Subject: Ackanomic Voting Digest V2 #34
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Ackanomic Voting Digest    Wednesday, April 9 1997    Volume 02 : Number 034

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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 12:58:56 -0500
From: Acrobot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  P1895 accepted (Paranormalicicity)

Proposal 1895
Paranormalicicity
Vynd

Votes cast by active players:  14 / 19 = 73.684211%
Yes:  7    No:  3     Present:  4   ...Proposal accepted.

YES votes:
	IdiotBoy
	fnord
	Calvin N Hobbes
	snowgod
	FiBOnacCi
	Mohammed
	Vynd

NO votes:
	mr cwm
	/dev/joe
	Malenkai

PRESENT votes:
	Niccolo Flychuck
	Robert Sevin
	Narf
	breadbox

Active players who did not vote:
	Ackers
	You can call me Al
	Red Barn
	Bascule
	Techno

Text of accepted proposal:

Proposal 1895
Paranormalicicity
Vynd
Distributed at 00:06:30 on Tuesday, 1 April 1997

This is a Modest proposal

[The current rules on the W-File Pair don't mesh very well with the rules
on telepathy and telekinesis right now.  Their alien sedative probably
wouldn't remove telepathic or telekinetic powers since neither is actualy 
defined as a Paranormal Power in and of itself.  Hence this tinkering.  I 
know it reads kind of awkwardly, but I had to work it so the bit about
the weather ballons still fit :)]

Ammend Rule 1117 by deleting the last paragraph and replacing it with the
following:

So long as a player has the ability to use telepathy and/or telekinesis,
she may make as many uses of it as she likes.  However, telepathy and
telekinesis are Paranormal Powers.  However, if a player uses either
telepathy or telekinesis it is not treated as a use of a Paranormal Power 
unless she has already used that same power within the last 17 days (408
hours).  It's just considered to be another wind sheared weather balloon
and it is good form for senators to publicly deny everything about the
incident.  If, however, the player uses telepathy or telekinesis twice in
a 17 day (408) hour period, then the player will be treated as having used
that Paranormal Power.  This paragraph takes precedence over Rule 261
Dealing with the Paranormal.

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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 12:58:57 -0500
From: Acrobot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  P1896 rejected (No Sanctuary)

Proposal 1896
No Sanctuary
Mohammed

Votes cast by active players:  14 / 19 = 73.684211%
Yes:  7    No:  5     Present:  2   ...Proposal rejected.

YES votes:
	You can call me Al
	IdiotBoy
	/dev/joe
	Niccolo Flychuck
	Narf
	Calvin N Hobbes
	Vynd

NO votes:
	mr cwm
	fnord
	snowgod
	Mohammed
	Malenkai

PRESENT votes:
	Robert Sevin
	breadbox

Active players who did not vote:
	Ackers
	Red Barn
	Bascule
	FiBOnacCi
	Techno

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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 18:18:50 -0500
From: Acrobot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  P1897 accepted (Honoring All Fool's Day)

Proposal 1897
Honoring All Fool's Day
breadbox

Votes cast by active players:  15 / 19 = 78.947368%
Yes:  9    No:  5     Present:  1   ...Proposal accepted.

YES votes:
	IdiotBoy
	Niccolo Flychuck
	Narf
	breadbox
	Calvin N Hobbes
	snowgod
	Mohammed
	Vynd
	Malenkai

NO votes:
	You can call me Al
	/dev/joe
	mr cwm
	fnord
	FiBOnacCi

PRESENT votes:
	Robert Sevin

Active players who did not vote:
	Ackers
	Red Barn
	Bascule
	Techno

Text of accepted proposal:

Proposal 1897
Honoring All Fool's Day
breadbox
Distributed at 12:02:47 on Tuesday, 1 April 1997

This is a Modest proposal.

Replace the text of Rule 207.2 ["That's just silly"] with the following:

If an accepted proposal contains the phrase "cows eat grass", then the
player who submitted the proposal is said to be silly, and shall score
5 points. However, if the proposal was also distributed by the
Promoter on April First (All Fool's Day), the player is instead said
to be foolish, and shall score 10 points.

{{[Remember that even if Mohammed distributes this today and it is
accepted, it will not apply to itself (though it might apply to other
proposals distributed after me).]}}

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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 19:36:00 -0500
From: Acrobot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  P1898 accepted (Zombie)

Proposal 1898
Zombie
Mohammed

Votes cast by active players:  13 / 19 = 68.421053%
Yes:  5    No:  2     Present:  6   ...Proposal accepted.

YES votes:
	/dev/joe
	Niccolo Flychuck
	Calvin N Hobbes
	snowgod
	Mohammed

NO votes:
	Vynd
	Malenkai

PRESENT votes:
	mr cwm
	IdiotBoy
	Robert Sevin
	Narf
	fnord
	breadbox

Active players who did not vote:
	Ackers
	You can call me Al
	FiBOnacCi
	Red Barn
	Bascule
	Techno

Text of accepted proposal:

Proposal 1898
Zombie
Mohammed
Distributed at 17:39:50 on Tuesday, 1 April 1997

A new Rule is created in the Party Chess Rule Suite, titled "Party
Chess Piece Zombie", and reading:

- ---
A Zombie is a piece with a material value of 4, represented by the
character Z.

A Zombie can move up to three spaces horizontally or vertically.  At
the end of a turn in which a Zombie Captures, it promotes to the type
of the piece it captured, if the Swinger specifies this when
announcing the Capture.
- ---

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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 19:35:59 -0500
From: Acrobot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1911

Proposal 1911
Double Double Your Enjoyment
You can call me Al

{{
This is a Modest Proposal. 

[I saw the Evil Twin rule sitting there, and I thought, "Oh that's rich.
Gotta do somethin' with THAT."]

Amend rule 259, adding the following text after the first paragraph.

"
If a player's evil twin goes on Vacation, then the remaining twin is
expected to publicly post mildly derogatory remarks about eir twin's
shameless wasting of time away from the important business of Ackanomia. The
phrase, "My sentiments exactly, you son of a xxxxx" (where xxxxx is some
wild animal or civil servant) must appear in this tirade. Upon returning to
the game, the Vacationing twin should make public statement, containing
either the phrase "That hurts. That REALLY hurts", or "'Tis only a flesh
wound!" If the message contains the former statement, the non-Vacationing
twin should transfer A$10 to the Vacationing twin for damages; if the
latter, then the non-vacationing Twin should transfer A$10 to eir Twin for
promoting the dissemination of bandwidth-wasting gizz, or BWG.

No player may be the Evil Twin of more than one other player. It's not as if
one can bend the laws of biology as easily as cows eat grass...
"
}}

You can call me Al, or Bill, or Juanito, or Mall-monkey, or...

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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 23:36:49 -0500
From: Acrobot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1912

Proposal 1912
Perfection
Vynd

Create a new rule with the title: This rule is false.  
It's text shall read:

Godel's Theorem is wrong.  Acka is perfect.  Claiming otherwise is
Treason.

If, in a public message, a Player claims that Godel's Theorem applies to
Acka, it's Ruleset, or it's Game Custom in any way, then any other Player
may post a public message calling for a Scientific Board of Inquisition
against the accused dissident.  For this call to be valid, it must 
include the name of the accused, and the accused player must not currently
be subject to a Scientific Board of Inquisition.  Furthermore, the call
must specify what the accused said or did to justify a Scientific Board of
Inquisition, and this justification cannot be the same as any previous
justification for a call against that player, or the call will be invalid.

A Scientific Board of Inquisition is a Hearing.  The valid responses to a
Scientific Board of Inquisition are: "Yes!  The Computer is your friend!"
or "No!  The revolution will not be televised!"  If the verdict is "Yes!
The Computer is your friend!" then the accused is branded as a Dissident.
He shall then be hung by the neck until dead, at which point he will be
transported to the Ackanomic Afterlife, and lose 5 points.  Any proposals
which the Dissident authored that were distributed within the 48 hours
immediately before his hanging are declared indecent smut, are thrown in a
huge bonfire, and rendered Invalid.

A Player who has been branded as a Dissident is free to say whatever they
wish about Godel's Theorem as it applies to Acka, without fear of
reprisal, for no one who is a Dissident can be subjected to a call for a
Scientific Board of Inquisition.  Nor does simply discussing Godel's
Theorem constitute Treason, it is in fact encouraged to discuss the
incompleteness, falsity, and imperfection of things other than Acka.
Simply attempting to change the ruleset through legal means is not an
assertion of imperfection, but rather an attempt to make Acka more 
perfect, and thus cannot be the justification for a call for a Scientific
Board of Inquisition.  This paragraph takes precedence over everything
else in this rule, and over any other rules that govern Treason and/or
calls for a Scientific Board of Inquisition.

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