Term II / July nominations thread

[Maniac]

If you're interested in performing a government function next month, please post your name here together with the function you're aiming for. If only one person is candidate for a position, that person will get the position automatically. If more than one person wants the same position, there will be an election held, starting July 26, which will last for three days. Every Consciousness member will have an equal vote in that election. The candidate with the most votes gets the position. The new government will take over the first of July, at GMT 00.00.

Candidates for the available positions are:
(As you can see, the position names aren't quite final. "Official" is a placeholder. Please see the poll to choose a name. )

Prime Function
Drogue Beta-8

Second Function
Mani Alpha-3

Official of/for Science


Operations Official or Official of/for Military/Covert Operations
Function Delta (DBTS)

Official of/for Foreign Affairs


Official of/for Social Engineering


Official of/for Internal Affairs
Corelli Omega-9

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For the position titles, I have chosen the options: Director, Advisor, Prime Code, High Function, Alpha Function. Not that great names IMO... So if you have another suggestion, please tell so and vote write-in. Perhaps we can hold a new poll then.

[Drogue]

I would like to run again for Prime Function. As I have holidays coming up (only 1.5 weeks to go ), I will be much more available and so be able to carry out my duties better and be more active.

I think Director and Advisor are not RP enough, Alpha Function sounds a little to much like Prime Function to me. Since we are all equal, High Function seems to suggest that those with positions count as more than those without, which I disagree with. Also think of how they sound "High Function for Science", or "Prime Code for Science" don't sound right to me. We could simply have "Function for Science". Or even "Science Function". I prefer the latter personally.

Science Function
Military Function
Diplomatic Function
Social or Political Function
State Function.

What do people think? This is my write-in BTW.

[Maniac]

Are we Cyborgs all equal?? I thought we still had different talents, and different Algorithms to enhance those differing talents. For example, a cyborg with strong muscles and great tactical skills would receive eg a Delta-3 Algorithm and join our armed forces. Likewise a cyborg with strong insight in politics and society or with natural leadership skills would receive an Alpha-3 or Beta-8 algorithm to enhance those skills and would climb up high in the CyCon's government hierarchy.

Btw, when following your reasoning to discard "High Function", "Prime Function" or "Second Function" is wrong too.

[Cedayon]

I think "Directing Function" (ie Directing Function of Internal Affairs, Directing Function of Science, Directing Function of Military Operations, etc...) would work... "Controlling Function" would be misleading, and all the ones in the poll suck

I'd go for "Director", nice and simple and the same as last time, but I think something with a bit more cyber flavor would help in the 3D posts.

[Corellion]

The way I see our structure, the positions are essentially gathering and interpreting the information and opinions of the other functions, and forming it into usable advice. I therefore like something like "Central Science Processing Function" or "Central Internal Affairs Processing Algorythm", although that one sound awkward (Central Infrastructure Processing Unit?). This has the benefit of yielding great acronyms (Our CIPU is meeting with the CSPF to determine what upgrades our science infrastructure needs, which they'll then relay to the PF). That's my vote in any case.

[Corellion]

By the way, I'd like to run for Official of/for Internal Affairs.

[Drogue]

Maniac: When I say we are equal, I mean equal rights, and equal before the law. We have the same voting power, and so I calling one a High Function and others just Functions seems inappropriate to me. Of course we have different talents, and diffewrent abilities. I wasn't refering to that at all. I was refering to rights, such a the right to vote.

Prime Function is like Prime Minister, and Second Function like Second Minister. To refer to other ministers as High Ministers would seem silly to me. Prime and Second (which maybe should be secondary?) Function as specific designations. To me, saying someone is a "High" something implies them being a better person, whereas "Prime" or "Second" refers to a specific designation, as does not bring about the same superiority complex to me.

I agree with Cedayon, I don't like the ones in the poll. I like Corellions idea to.

[DeathByTheSword]

military

[Drogue]

Thread topped (sorry I forgot before )

[Maniac]

So both Corelli Omega-9 and Drogue Beta-8 re in favour of Corellion's idea? That gives them the majority in this affair. So what names should our officials have, using Corelli's idea?

I can think of those already. New and better are welcome:

SF - Science Function (idea from Drogue)
SEGA - Social Engineering Guiding Agent/Algorithm
CIA - Centrality for Internal Affairs
****ME - Functional Unit for Covert Knowledge-gathering and Military Efforts (tell me if I let my fantasy go too far )
FROG - Fullhuman Relations Operational Guide

[Googlie]

Or it could be:

****YOU (Functional Unit for Covert Knowledge Yielding Operational Utilities

G.

[Maniac]

Ah great! I would have preferred that myself, but I couldn't find a decent word starting with "Y" yesterday.

[Googlie]

Your Foreign Affairs minister could be:

APPLE program (Application Process Providing Links Externally)

or

DELL program (Downloading External Live Links)

[Googlie]

And Newspaper editor could be:

CISCO (Co-processor Initiating Sensitive Communications Offline)

[Maniac]

Great suggestions again. I've thought of a few too others too in the meanwhile.

"****YOU" only refers to probe actions, so their should also be a title for military operations, for the same person doing the ****YOU job. I was thinking about MOM : Military Operations Monitor.
Similarly, instead of CIA, the Internal Affairs director could be called DAD : Domestic Affairs Director.

I will hold a poll with the current suggestions in a few days. New suggestions are still welcome!

Btw, TKG, Bookwyrm, Cedayon, Chaunk, protonman and elijah, don't you want to take up a government position? Contrary to the first ACDG, currently you don't really have to do anything as government official, as the game is young and our faction small. It's just to have names for government officials in a 3D article.