I believe merely forging banknotes is illegal in the UK. I'm pretty
sure defacing coins is.
On 2009-06-15, Paul VanKoughnett <allisp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> So having tried that one before, I think the right answer is just to
>>> convince appeals courts to be more ready to REASSIGN instead of REMAND in
>>> lazy cases; loss of salary plus loss of judicial rank would do fine if
>>> that happened; it's possible now and merely a cultural issue.
>>>
>>> -G.
>>
>> I disagree. Switching to REASSIGN doesn't deny salary, it just prevents
>> excess salary from being earned. The judge still gets salary for
>> judgments like "TRUE because pigs were on an airplane" or "FALSE
>> because". Heck, you still get salary for "UNDETERMINED because I'm too
>> lazy to think about this case".
>
> Proposal: Harder on bad judges (II=1, AI=1.7, please)
> {
> Amend rule 911 (Appeal Cases) by appending the following paragraph:
> "If an appeals panel delivers a judgement other than AFFIRM, it CAN
> destroy
> any Notes and/or Ribbons the prior judge gained as a result of
> that judgement."
> }
> I intend, without objection, to make this distributable. (If Cards
> are coming soon, feel free to object.)
>
> On another note, Rests should be at the very least renamed when Cards
> come around. Maybe Chips, though those are usually good things to
> have. Hmm.
>
> More radically, I agree that Rests should go, or at the very least, be
> reduced in scope. I think the game would be more interesting if each
> crime had its own equity-style punishment. Making My Eyes Bleed, for
> example, could require the offender to write or parse something
> incredibly difficult in plain text. Endorsing Forgery could require
> someone to forge an actual banknote and then send their picture over
> the lists to see if it satisfies Agora. There could be more imposed
> offices that require the offender to do powerless dirty work (The
> Janitor is a good current example). Rests could be reserved only for
> Restricted Behavior, where there is no ready-made punishment. Or,
> again, you could make the whole ruleset Equitable, and judges are
> forced to design their own punishments to fit the crime.
>
> This will take a lot of work, but if one of the rules making up the
> requisite structure comes up in my (hopeful) Anarchist duties, you can
> expect me to propose it.
>
> --allispaul
>
