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acka-voting-digest      Sunday, September 6 1998      Volume 03 : Number 148

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Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 10:24:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Well Well

I will be releasing voting results under the assumption that either
CFJ 655 is True or that CSR 155 will have its intended retroactive
effect. I have my records of which votes have the potential of being
discarded - if the Scorekeeper needs this information now, e should
contact me privately. Otherwise, for the time being I will only
indicate if a proposal's outcome is thread-dependent.

breadbox

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Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 10:25:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3497 accepted

Results of Proposal 3497

21/26 votes: Quorum achieved
13/14 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
Robin Hood           (AVPP)
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
K 2                  (AVPP)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Wild Card            (SPAM)
Weishaupt
TJ                   (Boomerangs)
Attila the Pun       (AVPP)
Slakko               (SPAM)
Studge
Piz
Ethelred             (AVPP)

    NO:
rufus                (SPAM)

    BAA!:
Rig R. Mortis
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
breadbox
Mr. Tambourine Man   (Boomerangs)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
404 Not Found        (Boomerangs)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
IdiotBoy             (AVPP)
two-star
Memo

    VACATIONING:
867-5309             (Boomerangs)
Ayla
Horny Protoceratops

> Proposal 3497 - Sat 29 Aug 1998 12:58 EDT
> 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: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 10:25:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3498 rejected

Results of Proposal 3498

22/26 votes: Quorum achieved
6/17 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
Robin Hood           (AVPP)
rufus                (SPAM)
Weishaupt
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
Piz

    NO:
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
Mr. Tambourine Man   (Boomerangs)
K 2                  (AVPP)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Wild Card            (SPAM)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
TJ                   (Boomerangs)
Attila the Pun       (AVPP)
Slakko               (SPAM)
Studge
Ethelred             (AVPP)

    BAA!:
Rig R. Mortis
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
breadbox
IdiotBoy             (AVPP)
404 Not Found        (Boomerangs)

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
two-star
Memo

    VACATIONING:
867-5309             (Boomerangs)
Ayla
Horny Protoceratops

> Proposal 3498 - Sat 29 Aug 1998 12:59 EDT
> Can you say scam, boys and girls?
> rufus (David Scheidt)
> 
> Repeal rule 975.

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Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 10:26:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3499 rejected

Results of Proposal 3499

23/26 votes: Quorum achieved
5/20 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
Mr. Tambourine Man   (Boomerangs)
K 2                  (AVPP)
Wild Card            (SPAM)
Attila the Pun       (AVPP)
Ethelred             (AVPP)

    NO:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
Robin Hood           (AVPP)
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
breadbox
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
two-star
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
rufus                (SPAM)
Weishaupt
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
TJ                   (Boomerangs)
Slakko               (SPAM)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
Studge
Piz

    BAA!:
Rig R. Mortis
IdiotBoy             (AVPP)
404 Not Found        (Boomerangs)

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
Memo

    VACATIONING:
867-5309             (Boomerangs)
Ayla
Horny Protoceratops

> Proposal 3499 - Sat 29 Aug 1998 13:00 EDT
> 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: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 10:27:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3500 accepted

Results of Proposal 3500

23/26 votes: Quorum achieved
17/19 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
breadbox
IdiotBoy             (AVPP)
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
Mr. Tambourine Man   (Boomerangs)
K 2                  (AVPP)
two-star
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Wild Card            (SPAM)
Weishaupt
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
TJ                   (Boomerangs)
Attila the Pun       (AVPP)
Slakko               (SPAM)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
Studge
Piz

    NO:
Robin Hood           (AVPP)
rufus                (SPAM)

    BAA!:
Rig R. Mortis
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
404 Not Found        (Boomerangs)
Ethelred             (AVPP)

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
Memo

    VACATIONING:
867-5309             (Boomerangs)
Ayla
Horny Protoceratops

> Proposal 3500 - Sat 29 Aug 1998 13:12 EDT
> '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: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 10:28:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3501 accepted

Results of Proposal 3501

22/26 votes: Quorum achieved
12/15 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
Robin Hood           (AVPP)
IdiotBoy             (AVPP)
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
Mr. Tambourine Man   (Boomerangs)
K 2                  (AVPP)
two-star
rufus                (SPAM)
Weishaupt
TJ                   (Boomerangs)
Attila the Pun       (AVPP)
Studge

    NO:
Slakko               (SPAM)
Piz
Ethelred             (AVPP)

    BAA!:
Rig R. Mortis
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
breadbox
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Wild Card            (SPAM)
404 Not Found        (Boomerangs)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
Memo

    VACATIONING:
867-5309             (Boomerangs)
Ayla
Horny Protoceratops

> Proposal 3501 - Sat 29 Aug 1998 13:51 EDT
> 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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Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 10:50:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3549

Proposal 3549
Illuminati
Weishaupt (Gabriel Drummond-Cole)

Renumber the  Government type Proportional Representation to 320.6 [There
are currently two 320.5's]

Create a new rule called "Government Type: Secret Society" numbered 320.23
with wording as in the following CARBON-delimited text

CARBON
When the Current Government of Ackanomia is Secret Society, the OiCoRT
tells everyone that the government is democracy.  But he secretly picks the
tabulator, himself, count Tabula, and 1/3 of the other active players (if
enough such exist) as the secret government.  He privately informs each of
these people that the real government type is secret society and that they
are members.  However, they are not told who else is in the secret
government.  Only the OiCoRT, the Tabulator, and Count Tabula know who the
members are.

When votes are counted, the votes of secret government players are counted
triple.  When the tabulator/count tabula posts the results, e does so as if
the government type was decmocracy, except that e posts the true, secret
government, result in the "Proposal accepted"/"Proposal rejected" area.
This can lead to what looks like incorrect results [Example: 17/23 YES
votes: Proposal rejected] but the results are added to the results as
dictated by the secret society rules as opposed to those of democracy.

"The history of the world is the history of the warfare between secret
societies. --Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo" [Robert Anton Wilson, Opening
quote, Book 1, Verwirrung, Part 1, The Eye in the Pyramid, the Illuminatus
Trilogy]
CARBON

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Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 10:52:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3550

Proposal 3550
I'm Speaking About Dorums and You Can't Stop Me
Slakko (Duncan Richer)

Create a new Rule, numbered 1177, titled "What Is a Dorum?", with the
following DOR-delimited text:

DOR
A dorum is a small felt hat, which is of variegated colours, but always
includes at least red, blue, gold and harf.  Being a hat, it is a type of
Garment, but it is a wierd hat in that it tries to come off whenever you
put it on your head.  The only way to wear a dorum is while standing on
your head.  Whenever a player who has not previously been Harfmeister
becomes Harfmeister, they receive a dorum.

{{All players who have previously held the office of Harfmeister receive
one dorum.}}
DOR

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Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 10:53:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3551

Proposal 3551
Senade
Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck)

I. In R411 "Senate" replace the text :
" The Senators are collectively a Unique Organization known as the
Senate."
with the text:
"The Senators and the Churches are collectively a Unique Organization
known as the Senade. The Senade owns a More Than Human."

II. Replace all occurences of the string "Senate" in the rules with the
string "Senade".

III. In R401 "Offices, Commonalities" replace the text "Offices are named,
unownable entities, except for Capital Offices, which are Tradeable
entities. "
with the text:
"Offices are named entities. Capital Offices are Tradeable entities.
Functional Offices are Tradeable Entities, however, they may only be owned
by Organizations, all other types of Offices are named, unownable
entities."

IV. amend R403 "Functional Offices" to read in full:
"

This rule takes precedence over rule 401. 

If at any time a Functional Office becomes unowned, or owned by anything
other than an Organization, then it immediately becomes owned by the
Senade.

An Office is a Functional Office if and only if the Rules specify it as
such. 

The following applies to all Functional Offices: 

(i) A functional Office has only one Seat unless the Rules specify
otherwise. 

(ii) As a Privilege of Office, each Player shall receive a monthly salary
equal to the Standard Harfer Fee for every Functional Office held. 

(iii) Each Functional Office has a unique Office License associated with
it. Office Licenses may only be manipulated as specified in the rules.
Office Licenses are Tradeable Entities. 
If at any time an Office License becomes unowned, the it immediately
becomes Owned by the owner of the Office with which the License is
associated. The name of an Office License is identical to the name of the
Office with which it is associated, with the word 'License' appended to
it.
The Owner of an Office may give the license to any player. The player who
owns an Office License fills the Office associated with that License.
A player may gift an Office License to the owner of the Office Associated
with that Office License at any time. A player can trade an Office License
only with the consent of the owner of the Office Associated with that
License. An Office owner may Recall an Office License for any Office it
owns at any time as an Organizational Action. When this happens, the
Recalled Office License is immediately transferred to the owner of the
associated Office.
When a player ceases being Active for any reason, all Office Licenses e
owns are autmoatically recalled.

(vi)An Office License may not be owned by any Organization other than the
Organization which owns the Office Assocaited with that License. Whenever
an Organization owns an Office License, and the duties of the Office go
unperformed for a week or more, then all members of the Organization
which owns that Office License are deemed to have violated the Speed
Rules.

(v) A Vacationing Functional Officer is considered to have
vacated eir Seat for the duration of eir vacation, after which he shall
hold the Seat once again. 
"

V. Append to R411 "Senade" the following text:  
"  
At any given time exactly one Church is known as the Divine Church of
Ackanomic. This designation has no effect on the name of the Church.
The Divine Church of Ackanomic may manipulate Office Licenses owned by the
Senade as if they were owned by the Divine Church of Ackanomic.
The Senade may manipulate an Office Licenses it owns, by taking
Organizational Actions. 
Whenever a cycle is ended, the following things happen in the Senade:
1. The Dinivity of each Church which is also a member of the Senade is
determined by adding up the following quantities:
 a. The sum of the scores of all Active players who are also members of
    the Church.
 b. 1/5 of the total wealth of all Active players who are also memebrs of
    the Church and the Church itself

2. The Church that has the greatest Divinity becomes the Divine Church of
Ackanomic. Any other Church which held this title, is stripped of that
title.

The Senade may trade Offices to other Organizations, provided that at
least 2/3 of the members of the Senade agree to the trade. This sentence
takes precedence over R1005.
"

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Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 10:54:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3552

Proposal 3552
In Valen's Name
Wild Card (Jonathan David Amery)

 Create a rule with the title "The works of Valen", a legal integer number
which is the lowest that is not currently used in the rules and is larger
than 900 and the following ONEWHOWAS delimited text.

 ONEWHOWAS

 There exists a book in the Library called The Book of Valen.  It contains
the entire works of Valen, however it is written in an obscure language
no-one has yet been able to decipher fully.  [English in fact!]

 Any player who is in the Library may read the book at most once per
fortnight.  After reading the book thay should propose a proposal which
creates a single rule in the "Book of Valen" rule suite.  The title of
the rule should include the text "Book of Valen".

 If this proposal is accepted then they are given a number of ackadollars
which is the largest integer strictly less than one standard harfer fee
for services to translation.

 All such proposals should touch upon the disaster that is to befall
Ackanomic.

 This rule is the head of the "Book of Valen" rule suite.

 ["Book of Valen" rule suite]
ONEWHOWAS

 {{If there exists an entity named Phoebe that can own entities then
transfer 1 point to Phoebe from Wild Card.}}

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Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 10:55:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3553

Proposal 3553
Cream of Sum Yung Gai
Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey)

Create a new Rule, numbered 943, named "Hula!" with the following text
(delimited by WAHINE):

WAHINE
Muumuus are Garments.  Any player may create a Muumuu by going to the
Wilds of Ackanomic and eating an Amber Banana.

A player wearing a Muumuu and no other Garments(except, possibly, Hats)
may hula dance as a public action, even on the town hall steps; this
takes precedence over any Rule which would prohibit such dancing.
WAHINE

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Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 10:56:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3554

Proposal 3554
Nabla Cross Mu-Nought Times E
Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey)

Amend Rule 340, "Conventions", as follows:

Replace the following text(delimited by CURL)

CURL
VI. Whenever division is performed in Ackanomic, and the denominator
of that division evaluates to 0, then the result of that entire
division shall be 0.

VII. Alphabetical ordering shall be determined by a word-by-word
comparison, each word compared letter-by-letter. For these purposes: A
word is considered to be delimited by whitespace; an initial word
'The' or 'the' is ignored; a single string of digits is considered
equivalent to a letter; digital 'letters' precede alphabetical
letters; and non-alphanumeric characters are ignored (excluding
whitespace used for the purpose of delimiting words, which counts only
for this purpose); and case is ignored. All else failing, two words
that are otherwise equivalent shall be sorted in ASCII collation
order.

VIII. When any Rule requires a public message contain a fixed piece of
text in order to satisfy some condition, then, that Rule
notwithstanding, any piece of text in a public message which is
unambiguously a close approximation to the text in question, such that
the intent of the text in the message is unambiguously to satisfy the
condition laid down in the Rule, shall be considered, for the purposes
of that Rule, to be equivalent to the fixed piece of text.
CURL

with the following text(delimited by DIV):

DIV
VI. Alphabetical ordering shall be determined by a word-by-word
comparison, each word compared letter-by-letter. For these purposes: A
word is considered to be delimited by whitespace; an initial word
'The' or 'the' is ignored; a single string of digits is considered
equivalent to a letter; digital 'letters' precede alphabetical
letters; and non-alphanumeric characters are ignored (excluding
whitespace used for the purpose of delimiting words, which counts only
for this purpose); and case is ignored. All else failing, two words
that are otherwise equivalent shall be sorted in ASCII collation
order.

VII. When any Rule requires a public message contain a fixed piece of
text in order to satisfy some condition, then, that Rule
notwithstanding, any piece of text in a public message which is
unambiguously a close approximation to the text in question, such that
the intent of the text in the message is unambiguously to satisfy the
condition laid down in the Rule, shall be considered, for the purposes
of that Rule, to be equivalent to the fixed piece of text.

The following conventions apply to mathematical calculations in
Ackanomic, unless otherwise specified:

I. Whenever division is performed in Ackanomic, and the denominator
of that division evaluates to 0, then the result of that entire
division shall be 0.

II. Whenever a trigonometric function is to be applied to a number, and
no unit of angle measurement is specified, then the unit shall be taken
to be grads.  (100 grads = 90 degrees = pi/2 radians.)
DIV

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Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 10:57:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3555

Proposal 3555
Where'd the bries go
TJ (JT Traub)

This is a modest proposal.

{{[In P3366 Slakko tried to replace the way bries are gained and typo'd in
the proposal causing them to not be able to be gotten.  This fixes that.
]}}

After the following text as delimited by GOUDA
GOUDA
A player receives a gouda if e wins a game of grab a donkey, wins a game
of party chess or wins three games from the games and contest containing
five or more players (starting from the instant this rule is adopted or
the time a cheese of this type belonging to this player as destroyed;
whichever is more recent).
GOUDA
insert the following text as delimited by BRIE
BRIE
A player receives a brie when they win a Duel. If a player owns a brie
when they lose a Duel, that brie is destroyed.
BRIE

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Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 10:58:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3556

Proposal 3556
Or Put A Kiss But In The Cup
Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey)

Append the following text(delimited by OCCUPANT)to Rule 1390.2,
"Royal Frinks":

OCCUPANT
Any frink not otherwise defined as Royal shall become Knurd if frunk
from a hydria.  Knurd is a Royal Frink.

Hydriae are tradeable entities, which may only be created as described
in the Rules.
OCCUPANT

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Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 10:59:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3557

Proposal 3557
All Our Dooms
Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey)

This is a Modest proposal.

Amend Rule 1250.3, "General Equipment", by replacing the following
text(delimited by MARL):

MARL
a) The Official Scrabble Player's Dictionary (OSPD), as defined by the
URL: telnet://eel.st.usm.edu:7777
MARL

with the following(delimited by WAK):

WAK
a) The Enchanted North American Benchmark Lexicon(ENABLE), available
in compressed form at the URL:
http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/enable10.zip
(Note: the above Zip archive may contain files other than the wordlist,
but it should be clear what is the actual wordlist itself.)
WAK

{{[ While I'm at it...]

Add the following words to the Ackanomic Lexicon: "ack", "acked",
"acks", "acking".
}}

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