Re: [s-b] Consultation assignment

["Jamie Dallaire" <bad.leprechaun@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/2/08, Justin Ahmann <quesmarktion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote:
>
> {{
> Is 0x44 the Ministry of Ministry as of the time this Consultation was
> submitted?
> }}
>
> [[MoQ commentary: a Player is not a Ministry]]
>
> This is Consultation 84.  I assign it to Priest Billy Pilgrim.


Answer: No.

Reasoning:
{
Players and Ministries are distinct types of Game Objects.

If the Supplicant is asking whether 0x44 is/was the Minister of Ministry,
the Answer is still No. According to Rule 50 (Public Displays), the Ministry
of Ministry was given the obligation to update the public display of
ministerial responsibilities (Rule 51 - The MetaMin) at the end of nweek
135, when certain Proposals passed, altering some ministerial
responsibilities (such as the Proposal that created the Ministry of Play).
0x44 assigned the Ministry of Ministry to himself during nday 1 of nweek
136, thus taking this obligation upon himself.

Though the Public Display of existing Ministries and their current holders
was accurate, to the best of 0x44's knowledge (no one had yet challenged
the inclusion of the Ministry of Society or of the Retainer), no Public
Display of ministerial responsibilities was forthcoming. It could be argued
that the Rules themselves, accurately updated by MoL Hose, constitute a
Public Display of ministerial responsibilities. The answer to the question
of whether 0x44 was, at the time of the submission of this consultation, the
Minister of Ministry, hinges on the definition of a Public Display. Rule 50
defines a Public Display as "a display of an aspect of the current state of
the game in a form easily accessible to all Players". It is the Priest's
opinion that the Rules do not show ministerial obligations in a form easily
accessible to all Players, as such obligations are listed neither neatly nor
in an orderly fashion. An (outdated) example of an effective Public Display
of ministerial responsibilities can be found at
http://b.nomic.net/index.php?title=User:Hose/Mininstry_Duties&oldid=4803.

Rule 53 (Ministerial Obligations) states that a Ministry is automatically
vacated if its Minister has not fulfilled his obligations within a Jiffy,
which is a duration of 4 rdays (Rule 30 - Official Quantities). According to
the Durations section of Rule 14 (NTime), a period of 4 rdays ends after 4
successive occurrences of midnight UTC. 0x44 contracted obligations on nday
1 which were not fulfilled by the start of nday 5, at which point a Jiffy
had elapsed. This consultation was submitted during nday 5, during which
Wooble also assigned the Ministry of Ministry to himself, effectively
becoming its minister.

Note the difficulty in dealing with durations: A reading of Rule 14 shows
that, if the Clock is On at all times, a duration of 4 ndays starting during
nday 1 ends at the end of nday 5, while a duration of 4 rdays starting
during nday 1 ends at the start of nday 5.
}

Priest Billy Pilgrim
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