acka-voting Digest Friday, December 04 1998 Volume 03 : Issue 215 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3812 accepted Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 13:49:43 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3812 Votes: 15/23 (10 YES votes): Quorum met Yes votes: 11/16: proposal accepted Yes: The Razor Boomerangs Unity Vote else...if Trent (Giant Objectionable Potato) Slakko (SPAM) /dev/joe (Vulcan) Jenny (The Razor Boomerangs) Studge (Giant Objectionable Potato) ThinMan (Vulcan) sIRE JT (The Razor Boomerangs) MTM (The Razor Boomerangs) No: Alfvaen (MetaMorph) Euphrates K 2 smallpox blanket (Klingon) Vynd Abstain r-attila the farce (Giant Objectionable Potato) Niccolo Flychuck (MetaMorph) IdiotBoy (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) Calvin N Hobbes Robin Hood (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) rufus Wild Card two-star Pending & did not vote: Danek scout Red Barn Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot Ethelred J. M. Bear (MetaMorph) saaremaa (Vulcan) >Subject: Acka: Proposal 3812 > >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" ------------------------------ From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3813 rejected Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 14:03:00 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3813 Votes: 15/23 (8 YES votes): Quorum met Yes votes: 8/14: proposal rejected Yes: Trent (Giant Objectionable Potato) Euphrates Slakko (SPAM) /dev/joe (Vulcan) Jenny (The Razor Boomerangs) Studge (Giant Objectionable Potato) sIRE MTM (The Razor Boomerangs) No: else...if Alfvaen (MetaMorph) K 2 smallpox blanket (Klingon) ThinMan (Vulcan) JT (The Razor Boomerangs) Baa: Vynd Abstain r-attila the farce (Giant Objectionable Potato) Niccolo Flychuck (MetaMorph) IdiotBoy (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) Calvin N Hobbes Robin Hood (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) rufus Wild Card two-star Pending & did not vote: Danek scout Red Barn Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot Ethelred J. M. Bear (MetaMorph) saaremaa (Vulcan) >Subject: Acka: Proposal 3813 > >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." ------------------------------ From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3814 accepted Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 14:03:11 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3814 Votes: 15/23 (11 YES votes): Quorum met Yes votes: 12/16: proposal accepted Yes: The Razor Boomerangs Unity Vote else...if Alfvaen (MetaMorph) Trent (Giant Objectionable Potato) K 2 /dev/joe (Vulcan) Jenny (The Razor Boomerangs) Vynd Studge (Giant Objectionable Potato) ThinMan (Vulcan) JT (The Razor Boomerangs) MTM (The Razor Boomerangs) No: Euphrates Slakko (SPAM) smallpox blanket (Klingon) sIRE Abstain r-attila the farce (Giant Objectionable Potato) Niccolo Flychuck (MetaMorph) IdiotBoy (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) Calvin N Hobbes Robin Hood (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) rufus Wild Card two-star Pending & did not vote: Danek scout Red Barn Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot Ethelred J. M. Bear (MetaMorph) saaremaa (Vulcan) >Subject: Acka: Proposal 3814 > >Proposal 3814 >Guess what? >Gromit >Due: Fri Dec 4 14:00:23 1998 > > >Repeal rule 1060 (Transomical trade pacts rule suite). ------------------------------ From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3815 rejected Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 14:35:02 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3815 Votes: 15/23 (7 YES votes): Quorum met Yes votes: 7/15: proposal rejected Yes: else...if Euphrates K 2 Jenny (The Razor Boomerangs) Studge (Giant Objectionable Potato) sIRE MTM (The Razor Boomerangs) No: Alfvaen (MetaMorph) Trent (Giant Objectionable Potato) Slakko (SPAM) /dev/joe (Vulcan) smallpox blanket (Klingon) Vynd ThinMan (Vulcan) JT (The Razor Boomerangs) Abstain r-attila the farce (Giant Objectionable Potato) Niccolo Flychuck (MetaMorph) IdiotBoy (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) Calvin N Hobbes Robin Hood (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) rufus Wild Card two-star Pending & did not vote: Danek scout Red Barn Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot Ethelred J. M. Bear (MetaMorph) saaremaa (Vulcan) >Subject: Acka: Proposal 3815 > >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." ------------------------------ From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3816 rejected Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 14:35:13 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3816 Votes: 16/23 (9 YES votes): Quorum met Yes votes: 9/16: proposal rejected Yes: else...if Alfvaen (MetaMorph) Trent (Giant Objectionable Potato) Euphrates K 2 Jenny (The Razor Boomerangs) Studge (Giant Objectionable Potato) sIRE MTM (The Razor Boomerangs) No: Slakko (SPAM) /dev/joe (Vulcan) smallpox blanket (Klingon) Vynd JT (The Razor Boomerangs) Robin Hood (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) ThinMan (Vulcan) Abstain r-attila the farce (Giant Objectionable Potato) Niccolo Flychuck (MetaMorph) Calvin N Hobbes rufus IdiotBoy (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) Wild Card two-star Pending & did not vote: Danek scout Red Barn Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot Ethelred J. M. Bear (MetaMorph) saaremaa (Vulcan) >Subject: Acka: Proposal 3816 > >Proposal 3816 >How quaint >Gromit >Due: Fri Dec 4 14:11:24 1998 > > >The politeness moon is a moon of Ackanomic. > ------------------------------ From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3851 Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 17:12:48 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3851 KORTCHMAR K 2 Due: Fri Dec 11 17:12:47 1998 Replace the following text from Rule 854 (Ackanomic Institute of Genetic Replication): " Extra head: Cost -- 50 A$. Players with extra heads are encouraged to occasionally get into public arguments amongst their heads. [See also rule 931] " with: " Extra head: Cost -- 50 A$. Players with extra heads are encouraged to occasionally get into public arguments amongst their heads. A player with an extra head may wear one more piece of headwear than would otherwise be allowed. [See also rule 931] " ------------------------------ From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3852 Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 17:13:08 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3852 Hat Fix JT Due: Fri Dec 11 17:13:07 1998 Amend rule 671 (Nemesis Eggplants and Agenda Hats) by replacing the following " delimited text " No player may wear more than three Agenda Hats at any given time. " with the following " delimited text " A player may wear either one, two or three Agenda Hats at any given time, but may in no cases wear more hats than they have heads. " ------------------------------ From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3817 rejected Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 22:26:27 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3817 Votes: 16/23 (9 YES votes): Quorum met Yes votes: 9/16: proposal rejected Yes: Alfvaen (MetaMorph) Trent (Giant Objectionable Potato) Euphrates K 2 Jenny (The Razor Boomerangs) Robin Hood (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) Studge (Giant Objectionable Potato) sIRE MTM (The Razor Boomerangs) No: else...if Slakko (SPAM) /dev/joe (Vulcan) smallpox blanket (Klingon) Vynd JT (The Razor Boomerangs) ThinMan (Vulcan) Abstain r-attila the farce (Giant Objectionable Potato) Niccolo Flychuck (MetaMorph) Calvin N Hobbes rufus IdiotBoy (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) Wild Card two-star Pending & did not vote: Danek scout Ballot Stuffer Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot Ethelred J. M. Bear (MetaMorph) saaremaa (Vulcan) >Subject: Acka: Proposal 3817 > >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. ------------------------------ From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3818 accepted Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 22:26:38 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3818 Votes: 16/23 (13 YES votes): Quorum met Yes votes: 14/17: proposal accepted Yes: The Razor Boomerangs Unity Vote else...if Alfvaen (MetaMorph) Trent (Giant Objectionable Potato) Slakko (SPAM) /dev/joe (Vulcan) Jenny (The Razor Boomerangs) Vynd JT (The Razor Boomerangs) Robin Hood (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) Studge (Giant Objectionable Potato) ThinMan (Vulcan) sIRE MTM (The Razor Boomerangs) No: Euphrates K 2 smallpox blanket (Klingon) Abstain r-attila the farce (Giant Objectionable Potato) Niccolo Flychuck (MetaMorph) Calvin N Hobbes rufus IdiotBoy (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) Wild Card two-star Pending & did not vote: Danek scout Ballot Stuffer Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot Ethelred J. M. Bear (MetaMorph) saaremaa (Vulcan) >Subject: Acka: Proposal 3818 > >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). ------------------------------ From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3819 rejected Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 22:26:49 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3819 Votes: 16/23 (7 YES votes): Quorum met Yes votes: 7/15: proposal rejected Yes: else...if Euphrates Slakko (SPAM) Jenny (The Razor Boomerangs) Robin Hood (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) Studge (Giant Objectionable Potato) MTM (The Razor Boomerangs) No: Alfvaen (MetaMorph) Trent (Giant Objectionable Potato) K 2 /dev/joe (Vulcan) smallpox blanket (Klingon) Vynd JT (The Razor Boomerangs) ThinMan (Vulcan) Baa: sIRE Abstain r-attila the farce (Giant Objectionable Potato) Niccolo Flychuck (MetaMorph) Calvin N Hobbes rufus IdiotBoy (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) Wild Card two-star Pending & did not vote: Danek scout Ballot Stuffer Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot Ethelred J. M. Bear (MetaMorph) saaremaa (Vulcan) >Subject: Acka: Proposal 3819 > >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 > ------------------------------ From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3820 rejected Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 22:27:00 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3820 Votes: 16/23 (10 YES votes): Quorum met Yes votes: 10/18: proposal rejected Tammany Bribes: Vynd A$26 no Yes: else...if Trent (Giant Objectionable Potato) Slakko (SPAM) /dev/joe (Vulcan) Jenny (The Razor Boomerangs) JT (The Razor Boomerangs) Robin Hood (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) Studge (Giant Objectionable Potato) ThinMan (Vulcan) sIRE No: Alfvaen (MetaMorph) **** Bonus Vote (Vynd) **** Euphrates K 2 smallpox blanket (Klingon) Vynd Tammany MTM (The Razor Boomerangs) Abstain r-attila the farce (Giant Objectionable Potato) Niccolo Flychuck (MetaMorph) Calvin N Hobbes rufus IdiotBoy (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) Wild Card two-star Pending & did not vote: Danek scout Ballot Stuffer Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot Ethelred J. M. Bear (MetaMorph) saaremaa (Vulcan) >Subject: Acka: Proposal 3820 > >Proposal 3820 >Another repeal >Gromit >Due: Fri Dec 4 18:10:02 1998 > > >Repeal rule 210 (Literature) ------------------------------ From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3822 accepted Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 22:27:10 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3822 Votes: 16/23 (11 YES votes): Quorum met Yes votes: 11/16: proposal accepted Yes: else...if Alfvaen (MetaMorph) Trent (Giant Objectionable Potato) Euphrates K 2 Jenny (The Razor Boomerangs) smallpox blanket (Klingon) Robin Hood (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) Studge (Giant Objectionable Potato) sIRE MTM (The Razor Boomerangs) No: Slakko (SPAM) /dev/joe (Vulcan) Vynd JT (The Razor Boomerangs) ThinMan (Vulcan) Abstain r-attila the farce (Giant Objectionable Potato) Niccolo Flychuck (MetaMorph) Calvin N Hobbes rufus IdiotBoy (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) Wild Card two-star Pending & did not vote: Danek scout Ballot Stuffer Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot Ethelred J. M. Bear (MetaMorph) saaremaa (Vulcan) >Subject: Acka: Proposal 3822 > >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 > ------------------------------ From: JT Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3822 accepted Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 22:37:31 -0500 (EST) On Fri, 4 Dec 1998 devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu wrote: >Proposal 3822 > >Votes: 16/23 (11 YES votes): Quorum met >Yes votes: 11/16: proposal accepted >>{{ 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 With the passage of this proposal, We are now in a Puppet Dictatorship and MTM is the Emperor of Ackanomic. --JT [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] [ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. ] [ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ] [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] ------------------------------ End of acka-voting Digest V3 #215 *********************************