Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on May 19, 2021, 09:33:23 PM
I don't know that it's really as simple as "the longer, the more incentive," necessarily.  After all, people can be Secretary of State for basically forever if they want to and they do a good job.  But head of state is a different bird, and the monarch still has some powers left.  Surely you agree there will be a vigorous campaign, yes?

The longer the king's term, the bigger the incentive. A seven year term is shorter than an unlimited term.

Under the HC, the King would not be directly elected by the population at large but rather by a Conclave consisting of representatives of the Ziu, the Cort Pü Inalt, the Civil Service and provincial governments. The only way I can envision campaigning of any kind would be for the yes/no referendum afterwards, but considering that an Heir presumptive has to be chosen by two-thirds of the aforementioned Conclave, the referendums would probably end up being fairly uncontroversial.

I could be wrong about this though. I'm not sure we can really tell how it would pan out beforehand, the whole procedure is terra incognita.

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on May 19, 2021, 09:21:33 PM
Yes, and with a seven-year term (for now, I guess) it's going to be quite a vigorous campaign, I'd imagine.  If the referendum passes, have you guys already discussed who the Free Democrat candidate for "king" will be?

Quick question because I wasnt there when it happened: considering that the current status quo is a lifetime monarchy, how vigorous was His Majesty's election campaign in 2006/07? If I understand this correctly, the longer the term, the bigger the incentive to win.

No matter who is in charge next month, make sure to redo the lettering. The Talossan text employed on the old ID cards is not only out of date since 2007 but also at times ungrammatical.

I claim my seat also, why not.

Quote from: Viteu on May 17, 2021, 11:33:44 AM
I have looked but is there a way to change the display time to an individual's time zone (i.e. mine should be eastern)? I cannot find the setting anywhere.

Profile > Modify Profile > Look and Layout > Time Offset.

Theres no way of setting a timezone as far as I know, instead you have to add the time offset relative to GTA Time. Maybe clicking on auto-detect will help.

Looks like I'm currently the only Maritiimian to have voted. 'ts a bit of a letdown, really.

Tangentially related: The Organic Law only states that after the election is over a final tally is published, but would it be possible to publish the results by province as well when the election is over? Or failing that, announcing which two parties got the most votes and how many? I know that the election has just started two days ago so asking right now is too early, but the province-based results would be very handy for some of my electoral math experiments.

Sorry for intruding, but Google Translate should not be used to either translate into Latin or to verify a Latin translation.

Based on what I remember from 7 years or Latin classes, I believe Lord Davinescu's translation to be correct.

This has gone way overboard. I'll just add my own two bence here unsolicited if no one minds.

As I've said before, personally, I would vote against any further encroachments on the Monarchy, as I believe proposing such legislation à propos of nothing would be a breach of the compromise and unsportsmanlike. This would hold as long as my trust, loyalty and goodwill isn't taken advantage of, for example through unprovoked malicious actions from the Throne or its supporters.

Your Lordship, you compared committing to the compromise to wedding vows earlier in this thread, if I remember correctly. If I found out my wife cheated on me, I would consider these vows null and void. Would I start cheating on my wife in return? Probably not, I figure I would much rather ask for a divorce.

Okay, let's discard that metaphor for now. If the Monarchy were involved in some scandal that I would consider in violation of the compromise, would I push for more anti-Monarchy legislation? Probably not. I would rather see him removed pursuant to Article II.4 of the Organic Law, under all the conditions and procedures that this would entail of course.

Is this unreasonable of me?

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on May 15, 2021, 06:15:02 PM

Quote from: Françal I. Lux on May 15, 2021, 04:42:25 PM
If it were up to me, I'd have this anachronistic, outdated institution scraped for a fully functional unitary Republic. The fact that I am willing to embrace this compromise and stomach the idea of having to call another human being "king" and "your highness" for the sake of contentious peace should count for something.

See, here's the thing: as far as I can tell, neither you nor any other Republican actually feels bound by this.  Are you saying that if your party leader Clarks a bill which would rename the king to "chief executive" or "noble leader" or "president," that you would vote "contra" on her bill?  Or that you would vote "contra" on a bill which altered the king's purview over appointments?

I'm not Françal (or a FreeDem) so I can't comment on his/their behalf, but yes, I would.

Oh, speaking of last minute changes,

Can you change the word "goals" in the PT's 50 word statement to "goais"?

Quote from: Dr. Txec Róibeard dal Nordselvă, Esq., O.SPM, SMM on May 14, 2021, 08:07:28 AM
I'm simply sung my due diligence. The name is spelled the way I presented it in the Chancery database. I cannot imagine there is someone else with a similar enough name but I also want the information to be correct on the official ballot. Sheesh.

I understand completely, sorry if I came across as dismissive or combative, that was not my intention.
Speaking of the database though, a great deal of words and names are misspelled on there as well. Names in general are a total free-for-all...

I mean, people misspelling Talossan words and names, be that their own or other people's, happens all the time. I don't think a background check is necessary.

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on May 12, 2021, 08:02:38 PM
I hereby declare that we must return to the truest and purest Talossan.

Oh, trust me, vosotreu neu wanteu c'.

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on May 12, 2021, 07:39:01 PM
You know, classical Latin didn't have diacriticals.  Why couldn't Robert I have been enraptured by that?

1) The ancient Romans used apices to mark long vowels, but those are hard to spot because they are very thin strokes compared to the letters.
2) The oldest forms of Talossan has no diacritics at all. It's pretty funny actually; Talossan went from zero diacritics to way too many of them to a lot of them to reasonable-ish amounts within 40 years.

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on May 12, 2021, 02:36:24 PM
Well, let's see... How many diacritics are there to remember? Like six or eight or something like that? If I understand correctly, the cedilla is barely used, right?

Maybe I'll make up a little cheatsheet for myself. I used too many different computers for changing keyboard layouts, I think.

If you mean for Talossan, then we can count them all. (On that note, no, Ç shows up quite often.)

Whats important is that its not the diacritics themselves that get codepoints in this case, but rather the letter with that diacritic together, theye precomposed. Which means:

Umlaut/Diaeresis: Ää Ëë Ïï Öö Üü
Acute accent: Áá Éé Íí Óó Úú
Grave accent: Àà Èè Ìì Òò Ùù
Ring accent: Åå
Breve accent: Ăă

Consonants: Þþ Ðð Çç

In total 40 separate codepoints (not counting obsolete diacritics like circumflexes) you'd need to memerise for Talossan. Installing a new keyboard layout would definitely be easier.