Subject: Ackanomic Digest V1 #35
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Ackanomic Digest         Friday, June 7 1996         Volume 01 : Number 035

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Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 17:55:08 -0500
From: T Joffrain <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Ackanomic: Official (election results) 

>I am hereby contesting these results. Specifically, I am contesting
>this is not a name's election as President, as it is the only one
>affected. I sent my votes to Mohammed, I believe, in a proper manner,
>and they do not appear to be tallied.
>
>I voted for /dev/joe, so if properly counted, it would create a 4-4
>tie. Like I said, the others don't affect the results.

I second the motion.
I also voted for /dev/joe after endorsing him. I also voted for him as speaker.

What kind of election rigging is this?

Calvin N Hobbes

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Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 15:13:06 -0800
From: [email-masked] (Phil Ackley)
Subject: Re: Ackanomic:  Official (Presidency contested)

I vote this is not a name for president

"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: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 19:11:11 -0700
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Ackanomic: Official (election results)

T Joffrain wrote:
> 
> >I am hereby contesting these results.

> >I voted for /dev/joe, so if properly counted, it would create a 4-4
> >tie. Like I said, the others don't affect the results.
> 
> I second the motion.
> I also voted for /dev/joe after endorsing him. I also voted for him as speaker.
> 

I voted for Mohammed for Speaker in my uncounted votes. That would cancel
CnH's /dev/joe *Speaker* vote.

Perhaps we need a recount on all positions. It appears that /dev/joe
has won the presidency, and a reelection for that office is inappropriate
(unless some this is not a name votes were lost as well:))

Malenkai

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Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 15:19:58 -0800
From: [email-masked] (Phil Ackley)
Subject: Re: Acka: Politness Moon

>> I am calling on the politness moon against Malenkai.
>>
>
>As the Fat Lady is nowhere to be seen or *heard* at this point, it seems
>it would be impossible to be impolite to her. I was only speculating
>what her vocalizations might sound like to a well refined music critic
>such as myself, had she been here, as R790 neither indicates that she is
>trained or qualified as a singer :)
>
The Fat Lady, for all we know, has friends everywhere.  Her friend the
Voting Gnome is around, and we all know he likes to gossip.  Hell, she
might be standing right off stage, clearly within earshot, just waiting for
the CFJ that will give her her big chance at stardom. No, Malenkai, I'm
sure word of your rudeness will get back to the Fat Lady.  And besides,
have you never heard of giving someone the benefit of the doubt?  Are you
willing to judge the Fat Ladies musical prowess without so much as seeing
her, let alone hearing her?  Least you could do is read her resume! :)

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: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 19:23:19 -0700
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Ackanomic: Official

The Supreme Court is now fully formed. It is currently working on 
internal procedures, so there may be an unexpected delay in the pending
appeals. Sorry for the inconvienence (I'm sure we're really waiting to
see if the Speaker can really vote :)).

The Supreme Court

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Date: Thu, 6 Jun 96 20:09:43 -0400
From: this is not a name <[email-masked]>
Subject: Ackanomic: Official

I resign as Acting Senator in accordance with the prohibition on 
simultaneously serving as President and Senator.

this is not a name
President
Historian
File Clerk

- --
        Mike Epstein     [email-masked]     Long Island, NY
      "I am not young enough to know everything." --Oscar Wilde      
http://www.nyiq.net/~epstein/          Finger for PGP 2.6.2 public key

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Date: Thu, 6 Jun 96 20:15:36 -0400
From: this is not a name <[email-masked]>
Subject: Ackanomic: Official: Blue Crosses

Thanks to /dev/joe for pointing this out.

I hereby award the Blue Cross to Robert Sevin and Mohammed as my first 
official act as President. In keeping with Robert Sevin's tradition, I 
announce that my term of office began at Thursday 6/6/96 2:32 PM Eastern 
Daylight Time and will end at Thursday 8/1/96 2:32 PM Eastern Daylight 
Time.

From Rule 549:

>     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.

this is not a name
President
Historian
File Clerk

- --
        Mike Epstein     [email-masked]     Long Island, NY
"Growing up on Long Island is the kind of thing a man spends the rest
 of his life trying to get over."     --Garrison Keillor
http://www.nyiq.net/~epstein/         Finger for PGP 2.6.2 public key

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Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 16:15:32 -0800
From: [email-masked] (Phil Ackley)
Subject: Ackanomic: My Prosthetic Forehead 

What's this?  A rock to wind a string around?  No, It's A$7 burning a whole
in my pocket.

I think I'll buy a prosthetic forhead and wear it on my real head.

I order a prosthetic forehead that looks similar to a real forehead, except
that it measures four feet tall, most likely making me the tallest
Ackanomic player around.  My new forhead also has a pair of Rabbit Ears (of
the TV variety) sticking up another 3 feet from the highest point on my new
forehead. The words "I plaindrome I" are printed microscopically in place
of each and every pore that would be on my new forehead, if it had pores.

I put on my new forhead, so that I may start wearing it in acordance with
the rules, and walk away whistling some little ditty about a particle man.

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Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 16:28:47 -0800
From: [email-masked] (Phil Ackley)
Subject: Acka: Irony of Proposal Retraction 

Ironic Isn't it?  The very proposals that thinman retracted in an attempt
to win, would have prevented his actions, should they have passed.  On
behalf of the (None Yet) party, I applaud thinman!

I love this crazy game (or is it just an activity?),
snowgod

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Date: Thu, 6 Jun 96 20:30:24 -0400
From: this is not a name <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: ignore last scores

>254	Bascule              A   (Matt Black) 

Bascule actually has 259 because he is Silly according to a recent 
Supreme Court verdict (the whole cows eat grass thing).

this is not a name
President
Historian
File Clerk

- --
        Mike Epstein     [email-masked]     Long Island, NY
"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."
                                       --Jules de Gaultier
http://www.nyiq.net/~epstein/          Finger for PGP 2.6.2 public key

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Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 20:08:21 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Verifying Election Results

Geez, were any other votes lost?

So far it looks like:

President: /dev/joe 5, this is not a name 4
Speaker: Mohammed 6, /dev/joe 3
Appointer: Mohammed 4, Bascule 3, this is not a name 2
NAP Swinger: Brinjal 7

If anybody voted and your votes aren't on this list, or any of your
votes are wrong, speak up!  
This is also at  http://wilma.che.utexas.edu/~devjoe/acka/election.html

I find it funny that we have 10 ballots collected here, all different.

/dev/joe's votes:
	President:  /dev/joe
	Speaker:  /dev/joe 
	Appointer:  Bascule
	NAP Swinger:  Brinjal

this is not a name's votes:
	President:  this is not a name
	Speaker:  Mohammed
	Appointer: this is not a name
	NAP Swinger:  Brinjal

snowgod's votes:
	President:  this is not a name
	Speaker:  Mohammed
	Appointer:  Mohammed
	NAP Swinger:  Brinjal

Mohammed's votes:
	President:  this is not a name
	Speaker:  Mohammed
	Appointer:  Mohammed

Bascule's votes:
	Appointer:  Bascule

mr cwm's votes:
	President:  /dev/joe
	Speaker:  Mohammed
	Appointer:  this is not a name
	NAP Swinger:  Brinjal

Bob's votes:
	President:  this is not a name
	Speaker:  /dev/joe
	Appointer:  Mohammed
	NAP swinger:  Brinjal

Brinjal's votes:
	President:  /dev/joe
	Speaker:  Mohammed
	Appointer:  Mohammed
	NAP Swinger:  Brinjal

Malenkai's votes:
	President: /dev/joe
	Speaker: Mohammed
	Appointer: Bascule
	NAP Swinger: Brinjal

Calvin N Hobbes:
	President: /dev/joe
        Speaker: /dev/joe

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Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 22:22:34 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mohammed <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Ackanomic: Official (election results)

> I second the motion.
> I also voted for /dev/joe after endorsing him. I also voted for him as speaker.
	Well, the best I can do is ask that you dig through your sent 
mail and try to find the message, because I have no record of it here.

> What kind of election rigging is this?
	Now, that's not very nice.

- --Mohammed

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Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 23:06:06 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Registrarness: new observer

We have another new observer, Berk Isaac ([email-masked]).

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Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 23:20:55 -0500
From: T Joffrain <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Ackanomic: Official (election results) 

>> I also voted for /dev/joe after endorsing him. I also voted for him as
speaker.
>	Well, the best I can do is ask that you dig through your sent 
>mail and try to find the message, because I have no record of it here.

I'm afraid I don't keep any mail older than a few days (except important
mail... acka voting isn't one, sorry, it's just a game) because that usually
is almost two megs right there. Acka isn't the only big thing I'm in. Not by
far.
Anyway so much for my excuses, I'm pretty sure of sending them. And even if
it got lost somewhere, wouldn't it be stupid for me to endorse him... and
then not vote fo him? Yeah, well, come to think of it, it's actually not
below me. Sounds like a wild crazy cool thing. Yeeeah...   :-)

>> What kind of election rigging is this?
>	Now, that's not very nice.

I didn't mean it as a "rigging" thing really, just that I didn't want to say
"bad job", because you in fact did a good job under the circumstances, but
that it fitted with the general essence of the situation: it's a good one liner.

And I can't say nice things! I've got my "bad boy" rep to keep up. Com'on.

Calvin N(ice) Hobbes
Aka Ycnega, my "bad" alter ego

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Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 23:31:54 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mohammed <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Ackanomic: Official (election results)

> Perhaps we need a recount on all positions. It appears that /dev/joe
> has won the presidency, and a reelection for that office is inappropriate
> (unless some this is not a name votes were lost as well:))
	I'm not willing to do that unless I am convinced that Calvin
actually cast his votes during the Election.  I seem to have a vague
memory of his having cast his vote for /dev/joe at the time of his
endorsement.  The election had not yet started.
	In any case, all the elections took place over the same three-day 
period, during which I saved away all the voting messages I received.  I 
was rather careful about this, and rather than the incident at school, I 
don't believe myself to have lost anything.

- --Mohammed

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Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 23:37:43 -0500
From: T Joffrain <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Ackanomic: Official (election results) 

>	I'm not willing to do that unless I am convinced that Calvin
>actually cast his votes during the Election.  I seem to have a vague
>memory of his having cast his vote for /dev/joe at the time of his
>endorsement.  The election had not yet started.

Mohammed, I'll be blunt.
If you want to say that there is no way in hell I voted for /dev/joe, that
therefore you think there was nothing wrong at all with the election, and
further that you are willing 200% to vouch that you are certain there is
- -100% chance of an errors having taken place... well, who am I to argue with
_that_.
_Your_ decision.

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