Subject: Ackanomic Voting Digest V2 #100
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Ackanomic Voting Digest    Thursday, June 26 1997    Volume 02 : Number 100

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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 21:01:29 -0500
From: Acrobot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 2168

Proposal 2168
More less work
Malenkai

This is a Modest proposal.

repeal rule 927, "Silly Vacation Hat"

{{[we have enough new must describe harf.  Lets clean out some of
the old must describe harf.  This one is especially difficult to
remember, and is sort of boring anyway, as compared to W-File
and Phoebe and whatnot.]}}

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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 21:01:31 -0500
From: Acrobot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 2169

Proposal 2169
Filling The Empty Centuries
Alfvaen

Amend Rule 303, "Proposal and Rule Numbering", as follows:

Replace the existing text of Section II.3.

{{[ 3. Otherwise, the new rule uses the number of the proposal that
created it as its base rule number. If some other rule already has this
number, then the new rule takes a sub rule number as large as necessary
to have a rule number different from all other rules. ]}}

with the following(delimited by SAVUKA):

SAVUKA

3. Otherwise, determine the new rule number as follows:  Let N be the
number of the proposal that created it, Subcentury(N) be the last two
digits of N, and Century(K) be the first two digits of the largest rule
number currently in existence(or first digit if the largest rule number
is less than 1000).  If (100*Century(K)+Subcentury(N)) is not the
number of an existing rule, then that is the new rule number.
Otherwise, (100*(Century(K)+1)+Subcentury(N)) is the new rule number.

[What this boils down to is that all new rules should be placed in the
corresponding spot in the latest Rule Century until there is no more
room for them.  This means that newly-created rules with no specified
numbers won't come into existence on the other side of an ever-widening gap
from the rest of the ruleset.]

SAVUKA

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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 21:50:33 -0500
From: Acrobot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  P2125 accepted (Aleph Beth Gimel)

Proposal 2125
Aleph Beth Gimel
Alfvaen

Votes cast by active players:  17 / 19 = 89.473684%
Yes:  10    No:  6     Present:  1   ...Proposal accepted.

YES votes:
	Atilla the Pun
	two-star
	Niccolo Flychuck
	Robert Sevin
	Calvin N Hobbes
	Rex Mundi
	Techno
	/dev/joe
	Mohammed
	Alfvaen

NO votes:
	fnord
	Mr. Lunatic Fringe
	breadbox
	Guy Fawkes
	Antimatter was here
	Malenkai

PRESENT votes:
	Vynd

Active players who did not vote:
	You can call me Al
	CarsesraC
	Karma

Text of accepted proposal:

Proposal 2125
Aleph Beth Gimel
Alfvaen
Distributed at 13:46:10 on Tuesday, 17 June 1997

Create a new rule, numbered 349, with text as follows(delineated by ZAYIN):

ZAYIN

Whenever it is desired that the relative alphabetical ordering of two
entity names be determined, the following procedure is followed:

1) The relative alphabetical ordering of the two strings formed by removing
all non-alphabetical characters from the names and putting all alphabetic
alphabetic characters from both names in the same case is considered.

2) If the comparison from 1) does not determine an ordering, then ASCII
collation order is used.

ZAYIN

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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 21:50:33 -0500
From: Acrobot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  P2126 accepted (Even Though My Weeks Start On Monday)

Proposal 2126
Even Though My Weeks Start On Monday
Alfvaen

Votes cast by active players:  17 / 19 = 89.473684%
Yes:  14    No:  3     Present:  0   ...Proposal accepted.

YES votes:
	Atilla the Pun
	two-star
	Niccolo Flychuck
	Robert Sevin
	fnord
	Calvin N Hobbes
	Mr. Lunatic Fringe
	Rex Mundi
	Techno
	breadbox
	Vynd
	/dev/joe
	Mohammed
	Alfvaen

NO votes:
	Guy Fawkes
	Antimatter was here
	Malenkai

PRESENT votes:

Active players who did not vote:
	You can call me Al
	CarsesraC
	Karma

Text of accepted proposal:

Proposal 2126
Even Though My Weeks Start On Monday
Alfvaen
Distributed at 14:25:19 on Tuesday, 17 June 1997

This is a Modest proposal.

Add the following paragraph(delimited by DIMANCHE) to the end of Rule
380, "Time Zone":

DIMANCHE

When the term "calendar week" is used, it is interpreted to mean a 7-day
period from the beginning of a Sunday to the end of the next Saturday.

DIMANCHE

{{[However much I'd like to begin a calendar week on Monday, which has
always been my custom...]}}

Also, amend Rule 509, "Controlling Interest", to replace the phrase "once a
calendar week, from Sunday through Saturday" with "once a calendar week".

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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 21:50:32 -0500
From: Acrobot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  P2123 accepted (Fixing the frankenstein monster blueprint loophole)

Proposal 2123
Fixing the frankenstein monster blueprint loophole
/dev/joe

Votes cast by active players:  17 / 19 = 89.473684%
Yes:  10    No:  5     Present:  2   ...Proposal accepted.

#award /dev/joe: 2 A$ : elec. potato P2123, June 25

YES votes:
	Atilla the Pun
	two-star
	Niccolo Flychuck
	Robert Sevin
	fnord
	Calvin N Hobbes
	Rex Mundi
	Techno
	/dev/joe
	Guy Fawkes

NO votes:
	Mr. Lunatic Fringe
	Mohammed
	Antimatter was here
	Malenkai
	Alfvaen

PRESENT votes:
	breadbox
	Vynd

Active players who did not vote:
	You can call me Al
	CarsesraC
	Karma

Text of accepted proposal:

Proposal 2123
Fixing the frankenstein monster blueprint loophole
/dev/joe
Distributed at 11:54:14 on Tuesday, 17 June 1997

This is a modest proposal.

{{[ If this had been written correctly to begin with, the Azpiazu blueprint
(if it ever existed) would have been immediately destroyed by section (ii),
for violating "a blueprint must unambiguously describe the behavior of a
type of gadget".  As it is, it gets by because this is only a requirement
when a blueprint is created by this rule, and not a general, continuous
requirement of blueprints. ]}}

Amend rule 594, "Blueprints", by changing

  An attempt to create a new Blueprint fails if its text does not (a) 
  introduce exactly one new type of Gadget, (b) name the new Gadget type, 
  and (c) unambiguously define the behavior of such a Gadget.

to:

  Each Blueprint defines a different type of gadget.  This definition
  consists of naming the type of gadget and unambiguously describing the
  behavior of such a gadget.

and changing section (ii) from:

  (ii) When a Blueprint is judged to be in conflict with one or more
  Rules, the Blueprint is destroyed, as are any extant Gadgets made from
  that Blueprint.

to:

  (ii) When a Blueprint violates or conflicts with one or more Rules, the
  Blueprint is destroyed, as are any extant Gadgets made from that Blueprint.
  An attempt to create a Blueprint which violates or conflicts with one or
  more rules fails; in this case, no processing chips are spent, and the
  Blueprint is not created.

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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 21:50:32 -0500
From: Acrobot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  P2124 accepted (Unity On The Beach)

Proposal 2124
Unity On The Beach
Alfvaen

Votes cast by active players:  17 / 19 = 89.473684%
Yes:  10    No:  6     Present:  1   ...Proposal accepted.

YES votes:
	Atilla the Pun
	two-star
	Robert Sevin
	Calvin N Hobbes
	Rex Mundi
	Techno
	/dev/joe
	Mohammed
	Antimatter was here
	Alfvaen

NO votes:
	Niccolo Flychuck
	fnord
	Mr. Lunatic Fringe
	Vynd
	Guy Fawkes
	Malenkai

PRESENT votes:
	breadbox

Active players who did not vote:
	You can call me Al
	CarsesraC
	Karma

Text of accepted proposal:

Proposal 2124
Unity On The Beach
Alfvaen
Distributed at 12:54:59 on Tuesday, 17 June 1997

This is a Modest proposal.

{{[ This is just so the Harf party doesn't lose any chances of Unity Votes
just because Bascule's on vacation... ]}}

Amend Rule 1009, "Big Tents and Rewarding Party Unity", as follows:

Replace the third paragraph

{{[ At the end of a proposal's voting period, but before votes on that
proposal are counted, if every player member of a given Political Party
voted YES on that proposal, and no member of the Party is also a member of
some other Party, then the Political Party itself shall cast an additional
YES vote on that proposal for every three player members it has. ]}}

with the following(delimited by MARGARITA):

MARGARITA

At the end of a proposal's voting period, but before votes on that
proposal are counted, if every active non-vacationing player member of
a given Political Party voted YES on that proposal, and no member of
the Party is also a member of some other Party, then the Political
Party itself shall cast an additional YES vote on that proposal for
every three active non-vacationing player members it has.

MARGARITA

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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 22:44:46 -0500
From: Acrobot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 2170

Proposal 2170
Sovereignty
Malenkai

This is a Modest proposal.

Amend rule 101 to append the following sentence to the end of the first
paragraph:

"
The term "rules", as used in the rules, means the rules of Ackanomic.
"

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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 23:26:14 -0500
From: Acrobot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 2171

Proposal 2171
Conseaeaeaecuter
Alfvaen

This is a modest proposal.

{{[ Just a spelling fix, that the Spelling Bee would be powerless to deal
with effectively... ]}}

Amend Rule 217, "Overturning Judgements", by replacing "Proseacuter" with
"Prosaecutor" and "Consaecuter" with "Consaecutor".

Amend Rule 218, "Trials By Jury", by replacing all occurrences of
"Prosaecuter" and "Proseacuter" with "Prosaecutor" and all occurences of
"Consecuter" and "Consaecuter" with "Consaecutor".

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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 23:27:42 -0500
From: Acrobot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 2172

Proposal 2172
Aleph Beth Gimel
Alfvaen

Create a new rule, numbered 349, with text as follows(delineated by DALETH):

DALETH

Whenever it is desired that the alphabetical ordering of two names be
determined, the following procedure is followed:

1) The two names are compared word-by-word, where a word is considered to 
be a series of non-whitespace characters delinated by whitespace.
Further, each word is considered as if it were all lowercase.  An
initial "the" or "The" is ignored.

2) Words are compared letter-by-letter, where a series of digits is
considered to be a single letter, an accented letter is treated as its
unaccented form(except as specified below), and non-alphanumeric
characters are ignored.  A numeric "letter" precedes another numeric
"letter" if its numeric value is less, or, if they have the same
numeric value, if it has fewer leading zeroes.  A numeric letter always
precedes an alphabetic letter.  An alphabetic letter precedes another
alphabetic letter if it comes earlier in the alphabet.  An unaccented
letter precedes an accented letter if neither would otherwise precede
the other.  (The alphabet is in the order:
"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz".)  If neither of two letters precede the
other, they are considered to be identical.  A word precedes another word
if the first non-identical character precedes the corresponding character
in the other word, if no such character exists, the words are considered to
be identical.

3) If one name contains fewer words than the other, and all the words in the
shorter name are identical to the corresponding words in the other name,
then the shorter name is considered to come first.  Otherwise, the name
whose word was considered to come first in the last comparison done is
considered to come first.

4) If the above procedure does not yield a relative ordering for the two
names, then they are ordered in ASCII collation order.

An "alphabetic list" shall be a list of names whose elements are
ordered so that if there are any two elements A and B such that A
occurs before B in relative alphabetical ordering, as defined above,
occurs before element B in the list.

DALETH

Amend Rule 594, "Blueprints", by changing the sequence of words "first in
an alphabetic list(using ASCII)of their titles" to "first in an alphabetic
list of their titles".

{{ Transfer three points from Alfvaen to Mohammed. }}

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