Re: [s-d] [s-b] Refresh Proposal Ballot

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Jay Campbell wrote:
> Below are the Refresh Proposals from Charles, Teucer, 0x44, comex. 
> Please reply to this forum with your Ballot per:
>
> 4e0.7. Each PEP may cast a single Ballot by announcing it via the 
> Emergency Forum. This Ballot shall rank some (or all) of the Refresh 
> Proposals in order of preference, with the most-preferred alternative 
> being ranked first, and less-preferred alternatives being given 
> subsequently higher integers.
>
>
> ============ Charles
>
> {{Make comex a player, if he was not one already.}}
>
> ============ Teucer
>
> {Rule changes first.
>
> Amend rule 4E79 by replacing the first instance of the string
> {Officer. Officers} with {Officer. Officers may only be entities bound
> to the Contract defining the Corporation, and if an entity ceases to
> be so bound then it also ceases to be an Officer. If no such entity is
> defined as an officer then every party to that contract is considered
> an Officer.
>
> Officers}. /* This defeats the CPA. */
>
> Amend rule 4E70 by adding to the end:
> {
>
> The text of a Contract may not be taken to compel any behavior on the
> part of any player who did not post a message explicitly stating their
> consent to be bound by that Contract. /* This part stymies the efforts
> of SCAM. */
>
> No Contract may be submitted whose text is not provided, in
> unencrypted form, in the e-mail message in which the text is
> submitted. /* This part prevents future Contracts of Epimenides. That
> one isn't nearly as broken as CPA or SCAM, but while we're tidying
> things up we might as well. */
> }
>
> Amend rule 4E7 by adding to the end:
> {
>
> An explicit account of the action undertaken must be posted, in
> unencrypted English; defining the action in an unambiguous fashion
> without making it known to all English speakers reading the message
> does not constitute a valid game action. /* This part keeps me from
> posting encrypted text in foreign languages and claiming to do the
> plaintext. */
> }
>
> Now, the gamestate changes.
>
> Destroy the following contracts: SCAM, Crimson Permanent Assurance Mk
> II, lhret rhlhr, Alelaelaelalealealealelaelaou, comex's Corporation,
> comex's Second Corporation, comex's Third Corporation, and comex's
> Mersenne Prime Corporation.
>
> Replace the Contract of Epimenides with the following text:
>
> {
> Section 1. This Contract is the Articles of Incorporation for a
> Corporation known as Epimenides, Inc. This Corporation has two
> Officers, known as the Cretan and the Cretin. They may or may not be
> the same person at any given time. The Cretin is the party to this
> Contract whose most recent instance of becoming bound by this Contract
> was earlier than that of any other party to this Contract. The Cretan
> is the party to this Contract whose first instance of becoming bound
> by this Contract was later than that of any other party to this
> Contract. The Cretan has the power to edit this Contract at any time,
> but may only do so without objection from other Parties to this
> Contract. No section of this Contract may constrain the actions of the
> Cretin. The Cretan may not edit this sentence or the sentence before
> it, nor may he make any edits which would conflict with the
> requirement of the preceding sentence.
>
> Section 2. All ninjas are mammals.
>
> Section 3. If a section of this Contract with an even number contains
> any assertions of fact (as opposed to sentences which, while phrased
> as declaratives, actually serve to bind its Parties' behavior), all
> Parties to this Contract except the Cretin are forbidden from taking
> any game actions they are able to take which could cause any such
> assertion to become untrue. If such an assertion is already untrue,
> all Parties to this Contract except the Cretin are required to take
> any game actions they are able to take which could cause any such
> assertions to become true. Furthermore, all Parties to this Contract
> except the Cretin are required at all times to engage in game actions
> founded on the premise that all such assertions are true, whether or
> not they are.
>
> Section 4. Ninjas fight ALL the time.
>
> Section 5. The Cretin is humbly entreated by this Contract to make no
> statement of fact on any public forum which is not false. As the
> Contract may not bind the Cretin's behavior, however, this is not a
> requirement, merely a polite request.
>
> Section 6. The purpose of a ninja is to flip out and kill people.
>
> Section 7. If the Cretan posts to a public forum and Epimenides, Inc.
> posesses any mackerel or any socks, the Cretan is obligated to include
> in the post a transaction indicating that e acts on behalf of the
> corporation in such a way as to redistribute those mackerel and socks
> to the two Officers of Epimenides, Inc. If the two Officers are
> distinct people, the Cretan will do this using the dice server on
> nomic.net. Such redistribution need not be random nor equitable.
>
> Section 8. The player known as teucer has won the game of B Nomic
> during the fourth era.
>
> Section 9. No player may become a Party to this Contract more than
> once in a single nweek.
>
> Section 10. All assertions of fact (as clarified in section 3)
> contained in even-numbered sections of the Contract of Epimenides are
> false, except possibly this one.
>
> Section 11. Any party to this contract may cease to be a party to it
> at any time.
> }
>
> /* That's for BP. */
>
> Amend the gamestate to be such that teucer's enciphered Portuguese
> text posted to the public forum was without effect.
>
> Amend the gamestate to reflect the fact that comex is already a
> player. No amendments to the list of players are to be made at this
> time.
>
> Change all PEPs' mental states to Calm.
>
> Change the Message of the nweek to "Emergencies: like slumps, but with
> extra paranoia."}
>
> ======================= 0x44
>
> {{
>     Replace the text of 4e5 with:
>     {
>        Game Documents are Game Objects that consist of meaningful text
> that is readable by any Player without unreasonable effort.
>
>        In each Game Document, with the exception of this paragraph, text
> between a forward slash+asterisk character combination and an
> asterisk+forward slash character combination or between double square
> brackets (that is, text between "/*" and "*/" or between "[[" and "]]")
> shall be deemed Comment Text. Comment Text has no direct effect on the
> state of the game, although it can be read.
>     }
>   
>     Replace the text of 4e70 with:
>     {
>        As a game action, a Legal Entity may create a game document known
> as a Contract. Legal entities who are bound by a contract are known as
> parties to that contract.
>
>        As a game action, any legal entity may become bound to a contract
> by explicitly expressing their voluntary intent to become bound by the
> contract, unless the text of that contract would prohibit such an
> action. A legal entity may not become bound to a contract by any other
> means. For the purposes of this rule, creating a contract is a game
> action expressing the creator's voluntary intent to become bound by said
> contract. A legal entity may not become bound by a contract by any other
> means.
>
>         A contract must specify means by which a party may cease to be
> bound that contract. No contract may restrict any party from ceasing to
> be bound by that contract, except insofar as the party has outstanding
> obligations bestowed by that specific contract.
>
>         Any party to a contract may submit a Consultation indicating
> that a specified Legal Entity bound by a specified contract has failed
> to fulfill the obligations bestowed upon them by that Contract. If the
> Priest of the Consultation finds that the specified legal entity
> violated the contract in question, they shall submit an Oracularity
> which endeavors to equitably rectify the breach. For the purposes of the
> ceasing to be bound by the terms of a contract, compliance with the
> PONDERED/Consistent Oracularity will take the place of any outstanding
> obligations.
>      
>        There exists a Ministry known as the Ministry of Business. The
> Ministry of Business, also known as the Arbiter, is responsible for
> maintaining a Public Display of all Contracts and their current text and
> parties.
>
>        If, at any time, a contract has fewer than one party, it ceases
> to be a Game Document.
>
>        Contracts may Things, which are Game Objects that exist only
> within the scope of that Contract. Things may be referenced from other
> contexts.
>     }
>   
>     Replace the text of 4e79 with:
>     {
>        A Contract declaring itself to be a set of Articles of
> Incorporation creates a Legal Entity known as a Corporation. Articles of
> Incorporation must, at minimum, establish the name of the Corporation
> and at define at least one Officer.
>
>        Officers of a Corporation shall collectively ensure that the
> Corporation fulfills the obligations specified in its Articles or any
> other Contract to which it may be Party. Only a Party to the Articles of
> Incorporation may become an Officer of a Corporation. Unless otherwise
> restricted by the Articles of Incorporation, an officer may act on 
> behalf of a Corporation by submitting a game action on behalf of the
> Corporation, explicitly stating the actions described in are being
> performed by the Corporation.
>
>        Any Corporation, whose Articles of Incorporation do not comply
> with this rule, ceases to be a Legal Entity and the Articles of
> Incorporation cease to be a Game Object.
>     }
>   
>     Comex is a player. ZOT any extant Consultation calling into question
> his Playerhood.
>
>     Since its Articles of Incorporation do not comply with the revised
> 4e79, the Corporation known as CPA ceases to be a legal entity and its
> Articles of Incorporation ceases to be a Game Document.
>
>     Since its Articles of Incorporation do not comply with the revised
> 4e79, the Corporation known as CPA2 ceases to be a legal entity and its
> Articles of Incorporation ceases to be a Game Document.
>
>     Since its Articles of Incorporation do not comply with the revised
> 4e79, the Corporation known as SCAM ceases to be a legal entity and its
> Articles of Incorporation ceases to be a Game Document.
>
>     Since its Articles of Incorporation do not comply with the revised
> 4e79, the Corporation defined in the "Contract of Epimenides" ceases to
> be a legal entity and its Articles of Incorporation ceases to be a Game
> Document.
>
>     In case the "Contract of Epimenides" does not declare itself to be
> an Articles of Incorporation, the "Contract of Epimenides" ceases to be
> a Game Object.
>
>     "lhret rhlhr" ceases to be a Game Object.
>
>     Since their Articles of Incorporation do not comply with the revised
> 4e79, all Corporations known as Ninja{some number} cease to be a legal
> entity and their Articles of Incorporation cease to be a Game Documents.
>
>     Since its Articles of Incorporation do not comply with the revised
> 4e79, the Corporation known as "OCB Remote" ceases to be a legal entity
> and its Articles of Incorporation ceases to be a Game Document.
>
>     Since its Articles of Incorporation do not comply with the revised
> 4e79, the Corporation known as "teucer's mack heist" ceases to be a
> legal entity and its Articles of Incorporation ceases to be a Game Document.
>
>         Since its Articles of Incorporation do not comply with the
> revised 4e79, the Corporation known as "ehird's Corporation" ceases to
> be a legal entity and its Articles of Incorporation ceases to be a Game
> Document.
>
>         Since its Articles of Incorporation do not comply with the
> revised 4e79, the Corporation known as "A GREAT THING CORPORATION"
> ceases to be a legal entity and its Articles of Incorporation ceases to
> be a Game Document.
>
>         Since its Articles of Incorporation do not comply with the
> revised 4e79, the Corporation known as "comex's Corporation" ceases to
> be a legal entity and its Articles of Incorporation ceases to be a Game
> Document.
>
>         Since its Articles of Incorporation do not comply with the
> revised 4e79, the Corporation known as "comex's Second Corporation"
> ceases to be a legal entity and its Articles of Incorporation ceases to
> be a Game Document.
>
>         Since its Articles of Incorporation do not comply with the
> revised 4e79, the Corporation known as "comex's Third Corporation"
> ceases to be a legal entity and its Articles of Incorporation ceases to
> be a Game Document.
>
>         Since its Articles of Incorporation do not comply with the
> revised 4e79, the Corporation known as "cMPC" ceases to be a legal
> entity and its Articles of Incorporation ceases to be a Game Document.
>
>         Since its Articles of Incorporation do not comply with the
> revised 4e79, the Corporation known as "Alelaelaelalealealealelaelaou"
> ceases to be a legal entity and its Articles of Incorporation ceases to
> be a Game Document.
>  
>         Since its Articles of Incorporation do not comply with the
> revised 4e79, the Corporation known as "Lala" ceases to be a legal
> entity and its Articles of Incorporation ceases to be a Game Document.
>
>         Since its Articles of Incorporation do not comply with the
> revised 4e79, the Corporation known as "SCAM" ceases to be a legal
> entity and its Articles of Incorporation ceases to be a Game Document.
>
>        The Contract known as "FREE MACKS" ceases to be a Game Document.
> }}
>
> ================ Comex
>
> I submit the following Refresh Proposal:
> {
> Amend Rule 4E7 by adding this paragraph at the end:
> {
> To "specify" a parameter, a person must unambiguously, explicitly
> describe it in such a way that it can be reasonably identified by any
> English speaker.
> }
>
> Amend Rule 4E70 by replacing:
> {
> A Legal Entity, as a Game Action, may create a Game Document known as
> a Contract.
> }
> with:
> {
> A Legal Entity, as a Game Action, may create a Game Document known as
> a Contract, specifying its text.
> }
>
> Amend Rule 4E79 by replacing:
> {
> These Articles must, at a minimum, give the Corporation a name and
> define at least one Officer.
> }
> with:
> {
> These Articles must, at a minimum, give the Corporation a name and
> define at least one Officer; only Legal Entities bound by them can be
> defined as Officers.
> }
> and by replacing:
> {
> An Officer can, *unless otherwise specified in the Articles of
> Incorporation,* act on behalf of a Corporation by sending a message to
> the Public Forum explicitly stating that the Actions described in the
> message are being performed by the Corporation.
> }
> with:
> {
> An Officer can, unless otherwise specified in the Articles of
> Incorporation, act on behalf of a Corporation; other entities can also
> act on behalf of a Corporation if allowed by the Articles of
> Incorporation.
> }
>
> Amend Rule 4E7 by adding this paragraph at the end:
> {
> A Legal Entity (the Actor) can generally, as a Game Action, act on
> behalf of another Legal Entity (the Target) where the Rules allow it.
> To do this, the Actor must explicitly state that the action is being
> performed by the Target.
> }
> (No contracts are terminated or amended by this Refresh Proposal; scam
> contracts can look out for themselves.)
> }
>
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I revised my refresh proposal to remove all instances of "Since its 
Articles of Incorporation do not comply with the revised 4e79,"

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