Re: Gaming Rights and Regulations

[Holy Roman Confederate]

I'm almost inclined to hope another delegate steps forward just to keep things interesting.

[Sanctaria]

I'm almost inclined to hope another delegate steps forward just to keep things interesting.

I'm tempted, but I already approved the Repeal the ICC and I don't feel like approving another non-debated proposal, no matter how interesting it may make things.

[Quelesh]

Approved for the lulz.

[Glen-Rhodes]

Approved for the lulz.

If it passes, I'm blaming you.

[Holy Roman Confederate]

Outstanding! I'm all over this like a fat kid on pie, and we all know how fat kids love pie.

[Unibot]

Approved for the lulz.

If it passes, I'm blaming you.

Dharma : Land of the Free and Frolicsome.

[Quadrimmina]

Approved for the lulz.

If it passes, I'm blaming you.

Dharma : Land of the Free and Frolicsome.

Yes.

[Quelesh]

I fucking love to frolic.

[Embolalia]

I pray this gets murdered when it reaches vote (because it will, assuredly reach vote, unless someone immediately takes action and sends out campaign tg's against it.

Working on it. Hope it's not too late...

[Bergnovinaia]

Approved for the lulz.

*Prepares an immediate motion for the removal of Quelesh from the Dharmian WA Delegate seat.

[Embolalia]

Approved for the lulz.

You'll be getting a TG from me urging you to reconsider. Sorry, I forgot to pull you out of the list.

Anyway, I already got one to reconsider, it seems. The Soviet Federal Republics of Karaden, I thank you for your sanity.

[Quelesh]

Approval withdrawn. I want it to be right there on the cusp of approval.

[Krayt III]

Good Lord, it only needs five more approvals in just over a day. Why oh why don't people post their proposals here for debate first?!

This was posted in another Thread a few days ago.

[Embolalia]

Approval withdrawn. I want it to be right there on the cusp of approval.

Oh, it's there. As of right now, 71 minutes, one approval below quorum. It's going to be close.

[Krayt III]

In the last 3 hours it went from 55 to 52 to 53 back to 52. its going to be real close.

[United Marktoria]

In the last 3 hours it went from 55 to 52 to 53 back to 52. its going to be real close.

The bold was due to my uncertainty.

[Embolalia]

No! It made it back to the queue! I've telegrammed the new approvals, hopefully I'll catch them before they sign off...
EDIT: Although, I think if it makes it to midnight, that isn't a full guarantee that it will go to vote. I think it can drop out of quorum after that. Midnight tonight is just when it would have had its deadline, so that's the time that shows up. Maybe if it drops down tomorrow, it'll fall out for good?

[Lord Zannah]

Its back to 52 again.

[GeneralHaNor]

It's in Que
I can't believe this is actually going to vote.
This is not what this body of nations was designed for.

Let it be said, I will oppose this, with as much passion as I oppose, or support issues that actually matter.

And I already have legalized gaming.
So that tells you my level of conviction

[Unibot]

Using some extrapolated statistic data, related to a weak correlation with proposal length and a high correlation of stackers, assuming that 10ki and Alsted will stomp, I've made a weighted average based on correlation and predicted the final turnout to be a record low, % 13.45 approval.

Using standard deviation (p(X < 50)) that only provides me with like 25 to 9 odds (0.35736) that this passes, so that has to be wrong. Anyone better at constructing betting odds?

[Argonia and Gergoniva]

Someone actually telegrammed us earlier on today asking for us to support this bill. Once more we must declare our objections to this bill. It is overreaching and interferes in what is purely a matter for individual nations to decided. We will decide our own gambling regulations, right down from the minimum age to whether or not it's legal to wear pink socks at a blackjack table, and no one else.

- Dr. Rupert Thorpe, Argonivan Ambassador to the WA

[Charlotte Ryberg]

It's in Que
I can't believe this is actually going to vote.
This is not what this body of nations was designed for.

Let it be said, I will oppose this, with as much passion as I oppose, or support issues that actually matter.

And I already have legalized gaming.
So that tells you my level of conviction

We already have legalized gaming to a degree, but we also have gambling awareness programmes, and this draft misses the fact.

It's as simple as saying:

URGES member states to take action to reduce gambling addiction.

[Bears Armed]

GHR submitted _

Illegal proposal in queue?

The quorate (& first in the queue) GA proposal 'Gaming Rights and Regulations' is classified as 'Gambling'/ 'Legaliize'.

Whilst I acknowledge that its author's intention may have been for the first operative clause ('Regulation 1') to legalize gambling within all WA member nations, that fact that its actual wording gives the right to "legalized Casino Gambling, Sports Betting and Lottery" to the 'WA Nations' rather than to the peoples of those nations means that in practice all this clause does is confirm national governments' right to legalize (or ban) such activities as they choose...
Therefore, as all of the other operative clauses are restrictive ones, shouldn't the proposal have been classified & submitted as 'Outlaw' rather than as 'Legalize'... and doesn't that make the submitted version illegal?

[Embolalia]

GHR submitted _

Whether it was a GHR or a drop in approvals, the proposal is no more. Hooray!

[Bergnovinaia]

Yay! It was removed!