Subject: Ackanomic Voting Digest V2 #19
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Ackanomic Voting Digest    Tuesday, March 25 1997    Volume 02 : Number 019

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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 14:23:42 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1860

Proposal 1860
Restructuring the OotF
Calvin N Hobbes

{{This is a Modest proposal.

[It refines the roles of players who are in charge of keeping track of
entities and valuables, making them all come under the supervision of the
Financier. This allows for a sharing of the jobs while making the
Financier's job much lighter. In-built in the process are automatic shutdown
and wake-up functions based on whether or not someone wants to do the work
associated with the position. This should drastically reduce the workload
associated with the work for any one person and allow people who would enjoy
doing that work to do it]

1. Amend R412 to read:
"The Office of the Financier (OotF), or Financier, is a Functional Office. 

The Financier is there to make sure the Overseers who report to him do their
jobs. The Financier has the authority to negotiate and resolve conflicts or
disagreements between such overseers according to the rules, tradition, or
to the best of his/her judgement, in that order. The Financier has no legal
obligation to do work already asigned by a rule to another officer or
overseer (whether or not there is someone in the position or office).

The Duties of the Financier are: 
   (i) To check that accurate records are maintained by all reporting to the
OotF. Records need only be accurate to within the last 7 days. Should an
overseer who is said to reprort to the OotF not do their job, it is the duty
of the Financier to impeach them.
   (ii) To keep track of anything involving entities worth more than zero
ackadollars that other job descriptions do not cover, and only those.
   (iii) To do the work that is directly assigned to him by other rules that
do not fall under the scope of someone else's job description. If a rule
says that the Financier must do something, but it does fall under the scope
of another, the that person is reponsible for carrying it out.
   (iv) To report to the President on any problems in the FM and Treasury
and impeachements that result.

If any overseer position is left unfilled, no action that would be overseen
by that officer can take place until there is someone in that position."

2. Amend R426 to read:
"The Undead-Harfer is an Overseer. The Duties are: 
   (i) To maintain a list of all Undead, the entities they are haunting, and
any other pertinent details of the Undead.
   (ii) Verify any manipulation or change made on the above was made in
accord with the rules.
   (iii)To make this list available to any player upon request. 
   (iv) To report to the OofF."

3. Amend R427 to read:
"The Bond-Harfer is an Overseer. The Duties are: 
   (i) Maintain a log of all bonds and stocks transaction, prices and
onwnership on Free Market (FM).
   (ii) Verify any transaction made there was made in accord with the rules.
   (iii) Make the last records and logs available to any Player upon request
within 2 days.
   (iv) Report to the OotF."

4. Create a new rule numbered 428 called "Trinket-Harfer" to read:
"The Trinket-Harfer is an Overseer. The Duties are:
   (i) Log all transfers of trinkets ownership as well as their creation and
destruction.
   (ii) Verify that these events happen only in accordance with the Rules.
   (iii) Make the last records and logs available to any Player upon request
within 2 days.
   (iv) Report to the OotF."

5. Create a new rule numbered 429 called "Entity-Harfer" to read:
"The Entity-Harfer is an Overseer. The Duties are:
   (i) To keep a record of what the treasury contains and the transactions
that take things in or out of the treasury.
   (ii) Verify that these events happen only in accordance with the Rules.
   (iii) Make the last records and logs available to any Player upon request
within 2 days.
   (iv) Report to the OotF."

6. Create a new rule numbered 400 called "Overseers Are Volunteers"
"The following applies to all Overseers:
   (i) Only one player at a time may fill the position.
   (ii) As a Privilege of the position, each Player shall receive a monthly
salary of A$25 for every Overseer position held.
   (iii) An Overseer going on vacation shall be judged to have resigned from
his Seat.
   (iv) Whenever an Overseer position is vacant, there will be no elections
until someone volunteers to fill the position, and anyone may volunteer
while the election has not ended. The election ends 3 days after the first
person volunteered and the position will be granted to the volunteer with
the most votes. All players can a vote in that election.
   (v) Overseers may be impeached by the following process:
            a)  The Financier declares publicly his intention to
                impeach a stated Player from a given Overseer position.
            b)  The President concurs with the impeachment
                by so notifying the Financier within 3 days of
                the Financier's declaration.
            c)  At this time, the Overseer position is vacant.
   (vi) An overseer may resign at any time, making the position vacant. A
player needs to be reconfirmed every 2 months in the position by the
Financier, otherwise, the position is now vacant."}}

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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 14:23:43 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1861

Proposal 1861
Trinket Destruction Amnesty Period
/dev/joe

Insert after the second paragraph of rule 506, "Trinkets", the following
paragraph (including the ** lines delimiting it):

**
To reduce the length of the Player/Entity web page, a two-week amnesty
period is hereby called.  The art and antiquities communities will
not be upset at the conversion of any trinket to A$, and will cheer
the conversion of trinkets worth A$5 or less.  Two weeks after this
section of this rule takes effect, this entire paragraph (including
the lines containing just two asterisks delimiting it) is deleted
from this rule.
**

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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 14:23:42 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1859

Proposal 1859
Trials By Jury
Calvin N Hobbes

This is a Modest proposal.

{{renumber this rule to 218}}

[This would allow for the trials by jury. The effects would be minimal,
considering Acka is nicely defined. However, it would add another
possibility to deal with strange occurences. The rule was kept as simple as
possible]

Upon a verdict of "Undecided" being ruled by a judge, the following will
take place. The "Undecided" verdict should be published by the CoC, but the
CFJ will no be redistributed to another judge, rather, a Jury trial is
formed, its ruling to be accepted as the ruling of the CFJ. This takes
precedence over any rule that would redistribute a CFJ ruled "Undecided".

The initiator of the CFJ will act as Prosaecuter. The Judge who ruled
undecided will nominate a player, excluding the Prosaecuter, to act as
Consaecuter. That player should have an opinion different from the
Proseacuter's, although this is left at the discretion of the Judge. The
Prosaecuter and Consaecutor will each select 2 players that are neither one
of themselves, nor Justice or Acting Justice, to act as Jury members for
this CFJ.

Within seven days, they must each submit to the Judge a message that
outlines their positions, why they believe their position is correct, and
what the result of the jury verdict should be. A soon as the two messages
are received by the Judge, he will distribute both of them to the Jury
members selected. Should the dealine pass with one not submitting the
message, then the result asked by the other takes effect. Should both miss
the deadline, the CFJ is declared invalid and that ruling is passed on to
the CoC for publication.

Upon receiving the two documents, the Jury then has seven days to discuss it
among themselves and provide a ruling. They should choose one of themselves
to act as spokesperson, who will give their ruling to the Judge. No
reasoning should be given with the ruling.

The possible rulings are as follows. If all agree to support one of the two
opinions presented to them, then they should present its result as verdict.
The players may present their own verdict if all agree on it. If no
consensus can be reached, the Consaecuter's opinion prevails and the result
he outlined is implemented as verdict.

The Judge will then pass on the CFJ to the CoC for publication.

A jury verdict can be appealed to the Supreme Court. Justices, acting
Justices, members of that Jury, the Judge, the Proseacuter and Consecuter
may not appeal the verdict.

{{  [The following is to avoid people ruling on their own CFJs or appeals]

1. amend R211's first line to say:
"Any player (who is neither Praetor, Justice nor Acting-Justice) who has a
question or complaint about any matter concerning the laws and their
interpretation may email their statement to the Clerk of the Court, who will
then distribute it publically."

2. amend the last line of R217 to say:
"Supreme Court Justices or Acting Supreme Court Justices may not appeal
Judgements or Supreme Court appellate decisions to the Supreme Court.
Members of a Jury that ruled on a CFJ may not appeal that CFJ, neither can
the Judge, Proseacuter and Consaecuter of that CFJ."

[I expect a lot of discussion on this and welcome it. It will probably need
to be reworked, but then at least it'll get the ball rolling... I guess this
should be an RFC, but perhaps it's just perfect and everyone will love it
right away. <g>]}}

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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 14:49:13 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  P1800 rejected (Enlightment)

Proposal 1800
Enlightment
Niccolo Flychuck

Votes cast by active players:  12 / 17 = 70.588235%
Yes:  5    No:  8     Present:  3   ...Proposal rejected.

mr cwm bribed Tammany A$ 31 to vote NO.

YES votes:
	/dev/joe
	Niccolo Flychuck
	Calvin N Hobbes
	ThinMan
	Vulcan Unity vote

NO votes:
	mr cwm
	IdiotBoy
	Red Barn
	Narf
	Tammany
	Mohammed
	Vynd
	Malenkai

PRESENT votes:
	Robert Sevin
	breadbox
	fnord

Active players who did not vote:
	Jammer
	snowgod
	Strider
	Lestrade
	Techno

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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 14:49:15 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  P1805 rejected (The Flat Earth Preservation Society)

Proposal 1805
The Flat Earth Preservation Society
Red Barn

Votes cast by active players:  12 / 17 = 70.588235%
Yes:  5    No:  7     Present:  1   ...Proposal rejected.

YES votes:
	mr cwm
	Red Barn
	Calvin N Hobbes
	Vynd
	Malenkai

NO votes:
	/dev/joe
	Niccolo Flychuck
	Narf
	fnord
	breadbox
	ThinMan
	Mohammed

PRESENT votes:
	Robert Sevin

Active players who did not vote:
	Jammer
	snowgod
	Strider
	Lestrade
	Techno

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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 14:49:14 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  P1804 accepted (Bored)

Proposal 1804
Bored
Mohammed

Votes cast by active players:  12 / 17 = 70.588235%
Yes:  11    No:  1     Present:  3   ...Proposal accepted.

YES votes:
	mr cwm
	IdiotBoy
	/dev/joe
	Niccolo Flychuck
	Robert Sevin
	Narf
	Calvin N Hobbes
	ThinMan
	Mohammed
	Malenkai
	Vulcan Unity vote

NO votes:
	Vynd

PRESENT votes:
	Red Barn
	breadbox
	fnord

Active players who did not vote:
	Jammer
	snowgod
	Strider
	Lestrade
	Techno

Text of accepted proposal:

Proposal 1804
Bored
Mohammed
Mon Mar 17 11:51:16 1997

This is a Modest proposal.

[Just keeping the rules in their categories.]

1.  Renumber 1743 (the Sinister Alien Abduction Act) to 1131.

2.  Renumber 723 (Big Tents...) to 725.

3.  Renumber 1764 (Organizational Powers) to 723.

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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 14:49:13 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  P1803 accepted (Ad Hoc Committees)

Proposal 1803
Ad Hoc Committees
Niccolo Flychuck

Votes cast by active players:  12 / 17 = 70.588235%
Yes:  11    No:  4     Present:  0   ...Proposal accepted.

Niccolo Flychuck +2 : EP P1803

YES votes:
	mr cwm
	IdiotBoy
	/dev/joe
	Niccolo Flychuck
	Red Barn
	Robert Sevin
	Narf
	Calvin N Hobbes
	fnord
	ThinMan
	Vulcan Unity vote

NO votes:
	breadbox
	Mohammed
	Vynd
	Malenkai

PRESENT votes:

Active players who did not vote:
	Jammer
	snowgod
	Strider
	Lestrade
	Techno

Text of accepted proposal:

Proposal 1803
Ad Hoc Committees
Niccolo Flychuck
Mon Mar 17 01:03:30 1997

Create a new rule entitled "ad hoc comittees" which contains the following
text:
"
1. An ad hoc comittee can be called in one of the following ways:
    a. By a proposal which has been accepted according to the rules.
    b. By any Institution which is session provided the President approves
       within three days of the Institution's anouncement that it is
       calling for an ad hoc comittee.
    c. By any player posting a public message to that effect, provided
       at least 5 additional players publically support this call within 
       three days.

2. Regardless of who makes the original call, the call must specify
   the matter on which the comittee is to be called, and the specific
   case this matter pertains to. If a call to an ad hoc calls specifies a
   matter, and there exists no rules that empowers an ad hoc comittee
   for such a matter, then the call is void and is ignored.

3. When an ad hoc comittee has been legally called for it shall be
constructed according to the following criteria:

a. One player shall be randomly selected from among active players who are
or have been Presidents. 
b. One player shall be selected randomly from among the Swingers,
excluding Capital Swingers. 
c. One player shall be selected randomly from among the active players who
are Bronze Torch holders.
d. One player shall be selected randomly from among the players who won
past cycles of Ackanomic.
e. One player shall be selected randomly from among the players who own or
posses unique entities.
f. One player shall be selected randomly from the players who have less
than A$100 or a non-positive number of points.
g. If the specified matter deals with extra nomic relations or entities,
then one player shall be appointed by the Ambassador.
h. One player shall be selected randomly from among the active players, 
who fit none of the above criteria, if such players exist. 
i. Up to two additional players may be selected according to criteria
defined by the rule empowering the specific ad hoc comittee.

Once a player has been selected for a given comitte according to two of
the above criteria e is no longer eligible to be selected to the same
comittee by other criteria. Players may decline to be on an ad hoc
comittee.  If at the end of this process there are fewer than five members
in the comittee, then additional players are appointed to replace the ones
that have declined until the comittee has been filled. If possible, they
should be selected according to criteria that are not filled by the
members of the ad hoc comittee. If the comittee still has fewer than five
members, than Senators and President are added to the comittee by
alphabetical order of their Ackanomic names, until the comittee has five
members.

4. Once a comittee has been appointed it has seven days in which to post
its decision. In its consideration it must follow the rules which empower
that specific comittee. All ad hoc comittee decision are voted on by all
members of the comittee the outcome is determined according to a simple
majority rule. If any members go on Vacation before he comittee posted
its decisions, they are not replaced by other players. If they voted
before they went on Vacation, then their votes are counted, otherwise,
they are considered to have abstained. In case of a tie, the President
breaks the tie.

5. Once a comittee has posted its decision, it dissolves. Each member of
the comittee receives A$25 from the Treasury, as compensation for eir
trouble, unless they indicate a favorite charity, in which case the money
is transferred to that charity instead.

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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 14:49:13 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  P1802 accepted (time standardization)

Proposal 1802
time standardization
Narf

Votes cast by active players:  11 / 17 = 64.705882%
Yes:  8    No:  3     Present:  2   ...Proposal accepted.

YES votes:
	mr cwm
	IdiotBoy
	/dev/joe
	Niccolo Flychuck
	Red Barn
	Narf
	Calvin N Hobbes
	Mohammed

NO votes:
	fnord
	Vynd
	Malenkai

PRESENT votes:
	Robert Sevin
	breadbox

Active players who did not vote:
	Jammer
	snowgod
	ThinMan
	Strider
	Lestrade
	Techno

Text of accepted proposal:

Proposal 1802
time standardization
Narf
Sun Mar 16 22:28:49 1997

This is a modest proposal

{{

[In light of the recent fervor to standardize times, I thought this one
should also get standardized]

Ammend rule #911 as follows:

Replace "Whenever the Great Trombone is Somewhere Else, the first player to
make a valid public claim will take possession of it. A claim is only valid
if the player concerned has had a publically knowable score of exactly 76
points at any time within the past 2 days. "

with
"Whenever the Great Trombone is Somewhere Else, the first player to make a
valid public claim will take possession of it. A claim is only valid if the
player concerned has had a publically knowable score of exactly 76 points at
any time within the past 3 days. "

******************************************************************************
****************

Transfer the Great Trombone to Narf [after /Dev/Joe lost it, I did in fact
have a publicly knowable score of exactly 76, but I didn't realize it until 3
days after.  In keeping with the push of making the game playable by those
who only check in every 3 days, I think this fix should be made and I should
get the Great Trombone]

}}

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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 14:55:12 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1862

Proposal 1862
Four Three Strange Days
You can call me Al

This is a Modest Proposal.

Alter Rule 1119, so that the words "4 days" in the first sentence are
replaced with "3 days".

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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 14:55:13 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1863

Proposal 1863
While I'm at it...
You can call me Al

This is a Modest Proposal.

Amend Rule 1121, adding the following after the existing text:

"
Should a player commit the foible of doing so, e must publicly announce that
e apologizes, and that e can see it "your way" ("your" referring to the
denizens of Ackanomia).
"

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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 20:33:54 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1864

Proposal 1864
Tammany "reform"
Vynd

This is a Modest proposal.

Ammend Rule 315/11 Tammany in the following manner.

Alter part b) to read:

b) an amount of currency in the range of A$ 5 to A$ 100 (inclusive).

{{[Now that Tammany bribes are going to Organized Crime, instead of just
back to the faceless treasury, I think lowering the minimum would be a
good idea.  It should stimulate more activity, as players chuck a few
bucks Tammany's way on the off chance they'll get the high bid, rather
than using Tammany only when they are deeply concerned with a proposal's
status.  Thus, it should generate some cash for everyone's favorite family
to back some bets with.]}}

Alter the third to last paragraph to read:

Each Player who submitted a Tammany Bribe for a Proposal that is about to
be resolved shall have the designated amount of currency deducted from his
account and added to the account of the Narfalone Family.  In the case
that this would result in a negative currency balance for a player, his
entire Bribe is disregarded.

{{[This bit isn't strictly necessary, I don't think, but hey, as long as
I'm here... ]}}

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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 21:29:05 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  P1842 rejected (Speaking in Double Talk)

Proposal 1842
Speaking in Double Talk
Malenkai

Votes cast by active players:  10 / 17 = 58.823529%
Yes:  6    No:  5     Present:  0   ...Proposal rejected.

YES votes:
	/dev/joe
	Red Barn
	Robert Sevin
	Narf
	Vynd
	Malenkai

NO votes:
	mr cwm
	fnord
	breadbox
	ThinMan
	Mohammed

PRESENT votes:

Active players who did not vote:
	Jammer
	Calvin N Hobbes
	Niccolo Flychuck
	snowgod
	Strider
	Lestrade
	Techno

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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 21:29:05 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  P1841 accepted (Saving sendmail)

Proposal 1841
Saving sendmail
Malenkai

Votes cast by active players:  10 / 17 = 58.823529%
Yes:  8    No:  3     Present:  0   ...Proposal accepted.

Malenkai +2 : EP P1841

YES votes:
	mr cwm
	IdiotBoy
	/dev/joe
	Robert Sevin
	fnord
	ThinMan
	Vynd
	Malenkai

NO votes:
	Red Barn
	breadbox
	Mohammed

PRESENT votes:

Active players who did not vote:
	Jammer
	Calvin N Hobbes
	Niccolo Flychuck
	snowgod
	Strider
	Lestrade
	Techno

Text of accepted proposal:

Proposal 1841
Saving sendmail
Malenkai
Mon Mar 17 19:02:05 1997

This is a Modest Proposal.

Amend R 309, "Substantially Similar Proposals" to append the following
text to the end of the rule:

"
It is a Crime to be the author of both Proposal A and Proposal B.
(as the terms 'Proposal A' and 'Proposal B' are used in this rule).
"

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