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acka-voting-digest      Friday, February 13 1998      Volume 03 : Number 013

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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 16:09:12 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2715

Proposal 2715
More Lunacy
Slakko (Duncan Richer)

Amend Rule 1350, "La Luna", as follows:

Insert the following sentence immediately before the sentence beginning "A
player who moves":

No entity may give any gift entity to a player who is currently at a Moon
of Acka, unless that entity is also at the same Moon of Acka.

Append the following text:

"Kansas is a land without hues - with the exception of sepia.  A player in
Kansas gains 5 points the first time (on any given trip to Kansas) that
they send a message, describing the moon Kansas and all its strangeness,
containing at least 250 words, none of which are a colour, except for
white, sepia, and black, should black ever be a colour."

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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 16:10:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2716

Proposal 2716
La grande fromage
The Gingham Wearer (Tom Walmsley)

This is a grandiose proposal.

{{[Just out of interest, does anyone know if I've got the gender of fromage
right in the proposal's title?]}}

Create a new rule with the following CAMEMBERT delimited text:

CAMEMBERT
There exists a type of non-tradable entities known as cheeses. There are
five varieties of cheeses. These are:

1. Stilton
2. Cheddar
3. Edam
4. Brie
5. Gouda

At any point any player may own at most one of each variety of cheese. If a
player owns more than one of any given variety of cheese then all but one
of them are destroyed. If ever a player owns one of each type of cheese
then e shall win the current cycle of the game of Ackanomic. {{If there
exists a rule called "Winning Conditions" then the phrase "shall win the
current cycle of the game of Ackanomic" is replaced with "will achieve a
winning condition".}} If anyone wins the game by this method then all
cheeses are destroyed.

A player may gain a cheese only by doing the following. If e does so the e
is automatically given a cheese of the correct type.

A player receives a stilton if e the ten most recent proposals e authored
were all accepted.

A player receives a cheddar if e has had three harfy proposals accepted
since the adoption of this rule, or the most recent destruction of a cheese
of this type belonging to this player; whichever is the most recent.

A player receives an edam if e has held five offices (not including Capital
Offices) since the adoption of this rule, or the most recent destruction of
a cheese of this type belonging to this player, or the players most recent
impeachment; whichever is the most recent.

A player receives a brie if e has not had a CFCJ called against em with a
final verdict of true, during the last two months.

A player receives a gouda if e wins a game of grab a donkey, wins a game of
party chess or wins three games from the games and contest containing five
or more players (starting from the instant this rule is adopted or the time
a cheese of this type belonging to this player as destroyed; whichever is
more recent).
CAMEMBERT

Modify rule 594.14 by adding the following text after the second sentence:

"If all the Cheez-Whiz's owner's Ackadollars are transferred to the
treasury in this way then the owner of the Cheez-Whiz may specify any
individual cheese to be destroyed. The cheese in question will then be
destroyed. This power of the Cheez-Whiz may only be utilised once per day."

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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 17:59:55 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2696 accepted

Results of Proposal 2696

20/25 votes: Quorum achieved
12/17 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
Hoover 2300
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
rufus                (SPAM)
Balsamic Dragon      (SPAM)
Fortunato            (SPAM)
else...if            (Klingon)
Goldenmean           (Boomerangs)
Illusion
K 2
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)

    NO:
Guy Fawkes
Malenkai             (Vulcan)
breadbox
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
Slakko               (SPAM)

    PRESENT:
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)

    ABSTAINED:
Slagothor            (Boomerangs)
Bill the pirate king (Boomerangs)
Red Barn
two-star             (MetaMorph)
Crackfoo             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Michael Wren

    PENDING:
Device

> Proposal 2696 - Fri 06 Feb 1998 17:03 EST
> Waiting For The Moon
> Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey)
> 
> {{[ This is my attempt to implement the "no win until CFJ ruling" changes.
> I realize that in the case of point wins this may be annoying, but if
> someone scams their score to the magic number instead of just anti-voting
> their way there, the mechanism will still be there, and otherwise someone
> may just get an easy CFJ. ]}}
> 
> Create a new Rule, numbered 600, named "Winning Conditions", with the
> following text(delimited by JELLYFISHBABIES):
> 
> JELLYFISHBABIES
> A player may only achieve a Winning Condition as described in the Rules. If
> any Rule besides this one, Rule 601, Rule 620, and Rule 666, refers to a
> player winning a Cycle, this shall be considered to be achieving a Winning
> Condition, and will not result in an actual Cycle win except as described
> by this Rule.
> 
> If a player believes emself to have achieved a Winning Condition, then e
> should submit a CFJ whose statement alleges that e has won the Cycle. The
> rest of the CFJ should describe how the player thinks e has won the Cycle.
> (Such CFJ's, and only such CFJ's, are known as Cycle-Win CFJ's.)
> 
> When it ceases to be legal to appeal a particular Cycle-Win CFJ, if the
> final verdict is true, and the player who submitted the CFJ is a voting
> player at that time, then that player wins the cycle.
> JELLYFISHBABIES
> 
> {{[ Of course, Paradox Wins don't fit into the above category very well,
> but they have their own mechanism, so we'll make them an exception for now.
> ]}}
> 
> Amend Rule 601, "Winning By Paradox", to add the following sentence: "This
> takes precedence over Rule 600."
> 
> {{[ Rule 603, fortuitously enough, already uses the Winning Condition
> terminology, but just to make things clear... ]}}
> 
> In Rule 603, "Winning by Points", replace the text "[See Rule 666 for the
> effects of winning a cycle.]" with "[See Rule 600 for the effects of
> achieving a Winning Condition.]"
> 
> In Rule 605, "Winning is Inherently Amusing (or Winning by Palindrome)",
> replace "win the current Cycle of the Game" with "achieve a Winning
> Condition", and delete the next sentence {{[ which begins "This win, if it
> occurs... ]}}
> 
> {{[ Rule 607 also uses the Winning Condition phraseology...good going,
> two-star! ]}}
> 
> Amend Rule 666, "End of Cycle" {{[ Isn't this the most-amended Rule in the
> Ruleset? ]}} as follows:
> 
> Replace the text "Upon a Cycle winning condition being achieved" with "Upon
> a Cycle being won as described by Rule 600 or 601". After the text "If the
> cycle was won by points" insert the text "(i.e. the Winning Condition was
> due to Rule 603)". Delete "Reset the Magic Number to the base Magic
> Number." {{[ A little bit of Redundancy there... ]}}
> 
> {{[ I'm tempted to delete the section whereby the Chartreuse Goose is
> transferred to the winner if e would immediately win again, since I think
> this will make it less likely to occur, but I'll leave it in for safety's
> sake. ]}}
> 
> Amend Rule 101, "The Game of Ackanomic", to replace "may only win a Cycle
> by achieving a winning condition that is defined by the Rules" with "may
> only win a Cycle as defined by the Rules".
> 
> {{[ I'm not sure if this is necessary, but since Rule 101 will have
> precedence over Rule 600... If this leaves a huge gaping loophole, i.e. if
> there was some reason for this phrasing in the first place, then I'll have
> to work around it. ]}}

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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 18:04:13 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2697 accepted

Results of Proposal 2697

19/25 votes: Quorum achieved
12/17 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Guy Fawkes
Red Barn
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Balsamic Dragon      (SPAM)
Fortunato            (SPAM)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
else...if            (Klingon)
Goldenmean           (Boomerangs)
Slakko               (SPAM)
K 2
Vynd                 (Vulcan)

    NO:
breadbox
Malenkai             (Vulcan)
Illusion
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)

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

    ABSTAINED:
Hoover 2300
rufus                (SPAM)
Slagothor            (Boomerangs)
Bill the pirate king (Boomerangs)
two-star             (MetaMorph)
Crackfoo             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Michael Wren

    PENDING:
Device

> Proposal 2697 - Fri 06 Feb 1998 17:04 EST
> Oh the Humanity
> Vynd (John McCoy)
> 
> Create a new Rule 1130, entitled The Ackanomic Printing Guild, with the
> following text:
> 
> The Ackanomic Printing Guild exists. It is a Common Location, and an
> Extravagant Building. It can be found next to the Library.
> 
> All printed materials in Ackanomic are made within the Ackanomic Printing
> Guild. This includes but is not limited to all copies of the Rules, CFJs,
> CSRs, newspapers, Documents, and comic books. Whenever such printed
> material is needed or desired, the Ackanomic Printing Guild shall supply
> it, with or without request, and collated to boot. These printed materials
> are produced by the Ackanomic Printing Guild's crack team of an infinite
> number of monkeys. The monkeys use their infinite number of typewriters to
> produce the printed materials, which are immediately and instantaneously
> delivered wherever they are needed.
> 
> This Rule yields precedence to all other Rules.

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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 18:08:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2698 accepted

Results of Proposal 2698

19/25 votes: Quorum achieved
13/20 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Guy Fawkes
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Balsamic Dragon      (SPAM)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
else...if            (Klingon)
Goldenmean           (Boomerangs)
Slakko               (SPAM)
Illusion
K 2
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
Klingon Unity Vote

    NO:
breadbox
Malenkai             (Vulcan)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
rufus                (SPAM)
Fortunato            (SPAM)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)

    PRESENT:

    ABSTAINED:
Hoover 2300
Slagothor            (Boomerangs)
Red Barn
Bill the pirate king (Boomerangs)
two-star             (MetaMorph)
Crackfoo             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Michael Wren

    PENDING:
Device

> Proposal 2698 - Fri 06 Feb 1998 17:05 EST
> Prophets and Prophecies
> Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)
> 
> {{ Amend R1313 to replace:
> 
> "Players in the Ackanomic Afterlife and Gaol are Sheltered. If a Bomb
> Shelter exists, all players are Sheltered, regardless of their Location. "
> 
> by:
> 
> "Players in the Ackanomic Afterlife and Gaol are Sheltered. If a Bomb
> Shelter exists, all players are Sheltered, regardless of their Location. A
> True Prophet and his Location are Sheltered." }}
> 
> {{ Renumber this rule to 1304 }}
> 
> On Solstice day, all members of Churches or Cults may each make one public
> list of predictions about all the proposals which will have their voting
> period end on the next day, predicting which will pass and which will not.
> No player may make the same list of predictions as one that has already
> been made for that New Moon.
> 
> If a player's predictions are all correct, then it is said that the Great
> Power of the Universe is now inhabiting him and he is Transfigured. That
> player also becomes the new True Prophet. There can only be one True
> Prophet. The True Prophet gets an Indiana Jones Staff if he does not
> already have one. The Indiana Jones Staff is yea high. A Player may have at
> most one Indiana Jones Staff. It may not be traded, exchanged or otherwise
> manipulated except by this rule.
> 
> The True Prophet has the task of providing Ackanomic with Prophesies of
> things to come. It is good form for these to be gloomy and for other
> players to laugh at them. It is also good form for the Prophet to spend
> time in the Wilds of Ackanomic. It is rumored that the True Prophet can
> cure, heal, annoit and otherwise comfort Enlightened players by simple
> touch.

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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 18:11:19 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2700 rejected

Results of Proposal 2700

19/25 votes: Quorum achieved
10/17 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Guy Fawkes
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Balsamic Dragon      (SPAM)
else...if            (Klingon)
Goldenmean           (Boomerangs)
Slakko               (SPAM)
Illusion
K 2
Vynd                 (Vulcan)

    NO:
breadbox
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
rufus                (SPAM)
Fortunato            (SPAM)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)

    PRESENT:
Malenkai             (Vulcan)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)

    ABSTAINED:
Hoover 2300
Slagothor            (Boomerangs)
Red Barn
Bill the pirate king (Boomerangs)
two-star             (MetaMorph)
Crackfoo             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Michael Wren

    PENDING:
Device

> Proposal 2700 - Fri 06 Feb 1998 17:07 EST
> Lux aeterna luceat eis
> Illusion (Andrew Stefanski)
> 
> {{[ I figured that my first proposal ought to be something that doesn't
> have that great an impact, just to kinda get the feel of things. So I
> picked what seems an appropriate area... ]}}
> 
> Create a new rule, numbered 1312, entitled "Light Up Our Lives", with the
> following "-delimited text:
> 
> "
> Ackanomia could not have developed as it has in total darkness.
> Fortunately, there is a source of light on our flat world.
> 
> There is a large circular track that sits on the surface of the spherical
> hollow. The track is placed such that at every point on the track, there is
> part of the track direcly opposite.
> 
> On this track sits a huge spotlight, pointing directly at the earth. The
> spotlight slowly moves along the track, taking exactly one Ackanomian day
> to return to it's initial position. The spotlight has never stopped moving.
> 
> The surfaces of the aluminum and stainless steel blocks that face into the
> spherical hollow appear to be a non-reflective black, so that light that
> does not shine on our flat world does not reflect off of the blocks.
> 
> There is speculation that it may be possible for objects that fall off of
> the earth and on to the surface of the hollow might either block the
> spotlight from moving, or even fall into and destroy the spotlight.
> However, not enough is known about the spotlight to be sure.
> "

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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 18:14:48 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2701 rejected

Results of Proposal 2701

19/25 votes: Quorum achieved
8/19 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Fortunato            (SPAM)
Goldenmean           (Boomerangs)
Slakko               (SPAM)
Illusion
Vynd                 (Vulcan)

    NO:
breadbox
Guy Fawkes
Malenkai             (Vulcan)
rufus                (SPAM)
Balsamic Dragon      (SPAM)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
else...if            (Klingon)
K 2
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)

    PRESENT:

    ABSTAINED:
Hoover 2300
Slagothor            (Boomerangs)
Red Barn
Bill the pirate king (Boomerangs)
two-star             (MetaMorph)
Crackfoo             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Michael Wren

    PENDING:
Device

> Proposal 2701 - Fri 06 Feb 1998 17:09 EST
> Trinkets and Tokens
> Fortunato (Aaron Keesler)
> 
> {{ [This changes Trinkets in the fashion that Alfvaen and I mentioned on
> acka-research, while creating Tokens for people who want to symbolize some
> event without creating a cheap Trinket. I figured it would be a good idea
> to make Tokens as much like Trinkets as possible, and much of the Trinket
> rule was snatched for this. Thanks to Malenkai and Alfvaen for inspiration]
> }}
> 
> Create a Rule called Tokens, numbered 507, with the following
> CHEAP-delimited text:
> 
> CHEAP
> i) A class of named gift entities known as Tokens exist. A player may
> create a Token by transfering A$1 to the Treasury and announcing the name
> and description of the Token as a public action. The player who created the
> Token is the initial owner.
> 
> ii) Other rules may also create and bestow ownership of Tokens, so long as
> the rule provides for naming and describing the Token.
> 
> iii) A player-created Token, whose name contains the name of a current or
> former player other than that of the creating player, such that the player
> name in question existed before the Token was created, is a forgery. The
> rules may define other circumstances under which a Token is a forgery. Upon
> it becoming publically knowable that a Token is a forgery, it is
> transferred to the Treasury, unless the player name contained in its name
> is that of a currently active player, in which case it is transferred to
> that player. For the purposes of this clause, the Token name "contains" a
> name N, if it contains a word or phrase of the same length in words as N,
> that when stripped of any conventional English morphological changes,
> matches N as described in rule 348.
> 
> iv) Tokens have no power to affect any entities except as specified in the
> rules.
> CHEAP
> 
> Amend Rule 506, Trinkets, in the following manner:
> Insert the following "-delimited sentence:
> "The stated value of the Trinket must be no less than A$50."
> 
> after the second sentence of the second paragraph.
> 
> Append the following NEW-delimited statement to Rule 428, "Trinket-Harfer"
> NEW
> b) To keep an accurate record of all Token names and descriptions, and to
> make that record available to any player on request.
> NEW

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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 22:31:28 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2702 accepted

Results of Proposal 2702

18/25 votes: Quorum achieved
16/19 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
Guy Fawkes
Malenkai             (Vulcan)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Fortunato            (SPAM)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
Goldenmean           (Boomerangs)
Slakko               (SPAM)
Illusion
K 2
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
breadbox
Vulcan Unity Vote

    NO:
rufus                (SPAM)
Balsamic Dragon      (SPAM)
else...if            (Klingon)

    PRESENT:

    ABSTAINED:
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Hoover 2300
Slagothor            (Boomerangs)
Red Barn
Bill the pirate king (Boomerangs)
two-star             (MetaMorph)
Crackfoo             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Michael Wren

    PENDING:
Device

> Proposal 2702 - Fri 06 Feb 1998 22:17 EST
> Just Trying to Clean Up After the Peons
> breadbox (Brian Raiter)
> 
> This is a Modest Proposal.
> 
> {{[This proposal gets rid of all the weirdness that was added to the rules
> solely for the purpose of unseating Rule 1. Either Proposal 2681 will
> succeed or it will fail - either way, this stuff needs to be put back to
> the way it was.]}}
> 
> I. Amend Rule 101 ("The Game of Ackanomic") by replacing the first sentence
> of the second paragraph
> 
> ["The rules, the rule numbers, and the game state, which are three distinct
> unownable entities, may only be changed as described in the rules."]
> 
> with the following sentence:
> 
> The rules and the game state may only be changed as described in the rules.
> 
> II. Repeal all rules (if any) that have the title "Death to Immutability"
> [either Rule 2000 or Rule 0, depending].
> 
> III. Amend section I of Rule 303 ("Proposal and Rule Numbering") so that it
> has the following text:
> 
> Each rule has an effective ordinal number, hereafter referred to simply as
> the rule's number. Rule numbers and proposal numbers are unownable
> entities. A valid rule number is one or two positive integers. The first is
> called the base rule number, and the second, if present, is called the sub
> rule number and is separated from the base rule number by a period.

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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 22:59:39 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2717

Proposal 2717
Prophets Are Religious Leaders
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)

{{Amend R1304 by replacing "for that New Moon" with "on that Solstice day".

Amend R1301 at the end of part 8 to add:

"i. If a player that is the True Prophet is a member of a Church or Cult
where the Founder is no longer a member, then that player becomes its new
Founder. If a Transfigured player is not considered a priest in any of the
Church or Cults of which he is a member, then its Founder must make them a
Priest within 7 days."

Amend R1320 to add the following line after "and crying like a baby." in the
second paragraph:

"The True Prophet must shout at the top of his lungs to the players, telling
them that he had warned them about defying the natural order and that they
must pay."

Amend R1320 to add the following lines after the last line of the third
paragraph.

"The Prophet of Doom must then challenge the True Prophet to a duel as soon
as it is possible to do so."}}

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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 23:00:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2718

Proposal 2718
Traveling Exhibition
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)

{{ This is a modest proposal.

Renumbering section VIII to IX of R850.

Add the following between sections VII and IX of R850:

"VIII. Traveling Exhibitions

Players can make temporary donations to the Museum so that objects of great
historical value that would otherwise not be seen by the public can be put
on display. Any player can state that they wish to give to the Museum a
trinket or Majik to add to the Private Collection Room. It is good form for
the donor to give a brief description of the gifts. The Curator can accept
or decline such gifts. Although the Museum is pleased to be able to display
these artifacts, the donor's Benefactor Value is not changed. However, the
player can get back any donation he made to the Private Collection Room by
making a public request for it."

[ There are objects in the game which should be on display, the Museum is
just for that. However, many such objects are also integral parts of the
game and still in use. For example, the Crown of Ultimate Failure. Or are
simply too expensive to just give away, like the Exquisite Dead Guy. Or even
for the sentimental value such historial objects as the Golden Frinking
Straw or Jade Key of Yara must represent ] }}

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