Istefan Perþonest
Cunstaval to Fiôvâ; Regent of the University of Talossa
Posts: 1,024
Talossan Since: 2-21-1998
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Post by Istefan Perþonest on Nov 12, 2019 17:42:36 GMT -6
The Make Talossa Great Again fee has been received for the 54th Cosa Election.
PAID FEES:
The ZPT has PAID IN FULL. The Free Democrats of Talossa have PAID IN FULL. The Peculiar Nationalist Party has PAID IN FULL. The New Peculiar Way has PAID IN FULL. MTGA has PAID IN FULL.
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Istefan Perþonest
Cunstaval to Fiôvâ; Regent of the University of Talossa
Posts: 1,024
Talossan Since: 2-21-1998
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Post by Istefan Perþonest on Nov 10, 2019 16:57:20 GMT -6
Keep an eye out for the AMP fee, I paid it a few days ago. It's being watched. PayPal currently has it listed as "pending" with an expected clearance date of November 13th.
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Istefan Perþonest
Cunstaval to Fiôvâ; Regent of the University of Talossa
Posts: 1,024
Talossan Since: 2-21-1998
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Post by Istefan Perþonest on Nov 8, 2019 20:08:02 GMT -6
The New Peculiar Way fee has been received for the 54th Cosa Election.
PAID FEES:
The ZPT has PAID IN FULL. The Free Democrats of Talossa have PAID IN FULL. The Peculiar Nationalist Party has PAID IN FULL. The New Peculiar Way has PAID IN FULL.
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Istefan Perþonest
Cunstaval to Fiôvâ; Regent of the University of Talossa
Posts: 1,024
Talossan Since: 2-21-1998
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Post by Istefan Perþonest on Nov 8, 2019 4:46:35 GMT -6
The Peculiar Nationalist Party fee has been received for the 54th Cosa Election.
PAID FEES:
The ZPT has PAID IN FULL. The Free Democrats of Talossa have PAID IN FULL. The Peculiar Nationalist Party has PAID IN FULL.
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Istefan Perþonest
Cunstaval to Fiôvâ; Regent of the University of Talossa
Posts: 1,024
Talossan Since: 2-21-1998
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Post by Istefan Perþonest on Nov 7, 2019 21:44:57 GMT -6
As the Arvitieir Prima of Benito, and thus the approximate Benitan equivalent of the Secretary of State, I would like to formally confirm that we would like the Chancery conduct the election.
As to instructions to voters, the ones we'd like to provide are:
"For the Benito Legislative Assembly, please vote for a party, or PRESENT if you wish to cast a null ballot."
Thank you.
-- Istefan Perþonest, Arvitieir Prima
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Istefan Perþonest
Cunstaval to Fiôvâ; Regent of the University of Talossa
Posts: 1,024
Talossan Since: 2-21-1998
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Post by Istefan Perþonest on Nov 6, 2019 19:56:45 GMT -6
I don't think we need national political subdivisions. I don't think Talossa is big enough for that. Perhaps, if there were a thousand citizens, it would make sense. At this time, it doesn't make sense. It just allows for more offices. Historically provinces have allowed want-to-be-active persons who are out-of-power nationally an outlet for playing the "policy game" aspect of Talossa. See their various pre-Cybercit uses in the histories, or Fiova's initial role during RUMP rule. And, as I think about that, perhaps the biggest problem of the Cybercits-to-Ben-Resigns era, with the multiple crises involved, is that Ben stopped using the provinces for that function, starting with the Pengopats shutdown. If Ben had allowed the historical pattern to be followed, with dissenters actively given provinces in which to grow their own gardens, things could have been much more bearable. So, well, yes, the provinces don't currently get much use, because we don't have a large number of want-to-be-active people who are prevented from doing so by election results. But that lifeboats, fire sprinklers, and ejection seats ideally never get used doesn't mean it's a good idea to do away with them.
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Istefan Perþonest
Cunstaval to Fiôvâ; Regent of the University of Talossa
Posts: 1,024
Talossan Since: 2-21-1998
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Post by Istefan Perþonest on Nov 4, 2019 23:49:11 GMT -6
The Free Democrats of Talossa fee has been received for the 54th Cosa Election.
PAID FEES:
The ZPT has PAID IN FULL. The Free Democrats of Talossa have PAID IN FULL.
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Istefan Perþonest
Cunstaval to Fiôvâ; Regent of the University of Talossa
Posts: 1,024
Talossan Since: 2-21-1998
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Post by Istefan Perþonest on Nov 4, 2019 17:26:44 GMT -6
2. You need to pay a fee. This needs to happen before assigning cosa seats. The fee is 6¤40 ($10 USD) and needs to be paid to the Bürgermeister of Inland Revenue, Istefan Perþonest, who will hopefully post information about how to pay before the start of the elections. Parties can appear on the ballot before the fee has been paid. The easiest way to pay a party registration fee is to PayPal $10 to stamps@talossa.com . The Burgermeister is perfectly willing to work with people to arrange payments made through other methods, but PayPal to that account is the absolute simplest. After making such a payment, it should be acknowledged within 24 hours on the thread "Party Registration Fees, 54th Cosa Election (Date )". If it's been 24 hours and it hasn't, yell at me. EDIT: ALSO: Mention the party you're paying for. That saves all sorts of trouble.
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Istefan Perþonest
Cunstaval to Fiôvâ; Regent of the University of Talossa
Posts: 1,024
Talossan Since: 2-21-1998
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Post by Istefan Perþonest on Nov 4, 2019 17:18:09 GMT -6
I've just noticed that the stamps@kingdomoftalossa.net email forwarding, which I've been using for the Kingdom Paypal account, is no longer working. Do we have a replacement system for Talossan email in place? Do we have plans for one? Apologies. This forwarder obviously stopped working when we stopped hosting kingdomoftalossa.net. I just checked it out, and I'm confused to find out that we didn't have that domain set to permanently redirect to talossa.com (it does so now). I don't know when the domain redirect is starting, but stamps@talossa.com now redirects to your Gmail account; does that help? Yep, that's fine.
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Istefan Perþonest
Cunstaval to Fiôvâ; Regent of the University of Talossa
Posts: 1,024
Talossan Since: 2-21-1998
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Post by Istefan Perþonest on Nov 4, 2019 16:40:58 GMT -6
I've just noticed that the stamps@kingdomoftalossa.net email forwarding, which I've been using for the Kingdom Paypal account, is no longer working. Do we have a replacement system for Talossan email in place? Do we have plans for one?
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Istefan Perþonest
Cunstaval to Fiôvâ; Regent of the University of Talossa
Posts: 1,024
Talossan Since: 2-21-1998
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Post by Istefan Perþonest on Oct 12, 2019 15:17:44 GMT -6
And now they've cut it again, to 1.80%. This is getting annoying.
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Istefan Perþonest
Cunstaval to Fiôvâ; Regent of the University of Talossa
Posts: 1,024
Talossan Since: 2-21-1998
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Post by Istefan Perþonest on Sept 29, 2019 15:45:25 GMT -6
I’m arriving in Milwaukee the afternoon of October 20th for an internship interview and leaving the afternoon of the 21st. I don’t know where my hotel or the company is in relation to Talossa, but this will be my first time in that area and would like to visit if I can manage it. Supposing I might have an hour or two in Talossa, what should I do? I've heard only good things about the SafeHouse, which is indeed within Talossa's borders.
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Istefan Perþonest
Cunstaval to Fiôvâ; Regent of the University of Talossa
Posts: 1,024
Talossan Since: 2-21-1998
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Post by Istefan Perþonest on Sept 25, 2019 15:48:05 GMT -6
I had been working on a basic vocabulary list but got bogged down on questions of word choices. As I noted in a thread I created back around that time, in most languages 2,000-3,000 words account for 90+% of typical texts, so if you're trying to learn a language using a 30,000 word dictionary, you’re probably spending most of your time learning words that you will rarely if ever encounter or need to use. But the difficult part of creating a 2-3k word list for Talossan (as I came to learn) is choosing WHICH words to use. One seemingly-logical approach would be, when possible, to pick the Talossan synonyms that are the closest cognates of the words in the basic Sardinian vocabulary as the basic Talossan vocabulary.
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Istefan Perþonest
Cunstaval to Fiôvâ; Regent of the University of Talossa
Posts: 1,024
Talossan Since: 2-21-1998
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Post by Istefan Perþonest on Sept 17, 2019 23:28:21 GMT -6
Technically speaking, it was already at Ally Bank, just in a checking account opened in 2013. Which itself was a consolidation of a previous Ally Bank checking account administered by the previous (fifth) Burgermeister plus the funds that were still in the care of Fritz von Buchholtz (who was the third Burgermeister). (IIRC, when we first opened checking accounts at Ally, those were paying almost as much interest as the savings accounts at the Kingdom's balance level, which is why a separate savings account wasn't bothered with at the time. Ally substantially increased what it was paying on under-$5000 savings accounts recently, while over the years it cut checking interest from 0.40% to 0.10%.)
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Istefan Perþonest
Cunstaval to Fiôvâ; Regent of the University of Talossa
Posts: 1,024
Talossan Since: 2-21-1998
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Post by Istefan Perþonest on Sept 16, 2019 21:48:59 GMT -6
Speaking of which, Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, I would have no compunction in turning ár glheþ in a Sardinian direction - if you have any references indicating that that would be the closest living relative of African Romance? I don't see that here. Hmm? Section 3 of that page, "Related Languages". Not that the evidence is definitive, given how spotty knowledge of African Romance is. Sardinian might be in its own separate branch (coequal with the Western, Eastern, and African Romance branches) rather than the major surviving member of a group that included Sardinian and African Romance. But in that case we have incredibly little guidance as to what an African Romance language would look like. Accordingly, KR1 was using Sardinian as one of his references for moving things in a "Berber Romance" direction.
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