ackanomic Digest Sunday, January 17 1999 Volume 04 : Issue 016 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: JT Subject: Re: Acka: Silver Moon Acceptance speech Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 00:09:32 -0500 (EST) On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Gavin Logan wrote: >most depressing record in the world... ever!), anyone who can follow all the >references here (ok that's me again), anyone who bothered reading this far, >O Olde Alpha achieves a winning condition, may amend the rules at will and >can prove that the cfj he voted true works (no not that one, the other one) >and can also prove it doesn't work, Before it even considers getting to be close to two weeks, I will point out that these actions (such as achieving a winning condition), amending the rules, etc do NOT occur as they are illegal. There.. now noone can claim pragmatism :) --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: "Gavin Logan" Subject: Re: acka : Upcoming Presidentail Election and Debates Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 11:03:43 -0500 (EST) Here's some questions: i) Do you think that the recent repeals of vast quantities of Ackanomic's rules is a good thing, or perhaps more to the point, do you favour complexity or simplicity in the rule set? ii) Do you care about the proper use of bracket/smiley occurances? iii) Is this a question. O Olde Alpha > >People of Acka, >It seems that the Presidentail Elections are upon us, and I would like to >reinstate something we haven't done in a long time. Presidential Election >Debates. They are unregulated, however, word is that several would be >candidates have reacted favorably in unofficial channels to such a Debate, >and have also reacted favorably to using the old debating rules from the >Snowgod-Flychuck elections from two years ago (you can refer to those >rules, and to that historical debate, at >http://www.actcom.co.il/~bruck/acka/debate.html ) > >I have volunteered to admin this debate. The way this works is this: >All players are invited to send me, privately, questions they'd like to be >on the debate. I'll take all the questions, merge substantially similar >ones, and create the list of Debate Questions. When the elections start, I >will post the Debate Questions. During the elections the candidates will >post their replies. > >The rules for replies are as follows: >maximum 15 lines of unquoted text >maximum 10 lines of quoted text > >maximum 20 lines total. > >quoted text can be quoted from the rules, cfjs, mailing list logs, books, >or anything the candidate feels to be relevant. > > >Niccolo Flychuck > > > > ------------------------------ From: Thierry Joffrain Subject: Re: acka : Upcoming Presidentail Election and Debates Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 12:02:45 -0500 (EST) Fellow Ackazen, As an unofficial non-candidate officially declaring his non-candidacy to make it officially official to the other candidates, whether themselves official or not, here are my answers. >i) Do you think that the recent repeals of vast quantities of Ackanomic's >rules is a good thing, or perhaps more to the point, do you favour >complexity or simplicity in the rule set? No. Complexity. >ii) Do you care about the proper use of bracket/smiley occurances? Yes. >iii) Is this a question. Is this an answer. CnH ------------------------------ From: Jonathan David Amery Subject: Re: Acka: Hatters Guild (Auction) Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 12:37:29 -0500 (EST) On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, JT wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Jonathan David Amery wrote: > >> >> Hat G14 - weight 0 (Author: K 2) > >> >> "This hat belongs to a player who has never won a cycle and does not > >> >> own a winning condition." > >> > > >> > I purchase this hat. > >> > >> It no longer works that way. I also am not sure it was sufficient to > >> cause the auction for this hat to be called. > >> > > > > O.K. - I cause the auction on this hat to be called. > > Okay > Hat G14 is now up for auction. > Minimum bid is A$10. > I bid A$10 on it. -- Jonathan D. Amery, http://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/~jda23/home.html ##### Wild Card of Acka, member of SPAM, wearing Silly Agenda Hats. o__####### Holding the Silver Key to the Vault. \'####### Standing between the light and the dark, the candle and the flame. ------------------------------ End of ackanomic Digest V4 #16 ******************************