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acka-voting-digest       Saturday, May 30 1998       Volume 03 : Number 087

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Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 10:44:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3117 accepted

Results of Proposal 3117

18/25 votes: Quorum achieved
11/18 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
else...if            (Klingon)
rufus                (SPAM)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Attila the Pun
Fortunato
Slakko               (SPAM)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)

    NO:
breadbox
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
Mr. Tambourine Man   (Klingon)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
Koxvolio             (Harf)
Ayla
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)

    PRESENT:

    BAA!:

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
IdiotBoy
Wild Card            (SPAM)
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
Pandora              (MetaMorph)
Astro

    VACATIONING:
saaremaa
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
two-star

> Proposal 3117 - Sat 23 May 1998 07:18 EDT
> Nameless Thing #1
> Attila the Pun (Micah Smukler)
> 
> Create a rule, titled "The Mu-Cow Hunter" and numbered 1395, with the
> following ZEN-delimited text:
> 
> ZEN
> 
> An Active player of Ackanomic exists whose Ackanomic name is The Mu-Cow
> Hunter. The real name of The Mu-Cow Hunter is Larry. The Mu-Cow Hunter is
> not a person, and does not have an e-mail address; this takes precedence
> over any rule which requires players to be people or to have e-mail
> addresses.
> 
> The Mu-Cow Hunter is at all times on the CFJ eligibility list. If any rule
> specifies that a player shall be randomly selected, there shall be a
> probability of 0 that The Mu-Cow Hunter is selected; this takes precedence
> over the rule entitled "Level Playing Field". The Mu-Cow Hunter is not
> considered to be a player for the purposes of determining quorum.
> 
> The Mu-Cow Hunter shall abstain on all proposals, with the exception of the
> proposals e submits; e shall vote BAA! on these proposals, if such a vote
> exists.
> 
> The Mu-Cow Hunter shall submit one and only one proposal on the third day
> of every month; e shall submit no proposals on any other day.
> 
> The proposal which The Mu-Cow Hunter submits is titled "Mu". It consists of
> the text "The Mu-Cow Hunter gains a Winning Condition upon the passage of
> this proposal."
> 
> If a proposal submitted by the Mu-Cow passes, e shall upon its passage
> submit a CFJ on the statement "The Mu-Cow Hunter has achieved a Winning
> Condition on (date).", with (date) replaced by the date at which the latest
> proposal sumbitted by the Mu-Cow passed. The CFJ shall include no
> reasoning.
> 
> ZEN

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Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 11:08:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3118 rejected

Results of Proposal 3118

18/25 votes: Quorum achieved
5/16 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
rufus                (SPAM)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Attila the Pun
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)

    NO:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
breadbox
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
Mr. Tambourine Man   (Klingon)
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
else...if            (Klingon)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
Koxvolio             (Harf)
Fortunato
Hubert               (Boomerangs)

    PRESENT:

    BAA!:
Slakko               (SPAM)
Ayla

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
IdiotBoy
Wild Card            (SPAM)
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
Pandora              (MetaMorph)
Astro
The Mu-Cow Hunter

    VACATIONING:
saaremaa
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
two-star

> Proposal 3118 - Sat 23 May 1998 07:19 EDT
> I wouldn't .sig to that level
> Attila the Pun (Micah Smukler)
> 
> Create a rule, numbered 1367, with the following QWERTY-delimited text:
> 
> QWERTY
> 
> If a player submits a proposal which unintentionally contains any sort of
> personal identification, as the result of a failure to indicate the end of
> the proposal or for any other reason, this act is known as Being Extremely
> Careless, Indeed.
> 
> If any player believes that another player has Been Extremely Careless,
> Indeed, than e may call a Carelessness Hearing on that other player, naming
> the proposal with respect to which that player Was Extremely Careless,
> Indeed. A Carelessness Hearing is a Hearing; its Hearing Harfer is the
> player who called it, and is known as the Guardian of Punctiliousness. The
> valid responses to a Carelessness Hearing are "E's more absentminded than
> the Mad Scientist", "You mean we don't *want* meaningless text cluttering
> up the ruleset?", and "BAA!"
> 
> At the conclusion of the Hearing, the following events occur, in the given
> order:
> 
> 1) All players who voted "BAA!" on the hearing are burned as witches.
> 2) If more votes for "E's more absentminded than the Mad Scientist" than
> for "You mean we don't *want* meaningless text cluttering up the ruleset?"
> were recorded, than the player on whom the Carelessness Hearing was called
> must pay a fine equal to the Standard Harfer Fee to the treasury, gains a
> Chartreuse Goose Egg, ceases to be Enlightened, if e is Enlightened, and is
> said to be an Amazingly Absentminded Ackanomian.
> 3) If more votes for "You mean we don't *want* meaningless text cluttering
> up the ruleset" than for "E's more absentminded than the Mad Scientist"
> were recorded, than the player who called the Hearing suffers all the
> consequences listed above, except that e is not said to be an Amazingly
> Absentminded Ackanomian.
> 
> The above provisions notwithstanding, no player may call a Carelessness
> Hearing on an Amazingly Absentminded Ackanomian.
> 
> QWERTY

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Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 11:09:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3119 accepted

Results of Proposal 3119

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

    YES:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
breadbox
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
Mr. Tambourine Man   (Klingon)
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
else...if            (Klingon)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
rufus                (SPAM)
Koxvolio             (Harf)
Attila the Pun
Fortunato
Ayla
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
Klingon Unity Vote

    NO:
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Slakko               (SPAM)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)

    PRESENT:

    BAA!:

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
IdiotBoy
Wild Card            (SPAM)
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
Pandora              (MetaMorph)
Astro
The Mu-Cow Hunter

    VACATIONING:
saaremaa
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
two-star

> Proposal 3119 - Sat 23 May 1998 07:20 EDT
> Cortex Clarifications
> /dev/joe (Joseph DeVincentis)
> 
> This is a modest proposal.
> 
> Amend rule 217, "Overturning Judgements", as follows:
> 
> 1. Before the first paragraph, insert the heading "I. Sending CFJs to the
> Supreme Court".
> 
> 2. Before the fourth paragraph, insert the heading "II. How the Supreme
> Court judges a CFJ".
> 
> 3. Before the fifth paragraph, insert the heading "III. Effects upon a
> judgement of an appeal by the Supreme Court".
> 
> 4. Before the ninth paragraph, insert the heading "IV. Appeal limits".
> 
> 5. Delete the eighth paragraph. {{[It read: If a case reached the Supreme
> Court through submission by the Praetor, a player may still appeal the
> Court's decision, but the case shall be treated as if it had already been
> appealed once.]}}
> 
> 6. In the last paragraph, change "e.g., a second appeal verdict" to "e.g.,
> a second appeal verdict, or a verdict on an appeal of a CFJ originally
> submitted to the Supreme Court by the Praetor".
> 
> 7. Delete the first sentence of the last paragraph, and make a new
> paragraph containing that sentence between the second and third paragraphs.
> 
> Amend rule 416, "Supreme Court", as follows:
> 
> 1. Before the first four paragraphs, insert the following four
> double-quote-delimited headings, respectively:
> "I. Becoming a Justice"
> "II. Justice Eligibility"
> "III. Filling in when there are fewer than two Justices"
> "IV. Filling in for Vacationing Justices"
> 
> 2. Then move the last paragraph to the end of section III.
> 
> Amend Rule 417, "Justices Rock", by removing the text "Justices Rock" that
> appears at the beginning of the body of the rule.
> 
> Amend Rule 425, "Praetor", by deleting section II and renumbering each
> later section to the roman numeral one less than it is currently numbered.
> [This is the one which used to define how to supply Acting Justices for
> Vacationing Justices, supplanted by what I am calling section IV of R416.]

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Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 11:10:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3120 accepted

Results of Proposal 3120

17/25 votes: Quorum achieved
10/16 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
Mr. Tambourine Man   (Klingon)
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
Attila the Pun
Fortunato
Slakko               (SPAM)
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)

    NO:
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
rufus                (SPAM)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Koxvolio             (Harf)
breadbox
Hubert               (Boomerangs)

    PRESENT:
Ayla

    BAA!:

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
IdiotBoy
else...if            (Klingon)
Wild Card            (SPAM)
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
Pandora              (MetaMorph)
Astro
The Mu-Cow Hunter

    VACATIONING:
saaremaa
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
two-star

> Proposal 3120 - Sat 23 May 1998 07:21 EDT
> As Good As It Gets
> Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey)
> 
> Amend Rule 421.2, "Common Sense Reports", by appending the following text
> (delimited by URSULA) to the first paragraph:
> 
> URSULA
> However, if it is possible for a player to issue two CSR's of different
> kinds(i.e. which affect different sets of Rules, or make different sorts of
> changes), then a single CSR which includes both kinds of changes is also
> legal; this takes precedence over any Rule which may otherwise restrict
> issuing of CSR's by that player. (Thus, a player who is both Chess-Umpire
> and RuneMaker may issue a single CSR which affects both the Party Chess
> Rule Suite and the Otzma Card Rule Suite.)
> URSULA
> 
> {{[ Why have to issue two CSR's when one will do? ]}}

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Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 11:10:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3121 rejected

Results of Proposal 3121

18/25 votes: Quorum achieved
6/18 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Koxvolio             (Harf)
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
Ayla

    NO:
breadbox
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
Mr. Tambourine Man   (Klingon)
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
rufus                (SPAM)
Attila the Pun
Fortunato
Slakko               (SPAM)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)

    PRESENT:

    BAA!:

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
IdiotBoy
else...if            (Klingon)
Wild Card            (SPAM)
Pandora              (MetaMorph)
Astro
The Mu-Cow Hunter

    VACATIONING:
saaremaa
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
two-star

> Proposal 3121 - Sat 23 May 1998 07:22 EDT
> A benefit to bandwagoning
> JT (JT Traub)
> 
> This is a modest proposal.
> 
> {{[I believe there should be some benefit to bandwagon voting (IE
> flow-voting) on a proposal. I also dislike anti-voting, but that's a
> different discussion :). Therefore, I propose the following as a benefit of
> jumping on the bandwagon so to speak and give people a choice of which they
> would prefer to earn, points for anti-voting or a small amount of cash for
> flow-voting]}}
> 
> Amend rule 207 section III by replacing the current text of paragraph 1
> with the followin MONEY delimited text.
> MONEY
> If a Modest proposal is accepted, the player who proposed it receives 5
> points, every player who voted NO on it receives 1 point, and every player
> who voted YES on it recieved A$ 1. If a Grandiose proposal is accepted, the
> player who proposed it receives 16 points, every player who voted NO on it
> receives 5 points, and every player who voted YES on it recieved A$ 4. If a
> proposal which is neither Modest nor Grandiose is accepted, the player who
> proposed it receives 10 points, every player who voted NO on it receives 3
> points and every player who voted YES on it recieves A$ 2.
> MONEY
> 
> {{If Grandiose proposals are no longer part of the rules, remove the
> sentance from Rule 207, section III, paragraph 1 that reads "If a Grandiose
> proposal is accepted, the player who proposed it receives 16 points, every
> player who voted NO on it receives 5 points, and every player who voted YES
> on it recieved A$ 4."}}
> 
> Amend Rule 207 section III, paragraph 2 by replacing it with the following
> MONEY delmited text.
> MONEY
> If a Modest proposal is rejected, but meets quorum, the player who proposed
> it loses 5 points, every player who voted YES on it receives 1 point, and
> every player who voted NO on it recieves A$ 1. If a Grandiose proposal is
> rejected, but meets quorum, the player who proposed it loses 12 points,
> every player who voted YES on it receives 5 points, and every player who
> voted NO on it recieves A$ 4. If a proposal which is neither Modest nor
> Grandiose is rejected, but meets quorum, the player who proposed it loses 7
> points, every player who voted YES on it receives 3 points, and every
> player who voted NO on it recieves A$ 2.
> MONEY
> 
> {{If Grandiose proposals are no longer part of the rules, remove the
> sentance from Rule 207, section III, paragraph 2 that reads "If a Grandiose
> proposal is rejected, but meets quorum, the player who proposed it loses 12
> points, every player who voted YES on it receives 5 points, and every
> player who voted NO on it recieves A$ 4."}}
> 
> Amend rule 207 section III, paragraph 3, by appending the following FLOW
> delimited sentance.
> FLOW
> Voting YES ona proposal which is accepted, or voting NO on a proposal which
> is rejected, is called "flow-voting".
> FLOW
> 
> Amend rule 207 section V, paragraph 1 by appending the the following MONEY
> delimited text to it.
> MONEY
> A new player also recieves bonus A$ as if they had flow-voted regardless of
> their actual vote. [Note that this will give new players a double bonus if
> they had flow-voted initially]
> MONEY
> 
> Amend rule 207 section VI by appending the following MONEY delimited text
> to the end of the first paragraph.
> MONEY
> No A$ shall be recieved by any player for a Null proposal.
> MONEY
> 
> Amend rule 207 section VII by appending the following MONEY delimited text
> to the end of the first paragraph.
> MONEY
> No A$ shall be recieved by any player for a Boring proposal.
> MONEY
> 
> {{If A$ have been renamed to Qo, replace all occurances of A$ in Rule 207
> with Qo}}

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Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 11:11:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3122 accepted

Results of Proposal 3122

17/25 votes: Quorum achieved
11/15 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
Mr. Tambourine Man   (Klingon)
rufus                (SPAM)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
Attila the Pun
Koxvolio             (Harf)
Fortunato
Slakko               (SPAM)
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)

    NO:
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)

    PRESENT:
breadbox
Ayla

    BAA!:

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
IdiotBoy
else...if            (Klingon)
Wild Card            (SPAM)
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
Pandora              (MetaMorph)
Astro
The Mu-Cow Hunter

    VACATIONING:
saaremaa
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
two-star

> Proposal 3122 - Sat 23 May 1998 07:23 EDT
> Not that we use them very often, but...
> Vynd (John McCoy)
> 
> {{[Currently the rules on AOJs require that the entire Supreme Court agree
> on a use of their special powers. This could be difficult to accomplish now
> that the Supreme Court has so many members. The proposed amendment would
> allow a group made of any 2/3rds of the Supreme Court to author AOJs.]}}
> 
> In Rule 417 Justices Rock, make the following VOLTRON delimited changes:
> 
> VOLTRON
> 
> 1. Delete the paragraph begining "The players that are also Justices" and
> replace it with:
> 
> Justices have the following special powers:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 2. Delete the paragraph begining "The decision must be made public" and
> replace it with:
> 
> Justices may only use these special powers as a group. If 2/3rds of the
> members of the Supreme Court, or all of the members of the Supreme Court if
> there are fewer than 4 members, agree to, they may issue an Act of Justice
> (AOJ), of which they are considered to be the authors. An AOJ is a public
> statement by the Justices authoring it, in which they state what decision
> is being nullified, an explanation as to why, and the names of its authors.
> Once made public, the AOJ goes into effect and cannot be overturned except
> by another AOJ, or by a CFJ or CFCJ that shows that it was not issued in
> accordance with the rules.
> 
> VOLTRON

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Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 11:12:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3123 accepted

Results of Proposal 3123

17/25 votes: Quorum achieved
12/15 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
Mr. Tambourine Man   (Klingon)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
rufus                (SPAM)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Attila the Pun
Fortunato
Slakko               (SPAM)
Ayla
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)

    NO:
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
breadbox
Hubert               (Boomerangs)

    PRESENT:
Koxvolio             (Harf)

    BAA!:
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
IdiotBoy
else...if            (Klingon)
Wild Card            (SPAM)
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
Pandora              (MetaMorph)
Astro
The Mu-Cow Hunter

    VACATIONING:
saaremaa
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
two-star

> Proposal 3123 - Sat 23 May 1998 07:24 EDT
> How Can a Cubical World End?
> Slakko (Duncan Richer)
> 
> This is a Modest Proposal.
> 
> [If the CEIS achieves its goals, the world will be rendered cubical, and
> the method by which it could become round will cease to exist. Yet Rule
> 1320 would survive, and all it does is detail what happens when the world
> Ends as described in Rule 1319. It should disappear too.]
> 
> Amend Rule 1319.2 by replacing the quoted text
> "This Rule, as well as Rule 1319 and 1319.1(the RERS and FEPS rules), shall
> be repealed then"
> 
> with the quoted text
> "This Rule, as well as Rules 1319, 1319.1 and 1320 [the RERS, FEPS and End
> of the World rules], shall be repealed then"
> 
> [There are also some inconsistencies in Rule 1320 - it causes the cycle to
> immediately end, but Rule 600 overrules it on the matter of allowing a
> player to win that cycle - all it does is establish a winning condition. So
> we would have a cycle end without a winner, a torturous state of affairs.]
> 
> Amend Rule 1320 by replacing the third paragraph with the following
> COMPLIANT-delimited text:
> 
> COMPLIANT
> The End of the World results in a cataclysmic eruption of harf, in which
> one player becomes the Prophet of Doom. This player will be the active or
> vacationing player who had donated the most A$ to The Round Earth
> Restoration Society that is capable of winning a Cycle at the time that the
> Earth was made round. If this selection method results in a tie, then the
> player who most recently became Enlightened out of those players who are
> tied will become the Prophet of Doom. If none of the players who are tied
> for most A$ donated to The Round Earth Society are Enlightened, then the
> Speaker will randomly select with equal probability one of the players who
> are tied to become the Prophet of Doom. Whenever this Rule causes a player
> to be selected to become the Prophet of Doom, that player will achieve a
> Winning Condition. The Prophet of Doom must then challenge the True Prophet
> to a duel as soon as it is possible to do so.
> COMPLIANT

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Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 11:31:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3153

Proposal 3153
Not As Good as an Outright Repeal But....
Mr. Tambourine Man (Tom Walmsley)

This is a modest proposal.

Delete the second sentence of rule 206 (Keep 'em in the game).

[It currently reads:

"Anyone whose score reaches exactly -60 has their score changed to 20."]

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Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 11:32:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3154

Proposal 3154
But it's Really Interesting, Steve!
Mr. Tambourine Man (Tom Walmsley)

This is a modest proposal.

Delete the following SNOOKER delimited text from rule 207:

SNOOKER
VII. Boring Proposals 

A proposal is Boring if and only if at least half of the votes cast on the
proposal were Present or Baa! votes. The above provisions notwithstanding, no
points are scored by any player as a result of a Boring proposal being
accepted or rejected. 
SNOOKER

{{[The problem with boring proposals, as I see it, is that the only proposals
likely to be declared boring are ones which are in a specialist area, such as
party chess or the stock market. These proposals are not normally boring but
have a large number of present and baa! votes cast on them because people
aren't sufficiently knowledgeable on the subject]}}

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Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 11:33:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3155

Proposal 3155
And We'll Watch Them Fall
Hubert (Eric Plumb)

{{ [ Another "collect 'em all" method of winning.  More difficult than,
more interactive than, and mutually incompatible with Cheeses. ] }}

In the tomes of the Ancients, in the lost pages of the Ackanomicon, there
are listed Crimes far more heinous than mere Annoyingness, Heresies far
greater than simply doubting the colorhood of Black.  These are acts so
foul, so terrible, with such nasty pointy teeth, that they are known
simply as the Seven Deadly Sins of Ackanomic.  

Unfortunately, the exact details of the Seven Deadly Sins have been lost
in the mists of time.  Thus, the entire populace of Acka is called upon
to, through frantic research and long hours of burning the midnight oil,
determine exactly what constitutes these seven heresies.

Any player without a Brie cheese (i.e., a player convicted of a Crime
within the past two months) may post a message which purports to add a
Rule detailing a new sin to this Rule Suite or replace a Sin already
described in this Rule Suite with a Rule detailing a new sin. Such a
message is known as a Sin Submission and is invalid if it does not contain
at least the following three bits of information:
a) the name of the Sin it wishes to create,
b) an action or actions which constitutes the commission of that Sin, and
c) the name and/or Rule number of the Sin it is replacing, or, if it
intends to create a new Sin, the fact that it wishes to do so.

Upon the posting to a public forum of a valid Sin Submission, a
Sinquisition is called.  A Sinquisition is a type of Hearing; it is also
a Cause for Rejoicing.  The player who submitted the Sin Submission shall
be the Hearing Harfer for this Hearing and shall be known as the Faerie
Queene for its duration.  The valid verdicts in a Sinquisition are "Right
up there with Disrespecting the Harfers" and "I'm still looking for the
original sin."  If the verdict is "Right up there with Disrespecting the
Harfers," then if the Sin Submission purported to replace a current Sin,
the Rule describing that Sin is repealed.  Whether a replacement was
intended or not, a new Rule is added to this Rule Suite with the title
"The Deadly Sin of X", where X is replaced by the name for the Sin given
in the Sin Submission.  The body of this Rule shall be the text detailed
by the Sin Submission, and the player submitting the Sin Submission shall
gain 7 points for eir vigilance.
If the verdict of the Sinquisition is "I'm still looking for the original
sin," the player submitting the Sin Submission loses 7 points and must
spend three days in the Library researching further the nature of Sin.

If, at any time, there exist more than seven Rules besides this one in
this Rule Suite, the highest-numbered Rule in this Rule Suite shall be
repealed.

A player who commits any of the Seven Deadly Sins is guilty of the Crime
of Original Sin, and a judge convicting such a player is encouraged to be
as harsh as possible in penalizing the infidel.  In fact, the penalty in
a CFCJ convicting a player of this Crime must contain an Apology of at
least 7 lines; this takes precedence over Rule 710.  The initiator of a
CFCJ which attempts to convict a player for Original Sin must clearly
state in eir Reasoning which Sin or Sins were committed and how.

When a CFCJ alleging that a player has committed the Crime of Original Sin
is returned with a final verdict of TRUE, that player becomes a Vile
Committer of Y, where Y is replaced by the name of the Sin which that
player was convicted for committing. If a player was convicted for
multiple Sins at once, e gains such an attribute for each such Sin.  If a
player ever receives a Brie cheese in any manner, all attributes granted
em by this Rule are removed from em.  If ever a player is a Vile Committer
of all seven Sins detailed in this Rule Suite, and only those seven Sins,
e shall gain a Winning Condition.

{{ Renumber to 777.  Retitle to "The Seven Deadly Sins Rule Suite". }}

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Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 11:35:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3156

Proposal 3156
Everybody's Doin' a Brand New Dance Now
Hubert (Eric Plumb)

Create a Rule numbered 41 with the following JIHAD-delimited text:

JIHAD
There exists the Optional Political Office of Emperor.

No Impeachment Paper may ever be authored with the intent to remove the
Emperor from Office.  If such a Paper is authored, it fails immediately.

It is a Duty of the Emperor to invoke Judgement on all Proposals
which are still under voting consideration.  E does this by deciding
whether each such Proposal is accepted or rejected.  If e decides to
accept the Proposal, its effects are applied as described in paragraphs 4
and 5 of Rule 104 and it is removed from voting consideration, otherwise
it is simply removed from voting consideration.

It is a Duty of the Emperor to amend the Rules of Ackanomic as e sees fit.
E has the power to add a new Rule, repeal an existing Rule, or amend in
any way an existing Rule as a public action, as often as e likes.

It is a Privilege of the Emperor to declare that any player who posts a
public message which the Emperor does not like is Outcast.  When a player
is Outcast, e is immediately moved to the Wilds of Ackanomia and may not
change eir Location until the Emperor decides to allow em to do so.

This Rule takes precedence over all other Rules where there is a conflict.
{{ The player formerly known as The Gingham Wearer is appointed to the
Office of Emperor. ['Cause e won IN 29, you know.] }}
JIHAD

[ Hey, it'll get rid of anti-voting points... ]

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Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 12:27:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3157

Proposal 3157
Wall Street
else...if (Henry Towsner)

	There is a building know as the Ackan Stock Exchange.  It is classy
[because the Reserve can't get approval for that sixth kaa].  It is owned
by the Ackan Reserve, as are the kaas of land it is on, and is a common
location.  The Ackan Reserve also owns an undeveloped kaa of land adjacent
to the building.
	The Ackan Stock Exchange is a tall building made of glass.  About
half way up, there is a stock ticker, and the stock price is always
displayed on it.  Although any player may enter the Stock Exchange, only a
member of the AREB can go to the top floor.

	{{Renumber this rule to number 859}}

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