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acka-voting-digest       Tuesday, April 14 1998       Volume 03 : Number 044

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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 02:10:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2833 rejected

Results of Proposal 2833

18/21 votes: Quorum achieved
9/17 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
Slakko               (SPAM)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
Attila the Pun
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
rufus                (SPAM)
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)

    NO:
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
IdiotBoy
else...if            (Klingon)
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
Illusion
breadbox
Guy Fawkes

    PRESENT:
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)

    ABSTAINED:
Koxvolio
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)

    VACATIONING:
Wild Card            (SPAM)

    PENDING:
two-star
Ayla

> Proposal 2833 - Mon 06 Apr 1998 05:20 EDT
> It's a Duel, Not a Feud!
> Slakko (Duncan Richer)
> 
> This is a Modest Proposal.
> 
> [Currently there is no limit to how long a Duel can run for. Meanwhile, the
> two main protagonists remain untouchable - so they could start up a Duel
> which runs for ages and ages to avoid Duelling other people. Besides, the
> concept of a Duel running for months and months just doesn't appeal to me -
> the current Spades duel between Hubert and Goldenmean is beyond a joke.]
> 
> Amend Rule 1215, "Duels", as follows:
> 
> (a) Append the following DRAW-delimited text after the text "the loser's
> Second loses 3 points.":
> 
> DRAW
> If no winner has been declared, but the Duel is over, then no points are
> gained or lost by any player involved in the Duel as a result of the Duel.
> DRAW
> 
> (b) Renumber Section 4 to Section 5, and Section 3 to Section 4.
> 
> (c) Insert the following LONG-delimited text immediately before the new
> Section 4:
> 
> LONG
> 3. If a Duel is still in progress three months after it was started, then
> the parties have lost interest, and it is declared to be over without a
> winner.
> LONG

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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 02:13:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2834 accepted

Results of Proposal 2834

18/21 votes: Quorum achieved
19/20 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
Slakko               (SPAM)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
Attila the Pun
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
IdiotBoy
else...if            (Klingon)
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
Illusion
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
Guy Fawkes
rufus                (SPAM)
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
Klingon Unity Vote
MetaMorph Unity Vote

    NO:
breadbox

    PRESENT:

    ABSTAINED:
Koxvolio
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)

    VACATIONING:
Wild Card            (SPAM)

    PENDING:
two-star
Ayla

> Proposal 2834 - Mon 06 Apr 1998 05:25 EDT
> Initiatives and good Intentions.
> Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck)
> 
> Append the following text to R419.3 "How Are Thing Out There"
> "
> When the Ambassador receives a messaged from a Liaison of another nomic
> which is a member of Internomic, and the message is addresses to the People
> of Ackacnomic, then the Ambassador must forward this message to the Public
> Forum, and it is deemed to be a public message by the nomic from whose
> Liaison it was received.
> "

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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 02:23:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2835 accepted

Results of Proposal 2835

18/21 votes: Quorum achieved
11/17 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
Slakko               (SPAM)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
Attila the Pun
JT                   (Boomerangs)
IdiotBoy
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
Guy Fawkes
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)

    NO:
else...if            (Klingon)
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
Illusion
breadbox
rufus                (SPAM)
Vynd                 (Vulcan)

    PRESENT:
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)

    ABSTAINED:
Koxvolio
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)

    VACATIONING:
Wild Card            (SPAM)

    PENDING:
two-star
Ayla

> Proposal 2835 - Mon 06 Apr 1998 05:27 EDT
> Party Hall Unity
> Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck)
> 
> Append the following text to R1040 "Party Hall" as section VI:
> "
> A proposal that attempts to add a rule to the Party Chess Rule Suite,
> Repeal a rule from the Party Chess Rule Suite, or amend a rule in the Party
> Chess Rule Suite, and does not attempt to change the text of any rule which
> is not a member of the Party Chess Rule Suite, shall be refered to in this
> proposal as a Chess Proposal.
> Whenever all Swingers vote on a Chess Proposal the same way, an additional
> vote is cast by Party Hall. The vote cast by Party Hall is called the Swing
> Vote and it identical to the vote cast by the Swingers."

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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 02:34:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2836 rejected

Results of Proposal 2836

18/21 votes: Quorum achieved
8/18 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
Attila the Pun
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
Guy Fawkes

    NO:
Slakko               (SPAM)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
IdiotBoy
else...if            (Klingon)
Illusion
breadbox
rufus                (SPAM)
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)

    PRESENT:

    ABSTAINED:
Koxvolio
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)

    VACATIONING:
Wild Card            (SPAM)

    PENDING:
two-star
Ayla

> Proposal 2836 - Mon 06 Apr 1998 05:28 EDT
> Insurance Policy
> Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)
> 
> {{ Amend section XIII of R850 to add "The Museum owns all objects in the
> Private Collection Room until they are requested again by their donator."
> at the end of that section. This clears up ownership problems that may
> arise. }}
> 
> {{ Add the following as an additional section to R850 }}
> 
> X. Scandals and Insurance
> If an object is stolen from the Private Collection Room of the Museum,
> there is said to be The Scandal of the Century. The Caped Crusader must
> explain that he was "stuck in traffic at the time". If the original donor
> the stolen object says that he is "much saddened by this event", then he
> will collect an insurance premium from the Treasury worth 90% (rounded
> down) of the value of the stolen object. In compensation for the
> sentimental value, he will also get, randomly, one Qualified Gadget in
> proper working order.

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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 02:43:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2837 rejected

Results of Proposal 2837

18/21 votes: Quorum achieved
8/17 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
Slakko               (SPAM)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Attila the Pun
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
rufus                (SPAM)

    NO:
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
IdiotBoy
else...if            (Klingon)
Illusion
breadbox
Guy Fawkes
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)

    PRESENT:
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)

    ABSTAINED:
Koxvolio
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)

    VACATIONING:
Wild Card            (SPAM)

    PENDING:
two-star
Ayla

> Proposal 2837 - Mon 06 Apr 1998 05:32 EDT
> Who's afraid of Agatha Christie?
> Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)
> 
> {{Amend R705 to add the following paragraph at the end}}
> 
> If there is a Scandal of the Century and a player is put in Goal for it,
> then the Caped Crusader will gain the title of Poirot's Little Gray Cells.
> 
> {{ Add the following to the Literature List:
> Artist: Agatha Christie ; author of detective stories }}

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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 02:48:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2838 rejected

Results of Proposal 2838

18/21 votes: Quorum achieved
10/17 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
Slakko               (SPAM)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Attila the Pun
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
IdiotBoy
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
rufus                (SPAM)
Vynd                 (Vulcan)

    NO:
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
else...if            (Klingon)
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
Illusion
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
breadbox
Guy Fawkes

    PRESENT:
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)

    ABSTAINED:
Koxvolio
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)

    VACATIONING:
Wild Card            (SPAM)

    PENDING:
two-star
Ayla

> Proposal 2838 - Mon 06 Apr 1998 05:40 EDT
> Wenn der Tone Zauber walten und des Worte Weihe spricht
> Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)
> 
> {{ Add the following to the Literature List.
> Work: Blade Runner ; Sci-fi movie
> Work: Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet ; 1996 movie
> Work: Declaration des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen ; French constitution
> of 1789
> Artist: John leCarre ; British author of spy novels
> Artist: Beethoven ; German composer
> Artist: Mozart ; Austrian composer }}

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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 03:11:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2839 rejected

Results of Proposal 2839

18/21 votes: Quorum achieved
9/18 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
Slakko               (SPAM)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
Attila the Pun
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Guy Fawkes
rufus                (SPAM)

    NO:
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
IdiotBoy
else...if            (Klingon)
Illusion
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
breadbox
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)

    PRESENT:

    ABSTAINED:
Koxvolio
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)

    VACATIONING:
Wild Card            (SPAM)

    PENDING:
two-star
Ayla

> Proposal 2839 - Mon 06 Apr 1998 05:45 EDT
> Wizards Return
> Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)
> 
> {{Renumber this rule to 2100}}
> 
> The age of Magic has returned. Wizards now battle each other again on
> spiritual planes in titanic struggles. There exists Light Wizards and Dark
> Wizards. However, they have special powers defined as Astral Spells by
> other rules. A Wizard may not be a member of any organization or political
> party, nor hold any offices. Nor can he own any Ackadollars or trinkets,
> and if receiving some, must get rid of them within 24 hours. At any time, a
> wizard who does not fulfill these criteria will no longer be a wizard.
> 
> Any player who is eligible to be a Wizard and bangs their heads on the
> bottom of the river during white water rafting, and then spends one month
> in the library, becomes a Wizard at the end of that month if they still
> meet the criteria above.

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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 03:19:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2842 accepted

Results of Proposal 2842

19/21 votes: Quorum achieved
18/19 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
Slakko               (SPAM)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
Attila the Pun
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Koxvolio             (Harf)
IdiotBoy
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
Illusion
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
Guy Fawkes
rufus                (SPAM)
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
MetaMorph Unity Vote

    NO:
else...if            (Klingon)

    PRESENT:
breadbox

    ABSTAINED:
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)

    VACATIONING:
Wild Card            (SPAM)

    PENDING:
two-star
Ayla

> Proposal 2842 - Mon 06 Apr 1998 05:53 EDT
> Veet Voojagig
> Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey)
> 
> This is a Modest proposal.
> 
> Amend Rule 611, "Le Grand Fromage", as follows:
> 
> Replace the following text(delimited by BIRO):
> 
> BIRO
> A player receives a stilton if e the ten most recent proposals e authored,
> that are not in the voting queue, were all accepted.
> BIRO
> 
> with the following text(delimited by GARGLE):
> 
> GARGLE
> A player receives a stilton if e the ten most recent proposals e authored
> for which valid voting results have been released were all accepted.
> GARGLE
> 
> {{[ This should exclude both Proposals that are still under voting
> consideration and retracted Proposals. ]}}

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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 03:23:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2843 rejected

Results of Proposal 2843

19/21 votes: Quorum achieved
10/17 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
IdiotBoy
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
breadbox
Guy Fawkes
rufus                (SPAM)

    NO:
Slakko               (SPAM)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Koxvolio             (Harf)
else...if            (Klingon)
Illusion
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)

    PRESENT:
Attila the Pun
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)

    ABSTAINED:
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)

    VACATIONING:
Wild Card            (SPAM)

    PENDING:
two-star
Ayla

> Proposal 2843 - Mon 06 Apr 1998 05:55 EDT
> Born loser
> /dev/joe (Joseph DeVincentis)
> 
> A$30000 is transferred from the treasury to /dev/joe.

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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 03:27:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2844 accepted

Results of Proposal 2844

19/21 votes: Quorum achieved
10/16 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
Slakko               (SPAM)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
Attila the Pun
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Koxvolio             (Harf)
IdiotBoy
else...if            (Klingon)
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)

    NO:
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
Illusion
breadbox
Guy Fawkes
rufus                (SPAM)
Vynd                 (Vulcan)

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

    ABSTAINED:
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)

    VACATIONING:
Wild Card            (SPAM)

    PENDING:
two-star
Ayla

> Proposal 2844 - Mon 06 Apr 1998 05:56 EDT
> Benefyts Finally Have a Use!
> Slakko (Duncan Richer)
> 
> This is a Modest Proposal.
> 
> Amend Rule 1230.5, "Creation of a PartyChessPiece Rook", as follows:
> 
> (a) Change its title to "PartyChessPiece Rook".
> (b) Append the following BENF-delimited text:
> 
> BENF
> 4. A Rook has a Special Move, which consists of moving one square in any
> diagonal direction, followed by up to five squares horizontally or
> vertically, provided that the orthogonal direction taken is only 45 degrees
> rotated from the diagonal direction taken (e.g. you can move up-left then
> left, but not up-left then right). All intervening squares, and the
> destination square, must be unoccupied. This move may not be used as a
> Capture.
> [As this is a Special Move it requires a cost of one Benefyt. It is not a
> capture because that would make checking someone far too easy.]
> BENF

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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 03:42:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2878

Proposal 2878
Actually Make Winning Conditions Possible.
Slakko (Duncan Richer)

[The current wording of Rule 600 is chicken-and-egg-compliant, which is a
problem.  To get your CWCFJ passed, and thereby win the Cycle, you need it
judged true that you have won the Cycle.  But you can't have won the Cycle
until your CWCFJ has passed, giving you the cycle win.  The CWCFJ should
allege that you have achieved a winning condition, not that you have won
this cycle.  Yes, this leads to problems over how recently the Winning
Condition was achieved - I'll try to fix that in the proposal.]

Amend Rule 600 by replacing "whose statement alleges that e has won the
Cycle" with "whose statement alleges that e has achieved a Winning
Condition within the last week", and by replacing "how the player thinks
e has won the Cycle" with "how the player thinks e has achieved a Winning
Condition".

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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 03:45:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2879

Proposal 2879
The Lamb is gone. Long live The Lamb
K 2 (Kelly Kelly)

Append the following text to the first paragraph of rule 1213
"Grab-a-Donkey" :
The Wrangler is permitted to distribute fairplay awards during a game of
Grab-a-Donkey, as described in Rule 1250.1 section XIII

Amend section A of rule 1213 "Grab-a-Donkey" to read in full (HEARD
delimited):

HEARD
A. When a new game of Grab-a-Donkey starts, all Players of Ackanomic,
excluding the Wrangler, those exempted as noted
above, or who have publicly declined to participate during the past
three days, will be placed on the Grab-a-Donkey Active List ("GAL"
hereafter). Initially each player has a herd size of one.
HEARD

Amend section C of rule 1213 "Grab-a-Donkey" to read in full (BAA
delimited):

BAA
C. If exactly one player ("A") chose to Grab another player's donkey
("B"), and if B did not Cover their donkey:
i.  A successfully grabs one of B's donkeys and A's herd is increased by
one at the end of the round.
ii. If B had a herd of two or more donkeys at the start of the round,
during the noise and confusion of the grab one of B's donkeys will
become terrified and flee into the Wilds of Ackanomic (where it will
graze peacefully, returning to the Game Box at the conclusion of
Grab-a-Donkey). B's herd is reduced by two at the end of the round.

If more than one player attempted to grab B's donkey, none of those
attempts are successful.
If a player's herd is reduced to less than 1 donkey at the end of a
round, e is removed from the GAL.
BAA

{{[Recent advances in Lariat technology have eliminated the confusion
surrounding the Little Lamb, reducing operator error ;)]}}

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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 03:48:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2880

Proposal 2880
I Wanna Kiss Her But
Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey)

{{[ To fix the confusion over Senate seats and DeeJay Elections...
And settling the issue of whether Acting Offices are really holding
Seats. ]}}

This is a Modest proposal.

Amend Rule 401, "Offices, Commonalities", by inserting, in section (i),
after the text "No player may hold more than one seat for a given Office,
including any seat held in an acting capacity, " , the text "and the
holder of a seat in a given Office is ineligible to be Nominated for
that Office unless the seat e currently holds is up for grabs."

Append to section (iv) of the same rule the sentence "Any other Rule
which refers to an Officer 'holding' an Office will not consider Acting
Officers to be holding the Office they are Acting for."

Append to section (vi) the text(delimited by TRAIN):

TRAIN
c) If the Rules should ever require an Election or Nomination to be
called for an Office seat which is not currently vacant, then its
Term of Office shall be considered to end when the Election or
Nomination is called.
TRAIN

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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 03:50:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2881

Proposal 2881
That's Even Sillier
Hubert (Eric Plumb)

In Rule 207.1, "That's Just Silly," replace all occurrences of the
first-occurring phrase delimited by double quotes in that Rule with the
entire text of Rule 207.1.

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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 03:51:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2882

Proposal 2882
Kicking the ASS
Hubert (Eric Plumb)

[ This proposal just clears up some of those annoying problems with the
ASS.  Admit it, you have problems with it too. ]

Amend Rule 950, "Ackanomic Sound System Rule Suite," in the following
manners:

Replace the first sentence of section III, "Office of DeeJay," with the
string "The Office of DeeJay is an Optional, Political Office."

Replace the string "An Election shall be held for the Office of DeeJay on
the first day of any calendar month whose ordinal number is even." with
the string "On the first day of any calendar month whose ordinal number is
evenly divisible by three, the player holding the Office of DeeJay shall
step down from said Office as described in Rule 401, section vii.  It is
considered good form for em to request that Count Tabula subsequently
conduct an Election for the Office of DeeJay."

Append the following string after the last sentence of section III:
"If the Office of DeeJay is not filled, or the DeeJay is on vacation, no
Esoteric songs will be played on the ASS."

Replace the string "An Esoteric Song will begin playing immediately upon
its Trigger becoming true, regardless of any other Song that may be
playing on the ASS." in section IV with the string "An Esoteric Song will
begin playing immediately upon its Trigger becoming true as long as the
Office of DeeJay is filled by an active, non-vacationing player.  In this
case, the Esoteric Song will begin playing regardless of any other Song
that may be playing on the ASS."

Insert the string ", and 'The Thrill is Gone' by B. B. King will begin  
playing." immediately after the words "will stop playing" in the 
third-to-last sentence of section IV.  

[to get rid of that air gap after Esoteric Songs stop]

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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 03:52:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2883

Proposal 2883
Who Hoses the Hosers?
Hubert (Eric Plumb)

Create a Rule numbered 927 and entitled "Hosiery" with the following
SEVEN-delimited text:

SEVEN
There exists a unique, ownable, nontradeable entity known as Hose Anna.
The owner of Hose Anna is known as the Hoser.

The Hoser may, as a public action, Hose any active player (hereafter the
Hosee). However, if the Hoser includes anything but poetry as described
in Rule 594.17 in the body (text not comprising customary headers or
quoted material) of the public message describing this action, or if the
message consists of fewer than 1331 non-whitespace characters, the action
fails.  If the action succeeds, the Hosee is then treated as if e is Hosed
by a BWG Laser for the next day, and Hose Anna is instantly transferred
to eir possession.  If the action fails, the Hoser is treated as if e is 
Hosed by a BWG Laser for the next two days, and Hose Anna is transferred
to the possession of the player with the lowest positive score, or, if
more than one player are tied for this score, the player among them whose
Ackanomic name comes last alphabetically.

If, at any time, Hose Anna has been owned by the same player for more than
a week, she is immediately transferred to the first player to point this
fact out publically.

{{ Hose Anna is transferred to the possession of a randomly selected
player. }}
SEVEN

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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 03:53:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2884

Proposal 2884
Automatic Beldin Pant Killer
Slakko (Duncan Richer)

Append the following text to Rule 940:

{{Antxina is transferred Somewhere Else.  Alfvaen is removed from the
Office of Praetor.}}

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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 05:17:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2845 accepted

Results of Proposal 2845

19/21 votes: Quorum achieved
14/19 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
Koxvolio             (Harf)
IdiotBoy
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Attila the Pun
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Slakko               (SPAM)
rufus                (SPAM)
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)

    NO:
else...if            (Klingon)
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
Illusion
breadbox
Guy Fawkes

    PRESENT:

    ABSTAINED:
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)

    VACATIONING:
Wild Card            (SPAM)

    PENDING:
two-star
Ayla
J. M. Bear

> Proposal 2845 - Tue 07 Apr 1998 04:09 EDT
> The Bucket Kicked The Rabbit
> Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey)
> 
> This is a Modest proposal.
> 
> Amend Rule 404, "Offices, Impeachment", as follows:
> 
> Add the section (i) the following text(delimited by RACTER):
> 
> RACTER
> A player may not submit more than one IP per calendar week, and may not
> submit more than one IP against the same officer in a calendar month.
> RACTER
> 
> Remove the sentence "Also, the author of the IP may not author another IP
> for the remainder of the calendar week." from section (vi). {{[ Since it's
> now redundant. ]}}
> 
> {{[ I should point out the Rule-Harfer that the last sentence of Section
> (vi) belongs at the end of Section (v), from Proposal 2258... ]}}

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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 05:21:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2847 accepted

Results of Proposal 2847

19/21 votes: Quorum achieved
14/18 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
Koxvolio             (Harf)
else...if            (Klingon)
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Attila the Pun
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
Guy Fawkes
Slakko               (SPAM)
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
MetaMorph Unity Vote

    NO:
IdiotBoy
Illusion
breadbox
rufus                (SPAM)

    PRESENT:
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)

    ABSTAINED:
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)

    VACATIONING:
Wild Card            (SPAM)

    PENDING:
two-star
Ayla
J. M. Bear

> Proposal 2847 - Tue 07 Apr 1998 04:13 EDT
> Eleusis
> JT (JT Traub)
> 
> {{[ This is being submitted as a rule so that it can define a new type of
> trophy. Otherwise I would have just made a Games Submission for it ]}}
> 
> Amend rule 1250.2 with the following to define a new type of trophy
> C. The Scientist's Handbook is a nameless entity.
> 
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> 
> Create a new rule with the following text:
> 
> [ This describes a minor adaptation of the game commonly known as Eleusis.
> The standard rules for this game can be found at
> http://www.netaxs.com/people/nerp/eleusis0.html
> The rules below are an adaptation to work within the framework of Ackanomic
> and email. ]
> 
> {{[ I wish to thank Alfvaen and Niccolo Flychuck for their comments, some
> of which have been integrated into this text]}}
> 
> 1) General Equipment
> a) This game uses either one Eleusis Deck with the optional Wild cards or
> two Standard decks combined into one larger deck, again with optional Wild
> cards.
> b) Gamepoints as needed.
> 
> 2) Number of players.
> a) This game is played with 5-8 players and one optional Referee.
> b) This game can have an optional Referee as defined in section 10.
> c) New players may *not* join during the run of an existing game except as
> defined under section 8.
> 
> 3) How to start an instance of the game
> As described in rule 1250.1, section VI.
> 
> 4) General Rules of the game
> a) If there is a Referee, the Referee assigns a cardinal number from 1 to
> N, where N is the number of players, to each player. If there is no
> Referee, then the player calling the game shall be cardinal number 1 and
> all other players shall be assigned a number from 2 to N where N is the
> total number of players including the player who called the game.
> b) Player number 1 shall be named the Deus for the first round.
> c) All player other than Deus are considered to be Scientists for that
> round.
> d) The round is played as specified in section 5.
> e) At the end of the round, the Deus from the previous round will announce
> the rule from that round, and all other players have a 3 day period to
> announce an error in the game play. Play on the next round can proceed
> during this error determination since the results of one round do not
> affect the next round. If at least one player declared there to be an
> error, handle it as in Section 11.
> f) At the end of a round, the next higher numbered player is named the new
> Deus and a new round begins.
> g) The game ends when each player has been Deus exactly once, and the game
> is scored as described in section 7.
> 
> 5) The play of a round
> a) Deus creates a private rule which specifies how a valid play is to be
> determined. This rule may only depend upon cards which have already been
> correctly played, not upon incorrectly played cards, or the contents of any
> players hand.
> b) Deus announces publicly which of the two decks is being used for that
> round, whether the Wild cards are included in the deck. The ranking of the
> cards [IE, the order of importance of the cards within the suits], the
> value of any cards which are different than their standard face value [IE
> all face cards are 10 or J=11, Q=12, K=13], the ranking and value of suits
> if that is pertinent, and the ranking/value of wild cards if they are in
> use.
> c) Deus (or the Referee) privately communicates to each player their hand
> of 14 starting cards.
> d) Deus (or the Referee) publicly communicates the face-up starter card.
> e) The round is now open for play and play proceeds in numerical order
> starting with the player in numerical order after the Deus for the current
> round
> f) The current player chooses a series of between 1 and 4 cards from their
> hand and announces them in the order they wish to play them. The player may
> also choose a call of 'No Play' if they believe no card in their current
> hand is a valid card to play in the current sequence. A sequence of cards
> is only correct if every card in the sequence in order is correct. If the
> player doesn't publicly submit a play within 3 days of it becoming their
> turn, they will be deemed to have played 'No Play' and Deus (or the
> Referee) will reveal their cards.
> g) Upon calling 'No Play' the player must reveal at that time all the cards
> head in their hand.
> h) If there is currently no prophet, and the current player has not already
> been prophet this round and there are more than two remaining Scientists
> the player may declare themselves prophet regardless of whether their play
> was correct or incorrect. To save time, the player should include this
> declaration with their play. The card played when a prophet is declared is
> marked with a '!'.
> i) If there is a prophet:
> 1) The prophet publicly decrees whether the play is correct or not.
> 2) The Deus publicly declares whether they approve of the prophets call or
> not.
> 3) If the Deus doesn't approve of the prophets call then the Scientist who
> played the card(s) is not penalized, the prophet is dealt 5 penalty cards
> by the Deus or the Referee, and resumes play as a Scientist.
> 4) If the Deus approves of the prophets call and the player played an
> incorrect sequence, then the Deus (or Referee) deals the player 2 cards for
> each card in the sequence or five cards if the incorrect call was 'No
> Play'. In the case of 'No Play' the prophet must choose a card from the
> current players hand before the penalty cards are dealt that would have
> been a correct play and play it. If the prophet chooses a card that isn't
> correct at this point then the card is returned to the players hand, and
> the player receives no penalty cards, instead causing the prophet to be
> overturned as in part 3 above. If the round is in 'sudden death' then the
> current player is expelled from the round after the dealing of the penalty
> cards.
> 5) If the play of 'No Play' was deemed correct then the player will be
> privately dealt a new hand of cards with four fewer cards than in their
> previous hand.
> j) If there is no prophet, Deus judges the play as correct or not with the
> penalties to the player being the same as in step 'i' part 4 above. In the
> case of 'No Play' Deus must choose a correct card from the calling players
> hand and play it. If the Deus judges a 'No Play' call to be correct, then
> the effect of step 'i' part 5 above occurs.
> k) If there is no prophet, mark every 10th card played with a '*'. After
> forty cards, the round enters 'sudden death'.
> l) If there is a prophet, mark every 10th card since they became the
> prophet with a '!'. After 30 cards (3 '!') the round enters sudden death.
> m) If the current player has 0 cards or there are no Scientists left, then
> the round is over and is scored as in section 6.
> n) The player next in numerical order becomes the current player. The
> player after the highest numbered player is player 1.
> o) If the current player is either the prophet or Deus, go to step 'n'.
> p) go to step 'f'
> 
> 6) Scoring a round
> a) A player is considered the 'True Prophet' if they were the prophet when
> the round ended.
> b) The high-count is the largest number of cards in any players hand
> (prophet included). Call this number H.
> c) Every player except Deus gets Gamepoints equal to H - the number of
> cards in their hand.
> d) Any player with 0 cards gets 4 Gamepoints as a bonus.
> e) The 'True Prophet' gains 1 Gamepoint for each correct play and 2
> Gamepoints for each incorrect play after they became prophet.
> f) Deus gains Gamepoints equal to the smaller of
> 1) the highest players score
> 2) twice the total number of cards played since the true prophet became
> prophet.
> 
> 7) Scoring the game
> After all rounds are completed, the winner is the player with the most
> Gamepoints. All other players are ranked in descending order by Gamepoints.
> Let N be the number of players in the game.
> The highest ranked player gains a trophy, "The Scientist's Handbook" and
> 2(N-1) points. Each player in decreasing order gets two less points than
> the preceding player. If two players have the same number of game points
> but the next lower player with a different number of game points recieves
> points as if they weren't tied. Last place will score 0 points. [Frex. in a
> game of 5 players with final game points of 20, 14 8, 8 and 4, the players
> would recieve in order 8, 6, 4, 4 and 0 points]
> 
> 8) Joining and Leaving the game.
> Any player who leaves the game or goes on vacation without appointing a
> substitute causes the game to pause. When the game is paused, any other
> player of Ackanomic who is not already a player in that game of Eleusis may
> volunteer to fill in, assuming the missing players Gamepoints and game
> position. If the Deus leaves the game or vacations without appointing a
> substitute and there is a Referee, Deus must pass the private rule on to
> the Referee and the round continues without pausing the game. If there is
> no Referee, then the round will end and players will be scored as if the
> round had ended normally (except no one gets the bonus for 0 cards). If the
> Deus appoints a substitute, then he passes the private rule on to that
> substitute and play proceeds normally. If no substitute for the Deus was
> named, the game is paused after the current round is scored until a new
> player joins.
> 
> 9) Duties of Deus and the Prophet
> The Deus and Prophet are necessary for the game to proceed smoothly and so
> are encouraged to respond to plays as quickly as possible. It is
> unfortunately not possible to impose a 3 day timeout on Deus, however if
> the Prophet fails to respond to a move within 3 days then that player is
> removed as a prophet as if they had made an incorrect call on a play. If
> there is no Referee, the Deus for each round assumes the responsibilities
> of the Referee.
> 
> 10) Duties of the Referee
> The Referee (or Deus for each round if there is no Referee) must track the
> game state including which player has which cards, must simulate shuffling
> the cards at the start of a round and dealing cards as demanded by the
> round. They must also post the current game state including all played
> cards with a reasonable amount of frequency (at least once every other day
> would be recommended, and after each players play would be best). If there
> is an actual Referee, that player is paid $A10 when the game is concluded
> for providing their services.
> 
> 11) Handling of errors.
> a) If a player believes there to have been an error, then if there is a
> Referee, the Referee decides if the error in fact occurred. Otherwise a
> vote among the current players occurs. The voting period lasts 3 days and a
> player who doesn't respond is considered to have voted 'No' meaning that
> there was no error. If all votes are in before the 3 day period, then the
> voting period ends immediately.
> b) If there was a vote, and a majority of the players voted that 'Yes'
> there was an error, then there was an error.
> c) If there was an error, Deus for the round which contained the error
> loses 20 Gamepoints.
> d) If there is more than one error in a round, the Deus is only penalized
> once.
> 
> {{ renumber this rule to 1250.23 }}

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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 17:13:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Retracta

I hereby retract proposal 2884.
It was purely designed to have immediate effect, which may or may not be
determined later by CFJ.

Yours,
Slakko

- -- 
Duncan C. "" Richer aka
Slakko (Lost) Warner - http://dcr24.quns.cam.ac.uk/ - Queens' College
Cambridge, 1st Year PhD(Pure Maths), CUDipSoc, CUSFS, CUSTS, CURS etc
Acka - ex-President/still Web-Harfer RuneMaker ChessUmpire Map-Harfer

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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 19:16:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2849 rejected

Results of Proposal 2849

20/22 votes: Quorum achieved
8/22 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
IdiotBoy
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Illusion
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
Slakko               (SPAM)
rufus                (SPAM)
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)

    NO:
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
else...if            (Klingon)
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
breadbox
Guy Fawkes
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
Attila the Pun
Ayla                                    [Ayla is no longer pending]
Tammany                                 [Vynd bribed Tammany A$100]
Bonus Vote                              [Vynd used a Bonus Vote]

    PRESENT:

    ABSTAINED:
Koxvolio             (Harf)
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)

    VACATIONING:
Wild Card            (SPAM)

    PENDING:
two-star
J. M. Bear

> Proposal 2849 - Tue 07 Apr 1998 10:08 EDT
> Disposal of Property
> Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck)
> 
> Create a new rule which contains the following text:
> "
> 1.There exists a Functional Office called Trouble Shooter.
> 2.The Trouble Shooter has the following duties:
> a. To seek out any Entities which are owned by Organizations and it is
> illegal for them to own.
> b. When the Trouble Shooter learns of the existence of such an entity e
> makes the following anouncement:"I dispose of Entity <X> illegaly owned by
> Organization <Y>" where <X> is the entity e discovered, and <Y> is the name
> of the entity. If it necessary to add information to the anouncement in
> order to disambiguate the reference to the entity then the Trouble Shooter
> must do so as well.
> c. Once this anouncement has been made, the designated Entity is
> immsediately transferred to the Treasury, and the Trouble Shooter calls
> start a Public Auction on that Entity.
> 
> 3. If no Organization owns an entity that it is illegal for it to own.
> This rule repeals itself.
> 
> {{Reunmber this rule to 43}}
> "

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