Subject: Ackanomic Digest V1 #18
From: [email-masked] (Ackanomic Digest)
To: ackanomic-digest

Ackanomic Digest        Wednesday, May 29 1996        Volume 01 : Number 018

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Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 00:48:34 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Official: Acting Registrar's Report

I don't know if I'm officially Registrar yet, or just Acting Registrar, or
nothing at all, but in any case, I'm going to put out this report which is
as accurate as I can figure out, and if anybody thinks anything here is wrong,
well, we'll figure it out.

I first want to say that I don't recall having seen chess piece face resign
from any offices, so by rule 612 he has only temporarily vacated the office
of Registrar.  Thus I think I am (at most) Acting Registrar at the moment.

I also added Sean Crystal as an observer, and added him to the mailing list.
The message Robert Sevin posted is all I've seen from him so far, so I
don't think I should add him as a player (I don't even know if he wants to
be a player) and I don't know if I should even do this much, but given the
current confusion I figured this was a reasonable thing to do.  I sent him
info about the mailing lists, the web page, and the voting/proposing/acronym
info specified in rule 792 to be sent to new players.

Who are the assistants to the Financier?  Do we even have any when we
don't have a Financier? 

I updated some little things on this list, like Chartreuse Goose Eggs and
Right Handed Grapefruit, and I would have done Blue Crosses and Silver
Stripes too, except that it seems that (in the rules) blue crosses have to
be given out by an appropriate officer (most of which are now vacant or
on vacation) once a player is eligible.  I also found an unclear bit in
the part of the rule which defines when a player is eligible for a Blue
Cross, and I submitted a CFJ on this, but it has not yet been publicly
distributed.  The updated web version of this report is always available
at http://wilma.che.utexas.edu/~devjoe/acka/ackanomic-players.html

To help out our new Acting Appointer, here is my list of the offices and
other positions which are vacant, or are only being performed by an acting
officer.  In no particular order:
   Gaoler, NAP Swinger, CSRR Officer, Financier, President of Ackanomia,
   Publicist, File Clerk, Senate seat B, Welcomer, Registrar, Appointer,
   Speaker, Pollster.
These are to be filled by a number of different methods, so I hope Bascule
(and Wayne, for things that are elected) have fun reading the rules.

Finally, here is the current list of players!!!!!!!!!!!:

Wayne Sheppard                [email-masked]
   Tabulator
   Promoter
   Scorekeeper
   Ackanomic Name : Wayne

Mitchell Harding              [email-masked]
   Winner of the 1st Cycle
   Has a Right-Handed Grapefruit
   On Vacation
   former Speaker (resigned)
   former President of Ackanomia (resigned)
   former Publicist (resigned)
   Member of Foozball
   Ackanomic Name : Robert Sevin

Paul Swan                     [email-masked]
   On Vacation
   Senator (Seat C)
   former Registrar (vacated by Rule 612)
   Acting Welcomer
   Member of Foozball
   Ackanomic Name : chess piece face

Julian Richardson             [email-masked]
   Member of the Quorum Party (Defunct)
   Ackanomic Name : Dr McSpong

Thierry Joffrain              [email-masked]
   On Vacation
   former Financier (resigned)
   The Gnome Buddy
   Ackanomic Name : Calvin N Hobbes

Andy Swan                     [email-masked]
   On Vacation
   Senator (Seat D)
   former Pollster (vacated by Rule 612)
   Member of Foozball
   Ackanomic Name : Simon Marty Harriman

Eric Murray                   [email-masked]
   Member of (None Yet)
   Ackanomic Name : mr cwm

Jason Orendorff               [email-masked]
   former Senator (Seat B) (resigned)
   Inventor
   Clerk of the Court
   Acting Speaker
   Member of (None Yet)
   Ackanomic Name : Mohammed

Adrian Smith                  [email-masked]
   On Vacation
   Senator (Seat A)
   Member of OoMPAPaH (Defunct)
   Ackanomic Name : fon

Randy Hall                    [email-masked]
   On Vacation
   Ackanomic Name : Malenkai

Joseph DeVincentis            [email-masked]
   Web-Harfer
   Acting Registrar
   Member of Foozball
   Swinger for Foozball
   Ackanomic Name : /dev/joe

Stephen F Roberts             [email-masked]
   Has Phoebe's Matchbox
   Ackanomic Name : SnafuMoose

Uri Bruck                     [email-masked]
   Ackanomic Name : Niccolo Flychuck

John Spickes                  [email-masked]
   Ackanomic Name : De'ghew

John Bollinger                [email-masked]
   Ackanomic Name : ThinMan

Phil Ackley                   [email-masked]
   Ambassador
   Member of (None Yet)
   Ackanomic Name : snowgod

Jerome Herrman                [email-masked]
   Ackanomic Name : Techno

Stephen Wilson                [email-masked]
   Has a Chartreuse Goose Egg
   Bearer of the Magic Potato
   Member of OoMPAPaH (Defunct)
   Ackanomic Name : Merlin the Happy Pig

Mike Epstein                  [email-masked]
   Historian
   Member of (None Yet)
   Swinger for (None Yet)
   Ackanomic Name : this is not a name

J.C. Graham                   [email-masked]
   Has a Chartreuse Goose Egg
   Ackanomic Name : Meme Complex

Robert Shaw                   [email-masked]
   Ackanomic Name : Robin Hood

Simon Clarke                  [email-masked]
   Ackanomic Name : Brinjal

Matt Black                    [email-masked]
   Acting Appointer
   Ackanomic Name : Bascule

Current Observers:

Kelly Martin ([email-masked])
Michael J. Thomas ([email-masked])
Bill Ingram ([email-masked])
P. Perigo ([email-masked])
Harm ([email-masked])
Marc ([email-masked])
Sean Crystal ([email-masked])

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Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 01:04:41 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Official: Web-Harfer's report

The web pages, except for a few back buttons & similar details, are
finished, and the main page which leads to all the others is at
http://wilma.che.utexas.edu/~devjoe/acka/

I think ALL the text of ALL the pages has been updated to reflect the
current game status, as best I am able to determine it.  If anybody
finds any error please email me.

This took a lot of time, as I had to do the former Web-Harfer's job for
the last month, but the other computers (besides wilma) that I work on
were down all weekend, and are still down, due to hardware problems, and
being unable to do any real work, I had a lot of time to work on the game.
(Not to mention make more proposals than I ever made before.)

If there are any game awards that do not have icons at the top of
the page with the Registrar's report, let me know and I will do my
best to draw them.  I have: Blue Cross, Silver Stripe, Gold Stripe,
the Great Trombone, the Right Handed Grapefruit, Phoebe's Matchbox,
a Chartreuse Goose Egg, the Magic Potato, and the Voting Gnome.

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Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 01:11:18 -0500
From: T Joffrain <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Official 

Nomicians.

I am officially back from vacation.

Now, /dev/joe, I wish to congratulate you on the excellent web pages! I am
very proud to be the second player with the most passed proposals, and the
first with failed. No small task.

Also, I would like to remind everyone of the Blue Cross:

>Any player who has more than 20 of his proposals become rules 
>will be awarded the Blue Cross by the President, ProConsul or 
>Senator as a recognition of merit and services to Ackanomic. 

I believe that's Robert Seven (30). I'm at 20 exactly, but need _more_ than
20, so...

>     If a player is elected Senator but does not have the Blue Cross 
>at the end of his last consecutive term of office, then he will be 
>awarded it. If at the end of his last consecutive term a president 
>does not have the Blue Cross, he will be awarded it. Should he 
>already have it, he will be awarded one extra silver stripe.

That means Robert Sevin (again) and Mohammed, since he has finished his term.
I had forgotten all about this rule until /dev/joe mentioned it.

Anyway, I'll be making one more proposal, since my score is at exactly -50.
And boy, is that hard to reach or what. Phew. At last.

Also, when are the results for CSRR (whatever) due? It seems like it's been
going on for weeks. I'm sure it has been weeks.

Calvin N Hobbes
Gnome Buddy, but not for long.

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Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 01:55:15 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka: about blue crosses (was Acka: Official)

> I am officially back from vacation.

So noted.

> Now, /dev/joe, I wish to congratulate you on the excellent web pages! I am
> very proud to be the second player with the most passed proposals, and the
> first with failed. No small task.

I also note that almost all your proposals are for new rules.

> Also, I would like to remind everyone of the Blue Cross:

> >Any player who has more than 20 of his proposals become rules 
> >will be awarded the Blue Cross by the President, ProConsul or 
> >Senator as a recognition of merit and services to Ackanomic. 

> I believe that's Robert Seven (30). I'm at 20 exactly, but need _more_ than
> 20, so...

Note, though, that the above (an exact quote from the rule) says
"has more than 20 of his proposals *become* *rules*" (my emphasis).
Certainly I think the passing of a proposal to repeal a rule does not
cause that proposal to *become* a rule.  The same goes for transmuting
rules, and I would suppose, for proposals which amend rules, or make
multiple changes of these types, or do anything else besides mess with
the rules.  I have submitted a CFJ on a statement of this.

If my interpretation is correct, then no player should yet have been awarded
a Blue Cross by this rule.  Robert Sevin's proposals have only created
new rules 15 times.  All 20 of your proposals that passed made new rules.

The next part of the proposal that gives out stripes works on any passed
proposals:
< Then for every additional 10 proposals that the player makes which pass,
< he will be awarded a silver stripe. Four silver stripes are replaced by
< one gold stripe.

> >     If a player is elected Senator but does not have the Blue Cross 
> >at the end of his last consecutive term of office, then he will be 
> >awarded it. If at the end of his last consecutive term a president 
> >does not have the Blue Cross, he will be awarded it. Should he 
> >already have it, he will be awarded one extra silver stripe.

> That means Robert Sevin (again) and Mohammed, since he has finished his term.

However, do we know that either of these has finished his *last* *consecutive*
term of office?  No new president or senator has been elected yet, and I
know of no rule which would prevent them from being re-elected.  I take the
point of view that neither of these players gets a Blue Cross until someone
else is elected to fill those offices.

> I had forgotten all about this rule until /dev/joe mentioned it.

Having just updated all the rules, I have also *read* all the rules
recently, so I remembered things like this.  Also the stuff given out at
the end of the cycle by R666.  Thankfully, we don't have Double Thumbutter-
Twisted Jaws of Death in the rules, because I don't know what one of those
would look like.  At least with Right Handed Grapefruit I could picture
a right hand holding a grapefruit.

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Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 02:04:32 -0500
From: T Joffrain <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Official 

Here are some stats about our rule set...

The rule set has 24711 words.
- -  73 pages with Arial 10 points.
- -  55 pages with Arial 8 points.

As a text file it is 170638 bytes in size.

Given a person that reads 14 words a second with perfect (100%) retention
and understanding, it would take that person 1765 seconds to read the entire
rules, or 29 minutes and 25 seconds, without a single break.

This is excluding CFJs, AOJs and the likes. It includes only the proposals
that have passed.

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Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 01:25:34 -0800
From: [email-masked] (Phil Ackley)
Subject: Ackanomic: Question CSRR 

[ I had sent this previously but it never came across the list.  If you
have recieved this message twice please accept my apologies]

As Bascule now appears to be acting appointer, what happens to the
candidates for CSRR?  Bascule, I urge you on this one issue to accept
whatever choice Mohammed might have made, instead of appointing yourself
into the office of CSRR.  Please do not appoint your self soley because you
can (if you can).

Thank You,
snowgod

"He belongs to that race of men who are always their adversary's best
champions."

- - Umberto Eco
  The Name of the Rose

Visit http://www.alaska.net/~snowgod for the ultimate source
of Information on Thinumabobs and Whatchamacallits.

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Date: Wed, 29 May 96 8:54:47 EDT 
From: [email-masked] ()
Subject: Ackanomic: Proposal 828

Proposal 828 - Wed May 29 08:54:47 EDT 1996
What's Flat?
  ( )

The Earth is round, not flat.

If any other rule or proposal contradicts this fact, then it is made dormant.
If any player publicly contradicts this fact, then they are sent to the
Great Observatory Tower (which exists by this rule) to learn their astronomy
better. They may not return until they send a public message saying:

"B'gosh! The earth _is_ round!"

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Date: Wed, 29 May 96 8:57:01 EDT 
From: [email-masked] ()
Subject: Ackanomic: Prop 797 Passes

Here are the voting results for : 797
  Proposal 797 - Tue May 21 01:19:35 EDT 1996
  Festival of Torkola
  Malenkai  (Randy Hall)

Quorum met : 17 eligible voters -- 13 players cast votes

11 YES votes   2 NO votes   0 PRESENT votes
Proposal PASSES

Malenkai gains 10 points.  173 -> 183

11 YES votes:  
  Robin Hood                                                      
  Dr McSpong                                                      
  Brinjal                                                         
  ThinMan                                                         
  Niccolo Flychuck                                                
  Bascule                                                         
  snowgod                (None Yet)                               
  this is not a name     (None Yet)                               
  SnafuMoose                                                      
  mr cwm                 (None Yet)                               
  Wayne                                                           

2 NO votes:  5 points each
  /dev/joe               Foozball              86 -> 91           
  Techno                                      136 -> 141          

0 PRESENT votes:

4 ABSTENTIONS:
  De'ghew                                     
  Calvin N Hobbes                             
  Merlin the Happy Pig                        
  Mohammed               (None Yet)           

Players on Vacation who did not vote:
  Malenkai                                    
  fon                                         
  chess piece face       Foozball             
  Simon Marty Harriman   Foozball             
  Robert Sevin           Foozball             

New players who are not active:
  Meme Complex                                

====================================================
Wayne, your friendly Tabulator
====================================================
Proposal 797 - Tue May 21 01:19:35 EDT 1996
Festival of Torkola
Malenkai  (Randy Hall)

1) This rule defines the Festival of Torkola, a period of much
merriment and mirth in the land of Ackanomia, where players concentrate
on enjoying the existing rules, and relatively inactive players may
participate in ways other than just voting.

2) A Festival of Torkola (hereafter "Festival") has a duration of 1 to 10
days. Only one Festival may be going on at a time. Its length cannot
be changed while it is going on.

3) There is no limit to the number of Festivals that can occur in a given
time period, except as in 2) above.

4) During a Festival, it is illegal for the Promoter or anyone else to
distribute a Proposal for voting. This clause superceeds any mutable rule
which would require or allow the Promoter, or anyone else, to do so. This
specifically applies to Proposals. Not Resolutions, not CFJs, not Recall
Petitions, etc. Just Proposals.

5) A Festival is started in one of 3 ways:

5a) Upon the passage of a Resolution or Proposal that specifies that a
Festival of a given length start on a given date, relative to when it is 
passed. E.g: "Upon passage of this, a Festival of Torkola will
start on the day following, and last for 7 days". Note that clause 2)
cannot be violated. Note that this is e.g., it doesn't happen when this
rule is passed.

5b) Upon distributation of any proposal whose last 2 digits are "00", the
Promoter may declare a Festival to start on the day following the
distributation of the proposal. He or she shall also determine the length.
The Promoter is strongly encouraged, but not required, to do this. He
or she must consider the state of the game and popular opinion when
making this decision. This clause superceeds or augments all mutable
rules which define the priveledges of the Promoter, and all mutable
rules which would deny the Promoter this priveledge. This shall be a
Priveledge of the office of Promoter. [ie, a Festival can occur every
100 proposals].

5c) Upon failure of any 3 consecutive proposals/resolutions due to
Quorum not being met, a Festival of 5 days will automatically start on
the day following the public disclosure of the 3rd failure. Any failures
which occur during a Festival or before the known start date of one
shall not count. e.g, if 6 proposals fail on a Saturday, the first 3
are sufficient to start a festival on Sunday, and the other failures
shall be ignored.

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Date: Wed, 29 May 96 8:59:01 EDT 
From: [email-masked] ()
Subject: Ackanomic: Prop 798 Passes

Here are the voting results for : 798
  Proposal 798 - Tue May 21 17:14:48 EDT 1996
  Palindromes are Inherently Amusing
  mr cwm  (Eric Murray)

Quorum met : 18 eligible voters -- 15 players cast votes

12 YES votes   3 NO votes   0 PRESENT votes
Proposal PASSES

mr cwm gains 10 points.  122 -> 132

12 YES votes:  
  Robin Hood                                                      
  Dr McSpong                                                      
  Brinjal                                                         
  ThinMan                                                         
  Niccolo Flychuck                                                
  Bascule                                                         
  snowgod                (None Yet)                               
  this is not a name     (None Yet)                               
  /dev/joe               Foozball                                 
  SnafuMoose                                                      
  Tammany                                                         
  mr cwm                 (None Yet)                               

3 NO votes:  5 points each
  Techno                                      141 -> 146          
  Wayne                                       174 -> 179          
  Mohammed               (None Yet)           144 -> 149          

0 PRESENT votes:

3 ABSTENTIONS:
  De'ghew                                     
  Calvin N Hobbes                             
  Merlin the Happy Pig                        

Players on Vacation who did not vote:
  Malenkai                                    
  fon                                         
  chess piece face       Foozball             
  Simon Marty Harriman   Foozball             
  Robert Sevin           Foozball             

New players who are not active:
  Meme Complex                                

====================================================
Wayne, your friendly Tabulator
====================================================
Proposal 798 - Tue May 21 17:14:48 EDT 1996
Palindromes are Inherently Amusing
mr cwm  (Eric Murray)

In this order, three point shall be subtracted from the score of mr cwm,
three points shall be added to the score of this is not a name, and this
paragraph shall be stricken from this Rule. 

Upon each creation of a Rule fulfilling all three of the following
conditions: 

(1) the Rule has a game effect in addition to its own addition to the 
    Ackanomic Rule Set and any effect claimed under this Rule
(2) each word in the Rule exists either in the Ackanomic Rule Set previous
    to the creation of the Rule, or in an electronically accessable
    dictionary of the English language selected by the Web-Harfer, should
    that office exist, provided that such dictionary is not under the
    control of any Player
(3) the text of the Rule is palindromic, that is, the text of the Rule
    would be the same, character by character, forward and backward if all
    alphabetic characters were lower-case, and anything other than
    alphabetic characters and numeric digits was removed.

the Player that submitted the Proposal that created the Rule shall: 

(1) have eight (8) points added to his or her score
(2) receive the honorific title "Sage o' Doe Gas" to hold until such time
    as another Player receives points under this Rule. 

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Date: Wed, 29 May 96 9:00:59 EDT 
From: [email-masked] ()
Subject: Re: Ackanomic: Prop 797 Passes

If this Rule had been in existence when I distributed 800 we would have
a festival.  But it looks like I have to wait until P900.

Wayne

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Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 08:55:47 -0500
From: [email-masked] (John Bollinger)
Subject: Acka: misc: ThinMan for Senate! 

I hereby announce my candidacy for Senate seat B.
Vote for ThinMan, the voice of reason!

Cheers,

ThinMan

This message brought to you by Ackanomians for ThinMan.

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Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 08:40:21 -0500
From: [email-masked] (John Bollinger)
Subject: Acka: discussion 

Having seen very little comment on my RFC regarding paradox wins, I
have submitted the proposal in almost exactly the same form as the
RFC.  We definately need some procedure for solving paradoxes and
preventing infinite paradox win cycles, and this seems a good
means.  I urge you all to vote YES.

ThinMan

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Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 09:00:43 -0500
From: [email-masked] (John Bollinger)
Subject: Acka: misc: ThinMan for Financier! 

I hereby volunteer for the office of Financier.  I will attempt to
execute the duties of the office as faithfully and well as
Calvin 'n Hobbes did before me.  I will do my utmmost to keep
the OotF and the FM as fair and impartial as possible.

Cheers,

ThinMan

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Date: Wed, 29 May 96 10:01:07 EDT 
From: [email-masked] ()
Subject: Ackanomic: Proposal 829

Proposal 829 - Wed May 29 10:01:07 EDT 1996
Handling Paradox Wins
ThinMan  (John Bollinger)

A new rule shall be created with the following text:
- --
In the event that a win by paradox is declared, the following
procedure shall be followed before the procedure called for by
rule 666:

All proposals whose voting period has not expired shall be removed
from consideration without modification of the score of any player.

All Calls for Judgement for which a verdict has not been returned
shall be removed from consideration without modification of the score
of any player.

Distribution of new proposals and new calls for judgement shall be
suspended.

If a Constitutional Convention is already underway, then the player
who won by paradox shall be made a Delegate, unless he already is
one.  It is permissable for there to be four Delegates instead of
three in this case.

If no Constitutional Convention is in progress, then one shall
automatically be called without any proposal or vote, and the player
who won by paradox shall automatically be a Delegate; the two other
Delegates shall be elected according to the procedure established by
rule 629.  No proposal to hold a Constitutional Convention may be
made for the remainder of the current cycle.

If the Report of the Convention is rejected, a new Convention
shall automatically be called according to the procedure established
by this rule.  A new Convention shall be called each time the Report
of the previous Convention is rejected.

Once a Report of the Convention has been adopted, distribution of new
proposals and calls for judgement shall be reinstated, and the
procedure of rule 666 shall be executed.

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Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 09:47:57 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka: misc: /dev/joe for Senate!

Vote for /dev/joe for senate seat B
I promise not to go on vacation for a long period of time
while still holding a senate seat.

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Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 15:56:39 +0000
From: Matt <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Official: Offices

As acting Appointer, Bascule says "Here are some jobs".

The nomination period for the jobs listed below starts at the time 
this message was recieved by wilma. The closing time for nominations
is 48 hours from that point, so get your nominations in! 

Gaoler: Nominees required.

"There shall be one seat for this office. This seat is filled by 
election."
Bascule notes: A powerful position this. The successful
candidate should have no morals whatsoever, since they will
need to accept bribes from the criminal lowlifes of Ackanomic.

Senate Seat B: Nominees required. 
Nominees so far:
ThinMan
/dev/joe

"When there is an empty seat in the Senate, elections will be held
for that position. The votes are to be sent to the Tabulator."

NAP Swinger: Nominees required. Must not be a member of a political 
party.

"When the NAP Seat becomes vacated, general elections will be held
according to the rules governing elections with the following
exception: 
Only a Player who is not a Party member may be elected for the NAP Seat.
All Players may vote for the NAP Seat."

President: Nominees required. Need nominator and seconder.

"The winner is the person with the most votes after 3 days of voting.
Candidates for the position must either be the official leader of 
their political party (if such things exist) by whatever method is
used in that party, or a non-aligned candidate officially supported 
by at least two other non-aligned players."
Bascule notes: The successful candidate should live with a
cat called Socks.

Pollster: Volunteers required.

"This rule would firstly create an office known as the Pollster, who 
would be appointed by the current Speaker."
Bascule notes: Contact Mohammed about this one.

Publicist: Volunteers required.

"The Publicist is selected on a volunteer basis. In the case of
multiple volunteers, the Speaker will choose by random selection."
Bascule notes: I joined this game after seeing a message from
the publicist posted to a newsgroup.

Speaker: Nominees required.

"Whenever this Office is vacant, it shall be filled by an
Election for Office."

Appointer: Nominees required.
Nominees so far:
Bascule

"This Office shall be filled by an Election for Office."

File Clerk: Volunteers required.

Bascule notes: Not a difficult job. The post may disappear soon.
No election.

Welcomer: Volunteers required
Volunteers so far:
Bascule

Bascule notes: No election for this one either. I wonder who'll
get this job?

Registrar: Volunteers required.

"The Registrar is selected on a volunteer basis. In the case of
multiple volunteers, the Speaker will choose by random selection."

Financier: Volunteers required.
Volunteers so far:
ThinMan

"The position of Financier shall be filled by candidates volunteering  
for the job. Should there be more than one candidate for the
position, a vote will have to be taken by the Players or by another
entity given that task as part of its charter, electing the candidate
with the most votes."
Bascule notes: The successful candidate will have a thorough
knowledge of rules 480, 481, 482, 566, 665, and 666 among others.
Experience as an assistant financier is desirable but not essential. 
The candidate should possess drive and ambition, since he or she will
have to chase up the Coca-Cola company, who still owe us $16,209.62.

CSRR: 

Nominees:
The Governor (deceased)
Malenkai (AWOL)
Bascule
Snowgod

No election for this one. I select Snowgod as candidate for the
office of CSRR pending confirmation from the Senate.

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Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 10:49:43 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Official: Offices

> Senate Seat B: Nominees required. 
> /dev/joe

I hereby withdraw my nomination for Senate Seat B.

> President: Nominees required. Need nominator and seconder.
>
> "The winner is the person with the most votes after 3 days of voting.
> Candidates for the position must either be the official leader of 
> their political party (if such things exist) by whatever method is
> used in that party, or a non-aligned candidate officially supported 
> by at least two other non-aligned players."

Party leaders were never defined, so all players are non-aligned
according to this rule.  I announce my candidacy for President,
but I need 2 players to support me before it is official.

> Speaker: Nominees required.
> 
> "Whenever this Office is vacant, it shall be filled by an
> Election for Office."

I nominate myself for Speaker.

> Registrar: Volunteers required.
> 
> "The Registrar is selected on a volunteer basis. In the case of
> multiple volunteers, the Speaker will choose by random selection."

I volunteer for this position also.

> CSRR: 
> Nominees:
> The Governor (deceased)
> Malenkai (AWOL)
> Bascule
> Snowgod
> 
> No election for this one. I select Snowgod as candidate for the
> office of CSRR pending confirmation from the Senate.

Heh, what senate?
For everyone's reference, the senate currently consists of Fon (on
vacation), Chess Piece Face (on vacation), and Simon Marty Harriman
(on vacation), and Mohammed resigned from the other seat.

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Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 17:57:41 +0000
From: Matt <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Ackanomic: Proposal 828

> Proposal 828 - Wed May 29 08:54:47 EDT 1996
> What's Flat?
>   ( )
> 
> The Earth is round, not flat.

Heresy! Heresy!

Who is the perpetrator of this heinous crime?

Is this a legal proposal (it doesn't
say who the promoter is)?

I intend to find out!

And whoever's responsible had better put on
some asbestos underwear.

Bascule

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Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 12:10:53 -0500
From: T Joffrain <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Official: Offices 

I support /dev/joe as president. This is a nomination.

As for speaker, why not .dev.joe as well and keep with tradition.

The Senate vacation problem is amazing. We have three Senators on vaction
and an empty seat. Untolerable.

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Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 18:16:23 +0000
From: Matt <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Official: Offices

> I support /dev/joe as president. This is a nomination.

I second that nomination.

Bascule

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Date: Wed, 29 May 96 13:35:09 EDT 
From: [email-masked] ()
Subject: Ackanomic: Proposal 828 (with author)

Sorry about that guys.  Calvin N Hobbes had just come off vacation when
he submitted the proposal.  I hadn't updated his status yet.  The proposal
script couldn't find an active player to match the proposal to (since it still
thought that Calvin was on vacation).  It was completely unintentional.  It's
kind of funny though, considering the nature of the proposal.

=====================
Proposal 828 - Wed May 29 08:54:47 EDT 1996
What's Flat?
Calvin N Hobbes  (Thierry Joffrain)

The Earth is round, not flat.

If any other rule or proposal contradicts this fact, then it is made dormant.
If any player publicly contradicts this fact, then they are sent to the
Great Observatory Tower (which exists by this rule) to learn their astronomy
better. They may not return until they send a public message saying:

"B'gosh! The earth _is_ round!"

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Date: Wed, 29 May 96 13:35:36 EDT 
From: [email-masked] ()
Subject: Ackanomic: Proposal 830

Proposal 830 - Wed May 29 13:35:36 EDT 1996
No anonymity
Bascule  (Matt Black)

When distributing a proposal, the promoter should include
the name of the proposer. Anonymous proposals are invalid
and may not be voted upon.

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Date: Wed, 29 May 96 13:35:59 EDT 
From: [email-masked] ()
Subject: Ackanomic: Proposal 831

Proposal 831 - Wed May 29 13:35:59 EDT 1996
No Dead Politicos
/dev/joe  (Joseph DeVincentis)

If at any time a political officer has been on vacation for the past 7
days, he is considered to have resigned from that office and it shall
be filled as the rules specify for filling that office when it is vacant.

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Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 12:45:20 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Official: New Player

Hey everybody, we have a new player!!
Real Name:  Sean Crystal
Ackanomic Name:  The Great Old One
e-mail: [email-masked]

Everyone please update any lists that need to be updated.
(Hmm, this mostly seems to apply to me these days...)

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Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 13:01:34 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Ackanomic:  Official (CSSR Appointed)

> As Bascule now appears to be acting appointer, what happens to the
> candidates for CSRR?  Bascule, I urge you on this one issue to accept
> whatever choice Mohammed might have made, instead of appointing yourself
> into the office of CSRR.  Please do not appoint your self soley because you
> can (if you can).
	Okay, let me make something perfectly clear.
	Because a player "appoints" someone to an office he has vacated 
does not give the "appointee" the office, or any of the duties or 
priveleges attached to it.

	I'm Acting Appointer.  I've received four endorsements for 
Bascule and five for snowgod.  The nomination period has ended, and as 
CSRR is a Functional Office, I can now appoint someone to it.  I appoint 
snowgod.
	As Appointer I can appoint someone to fill those offices left 
vacant by vacation, in an Acting capacity at least.  I appoint /dev/joe 
Acting Registrar.  That will last until chess piece face returns from 
vacation (or is somehow removed from the game).
	As for the other offices vacant, Gaoler and File Clerk are 
Functional Offices for which I've received no volunteers.  This is fine 
with me.  I'd like to see File Clerk deleted; and Malenkai will 
probably volunteer for Gaoler when he returns.
	Other nominations open:  Speaker, President, Appointer, Publicist,
Web-Harfer.  I nominate myself for Speaker and for Appointer.  They're
both elected offices, so I don't see any conflict of interest here.  Yet.
	I find that I have the job, as acting Speaker, of appointing a 
Pollster.  The first player to volunteer for this position will get it 
(as I can't appoint myself.)

- --Mohammed

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Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 13:08:13 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Ackanomic:  Appeal of Judgement 170

I'm making this public, again from mr cwm.  It came to me privately.

> I wish to appeal the decision of CFJ 170 to the Supreme Court, and hereby
> acknowledge the 5 point penalty for doing so.
> 
> Proposal 728 is as follows:
> 
>      If an adopted proposal contains the phrase "cows eat grass", then the
>      proposer who proposed the change is said to be silly, and shall score
>      5 points. 
> 
>      [[This rule does not apply to this rule.]]
> 
> The Rule created by Proposal 728 is as follows:
> 
>      If an adopted proposal contains the phrase "cows eat grass", then the
>      proposer who proposed the change is said to be silly, and shall score
>      5 points. 
> 
> I agree with the judge, Brinjal, that the text in brackets is a temporary
> note and should be ignored.  I must disagree on the point of
> retroactivity.  I wish to emphasize the the Rule created by Proposal 728
> does NOT say "When a proposal containing the phrase ... is adopted ... ."
> Rather, it reads "If an adopted proposal contains the phrase ... ."
> Propsal 728 is an adopted proposal, and it contains the specified phrase. 
> Awarding 5 points would not be retroactive, as the points would be awarded
> in the present.  Nor would it give the Rule retroactive effect.  It is
> perfectly possible for rules to have effects in the present based on
> actions taken in the past.  We could, for example, require each player who
> has changed their Ackanomic Name to change it back (present effect
> based on past actions).  In contrast, we could not make it illegal for
> them to have changed their name in the first place (retroactive effect). 
> 
> One may wish to compare this Rule to "The Blue Cross" which, similarly,
> will have effects in the present based on action in the past.  (I don't
> think that Rule has been interpreted to mean "20 proposals after this
> one.")
> 
> Because the Rule created by Proposal 728 does not specify that the points
> are to be awarded upon adoption, but only that the points will be awarded
> to the proposers of certain adopted proposals, there is no retroactive
> effect in awarding the 5 points.  The points can be awarded now, and, in
> fact, the Rule Set should be searched for other occurrances of the phrase
> "cows eat grass" so that the proposers of other adopted proposals
> containing that phrase can be awarded 5 points and be said to be silly as
> well.
> 

- --Mohammed

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Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 13:20:15 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Ackanomic:  Official (CSSR Appointed)

> 	Other nominations open:  Speaker, President, Appointer, Publicist,
> Web-Harfer.  I nominate myself for Speaker and for Appointer.  They're
> both elected offices, so I don't see any conflict of interest here.  Yet.

I've already nominated myself for Speaker, President, and Web-Harfer, but
in case you missed it I do so again.

Bascule and Calvin N Hobbes both posted public notices supporting me as
president, so I meet that qualification.

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Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 19:25:47 GMT
From: Simon Clarke <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Official: Offices

I nominate myself for Gaoler.
I nominate myself for NAP Swinger.

I`ve never really thought of myself as an amoral party animal before,
but maybe I will grow into it:)

Brinjal.

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Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 21:16:45 +0000
From: Matt <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Official: Offices

I nominate myself for the posts of welcomer
and appointer.

Bascule

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