ackanomic Digest Saturday, November 28 1998 Volume 03 : Issue 428 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jobollin@iumsc4.chem.indiana.edu (John Bollinger) Subject: Acka: Resources Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 00:03:44 -0500 (EST) Pursuant to rule 810.1, I announce that I will sell resources at A$99 per log and A$99 per stone. I will sell 99 logs and 99 stones at that price. I furthermore announce that I will sell resources at A$0 per log and A$0 per stone. I will sell 1 log and 1 stone at that price. ThinMan Trader Baron ------------------------------ From: jobollin@iumsc4.chem.indiana.edu (John Bollinger) Subject: Re: Acka: Evil? of course I'm Evil Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 00:15:37 -0500 (EST) >On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Alexandre Muniz wrote: [JT wrote:] >> > Since it is currently unregulated, and I have a lurking suspicion about >> > something, I hereby make myself Evil (something which is fortunately >> > unregulated by the rules currently) >> >> Since it is not regulated by the rules, I make JT cease to be Evil. >> Furthermore, I make him Wholesome and Nice. > >FurtherMORE, I make em so negatively Evil (such being neither a redundancy >nor a contradiction in terms) that no matter how often and hard e tries, e >will never again be able to become Evil. I give JT the Vile Shroud, an ancient garment of great power and renown, which I happen to have just created for this occasion. He who wears the Vile Shroud wears the very essence of Evil. As long as he wears the Shroud he is Evil, no matter how powerfully anti-Evil he otherwise would be. JT appears a little taken aback by my generous gift, so I lift it from his hands and settle it about his shoulders. There. ThinMan ------------------------------ From: Gabe Drummond-Cole Subject: Re: Acka: Evil? of course I'm Evil Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 00:22:27 -0500 (EST) >I give JT the Vile Shroud, an ancient garment of great power and renown, >which I happen to have just created for this occasion. He who wears the >Vile Shroud wears the very essence of Evil. As long as he wears the Shroud >he is Evil, no matter how powerfully anti-Evil he otherwise would be. > >JT appears a little taken aback by my generous gift, so I lift it from his >hands and settle it about his shoulders. There. Garments are rule-defined entities -- Pol Pot Crazy French-Scotsman, Daring Adventurer, Dungeon Master, Really Weird, Rules-Harfer, Worker Caste, Weird ------------------------------ From: jobollin@iumsc4.chem.indiana.edu (John Bollinger) Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3821 Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 00:27:01 -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. [...] >ANTI >DETOQUEVILLE > There appears to be a missing opening DETOQUEVILLE delimiter. This is potentially very bad, because it probably would end up sticking the rest of the text in a different place than intended. (Or maybe that _is_ what's intended, and I'm exposing a scam....) ThinMan ------------------------------ From: JT Subject: Re: Acka: Evil? of course I'm Evil Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 00:27:26 -0500 (EST) On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, John Bollinger wrote: >I give JT the Vile Shroud, an ancient garment of great power and renown, >which I happen to have just created for this occasion. He who wears the >Vile Shroud wears the very essence of Evil. As long as he wears the Shroud >he is Evil, no matter how powerfully anti-Evil he otherwise would be. > >JT appears a little taken aback by my generous gift, so I lift it from his >hands and settle it about his shoulders. There. I thank ThinMan for his generous gift of Vileness, and wear the shroud of Evil. --JT, Evil as always. [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] [ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. ] [ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ] [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] ------------------------------ From: Alexandre Muniz Subject: Re: Acka: Evil? of course I'm Evil Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 00:29:00 -0500 (EST) John Bollinger wrote: > > >On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Alexandre Muniz wrote: > > [JT wrote:] > >> > Since it is currently unregulated, and I have a lurking suspicion about > >> > something, I hereby make myself Evil (something which is fortunately > >> > unregulated by the rules currently) > >> > >> Since it is not regulated by the rules, I make JT cease to be Evil. > >> Furthermore, I make him Wholesome and Nice. > > > >FurtherMORE, I make em so negatively Evil (such being neither a redundancy > >nor a contradiction in terms) that no matter how often and hard e tries, e > >will never again be able to become Evil. > > I give JT the Vile Shroud, an ancient garment of great power and renown, > which I happen to have just created for this occasion. He who wears the > Vile Shroud wears the very essence of Evil. As long as he wears the Shroud > he is Evil, no matter how powerfully anti-Evil he otherwise would be. > > JT appears a little taken aback by my generous gift, so I lift it from his > hands and settle it about his shoulders. There. Course, wearing garments is regulated by the rules. Therefore this fails. **two-star ------------------------------ From: Alexandre Muniz Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3821 Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 00:34:10 -0500 (EST) John Bollinger wrote: > > >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. > > [...] > > >ANTI > >DETOQUEVILLE > > > > There appears to be a missing opening DETOQUEVILLE delimiter. This is > potentially very bad, because it probably would end up sticking the > rest of the text in a different place than intended. (Or maybe that > _is_ what's intended, and I'm exposing a scam....) > > ThinMan nope. honest mistake. I retract proposal 3821. **two-star ------------------------------ From: JT Subject: Re: Acka: Evil? of course I'm Evil Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 00:35:42 -0500 (EST) On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Alexandre Muniz wrote: >Course, wearing garments is regulated by the rules. Therefore this >fails. And of course two-star and Pol Pot are correct. Ahh shucks :) --JT, Still Evil, just cause he says so. [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] [ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. ] [ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ] [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] ------------------------------ From: jobollin@iumsc4.chem.indiana.edu (John Bollinger) Subject: Re: Acka: Evil? of course I'm Evil Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 00:44:35 -0500 (EST) Two-star wrote (and Pol Pot wrote something similar): >> I give JT the Vile Shroud, an ancient garment of great power and renown, >> which I happen to have just created for this occasion. He who wears the >> Vile Shroud wears the very essence of Evil. As long as he wears the Shroud >> he is Evil, no matter how powerfully anti-Evil he otherwise would be. >> >> JT appears a little taken aback by my generous gift, so I lift it from his >> hands and settle it about his shoulders. There. > >Course, wearing garments is regulated by the rules. Therefore this >fails. It's a garment, not a Garment. Just in case, I whip the Medallion of Everlasting Iniquity out of my back pocktet and hang it around JT's neck. This Medallion is the focus of an insanely powerful inversion spell which transforms all anti-Evil of its wearer into deep, dark, full-bore Evil with a capital E. I shudder to even think about what it does with good. ThinMan ------------------------------ From: Eric Plumb Subject: Re: Acka: Evil? of course I'm Evil Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 01:27:24 -0500 (EST) On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, John Bollinger wrote: > Just in case, I whip the Medallion of Everlasting Iniquity out of my back > pocket and hang it around JT's neck. This Medallion is the focus of an > insanely powerful inversion spell which transforms all anti-Evil of its > wearer into deep, dark, full-bore Evil with a capital E. I shudder to > even think about what it does with good. Now, who's the most Evil being in all of Acka? (Besides Hoover 2300, of course.) Me, that's right. As proof, I challenge you to get r-Attila the Farce, Studge, or any of that ingenuous coterie to even speak my name publicly. I bet you they can't do it without filling it so full of holy asterisks as to render it completely illegible (which is not, all things considered, a Really Bad Thing.) Thus, because of what I consider a truly uncalled-for affront to my egregiousness, I walk up to JT and look at eir newly minted Medallion cross-eyed. Shuddering in the presence of one so abhorrent, it falls to tiny little bits, its spell likewise dispersing on the winds of ephemera. I then cause JT to become Live, and since, as everyone knows, it is impossible for a player to have two unregulated attributes which are anagrams of each other, e can no longer become Evil. This done, I go to the Library and enter *that* room in search of a REAL challenge. -Hubert Reunite Pangaea! ------------------------------ From: JT Subject: Re: Acka: Evil? of course I'm Evil Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 01:39:11 -0500 (EST) On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Eric Plumb wrote: >Me, that's right. As proof, I challenge you to get r-Attila the Farce, >Studge, or any of that ingenuous coterie to even speak my name publicly. >I bet you they can't do it without filling it so full of holy asterisks as >to render it completely illegible (which is not, all things considered, a >Really Bad Thing.) I challenge them to quote this message with the word Hubert in it. See, now that wasn't so bad :) >Thus, because of what I consider a truly uncalled-for affront to my >egregiousness, I walk up to JT and look at eir newly minted Medallion >cross-eyed. Shuddering in the presence of one so abhorrent, it falls to >tiny little bits, its spell likewise dispersing on the winds of ephemera. I fold, spindle, and mutilate Hubert and then stuff him in a box. I then create the force-field of anti-anti-evilness around myself, with the property that any non-regulated method of doing anything to make me not evil fails to work unless I consent in a message to some valid list. I then once more make myself Evil, causing Live to dissipate. --JT [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] [ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. ] [ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ] [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] ------------------------------ From: dice-admin@pbm.com (Dice server) Subject: Acka: Ackanomicon Determination Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 01:45:50 -0500 (EST) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Dice rolls requested by: JT Rolls also sent to: ackanomic@ackanomic.org # Player: Hubert # Ackanomicon Determination # based on the following (using a 49 sided die) # 1 - 15 Arcane Trivia # 16 - 20 Vile Prophecies # 21 - 25 Inner Workings # 26 - 30 Arcane Lore # 31 - 33 Terrorizing Pages # 34 - 34 Ancient Artifact # 35 - 36 Mutation # 37 - 38 Dark Domain # 39 - 40 Long Lost Treasure # 41 - 41 Forbidden Fruit # 42 - 42 Catastrophe # 43 - 46 Not so Forbidden Fruit # 47 - 47 Ancient One # 48 - 49 Judgement Day No. of sides on every die: 49 No. of dice for every roll: 1 No. of dice rolls requested: 1 No. of rolls per line: 1 2 Information on the dice server: DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE! Replies to dice-admin@pbm.com vanish into a seldom-read mailbox. For instructions on using the dice server, send a message with subject "help" to dice@pbm.com, or see http://www.pbm.com/dice/ The dice server is provided by: Shadow Island Games http://www.pbm.com/ ================================================= ** NewHoo Web Directory ** An army of editors surfing the web for you! http://www.NewHoo.com/ ================================================= Original message follows: > From jtraub@dragoncat.net Sat Nov 28 01:45:40 1998 > Received: (from smtp@localhost) by xkey.com > id BAA13319 for ; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 01:45:40 -0500 > Received: from herne.dragoncat.net(207.54.31.1) by xkey.com via smtp (V1.3) > id sma013317; Fri Nov 27 22:45:32 1998 > Received: from localhost (jtraub@localhost) > by dragoncat.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA19025 > for ; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 22:45:50 -0800 > Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 22:45:48 -0800 (PST) > From: JT > To: Dice Server > Subject: Acka: Nomicon > Message-ID: > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > #P ackanomic@ackanomic.org > #S 49 > #D 1 > #R 1 > #L 1 > #T Acka: Ackanomicon Determination > > #C Player: Hubert > #C Ackanomicon Determination > #C based on the following (using a 49 sided die) > #C > #C 1 - 15 Arcane Trivia > #C 16 - 20 Vile Prophecies > #C 21 - 25 Inner Workings > #C 26 - 30 Arcane Lore > #C 31 - 33 Terrorizing Pages > #C 34 - 34 Ancient Artifact > #C 35 - 36 Mutation > #C 37 - 38 Dark Domain > #C 39 - 40 Long Lost Treasure > #C 41 - 41 Forbidden Fruit > #C 42 - 42 Catastrophe > #C 43 - 46 Not so Forbidden Fruit > #C 47 - 47 Ancient One > #C 48 - 49 Judgement Day > > > [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] > [ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. ] > [ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ] > [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.7 iQCVAwUBNl+cGD8NitsTFjcVAQF+6wQAweSMc1jfpcKtV2A6UANpxAkYAc6jjpTg +XzOzD6dLXvTs07WzvwEKn3ghQKwTjdArzb4Ax/Uf3tVn5ciRpnAAcpZAETudq6R NZxIHt4VP5YPN5teqVq3FBmaY84xmrzq2Oi+YL3XVLkSM/IMLbLCWSliyDRAcmWM wt7MRtbn37o= =jGVE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------ From: JT Subject: Re: Acka: Evil? of course I'm Evil Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 01:46:57 -0500 (EST) On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, JT wrote: >I challenge them to quote this message with the word Hubert in it. >See, now that wasn't so bad :) Of course, eir name is MTM now, but that's a different story :) So I challenge them to speak the name MTM and prove e's not as bad as he's made up to be. (I'm not bad, it's just the makeup :) --JT [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] [ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. ] [ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ] [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] ------------------------------ From: JT Subject: Re: Acka: Ackanomicon Determination Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 01:48:06 -0500 (EST) On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Dice server wrote: >Dice rolls requested by: JT >Rolls also sent to: > ackanomic@ackanomic.org > ># Player: Hubert And of course, this is really MTM. Damned name changing annoyances, making it so a harfer cannot keep them straight. --JT [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] [ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. ] [ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ] [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] ------------------------------ From: Eric Plumb Subject: Re: Acka: Evil? of course I'm Evil Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 01:52:46 -0500 (EST) On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, JT wrote: > I challenge them to quote this message with the word Hubert in it. > See, now that wasn't so bad :) Haven't heard 'em yet, hmm? > I fold, spindle, and mutilate Hubert and then stuff him in a box. With the hammers? And who's Hubert? > I then create the force-field of anti-anti-evilness around myself, with > the property that any non-regulated method of doing anything to make me > not evil fails to work unless I consent in a message to some valid list. > > I then once more make myself Evil, causing Live to dissipate. These both, of course, fail because the Postal Code states clearly that annoying and silly spam to an otherwise public forum can have no game effect whatsoever. Not that any of this could have any effect anyway, being unregulated and all... so it looks like all our efforts were in vain... I wander to the Wilds of Ackanomic and scream incomprehensible epithets at the B-Ack. Then I go to the remains of my house in search of consolation, solace or at least beer. Failing to find that, I kick dejectedly at some rubble. Then I just sit around and sulk for a little while. Being Evil isn't all it's cracked up to be. -MTM, who puts "Hubert" in eir .sig anyway for obvious reasons Where do you want to go, toady? ------------------------------ From: JT Subject: Re: Acka: Evil? of course I'm Evil Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 02:21:21 -0500 (EST) On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Eric Plumb wrote: >These both, of course, fail because the Postal Code states clearly that >annoying and silly spam to an otherwise public forum can have no game >effect whatsoever. Whoa there boyo. The Postal Code is most assuredly regulated, and it says no such thing :) >Not that any of this could have any effect anyway, being unregulated and >all... so it looks like all our efforts were in vain... Well yeah, but I'm still Evil :) --JT [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] [ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. ] [ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ] [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] ------------------------------ From: Gabe Drummond-Cole Subject: Acka: Gold Digger Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 04:07:18 -0500 (EST) The results of else...if's gold digger hearing Jukkasjarvi: NONE Accumulation: ThinMan EBS Wild Card Bad else...if. Pay the SHF! -- Pol Pot Crazy French-Scotsman, Daring Adventurer, Dungeon Master, Really Weird, Rules-Harfer, Worker Caste, Weird ------------------------------ From: Matt Miller Subject: Acka: *ping* is the word I use to describe... Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 09:31:30 -0500 (EST) Today is Saturday, the 28th day of November, and the Machine That Goes *ping* Has Gone *ping* today. Since I have been scholar, the Machine has gone *ping* 8 times. IB Scholar of *ping* Now with crontab! ------------------------------ From: Jonathan David Amery Subject: Re: Acka: Evil? of course I'm Evil Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 10:27:24 -0500 (EST) On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, JT wrote: > On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Eric Plumb wrote: > >These both, of course, fail because the Postal Code states clearly that > >annoying and silly spam to an otherwise public forum can have no game > >effect whatsoever. > > Whoa there boyo. The Postal Code is most assuredly regulated, and it says > no such thing :) > > >Not that any of this could have any effect anyway, being unregulated and > >all... so it looks like all our efforts were in vain... > > Well yeah, but I'm still Evil :) > I accuse JT of attempting to exploit Malenkai's Loophole. -- Jonathan David Amery, Trinity Hall, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 1TJ. ##### http://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/~jda23/home.html o__####### Wild Card of Acka, member of SPAM, wearing Silly Agenda Hats. \'####### Follower of Banna, the EBS and Odo. Holding the Silver Key to the Vault. Memo to myself: Do the dumb things I gotta do. Touch the puppethead. ------------------------------ From: Kelly Hubert Kelly Subject: Re: Acka: T200 Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 11:50:03 -0500 (EST) Mueller wrote: > That's what it looked like to me, and if that's true, I was wondering why I > was not on the list? When did I say Hubert? > > I know I've never consciously written it, and I don't recall anyone > gloating over catching me :) .... > > Thomas Jute Remember when my e-mail client reported my name as "Kelly Hubert Kelly"? Of cource you do :) K 2 Gloating ------------------------------ From: Kelly Hubert Kelly Subject: Acka: Trinket Creation failed Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 11:54:48 -0500 (EST) Gabe Drummond-Cole wrote: > > I create a trinket called "Mr. Treen" with the description "It is treen and > it is not treen" This failed due to insufficent funds. K 2 ------------------------------ From: JT Subject: Re: Acka: Attn Org-Harfer (fwd) Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 14:08:28 -0500 (EST) Grrr.. People please check the headers on your messages (this applies to me as well). The message I replied to (and I suspect the one K2 replied to) were both sent to ackanomic@muppetlabs.com. That is no longer a valid public forum (at least one active player unsubbed from that list) Fortunately the mail did not contain any actions. --JT [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] [ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. ] [ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ] [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 14:03:27 -0500 (EST) From: JT Reply-To: ackanomic@muppetlabs.com To: ackanomic@muppetlabs.com Subject: Re: Acka: Attn Org-Harfer On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, K 2 wrote: >Gabe Drummond-Cole wrote: >> I attempt to donate Alice in Wonderland to They Might Be About to Win a Cycle. >I wonder if the OiCoRT could randomly determine for me what They Might >Be About to Win a Cycle's Policy said at the precise instant this action >was attempted. > >it was either 'golden' and 'frog' [illegal] >or 'frog' and 'golden' [legal] The whole thing about that is that it is impossible for me to make that determination because it is constantly in flux. It is not random. So therefore no, the OiCoRT may not make such a determination for you. I'm sorry. (the trinket was destroyed by proposal anyway) --JT [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] [ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. ] [ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ] [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] ------------------------------ From: Matt Miller Subject: Re: Acka: Attn Org-Harfer (fwd) Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 14:27:30 -0500 (EST) On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, JT wrote: > Grrr.. People please check the headers on your messages (this applies to > me as well). The message I replied to (and I suspect the one K2 replied > to) were both sent to ackanomic@muppetlabs.com. That is no longer a > valid public forum (at least one active player unsubbed from that list) > Fortunately the mail did not contain any actions. > I want a new race! IB size matters ------------------------------ From: Kelly Hubert Kelly Subject: Re: Acka: Attn Org-Harfer Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 16:16:56 -0500 (EST) JT wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, K 2 wrote: > >Gabe Drummond-Cole wrote: > >> I attempt to donate Alice in Wonderland to They Might Be About to Win a Cycle. > >I wonder if the OiCoRT could randomly determine for me what They Might > >Be About to Win a Cycle's Policy said at the precise instant this action > >was attempted. > > > >it was either 'golden' and 'frog' [illegal] > >or 'frog' and 'golden' [legal] > > The whole thing about that is that it is impossible for me to make that > determination because it is constantly in flux. It is not random. > So therefore no, the OiCoRT may not make such a determination for you. > I'm sorry. (the trinket was destroyed by proposal anyway) > > --JT The org policy was in a particular state when the action was attempted, it wasn't both - it was one or the other. The fact that it is filp flopping one instant to the next doesn't mean it doesn't have a state at a particular instant... K 2 ------------------------------ From: Gabe Drummond-Cole Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3756 accepted Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 16:20:09 -0500 (EST) >In order to cause the threads to merge I suggest the following action be >taken: >Pol Pot gives A$2 to the treasury *if* TMbAtWaC had A$-2 when it >disbanded. > I do so. I also refrain from requesting A$17 from ThinMan... A$17 is well worth a win. -- Pol Pot Crazy French-Scotsman, Daring Adventurer, Dungeon Master, Really Weird, Rules-Harfer, Worker Caste, Weird ------------------------------ From: JT Subject: Re: Acka: Attn Org-Harfer Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 17:00:25 -0500 (EST) On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Kelly Hubert Kelly wrote: >> The whole thing about that is that it is impossible for me to make that >> determination because it is constantly in flux. It is not random. >> So therefore no, the OiCoRT may not make such a determination for you. >> I'm sorry. (the trinket was destroyed by proposal anyway) >> >> --JT > >The org policy was in a particular state when the action was attempted, >it wasn't both - it was one or the other. The fact that it is filp >flopping one instant to the next doesn't mean it doesn't have a state at >a particular instant... However, that's the whole point of the paradox, it is *INDETERMINATE* if it's in one state or the other. The rules do not give me the authority or the ability to make a random determination in that case. --JT [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] [ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. ] [ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ] [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] ------------------------------ From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" Subject: Re: Acka: Future Absence Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 17:12:25 -0500 (EST) Slakko wrote: > I will be unavailable to maintain the web pages for the period 9th > December to 7th January inclusive. If no-one else is acting web-harfer > for this period, I suspect it will be impossible to get back up to speed. > > Will people please think about whether or not they wish to web-harf for 4 > weeks. I will not be able to help here, as I will be visiting family and moving during this period, and will probably be entirely unable to maintain pages from, say, Dec. 23rd onward, and not very diligent at it the rest of the time. The proposal bot should be independent enough by that time that I can simply transfer the account and all to whichever player takes over the offices, but preferably someone with a working knowledge of python. /dev/joe ------------------------------ From: Kelly Hubert Kelly Subject: Acka: Offer Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 23:23:20 -0500 (EST) I offer 3 Amber bananas for any of the following: one bonus vote or one scroll of crumble or one ACME insta-gadget K 2 ------------------------------ From: Matt Miller Subject: Re: Acka: Offer Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 23:24:57 -0500 (EST) On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Kelly Hubert Kelly wrote: > I offer 3 Amber bananas for any of the following: > one bonus vote Done. IB ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Digested Actions From: "Dan Knapp" Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 23:32:17 -0500 (EST) >K2's Birthday Present for Red Barn I thank K2 for his gift, but it is much too generous. I give K2 A$2. >And I on the other hand urge everyone to vote for it. It actually is >quite a bit of work to go through and change all of the references to a >players name taking quite a bit of time. This has nothing to do with >registrar, but with harfing in general. I'm fairly sure I'm not the only >harfer to feel this way as well. Aren't the Unix text-processing commands any help? I've been acting as speaker for New Rishonnomic (two 'n's), which has been fairly active, and not having much trouble. >Since it is currently unregulated, and I have a lurking suspicion about >something, I hereby make myself Evil (something which is fortunately >unregulated by the rules currently) I make myself Evil. Furthermore, I make myself so monstrously Evil that I can never be changed back unless the rules explicitly say so. I change my name, pending ack, to "Ballot Stuffer", minus the quotes. I make two-star a scotch terrier. In fact I make him so very much a scotch terrier that, were the inviolability of this action enshrined in the rules, this action would be inviolable and e would never be able to cease being a scotch terrier. I offer a bid of A$99 per log and A$99 per stone and am willing to sell 99 of each. - Red Barn ------------------------------ End of ackanomic Digest V3 #428 *******************************