Subject: acka-finance-digest V3 #100
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acka-finance-digest       Tuesday, June 2 1998       Volume 03 : Number 100

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Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 12:02:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (L'homme a tete de choux)
Subject: Acka: stock purchase

Assuming I may, I purchase four stocks.

Pandora

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Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 13:08:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Grav Mono

I bid A$ 60 on the gravitational monopole.

K 2

Tom Walmsley wrote:

> > > I bid A$42 for the gravitational monopole.
> >
> >
> > I bid 47.
>
> If rufus has bid A$47 for the gravitational monopole (it seems fairly
> unambiguous but you can never be sure in a nomic) then I bid A$54 for said
> gadget.
>
> Mr. Tambourine Man.

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Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 13:33:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Grav Mono

> I bid A$ 60 on the gravitational monopole.

I bid A$68 on it.

Mr. Tambourine Man.

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Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 15:33:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Grav Mono

I bid A$80 on the Gravitational Monopole

                                   - Vynd

[email-masked]

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Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 16:59:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Grav Mono

> I bid A$80 on the Gravitational Monopole

I bid A$92 on the Gravitational Monopole.

Mr. Tambourine Man, hoping we still have a game.

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Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 20:57:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Grav Mono

I bid A$105 on the Monopole.

                                  - Vynd

[email-masked]

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Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 21:11:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Towsner <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Ackan Reserve Financial Report

Stock Market News:

Assuming no futher announcements today, the following information will take
affect yesterday:

	Current Value: 60.2
	Positivity Value:35.6
	Activity Value: 14.6

	Change Today -0.6
	Change in Positivity: +0.0
	Change in Activity: -0.6
	Percentage Change: -1.0%
	Activities Today: 6

Market News:
	After the events of the past few days, today was a breath of fresh
air.  The first stocks to be bought in over a week were bought today, and a
measure to reduce the market's freefall was approved.  Says recently
confirmed Reserve Chair else, "One more batch of proposals and I'll propose
to move the settings to more reasonable values.  I promise."

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The Ackan Reserve Financial Report
Published by the board of the Ackan Reserve
Coming daily since 1998

	else...if

		ELSE...IF

	Chair, Ackan Reserve

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Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 03:47:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Trinket Creation

I create a Trinket, valued at A$75, called "It happens." with the
description:

"The unofficially official but officially unofficial slogan of Ackanomic.
I specified all that was necessary to create this Trinket, so it happens."

- -- 
Duncan C. "" Richer aka
Slakko (Lost) Warner - http://dcr24.quns.cam.ac.uk/ - Queens' College
Cambridge, 1st Year PhD(Pure Maths), CUDipSoc, CUSFS, CUSTS, CURS etc
Acka - President, Web-Harfer, RuneMaker, ChessUmpire, Map-Harfer

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Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 07:46:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Salaries

At 12:00 on Monday the 1st of June 1998 the following Salaries were
awarded:

Speaker:          Alfvaen            A$25
Promoter:         breadbox           A$25
Web-Harfer:       breadbox           A$25
Rule-Harfer:      breadbox           A$25
Tabulator:        breadbox           A$25
Count Tabula:     Mr. Tambourine Man A$25
Registrar:        Alfvaen            A$25
Scorekeeper:      Alfvaen            A$25
Financier:        K 2                A$25
CotC:             Mr. Tambourine Man A$25
CSRR:             Mr. Tambourine Man A$25
Postmaster:       breadbox           A$25
Map-Harfer:       Slakko             A$25
Undead-Harfer:    K 2                A$25
Org-Harfer:       K 2                A$25
Trinket Harfer:   JT                 A$25
Treasure Harfer:  K 2                Automatic Sculpture
Chartreuse Goose: Mr. Tambourine Man A$-18

I gift A$ 10 to JT for eir help verifying the log.

In Acka "gift" _is_ a verb :)

K 2

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Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 07:53:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Salaries

> At 12:00 on Monday the 1st of June 1998 the following Salaries were
> awarded:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Web-Harfer:       breadbox           A$25

While I could use the extra cash, I think Slakko would have something
to say about this.

breadbox

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Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 08:04:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Salaries

Brian Raiter wrote:

> > At 12:00 on Monday the 1st of June 1998 the following Salaries were
> > awarded:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Web-Harfer:       breadbox           A$25
>
> While I could use the extra cash, I think Slakko would have something
> to say about this.
>
> breadbox

So you spotted the deliberate mistake....

Web-Harfer:       Slakko       A$25

K 2

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Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 08:05:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Salaries

On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, K2 wrote:

> At 12:00 on Monday the 1st of June 1998 the following Salaries were
> awarded:
> 
> Speaker:          Alfvaen            A$25

Should be A$35 for the Speaker.

> Web-Harfer:       breadbox           A$25

Ummm, err, last time I checked I was Web-Harfer.

> Chartreuse Goose: Mr. Tambourine Man A$-18

This is now A$-25, thanks to the proposal "A Truly Standard Harfer Fee".

You also left out Chess-Umpire, for which I should receive A$75.

The complete list of salaries from last time is:

+35 A$ Alfvaen: salary - speaker 35
+25 A$ breadbox: salary - promoter 25
+25 A$ Slakko: salary - web-harfer 25
+25 A$ breadbox: salary - tabulator 25
+25 A$ Alfvaen: salary - registrar 25
+25 A$ Alfvaen: salary - scorekeeper 25
+25 A$ Alfvaen: salary - financier 25
+25 A$ The Gingham Wearer: salary - clerk of the court 25
+25 A$ The Gingham Wearer: salary - CSRR 25
+25 A$ breadbox: salary - postmaster 25
+25 A$ Slakko: salary - map-harfer 25
+25 A$ Alfvaen: salary - undead-harfer 25
+25 A$ rufus: salary - trinket-harfer 25
+1 autosculp K 2: salary - treasure-harfer
+25 A$ Slakko: salary - chess-umpire 25
+25 A$ breadbox: salary - rule-harfer 25
- -25 A$ else...if: goose feed
+25 A$ The Gingham Wearer: salary - count tabula 25
+25 A$ K 2: salary - org-harfer 25

Since then, the only changes have been JT becoming the Trinket-Harfer,
TGW becoming MTM and getting the Goose, and you becoming Financier and
Undead-Harfer, I think.  ICOCBW.

- -- 
Duncan C. "" Richer aka
Slakko (Lost) Warner - http://dcr24.quns.cam.ac.uk/ - Queens' College
Cambridge, 1st Year PhD(Pure Maths), CUDipSoc, CUSFS, CUSTS, CURS etc
Acka - President, Web-Harfer, RuneMaker, ChessUmpire, Map-Harfer

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Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 08:15:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Salaries

Duncan Richer wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, K2 wrote:
>
> > At 12:00 on Monday the 1st of June 1998 the following Salaries were
> > awarded:
> >
> > Speaker:          Alfvaen            A$25
>
> Should be A$35 for the Speaker.

Oops..

> > Web-Harfer:       breadbox           A$25
>
> Ummm, err, last time I checked I was Web-Harfer.

Changed...

> > Chartreuse Goose: Mr. Tambourine Man A$-18

I must have an old version of the rules... noted...

> You also left out Chess-Umpire, for which I should receive A$75.

Hmmm... I missed this 'cause I only searched the main rule set for
"functional" not the rule suites - o'course I gunna have to charge a A$50
late fee ;)

Thanks for pointing those out

K 2

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Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 11:16:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Salaries

On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, K2 wrote:

>Speaker:          Alfvaen            A$25
>Promoter:         breadbox           A$25
>Web-Harfer:       breadbox           A$25
>Rule-Harfer:      breadbox           A$25
>Tabulator:        breadbox           A$25
>Count Tabula:     Mr. Tambourine Man A$25
>Registrar:        Alfvaen            A$25
>Scorekeeper:      Alfvaen            A$25
>Financier:        K 2                A$25
>CotC:             Mr. Tambourine Man A$25
>CSRR:             Mr. Tambourine Man A$25
>Postmaster:       breadbox           A$25
>Map-Harfer:       Slakko             A$25
>Undead-Harfer:    K 2                A$25
>Org-Harfer:       K 2                A$25
>Trinket Harfer:   JT                 A$25
>Treasure Harfer:  K 2                Automatic Sculpture
>Chartreuse Goose: Mr. Tambourine Man A$-18

There is one missing.
I should be awarded A$20 for the Herald office as well.
It was amended to recieve a salary of SHF-A$5.

- --JT

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Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 11:25:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Salaries

On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, JT wrote:
>>Chartreuse Goose: Mr. Tambourine Man A$-18

On the discussion of how much the goose eats, the last rules I have (which
are from this past sunday) also still say A$ 18, but that might be an
error in the rules from when the Harfer fee reform went though.  Someone
(probably rules-harfer) should verify this.

- --JT

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[ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ]
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Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 11:31:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Salaries

> There is one missing.
> I should be awarded A$20 for the Herald office as well.
> It was amended to recieve a salary of SHF-A$5.
>

I'm goning to blame this one on an old copy of the rules as well ;)

K 2

> --JT
>
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> [ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ]
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Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 12:05:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Grav Mono

I bid A$ 120 on the Gravitational Monopole.

K 2

John Frederic Mc Coy wrote:

> I bid A$105 on the Monopole.
>
>                                   - Vynd
>
> [email-masked]

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Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 14:06:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Salaries

> At 12:00 on Monday the 1st of June 1998 the following Salaries were
> awarded:

What about ambassador? I thought I'd just made that functional.

Mr. Tambourine Man.

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Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 14:07:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Grav Mono

> I bid A$105 on the Monopole.

If this auction is still going then I bid A$124.

MTM.

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Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 14:20:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Grav Mono

> I bid A$ 120 on the Gravitational Monopole.

A$135 then...

MTM.

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Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 14:23:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Salaries

D'oh!

Think I'll purchase a new copy of the rules from the printing guild....

K 2

Tom Walmsley wrote:

> > At 12:00 on Monday the 1st of June 1998 the following Salaries were
> > awarded:
>
> What about ambassador? I thought I'd just made that functional.
>
> Mr. Tambourine Man.

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Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 14:28:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Grav Mono

I bid A$ 150
K 2

Tom Walmsley wrote:

> > I bid A$ 120 on the Gravitational Monopole.
>
> A$135 then...
>
> MTM.

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Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 16:45:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: Towsner <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Salaries

>At 12:00 on Monday the 1st of June 1998 the following Salaries were
>awarded:
>
	Don't I get paid for being AR-C?

- --
- -Henry Towsner

	<[email-masked]>

	Success is the child of audacity.
		-Benjamin Disraeli

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Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 19:13:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Salaries

> On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, JT wrote:
> >>Chartreuse Goose: Mr. Tambourine Man A$-18
> 
> On the discussion of how much the goose eats, the last rules I have (which
> are from this past sunday) also still say A$ 18, but that might be an
> error in the rules from when the Harfer fee reform went though.  Someone
> (probably rules-harfer) should verify this.

The rule change in question is from Proposal 2810, which said, in part:

> Amend Rule 620 by replacing "18 A$ shall be paid" with "the Standard
> Harfer Fee shall be paid", wherever it occurs, and "the 18 A$ is not
> paid" with "the Standard Harfer Fee is not paid", wherever it occurs.

The text "18 A$ shall be paid" occurs nowhere within the rule,
however. What it does say is:

> At such time that officers' salaries are paid, 18 A$ shall be
> deducted from the account of the player then possessing the
> Chartreuse Goose, if such a player exists.

Normally I point such things out at the time. If I didn't, which seems
to be the case, then either the error escaped my attention as well (I
usually do a global search/replace on a rule in these cases, and I
might not have noticed the fact that there were zero hits), and/or it
slipped my mind by the time I was finished harfing the proposals. In
any case, my apologies.

breadbox

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Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 20:39:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Towsner <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Ackan Reserve Financial Report

Stock Market News:

Assuming no futher announcements today, the following information will take
affect yesterday:

	Current Value: 45.1
	Positivity Value:29.1
	Activity Value: 16.0

	Change Today: -5.1
	Change in Positivity: -6.5
	Change in Activity: +1.4
	Percentage Change: -8.5%
	Activities Today: 19

Market News:
	The stock market fell by eight and a half percent to 55 points
today.  Reserve Chair else stated that "I know I said this batch, but I
didn't realize it would be this small.  The next one.  If the market drops
far enough.

- --
The Ackan Reserve Financial Report
Published by the board of the Ackan Reserve
Coming daily since 1998

	else...if

		ELSE...IF

	Chair, Ackan Reserve

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Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 22:05:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: Salaries

> > On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, JT wrote:
> > >>Chartreuse Goose: Mr. Tambourine Man A$-18

> > On the discussion of how much the goose eats, the last rules I have (which
> > are from this past sunday) also still say A$ 18, but that might be an
> > error in the rules from when the Harfer fee reform went though.  Someone
> > (probably rules-harfer) should verify this.

If this is the case, then the Financier should check and see how much was
deducted last month...

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Five Guys Named Moe
Current Book--Mary Stewart:The Moon-Spinners
By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.

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