Quote from: DNVercaria on December 29, 2019, 12:52:14 PM

Quote from: Sir Alexandreu Davinescu on December 04, 2019, 08:42:48 AM
It's really a shame that both Witt X and the different RepubliWitts were allowed to just go offline, and that they currently only exist in archive form on the computers of a few people.  At the time, the argument was that there were a bunch of conversations in the forum only available to registered users, where people in the Republic said stuff they didn't want others to know now, but it is going to be a big gap in our history going forward.  In time, the Republic will be known for what people said about it, not what it was.  That's a serious loss.

I can't see the hidden logic in this. The Republic would be known for what their citizens said and discussed in public and not for their password-protected stuff, which analogously might resemble people in public places, opposite to people in their living rooms and bedrooms, or some such. Researchers might regret the lack of access to those hidden informations, but still the Republic will be known for what it evidently was on the public side.

Anyway, given the required server software and passwords are still floating around, there are complete backups of the entire Witt XIIb content, AFAIK.

Yeah.  This.

Sometimes the desire to have 100% complete archives of everything borders on becoming an obsessive fetish.  We do not need a record of absolutely every single word that ever got uttered.

WHEREAS the Free Democrats were elected with a mandate to form the Council of Governors as stated in their manifesto for the 54th Cosa, and
WHEREAS the parties, the Free Democrats, Awakening and Magnifying Passion and the Peculiar Nationalist Party, entered into a governing coalition and as part of that have agreed upon a Programme for Government, and
WHEREAS the Programme for Government includes the mandated Free Democrat policy to form the Council of Governors, so


THEREFORE in accordance with El Lexhatx D.9.1., which states, "The Minister of the Interior shall call the Council into order no later than the first day of the first Clark of each Cosa term",

I, the Right Honourable Éovart Grischun, the Minister of the Interior for H.M. Government, hereby call the Council of Governors (el Cußéglh del Governadéirs) to order, on this the 19th day of December of the year 2019.

FURTHERMORE, I bring to the attention of the executive officers of the provinces the following text as quoted from the same statute as above, which reads: "Each provincial executive shall accept his or her seat in the Council no later than the last day of that Clark".

ADDITIONALLY, I say, the government appears to have zero authority over the actions of the council, however, the government requests of the council, once formed, the following mission and timetable:

a) REQUESTED MISSION FOR CG: As stated in H.M. Government's Programme for Government; to recommend a future for provincial governments, including suggestions for further mergers.

b) REQUESTED TIMETABLE FOR CG:

• Prior to first day of first Clark: Minister of Interior calls council to order
• No later than last day of first Clark: Provincial executives accept their seats on council
• Last day of the month that the first Clark concludes within:  If applicable, Minister of Interior to act in accordance with LEX.D.9.1.1 and LEX.D.9.5
• No later than the last day of the second Clark: The council to meet the obligations of LEX.E.9.2 and LEX.E.9.3
• No later than the first day of the fifth Clark: Forward final recommendations and reports to H.M. Government so that enough time exists for the government to Hopper and Clark any Bills resulting from those recommendations and reports in the final sixth Clark.

EVEN-MORE-SO the government reserves the option to seek a statutory instrument from the Ziu to enforce the sought mission and timetable.


Relevant Statutes:

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El Lexhatx

D. The Government

9. The Ziu authorises the formation of a Council of Governors (el Cußéglh del Governadéirs in Talossan, abbreviated CG) to be comprised of each provincial executive, whether he or she is called "Governor" or not.

9.1. The Minister of the Interior shall call the Council into order no later than the first day of the first Clark of each Cosa term. Each provincial executive shall accept his or her seat in the Council no later than the last day of that Clark. (51RZ9)

9.1.1. If the executive of a province does not accept his or her seat by the specified time, the Minister of the Interior may appoint a resident of that province to the Council, who shall serve until the executive of that province accepts his or her seat. The Minister of the Interior shall not appoint him or herself to the Council in this manner. (51RZ9)

9.2. The Council shall meet and operate under rules of its own design. (51RZ9)

9.3. The Governor-General of Talossa shall be the leader of the Council, chosen by a majority of the Council members (who are the collective governors and provincial leaders of Talossa). In matters provincial, the Governor-General shall serve as a liaison to the Government of Talossa, to serve at the behest of the Council of Governors. (32RZ10) (51RZ9)

9.4. If a member of the Council ceases to be a provincial executive, he or she shall immediately lose his or her seat in the Council. The new executive of the province shall have one month to accept his or her seat in the Council, after which the Minister of the Interior may appoint a resident of that province to the Council, who shall serve until the new provincial executive accepts his or her seat. (51RZ9)

9.5. If a province is without an executive, the Minister of the Interior may appoint a resident of that province to the Council, who shall serve until the province elects an executive and that executive accepts his or her seat. (51RZ9)

Max.

Please never change, mate. 

I've not carried out any in-depth analysis and our voters have all decided to stay secret.  I have no concrete idea who is in our voter base.

If I am to hazard a guess though, I would first agree that the more moderate ex-Rump members came over.  The analysis by Luc is probably spot on as to where ex-RUMPers all landed.  The party's right wing core mostly went ZPT while the centrists within RUMP went AMP and PNP.

Second, though, there was a faction of the old Progressives that identified as neo-peculiarists.  I suspect that the PNP managed to get a few votes from that group of people.  If I'm right, then we are probably talking about ex-Progs that did not swing to the Mod-Rads following the Prog split.

As for our GOTV effort.  I'm not really willing to reveal our campaign strategy :P sorry.  We did a lot of work behind the scenes though.  It was an active campaign.

Quote from: Miestrâ Schiva, UrN on December 19, 2019, 04:55:53 PM
Sir Alex, your graphics do not seem to be appearing on this Witt?

I can see them okay.  Try refreshing/clear cache/etc. ?

Cool.  :D

Quote from: Audrada Roibeardet on December 11, 2019, 06:33:05 PM
Not a fan of the second idea. Might make more sense if any of us lived in Milwaukee.

Fun fact: Nobody living in Talossa knows they live in Talossa and I doubt they care.

As Sev points out, the idea being that it might pique the interest of some Cestours. 

Quote from: Lüc on December 08, 2019, 11:48:15 AM
(Especially Eðo. I did nothing to deserve a knighthood.)

Continued and outstanding service to the nation.

Sir Luc,

I too think something like 5 or 6 lines and 12 to 14 point text size (along with the 600 character limit) would be fine.

Ace. Absolutely fantastic.

I'm just going to start calling you Sir Luc from now, in advance of what has to be your inevitable Knighthood.

Quote from: GV on December 07, 2019, 08:30:08 PM
There, you can turn off signatures and avatars, as I have done.  :-)

Yeah.  I don't want to turn them off. I like seeing what people put in the sigs - when people don't take the piss with them.

I'm nearly sure Proboards had a line limit on signatures......went and checked, it was a 500 character limit.  The option probably exists for this forum too. 

Is there a way to place a site-wide limit on signature sizes?  Like a limit to number of lines?  I like seeing the signatures, so don't want to turn off the ability to see them, but someone right now has a signature that literally fills my whole screen, on desktop, on a 38 inch high-res screen!  It's counting as 20 lines of text and space in a fairly large font size.

Azul,

In regards to the ongoing migration to "New Witt", official Ministry policy at this time is that all existing immigration applications and all new immigration applications shall continue to be processed on the old ProBoards forum.
Prospective citizens will not be asked to create a new account here on the new forums, but shall be asked to do so upon naturalization. That is to say, at this time, only fully naturalized citizens should be migrating.

Immigration shall move to the new forum after the "official switch" has happened. At that time, the Ministry shall transfer any active applications to the new forum and begin processing new applicants here.

@Lüc
@Eðo Grischun

It works, but we need to know the 'username'?  Someone tagging me would probably type Eov... getting no results, not thinking that my username is eddieg.. 

I can't tag Marcel... I have no idea what his username is  ;D

I don't know what a substantive is.  My head goes fuzzy even when Googling the difference between nouns, verbs and adjectives.  I have a loose to middling grasp of those three, anything beyond that is brainiac material to me.

Why does it even matter what I meant?  Whatever makes sense in my head doesn't need to make the same sense in yours.  We all see the words 'peculiar', 'nationalist' and 'party', and we all see them in the same arrangement and order.  Can't it just be translated word by word? 

I understand that the word order will probably change.  Like, in Spanish 'white cat' becomes 'cat white', but in it's still just blanca for white, and gato for cat. How come Peculiar ends up as Peculiarity?  That's a different word.  Does Talossan not have a word for Peculiar?