Subject: acka-voting Digest V4 #151
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acka-voting Digest	Monday, July 26 1999	Volume: 04  Issue: 151

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Subject: Acka: Proposal 4261 accepted
From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 00:28:31 -0400 (EDT)

Proposal 4261

Subcommittee vote for: 200   against:-60
Subcommittee Acceptance Index: 110.0
Passed subcommittee
Total vote for: 669   Total vote against:-83
Acceptance Index: 544.5: proposal accepted

** This proposal was boring! ** 
8 sub-60 votes out of 11 non-60 votes total.

Votes to accept:
  /dev/joe                1    +20  ==> 3009
  Blest Lax Monk Pal     60    +20  ==> 579
  Alfvaen               100         ==> 510
  Emperor Ai! Pedrito!   59    +20  ==> 522
  Studge                 59    +20  ==> 1377
  Sir Galahad            40    +20  ==> 840
  ThinMan                60    +20  ==> 1536
  IdiotBoy              100         ==> 572
  King Felix             30    +20  ==> 1898
  Niccolo Flychuck      100         ==> -60
  K 2                    60    +20  ==> 422

Zero Votes:
  rice                    0    +20  ==> 650

Votes to reject:
  Laa Laa                -3    +20  ==> 564
  else...if             -60    +20  ==> 1277
  A German Dog          -20    +20  ==> 3341

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

 Subject: Acka: Proposal 4261
 
 Proposal 4261
 All Things Good
 K 2
 Due: Sun Jul 25 23:17:49 1999
 Sphere: Tocpe
 Status: accepted

 Amend Rule 12-3 (General Equipment) by replacing subsection a in section
 III which reads:
 "
 a) The Official Scrabble Player's Dictionary (OSPD), as defined by the
 URL: telnet://brauer.math.utoronto.ca:7777
 "
 with:
 "
 a) The Official Scrabble Player's Dictionary (OSPD), as defined by the
 URL: telnet://moo.ackanomic.org
 "

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Subject: Acka: Proposal 4262 rejected
From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 19:11:33 -0400 (EDT)

Proposal 4262

Subcommittee vote for: 201   against:0
Subcommittee Acceptance Index: 201.0
Passed subcommittee
Total vote for: 383   Total vote against:-690
Acceptance Index: -652.0: proposal rejected

Votes to accept:
  /dev/joe               62    +19  ==> 3028
  Blest Lax Monk Pal     60    +20  ==> 599
  Alfvaen                 1    +20  ==> 530
  Emperor Ai! Pedrito!  140    -40  ==> 482
  Studge                 61    +19  ==> 1396
  Sir Galahad            59    +20  ==> 860

Zero Votes:
  IdiotBoy                0    +20  ==> 592

Votes to reject:
  Laa Laa              -160    -60  ==> 504
  else...if             -60    +20  ==> 1297
  A German Dog          -80    +10  ==> 3351
  ThinMan              -100         ==> 1536
  King Felix            -30    +20  ==> 1918
  rice                 -100         ==> 650
  K 2                  -160    -60  ==> 362

Abstainers:
  Calvin N Hobbes      
  404 Not Found        
  Vynd                 
  rufus                
  Kane                 
  Pure Haste           
  danke                
  Burn the Witch       
  Niccolo Flychuck     
  two-star             

 Subject: Acka: Proposal 4262
 
 Proposal 4262
 Let's clean up the elements
 Emperor Ai! Pedrito!
 Due: Mon Jul 26 19:08:00 1999
 Sphere: Anti-Canada Kamikaze Alliance
 Status: rejected

 {{[OK, the way we're doing it right now works, but not very well.  Elements
 are
 not very standardized, they are scattered around as children of 14, they're
 starting to clutter like chess pieces or otzma cards, and it's hardish to do
 something to all of them at once.  I feel they are approaching critical mass,
 and I wanted to do a re-org before it was too hard to.  Like else...if said in
 a recent research thread: If you like the concept, vote for this.  The
 implementation is slightly wonky in a couple of places (Illuminatine and
 polictikafavroum) but on the whole this is better than the way we have it and
 those two can be fixed further by future props.]}}
 
 repeal the following rules:
 
 14-1 (Ancientium)
 14-2 (and the moon is made of...)
 14-3 (illuminatine)
 14-4 (harfium)
 14-6 (mathium)
 14-7 (fiendium)
 14-8 (polictikafavroum)
 14-9 (Nihilipili)
 14-10 (Oxygium and Ni!trogium)
 
 Amend rule 7-2-3 (Steel Flea) by inserting between the 5th and 6th paragraphs
 the following text:
 
 The only source of Ancientium left in Ackanomic is the unlimited personal
 colIection of Phoebe.  If the player posting Phoebe's wisdom includes 
 "ANCIENTIUMFORYOU" as the initial letters of successive sentences and the
 wisdom is not challenged or the result of the Hearing finds that the wisdom
 was
 legitimate then the the player who posted the wisdom receives one nose-sack of
 Ancientium.
 
 Append to rule 8-7 (Le Grand Fromage) the following text:
 
 Any player may create a nose-sack of Cheesium in eir possession by
 destroying a
 cheese e owns, provided e would not immediately regain it, as a public action.

 Append to rule 6-5-6 (Illuminatus) the following:
 
 Once a week, any player may create a nose-sack of Illuminatine in eir
 possession by publicly declaring; "It takes five people to make a conspiracy."
 [Nicholas Cage in Snake Eyes, Brian De Palma director] but only if eir
 score is
 twenty-three

 Insert before the antepenultimate paragraph of rule 2-2-6 (Let there be Harf!)
 the following text:
 
 A player who is Harfmeister or Funky and Stylish may create a nose-sack of
 Harfium in eir possession. If a player does so, e immediately loses that
 title.
 
 Append to Rule 99-1 (Evil Math Troll) the following text:
 
 An Evil Math Troll may create a nose-sack of Mathium as a public action. If e
 does so, e immediately stops being an Evil Math Troll. Ingesting Mathium
 causes
 a Bitten player to heal.  Any player who ingests Fiendium becomes an Evil Math
 Troll.
 
 Append to rule 1-6-1 (Player names) the following:
 
 Any player may create a nose sack of Polictikafavroum as a public action. 
 However, there may not be more than ten nose sacks of Polictikafavroum
 associated with a particular player in existence at any one time.
 
 Amend rule 10-7 (we'd better have pressure) by placing the following text
 after
 the second paragraph:
 
 This gas is made up mainly of the common elements Oxygium, Ni!trogium, and
 Nihilipili.  All players breathe Oxygium or Ni!trogium.  Players breathe
 Oxygium by default.  An Oxygium-breather who has been On Ice for more than a
 month may change into a Ni!trogium breather as a public action, provided
 that e
 has not already done so since e was last On Ice for more than a month.  If a
 Ni!trogium breather posts a public message without breathing (ingesting)
 Ni!trogium in it, e becomes an Oxygium breather again.  A player may create a
 nose-sack of whichever element e breathes, or of Nihilipili as a public
 action.  The isotope of Nihilipili that exists in Ackanomic in highly
 unstable,
 so all such nose-sacks that are unused are destroyed at the end of the message
 which created them.
 
 Create a rule, numbered 14-1, entitled 'Elements and properties' with the
 following text:
 "
 All Elements are defined by this rule.
 All Elements are monomers.   If the word list of an element is not explicitly
 stated in this rule, then it is the empty list.
 
 The discovered Elements of Ackanomic are:
 
 Ancientium
 Cheesium (word list: transfer)
 Illuminatine
 Harfium (word list: harf, harfy, Harfmeister, Funky and Stylish)
 Mathium
 Fiendium
 Politikafavroum (word list is the current Ackanomic name of its creator with
 and without 's appended to it)
 Nihilipili (word list: one, to, the, a, an, or, if, but, is, with, may,
 not, be,
 in, for, of.)
 Oxygium (word list: active)
 Ni!trogium (word list: on, ice, icy)
 " 

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Subject: Acka: Proposal 4275
From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 19:11:53 -0400 (EDT)

Proposal 4275
Some speed, perhaps?
else...if
Due: Mon Aug  2 19:11:52 1999
Sphere: Wombles of Wibbledon

{{[Expecting the cortex to agree on reasoning is time consuming; this
changes it so that the justices need only agree on the verdict.]}}

Amend the rule 3-4, sections II and III to read:

"

	II. How the Supreme Court judges a CFJ

The Supreme Court shall then decide the case, and should return its
verdict within one week. If this is the first time the Supreme Court
has considered that CFJ, the unanimous decision of the owners of the
Supreme Cortex that was assigned the CFJ shall be the verdict of the
Court. If the Supreme Court has already returned a verdict on the CFJ
in question, and this verdict was appealed, the Supreme Court's verdict
shall be the unanimous decision of all active Justices (returned within
one week of the full Court receiving the CFJ) or the decision of a 2/3
supermajority of the active Justices (if the Court does not reach a
unanimous decision within one week).

	Each Justice in a case should send reasoning and a verdict, optionally
along with a penalty, to the CotC.  If a sufficient number have the
same verdict then the CotC should publicly announce the result along
with all of the reasonings as per a normal case.  Note that the Cortex
or Court need not, and encouraged not to, reach internal agreement on
the reasoning.

	III. Effects upon a judgement of an appeal by the Supreme Court

If the court agrees with the previous verdict, the player who lodged
the appeal shall be fined between 0 and 25 points for a frivolous
appeal, with the penalty to be 25 points unless the Justices specify
otherwise by the same margin neccessary to decide the case.

	If the court disagrees with the previous verdict, then the verdict
shall be overturned to the new verdict, and all players who decided the
previous verdict [i.e. judge, or justice on a Cortex] shall be fined
between 0 and 10 points, the penalty to be 1 unless the Justices
specify otherwise.

	Further, if the judgement (A) under appeal included a penalty for a

frivolous appeal or a judgement overturn, and judgement A is itself
overturned, then points shall be awarded to the parties penalised by
judgement (A) as described above, to exactly balance the points lost
from that judgement.

"

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Subject: Acka: Proposal 4276
From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 19:20:15 -0400 (EDT)

Proposal 4276
Damn Traitors!
Emperor Ai! Pedrito!
Due: Mon Aug  2 19:20:14 1999
Sphere: Anti-Canada Kamikaze Alliance

/dev/joe, Laa Laa, Blest Lax Monk Pal, A German Dog, Alfvaen, Studge, Sir
Galahad, ThinMan, and King Felix [voted to accept 4258] are Traitors.

All votes on proposals in the queue of Traitors are destroyed.
All Traitors are placed in gaol for 12 days.

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Subject: Acka: Proposal 4277
From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 19:54:46 -0400 (EDT)

Proposal 4277
I object to the label of Traitor
Sir Galahad
Due: Mon Aug  2 19:54:45 1999
Sphere: Wombles of Wibbledon

 {{[ Ackanomic could use some teeth.  
     Currently, the only action taken against rival nomics
     is to throw their players in Gaol.
     This is not only useless, but backwards.
     In the words of K 2, "There isn't anyone in gaol :-) 
     If they were I think they would get pardoned pretty quick."
 
     This proposal enumerates methods whereby Ackanomic
     may infiltrate and harfiate a rival nomic.
     Nothing is required of anybody until they volunteer, 
     but volunteers have an effective means 
     to manipulate the enemy nomic through its very essence.
 
     Proposal 4258 temporarily removed the possibility
     that Agora could throw us all in our own Gaol,
     and caused a minor uproar.
     This proposal removes the threat entirely,
     and allows us to reinstate the Declaration of War.
 
     Let us not be unprepared for Agora's attack!
 ]}}
 
 Delete the last paragraph of rule 17-2, 
 "A Few of Our Least Favorite Things".
 [Currently reads:
 "While Ackanomic is in a State of War, 
 all players who are voluntarily registered players of 
 the any nomic with which Ackanomic
 is in a State of War shall be placed in Gaol. 
 They may only be released by Presidential Pardon 
 or the repeal of the Declaration of War. 
 This rule takes such precedance as may be required 
 for this paragraph to do as it claims."
 ]

 Create a new rule, numbered 17-2-1, named "Sharing the Harf",
 with the following tWNo7OvKh2Wa0V0oZFlR6A-delimited text.
 
 tWNo7OvKh2Wa0V0oZFlR6A
 While Ackanomic is in a State of War with a nomic, 
 herein called the rival nomic, active players of Ackanomic 
 should attempt to humiliate, incorporate, or harfiate the rival nomic.
 To accomplish this, they are encouraged to join the rival nomic
 and throw zopzop into the rival nomic's ruleset.
 
 Any active player of Ackanomic may call a Pep Rally
 on a Strike Action to be taken in the rival nomic.
 A Pep Rally is a Hearing, with valid responses of 
 "This will humiliate the rascals!" and 
 "The implications and probable resolution of the stated strategy 
 are utterly inadequate for rendering the opposition 
 incapacitated with excessive joviality."
 The player who called the Pep Rally is the Hearing Harfer 
 and may be called the Strategist while the Pep Rally is in session.
 
 If the verdict of a Pep Rally is "This will humiliate the rascals!"
 then each active player able to perform the Strike Action 
 in the rival nomic for three days, must do so within those three days.
 Failure to comply with this paragraph is the Crime of Treason,
 with a minimum sentence of three days in Gaol
 and a thirty-line Public Apology.
 
 If the verdict of a Pep Rally is not "This will humiliate the rascals!"
 then the Strategist shall be fined the Standard Harfer Fee
 for disrupting the peace.
 tWNo7OvKh2Wa0V0oZFlR6A

 Create a new rule, numbered 17-2-2, named "The Dawning of the Age",
 with the following 01J6ILKZM3W08WX038-delimited text.
 
 01J6ILKZM3W08WX038
 When a Declaration of War ceases to exist, 
 1)  the President may award one Purple Heart to each player
     who has significantly contributed to the harf of the rival nomic,
     in the judgement of the President; and
 2)  an Ackanomic Parade shall be held, 
     with the author of the proposal or other action
     repealing the Declaration of War as the Guest of Honour.
 
 Purple Hearts are Medals, and are created or destroyed as necessary
 by the Frobozz Magic Medal Company, Ackanomic Division.
 01J6ILKZM3W08WX038

 Add the following Bd1PvSAb9t2WFSI5aA-delimited text to rule 4-4-5-1, 
 "Honourable Acts", under the line "Repeatably Honourable Acts:".
 
 Bd1PvSAb9t2WFSI5aA
 2 honour : Receiving a Purple Heart.
 Bd1PvSAb9t2WFSI5aA

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