acka-voting Digest	Friday, November 27 1998	Volume 03 : Issue 207


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From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3753 accepted
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 02:46:45 -0500 (EST)

Proposal 3753

Votes: 15/24 (13 YES votes): Quorum met
Yes votes: 14/15: proposal accepted

Yes:
  Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
  Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
  Pol Pot              (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  **** Bonus Vote (JT) ****
  Slakko               (SPAM)
  K 2                  
  /dev/joe             (Vulcan)
  Gromit               (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Vynd                 
  else...if            
  JT                   (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Robin Hood           (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  ThinMan              (Vulcan)
  Wild Card            (SPAM)

No:
  Euphrates            

Baa:
  sIRE                 (Klingon)

Abstain
  r-attila the farce   (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  smallpox blanket     (Klingon)
  Wallace              
  Calvin N Hobbes      (HARF)
  rufus                (SPAM)
  Thomas Jute          (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  IdiotBoy             (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  The Green Ripper     (The Razor Boomerangs)
  two-star             

Pending & did not vote:
  Danek                
  scout                
  Red Barn             

Vacationing & did not vote:
  Aunt Froot           (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  Ethelred             
  J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)

>Subject: Acka: Proposal 3753
>
>Proposal 3753
>Winning Conditions Fix-Up
>/dev/joe
>Due: Fri Nov 27 02:00:02 1998
>
>
>Amend Rule 600, 'Winning Conditions', by replacing its text with the
>following WIN-delimited text:
>
>WIN
>A player may only achieve a Winning Condition as described in the
>Rules. If any Rule besides this one, Rule 601, Rule 603, Rule 620, and
>Rule 666, refers to a player winning a Cycle, this shall be considered
>to be achieving a Winning Condition, and will not result in an actual
>Cycle win except as described by this Rule. A player cannot achieve a
>Winning Condition while e holds the Chartreuse Goose.
>
>Winning Conditions are nontradeable entities.  Winning Conditions may only
>be created, destroyed, or manipulated as described by the rules.  Winning
>Conditions have a state attribute, which can be either Unclaimed, Claimed,
>or Finalized.  Winning Conditions also have a creator attribute.
>
>When a player achieves a Winning Condition, a Winning Condition is created
>in his possession in the Unclaimed state, with its creator attribute set
>to the rule number of the rule which caused the Winning Condition to
>be achieved.  This is the only way Winning Conditions can be created; this
>sentence takes precedence over all other rules.  For the purpose of setting
>creator attributes of Winning Conditions, this rule is never the rule which
>caused a Winning Condition to achieved; if this rule causes another rule's
>text to be interpreted as causing a player to achieve a Winning Condition,
>then that other rule is considered to be the rule which caused the Winning
>Condition to be achieved.  No player may ever own more than one Winning
>Condition with the same creator attribute; if the creation of a Winning
>Condition would violate this, it fails to be created; if it is created
>anyway, then it is immediately destroyed.
>
>If a player believes emself to have achieved a Winning Condition, then
>e should submit a Cycle-Win CFJ.  A Cycle-Win CFJ is a CFJ whose statement
>alleges that the submitter has an Unclaimed Winning Condition, and which
>also specifies the creator attribute of this Winning Condition (specifying
>"XXX has an Unclaimed Winning Condition by Rule NNN", where XXX is replaced
>by the submitter's name, and NNN is replaced by a rule number, is sufficient
>to make a CFJ be a Cycle-Win CFJ).  The reasoning of the CFJ should describe
>how the player thinks e has achieved a Winning Condition.
>
>Immediately after a player submits a Cycle-Win CFJ, any Winning Condition
>e owns with the creator attribute specified in its statement changes to the
>Claimed state, and attaches itself to that Cycle-Win CFJ.  When a TRUE
>verdict on a Cycle-Win CFJ becomes final, any Winning Condition the player
>who submitted it owns which is attached to that CFJ changes to the Finalized
>state.  Whenever a Cycle-Win CFJ has any other final verdict, any Winning
>Condition attached to it is destroyed.  Whenever a Cycle-Win CFJ is
>retracted, any Winning Condition attached to it changes to the Unclaimed
>state and detaches from the CFJ.
>
>When a Winning Condition changes to the Finalized state, if its owner is
>a voting player at that time, e wins the cycle, and the Winning Condition
>is destroyed.  The player may win the cycle even if e holds the Chartreuse
>Goose, as long as e did not do so when the Winning Condition was achieved.
>
>A Cycle-Win CFJ shall be judged INVALID if it claims a Winning Condition
>established by Rule 603, and the Scorekeeper has judged its author to have
>achieved a Winning Condition within the last three days, and no-one has yet
>objected to the Scorekeeper's announcement.
>
>This rule takes precedence over all rules which mention winning a
>cycle or Winning Conditions, wherever there is a conflict.
>
>Only Cycle-Win CFJs and Paradox Win CFJs are Winning Condition CFJs.
>WIN
>
>
>Amend Rule 607, Winning by Agenda, by changing
>  "Additionally, any player who had owned a Nemesis Eggplant that was
>   destroyed as above has eir score reset to -40 rather than 0 when
>   scores are reset at the start of the next cycle. [See Rule 666]"
>to:
>  "At the end of a cycle won by this method, any player who had owned
>   a Nemesis Eggplant that was destroyed as above when the Winning
>   Condition that led to the win of that cycle was achieved
>   has eir score set to -40. [See Rule 666]"
>
>
>Amend Rule 611, Le Grand Fromage, by changing 
>  "If ever a voting player owns one of each type of cheese then e will
>   achieve a Winning Condition."
>to
>  "Whenever a voting player owns one of each type of cheese, and has not
>   achieved a Winning Condition this way since the last time all cheeses
>   were destroyed by this rule at the end of a cycle, e achieves a
>   Winning Condition."
>
>
>Amend Rule 615, Win By World Domination, by changing
>  'If a single Player (A) is Overlord of more than 60% of all Active
>   Players, then Player (A) achieves a Winning Condition, provided that
>   Player (A) did not win the previous Cycle by achieving a Winning
>   Condition under the provisions of this rule.'
>to
>  'If a single Player (A) is Overlord of more than 60% of all Active
>   Players, then Player (A) achieves a Winning Condition, provided that
>   Player (A) did not win the previous Cycle by achieving a Winning
>   Condition under the provisions of this rule, and has not achieved a
>   Winning Condition by this rule since the last time all Thrall
>   Attributes were set to "" at the end of a cycle by this rule.'
>
>
>Amend Rule 620, "Chartreuse Goose", as follows:
>In condition 1 upon which the goose is transferred, add to the end of the
>last sentence:
>   "unless the verdict was the result of an appeal of a CFJ by a player
>    other than its submitter"
>
>In condition 7, change:
>  "this transfer is deemed to have occurred an infinitesimal
>   amount of time after that event."
>to
>  "this transfer is deemed to have occurred an infinitesimal
>   amount of time after the winning condition would have been
>   established."
>
>
>Create a new rule numbered 599.9, entitled "ZZimsy Wins", with the
>following TRANSITION-delimited text:
>
>TRANSITION
>This rule takes precedence over rule 600.
>{{For each time a winning condition has been achieved since the beginning
>of cycle 24, but at most one per rule that awards winning conditions per
>player, a Winning Condition is created in that player's possession in the
>Unclaimed state with creator attribute 599.9.}}
>
>{{For each cycle a player has won since (and including) cycle 24, a Winning
>Condition in that player's possession is destroyed.
>
>{{For each CFJ which has not yet reached a final verdict nor been retracted,
>and which was a Cycle-Win CFJ prior to the acceptance of the proposal which
>created this rule, the statement is changed to 'NNN has an Unclaimed Winning
>Condition by Rule 599.9,' where NNN is replaced by the name of the player
>who submitted that CFJ.  [Rather than trying to guess which rule to assign
>each one to, assign all the old ones to this rule, so they can be judged in
>the old method.] }}
>
>{{For each CFJ which became a Cycle-Win CFJ by the application of the
>paragraph which originally preceded this one in this rule, in the order
>in which they were originally submitted, beginning with the oldest one,
>if its submitter owns one or more Winning Conditions in the Unclaimed
>state with creator attribute 599.9, one of these changes to the Claimed
>state and is attached to this CFJ.}}
>
>Winning Conditions with creator attribute 599.9 are not destroyed by
>Rule 600 due to a player owning more than one of them.
>
>Whenever no Winning Conditions with creator attribute 599.9 exist, this
>rule repeals itself.
>TRANSITION

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From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3754 rejected
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 03:17:09 -0500 (EST)

Proposal 3754

Votes: 16/23 (9 YES votes): Quorum met
Yes votes: 9/16: proposal rejected

Yes:
  Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
  Pol Pot              (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  Slakko               (SPAM)
  /dev/joe             (Vulcan)
  Vynd                 
  else...if            
  Robin Hood           (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  Thomas Jute          (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  Wild Card            (SPAM)

No:
  r-attila the farce   (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
  K 2                  
  Gromit               (The Razor Boomerangs)
  JT                   (The Razor Boomerangs)
  ThinMan              (Vulcan)
  sIRE                 (Klingon)

Abstain
  smallpox blanket     (Klingon)
  Wallace              
  Calvin N Hobbes      (HARF)
  rufus                (SPAM)
  IdiotBoy             (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  The Green Ripper     (The Razor Boomerangs)
  two-star             

Pending & did not vote:
  Euphrates            
  Danek                
  scout                
  Red Barn             

Vacationing & did not vote:
  Aunt Froot           (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  Ethelred             
  J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)

>Subject: Acka: Proposal 3754
>
>Proposal 3754
>Anti-Museum Win
>Slakko
>Due: Fri Nov 27 03:16:55 1998
>
>
>This is a Modest Proposal.
>
>[Note the hyphen in the title, and exactly where it goes.]
>
>Create a new Rule, numbered 619, entitled "Win By Horrendous Debt", with
>the following sentence as its text:
>
>If a player has not previously achieved a Winning Condition by the
>application of this Rule, and currently that player owes more than A$5000
>(i.e. has an A$ balance of -5000 or less), then that player achieves a
>Winning Condition.
>

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From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3755 accepted
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 13:11:57 -0500 (EST)

Proposal 3755

Votes: 17/24 (15 YES votes): Quorum met
Yes votes: 16/17: proposal accepted

Yes:
  r-attila the farce   (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
  Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
  Pol Pot              (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  Slakko               (SPAM)
  K 2                  
  /dev/joe             (Vulcan)
  Gromit               (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Vynd                 
  else...if            
  JT                   (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Robin Hood           (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  Giant Objectionable Potato Unity Vote
  Thomas Jute          (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  ThinMan              (Vulcan)
  Wild Card            (SPAM)

No:
  Euphrates            

Baa:
  sIRE                 (Klingon)

Abstain
  smallpox blanket     (Klingon)
  Wallace              
  Calvin N Hobbes      (HARF)
  rufus                (SPAM)
  IdiotBoy             (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  The Green Ripper     (The Razor Boomerangs)
  two-star             

Pending & did not vote:
  Danek                
  scout                
  Red Barn             

Vacationing & did not vote:
  Aunt Froot           (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  Ethelred             
  J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)

>Subject: Acka: Proposal 3755
>
>Proposal 3755
>Org Recovery, part n
>ThinMan
>Due: Fri Nov 27 12:14:52 1998
>
>
>This is a modest proposal.
>
>Amend rule 1003 (Organizations) by changing "H Similarity" to "L Similarity"
>in section 6.
>
>{{ [
>L Similarity should have been used from the beginning.  If it had been, then
>the original proposal would have had many fewer side effects.  As the rule
>now stands, it is impossible for a player who is already a member of at least
>one organization to form a VSO.  Since we are all likely to soon be caste
>members again, this is a significant problem.  The problem extends beyond
>VSO's, too, and P3739 will not fully fix it.
>] }}
>

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From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3756 accepted
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 13:12:08 -0500 (EST)

Proposal 3756

Votes: 17/24 (10 YES votes): Quorum met
Yes votes: 10/14: proposal accepted

Yes:
  r-attila the farce   (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
  Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
  K 2                  
  Gromit               (The Razor Boomerangs)
  else...if            
  JT                   (The Razor Boomerangs)
  ThinMan              (Vulcan)
  sIRE                 (Klingon)
  Wild Card            (SPAM)

No:
  Euphrates            
  Slakko               (SPAM)
  /dev/joe             (Vulcan)
  Robin Hood           (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)

Baa:
  Pol Pot              (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  Vynd                 
  Thomas Jute          (Giant Objectionable Potato)

Abstain
  smallpox blanket     (Klingon)
  Wallace              
  Calvin N Hobbes      (HARF)
  rufus                (SPAM)
  IdiotBoy             (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  The Green Ripper     (The Razor Boomerangs)
  two-star             

Pending & did not vote:
  Danek                
  scout                
  Red Barn             

Vacationing & did not vote:
  Aunt Froot           (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  Ethelred             
  J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)

>Subject: Acka: Proposal 3756
>
>Proposal 3756
>Who's got the fish?
>ThinMan
>Due: Fri Nov 27 12:15:02 1998
>
>
>This is a modest proposal.
>
>{{ If the Trinket Alice in Wonderland exists, then it is transferred to
>the Treasury.  Otherwise, A$17 is tranferred from the entity which
>destroyed Alice in Wonderland to the Treasury. }}
>
>{{ [
>Pol Pot's paradox win failed, but the game state remains unclear about
>just who has that pesky trinket.  This clears it up.  Yes, there are
>several ways in which the purpose of this proposal could be foiled; I
>could not come up with a good way to account for all the possibilities.
>So just don't.
>
>If this proposal passes then I promise to give Pol Pot A$17 in compensation,
>if he should ask for it.
>] }}
>

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From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3757 accepted
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 13:12:18 -0500 (EST)

Proposal 3757

Votes: 17/24 (11 YES votes): Quorum met
Yes votes: 11/17: proposal accepted

Yes:
  r-attila the farce   (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
  Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
  Euphrates            
  Gromit               (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Vynd                 
  else...if            
  JT                   (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Robin Hood           (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  ThinMan              (Vulcan)
  sIRE                 (Klingon)

No:
  Pol Pot              (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  Slakko               (SPAM)
  K 2                  
  /dev/joe             (Vulcan)
  Thomas Jute          (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  Wild Card            (SPAM)

Abstain
  smallpox blanket     (Klingon)
  Wallace              
  Calvin N Hobbes      (HARF)
  rufus                (SPAM)
  IdiotBoy             (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  The Green Ripper     (The Razor Boomerangs)
  two-star             

Pending & did not vote:
  Danek                
  scout                
  Red Barn             

Vacationing & did not vote:
  Aunt Froot           (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  Ethelred             
  J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)

>Subject: Acka: Proposal 3757
>
>Proposal 3757
>Where did this go?
>ThinMan
>Due: Fri Nov 27 12:15:13 1998
>
>
>This is a modest proposal.
>
>{{ [
>We used to have some text in the Organizations rule which nixed empty
>orgs.  It got lost somewhere, so here is a replacement.  This will also
>take out any existing orgs that are still empty when this is adopted.
>(If it is adopted.)
>
>This rule will not clobber Trust Funds, because the Trust Fund rule
>claims precedence.
>] }}
>
>Amend rule 1003 (Organizations) by appending the following
>THEREMUSTBEATLEASTONE-delimited text to the end of section 2:
>
>THEREMUSTBEATLEASTONE
>
>Whenever an organization ceases to have any members it is disbanded, unless
>the existence or constitution of that particular organization is stipulated
>by the rules.
>
>{{ 
>   The Fat Lady counts as a player for the purposes of whether she may be
>   a member of an organization.
>
>   The Fat Lady, always looking for something new and different, joins
>   every existing organization.  She can be a real bully when it suits
>   her, so this happens automatically, notwithstanding any conflicting
>   provision of this or any other rule.
>
>   Unfortunately (for her) the Fat Lady does not find contentment in any
>   of our Organizations.  She leaves every organization of which she is
>   a member.
>}}
>
>THEREMUSTBEATLEASTONE
>

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From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3812
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 13:12:29 -0500 (EST)

Proposal 3812
oops i missed one
Pol Pot
Due: Fri Dec  4 13:12:28 1998


{{[A leftover senate reference]}}
this is a modest proposal
In rule 907, replace "Proconsul" with "Speaker"

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From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3758 rejected
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 13:44:48 -0500 (EST)

Proposal 3758

Votes: 17/24 (6 YES votes): Quorum met
Yes votes: 9/20: proposal rejected

Tammany Bribes:
Vynd A$50 yes

Yes:
  Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
  **** Bonus Vote (Vynd) ****
  K 2                  
  Vynd                 
  else...if            
  Robin Hood           (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  **** Bonus Vote (sIRE) ****
  Tammany
  sIRE                 (Klingon)

No:
  r-attila the farce   (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
  Pol Pot              (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  Euphrates            
  Slakko               (SPAM)
  /dev/joe             (Vulcan)
  Gromit               (The Razor Boomerangs)
  JT                   (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Thomas Jute          (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  ThinMan              (Vulcan)
  Wild Card            (SPAM)

Abstain
  smallpox blanket     (Klingon)
  Wallace              
  Calvin N Hobbes      (HARF)
  rufus                (SPAM)
  IdiotBoy             (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  The Green Ripper     (The Razor Boomerangs)
  two-star             

Pending & did not vote:
  Danek                
  scout                
  Red Barn             

Vacationing & did not vote:
  Aunt Froot           (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  Ethelred             
  J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)

>Subject: Acka: Proposal 3758
>
>Proposal 3758
>An excellent suggestion by my girlfriend
>Vynd
>Due: Fri Nov 27 13:20:45 1998
>
>
>Replace all occurances of the word Ackanomic in the ruleset with
>Ackalackadocious.
>

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From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3760 rejected
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 13:44:59 -0500 (EST)

Proposal 3760

Votes: 18/24 (7 YES votes): Quorum met
Yes votes: 7/16: proposal rejected

Yes:
  r-attila the farce   (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  smallpox blanket     (Klingon)
  Vynd                 
  JT                   (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Robin Hood           (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  ThinMan              (Vulcan)
  Wild Card            (SPAM)

No:
  Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
  Pol Pot              (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  Euphrates            
  Slakko               (SPAM)
  K 2                  
  /dev/joe             (Vulcan)
  else...if            
  Thomas Jute          (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  sIRE                 (Klingon)

Baa:
  Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
  Gromit               (The Razor Boomerangs)

Abstain
  Wallace              
  Calvin N Hobbes      (HARF)
  rufus                (SPAM)
  IdiotBoy             (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  The Green Ripper     (The Razor Boomerangs)
  two-star             

Pending & did not vote:
  Danek                
  scout                
  Red Barn             

Vacationing & did not vote:
  Aunt Froot           (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  Ethelred             
  J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)

>Subject: Acka: Proposal 3760
>
>Proposal 3760
>Reset Button
>Vynd
>Due: Fri Nov 27 13:21:06 1998
>
>
>This is a Modest Proposal
>
>Amend Rule 207.1 That's Just Silly by replacing all occurances of
>"contains monosodium glutamate" with "cows eat grass".
>
>{{Vynd loses 3 points, The Green Ripper gains 3 points [For coming up with
>a phrase that was just too darn silly]}}
>

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From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3761 accepted
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 13:45:09 -0500 (EST)

Proposal 3761

Votes: 18/24 (14 YES votes): Quorum met
Yes votes: 15/19: proposal accepted

Yes:
  r-attila the farce   (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
  Pol Pot              (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  Euphrates            
  smallpox blanket     (Klingon)
  Slakko               (SPAM)
  K 2                  
  Vynd                 
  else...if            
  Robin Hood           (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  Giant Objectionable Potato Unity Vote
  Thomas Jute          (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  ThinMan              (Vulcan)
  sIRE                 (Klingon)
  Wild Card            (SPAM)

No:
  Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
  /dev/joe             (Vulcan)
  Gromit               (The Razor Boomerangs)
  JT                   (The Razor Boomerangs)

Abstain
  Wallace              
  Calvin N Hobbes      (HARF)
  rufus                (SPAM)
  IdiotBoy             (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  The Green Ripper     (The Razor Boomerangs)
  two-star             

Pending & did not vote:
  Danek                
  scout                
  Red Barn             

Vacationing & did not vote:
  Aunt Froot           (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  Ethelred             
  J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)

>Subject: Acka: Proposal 3761
>
>Proposal 3761
>Scam Day
>Vynd
>Due: Fri Nov 27 13:21:17 1998
>
>
>Create a new Rule entitled Scam Day, with the following FLONK delimited
>text:
>
>FLONK
>
>The 13th of November is Scam Day, an official holiday of Ackanomic.
>On this day, players are encouraged to reflect upon the place of scams in
>Ackanomic society. A large beach party shall be held at noon, at which
>there will be much loophole surfing. 
>
>On Scam Day, it is the duty of the Poet Laureate (or the Speaker, if
>there is no Poet) to recite the following poem (post it to the public
>forum):
>
>"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
>The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
>Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
>Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
>The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
>The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
>The best lack all conviction, while the worst
>Are full of passionate intensity.
>
>Surely some revelation is at hand;
>Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
>The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
>When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
>Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert
>A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
>A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
>Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
>Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
>The darkness drops again; but now I know
>That twenty centuries of stony sleep
>Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
>And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
>Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
>[Artist: William Butler Yeats; The Second Coming]
>
>FLONK
>

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From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3813
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 14:00:13 -0500 (EST)

Proposal 3813
Because the 31st is always busy
Gromit
Due: Fri Dec  4 14:00:12 1998


This is a modest proposal.

Delete from rule 925 the paragraph reading:

"A newspaper must publish at least one article during each calendar
month, or it will cease to exist. When this happens, the newspaper is
said to have gone belly-up."

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From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3814
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 14:00:24 -0500 (EST)

Proposal 3814
Guess what?
Gromit
Due: Fri Dec  4 14:00:23 1998


Repeal rule 1060 (Transomical trade pacts rule suite).

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From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3815
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 14:11:14 -0500 (EST)

Proposal 3815
ATCHOOOO!!
Gromit
Due: Fri Dec  4 14:11:14 1998


Append the following text to he end of rule 721:

"VI Excessive Noise

Blowing your nose in the library is Annoying."

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From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3816
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 14:11:25 -0500 (EST)

Proposal 3816
How quaint
Gromit
Due: Fri Dec  4 14:11:24 1998


The politeness moon is a moon of Ackanomic.


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From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3762 accepted
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 17:51:10 -0500 (EST)

Proposal 3762

Votes: 18/24 (17 YES votes): Quorum met
Yes votes: 18/19: proposal accepted

Yes:
  r-attila the farce   (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
  Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
  Pol Pot              (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  smallpox blanket     (Klingon)
  Slakko               (SPAM)
  K 2                  
  /dev/joe             (Vulcan)
  Gromit               (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Vynd                 
  else...if            
  JT                   (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Robin Hood           (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  Giant Objectionable Potato Unity Vote
  Thomas Jute          (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  ThinMan              (Vulcan)
  sIRE                 (Klingon)
  Wild Card            (SPAM)

No:
  Euphrates            

Abstain
  Wallace              
  Calvin N Hobbes      (HARF)
  rufus                (SPAM)
  IdiotBoy             (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  The Green Ripper     (The Razor Boomerangs)
  two-star             

Pending & did not vote:
  Danek                
  scout                
  Red Barn             

Vacationing & did not vote:
  Aunt Froot           (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  Ethelred             
  J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)

>Subject: Acka: Proposal 3762
>
>Proposal 3762
>Nip it in the bud
>ThinMan
>Due: Fri Nov 27 16:50:00 1998
>
>
>{{ [
>Just what would happen if we had a Revolution now, with no valid choice
>available for a proto-Government?  I don't want to find out.
>] }}
>
>Amend rule 320 (Governments Rule Suite) by replacing the following
>BARNEY-delimited text:
>
>BARNEY
>If ever over 50% of all voting players have a rebelliousness characteristic
>of "on" and any player points this out publicly then a Revolution shall
>begin.
>BARNEY
>
>with the following ANDY-delimited text:
>
>ANDY
>If ever (a) more than 50% of all voting players have a rebelliousness
>characteristic of "on", (b) no Revolution is in progress, and (c) at
>least one Government Type other than the current one and Anarchy exists,
>and any player points this out publicly, then a Revolution shall begin.
>ANDY
>

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From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3817
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 18:09:30 -0500 (EST)

Proposal 3817
So who know what this meant before it's introduction to
Gromit
Due: Fri Dec  4 18:09:29 1998

Acka?

Create one hydria in possesion of a random active player.

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From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3818
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 18:09:41 -0500 (EST)

Proposal 3818
Who is CSRR these days?
Gromit
Due: Fri Dec  4 18:09:40 1998


This is a modest proposal.

Delete from rule 1390.9 the last three paragraphs (the bit in notes
nrackets).

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From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3819
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 18:09:52 -0500 (EST)

Proposal 3819
It seems fairer this way
Gromit
Due: Fri Dec  4 18:09:51 1998


Ammend rule 250 (Players and Player States) by replacing the following
text NOW delimited text with the following AFTERWARDS delimited text:

NOW
III. Changing State

A Player may change eir state as a public action by announcing the new
player state, provided e has not changed eir state as a public action
during the past 3 days, and provided e follows all other restrictions
placed on eir ability to change states. When a player voluntarily ceases
to be Vacationing if e did not specify a new player state, e enters the
state e had before going on Vacation. A player may never voluntarily
change eir state to Non-Player, but may have eir state changed to
Non-Player through the action of the rues. Whenever a player's state is
changed, the appropriate following section applies to them
NOW

AFTERWARDS
III. Changing State

A Player may change eir state as a public action by announcing the new
player state provided e follows all restrictions placed on eir ability
to change states. When a player voluntarily ceases to be Vacationing if
e did not specify a new player state, e enters the state e had before
going on Vacation. A player may never voluntarily change eir state to
Non-Player, but may have eir state changed to Non-Player through the
action of the rues. Whenever a player's state is changed, the
appropriate following section applies to them.

If a player changesstate and it is less than three days since e last
changed state then any other player may call a "Here today, gone
tomorrow" hearing on the player at any time within the next three days
and will be the hearing harfer for this hearing. Valid responses are:

"I hear e had forgotten to put the cat out"

or

"I can't think why e's come back so soon"

If the result is the former then there shall be no additional effects.
If the result is the latter then the standard harfer fee shall be
transferred from the player who changed states to the treasury and that
player's state shall be set to what it was immediately before the change
challenged by the hearing. The player may not then change this state for
a week.
AFTERWARDS


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From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3820
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 18:10:03 -0500 (EST)

Proposal 3820
Another repeal
Gromit
Due: Fri Dec  4 18:10:02 1998


Repeal rule 210 (Literature)

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From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3763 rejected
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 18:21:43 -0500 (EST)

Proposal 3763

Votes: 18/24 (7 YES votes): Quorum met
Yes votes: 8/18: proposal rejected

Yes:
  r-attila the farce   (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  Pol Pot              (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  Slakko               (SPAM)
  else...if            
  Giant Objectionable Potato Unity Vote
  Thomas Jute          (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  sIRE                 (Klingon)
  Wild Card            (SPAM)

No:
  Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
  Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
  Euphrates            
  K 2                  
  /dev/joe             (Vulcan)
  Gromit               (The Razor Boomerangs)
  smallpox blanket     (Klingon)
  Vynd                 
  ThinMan              (Vulcan)
  two-star             

Baa:
  JT                   (The Razor Boomerangs)

Abstain
  Robin Hood           (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  Wallace              
  Calvin N Hobbes      (HARF)
  rufus                (SPAM)
  IdiotBoy             (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  The Green Ripper     (The Razor Boomerangs)

Pending & did not vote:
  Danek                
  scout                
  Red Barn             

Vacationing & did not vote:
  Aunt Froot           (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  Ethelred             
  J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)

>Subject: Acka: Proposal 3763
>
>Proposal 3763
>Proxies!
>Wild Card
>Due: Fri Nov 27 18:13:55 1998
>
>
> Amend Rule 106 by inserting the following FOO-delimited text between the
>first and second paragraphs.
>
>FOO
> If at the time at which a player sends their votes to the Tabulator they
>are a proxer then the same votes that they cast are deemed to also have
>been cast by any proxees to whom they are proxer.
>
> Whilst a player is a proxee any votes that they send to the Tabulator
>should be ignored.
>FOO
>
> Create a new rule with a number that is the least integer that is greater
>than all other rule numbers, with title "Proxy Voting" and the following
>BAR-delimited text:
>
>BAR
> A pair of players may create a proxying agreement whereby one of them
>(the proxer) will cast votes for the other (the proxee) by the proxee
>offering this arrangement as a public action and the proxer accepting it
>as a public action.
>
> A player may not become agree to a proxying agreement as a proxer if they
>are already proxer to two or more other proxees.
>
> Under the following conditions proxying agreements will cease to exist:
>
> Either the proxee or the proxer cease to be voting.
>
> The proxer becomes a proxee.
>
> The proxee becomes a proxee with a different proxer.
>
> This rule is repealed.
>
> Either the proxer or the proxee say that they are ceasing the agreement
>as an action.
>BAR
>
>

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From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3821
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 18:21:54 -0500 (EST)

Proposal 3821
Auntie Counter-Clockwise
two-star
Due: Fri Dec  4 18:21:52 1998


Add a new rule to the government rule suite titled "Government Type:
Anti-Democracy" with the following DETOQUEVILLE delimited text:

All active voting players are eligible to vote on proposals.
When the Current Government of Ackanomia is Anti-Democracy, the
following ANTI delimited text goes into effect as though it appeared
between "III. Scoring on Proposals" and "IV. Effect of Proposals which
do not meet Quorum" in rule 207, and the text that is in that place in
that rule loses its effect.

ANTI
If a Modest proposal is accepted, the player who proposed it receives 5
points, and every player who voted NO on it receives 1
point. If a Grandiose proposal is accepted, the player who proposed it
receives 16 points, and every player who voted NO on it
receives 5 points. If a proposal which is neither Modest nor Grandiose
is accepted, the player who proposed it receives 10 points, and
every player who voted NO on it receives 3 points. 

If a Modest proposal is rejected, but meets quorum, the player who
proposed it loses 5 points, and every player who voted YES on it
receives 1 point. If a Grandiose proposal is rejected, but meets quorum,
the player who proposed it loses 12 points, and every player
who voted YES on it receives 5 points. If a proposal which is neither
Modest nor Grandiose is rejected, but meets quorum, the player
who proposed it loses 7 points, and every player who voted YES on it
receives 3 points. 

Voting NO on a proposal which is accepted, or voting YES on a proposal
which is rejected, is called "anti-voting". 

A proposal can only be declared to be Modest or Grandiose as defined by
the Rules.
ANTI
DETOQUEVILLE


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From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3822
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 20:42:56 -0500 (EST)

Proposal 3822
God Shave the Queen
The Green Ripper
Due: Fri Dec  4 20:42:55 1998


Create a rule as a new member of the Governments Rule Suite with the title
"Government Type: Puppet Dictatorship" and the following LITHIUM-delimited
text:

LITHIUM
During a Puppet Dictatorship, one player is selected to be the Supreme
Overlord of all Ackanomic.  When Puppet Dictatorship is the
Proto-Government the OiCoRT should make a random determination of a single
Player among all voting Players.  This player shall become known as the
Supreme Overlord for the duration of this Government.  However, it is
well known that the Supreme Overlord has no actual power whatsoever, and
eir only function is to draw attention away from those who actually wield
the power -- the people.  To this end, the Supreme Overlord may also be
referred to as the Stalking Horse.

During eir reign, the Supreme Overlord must either Approve or Disapprove
of each Proposal under voting consideration.  If e Approves, the Proposal
is accepted, and if e Disapproves, it is rejected.  The above, of course,
has no bearing whatsoever on the actual outcome of the Proposal, which is
passed as is normal in any Democracy, but it helps the Supreme Overlord
feel better about emself.

Additionally, while the Overlord rules Supreme, e is allowed to make any
amendment e chooses to the Rules of Ackanomic.  These changes have no
actual effect, and all other players are free to laugh, scoff, sneer, or
kindly indulge the Supreme Overlord's whimsies as they see fit.

The Supreme Overlord may renounce eir powerlessness at any time by stating
publically, "OK, this is all very silly and we're going to stop this
nonsense now."  In this event, one of the following events will happen,
with the probabilities given below:

1. With the sudden removal of their figurehead, the ruling cabal gives up
in frustration and the Government reverts to Democracy. (50% chance)
2. The powers that be simply replace their puppet with another randomly
chosen individual from among the voting players and go on with their
nefarious Puppet Dictatorship. (45% chance)
3. The entire conspiracy is exposed and all voting players except the
Supreme Overlord are guilty of the Crime of Making X a Laughingstock,
where X is replaced by the name of the Supreme Overlord.  In the ensuing
chaos, the Government becomes an Anarchy. (5% chance)

This Rule defers to all other Rules.

{{ The current Government is set to Puppet Dictatorship, with the
submitter of this Proposal as Emperor of Ackanomic. [ Well, I've already
done it once. ] }} 
LITHIUM


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From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3764 accepted
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 21:05:35 -0500 (EST)

Proposal 3764

Votes: 18/24 (13 YES votes): Quorum met
Yes votes: 14/19: proposal accepted

Yes:
  r-attila the farce   (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  Pol Pot              (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  Euphrates            
  Slakko               (SPAM)
  K 2                  
  /dev/joe             (Vulcan)
  Gromit               (The Razor Boomerangs)
  else...if            
  JT                   (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Vynd                 
  Giant Objectionable Potato Unity Vote
  Thomas Jute          (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  ThinMan              (Vulcan)
  Wild Card            (SPAM)

No:
  Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
  Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
  smallpox blanket     (Klingon)
  sIRE                 (Klingon)
  two-star             

Abstain
  Robin Hood           (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  Wallace              
  Calvin N Hobbes      (HARF)
  rufus                (SPAM)
  IdiotBoy             (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  The Green Ripper     (The Razor Boomerangs)

Pending & did not vote:
  Danek                
  scout                
  Red Barn             

Vacationing & did not vote:
  Aunt Froot           (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  Ethelred             
  J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)

>Subject: Acka: Proposal 3764
>
>Proposal 3764
>An old fashioned barn raising
>else...if
>Due: Fri Nov 27 21:05:19 1998
>
>	Create rule 810.1, "Bridge Building" reading as delimited by BUILDIT
>BUILDIT
>	{Destroy all logs and all stones.  Create 100 logs and 100 stones
>in the posession of each player.}
>	Ackanomic intends to build a bridge across the Ackanomic River so
>that Ackans can begin exploring the lands on the other side of it.  To
>complete this task it needs 500 logs and 300 stones.  Stones and logs are
>considered resources.  It will select providers by accepting competitive
>bids.  A player may offer to sell eir resources by publicly announcing the
>price they will sell at, and how many they will sell at that price, as well
>as which type of resource they are offering to sell.  The price must be a
>nonnegative number of A$ smaller than any other offer made on items of that
>type and smaller than A$100.
>	Two weeks after this proposal passes, there is a 10% chance each
>day that the bidding process was closed at a randomly determined hour of
>the previous day, and all bids after that time were invalid.  At that time
>the lowest bidders on each type of resources are selected in the following
>manner:
>	1) The player who has the lowest bid remaining is selected
>	2) N resources of that type are transfered to the Treasury from
>that player, where N is the largest number not greater than the number of
>resources of that type the player has, not greater than the player offered
>to sell at that price, and not large enough to give the Treasury more of
>that resource than it needs.
>	3) The player is given a number of A$ equal to the bid times the
>number of resources transfered in the last step.
>	4) The first three steps are repeated until the Treasury has all of
>that type of resource it needs or there are no more bids.
>	All resources are then destroyed, section 7 of rule 810 is replaced
>by the following NEWRULE-delimited text, and this rule is repealed.  If
>there were not enough bids to provide the Treasury with enough resources,
>the above steps are still performed however no changes are made to rule 810.
>NEWRULE
>	7) Let the common location known as the Ackanomian River, referred
>to as the river, exist deep in the wilds. No player may enter the river, as
>it is a rapidly moving stream with many rocks. Players are able to cross
>the river, since there is a bridge across it. [It is possible that with the
>proper equipment, one could white-water raft down the Ackanomian River.]
>NEWRULE
>BUILDIT

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