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acka-voting-digest      Saturday, August 29 1998      Volume 03 : Number 142

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Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 12:32:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3465 rejected

Results of Proposal 3465

18/27 votes: Quorum achieved
8/19 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
Mr. Tambourine Man
else...if            (SPAM)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
Attila the Pun       (AVPP)
Studge
Piz

    NO:
Rig R. Mortis
Robin Hood           (AVPP)
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
breadbox
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Wild Card            (SPAM)
Weishaupt                               [Weishaupt is no longer pending]
rufus                (SPAM)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Slakko               (SPAM)
Bonus Vote                              [Niccolo Flychuck used a Bonus Vote]

    BAA!:

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
IdiotBoy             (AVPP)
two-star
K 2                  (AVPP)
404 Not Found        (Boomerangs)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
Ethelred             (AVPP)
Memo

    VACATIONING:
867-5309             (Boomerangs)
Ayla
Horny Protoceratops

> Proposal 3465 - Sat 22 Aug 1998 03:33 EDT
> Scared Brown Vole
> K 2 (Kelly Kelly)
> 
> This is a modest proposal.
> 
> {{[Three bonus votes per entity. Swingpoints cannot be used to create Bonus
> Votes. Guarding a proposal now costs A$75. for A$125 a proposal may be
> declared Honest and all bonus votes used on it are destroy (without
> replacement). A limit is placed on the number of Bonus Votes that may exist
> (2xVoting Players)]}}
> 
> Amend Rule 317 (Bonus Votes) by replacing the following text comprising
> section 2:
> A player can own at most five Bonus Votes at an given time. If a Player who
> already owns five Bonus Votes receives an additional Bonus Vote, by any
> means, the additional Bonus Vote is destroyed.
> With:
> An entity can own at most three Bonus Votes at any given time. If an entity
> who already owns three Bonus Votes receives an additional Bonus Vote, by
> any means, the additional Bonus Vote is destroyed.
> 
> Amend Rule 317 (Bonus Votes) by replacing the following text comprising
> section 7:
> A voting player may pay $A150 to the Treasury to declare any one proposal
> in the voting queue to be a Guarded Proposal. Bonus Votes may not used on a
> Guarded Proposal. Bonus Votes already cast on that proposal are not
> counted, and any player who cast a Bonus Vote that was nullified in this
> manner is given one Bonus Vote as compensation.
> With:
> A voting player may pay three times the Standard Harfer Fee to the Treasury
> to declare any one proposal in the voting queue to be a Guarded Proposal.
> Bonus Votes may not used on a Guarded Proposal. Bonus Votes already cast on
> that proposal are not counted, and any player who cast a Bonus Vote that
> was nullified in this manner is given one Bonus Vote as compensation.
> A voting player may pay five times the Standard Harfer Fee to the Treasury
> to declare any one proposal in the voting queue to be an Honest Proposal.
> Any Bonus Votes used on an Honest Proposal shall have no effect, but will
> be destroyed anyway.
> 
> Append the following as a new Section to the end of Rule 317 (Bonus Votes):
> 8. Any Bonus Votes created while there are more than twice as many Bonus
> Votes in existence than voting players shall immediately transform into
> four swingpoints, unless the Bonus Vote would have been destroyed upon
> receipt.
> 
> Delete subsection b of Section 3 of Rule 1044 (Swingpoints) which reads:
> 
> b. A Player may, as a public action, convert four of his own Swingpoints
> into one Bonus Vote.
> 
> Repeal Rule 594.11 (Blueprint: Bonus Vote Add-On) if it exists.

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Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 12:33:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3466 accepted

Results of Proposal 3466

17/27 votes: Quorum achieved
11/17 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
Wild Card            (SPAM)
Weishaupt
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
rufus                (SPAM)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Attila the Pun       (AVPP)
Slakko               (SPAM)
Studge
Piz
SPAM Unity Vote

    NO:
Rig R. Mortis
Robin Hood           (AVPP)
breadbox
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
else...if            (SPAM)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)

    BAA!:
Mr. Tambourine Man

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
IdiotBoy             (AVPP)
two-star
K 2                  (AVPP)
404 Not Found        (Boomerangs)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
Ethelred             (AVPP)
Memo

    VACATIONING:
867-5309             (Boomerangs)
Ayla
Horny Protoceratops

> Proposal 3466 - Sat 22 Aug 1998 03:35 EDT
> Robby Hood
> K 2 (Kelly Kelly)
> 
> This is a Modest Proposal.
> 
> I. Amend Section e of Rule 666 (End of Cycle) to read in full:
> "
> e) If the amount of A$s in circulation plus the value of all extant
> Trinkets and Majiks exceeded the amount in the Treasury at the time this
> winner was declared, the following shall occur:
> 
> i) Excluding the winner, all entities with a Total Wealth greater than zero
> shall transfer 10% of eir Total Wealth to the Treasury.
> ii) All entities with a Total Wealth greater than zero, shall be placed on
> The List in decreasing order of Total Wealth.
> iii) The entity appearing highest on The List, shall transfer 5% of eir
> total wealth to the player lowest on The List and both entities shall be
> removed from The List.
> iv) If there are at least two entities and at least one player are still on
> The List step iii is repeated.
> "
> 
> {{[ Tax is reduced to 10% and the half of entities with the largest total
> wealth pay 5% to the half of players with the smallest Total Wealth. ]}}
> 
> II. If Rule 506.1 (Magik) does not exist delete the phrase "and Majiks"
> from Section e of Rule 666 (End of Cycle).

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Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 12:34:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3468 accepted

Results of Proposal 3468

17/27 votes: Quorum achieved
12/16 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
Mr. Tambourine Man
else...if            (SPAM)
Weishaupt
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
rufus                (SPAM)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Attila the Pun       (AVPP)
Slakko               (SPAM)
Piz
SPAM Unity Vote

    NO:
Rig R. Mortis
Robin Hood           (AVPP)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Wild Card            (SPAM)

    BAA!:
breadbox
Studge

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
IdiotBoy             (AVPP)
two-star
K 2                  (AVPP)
404 Not Found        (Boomerangs)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
Ethelred             (AVPP)
Memo

    VACATIONING:
867-5309             (Boomerangs)
Ayla
Horny Protoceratops

> Proposal 3468 - Sat 22 Aug 1998 03:37 EDT
> But Your Hopes Go Down The Drain
> Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey)
> 
> This is a Modest proposal.
> 
> Delete the following text, delimited by HOWARD, from Rule 550.2,
> "Dishonourable Acts":
> 
> HOWARD
> 1 honour : Commiting a Sin
> HOWARD

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Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 12:35:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3469 accepted

Results of Proposal 3469

17/27 votes: Quorum achieved
10/13 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
Robin Hood           (AVPP)
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
Mr. Tambourine Man
else...if            (SPAM)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Weishaupt
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Studge

    NO:
rufus                (SPAM)
Slakko               (SPAM)
Piz

    BAA!:
Rig R. Mortis
breadbox
Wild Card            (SPAM)
Attila the Pun       (AVPP)

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
IdiotBoy             (AVPP)
two-star
K 2                  (AVPP)
404 Not Found        (Boomerangs)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
Ethelred             (AVPP)
Memo

    VACATIONING:
867-5309             (Boomerangs)
Ayla
Horny Protoceratops

> Proposal 3469 - Sat 22 Aug 1998 03:38 EDT
> Otherwise We'd Never Get Rid of That Dratted Delenn
> Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey)
> 
> This is a Modest proposal.
> 
> Amend Rule 1031, "Grey Council", as follows:
> 
> Append the following text, delimited by LENNIER, to section c):
> 
> LENNIER
> In this case, the procedure followed for impeachment is the same as that
> outlined in Rule 404, except that the IP will be ACCEPTED if at least 1/2
> of the members of the Caste voted on it, and 2/3 of those voting on the IP
> voted YES.
> LENNIER

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Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 12:35:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3470 accepted

Results of Proposal 3470

16/27 votes: Quorum achieved
12/15 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
Rig R. Mortis
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
Mr. Tambourine Man
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
else...if            (SPAM)
Weishaupt
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Robin Hood           (AVPP)
Attila the Pun       (AVPP)
Slakko               (SPAM)
Studge
Piz

    NO:
rufus                (SPAM)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
breadbox

    BAA!:
Wild Card            (SPAM)

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
IdiotBoy             (AVPP)
two-star
K 2                  (AVPP)
404 Not Found        (Boomerangs)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
Ethelred             (AVPP)
Memo

    VACATIONING:
867-5309             (Boomerangs)
Ayla
Horny Protoceratops

> Proposal 3470 - Sat 22 Aug 1998 03:39 EDT
> Black Crumpet of a Pleasure Bee
> K 2 (Kelly Kelly)
> 
> This Aardvark is a Modest Proposal.
> 
> {{[It seems odd that rule defined trinket creation would not trigger
> Treasury Bankruptcy Proceedings - as unlikely as those are anyway :)]}}
> 
> Amend the following phrase of Rule 505 (Treasury and AckaDollars), Section
> IV (Bankrupt Treasury):
> "
> Whenever some number of Players are to receive A$ from the Treasury, and
> there are insufficient available A$ to meet those obligations, the
> following process is executed:
> "
> to read:
> "
> Whenever the rules require an amount of A$ from the Treasury for any
> reason, and there are insufficient available A$ to meet those obligations,
> the following process is executed:
> "
> 
> Amend Rule 505 (Treasury and AckaDollars), Section IV (Bankrupt Treasury),
> subsection e to read:
> e) The remaining available A$ in the treasury shall be used in proportion
> to the number of A$ required for each application.
> 
> 
> Amend the fourth paragraph of Rule 506 (Trinkets) to read in full:
> "
> Other rules may also create and bestow ownership of Trinkets, so long as
> the rule provides for naming, describing, and valuing the Trinket.
> "

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Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 12:36:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3471 accepted

Results of Proposal 3471

18/27 votes: Quorum achieved
11/16 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
Rig R. Mortis
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
Robin Hood           (AVPP)
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
else...if            (SPAM)
Weishaupt
Attila the Pun       (AVPP)
Slakko               (SPAM)
Studge
Piz

    NO:
Mr. Tambourine Man
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
rufus                (SPAM)
JT                   (Boomerangs)

    BAA!:
breadbox
Wild Card            (SPAM)

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
IdiotBoy             (AVPP)
two-star
K 2                  (AVPP)
404 Not Found        (Boomerangs)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
Ethelred             (AVPP)
Memo

    VACATIONING:
867-5309             (Boomerangs)
Ayla
Horny Protoceratops

> Proposal 3471 - Sat 22 Aug 1998 03:40 EDT
> Just my Finger
> K 2 (Kelly Kelly)
> 
> This is a Modest Proposal.
> Debunk Rule 594.24 (Blueprint: Finger of Justice).

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Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 12:37:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3472 rejected

Results of Proposal 3472

17/27 votes: Quorum achieved
6/17 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
Rig R. Mortis
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
else...if            (SPAM)
Wild Card            (SPAM)
Attila the Pun       (AVPP)
Piz

    NO:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
Robin Hood           (AVPP)
breadbox
Mr. Tambourine Man
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Weishaupt
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
rufus                (SPAM)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Slakko               (SPAM)
Studge

    BAA!:

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
IdiotBoy             (AVPP)
two-star
K 2                  (AVPP)
404 Not Found        (Boomerangs)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
Ethelred             (AVPP)
Memo

    VACATIONING:
867-5309             (Boomerangs)
Ayla
Horny Protoceratops

> Proposal 3472 - Sat 22 Aug 1998 03:41 EDT
> Net Worth it?
> K 2 (Kelly Kelly)
> 
> This is a Modest Proposal.
> {{[Net Worth is equivalent to Trinket value. For Gadgets its the amount it
> would cost if an ACME Card was used. For Otzma Cards it depends on its
> F-Designation (R/N/C = 10/30/90.) Destroying a Trinket or Otzma Card nets
> you its Net Worth.]}}
> 
> {{[Creating a Characteristics Rule Suite]}}
> 
> Rename Rule 540 (Characteristics) to "Characteristics Rule Suite" and
> append the following text "[Characteristics Rule Suite]"
> 
> Renumber Rule 540.1 (Characteristic: Harf) to 540.3
> Renumber Rule 541 (Characteristic Tests) to 540.1
> 
> {{[Defining Net Worth]}}
> 
> Create a new rule as a member of the Characteristics Rule Suite with the
> title "Net Worth" and the text:
> Net Worth is a characteristic possessed by all tradeable entities which the
> financier is responsible for tracking.
> An Entity's Net Worth may take any positive integer.
> 
> {{[Changing trinket Value to Net Worth.]}}
> 
> Amend Rule 252 (Joining the Game), Section II, Subsection 4 by replacing
> the phrase "This Trinket has a value of" with "This Trinket has a Net Worth
> of" and the phrase "with a value of" with "with a Net Worth of"
> 
> Replace the final sentence of Section III (Hard Currency) of Rule 505
> (Treasury and AckaDollars) with the following:
> The total number of A$ shall always be 100,000 less the sum of the Net
> Worth of all tradeable entities in existence.
> 
> Amend Section VI (Total Wealth) of Rule 505 (Treasury and AckaDollars) to
> read in full:
> "
> The Total Wealth of a Player or Organisation is defined as the sum of the
> total number of A$ it possesses plus the Net Worth of all of the tradeable
> entities in its possession.
> "
> 
> Amend Section V (Donation) of Rule 505 (Treasury and AckaDollars) to read
> in full:
> A player may donate any non-mimsy Tradeable entity they own to the
> Treasury. When a Trinket is donated (or otherwise transferred to the
> Treasury), it is transformed into its Net Worth in A$ upon donation.
> 
> Replace the first four paragraphs of Rule 506 (Trinkets) with:
> "
> A class of gift entities known as Trinkets exist. The Net Worth of a
> Trinket may only be changed as specified by the rules.
> 
> A player may transform some or all of his A$ into a Trinket as a public
> action. In order to fully specify this action, the player must state the
> name, description, and Net Worth of the Trinket to be created. The creation
> fails if the player does not have at least as many A$ as the stated Net
> Worth of the Trinket, and/or if the name specified for the Trinket is not a
> valid Ackanomic name, or is already the name of a named entity. If the
> Trinket creation succeeds then the player who created the Trinket is its
> initial owner.
> 
> The owner of a trinket may transform it into its Net Worth in A$ as a
> public action. This action destroys the Trinket, creating A$ in its stead,
> and it upsets the art and antiquities communities.
> 
> Other rules may also create and bestow ownership of Trinkets, so long as
> the rule provides for naming, describing, and valuing the Trinket. In these
> cases, however, if the Net Worth of the Trinket would exceed the number of
> A$ in the Treasury directly before it would be created, it is created with
> a Net Worth equal to the number of A$ in the Treasury at that time.
> "
> 
> If Rule 506.1 (Magik) exists modify it to read in full:
> "
> An existing Trinket can be made into a Majik as an Organisational Action of
> the Senate. A player who owns a Trinket worth more than A$99 can ask in a
> public message if that Trinket is special. If the Senate states as an
> Organisational action within 10 days "This Trinket is Majik", then the
> Trinket becomes a Majik. [It is considered good form to give the Senate a
> 10% fee for its service.]
> 
> Majiks are no longer Trinkets but keep the Net Worth, name and description
> they had when Trinkets. Majiks are tradeable entities.
> "
> {{[If Majiks haven't been repealed then (since the Archaeologist has been
> repealed) there should be a creation mechanism - The senate seems a safe
> alternative.]}}
> 
> Amend Rule 428 (Trinket-Harfer) by replacing item a with the following
> text:
> To keep an accurate record of the name, Net Worth, and description, of all
> Trinkets and to make that record available to any player on request.
> 
> Amend Rule 666 (End of Cycle), Section e to read in full:
> "
> If the amount of A$s in circulation plus sum of the Net Worth of all
> Tradeable Entities exceeded the amount in the Treasury at the time this
> winner was declared, the following shall occur: 20% (round down) of each
> Entity's Total Wealth is owed to the Treasury. The winner shall owe only
> 10% (round down), however.
> "
> 
> Amend Rule 850 (Museum), Section IV (Donation Value), Subsection c to read
> in full:
> "
> c) Trinkets and Majiks: The Net Worth the Trinket or Majik had when it was
> donated. If it was once part of a Buried Treasure for more than 60
> continuous days, it is an Antiquity, and its Net Worth is increased by 30%
> (fractions truncated), upon donation, and it is no longer considered to
> have once been part of a Buried Treasure for that length for the purposes
> of this sub-section, unless it again acquires that attribute.
> "
> 
> If Rule 506.1 (Magik) does not exist modify Rule 850 (Museum), Section IV
> (Donation Value), Subsection c by removing the phrases "and Majiks" and "or
> Majik".
> 
> Replace the phrase "Objects on display are valued by the Museum as follows"
> in Rule 850 (Museum), Section IV (Donation Value) with "The Donation Value
> of entities on display in the Museum are calculated as follows".
> 
> Amend Rule 850 (Museum), Section V (Benefactor value and becoming a Member
> of the Museum) by replacing the phrase "sum of the value of all objects"
> with "sum of the Donation Value of all entities"
> 
> Replace the phrase "if the total value of the Trinkets" with "if the total
> Net Worth of the Trinkets" in the final paragraph of Rule 1125 (Committee
> for the Protection, Preservation, and Integrity of the Arts).
> 
> Amend Rule 1304 (Prophets and Prophecies) by replacing the phrases "its
> value in A$" with "its Net Worth in A$" and "greatest combined value" with
> "greatest combined Net Worth" where they appear in the third paragraph.
> 
> Amend Rule 594.17 (Blueprint: BWG Laser) by replacing the phrase "are
> trinkets who's value" with "are trinkets who's Net Worth" in the first
> paragraph.
> 
> Amend the second paragraph of Rule 594.5 (Blueprint: Automatic Sculpture)
> by replacing the phrase "into a Trinket worth A$123." with "into a Trinket
> with a Net Worth of A$123."
> 
> {{[The whole point]}}
> 
> Append the following onto Rule 595 (Gadgets) as a new section:
> IV. The Net Worth of a Gadget is always equal to the last price paid at
> Public Auction for a Gadget of that Type, or 50 if a gadget of that type
> has never been Publicly Auctioned. This section defers to all blueprints,
> but takes precedence over Rule 594.
> 
> Append the following to Rule 594.5 (Blueprint: Automatic Sculpture) as a
> separate paragraph:
> The Net Worth of an Automatic Sculpture is always 123.
> 
> Amend Section I of Rule 1240.1 (Definition of Otzma Cards) to read in full:
> "
> I.
> 
> 1. Otzma Cards are Nameless Gift Entities.
> 
> 2. Otzma Cards can be created only according to the rules.
> 
> 3. The Net Worth of an Otzma Card depends upon its F-Designation as
> follows:
> i) Rare: A$ 90
> ii) Normal: A$ 30
> iii) Common: A$ 10
> 
> 4. The optional office of RuneMaker exists.
> "
> 
> Append the following text to the end of Rule 1240.1 (Definition of Otzma
> Cards) as a separate paragraph:
> "
> 10. A player may destroy an Otzma Card e owns as a public action. If a
> player voluntarily destroys a card its Net Worth in A$ is created in eir
> possession.
> "

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Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 12:37:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3473 rejected

Results of Proposal 3473

17/27 votes: Quorum achieved
9/18 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
Rig R. Mortis
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
else...if            (SPAM)
Wild Card            (SPAM)
rufus                (SPAM)
Attila the Pun       (AVPP)
Slakko               (SPAM)
Studge
SPAM Unity Vote

    NO:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
Robin Hood           (AVPP)
breadbox
Mr. Tambourine Man
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Weishaupt
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Piz

    BAA!:

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
IdiotBoy             (AVPP)
two-star
K 2                  (AVPP)
404 Not Found        (Boomerangs)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
Ethelred             (AVPP)
Memo

    VACATIONING:
867-5309             (Boomerangs)
Ayla
Horny Protoceratops

> Proposal 3473 - Sat 22 Aug 1998 03:43 EDT
> Licensed to Ice
> K 2 (Kelly Kelly)
> 
> This is an Aardvark.
> 
> {{[This proposal stems from the semi-recent attempts to make rules/players
> ownable and the recent discussions on Word ownership.]}}
> 
> Create a new rule numbered xxx with the title "Commercial License Rule
> Suite" with the text:
> "
> [This Rule Suite defines a group of Tradable Rules, which in turn define an
> action for which the Rule's owner may charge a fee.]
> 
> I. Definition
> a) All rules which are a member of this rule suite are unique tradeable
> entities collectively known as Commercial Licenses, this takes precedence
> over rule Rule 301 (Proposal and Rule Titles).
> b) When a rule is added to this rule suite, it is created in the treasury
> unless the rules specify otherwise.
> c) A Commercial License must describe at least one game action.
> d) Additionally, a Commercial License may define a fee for performing the
> action(s) it describes which may be any number or variety of tradeable
> entities. If a particular Commercial License does not specify a fee, the
> Standard Harfer Fee shall apply.
> 
> II. Usage
> a) When an entity performs an action described in a Commercial License e
> must pay the required fee to the owner of the License.
> b) An entity which does not own sufficient quantities of the entities which
> constitute the fee cannot perform the action.
> c) The owner of a commercial license may donate it to the treasury as a
> public action.
> 
> [Follow this link for the current Commercial Licenses]
> "

------------------------------

Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 12:38:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3474 rejected

Results of Proposal 3474

17/27 votes: Quorum achieved
7/16 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
Rig R. Mortis
Robin Hood           (AVPP)
Mr. Tambourine Man
else...if            (SPAM)
Attila the Pun       (AVPP)
Slakko               (SPAM)
Studge

    NO:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
breadbox
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Weishaupt
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
rufus                (SPAM)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Piz

    BAA!:
Wild Card            (SPAM)

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
IdiotBoy             (AVPP)
two-star
K 2                  (AVPP)
404 Not Found        (Boomerangs)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
Ethelred             (AVPP)
Memo

    VACATIONING:
867-5309             (Boomerangs)
Ayla
Horny Protoceratops

> Proposal 3474 - Sat 22 Aug 1998 03:44 EDT
> A Word for the Wise
> K 2 (Kelly Kelly)
> 
> This is a Modest Proposal.
> 
> If the proposal titled "Licensed to Ice" authored by K 2 was accepted the
> following will occur:
> 1. Create a new rule as a member of the Commercial License Rule Suite with
> the following text:
> ---
> Action: Authoring an Ackanomic Document which contains the text "contains
> monosodium glutamate" or would through the application of its text, or as a
> result of the application of any rule modified by that Document, cause a
> new instance of the text "contains monosodium glutamate" to appear or an
> existing instance to disappear from any Ackanomic Document.
> 
> Fee: The Standard Harfer Fee.
> 
> The first owner of this rule may as a public action replace all quoted
> instances of contains monosodium glutamate in this rule with any sequence
> of eight or more characters excluding the space character. This paragraph
> shall be removed from this rule two weeks after this rule is created.
> ---
> If the proposal titled "Licensed to Ice" authored by K 2 was rejected the
> following will occur:
> 1. Create a new rule numbered 312 with the text:
> All proposals which contain the entire text of this rule are Zzimsy
> Proposals. No other proposals are Zzimsy proposals. Two seconds after the
> creation of this rule, any player who has ever voted YES on any Zzimsy
> proposal shall gain the title "Hoopy Frood" and this rule shall then repeal
> itself.

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Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 12:58:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3497

Proposal 3497
Clarity
Attila the Pun (Micah Smukler)

This is a Modest proposal.

Amend rule 1313 ("Tornado") by replacing the phrase "If the house belonged
to a player who was absent" with the phrase "If the house belonged to a
player who was Vacationing"

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Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 12:59:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3498

Proposal 3498
Can you say scam, boys and girls?
rufus (David Scheidt)

Repeal rule 975.

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Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 13:00:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3499

Proposal 3499
Zdravstvuitye
Mr. Tambourine Man (Tom Walmsley)

Russian and English are both official languages of Ackanomic. Any
Ackanomic business (e.g. rules, proposals, CFJs) can be conducted in
either language with the same weight.

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Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 13:12:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3500

Proposal 3500
'Cause a Little Bird Never Tells Me Anything
breadbox (Brian Raiter)

Amend Rule 370 ("No E-mail, No Game") by replacing the paragraph that
reads currently:

  A message is a public message if and only if it is distributed to
  all active Players, or it is sent to any mailing list indicated as a
  public forum and the message obeys all restrictions in the Postal
  Code for that list.

with the following two paragraphs:

  If a message is sent to a mailing list named in the Postal Code,
  then it is a public message if and only if the Postal Code indicates
  that mailing list is a public forum, and any actions attempted in
  the message obey the restrictions outlined in the Postal Code for
  that list.

  A message not sent via a mailing list named in the Postal Code is a
  public message if and only if it is sent to all active players.

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Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 13:51:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3501

Proposal 3501
The World's A Twisted Place
Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey)

This is a Modest proposal.

{{[ In my game of Bacon with K 2, it turned into a contest of trying to
find the most obscure actron that the other player had never heard of.
Just to provide a little bit of a guard against that...  Unfortunately,
it will slow the game down a bit, but hopefully not too badly. ]}}

Amend Rule 1250.22, "Bacon", by replacing the following text(delimited
by WAYNE):

WAYNE
The game consists of a series of rounds. At the start of each round, each
player must privately email the name of an actor or actress(hereafter
referred to as an actron), who has appeared in at least one movie
as specified in the Movie Database.  This naming period is over when
both players have named an actron, or three days have passed since the
referee announced the start of the round, whichever comes first; in
the latter case, if one player named an actron and the other did not,
then the first player wins the round, and if neither named an actron
then the round is a draw.

The referee then posts the names of both actrons.  The players have three
days to either object to each others' selection, or to state that they
are satisfied with it.  If the three days pass with no objections, or
both players state that they are satisfied, then the actrons are deemed
to be accepted.  If one or both players object, then the referee must
rule on each actron thus objected to.  If the referee rules that the
actron is too obscure, then the player who selected that actron loses
one Gamepoint.  If the referee rules that the actron is not too obscure,
then the player who objected loses one Gamepoint.  If one or both actrons
is rules to be too obscure, then the naming period begins again(and both
players must email the name of another actron to the referee), otherwise
play proceeds.
WAYNE

{{[ A lot rests on the referee here, but e can certainly use the Movie
Database to determine how many movies an actron has been in, if
nothing else.  Or ask for information privately from the player who
suggested em. ]}}

Replace the text "After the actrons have been named for a round" with
"After the actrons are accepted".

Replace the text "from the time the naming period ends" with "from
the time the actrons are accepted".

Replace the text "The winner of a round receives a Gamepoint" with
"The winner of a round receives 2 Gamepoints".

Replace the text "first player to obtain 5 Gamepoints" with "first
player to obtain 10 Gamepoints".

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