Subject: acka-voting-digest V2 #262
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acka-voting-digest     Saturday, January 24 1998     Volume 02 : Number 262

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Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 18:52:29 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2603 rejected

Results of Proposal 2603

17/22 votes: Quorum achieved
7/16 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
else...if            (SPAM)
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
Slakko               (SPAM)
Fortunato            (SPAM)
Goldenmean           (Boomerangs)
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)

    NO:
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
breadbox
K 2
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Malenkai             (Vulcan)
Balsamic Dragon      (SPAM)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
rufus                (SPAM)

    PRESENT:
Bill the pirate king (Boomerangs)

    ABSTAINED:
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
Red Barn
Slagothor            (Boomerangs)
two-star             (MetaMorph)
Crackfoo             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Michael Wren

> Proposal 2603 - Fri 16 Jan 1998 06:25 EST
> Fools Rush In
> Slakko (Duncan Richer)
> 
> {{All FairyDollars are destroyed.}
> 
> Create a new Rule in the Otzma Cards Rule Suite, titled "Otzma Card of Type
> Fairy Gold", with the following HAHA-delimited text:
> 
> HAHA
> This rule defines an Otzma Card type.
> FairyDollars are tradeable entities. n FairyDollars may be represented by
> the text F$n. 24 hours after a FairyDollar is created, it is destroyed.
> This card may be played only in the public forum.
> When this card is played, F$100 is created in the possession of the player
> who played the card. For the purposes of all other rules, F$ are identical
> to A$.
> Counter-Action: A total of 150 Dollars (being AckaDollars and FairyDollars)
> are transferred from the player who played the Fairy Gold card to the
> Treasury. FairyDollars will be transferred before AckaDollars. If the
> player does not have 150 Dollars, then all eir Dollars will be transferred
> to the Treasury.
> HAHA

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Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 18:57:59 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2605 accepted

Results of Proposal 2605

18/22 votes: Quorum achieved
11/17 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
else...if            (SPAM)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
Fortunato            (SPAM)
Goldenmean           (Boomerangs)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
rufus                (SPAM)
Slagothor            (Boomerangs)
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)

    NO:
K 2
Malenkai             (Vulcan)
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
Slakko               (SPAM)
Balsamic Dragon      (SPAM)
Bill the pirate king (Boomerangs)

    PRESENT:
breadbox

    ABSTAINED:
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
Red Barn
two-star             (MetaMorph)
Crackfoo             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Michael Wren

> Proposal 2605 - Fri 16 Jan 1998 06:27 EST
> Side Hat
> Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey)
> 
> Amend Rule 408, "Tabulator and Count Tabula", as follows:
> 
> Add the following text(delimited by YETI)to the end of the second-last
> paragraph:
> 
> YETI
> Count Tabula also has the Duty to conduct any Nominations for Office that
> are not the responsibility of any other Officer.
> YETI

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Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 19:01:04 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2632

Proposal 2632
Polite, yeah right
rufus (David Scheidt)

This is a modest proposal.

Replace the last sentance in Rule 374 with the "-delimited text. "If it
shows that it was polite, its author gets the nickname Jazz JackRabbit for
the next 3 days, and the player who called the hearing loses 2 points."  
{{[ It seems to me that there should be a penality for calling a hearing
that was wrong.  As it stands now, you can call as many hearings as you
want, and kill Count Tabula.  ]}}

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Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 19:01:35 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2633

Proposal 2633
Curse of the Bee Ack
Slakko (Duncan Richer)

I was young and foolish then, I feel old and foolish now.
 
{{[For those of you who don't know of the B-Ack, I suggest you point your
browsers at the Literature List.  There it lurks, even now!]}}

Create a New Rule, numbered 961, and entitled "Curse of The B-Ack", and
with text as delimited by GOBACK below:
 
GOBACK
The B-Ack is a fearsome creature known to inhabit the Wilds of Ackanomia.
It cannot be located by any glance at the map, because of its ability to
camouflage itself into more acceptable surroundings.  It has been sighted,
at times, latching on to the bottom of important rule web pages, and
cursing travellers to those pages with its fearsome cry of "BEE - ACK!"
The B-Ack is an unownable entity.
 
Ackans who visit the Wilds of Ackanomia must be careful to avoid the Curse
of the B-Ack.  It is therefore best that they keep quiet when in the
Wilds.  Therefore, each day that a player is in the Wilds of Ackanomia and
posts a public message, there is a 40% chance that the B-Ack will hear the
player and chase them on the following day.  The player will be treated as
if e had Gone Postal.  This is because (i) further public messages ruin a
player's attempts to elude the B-Ack, and thus lead to further hiding, and
(ii) the only weakness of the B-Ack is good poetry.
 
The one exception to the above paragraph is when the B-Ack hears a player
on a day that the player is launching a spaceship.  In this case, there is
a 50% chance (as determined by the Officer in Charge of Random Things)
that the B-Ack will be transported to the destination of the spaceship.
As there is only one B-Ack in the whole of Ackanomia, this rule will then
repeal itself. If the B-Ack is not transported to the spaceship's
destination, then the player instead steams the B-Ack with the spaceship
exhaust, having no effect other than to make the B-Ack angry.
 
Players who encounter the B-Ack are encouraged to publicly give a
description of its physical characteristics (note that these should be
vague).  This description should only be given once the player is no
longer in the Wilds of Ackanomia, and only one description may be sent by
a player for each time they are chased by the B-Ack.  Posting such a
description earns a player 6 points.
 
Scientists are permitted to sneer at any such description, claiming such a
creature is "physically impossible", and gain 2 points for doing so,
provided they sneer within 3 days of the public posting of the
description.
GOBACK

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Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 19:03:12 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2634

Proposal 2634
Fair Is Fair
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)

This is a modest proposal.

Amend R710, section 8b, to add at the end of that section:

"The player is also paid A$10 times the amount of the SENTENCE, up to a
maximum of A$200."

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Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 19:03:33 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2635

Proposal 2635
Le Grand Dalmuti
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)

Create a new rule, number 1101, to read as below.

"A player who has a score greater than 0 and greater than all the other
players will also be known as 'Le Grand Dalmuti'.

If a player who is not Le Grand Dalmuti gains points such that it makes
their score equal to that of Le Grand Dalmuti, then Le Grand Dalmuti's
score shall be increased by 4 points.

If a player's score overtakes Le Grand Dalmuti's score, thereby becoming
Le Grand Dalmuti themselves, the player(s) with the lowest score will
get a bonus number of points equivalent to one half the score of the new
Le Grand Dalmuti's."

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Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 19:04:30 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2636

Proposal 2636
Servant of Two Masters
Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey)

This is a Modest proposal.

Amend Rule 1301, "Church", as follows:

Append the following text(delimited by FROMAGE)as section 11.:

FROMAGE
11. Priesthood is relative to a particular Church; in other words, a
player may not be simply a Priest, but must be a Priest of a particular
Church.  (It is possible for a player who is a member of two Churches
to be a Priest in one Church but not in another.)  A Player may only
be a Priest of a Church if e has been Ordained a Priest of that
Church since the last time e joined that Church.
FROMAGE

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Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 19:05:09 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2637

Proposal 2637
Machinery to Eliminate the Hegemony of Rule 1
Slakko (Duncan Richer)

This is a Modest Proposal.

Amend Rule 101 by replacing  
"The rules and the game state" 
with
"The rules, the rule numbers, and the game state, which are three distinct
unownable entities,".

Amend Rule 303 by replacing

"is not considered part of the text of the rule itself."
with
"is not considered part of the rule itself."

{{[These changes should make it legal to renumber Rule 2000 to Rule 0 and
overrule rule 1.]}}

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