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Perhaps the concept of deputies and the concept of Acting Speaker should be completely separated and treated as different subjects in the rules. And I stand by my earlier observation that the language needs to add to and not take aware from the scope of discretion of the Speaker as to...

To be fair, there was a fourth nay vote that was disallowed by the Vice Delegate, and I do not understand why the rigidity in counting SC votes. I think it is a poor practice, and serves no one's interest.

My reasoning on this application is the same as two other recent applications" Nessuno and Kialga's SC Applications post 19

Nay.

UPDATE: The renovations have reached a point where it proves Murphy's Law is correct. The phase that they're in now will replace everything in the kitchen, the bathroom, and some other details, and supposedly it will all be done in one day. (I'm scheduled for next week.) However, this also means...

I hadn't mentioned it, but should have, the fact that my apartment tower has been undergoing extensive renovations since about October. The phase that they're in now will replace everything in the kitchen, the bathroom, and some other details, and supposedly it will all be done in one day...

I have the same objection to this applicant as I have for the other two most recent applicants. In good conscious, I cannot support this application in the absence of a demonstrated history of experience and trustworthiness. This applicant has not shown either. When and if this comes to a vote...

Until recently, most of the time, members have been elected Delegates and Vice Delegates prior to their election on the Council. I have objected more than once recently to applicants who were at the time incumbent Delegates or Vice Delegates, because that perverts the role of the Security...

Gradea. we got rid of those "leaders" and retained our commitment to democracy throughout this past decade. You want to talk about continuity; there's continuity for you.

I have reservations about both applications, hence my "no" vote in the Security Council as to both. Nessuno is an unknown, and I have no basis to believe that he meets the qualities necessary to function as is needed as a member of the Security Council. Based upon my observations of Kialga's...

Based upon the masking (forum member), Durk is not even a resident. And a "no" to the NPO.

Ludicrous. (And I'm not referring to any person, in game, out of game, real life or fictional.)

It is an issue of how it looks, even if there's nothing else. Since much of it is at the discretion of the chair, that contributes to the appearance question.

I really do think with a Speaker and four deputies, it is poor form to put the actual defacto author of a bill in charge of the debate. That's the last thing that should have been done.

We get to the 10th anniversary of the Constitutional Convention this summer; the first Delegate election was just after that, once the official forum was picked by a referendum.

Dr. Frenk, who has been the dean of the college of public health.

And not all of us have written our histories of that period. :)

OOC/RL Harvard, eh? We from the U thank you for our new president. >|P

It's been legal under the Speaker's Discretion Clause, so there's no urgency in the matter. The question then becomes whether to require only one approach of future Speakers by the adoption of the rule. I wonder if there's a way to make the addition more, rather than less discretionary, while...

Delegate: < Abstain > Would you like to reopen nominations? < Yes >

I have raised this issue several times in the past few months. You will need to look in the spoiler boxes and see who has an image of text that is too large, and then let the admin know. (Admin do have the power to edit sigs, but we try to ask users directly by PM first. The images cannot be...

That is essentially what I am suggesting. The passage I quoted in my previous postwas from the constitution that came out of the COnstitutional Convention, and was changed more due to the die off in NS at the time the Great Recession began. If you go back and look at what I actually suggested...

The Roll Call business has been tried before and it simply does not work. If someone happens not to be around at the exact time, although they're otherwise particippating, it becomes a penalty of sorts.

In an earlier version of the quorum concept, we had a sliding proportion determined by the size of eligible voters in the R.A. Thre were different formulas in use at different times, but the earliest one seems to be more useful in the current environment, with so may eligible to vote in the...

I object. An amended bill fixing the primary problem with the current bill would be more likely to pass. Since the bill failed, regardless of the reason, it should go through the same process as any other bill that failed.

Could be your monitor. As an active admin, (GBM is an admin emeritus), I can confirm you do not have any warnings. If you had a warning, each warning would have an explanation that you could get to by hovering your mouse or pointer. That would explain each warning issued, and when it was...

Alta, I wasn't referring to BW's last post on his declaration of candidacy; but only to the previous one which he referred to my previous post.

Since Elu has control of the original images for the new badges, this process is up to him.

SS, you didn't update very well. I've already declined before you updated. And I seriously doubt BW was even serious, he was just responding to my declination.

The Common Law Tradition exists in every English speaking nation (i.e., where English is an official language, It is even used in Israel which is based on both English common laaw and Talmudic law, which use the same sort of legal reasoning. It is irrelevant whether its use is explicit or...