value of the court fee such that it is neither greater than twenty nor less than zero. 2. Amend the text of rule 234, "Requests for Judgement", to read as follows: A Request for Judgment is a Primary Unilateral Motion. An Agent may, at any time, initiate judicial proceedings in any matter by making a Request for Judgment. That Agent shall be known as the Plaintiff with regard to the Request. A Request for Judgment consists of a Statement to be judged, and analysis as the Plaintiff deems appropriate. A Request for Judgment is dead once a Judgment has been issued on it. Upon the creation of a Request for Judgement the creating Agent owes one court fee to the bank, due two weeks from the date of creation. ---- add proposal 370/0 l,a 8 December 2000 08:04:31 21 December 2000 01:53:54 Poulenc Binding Contracts 1. Enact a new rule entitled "Contracts", with text as follows: A Contract is an object. Each contract must consist of a list of signatory agents and a set of requirements placed upon those agents. Contracts are revisable objects. Their base serial number is 1000. Contracts may be created, destroyed, or otherwise altered only as specified by the rules. Signatories to a contract are required to follow all requirements and restrictions placed upon them by the text of that contract. Any contract with no signatories is automatically destroyed. 2. Enact a new rule entitled "Optional Contract Parts", with text as follows: A contract may optionally specify conditions under which agents may become signatories, although it may not require anything of non-signatories. A contract may optionally specify conditions under which an agent is removed from its list of signatories. A contract may specify conditions under which it is destroyed. This is equivalent to removing all signatories from its list of signatories. 3. Enact a new rule entitled "Contract Offers", with text as follows: An agent may create a contract offer at any time, by posting the offer to the public forum. A contract offer is an object with a title and text that describes a contract object to be created, and the activation condition for that contract. The agent creating the contract offer may destroy it at any time before the activation condition has been met. An contract offer may optionally specify which agents are eligible for the contract, either by name, serial number, or eligibility conditions. If unspecified every agent is eligible. When the activation condition is met, the described contract is created. Eligible agents who have posted eir agreement to the terms in the Public Forum are signatories to the new contract. 4. Create a new rule titled "Contract Restrictions", text as follows: No contract may exempt any agent from any rule of this game. Contracts have only the power to require action from their signatories: they are not part of the rules of this game and never take precedence over the rules of this game. No contract may require any action from, or put limits on the action of a nonsignatory. No contract may require any transfer of property to a nonsignatory. 5. Create a new rule titled "Contract records", text as follows: It is the responsibility of the Official Bean Counter to recognize the creation and destruction of, and changes to contracts and contract offers. A list of all contracts and their signatories; and all contract offers and their potential signatories shall be part of the Official Bean Counter's nweekly report. 6. Create a new rule titled "The Motion to Escape a Contract", text as follows: The Motion to Escape is a Secondary motion, Approvable by four-day unanimous consent or by voting. The Motion to Escape should list one or more Agents to be released from a specified contract. The motive order corresponding to a Motion to Escape directs the Official Bean Counter to remove the specified agent or agents from the list of signatories of the specified contract. ---- add proposal 371/0 l,a 14 December 2000 01:01:22 21 December 2000 01:53:54 Joel Uckelman UC and Motion Fix 1. Amend R230/3 to read as follows: "An Agent introducing a Approvable Motion may request unanimous consent at the time of its introduction, or until such time as the granting of unanimous consent could still occur prior to the nweek's voting, unless the Rules explicitly prohibit it. N-unanimous consent on a Motion is granted if no eligible voters object to the Motion within time N after the Motion is recognized." 2. Create a new Rule entitled "Motion Duplication" which reads: "The recognition by any Officer of any Motion which would have the same effect another live Motion is prohibited." ---- deactivate proposal 364/0 7 December 2000 21:05:02 Poulenc ---- deactivate proposal 365/0 7 December 2000 21:05:02 Poulenc ----