Re: DIS: Proto: Offices as Partnerships

2007-11-06 Thread Zefram
Roger Hicks wrote: >Again, under our current system a broken office can only be fixed by >proposal, so what's the difference? How do we break an office, exactly? Under the current system an officeholder who is a partnership can become broken by contractual means, but can then be readily replaced

Re: DIS: Proto: Offices as Partnerships

2007-11-06 Thread Ian Kelly
On 11/6/07, Roger Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Again, under our current system a broken office can only be fixed by > proposal, so what's the difference? Quite true on the constitutional > issue though. Let me come up with a fix. Under the current system, a working office can only be broken

Re: DIS: Proto: Offices as Partnerships

2007-11-06 Thread Roger Hicks
On 11/6/07, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your model contract would impose that sort of practical overhead for > any routine official action that is not by the Chair. And how is that different than the current system? My model contract allows whoever the previous officer was to still have fu

Re: DIS: Proto: Offices as Partnerships

2007-11-06 Thread Zefram
Roger Hicks wrote: >The only real exception is to allow Offices to remain partnerships >even if their basis is less than 2 people. Installing by Agoran Consent. > And I don't see how this is >any more difficult than deputizing? Your model contract would

Re: DIS: Proto: Offices as Partnerships

2007-11-06 Thread Roger Hicks
On 11/6/07, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roger Hicks wrote: > > Each Office > >is filled (held) by a single Partnership whose name is the same as > >that Office. > > Eurgh. This really doesn't fit together, as evidenced by the except

Re: DIS: Proto: Offices as Partnerships

2007-11-06 Thread Zefram
Roger Hicks wrote: > Each Office >is filled (held) by a single Partnership whose name is the same as >that Office. Eurgh. This really doesn't fit together, as evidenced by the exceptions you have to make to partnership rules. It makes all

DIS: Proto: Offices as Partnerships

2007-11-06 Thread Roger Hicks
Proto-Proposal: Offices as Partnerships AI: 2 { Amend R1006 Offices to read: {{ A role is an Office only if it is so defined by the rules. Each Office is filled (held) by a single Partnership whose name is the same as that Office. Said Partnership is the Officer of that Office and may be referred t