I'm going to leave this running an extra day and close it on Monday.  I'll have time on Monday to put the results together. 

Last chance to take part!

Quote from: Txosuè Éiric Rôibeardescù on October 31, 2020, 01:20:19 PM

Quote from: Eðo Grischun on October 31, 2020, 04:50:32 AM
Pardon the intrusion.

When does the province anticipate this election to conclude? I'm just wondering whether to wait re: council of governors.

(Another option would be that I appoint Gluc to sit on the council as an interim member, who can then be replaced by whomever becomes Seneschal later)

our governor is Sir Christi I believe, Seneschal is different no?

Sir Cresti is Governor, but as in Cunstaval, aye?

The bit of law covering this says the CoG is "comprised of each provincial executive, whether he or she is called "Governor" or not".

The Head of Executive in Cezembre would be your Seneschal. 

"Council of Governors" is actually named pretty badly.  It should probably just get called the Council of Executives, but it's name doesn't matter that much since the law defines its composition anyway.

Pardon the intrusion.

When does the province anticipate this election to conclude? I'm just wondering whether to wait re: council of governors.

(Another option would be that I appoint Gluc to sit on the council as an interim member, who can then be replaced by whomever becomes Seneschal later)

A few more days left to get your opinions sent in before we close the survey.

47 responses so far!!  50!!!

Please may I Clark the following;

In my capacity as Minister of STUFF:
The Tidy up your STUFF Act
https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?topic=502.0

In my capacity as Minister of the Interior:
The Tidying up the Interior Act
https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?topic=545.0

and as a member's Bill in my capacity as a Senator:
The Shark Tank Act
https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?topic=350.0



(I have 2 other Bills in the Hopper just now, but so not to make the Clark terribly massive and so not to cause the SoS too many headaches, I will Clark those next time around)

WHEREAS The Kingdom of Talossa's Monarchy is no longer hereditary, thus LEX.L.10 is now pointless, so

THEREFORE be it enacted by the Ziu assembled that Article L Section 10 of El Lexhatx, which currently reads:

QuoteThe Heir to the Throne shall be styled Prince (or, if female, Princess) of Prospect.

is hereby stricken from law.

Quote from: Txosuè Éiric Rôibeardescù on October 25, 2020, 07:48:31 PM
Order order,

Although the honarable members are discussed this as a possibility to be enacted if required, I fear that conversation on this bill has moved a little too towards the realm of fantasy and I would like to remind members to continue to discuss the bill as currently writen. This is not to impede or to stamp out discussion on this line of thinking, but more to return the focus to the bill and not purely personal opinion and speculation.
A spear without a point is just a stick.

Does the Túischac'h have authority over the Hopper? It's a public discussion sub-board after all, not strictly a Cosa/Ziu board.  I'm not sure the Túischac'h can call for order on either Senators or members of the public outside of the Cosa chamber.

@Dr. Txec Róibeard dal Nordselvă, Esq., O.SPM, SMM

Tagging the SoS as Witt's admin.

Quote from: Adam Grigoriu on October 25, 2020, 03:06:30 AM
It's broken for me on a fork of Chrome mobile also, though it works fine on the most recent build of Chrome desktop.

I'm also guessing it's an issue with the embed though the Discord API itself is quite temperamental and has an irritating tendency to just stop working, so it could possibly be on thier end.

Personally I've never used the shoutbox as a basically have Discord running 24/7, so I'll see it whether it's working or not.

If you know about how Discord and it's API works, could I leave this with you to look into further?  (or as far as we can without SMF dash access, at least)?

After you mentioned this to me last week, I "shouted" a test message and got a reply from Tafial.  And then tonight, the shoutbox has a convo in it with Luc, Josh and Adam talking about music stuff. 

I just had a quick check and loaded up Witt on Microsoft Edge and it doesn't work on that.  It seems to work on Chrome fine though.  I'm nearly sure that you use Firefox, Miestra?  So, it's possibly a browser related issue.

Thing is, the discord embed is highly temperamental.  I have seen it go down and bug out from time to time. 

Although, with Witt being Chancery controlled I don't actually have access to the right dashboards to investigate the probs. 

(If it were up to me, I would just remove the Discord embed from Witt and install a regular shoutbox plugin specific to SMF.  SMFPacks Shoutbox or similar appears to be what would work for us there.  The Discord thing is a really nice idea, but it has never really integrated with Witt properly for everybody.  I wouldn't bin the Discord completely though; I would have the Discord embedded on a regular webpage on Talossa.com instead, just not on the forums - easier to fix and maintain).

In all honesty, I truly think John Woolley should be Talossa's last "King". 

I just cannot think of a single Talossan that I would (or even could) swear fealty to after KJI, and when I think about it, I'm not even sure why I swear allegiance to the House of Woolley in the first place.  I think I only do so because I want to be Talossan, but really my allegiance is to the nation and it's people.  It always has been.  All my years of service and all the work I have done has never really been for the King nor do I see it as having been for the benefit of the King.  No, rather, all my service given and work carried out has always been for my fellow citizens.  I view the 'tree of importance' as nation and people first, law second and the Monarchy third.  So, yeah, I don't think I could ever swear allegiance to another King after the current one and actually mean it.  I'd rather we pledged allegiance to symbols of the nation and for what they stand.

Although, I still recognise the worth of all the trappings and pomp of monarchy.  We can still have all that without having a "King" though.  We can be a kingless Kingdom with a Head of State whose functions and purpose can be similar to a 'your highness', but who acts as a kind of a national steward and who also swears a similar oath to the rest of us; an oath to the symbols of Talossa and for what the stand and to protect and defend the nation, its peoples and its laws. 

A Head of State who is head OF STATE, but not head of others.  A common citizen, like the rest of us, elevated (and ideally elected) to shepherd the nation with a temporary authority granted to them by their fellow citizens.  It can be that way while keeping thrones and crowns and fancy titles.

I can also understand Miestra balking at the idea of becoming King.  I think each and every Talossan should recoil at the thought of themselves ever becoming King or Queen.  You know, way back when it first happened, John Woolley probably hated the thought of it happening to him too.

I don't know what my point is.  Just some thoughts I felt like sharing, I guess.

Quote from: Txosuè Éiric Rôibeardescù on October 24, 2020, 11:03:17 AM

Quote from: Eðo Grischun on October 24, 2020, 10:46:00 AM
I will try my best to log in for this, but the time of the event is the worst possible time of the week for me (taxi driver and this will be peak time on a Saturday night).  That said, because of Covid and local lockdown restrictions, work is quiet and slow, so I'll check in while out in the car, but I may need to drop in and out.

Absolutely no worries, it will be recorded for posterity and posted elsewhere on thee social medias maybe? Or the national YouTube channel?

Yeah, for sure.  I don't know who would control the rights for the recording (the Cosa? You, personally? Not sure), but I can put it up on all social media, on the main website and on the Wiki if you send me it.  The YouTube channel is someone else's (not the government's), but I'm sure they will be happy enough to upload it there too.

The web domains of kingdomoftalossa. net, org & com, talossan.com and Talossa.net have now completed.

Redirects should still be working as they were before.

I will try my best to log in for this, but the time of the event is the worst possible time of the week for me (taxi driver and this will be peak time on a Saturday night).  That said, because of Covid and local lockdown restrictions, work is quiet and slow, so I'll check in while out in the car, but I may need to drop in and out.

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