acka-voting Digest Saturday, March 27 1999 Volume: 04 Issue: 070 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Acka: Proposal 4131 From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 15:22:22 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4131 In Response to Recent Events... else...if Due: Sat Apr 3 15:22:18 1999 Create rule 6-2-2, "Election Crimes" with the following NAUGHTY-delimited text NAUGHTY It is the Crime of Wishy-Washyness for a player who has been nominated for an office for which elections are currently being held to publicly suggest that they do not want players to vote for em, or to publicly support another candidate for the same office. (E may still vote for another candidate) NAUGHTY ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4132 From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 15:22:33 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4132 In Response to Other Recent Events... else...if Due: Sat Apr 3 15:22:32 1999 If there is no rule 6-2-2, create one, name it "Election Crimes", and give it the following NAUGHTY-delimited next. If there is a rule 6-2-2, append the following NAUGHTY-delimited text to it. NAUGHTY It is the Crime of FDRism to nominate for the office of President a player who has already held it for three consecutive terms. The penalty for FDRism may not include removal from the office of the President; this sentence takes precedence over any rule with which it disagrees. NAUGHTY ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4133 From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 17:13:15 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4133 The Points Lottery Slakko Due: Sat Apr 3 17:13:14 1999 Lottery Tickets are tradeable entities. Winning Tickets are tradeable entities. {{All Lottery Tickets and Winning Tickets are destroyed.}} Players may purchase lottery tickets at a cost of A$10 each. Every Monday at 11:59 am, all Winning Tickets are destroyed. Every Monday at noon the Grand Ackanomic Lottery is drawn, by choosing five tickets at random with equal probabilities. If fewer than five tickets exist at the time of the lottery, then all tickets are chosen. All chosen tickets become Winning Tickets. Any player may convert a Winning Ticket into either 25 points or a Random Boon of the Ancients as a public action. ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4123 accepted From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 18:06:30 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4123 Total vote for: 628 Total vote against:-100 Acceptance Index: 478.0: proposal accepted Votes to accept: /dev/joe 1 +20 ==> 1449 Laa Laa 60 +20 ==> -10 else...if 100 ==> 590 IdiotBoy 61 +19 ==> 179 rufus 66 +17 ==> 197 JT 80 +10 ==> 3283 Slakko 60 +20 ==> 230 Niccolo Flychuck 200 -100 ==> 60 Zero Votes: rice 0 +20 ==> -78 Votes to reject: Blest Lax Monk Pal -100 ==> 373 Abstainers: Vynd Calvin N Hobbes O Olde Alpha Robin Hood Fox Burn the Witch two-star ThinMan K 2 Subject: Acka: Proposal 4123 Proposal 4123 and All Those Have Assembled Upon Thee Niccolo Flychuck Due: Sat Mar 27 17:39:50 1999 Status: accepted Repeal R16-1 "Institutional Powers" Repeal R16-1-1 "Admissions Policies" Repeal R16-1-2 "Procedural Documents" Repeal R16-1-3 "Corporate Structure" Repeal R16-1-4 "Funding Charter" Repeal R16-1-5 "Political Doctrine" Repeal R16-1-6 "Religious Dogma" Repeal R16-1-7 "Social Contracts" Repeal R16-2 "Group Approval" Repeal R16-3 "Unique Organizations" Repeal R16-3-1 "Castes" Repeal R16-3 "Prophets and Prophecies" ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4124 accepted From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 18:06:40 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4124 Total vote for: 487 Total vote against:-260 Acceptance Index: 97.0: proposal accepted Votes to accept: /dev/joe 100 ==> 1449 else...if 60 +20 ==> 610 IdiotBoy 61 +19 ==> 198 rufus 66 +17 ==> 214 JT 40 +20 ==> 3303 Slakko 60 +20 ==> 250 Niccolo Flychuck 100 ==> 60 Votes to reject: Laa Laa -60 +20 ==> 10 ** Out of debt ** Blest Lax Monk Pal -100 ==> 373 rice -100 ==> -78 Abstainers: Vynd Calvin N Hobbes O Olde Alpha Robin Hood Fox Burn the Witch two-star ThinMan K 2 Subject: Acka: Proposal 4124 Proposal 4124 No, Pleeeeeease! No More! /dev/joe Due: Sat Mar 27 17:40:56 1999 Status: accepted Repeal Rule 1-2-8-3, "I'm a Teapot". Repeal Rule 1-7-7, "Paradigm Type: Puppet Dictatorship" In Rule 4, "Players and Player States", change "rues" to "rules" wherever it appears. Repeal Rule 8-8, "Winning is pretty harfy (Winning by doing a lot of stuff)". The text of Rule 10-1-2-1-1, "Dogver and Ratver", is appended to the end of Rule 1-2, "Conventions", as a new section, preceded by a roman numeral one greater than that of the previous section, and the word "Ackanomicon" in this new section is replaced by "Ackanomic". Rule 10-1-2-1-1 is repealed. Repeal rule 10-1-9, "The Ackanomic Printing Guild". The Ackanomic Printing Guild (the building) is destroyed. {{[Enough buildings already!]}} Repeal rule 10-1-12, "Ackanomic University". Ackanomic University (the building) is destroyed. {{[Enough buildings already!!!]}} In Rule 12-3, "General Equipment", in section III, change "ftp://sable.ox.ac.uk/pub/wordlists/dictionaries/Unabr.dict.Z" to "ftp://sable.ox.ac.uk/pub/wordlists/dictionaries/Unabr.dict.gz" {{[I'm sure I fixed this once, but it is still wrong]}} In Rule 12-3, "General Equipment", in section VI, delete "a) wilma.che.utexas.edu, port 9942" and relabel section b) as section a). Repeal Rule 12-4-1-2, "Spades", and Rule 12-4-2-1, "Eleusis". {{[These games take tooooooooo long to play by e-mail.]}} ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4125 accepted From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 18:06:50 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4125 Total vote for: 481 Total vote against:-230 Acceptance Index: 136.0: proposal accepted Votes to accept: /dev/joe 100 ==> 1449 else...if 60 +20 ==> 630 IdiotBoy 61 +19 ==> 217 JT 100 ==> 3303 Slakko 60 +20 ==> 270 Niccolo Flychuck 100 ==> 60 Votes to reject: Laa Laa -10 +20 ==> 30 Blest Lax Monk Pal -120 -20 ==> 353 rice -100 ==> -78 Abstainers: Vynd Calvin N Hobbes O Olde Alpha Robin Hood rufus Fox Burn the Witch two-star ThinMan K 2 Subject: Acka: Proposal 4125 Proposal 4125 Old, stale Harf /dev/joe Due: Sat Mar 27 17:41:06 1999 Status: accepted Rule 5-4, "snowgod's Disease", becomes an Excellent rule, then immediately afterwards it is repealed. Repeal rule 6-5-4, "Historian". The Historian (if there is one) is removed from that office. The office of Historian is destroyed. In Rule 8-2-4, "Commission D'Arts", replace "Historian" with "Dean" wherever it appears. In Rule 10-1-2, "Library", delete the sentence containing the word "Historian". In Rule 10-1-4, "Hall of Elders", replace "Historian" with "Speaker". Create rule 42-23 named "Posthumous Degree Awarded" with the following, HISTORY-delimited text: HISTORY {{The text of the article "The History of Ackanomic", an HTML-ized version of which is still available at http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/acka/hist/hist.html, becomes an accepted Thesis of type History, and Elder breadbox receives a degree in the major History. This takes precedence over any rule which would prohibit breadbox from receiving this award.}} HISTORY {{[If anybody else wants to write a history, they can do so as a thesis.]}} ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4134 From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 18:07:01 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4134 A different response to th same recent events Laa Laa Due: Sat Apr 3 18:07:00 1999 Create rule 6-2-2, "Election Crimes" (or if such a rule already exists create rule 6-2-2-1, "Further Election Crimes") with the following NAUGHTY-delimited text NAUGHTY It is the crime of Undue Silliness to vote in an election for a candidate who has publicly stated e does not wish people to vote for em. NAUGHTY ------------------------------ End of acka-voting Digest V4 #70 ********************************