Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on January 07, 2025, 01:17:23 PMActually, it's not as bad as the stupid pirate law, in which s. 5 winkingly endorses sexual assault

Do let's try to be a little more charitable to our fellow Talossans than that. I don't suppose you've ever played Sid Meier's Pirates!?

Quote from: Iac Marscheir on January 05, 2025, 08:19:11 PMis not something we need to be doing.

Yeah, that was my original question. I'm not sure what there is to investigate as the law seems to be pretty clear.

Quote from: Iac Marscheir on January 05, 2025, 05:58:37 PMEhhh, if renaturalization were a burdensome process, I would probably support having them remain on the rolls until they make their own contact. However, because it isn't a burdensome process, I don't think there's much justification for choosing to, well, stalk them in a sense and try to make contact with them without necessarily having their parents involved.

Let them strike out, and if they decide to contact us, just do the normal renaturalization.

The law was actually changed in the 57th Cosa so Dandelions don't actually get automatic citizenship. They have to request it, which is actually the same effect as if they struck out and had to renaturalize. So I opposed the change but in practical terms it's pretty much the same from the Dandelion's perspective.

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on January 05, 2025, 02:11:12 PMUnder the old laws, Dandelions were not in danger of "striking out" of citizenship. So, if their parents "struck out", they would be left on the rolls, with no way of contacting them.

Yes, but they still start "accumulating strikes" at 14, right? I thought "trapped" meant they were stuck on the rolls indefinitely but maybe I misunderstood.

Quote from: Sir Lüc on January 05, 2025, 09:34:20 AM- The Chancery reserves its right to conduct a further investigation of the status of several "trapped" Dandelions, who are present on our rolls but that are uncontactable, as they have no parents presently holding Talossan citizenship.

What is the issue with "trapped" Dandelions? Are there Dandelions whose dates of birth are unknown?

One neat thing about the timing of Flip Molinar Day is that the idiom "turn of the year" is used to refer to the end of one year and beginning of the next. Perhaps in Talossan English the term "flip of the year" will gain currency.

Rest in peace, President Carter!

¡Sa viva el Regipäts Talossan! Happy Independence Day!

¡Så vivadra el Regeu!

Thank you for your many years of service to the nation.

Quote from: Iason Taiwos on November 22, 2024, 08:04:55 PMI'm wondering if a new page/thread or whatever it's called on Witt as regards genealogy would be of interest. I mean, somewhere down the line, we're all related, right?

Maybe there would be interest in a genealogical society. I'll make a new post about that.

Quote from: Iason Taiwos on November 22, 2024, 08:04:55 PMMore current times, the first Taiwos to arrive in North America came here in 1609, and was immediately publicly flogged for stealing chickens. We've gone downhill ever since.

LOL

Quote from: Sir Txec dal Nordselvă, UrB on November 22, 2024, 04:48:02 PMHow very interesting! I indeed have ancestors in the Norwood family that were in South Carolina! My 8th great-grandfather Theophilus Norwood was born in North Carolina in 1698 and died in South Carolina in 1782. Within a couple generations, they had migrated to Oklahoma. I spent quite a long time working on my own genealogy and have quite a few interesting tidbits throughout, including a rather scandalous encounter of my wife's relatives with George Washington!

Yeah, the Norwoods sure seem to like the name Theophilus! My grandfather has DNA matches on his paternal side who are descended from a grandson of Theophilus Norwood 1698 (John Norwood 1744-1798) who married a Pickens, and matches on his maternal side who are descended from a 5th great grandson of Theophilus (Oliver Franklin Norwood 1888-1965 of Arkansas) who married a Reynolds.

Quote from: Sir Txec dal Nordselvă, UrB on November 21, 2024, 04:48:17 PMI don't have sufficient proof to use any specific Clan's tartan, though my genealogical research does present some rather interesting links to the House of Stuart.

Genealogy has been my biggest hobby over the past few years. I'm related by marriage to two branches of a Norwood family that was in colonial South Carolina, through my late grandfather. Incidentally, he was also a DNA match of the sister of King John (though I haven't been able to figure out how we're related).

Unless I'm mistaken, the position of Leader of the Opposition doesn't exist at all in the OrgLaw at present. I think it's risky to give important OrgLaw responsibilities to positions that depend completely on lower-level law for their existence.

Congratulations, Sir Txec!