Subject: acka-voting-digest V2 #248
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acka-voting-digest      Thursday, January 8 1998      Volume 02 : Number 248

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Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 00:31:33 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2583

Proposal 2584
No bias, please
The Gingham Wearer (Tom Walmsley)

This is a modest proposal.

Modify rule 705 by adding the following to the end:

"The Boy Wonder may not be randomly selected to judge a CFCJ submitted by
the Caped Crusader. This rule takes precedence over rule 212"

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Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 00:32:09 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 258

Proposal 2585
Rummage Sale
Slakko (Duncan Richer)

This is a Modest Proposal.
{{[It clears up some archaic Otzma language, and allows them to be cleared
out of the treasury.  Also makes them gift instead of trade, after all, 
who would look a gift otzma in the mouth]}}

Replace the text "1. Otzma Cards are Protected" in Rule 1240.1 with the
text "1. Otzma Cards are Nameless Gift Entities."

Replace section II part 3 of Rule 1240.1 with the following text:
"3. A player may spend A$10 to acquire one Otzma Card of eir Choice from
the cards in the Treasury, provided there is at least one Otzma Card in
the Treasury."

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Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 00:33:59 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2586

Proposal 2586
Why is it always my rules that need fixing?
Vynd (John McCoy)

Amend Rule 910 by making the following numbered changes:

1) Add the following text to the end of the 6th paragraph:  The effects
(if any) of reading a page of the Ackanomicon occur as soon as it is
publicly knowable which page has been read.

2) Replace the last sentence of the paragraph begining with "Arcane Lore"
with:  A new Otzma card is created in the possession of the reader.  The
type of card shall be determined by the Speaker using the Probabalistic
Method.  If the type selected is at or above its instance limit, the
Speaker will select a new type using the Deterministic method. {{[I was
going to have the Runemaker do it, but then I realized that is an optional
political office and there may not always be one]}}

3) Replace the paragraph begining with "Mutation" with the following:
Mutation (2 pages):  The contents of this page warps the reader's mind and
body.  He gains a new Extra head, surly and mean-spirited in temprament.
{{[Telepathy and Telekinesis are gone]}}

4) Replace the second sentence of the paragraph begining with "The Secret"
with the following:  The reader of this page may amend the rule Beldin's
Pants as if he were Beldin's Tailor.  He may only do so once, and he has
only 72 hours after it becomes publicly knowable that he has read this
page to do so.

5) In the paragraph begining with "Doomsday" replace the second occurance
of the word "the" with "They".

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Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 00:34:14 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2587

Proposal 2587
I Have Seen The Amber Light
Slakko (Duncan Richer)

This is a Modest Proposal.

Amend Rule 923, "Amber Banana", by replacing the following text:

"Upon eating the Amber Banana(which destroys it), said player may inform
the owner of the Tree how e should vote on a single proposal, which must
be in the current queue and whose digits must also sum to 21. (It may be
the same proposal as allowed em to buy the Amber Banana in the first
place, but it need not be.) This effect takes precedence over any other
Rules which may specify how the Tree's owner shall vote on that proposal.
A player may only eat one Amber Banana per week. "

with the following NO-PARADOX-delimited text:
NO-PARADOX
Upon eating the Amber Banana(which destroys it), said player may inform
the owner of the Tree how e must vote on a single proposal, which must
be in the current queue and whose digits must also sum to 21. (It may be
the same proposal as allowed em to buy the Amber Banana in the first
place, but it need not be.) This effect takes precedence over any other
Rules which may specify how the Tree's owner shall vote on that proposal.
If two or more players eat Amber Bananas in an attempt to affect the
Tree's owner's vote on a single proposal, then only the first Banana
eating has the desired effect, all other eatings being ineffective.  A
player may only eat one Amber Banana per week. 
NO-PARADOX

{{[I don't know what would happen if two people tried to eat an Amber
Banana on a possible prop.  Probably something very nasty involving an
immovable object and an irresistible force :-) ]}}

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Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 00:40:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Bad subject lines

Apologies for the screwed-up subject lines on Proposal 2584 and 2585.
(Of course, I'll probably be the one that gets bitten by them, the
next time I have to grep through the archives for some weird lost
piece of data.)

breadbox

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Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 00:50:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2553 rejected

Results of Proposal 2553

15/20 votes: Quorum achieved
6/11 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
Alfvaen             (MetaMorph)
The Gingham Wearer  (SPAM)
Rex Mundi
else...if           (SPAM)
rufus               (SPAM)
/dev/joe            (Vulcan)

    NO:
Malenkai            (Vulcan)
K 2
Slakko              (SPAM)
Vynd                (Vulcan)
Goldenmean                              [Goldenmean is no longer pending]

    PRESENT:
breadbox
ThinMan             (Vulcan)
Fortunato           (SPAM)
Balsamic Dragon     (SPAM)

    ABSTAINED:
Niccolo Flychuck    (MetaMorph)
Crackfoo            (Harf)
Calvin N Hobbes     (Harf)
Red Barn
two-star            (MetaMorph)

    VACATIONING:
mr cwm              (SPAM)
norpan
Archie Leach
Michael Wren

> Proposal 2553 - Wed 31 Dec 1997 14:50 EST
> Possibly Just Catarrh
> Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey)
> 
> This is a Modest proposal.
> 
> Amend Rule 1044, "Swingpoints", as follows:
> 
> Append the following text(delimited by BONG)to Section 3:
> 
> BONG
> If a Swingpoint is donated to the Treasury, or should end up there
> by any other means, then it is destroyed.
> BONG

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Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 00:54:45 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2554 accepted

Results of Proposal 2554

15/20 votes: Quorum achieved
12/16 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
breadbox
Malenkai            (Vulcan)
Vynd                (Vulcan)
ThinMan             (Vulcan)
Alfvaen             (MetaMorph)
The Gingham Wearer  (SPAM)
Rex Mundi
else...if           (SPAM)
Fortunato           (SPAM)
rufus               (SPAM)
/dev/joe            (Vulcan)
Vulcan Unity Vote

    NO:
K 2
Slakko              (SPAM)
Balsamic Dragon     (SPAM)
Goldenmean

    PRESENT:

    ABSTAINED:
Niccolo Flychuck    (MetaMorph)
Crackfoo            (Harf)
Calvin N Hobbes     (Harf)
Red Barn
two-star            (MetaMorph)

    VACATIONING:
mr cwm              (SPAM)
norpan
Archie Leach
Michael Wren

> Proposal 2554 - Wed 31 Dec 1997 16:44 EST
> Repeal Voting Proxies
> breadbox (Brian Raiter)
> 
> This is a Modest Proposal. Delete the second and third paragraphs of Rule
> 106 ("Voting on Proposals"). [There are more problems with this than what's
> described in CFJ 504.]

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Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 07:51:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2588

Proposal 2588
Rude Weasels
Balsamic Dragon (Vivian Norwood)

Replace the first sentance of Rule 374 with the following NON-WEASEL text:

NON-WEASEL
Any Player sending a public message should avoid deliberate rudeness and/or
ad hominum attacks, where deliberate rudeness is characterized by not
furthering game play or discussion and/or doing so in such a way as to
unecessarily offend or alienate players from the game of Ackanomic.
NON-WEASEL

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