Subject: acka-voting-digest V3 #182
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acka-voting-digest      Tuesday, October 27 1998      Volume 03 : Number 182

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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 01:18:23 -0500 (EST)
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3679 accepted

Proposal 3679

Votes: 14/23 (11 YES votes): Quorum met
Yes votes: 11/12: proposal accepted

Yes:
  risE                 (Klingon)
  A mean Hat           (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  Fortunato            
  Slakko               (SPAM)
  /dev/joe             (Vulcan)
  Rambo R Minuteman    (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
  Vynd                 (Vulcan)
  JT                   (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Studge               (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  Wild Card            (SPAM)

No:
  K 2                  

Baa:
  Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
  The Green Ripper     (The Razor Boomerangs)

Abstain
  Leather Artifact     (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  Aunt Froot           (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  saaremaa             (Vulcan)
  Calvin N Hobbes      (HARF)
  404 Not Found        (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Robin Hood           (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  ThinMan              (Vulcan)
  IdiotBoy             (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  two-star             

Vacationing & did not vote:
  AJ                   
  Rig R. Mortis        
  breadbox             
  J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
  rufus                (SPAM)

>Subject: Acka: Proposal 3679
>
>Proposal 3679
>Unity Absurdity
>/dev/joe
>Due: Mon Oct 26 14:33:49 1998
>
>
>This is a modest proposal.
>
>{{[Somebody forgot to amend Rule 1009 in the player state re-orgs?]}}
>
>Amend Rule 1009, "Political Parties and Rewarding Party Unity", by
>changing "active player" to "Voting player" each time it appears in
>the rule.
>
>{{[ Active includes Non-voting players, and surely we don't want to
>prevent a party from getting a unity vote merely because it has
>Non-Voting player members.  This will hit the term used both in the
>check for YES votes and in the count for the number of unity votes.
>
>I also note that pending players are considered active, for better
>or worse... but I am not messing with that in this proposal. ]}}
>

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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 01:18:28 -0500 (EST)
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3681 accepted

Proposal 3681

Votes: 14/23 (10 YES votes): Quorum met
Yes votes: 10/13: proposal accepted

Yes:
  risE                 (Klingon)
  Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
  A mean Hat           (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  /dev/joe             (Vulcan)
  Rambo R Minuteman    (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
  Vynd                 (Vulcan)
  Studge               (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  The Green Ripper     (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Wild Card            (SPAM)

No:
  Slakko               (SPAM)
  K 2                  
  JT                   (The Razor Boomerangs)

Baa:
  Fortunato            

Abstain
  Leather Artifact     (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  Aunt Froot           (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  saaremaa             (Vulcan)
  Calvin N Hobbes      (HARF)
  404 Not Found        (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Robin Hood           (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  ThinMan              (Vulcan)
  IdiotBoy             (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  two-star             

Vacationing & did not vote:
  AJ                   
  Rig R. Mortis        
  breadbox             
  J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
  rufus                (SPAM)

>Subject: Acka: Proposal 3681
>
>Proposal 3681
>Governments changes
>A mean Hat
>Due: Mon Oct 26 17:51:37 1998
>
>
>I was young and foolish then, I feel old and foolish now.
>
>{{[Rebellion now dependent on *voting* players, not just players,
>Characteristic inconsistency fixed, spelling error fixed]}}
>
>Amend Rule 320 (Governments Rules Suite) by replacing the following
>IRON-delimited text
>
>IRON
>All players have a rebeliousness characteristic which may either be "on" or
>"off" (the default value is off). A player may freely change the value of this
>characteristic by publicly stating that they are doing so, and what they are
>changing it too. 
>
>If ever over 50% of all player have a rebeliousnees characteristic of "on" and
>any player points this out publicly then a Revolution shall begin. During a
>Revolution
>the folloing events will happen: 
>IRON
>
>with the following COBALT-delimited text
>
>COBALT
>All players have a rebelliousness characteristic which may either be "on" or
>"off" (the default value is off). A player may freely change the value of this
>characteristic by publicly stating that they are doing so, and what they are
>changing it too.  For the purposes of this rule, "on" and "off" are
>numerically
>representable by 1 and 0 respectively {{[this is necessary because
>characteristics are explicitly defined as numbers by Rule 540]}}
>
>If ever over 50% of all voting players have a rebelliousness characteristic of
>"on" and any player points this out publicly then a Revolution shall begin.
>During a Revolution
>the following events will happen: 
>COBALT
>
>
>{{replace all instances of the string "rebeliousness" in the rules with the
>word "rebelliousness"}}
>

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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 01:18:25 -0500 (EST)
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3680 rejected

Proposal 3680

Votes: 14/23 (5 YES votes): Quorum met
Yes votes: 5/14: proposal rejected

Yes:
  risE                 (Klingon)
  Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
  K 2                  
  Studge               (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  Wild Card            (SPAM)

No:
  A mean Hat           (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  Fortunato            
  Slakko               (SPAM)
  /dev/joe             (Vulcan)
  Rambo R Minuteman    (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
  Vynd                 (Vulcan)
  JT                   (The Razor Boomerangs)
  The Green Ripper     (The Razor Boomerangs)

Abstain
  Leather Artifact     (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  Aunt Froot           (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  saaremaa             (Vulcan)
  Calvin N Hobbes      (HARF)
  404 Not Found        (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Robin Hood           (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  ThinMan              (Vulcan)
  IdiotBoy             (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  two-star             

Vacationing & did not vote:
  AJ                   
  Rig R. Mortis        
  breadbox             
  J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
  rufus                (SPAM)

>Subject: Acka: Proposal 3680
>
>Proposal 3680
>Going British
>Wild Card
>Due: Mon Oct 26 17:49:28 1998
>
> Change all instances of the following ^^-delimited string to the
>following %%-delimited string:
> ^^dollar^^
> %%pound%%
>
> This change should be accomplished in such a way that whether each letter
>is upper or lower case should be preserved as closely as possible.
>
> {{Slakko gains 1 point.  Wild Card loses 1 point}}
>

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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 01:18:26 -0500 (EST)
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3678 accepted

Proposal 3678

Votes: 14/23 (12 YES votes): Quorum met
Yes votes: 12/14: proposal accepted

Yes:
  risE                 (Klingon)
  Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
  Fortunato            
  Slakko               (SPAM)
  K 2                  
  Rambo R Minuteman    (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
  Vynd                 (Vulcan)
  JT                   (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Studge               (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  The Green Ripper     (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Wild Card            (SPAM)

No:
  A mean Hat           (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  /dev/joe             (Vulcan)

Abstain
  Leather Artifact     (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  Aunt Froot           (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  saaremaa             (Vulcan)
  Calvin N Hobbes      (HARF)
  404 Not Found        (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Robin Hood           (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  ThinMan              (Vulcan)
  IdiotBoy             (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  two-star             

Vacationing & did not vote:
  AJ                   
  Rig R. Mortis        
  breadbox             
  J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
  rufus                (SPAM)

>Subject: Acka: Proposal 3678
>
>Proposal 3678
>Look!  Halley's Comet!
>Fortunato
>Due: Mon Oct 26 14:17:35 1998
>
>
>Modify Rule 1213 (Grab-A-Donkey) in the following fashion:
>
>Alter the following ACTION-delimited section:
>ACTION
>(a) Cover their donkey,
>(b) Grab another player's donkey on the GAL,
>(c) Stand Around Admiring their Donkey,
>(d) Resign (this action is only permissible in the first round).
>ACTION
>
>to the following NEW-delimited section:
>NEW
>(a) Cover their donkey,
>(b) Grab another player's donkey on the GAL,
>(c) Distract another player on the GAL,
>(d) Stand Around Admiring their Donkey,
>(e) Resign (this action is only permissible in the first round).
>NEW
>
>Change the following OLD-delimited text:
>OLDC. If exactly one player ("A") chose to Grab another player's donkey
>("B"), and if B did not
>Cover their donkey:
>OLD
>
>to the following DISTRACT-delimited section:
>DISTRACT
>C. If exactly one player ("A") chose to Grab another player's donkey
>("B"),
>and B did not Cover their donkey or B Covered their donkey and was
>Distracted
>by at least one other player:
>DISTRACT
>

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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 01:35:04 -0500 (EST)
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3704

Proposal 3704
Cauchemar Et Hecatombe
Alfvaen
Due: Tue Nov  3 01:35:03 1998

This is a Modest proposal.

{{[ Some problems made plain in the judgement of CFJ 659... ]}}

Amend Rule 210, "Literature", as follows:

After the text "written, uttered or otherwise communicated by the source,
enclosed in quotation marks." insert the sentence "If the source material
is not in English, then an English translation of the source shall be
considered a valid equivalent."

After the text "The source of the quotation must be cited in brackets
[like this] immediately following the quotation itself." insert the
sentence "This citation is considered to have semantic value for the
purposes of annotating the quotation; this takes precedence over Rule
340."

{{ Alfvaen loses 2 points; Vynd gains 2 points. }}

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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 03:18:55 -0500 (EST)
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3705

Proposal 3705
Let's Bridge Our Differences, Slakko.
A mean Hat
Due: Tue Nov  3 03:18:52 1998

Add the following STRONTIUM-delimited text to the rules as rule 210.1,
"United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Haiti, Jamaica, Peru"

STRONTIUM
Anything sung by the Animaniacs, including characters other than Yakko,
Wakko, and Dot, or anything said in the show "the Tick" shall be considered
Super Duper Literature.  If a proposal that would be literature if Super
Duper Literature counted as literature passes, the proposer will gain twice
the points that would have been gained if it were mere literature.
STRONTIUM

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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 09:08:12 -0500 (EST)
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3706

Proposal 3706
Free Range Chicks.
IdiotBoy
Due: Tue Nov  3 09:08:10 1998

I was young and foolish then, I feel old and foolish now.

{{The current Government Type is set to Anarchy.  This rule takes
precedence ovar any which would prohibit this change.}}

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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 14:36:42 -0500 (EST)
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3682 accepted

Proposal 3682

Votes: 14/22 (9 YES votes): Quorum met
Yes votes: 9/14: proposal accepted

Yes:
  Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
  A Mean Hat.          (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  Fortunato            
  K 2                  
  Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
  Vynd                 (Vulcan)
  JT                   (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Studge               (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  Wild Card            (SPAM)

No:
  eirs                 (Klingon)
  Slakko               (SPAM)
  /dev/joe             (Vulcan)
  Rambo R Minuteman    (The Razor Boomerangs)
  The Green Ripper     (The Razor Boomerangs)

Abstain
  Leather Artifact     (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  saaremaa             (Vulcan)
  Calvin N Hobbes      (HARF)
  404 Not Found        (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Robin Hood           (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  ThinMan              (Vulcan)
  IdiotBoy             (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  two-star             

Vacationing & did not vote:
  AJ                   
  Rig R. Mortis        
  breadbox             
  J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
  rufus                (SPAM)

>Subject: Acka: Proposal 3682
>
>Proposal 3682
>Honour among Thieves (take 1)
>A mean Hat
>Due: Tue Oct 27 13:31:24 1998
>
>
>Add the following KRYPTON-delimited text to the honour rule suite as Rule
>550.3
>
>KRYPTON
>If there is one player who has a higher honour score than all other players,
>and that honour score is greater than 20, then that player gets the title
>Champion of Honour and all other players lose the title Champion of Honour.
>KRYPTON

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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:20:11 -0500 (EST)
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3684 accepted

Proposal 3684

Votes: 13/22 (8 YES votes): Quorum met by YES votes only
Yes votes: 8/13: proposal accepted

Yes:
  eirs                 (Klingon)
  A Mean Hat.          (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  Fortunato            
  Rambo R Minuteman    (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
  Vynd                 (Vulcan)
  Studge               (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  Wild Card            (SPAM)

No:
  Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
  K 2                  
  /dev/joe             (Vulcan)
  JT                   (The Razor Boomerangs)
  The Green Ripper     (The Razor Boomerangs)

Abstain
  Leather Artifact     (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  saaremaa             (Vulcan)
  Slakko               (SPAM)
  Calvin N Hobbes      (HARF)
  404 Not Found        (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Robin Hood           (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  ThinMan              (Vulcan)
  IdiotBoy             (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  two-star             

Vacationing & did not vote:
  AJ                   
  Rig R. Mortis        
  breadbox             
  J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
  rufus                (SPAM)

>Subject: Acka: Proposal 3684
>
>Proposal 3684
>No Half-Measures for Zero-Division
>Slakko
>Due: Tue Oct 27 17:34:45 1998
>
>
>This is a Modest Proposal.
>
>[I'm sick of this problem. $%!@ sick of it. Let's eliminate it.]
>
>Delete section VI of Rule 340, and relabel all higher sections by reducing
>their labels by 1 (while keeping them in upper case Roman numerals).
>

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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:20:13 -0500 (EST)
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3683 accepted

Proposal 3683

Votes: 13/22 (11 YES votes): Quorum met by YES votes only
Yes votes: 11/12: proposal accepted

Yes:
  eirs                 (Klingon)
  A Mean Hat.          (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  Fortunato            
  /dev/joe             (Vulcan)
  Rambo R Minuteman    (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
  Vynd                 (Vulcan)
  JT                   (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Studge               (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  The Green Ripper     (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Wild Card            (SPAM)

No:
  K 2                  

Baa:
  Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)

Abstain
  Leather Artifact     (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  saaremaa             (Vulcan)
  Slakko               (SPAM)
  Calvin N Hobbes      (HARF)
  404 Not Found        (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Robin Hood           (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  ThinMan              (Vulcan)
  IdiotBoy             (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  two-star             

Vacationing & did not vote:
  AJ                   
  Rig R. Mortis        
  breadbox             
  J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
  rufus                (SPAM)

>Subject: Acka: Proposal 3683
>
>Proposal 3683
>Too Easy Otherwise
>Rambo R Minuteman
>Due: Tue Oct 27 17:01:51 1998
>
>
>This is a modest proposal.
>
>Modify rule 1390.12 by replacing:
>
>"Should it ever occur that every player eligable to do so should vote
>YES on the same proposal then the following shall happen: "
>
>with:
>
>"Should it ever occur that every player eligable to do so should vote
>YES on the same proposal and the Current Government of Ackanomia is not
>Despotism then the following shall happen: "

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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:35:52 -0500 (EST)
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3707

Proposal 3707
If it ain't cool, it shouldn't pass.
IdiotBoy
Due: Tue Nov  3 18:35:50 1998

Amend Rule 107 by replacing the following TOOEASY delimited text,

TOOEASY
Then, quorum is met if either (a) at least 60% of the players in the head
count have cast a vote, or (b) at least 36% of the players in the head
count have voted YES, or both. In no other circumstances is quorum met. 
TOOEASY

with the following MEANINGFUL-delimited text,

CNH
Then, quorum is met if at least 66% of the players in the head
count have cast a vote. In no other circumstances is quorum met.
CNH

. 

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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 19:13:20 -0500 (EST)
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3708

Proposal 3708
Overthrowing the evil opressors!
Rambo R Minuteman
Due: Tue Nov  3 19:13:17 1998

Create a new rule as a member of the otzma card rule suite entitled
"Otzma card of type Coup" and reading as follows (delimited by SUQ):

SUQ
There exist an otzma card of type "Coup" which must be played in the
public forum. It has an F designation of rare and no more than 2 may
exist at any one time.

When this card is played the player who played it must name a government
type. The Current Government of Ackanomia will then be changed to this
government type as soon as the OiCoRT has made any necessary random
determinations (e.g. who gets to become despot).

The counter action to this card is that the Current Government of
Ackanomia changes to Anarchy.
SUQ

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