Subject: Ackanomic Voting Digest V2 #113
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Ackanomic Voting Digest    Wednesday, July 9 1997    Volume 02 : Number 113

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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 15:15:32 -0500
From: Acrobot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 2216

Proposal 2216
No More OMCLs/No Last-Minute Scams
/dev/joe

1. Create a new rule, reading:
"
All entities which have been transferred by zapping an Orbital Mind
Control Laser since July 5, 1997, 00:00 EDT, are transferred to the entity
which owned them immediately before the first time since July 5, 1997,
00:00 EDT that an Orbital Mind Control Laser was zapped to transfer that
entity.  Any undeads which own any entities which would have been
transferred by the previous sentence, if the entities had been owned by
players, transfer those entities to the players who would have received
them if the first sentence had succeeded in transferring them.  Then
this rule repeals itself.
"
{{[ The clumsy wording here is to try to prevent scams/paradoxes caused
by an entity being transferred twice by OMCL while this proposal is in the
queue.  Currently the only OMCL is broken but I can't take chances...]}}

2. Amend the Blueprint for the Orbital Mind Control Laser by deleting
this sentence: "Orbital Mind Control Lasers are indestructible."

3. All Orbital Mind Control Lasers are destroyed.  Each player who owned
an Orbital Mind Control Laser destroyed in this way receives A$100 from
the Treasury.  {{[ some compensation ]}}

4. The blueprint for the Orbital Mind Control Laser is destroyed.

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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 15:59:45 -0500
From: Acrobot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  P2199 accepted (Throw The Walls Into The Fireplace)

Proposal 2199
Throw The Walls Into The Fireplace
Alfvaen

Votes cast by active players:  17 / 19 = 89.473684%
Yes:  11    No:  4     Present:  3   ...Proposal accepted.

YES votes:
	Atilla the Pun
	Antimatter
	two-star
	Niccolo Flychuck
	mr cwm
	breadbox
	Alfvaen
	Rex Mundi
	ThinMan
	/dev/joe
	Mohammed

NO votes:
	fnord
	Guy Fawkes
	Vynd
	Malenkai

PRESENT votes:
	AZTEC GOD
	Karma
	Robert Sevin

Active players who did not vote:
	Mr. Lunatic Fringe
	You can call me Al
	Calvin N Hobbes
	CarsesraC

Text of accepted proposal:

Proposal 2199
Throw The Walls Into The Fireplace
Alfvaen
Distributed at 13:28:54 on Tuesday, 1 July 1997

This is a Modest proposal

Renumber Rule 1141, "Committee for the Protestion, Preservation, and
Integrity of the Arts", to 1082.  
{{[ No reason it shouldn't go with the other Ad Hoc Committees, IMHO...]}}

Repeal Rule 1399, "Thank You Yakko"
{{[ I believe that it has served its purpose in having passed in the first
place. ]}}

Repeal Rule 1046, "Another Truly Deplorable Pun"
{{[ If we're cracking down on rules that add little or nothing to the
ruleset...unless we want to add "Ferdinand Feghoot" to the Literature
list...]}}

Renumber Rule 2087, "Ad Hoc Committee on the matter of Fine Art", to 1083.
{{[ Maybe it should go in the 600's, but then the "Skylines" one should go
in the 800's, so we'll just put all the Ad Hocs in one place ]}}

Renumber Rule 2103, "Doomsday! Part II" to 1322.  {{[ Yeah, maybe this
should go away too, but we'll leave it on the books for a few months. ]}}

Renumber Rule 2104, "More Blatant Elitism", to 1324.
Renumber Rule 2105, "Universal Nomic strikes back!", to 1325.
Renumber Rule 2106, "Gimme that Gnome yet again", to 1326.
{{[  See 2103, above.  ]}}

{{[ And now one that's in the queue... ]}}
Renumber Rule 2177, "Pipes", to 502.

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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 15:59:46 -0500
From: Acrobot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 2217

Proposal 2217
Tabulator/Count Tabula fix
Mohammed

This is a Modest Proposal.

[It looks like section (b) in the text quoted below sticks to the
Tabulator.  But it should stick to Count Tabula instead; it doesn't
make any sense as is.]

In Rule 408 (Tabulator and Count Tabula), replace this:

```
The privileges of the Tabulator are: 

(a) To appoint someone to the Functional Office of Count Tabula
(created by this rule). This is the only way the office can be filled.

The Duties of Count Tabula are to handle solicitation, tabulation, and
reporting of votes on all Ackanomic matters, excluding Proposals. This
includes, but is not limited to, Hearings [see Rule 360], Impeachment
Papers [Rule 404], and all Elections for Office [Rule 402].

(b) To assume the duties, but not the privileges, of the Tabulator
when the Tabulator is on vacation.
'''

with this:

```
It is the Tabulator's Privilege to appoint a player to the Office of
Count Tabula.  This is the only way that Office can be filled.

The Office of Count Tabula is a Functional Office.  The Duties of the
Office include solicitation, tabulation, and reporting of votes on all
Ackanomic matters, excluding Proposals.  This includes, but is not
limited to, Hearings [see Rule 360], Impeachment Papers [Rule 404],
and all Elections for Office [Rule 402].

When the Tabulator is on vacation, Count Tabula is the Acting
Tabulator, and no other procedure for filling the office shall be
taken unless Count Tabula requests it.  This rule takes precedence
over Rule 403 [Functional Offices, Commonalities].
'''

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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 15:59:45 -0500
From: Acrobot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  P2197 accepted (Ad Hoc=Unorganized)

Proposal 2197
Ad Hoc=Unorganized
Alfvaen

Votes cast by active players:  17 / 19 = 89.473684%
Yes:  12    No:  3     Present:  3   ...Proposal accepted.

YES votes:
	Atilla the Pun
	Antimatter
	two-star
	Niccolo Flychuck
	mr cwm
	breadbox
	Alfvaen
	Rex Mundi
	fnord
	/dev/joe
	Karma
	Malenkai

NO votes:
	ThinMan
	Guy Fawkes
	Mohammed

PRESENT votes:
	AZTEC GOD
	Vynd
	Robert Sevin

Active players who did not vote:
	Mr. Lunatic Fringe
	You can call me Al
	Calvin N Hobbes
	CarsesraC

Text of accepted proposal:

Proposal 2197
Ad Hoc=Unorganized
Alfvaen
Distributed at 12:53:08 on Tuesday, 1 July 1997

This is a modest proposal.

Amend Rule 1080, "Ad Hoc Committees", by replacing the current section 5.

{{[
5. Once a Committee has been formed it has 7 days to post its decision
on the matter in question.  It is a Crime for a player to falsely
represent the decision of a Committee. If a Committee fails to reach a
decision in 7 days, or reaches 0 members before it reaches a decision,
all of its members are held in Contempt, it is dissolved, and another
one is called on the specific matter in question.
]}}

with the following text(delimited by TOFFLER)

TOFFLER

5. Once a Committee has been formed, it has 7 days to come to a
decision on the matter in question, and three days to post it.  It is a
Crime for a player to falsely represent the decision of a Committee. If
a Committee fails to post its decision in 10 days, all of its members
are held in Contempt.  If this occurs, or the Committee reaches 0
members before it reaches a decision, it is dissolved, and another one
is called on the specific matter in question.

TOFFLER

{{[ So, there are now three days to post the Committee's decision.  Also, I
decided that there's no point in punishing the Committee's members with
Contempt if it reaches zero members, because that's sort of a null
punishment, or should at the very least be phrased differently... ]}}

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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 15:59:45 -0500
From: Acrobot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  P2198 accepted (Thargoid Weapon Dealer Crackdown)

Proposal 2198
Thargoid Weapon Dealer Crackdown
Alfvaen

Votes cast by active players:  17 / 19 = 89.473684%
Yes:  10    No:  4     Present:  4   ...Proposal accepted.

YES votes:
	Atilla the Pun
	Antimatter
	two-star
	mr cwm
	Alfvaen
	Rex Mundi
	fnord
	ThinMan
	/dev/joe
	Vynd

NO votes:
	breadbox
	Guy Fawkes
	Mohammed
	Malenkai

PRESENT votes:
	AZTEC GOD
	Niccolo Flychuck
	Karma
	Robert Sevin

Active players who did not vote:
	Mr. Lunatic Fringe
	You can call me Al
	Calvin N Hobbes
	CarsesraC

Text of accepted proposal:

Proposal 2198
Thargoid Weapon Dealer Crackdown
Alfvaen
Distributed at 13:00:32 on Tuesday, 1 July 1997

This is a Modest proposal.

{{[ Rule 2104 somehow fails to appear on the web pages, but the Proposal
archive says it passed, Malenkai and I have taken advantage of it(or
attempted to), and I don't recall seeing it renumbered... ]}}

Amend Rule 2104, "More Blatant Elitism", by removing the text "the
replacement of any Military lasers in the player's possession by Pulse
lasers, and"

{{[ What this will leave is "leading to the loss of 1 point". ]}}

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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 18:12:35 -0500
From: Acrobot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 2218

Proposal 2218
Finally sorta fixing one of the old R508 loopholes
Malenkai

This is a Modest proposal.

- --------------------------------------------------------------------

Amend rule 416, "Supreme Court" to add the following new paragraph
to the end of the rule:

"
The Praetor or Acting Praetor shall be an Acting Justice whenever
there is a vacancy in the Supreme Court.
"

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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 19:24:23 -0500
From: Acrobot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 2219

Proposal 2219
Je Te Plumerai
Alfvaen

This is a modest proposal.

Amend Rule 1217, "Buried Treasure!", as follows:

Insert after the fourth paragraph the following text(delimited by
ALOUETTE):

ALOUETTE

Unless a particular map specifies otherwise, a treasure map cannot be
destroyed until at least three days have passed since the treasure was
buried.  Any players who achieve the conditions specified by a map before
this time are considered to have achieved the conditions simultaneously
at this time.

ALOUETTE

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