I note that there have been two Windows keyboards designed for Talossan, one by Ma la Mha (linked on the wiki here, using standard precomposed characters), one by me (among the many keyboards here, using Unicode's combining diacritics). The many other keyboards at the second link include some others also usable for, though not designed for, Talossan.

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Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on June 13, 2024, 09:07:37 PM@xpb Considering the need for continuity on financial matters do you think there could be merit to transitioning financial matters toward a more Civil Service-like position? Legally combine the Finance Ministry and Burgermeister into a something like a "Treasurer of Talossa" with a long term of office but still overseen by the government of the day?

The Burgermeister is already a position in Talossa's civil service; there is no way to "transition" it to being any more "like" such a position.

As both a former Minister of Finance and as the longest-serving Burgermeister in Talossan history (nine of the nineteen years the position has actually existed), it is my considered opinion that adding some or all of the duties of the Minister of Finance to the position of Burgermeister (whether or not attached to a renaming of the position to "Treasurer") will not, in any way, actually make the job of Burgermeister easier to perform, make it easier to recruit people to be Burgermeister, improve the continuity of the position, or otherwise improve Talossa in any way.

Quote from: Sir Txec dal Nordselvă, UrB on April 25, 2024, 03:30:40 PMThe members of the EC can expect to hear from me via email soon.

If this email has been sent, I have not received it.

Mmh. I have no good reason for disliking the proposed new name, but on reflection, for some reason, I just do.

So, a contra from me.

Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil, SMC EiP on April 13, 2024, 02:26:08 PMHearing no objection to this motion since its introduction over two weeks ago, should we regard it as having been given unanimous consent?

Sounds reasonable to me.

The first complication that crosses my mind is that on the early part of the list of current citizens, you have people from the era when citizenship was granted by legislative act, which you have a bunch of people who have identical first dates of citizenship because they were all on the same Clark. After Gjermund Higraff you have a two-way tie, immediately after that you have a three-way tie, and then there's another two-way tie.

Second, if it's by first date of citizenship, there's still a version of the "become citizen to become king" and "experienced, knows Talossan culture and has a track record of sticking around" issues -- someone whose citizenship lapsed long ago and re-citizenships.

These issues can even combine -- there were five other people who became citizens on the same Clark as Gjermund Higraff. If one (or more!) of them show up next week, theoretically you've got a tie for head of the line.

Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil, SMC EiP on April 11, 2024, 03:44:23 PMThat's a fair concern. Would a set time limit to veto be considered Organically-compliant? Otherwise the indefinite refusal of the King (and in our local case, the Cunstaval) to acknowledge the nation's existence would prevent anything from getting done.

To avoid prejudging the matter (since a time limit adopted by the province might be challenged before the Uppermost Court), I will simply point out that the last sentence of Article VII, Section 11 is "If the King neither signs nor vetoes a Bill before the last day of the month in which it was passed by the Ziu, he shall be deemed to have signed it."

So, off the top of my head:

1) The "automatically becomes law" provision is explicitly inOrganic, as it does not allow for a veto of legislation by the Cunstaval. "No Cunstavál shall proclaim any provincial constitution, nor shall any province pass a constitutional amendment, which  . . . grants to the Cunstavál royal powers less extensive than those granted to the King on the national level", and the King's royal powers include a veto.

2) See above on the lack of Cunstaval counter-signature for gubernatorial proclamations, compared to the same for Prime Dictates. (Also compare Fiovan executive orders requiring Cunstaval and Captain.)

That Discord invite link is either invalid, or it won't let me join. Can that be fixed, either way?

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on June 30, 2022, 07:00:33 PM
More on how I got confused. When I took over at STUFF/Tech, the attached was the screen I looked at to see what needed renewal. You can understand why, looking at this screen, I thought the domain names were up for renewal on 18th October, rather than 2 July.

Yeah, this is part their fault, part mine.

The their-fault part is that they based the renewal dates there not on when the domains expired, but when the domains were transferred from the previous administering body to DoRoyal. (Back when the King was handing this privately instead of the Kingdom, he had bought the domains in July and renewed them in July, but the transfer of the domains from the King's hosting to DoRoyal happened in October.) They've apparently acknowledged this on their part, and have decided to renew our other two domains (the ones not authorized in this PD) for free, which is nice enough.

The my-fault part is that I noticed that back last October and that we were okay though this July, and accordingly pulled the pin on the renewal panic back then, but I did not make noise about this early in June even though I knew it was coming up. I've got issues that explain why I didn't (I've had some physical health issues lately on top of my mental health ones), but I still should have said something.

On the general hosting renewal, there just isn't a place I could find to pay an invoice that hasn't been sent. They'll invoice on the auto-renewal, and I'll pay it then, same as I did last year.

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on June 30, 2022, 06:21:26 PM
Apologies, Istefan. I found out about the $4 difference yesterday and asked the Seneschál to update the PD, but he didn't get to it before the King signed it.

Well, you currently have a semi-functioning Burgermeister instead of one who's on top of things. If I'd been up to how I used to do this job, this would have been handled a few weeks ago.

On the webhosting renewal, there doesn't seem to be any obvious way to pay it right now, so I'm waiting to be invoiced in a few weeks. Don't panic, my eye is on it.

Okay, I went through and paid the domain renewals from the Kingdom's PayPal account.

Contrary to the numbers listed in the PD, the fees for the two renewed .net domains were $20.95 instead of $18.95.

I went ahead and paid them anyway, y'all can either pretty that up in the regular budget legislation or decide to bill me the $4.

Cosa: PRESENT

Referendum:
RZ9 -  Abstain
RZ10 -  Abstain
RZ11 -  Abstain

Provincial Election: PRESENT

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on March 18, 2022, 10:38:32 AM
@Istefan Perþonest, you have been in the position for years but do you recall your appointment process?

Oh, yes. It was a very simple "process". I was the Minister of Finance in the government of the day, we needed to appoint a new Burgermeister, I volunteered, the Sensechal recommended me to the King (since the appointment procedure in that era was through the Seneschal).

It was not exactly a textbook model of careful vetting, but it worked out well enough.