Subject: acka-voting-digest V2 #238
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acka-voting-digest      Monday, December 29 1997      Volume 02 : Number 238

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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 20:03:14 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2540 rejected

Results of Proposal 2540

13/17 votes: Quorum achieved
7/12 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
/dev/joe            (Vulcan)
rufus
Niccolo Flychuck    (MetaMorph)
ThinMan             (Vulcan)
The Gingham Wearer  (SPAM)
Rex Mundi
Malenkai            (Vulcan)

    NO:
else...if           (SPAM)
Balsamic Dragon     (SPAM)
K 2
Slakko              (SPAM)
Tammany                                 [K 2 bribed Tammany A$25]

    PRESENT:
Alfvaen             (MetaMorph)
breadbox

    ABSTAINED:
Vynd                (Vulcan)
Crackfoo            (Harf)
Michael Wren
Calvin N Hobbes     (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Red Barn
mr cwm              (SPAM)
two-star            (MetaMorph)
norpan
Archie Leach

    PENDING:
Fortunato

> Proposal 2540 - Sun 22 Dec 1997 06:18 EST
> Another one of those never used Rules...
> Vynd (John McCoy)
> 
> This is a Modest Proposal.
> 
> {{All existing Contracts are destroyed.}}
> 
> Repeal Rule 517 Contracts.

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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 20:08:45 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2541 accepted

Results of Proposal 2541

13/17 votes: Quorum achieved
13/14 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
Alfvaen             (MetaMorph)
else...if           (SPAM)
/dev/joe            (Vulcan)
rufus
Niccolo Flychuck    (MetaMorph)
Balsamic Dragon     (SPAM)
ThinMan             (Vulcan)
The Gingham Wearer  (SPAM)
K 2
Rex Mundi
Malenkai            (Vulcan)
Slakko              (SPAM)
SPAM Unity Vote

    NO:
breadbox

    PRESENT:

    ABSTAINED:
Vynd                (Vulcan)
Crackfoo            (Harf)
Michael Wren
Calvin N Hobbes     (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Red Barn
mr cwm              (SPAM)
two-star            (MetaMorph)
norpan
Archie Leach

    PENDING:
Fortunato

> Proposal 2541 - Sun 22 Dec 1997 06:23 EST
> A Fistful of Entities
> Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey)
> 
> Replace the current text of Rule 520, "Auction them Entities", with the
> following(delimited by GRACE):
> 
> GRACE
> 
> Once per calendar week the Financier may, as a Privilege, call a public
> auction, called an "Auction Them Entities" auction, for a single tradeable
> entity which is in the Treasury by specifying the entity. If the Financier
> has not yet called such an auction in a given week, any player may publicly
> request that a particular entity be auctioned and pay A$10 into the
> Treasury, and the Financier must call such an Auction within three days.
> The Financier is only bound to honour the first such request each week, and
> is never otherwise required to call an Auction Them Entities auction.
> 
> GRACE
> 
> Also, rename the rule to "Auction Them Entities".

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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 20:11:26 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2542 accepted

Results of Proposal 2542

13/17 votes: Quorum achieved
10/13 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
Alfvaen             (MetaMorph)
/dev/joe            (Vulcan)
Niccolo Flychuck    (MetaMorph)
Balsamic Dragon     (SPAM)
ThinMan             (Vulcan)
The Gingham Wearer  (SPAM)
breadbox
K 2
Malenkai            (Vulcan)
Slakko              (SPAM)

    NO:
else...if           (SPAM)
rufus
Rex Mundi

    PRESENT:

    ABSTAINED:
Vynd                (Vulcan)
Crackfoo            (Harf)
Michael Wren
Calvin N Hobbes     (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Red Barn
mr cwm              (SPAM)
two-star            (MetaMorph)
norpan
Archie Leach

    PENDING:
Fortunato

> Proposal 2542 - Sun 22 Dec 1997 06:25 EST
> Tomorrow Never Dies
> Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey)
> 
> {{[ It's not that I'm against people getting bond dividends, but if
> nobody's going to trade PFbonds, it's easier to get rid of them. ]}}
> 
> {{ All PF bonds and Bonds Promissory are destroyed. }}
> 
> Repeal Rule 507, "PF Bonds".
> 
> Replace the current text of Rule 508, "Bond Yields", with the following
> (delimited by S7V7N):
> 
> S7V7N
> Every other Monday at noon, Fortnightly Dividends are calculated. If a
> player's net score change over the last fortnight was positive, then e
> receives A$1 for every point eir score increased in that period. If eir
> score change was negative, e loses A$1 for every 2 points eir score
> decreased. This rule defers to rules which may specify other ways of
> calculating the score change for the fortnight. {{[ Specifically, Rule 666.
> I actually don't know if it ever had the precedence to suspend bond cycles
> before... ]}}
> 
> The first Fortnightly Dividend shall be calculated two weeks after the end
> of the last PF Bond cycle, at which point this sentence shall be removed
> from the rule.
> S7V7N
> 
> Rename Rule 508 to "Fortnightly Dividends".
> 
> {{ Any holder of the office of Bond-Harfer or Acting Bond-Harfer loses that
> title and office. }}
> Repeal Rule 427, "Bond-Harfer".
> 
> {{[ Cleaning up all the other references to it ]}}
> 
> In Rule 252, "Joining the Game", delete section III.3) and renumber section
> III.4) to III.3); delete section V.2) and renumber section V.3) to V.2).
> 
> In Rule 256, "Leaving the Game", delete ", every PFBond associated with him
> is destroyed", delete section 5), and renumber sections 6) and 7) to 5) and
> 6), respectively.
> 
> In Rule 666, "End of Cycle", replace "Bond payments" with "Fortnightly
> Dividends" wherever it occurs.

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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 20:15:45 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2543 accepted

Results of Proposal 2543

13/17 votes: Quorum achieved
5/11 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
/dev/joe            (Vulcan)
Niccolo Flychuck    (MetaMorph)
K 2
Rex Mundi
Malenkai            (Vulcan)

    NO:
else...if           (SPAM)
rufus
Balsamic Dragon     (SPAM)
ThinMan             (Vulcan)
breadbox
Slakko              (SPAM)

    PRESENT:
Alfvaen             (MetaMorph)
The Gingham Wearer  (SPAM)

    ABSTAINED:
Vynd                (Vulcan)
Crackfoo            (Harf)
Michael Wren
Calvin N Hobbes     (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Red Barn
mr cwm              (SPAM)
two-star            (MetaMorph)
norpan
Archie Leach

    PENDING:
Fortunato

> Proposal 2543 - Sun 22 Dec 1997 06:28 EST
> Who'll stop the rain?
> Vynd (John McCoy)
> 
> {{[Judging from the number of people crawling under rocks these last few
> days, most people want to avoid the Tornado. Its kind of harfy to have
> around though, so how about we just cut it back to twice a year?]}}
> 
> Amend Rule 1313 by deleting the following quoted text from the first
> sentence of the Rule: "Vernal Equinox, and Autumnal Equinox".

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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 20:27:31 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2544 rejected

Results of Proposal 2544

11/17 votes: Quorum achieved
6/11 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
rufus
Niccolo Flychuck    (MetaMorph)
K 2
Alfvaen             (MetaMorph)
The Gingham Wearer  (SPAM)
Tammany                                 [rufus bribed Tammany A$25]

    NO:
/dev/joe            (Vulcan)
ThinMan             (Vulcan)
breadbox
Rex Mundi
Malenkai            (Vulcan)

    PRESENT:
Slakko              (SPAM)

    ABSTAINED:
else...if           (SPAM)
Balsamic Dragon     (SPAM)
Vynd                (Vulcan)
Crackfoo            (Harf)
Michael Wren
Calvin N Hobbes     (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Red Barn
mr cwm              (SPAM)
two-star            (MetaMorph)
norpan
Archie Leach

    PENDING:
Fortunato

> Proposal 2544 - Sun 22 Dec 1997 20:30 EST
> two sylables are better than three
> rufus (David Scheidt)
> 
> This is a Modest proposal.
> 
> Replace every instance of the string "banana" with the string "banna".

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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 20:58:50 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2551

Proposal 2551
Get in line
The Gingham Wearer (Tom Walsmley)

Modify rule 340 such that, at the end, preceded by the lowest value Roman
numeral not already in use in that rule, the following is added:

"
When a rule calls for something to be a certain number of lines long the
line must be not shorter than 40 characters long and not longer than 80
characters long. For the purposes of this rule space characters count as
characters unless they are at the end of a line in which case they do not.
"

Modify rule 207 so that section V. is changed from

"
If a proposal is accepted which contains less than five lines, none of
which contains more than 80 characters, including space characters, of text
in the body of the proposal (excluding whitespace and furniture), the
player who submitted it is awarded half again as many points as e would
have gained from Section III, above, rounded up.
"

to

"
If a proposal is accepted which contains less than five lines of text in
the body of the proposal (excluding whitespace and furniture), the player
who submitted it is awarded half again as many points as e would have
gained from Section III, above, rounded up.
"

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