[s-b] declaration

[Geoffrey Spear <wooble@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Once upon a time, there was a lovely little nomic known simply as "A
Nomic."  For various reasons, when that nomic went into a lull, its
mailing list "spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx" was overrun by a large band of
lunatics who believed, mistakenly it turns out, that they were playing
a game called "B Nomic".  While normally such poor mailing list
etiquette should be frowned upon, I believe that we, the Friends of A
Nomic who subscribe to this mailing list, have a duty to get revenge
by casting these hooligans off this list and using it to start a brand
new nomic.  As further revenge, I propose that we call it "B Nomic".

There is no precedent for this, but I declare open the Game of B Nomic
with the following Rules:
{{
1. There exists a State known as the State of Unrest.  The game is
initially in this State.
2. The Public Forum is the email list spoon-business@xxxxxxxxxx
3. The Chairman is the person who authenticates to Google Apps using
the identifier "wooble@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx", also known as Geoffrey Spear
or Wooble.
4. Time in the State of Unrest is tracked using absolute days, which
run from 00:00:00 UTC, to 23:59:59 UTC.
5. Any person may, beginning with the start of the first absolute day
after the game has begun, and ending at the start of the third
absolute day after the game has begun, submit any number of Points of
Order which are documents detailing a single change to the Rules or
Game State of B. A Point of Order may declare that it is Dependent on
or Contradictory to a previously submitted, but not yet discarded or
selected Point of Order.
6. Each person may submit a single vote on each Point of Order which
can be exactly one of Yea or Nay, up until the end of the first
absolute day after the Point of Order reaches the Public Forum. If,
after the first absolute day from its reaching the Public Forum, a
Point of Order has more Yea votes than Nay votes, it is said to be
Selected, otherwise it is discarded. If a selected Point of Order is
Dependent on a discarded Point of Order, it to is discarded. If a
selected Point of Order is Contradictory to another selected Point of
Order, the Point of Order with the greater number of Yea votes to Nay
votes is selected, otherwise they are both discarded.
7. After four absolute days have passed since the game began, the
Chairman shall gather all Selected Points of Order, and if necessary
implement the changes therein, and is capable of doing so.
}}

(This message has no effect if B Nomic exists and happens to be in a
State of Unrest)
-- 
Wooble
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