If I remember rightly, Mencei should or must be from an opposition party.  Who wants to stick their hand up this time 'round?

GV, Fiova
Dean of the Senäts

Quote from: Sir Lüc on July 15, 2024, 10:20:09 AMAzul, my new office of Finance Minister being incompatible with any Permanent Secretary positions, I hereby resign as Backend Secretary, effective as soon as a successor is appointed by the new Technology Minister.

Given that such a successor is already known, as the previous Technology Minister @Danihel Txechescu has agreed to continue his stewardship of the Talossan web presence as the new PermSec, I'd like to take a moment to give heartfelt thanks to Danihel for his decision and for his exemplary service in Cabinet.

I am taking advantage of these last hours to complete my last handover of credentials from the old Cabinet to the new, after which I shall wait for the new PermSec to be appointed to transfer to him control over everything covered by the job description.

--Lüc, demissionary Backend PermSec

Azul, Lüc!  I need new credentials to access the Witt and Wiki backup utilities.  I'm good on backing up talossa.ca

Thanks so much!

- GV, Royal Archivist

I was unopposed this time.  Many thanks to all for your continued confidence!

- GV, Senator

1. Going forward with the eventual demise of the Talossa Database System, what will be the absolute record going forward of the contents of the Database?

2. How will the absolute record of the MPF Talossa Database System be transferred electronically to the new setup?

3. I am fully supportive of this endeavor.  We must with MPF's blessing take the burden off his shoulders forevermore and make Talossa's recordkeeping sustainable and easily-learnable.

Quote from: Sir Txec dal Nordselvă, UrB on June 17, 2024, 08:07:14 AMJust a note for anyone watching the balloting. When I have marked a ballot as "liked" it is for my own record keeping so that I know I've seen the ballot and entered the vote. It does NOT mean I like the way someone voted.

We needed to know that.  Put that note at the top of the voting thread next time.  :-)

Vote re RZ6 repaired by GV on 16 June 2024.  This was due to GV making a mistake in linking a wrong thing on the Database that was incorrectly linked to the incipit of this thread.  SoS has fixed this, and GV has fixed his ballot below.

Cosa: FreeDems
59RZ6 Per
59RZ21 Per
59RZ22 Per
Senats (Fiova): GV
Province (Fiova): M. Schiva

Much gratitude as always to our Secretary of State who does yoeman's work for our kingdom and country... - GV

Cosa: FreeDems
59RZ6 rejected by Senats per https://www.talossa.ca/files/bills.php?cosa=59&bill=10
59RZ21 Per
59RZ22 Per
Senats (Fiova): GV
Province (Fiova): M. Schiva

Much gratitude as always to our Secretary of State who does yoeman's work for our kingdom and country... - GV

Quote from: Gjermund Higraff on June 03, 2024, 06:46:44 AMMy memories are hazy at best. I was far from the most active participant leading up to it, and as everything went down, I was away in very rural Scotland, and had no clue how things had gone before I came back a week later. But I have an impression of it not being planned to happen on that date, as I seem to remember being (at least a little bit) surprised when I finally got online. But as I said, hazy, so I could be wrong about this.

Mike P. put together the Compact on 19 May 2004, and in the next few days, we signed it.  The date of 1 June was chosen very quickly and because it was easy to remember.

First of all, my life outside of Talossa has been incredibly hectic in the past year, owing mainly to helping in taking care of my father, whom our family and with his voluntary blessing put into assisted living at least on 19 May of this year.  He is doing very well there, and I've moved into a friend's guest-room for six months to a year.

Hence the reason why today almost passed me by.

"A Nation Sundered" describes Mad King Ben in March 2004 accusing another Talossan citizen, Kane Cavier, of domestic violence, a charge I continue to believe to be utterly false, even if his long-ago record of petty crime to that point might give a different impression cosmetically.  I still believe Kane.

Ben by doing this wanted Kane out of Talossa, and he figured things would get so hot for Kane he would flee the country and the greater Talossan nation altogether.

Ben did succeed in driving Kane out of the country, but ten of us and more soon thereafter went with him to form the 2004-2012 Republic of Talossa.

Unfortunately, mistakes were made.  We never should have kicked everyone but us off of Wittenberg X.  Only Ben and Queen Amy needed to have been tossed out.  Had we done things that way, I think we would have gotten far more sympathy from far more people, but at this time, no-one was thinking with a clear head.

Moreover, talossa.com was in the hands of "one of us" and was redirected from the kingdom and to the Republic's new webspace. This should have been done with far more sensitivity, to be sure.  It is late, and I do not have the time to fully discuss that point other than to say we should have done something different with talossa.com

Both these mistakes affected innocent people, and for those mistakes, we have continually been sorry they occurred.

The colossal edifice of the history of the Republic vs. King John and so much else will be best told by others.  Moreover, even the Republic itself was anticlimactic.  When Ben falsely accused Kane of domestic violence online in a public forum, the situation became fully untenable, and "old Talossa" was irreparably damaged.

The healing of Talossa began on 1 June 2004, and it continues today.  In fits and starts, perhaps, but since Ben left, no Talossan has appeared with the same level of vindictive spite Ben Madison had toward those he didn't care for, even with his many, many good qualities both as a Talossan and as a person outside Talossa.

The 2004-2012 Republic of Talossa is a cautionary tale that ended miraculously with Reunision on 20 April 2012.  I still find it unbelievable so many of us "down south" came to the Kingdom who had never been in the kingdom before, and in my mind, Reunision was a nigh-on complete success.

May Talossa live on, and may it continue to be free, fun, and fair. - GV

Prince Valiant.  'Nuff said.

Për on all - GV, Fiova

Bless you and your Christian ministry, John!  The end of an era for sure.

GV wishes to register for Fiova.  Thanks so much, SoS!

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on April 12, 2024, 05:22:40 PMLet's look at the actual figures. The succession to the throne would be:

1) Gjermund Higraff.
2) Mximo Carbonel.
3) Ieremiac'h Ventrutx.

I like Gjermund but he's less active than John. As for the others........

Not happening.

Max would drive this country over the edge.  I absolutely do *not* want IV as King.  I'm sure he's a good man in general, but he would be too much of a politico (one way or the other) and would alienate half the country.

If either were to be elected appropriately, that would be a different matter.  To have any sort of seniority system could conceivably allow the infamous Daviu Ardit to make a return, putting him first in line to the throne.

He would be trumped, though, by a potential resurgent G. Conâ who would be too much of a Ben-partisan.  Gjermund would be fine, but a seniority system would be manipulated in the future to make sure one faction's people by a future rogue SoS would be naturalized one day earlier than those who would lean to another faction.

Conceivably, Ben Madison himself could convince enough of the country to allow him back in, making him the next monarch.

Starting the thread immediately lest I forget to vote later on...

Për on the bill in question - GV, Fiova