Subject: acka-voting-digest V3 #64
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acka-voting-digest        Tuesday, May 5 1998        Volume 03 : Number 064

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 16:31:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2997

Proposal 2997
Living off a trust fund
else...if (Henry Towsner)

Create a rule numbered 1011, named "Trusts" and reading as
delimited FORMYHEIRS

FORMYHEIRS
	A Trust Fund is a type of organization.  Trust Funds act like
Societies in terms of ownership except that it may transfer A$ to anyone.
In order to be a Trust Fund, the organization's founder must specify that
they desire it to be a Trust Fund when it is created.  When a player who
announces eir intent to form a Trust Fund and the player may legally
announce eir intent to form an organization the Trust Fund immediately
comes into existance; it need not wait for other players to join.  When the
Trust Fund comes into existance and the founder pays the SHF only its
founder is a member, and it acts like a VSO with two exception: no one may
join it, and it may perform the additional organizational action of
accepting a charter.
	When a Trust Fund accepts a charter its founder is ejected and the
Trust Fund may act like a full Trust Fund.  It continues to exist as long
is at posesses at least one A$ or until its charter specifies that it
disbands.
	A Trust Fund's charter should specify what it should do with its
A$.  It may only transfer A$ as specified by its charter and when it is
pointed out by a player that the A$ should be transferred.
	This rule takes precedence over rule 1003.
FORMYHEIRS
{{[I can think of a number of uses for this, such as when SHEEP was
distributing A$ to people who voted BAH.  It could also be used by the XBS
churches to refund people purchasing Ballot Stuffers.  Other possible uses:
Upon leaving you create a Fund which bribes Tammany A$50 on any proposal
which would repeal anti-voting, create a puzzle modeled on Alvaen's H****t
treasure, where any time someone said "qqqq" everyone who hadn't would
receive A$1.  You get the idea.]}}

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 16:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2998

Proposal 2998
not much
J. M. Bear (Frank Schmidt)

Amend Rule 1230.18 in the following way:
Change the string "the range 5<R<15, e<C<o (that is between
columns e and o, exclusive" to "the range 5<R<16, e<C<p
(that is between columns e and p, exclusive".

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 18:16:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2948 accepted

Results of Proposal 2948

20/24 votes: Quorum achieved
13/18 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
else...if            (Klingon)
Razor Boomerangs Unity Vote
Klingon Unity Vote
Tammany                                 [Hubert bribed Tammany A$100]
Bonus Vote                              [The Gingham Wearer used a Bonus Vote]
Bonus Vote                              [Hubert used a Bonus Vote]

    NO:
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
Koxvolio             (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
Slakko               (SPAM)
Attila the Pun

    PRESENT:
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
breadbox

    BAA!:
H*bert               (SPAM)
Pandora
Ayla

    ABSTAINED:
Astro
IdiotBoy
rufus                (SPAM)
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Illusion

    VACATIONING:
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
two-star
saaremaa
UglyBigNose

> Proposal 2948 - Mon 27 Apr 1998 13:33 EDT
> I still don't think it's right
> The Gingham Wearer (Tom Walmsley)
> 
> This is a modest proposal [and a chess proposal (not that it will matter
> because Slakko has said that e doesn't like it)].
> 
> Modify rule 1230.2 section 7. to read:
> 
> "7. Check and Checkmate
> 
> A Swinger is in Check when his King is attacked by one or more pieces owned
> by a Swinger whose King is on-board. No Swinger may make a play that would
> cause him or her to be in Check at the end of his or her turn. It is
> possible that the only move that will satisfy this condition is a
> Surrender. It is the responsibility of the Chess-Umpire to identify states
> of Check and alert the Swingers that such a state exists, and let the
> Swingers know whose King is being attacked.
> 
> A Swinger is in Checkmate if e is in Check and there are no single atomic
> plays of type Move, Capture or Special which would cause the swinger not to
> be in Check. If a Swinger is in Checkmate then e automatically makes a
> default play of Surrender."

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 22:13:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2999

Proposal 2999
A Gnome by any other name
breadbox (Brian Raiter)

    Replace the first three paragraphs of Rule 975 ("Yes Virginia")
    with the following text:

The Voting Gnome of Ackanomic (hereinafter referred to simply as the
Voting Gnome) is a unique, non-tradeable entity. The Voting Gnome owns
himself. He acts only as described in the Rules.

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 22:14:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3000

Proposal 3000
Some Things Don't Require Judgement
breadbox (Brian Raiter)

    {{[This does two things: fixes it so that identical proposals
    don't require a pointless CFJ to remove, and also takes out the
    part about making it a crime to have two substantially similar
    proposals. The only reason it was a crime to begin with is due to
    maneuvers like Red Barn's, which can now be prosecuted under the
    crime of being Annoying.]}}

    Replace the text of Rule 309 ("Substantially Similar Proposals")
    with the following:

If two Proposals, A and B, have identical text, or if (in the
judgement of a judge) the game effect that would occur if Proposal A
was adopted is substantially similar to that of Proposal B, and
furthermore if both of the following are true:

a) Proposal A was distributed after Proposal B;
b) Proposal B is still under voting consideration;

then Proposal A is invalid.

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 22:15:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3001

Proposal 3001
Calendar
H*bert (Jonathan David Amery)

{{All players who voted for this proposal are gifted a trinket of value
A$1 with a description of "Voucher for one calendar." and a name of
"<name>'s Calender", where <name> is replaced by the name of the player.}}

 Create a rule entitled "TGW's idea" numbered with the lowest legal
integer number and with the following PTERRY-delimited text. 

PTERRY
 On the first Wednesday following the the creation of the trinkets created
by the proposal which created this rule the following will happen:

 Each of the trinkets mentioned above will be destroyed, and each of the
players who had posessed one will recieve a trinket with the same name as
the one that they had which had just been destroyed and the description "a
calendar for the year surmounted by a rather angular picture of a beagle,
standing on its hind legs." [Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times, p. 350 or
281] but with a value of A$200. 

 One Good Ballot Stuffer will be created in the possession of a randomly
determined player who possesses one of the trinkets created in the
paragraph above.

 One Evil Ballot Stuffer will be created in the possession of a randomly
determined player who possesses one of the trinkets created in the
paragraph above.

 This rule will repeal itself.
PTERRY

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 22:16:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3002

Proposal 3002
Ignore This
breadbox (Brian Raiter)

    This is a Modest Proposal.

  This is a Grandiose Proposal.

{{[Actually, this is just a test of nomicbot. Sorry for the intrusion.]}}

  breadbox achieves a Winning Condition.

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