Re: BUS: [proposal] click whirrrr THUNK damn

[Jason Cobb via agora-business]

On 6/8/21 11:25 AM, Kerim Aydin via agora-business wrote:
> I submit the following proposal:
>
> 
>
> Title:  The Device
> AI: 1
> Coauthor: Murphy
>
> [inspired by Rules 2192-2193, "The Monster", by Murphy]
>
>
> Enact a Rule "The Device" with the following text:
>
>   When the device is on:
> * click - hummm
>
>   When the device is off:
> * whirr - THUNK
>

Some further notes:


> Enact a Rule "The Mad Engineer" with the following text:
>
>   The Mad Engineer is an office; its holder is responsible for
>   building and maintaining the Device.  The device is a
>   singleton switch with values off (default) and on.  The Mad
>   Engineer CAN flip the device to either on or off with Agoran
>   Consent; any other player CAN do so with 2 Agoran Consent.
>
>   The Mad Engineer CAN act on behalf of
>   the device to take any action that the device may take, and
>   SHALL act on behalf of the device to ensure that the device
>   fulfills all of its duties.
>
>   The Mad Engineer's weekly duties include the performance of the
>   following tasks, in order:
>
>   a) Randomly select exactly one rule.  If the selected rule is
>  either this rule or the rule "The Device", then
>  007 has been spotted near the self-destruct button; skip
>  directly to proposal submission.


"skip directly to proposal submission" doesn't make sense, since no
proposals are being submitted.


>   d) Announce intent to, with Agoran Consent, cause this rule
>  to amend the rule "The Device" by inserting the modified
>  text as the last list item in either the "device on" or
>  "device off" lists in that rule (or, if 007 has been
>  spotted, to repeal both that rule and this one).
>  This intent announcement counts as the Mad Engineers's weekly
>  report.


The Mad Engineer can announce intent to repeal the two rules, but the
paragraph below doesn't provide any procedures by which the rules could
be repealed.


>
>   If the announcement of intent above is made with the procedure
>   described above, the Mad Engineer CAN, with Agoran Consent, cause
>   this rule to amend the rule "The Device" as indicated, and SHALL
>   do so if the intent receives sufficient support.


-- 
Jason Cobb

Assessor, Rulekeepor, S​tonemason

BUS: [proposal] click whirrrr THUNK damn

[Kerim Aydin via agora-business]

I submit the following proposal:



Title:  The Device
AI: 1
Coauthor: Murphy

[inspired by Rules 2192-2193, "The Monster", by Murphy]


Enact a Rule "The Device" with the following text:

  When the device is on:
* click - hummm

  When the device is off:
* whirr - THUNK


Enact a Rule "The Mad Engineer" with the following text:

  The Mad Engineer is an office; its holder is responsible for
  building and maintaining the Device.  The device is a
  singleton switch with values off (default) and on.  The Mad
  Engineer CAN flip the device to either on or off with Agoran
  Consent; any other player CAN do so with 2 Agoran Consent.

  The Mad Engineer CAN act on behalf of
  the device to take any action that the device may take, and
  SHALL act on behalf of the device to ensure that the device
  fulfills all of its duties.

  The Mad Engineer's weekly duties include the performance of the
  following tasks, in order:

  a) Randomly select exactly one rule.  If the selected rule is
 either this rule or the rule "The Device", then
 007 has been spotted near the self-destruct button; skip
 directly to proposal submission.

  b) Select one or more contiguous sentences from the selected
 rule.

  c) Select exactly one noun from the selected text, and replace
 each instance of that noun with "Device" (including
 grammatical variations, e.g. replacing "'s" with
 "Device's").

  d) Announce intent to, with Agoran Consent, cause this rule
 to amend the rule "The Device" by inserting the modified
 text as the last list item in either the "device on" or
 "device off" lists in that rule (or, if 007 has been
 spotted, to repeal both that rule and this one).
 This intent announcement counts as the Mad Engineers's weekly
 report.

  If the announcement of intent above is made with the procedure
  described above, the Mad Engineer CAN, with Agoran Consent, cause
  this rule to amend the rule "The Device" as indicated, and SHALL
  do so if the intent receives sufficient support.


G. becomes the holder of the office of Mad Engineer.

An election for Mad Engineer is initiated.