Subject: acka-voting Digest V4 #150
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acka-voting Digest	Sunday, July 25 1999	Volume: 04  Issue: 150

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Subject: Acka: Proposal 4258 accepted
From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 00:39:09 -0400 (EDT)

Proposal 4258

Subcommittee vote for: 180   against:0
Subcommittee Acceptance Index: 180.0
Passed subcommittee
Total vote for: 585   Total vote against:-140
Acceptance Index: 375.0: proposal accepted

** This proposal was boring! ** 
5 sub-60 votes out of 9 non-60 votes total.

Votes to accept:
  /dev/joe              120    -20  ==> 2969
  Laa Laa                62    +19  ==> 524
  Blest Lax Monk Pal     60    +20  ==> 599
  A German Dog           60    +20  ==> 3301
  Alfvaen                35    +20  ==> 490
  Studge                 59    +20  ==> 1338
  Sir Galahad            59    +20  ==> 800
  ThinMan               100         ==> 1496
  King Felix             30    +20  ==> 1858

Zero Votes:
  rice                    0    +20  ==> 610

Votes to reject:
  Emperor Ai! Pedrito! -140    -40  ==> 483

Abstainers:
  Calvin N Hobbes      
  404 Not Found        
  Vynd                 
  else...if            
  Pure Haste           
  IdiotBoy             
  danke                
  Burn the Witch       
  Niccolo Flychuck     
  rufus                
  two-star             
  K 2                  

 Subject: Acka: Proposal 4258
 
 Proposal 4258
 Scam Prevention
 /dev/joe
 Due: Sat Jul 24 23:21:32 1999
 Sphere: Hypnotist of Ladies
 Status: accepted

 Repeal rule 17-2-1, "Declaration of War: Agora".
 
 All Declarations of War cease to exist.
 
 Amend Rule 17-2, "A Few of Our Least Favorite Things", by inserting
 "voluntarily" before "registered players" in the last paragraph, and
 also by replacing "rival nomic" with "any nomic with which Ackanomic
 is in a State of War" in that paragraph.

 

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Subject: Acka: Proposal 4271
From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 09:41:19 -0400 (EDT)

Proposal 4271
The Most Rejected Proposal
K 2
Due: Sun Aug  1 09:41:17 1999
Sphere: All Canadians're Kind & Amiable

 This is a Grandiose Proposal.
 
 A. Make the following modifications to the rules:
 
 1. Amend Rule 1-1 (Resolving Conflicts) by deleting the final paragraph
 which reads:
 "
 If two rules have different base numbers, use the base number to
 determine which is lowest. Among rules with the same base number, use
 the sub rule numbers to determine which rule has the lowest number,
 treating a rule without a sub rule number as if the sub rule number was
 zero.
 "
 [Compare the effect of that paragraph with the one in Rule 2-3:
 "An H number is larger than another H number if the first (from left to
 right) integer which differs between the two is larger. When a rule Z1
 is moved to become rule Z2, all its children Z1-X are moved to Z2-X"]
 
 2. Amend Rule 1-2-2 (Spelling Bee) by:
 i) replacing the text "[sic]" with "(sic)" in section 5.b.e.
 [no semantic meaning]
 ii) deleting the sentence "This clause takes precedence over any rule
 which would require such notation." in section 7.
 [The rules don't require any such notation - Rule 6-4-4 states rules
 should be annotated with "customary ancillary information", which
 customarily does not include the spelling bee.]
 
 3.a {{All Dull Spellbooks are transformed into Shimmering Spellbooks.}}
 3.b Amend Rule 1-2-2-1 (Spellbooks) to read in full:
 "
 Shimmering Spellbooks exist. They are non-tradeable entities. A player
 may not own more than one Shimmering Spellbook, excess books are
 destroyed. Players may destroy any Shimmering Spellbooks in their
 possession as a public action.
 
 Any player with a Shimmering Spellbook is permitted to initiate a
flight
 of the Spelling Bee, as in Rule 1-2-2.
 
 Some Offices may include possession of Shimmering Spellbooks among
their
 privileges; in this case, if ever the holder of such an Office does not
 possess a Shimmering Spellbook, one is created in their possession.
 "
 
 4. Replace section e under the heading "The Privileges are:" of Rule
 6-4-4 (Rule-Harfer) with:
 "
 e) To own a Shimmering Spellbook.
 
 f) It is a privilege of the Rule Harfer to create Shimmering Spellbooks
 for players, or to destroy them, as a public action.
 "
 
 5. Amend Rule 1-2-8-2 (Yes Virginia) by:
 a) deleting the final paragraph.
 [unnecessary and incorrect precedence clause - "This Rule takes
 precedence over all Rules numbered 200 or lower."]
 
 6. Amend Rule 1-4 (When Score Changes Take Effect) by:
 a) deleting (in section 1.d) the phrase "This section (1), defers
 precedence to R2-2.".
 [The identical precedence clause at the end of the rule takes care of
 this.]
 b) deleting (in section 4) the phrase "it is the duty of the
Scorekeeper
 to announce such score changes."
 [As far as I can see this requires me to announce that the self
deleting
 text in P4229 caused EA!P! to lose 8 points and the rule-harfer (IB)
and
 the scorekeeper (K2) to gain 4 points each - funnily enough that is
 exactly what P4229 has already said....]
 
 7. Amend Rule 1-6-1 (Player Names) by:
 a) changing the phrase "neither the President" into "the President" in
 the third paragraph.
 
 8. Amend Rule 1-6-2 (Proposal and Rule Titles) by deleting the phrase
 "(This paragraph takes precedence over Rule 1-6-3.)".
 [Funny thing - it already does :-)]
 
 9. Amend Rule 1-6-3 (Entity Names) by deleting the phrase:
 "
 If the Rules do not specify any other method for determining its name,
 or if the method specified does not give a legal name, that entity
shall
 be considered nameless until a name is legally assigned to it.
 "
 [Latter sections of the same rule have the same effect - cf the second
 last paragraph.]
 
 10. Amend Rule 2-1-1 (Fair Voting Practices) by:
 b) deleting section III which reads:
 "
 Entities which generate effects based on the way players vote on a
 proposal, do so prior to the application of that proposal.
 "
 [Section II currently reads:
 "If a proposal adds, changes, or repeals rules that generate effects or
 cause some entity to generate effects (including but not limited to
 score changes) based on the way players vote, then those rules generate
 no effects based on the way players vote on that particular proposal.
 This section of this rule takes precedence over all other rules which
 generate effects based on the way players vote on proposals."
 
 Rule 1-4 section 5 takes precedence over section III in the matter of
 scoring:
 "If a Rule describes a score change that would normally come about as
 the result of the passage of a Proposal, then that score change is
 considered to occur an infinitesimal amount of time before any of the
 rule changes or effects listed in that Proposal occur."
 
 The above change just makes the effect of 1-4 extend to things other
 than score changes.]
 
 11. Amend Rule 2-2 (Scoring When A Proposal's Voting Results are
 Reported) by making section I read in full:
 "
 All the following scoring changes are applied at the time the
Proposal's
 tabulated voting results are officially reported, prior to any of the
 proposals effects.
 "
 [Simpler timeline: Proposal's results reported, Score changes due to
 acceptance/rejection, Effect of proposal (including further score
 changes]
 
 12. Amend Rule 2-2-2 (Literature) by deleting the phrase ", and up to
 any player to find another piece of literature that also contains the
 quote." from the final paragraph of section I.A.
 [Literature quotes need not be unique anymore - this is a hangover from
 precious amendments]
 
 13. Amend Rule 2-2-3 (Ackanomic Unity) by replacing section 1 with:
 "
 1) The day of Ackanomic Unity shall be the date the proposal was
 accepted.
 "
 [A shorter version with the same effect]
 
 14. Amend Rule 2-2-4 (Parades) by:
 a) replacing the sentence which starts with "The Guest of Honour will
 also" and ends with "a puzzle piece of eir choice as long as that piece
 is not part of a Winnable Bag." with "The Guest of Honour will receive
 an additional 10 points."
 b) replace the final paragraph [cardboard cut-outs and replicas] with
 [cardboard cut-outs alone]:
 "
 Any vacationing player will be represented by a cardboard cut-out on
 wheels, which will lower the whole tone of the occasion, so any points
 they would have received as a result of the Parade will be withheld.
 "
 
 15. Amend Rule 2-2-6 (Let there be Harf!) by replacing the paragraph
 starting with (At most one player is "Funky and Stylish" at any one
 time;) with the following HLOEL delimited text.
 HLOEL
 "Funky and Stylish" is a unique title. When a player is designated
 "Funky and Stylish", they gain 5 points. Only one player may be
 designated "Funky and Stylish" per calendar week.
 HLOEL
 
 16. Replace the list of punishments (a-i) in Rule 3-6 (Criminal
Justice)
 with:
 "
 a) a PUBLIC APOLOGY of 1 or more lines by Player X.
 b) the TRANSFERENCE of 0 or more entities or characteristics associated
 with Player X to either the Treasury or the initiator of the CFCJ.
 c) a SENTENCE in the Gaol of 1 or more days for Player X.
 d) the REMOVAL of Player X from one or more Institutions to which e
 currently belongs.
 e) The IMPEACHMENT of Player X from a single specific office which e
 currently holds.
 f) the EXPULSION of Player X from the game.
  "
 
 17. Amend Rule 4 (Players and Player States) by deleting sub-section b
 from section V.
 [Acting officer redundancy]
 
 18. Amend Rule 4-1-1 (Mentors) by replacing the phrase:
 "
 Any Active player may place emself in the Mentor pool or remove emself
 therefrom by notifying the Registrar. This notification may be done
 privately.
 "
 with:
 "
 Any Active player may place emself in the Mentor pool or remove emself
 therefrom by notifying the Registrar.
 "
 [notification of the registrar implies the possibility of private
 correspondence]
 
 19. Amend Rule 4 (Far Out) by replacing the phrase:
 "
 If the player does not respond within 3 days, their location is changed
 to Fairy Land.
 "
 with:
 "
 If the player fails to perform a game action within 3 days, their
 location is changed to Fairy Land.
 "
 [respond - game action same thing :-)]
 
 20. Amend Rule 4-4-5-2 (Dishonourable Acts) by:
 a) removing the phrase "1 Honour: going to Gaol" from the list of
 Uniquely Dishonourable Acts and placing it in the list of Repeatably
 Dishonourable Acts.
 [Well it is]
 b) deleting the phrase which starts "1 honour: Bribing players"
 [Alas Bribery and Tammany are no longer with us]
 
 21. Amend Rule 4-5 (A Degree Proves You're Educated) by:
 a) replacing "A player may gain the title student" with "A player, who
 is not already a student, may gain the title student" in the first
 paragraph of section 1.
 [multiple studentships prohibited]
 b) delete the phrase "pretend to" in the second paragraph of section 1.
 [Pretend!!! PRETEND!!!?]
 
 22 Amend Rule 6 (Offices, Commonalities) by deleting the phrase "This
 sub-section takes precedence over section (iv) and R6-4." from section
 viii.a.
 [Incorrect and it has appropriate precedence anyway - rule 6 is lower
 than rule **6-1**]
 
 23 Amend Rule 6-1 (Acting Officers) by deleting "Evil Math Troll," and
 "General Contractor," from section III.
 [repealed offices]
 
 24. Amend Rule 6-4-13 (Map-Harfer) by:
 a) deleting section 1 which reads:
 "
 1) To appoint Assistant Map-Harfers to assist his in the execution of
 duties b) and c) above.
 "
 [covered by other rules ie 6-2-1]
 b) renumbering section 2 to section 1.
 
 25. Amend Rule 6-5-1 (President) by deleting its final sentence which
 reads:
 "
 This section has precedence over rule 6.
 "
 [Rule 6-1 defers to rule 6-5-1 so there is no need for this - why it
 wants to take precedence over rule 6 is a bit of a mystery ;-)]
 
 26. Amend Rule 7-14 (Definition of Otzma Cards) by replacing "R516"
with
 "the auction".
 [Relative references rock :-)]
 
 27. Append "Frinks are entities." to the end of Rule 7-15 (Royal
Frinks)
 
 [This should've been done ages ago]
 
 28. Amend Rule 7-16 (Ackanomic Sound System) by:
 a) deleting the phrase "This action fails if the entity does not own
 sufficient A$, or has no Tokens." from final paragraph of section II.
 [This is covered by rule 7-1 - "Entities may not manipulate ownable
 entities which they do not own except as explicitly permitted by the
 rules."]
 b) deleting the phrase "The act of placing a Token into the
banna-shaped
 slot of the ASS' control panel destroys that Token." from section IV.
 [Covered by section II]
 c) replace sub-section of section IV which currently reads:
 "
 e) Cost: The amount of A$ which must be placed in the banna-shaped slot
 in the ASS' control panel to play this Song. If the Cost is not
 specified, it defaults to Infinite; i.e., the Song cannot be purchased
 with A$ as described above.
 "
 with:
 "
 e) Cost: If the Cost is not specified the Song can not be purchased
with
 A$.
 "
 
 29. Amend Rule 7-17 (Chemicals) by:
 a) deleting the paragraph that starts with "Brain Damage (14)".
 b) deleting the phrase "Eir Fire Characteristic increases by 1, and
 "from the paragraph commencing with "Spontaneous Combustion (1)" and
 capitalise the first letter of its final sentence.
 [Basic player characteristics and elemental characteristics have all
 been repealed]
 
 30. Delete the final sentence in Rule 7-17-1 (Ancientium) which reads
 "Ingestion of a nose-sack of Ancientium causes the Ingestor's Wisdom
 Characteristic to increase by 1."
 
 31. Amend Rule 8-4 (Winning by Points) by replacing "the Magic Number"
 with "their Magic Number" in the final paragraph.
 
 32. Amend Rule 9-1 (Gaol) by:
 a) replacing the second paragraph with:
 "
 The Gaol has an Evidence Room but its kinda cramped so we don't put
 anything in there anymore
 "
 b) removing ", or to be Mad Sculptors" from the fourth paragraph.
 
 33. Amend Rule 10-1-7 (Ackanomic Institute of Genetic Replication) by
 replacing the paragraph that starts with "Wings:" with the following:
 "
 Wings: Cost -- 100 A$. Winged players and only winged players, can fly.
 Since extra heads ruin a player's aerodynamics, a player may not have
 both wings and an extra head.
 "
 [There was a CFJ about this - now its official :-)]
 
 34. Amend Rule 10-3 (Buildings) by:
 a) in section I, deleting sub-sections iv and v.
 b) in section II, replacing "an Attached building" in section iii with
 "a building".
 c) in section III, delete sub-section iii
 [Floating buildings are old harf]
 
 35. Amend Rule 10-6 (We don't need Gravity) by:
 a) deleting the phrase ", in the case of a building it shall become
 Tethered"
 b) deleting the final paragraph.
 [Old Harf - but I don't have the courage :-)]
 
 B. If Proposal 4246 fails, alter the rules in the following ways:
 
 1. Append the following to the end of the list in the "Effect:" section
 of Rule 7-16-4 (ASS Song: Ode to Joy) as new items:
 "
 iv) Players may not perform any operation on points.
 v) The Happy Number takes a randomly determined positive number less
 than The Magic Number each time this song starts to play. The DJ is
 responisble for perfoming this determination.
 vi) The Sad Number is the The Magic Number minus The Happy Number.
 "
 [Only while the song is playing]

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Subject: Acka: Proposal 4272
From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 11:27:31 -0400 (EDT)

Proposal 4272
cheese tweak
Emperor Ai! Pedrito!
Due: Sun Aug  1 11:27:30 1999
Sphere: All Canadians're Kind & Amiable

in rule 8-7 (Le Grand Fromage):

in the gouda (subgames) paragraph, replace 

'or wins three games from the games and contest'

       with 

'or wins three different games (not multiple instances of the same game)
from the games and contest rule suite'

[BOING!]

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Subject: Acka: Proposal 4259 accepted
From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 16:23:59 -0400 (EDT)

Proposal 4259

Subcommittee vote for: 122   against:0
Subcommittee Acceptance Index: 122.0
Passed subcommittee
Total vote for: 521   Total vote against:-250
Acceptance Index: 146.0: proposal accepted

** This proposal was boring! ** 
6 sub-60 votes out of 10 non-60 votes total.

Votes to accept:
  /dev/joe               60    +20  ==> 2989
  Laa Laa                42    +20  ==> 544
  A German Dog           60    +20  ==> 3321
  Alfvaen                48    +20  ==> 510
  Emperor Ai! Pedrito!   61    +19  ==> 502
  Studge                 61    +19  ==> 1357
  Sir Galahad            59    +20  ==> 820
  King Felix             30    +20  ==> 1878
  Niccolo Flychuck      100         ==> -60

Zero Votes:
  rice                    0    +20  ==> 630

Votes to reject:
  Blest Lax Monk Pal   -140    -40  ==> 559
  ThinMan               -50    +20  ==> 1516
  K 2                   -60    +20  ==> 402

Abstainers:
  Calvin N Hobbes      
  404 Not Found        
  Vynd                 
  else...if            
  Pure Haste           
  IdiotBoy             
  danke                
  Burn the Witch       
  rufus                
  two-star             

 Subject: Acka: Proposal 4259
 
 Proposal 4259
 Fine then, have it your way.
 Emperor Ai! Pedrito!
 Due: Sun Jul 25 15:30:56 1999
 Sphere: Anti-Canada Kamikaze Alliance
 Status: accepted

 {{[well, we didn't want towers.  Then let's repeal em.  Boing!]}}
 
 remove 'and his home has a tower' from 1-2-8-2 (Yes, Virginia)
 
 remove item V and renumber accordingly from the same rule.
 
 in rule 10-2-1 (real estate), remove '(including the cost of any towers)'
 
 in rule 10-3 (buildings), remove '(except for towers)', remove item V.ii.,
 and renumber accordingly
 
 in rule 10-4-2 and 10-4-3, replace ', Buildings, and Towers.' with 'and
 Buildings.'

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Subject: Acka: Proposal 4273
From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 18:27:16 -0400 (EDT)

Proposal 4273
Tax for stupid people
else...if
Due: Sun Aug  1 18:27:10 1999
Sphere: All Canadians're Kind & Amiable

	Create a new rule 2-6, "The Betting Pool", with the following
BORINGDELIMITER delimited text
BORINGDELIMITER
	Each player who is not in debt may bet between 0 and 100 mannna
either for or against each proposal by notifying the Tabulator.  When a
proposal is accepted, each player who bet for it is a winner, and each who
bet against it is a loser; when a proposal is rejected, each player who bet
against it is a winner, and each who be for it is a loser.  Whenever a
proposal is either accepted or rejected, the losers all pay the amount of
mannna they bet into the Pot.  Each winner receives (amount that player
bet)/(total of all winning bets)*(amount in pot) mannna, rounded down.  All
excess mannna is left in the Pot.
	The Pot is a named entity which may only own mannna.  The Tabulator
may open or close the betting halls as a public action.  When the betting
halls are closed the preceding paragraph has no effect; this sentence takes
precedence over the preceding paragraph.
{{The betting halls are closed}}
BORINGDELIMITER

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Subject: Acka: Proposal 4274
From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 18:42:47 -0400 (EDT)

Proposal 4274
Tweak and Frob
else...if
Due: Sun Aug  1 18:42:47 1999
Sphere: All Canadians're Kind & Amiable

	{{[There are too many proposals which do nothing more than tweak a
line or two as a minor fix.  These are a waste of time and points.  CSRs
were supposed to do these, but that's not working.]}}
	Rename rule 6-4-11-1 to "Mutations" and give it the following FROB
delimited text
FROB
	Any player may attempt a Mutations as a public action.  A Mutations
is any change to the rules, the Ackanomic Lexicon, the Literature List, or
the Postal Code.  If, during the next three days, any two players object to
it as a public action, it is rejected, otherwise it is accepted and the
rule change is made.  If the Mutations changes the rules than the objection
of the Rule-Harfer alone is enough to reject it.  Similar powers are
posessed by the Spelling Exchequer if the Tweak changes the Literature
List, the Postmaster for the Postal Code, and the Poet Laureate for the
Literature List.
FROB

	In rule 1-2-1, replace the first two sentences of the last
paragraph with "The Ackanomic Lexicon may only be modified by Proposals or
CSRs."
	Remove the last sentence of rule 2-2-2.
	Remove section d of rule 6-4-4 and reletter accordingly.
	In rules 6-4-12 and 10-5, remove all sentences containing the
acronym "CSR".

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