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Oh, man! Two new year threads! I'm celebrating here because caps lock is cruise control for cool! new year's voyage--> :sub:

I think it looks great. I fixed a few typos, but couldn't figure out what the bolded text (in 5D) should be. One more question: may the Board of Regents select a member of their own as Chancellor?

Apparently not. :P

d'oh, my mistake. For whatever reason I thought this was the next iteration of what report we wanted to submit. Schnauzer, if you want to swap it back over to the 'collecting thoughts' thread I would be perfectly happy. I can understand how the granting of standing to TNPU gives basically the...

This is what I threw together from the 'collecting our thoughts' thread. Sorry it took so long in coming: This section isn't entirely clear to me how this works with the University as an independent entity. I think that my definition of corporation (even though it probably isn't entirely...

Poltsamaa, when were you around in ONOS? It's often hard to keep track of people if they're in and out. Roman, I agree that the NPO has a problem with members who think they're hot stuff just because they're members. But the other hand of that is that many of the people coming to the game are...

I'm in ONOS, it's Maroon and around 150 members. We have a joint MDP signed with to other medium-sized alliances which is in our own little corner of the big MDP web. It isn't very militant, lately we've been throwing around more aid than anything else. www.onos-alliance.com is the forum if you...

Sounds good, I'll devote a bit of time to it this weekend after my Quantum Mechanics final is over.

I think that everything above would work for setting up an educational institution for NS. One thing I was wondering from the beginning, and I guess didn't express well enough is if we would also like the University to be a place where original research is done in the NS world.

Do you have a reason why? I'd be willing to put off the change I've made two posts ago if you think it would be pulling something at the last minute. My post above stated that I no longer think it necessary to 'edit' the entire Constitution in one fell swoop. If you don't like this proposal as...

Hey, thanks for bringing this up again, I've been kind of in space lately. I think that Schnauzer has come up with his own solution to what I proposed to do with Article II. Originally I had thought that I would go through Articles I, II and III and get it all at once. That doesn't really look...

They're cool images, but I'm not sure that they show that there's liquid water. Ice has weird properties when it's at low temperature and is getting smacked with ultraviolet light (like on Mars), I read an article before positing that comets could be in an almost-liquid state when they're...

This is an alarmist non-sequitor, and has no bearing on the current discussion. The Prime Minister is given broad authority to act as head of government, and having the Delegate as one vote among many in the Cabinet does not change that one iota. This is another alarmist non-sequitor. I would...

The EigenNation of Unterwasserseestaat "I, Unterwasserseestaat, as the leader of the The EigenNation of Unterwasserseestaat, pledge to obey the Constitution and Laws of The North Pacific Region, and to act as a responsible member of its society. I understand that if my Nation leaves The North...

I think that we need to have at least an informal understanding of what we mean by waging of war, and also what constitutes being allied with a region. Am I allied with a region if I have citizenship in their region? If I have a nation in their region? What about posting something in a TNP bash...

I was thinking about this, and I was wondering if it would be easy to throw together some RL subjects in, just because we will have some basis to go off of and tell how we would need to adapt to the logistics of teaching via invisionfree boards. I don't think that RL topics would be the...

I would rather have a more stable leadership of the University, in particular, I think that there should be a Chancellor who's appointed for six-month terms. I don't think that we'll move into the next term with both a MoC and MoCE, and I'm also concerned that one inactive leader could kill the...

I have a few ideas, I'm not sure if there are people around with the expertise to fufill the role of prof, though. 1) We could commission an anthropological study of some other regions, this should be doable considering people's interest in other regions. I think we could also use this as a...

Well, specifically we should think about the "community of scholars" definition that Universities use. We already have areas where people can comment and freely share whatever ideas they have about gameplay or diplomacy or forum activity. How specifically do we think we can make this something...

I agree with the repeal's point about things that are "freeware" or "shareware" -- usually, when things are given public license to use the author retains some rights. I also think the section of the original resolution about improperly submitted copyright applications is pointless...

I think it would be a good clarification to add language to Art VI Sec 2. Here's my first idea, though I am less sure of what specificially we would like to say about the Courts so I'm just going to call it a "judicial ruling" for now. We may also want to add in an extra part outlining the...

I, Unterwasserseestaat, do hereby solemnly swear that during my duly elected term as a member of the Security Council, I will uphold the ideals of Democracy, Freedom, and Justice of The Region of The North Pacific. I will use the powers and rights granted to me through The North Pacific...

I can see your reasoning here, but it seems a bit excessive. Probably because of this phrase: I think that if this were to happen that our government will be a failure. One of the useful parts of being such a large region is that threats don't pop up and become urgent matters in one day, which...

TNP Nation: Unterwasserseestaat Forum Name: Unterwasserseestaat Democratic Donkeys: For Mr. Gaunt: Aye

As I'm looking at this now the issue seems to boil down into two parts: (these are the edited passages, btw) Contrasting the deleted phrase "Should any official of a government authority of the region with authority to act, declare that the immediate ejection or banning of a Nation is an...

Here is a reposting of my proposed amendment to the Constitution, it is the same as in the first post, except for retaining "All Nations of The North Pacific are sovereign." in Art I section 1 part 1. I have also adjusted the numbering of parts in Art I section I to reflect how they would be in...

^ Schnauzer, do you think we would necessarily need to have a government position to take care of a potential TNPU? I would lean toward appointing an independent Chancellor who would oversee the subforum, contact potential faculty, etc. I don't have a problem with the idea of merging the MoC...

Forum Username: Unterwasserseestaat TNP Member Nation: The EigenNation of Unterwasserseestaat Prime Minister: Abstain Minister of Immigration and Internal Affairs: Former English Colony Minister of External Affairs: Flemingovia Minister of Communications: dont pick it up Minister of...

Forum Username: Unterwasserseestaat TNP Member Nation: The EigenNation of Unterwasserseestaat UN Member Nation: Unterwasserseestaat UN Regional Delegate: Great Bights Mum Vice Delegate: Emperor Matthuis

Sniffles, here you're adding an additional requirement of Cabinet members, that won't have any effect on what I'm trying to do with the document. (I'm fairly sure that you meant you were concerned that I'd be shifting the content of the particular section around, not suggesting we add it on to...