Subject: Ackanomic Digest V1 #250
From: [email-masked] (Ackanomic Digest)
To: ackanomic-digest

Ackanomic Digest      Friday, September 20 1996      Volume 01 : Number 250

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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 96 18:44:27 EDT 
From: [email-masked] ()
Subject: Ackanomic: Prop 1230 Fails

Here are the voting results for : 1230
  Proposal 1230 - Thu Sep 12 13:42:01 EDT 1996
  Actually *reducing* the incentive to vote "No"
  /dev/joe  (Joseph DeVincentis)

Quorum met : 21 eligible voters -- 17 players cast votes

5 YES votes   13 NO votes   2 PRESENT votes
Proposal FAILS

/dev/joe loses 7 points.  201 -> 194

5 YES votes:  3 point each
  Malenkai               FUN                  291 -> 294          
  Niccolo Flychuck       Vulcan                67 -> 70           
  /dev/joe               Vulcan               194 -> 197          
  Guy Fawkes             FUN                   67 -> 70           
  Tammany                                     =   0               

13 NO votes:  
  Robin Hood                                  =  44               
  ThinMan                Vulcan               =  16               
  gnome                                       =   0               
  Bash                   Underworld           =  48               
  snowgod                (None Yet)           =  16               
  Techno                 Underworld           =  87               
  IdiotBoy               Underworld           =  75               
  fnord                                       =   9               
  Underworld Unity vote                        =   0               
  breadbox                                    =  -4               
  Uncle Sam                                   =  24               
  mr cwm                 (None Yet)           =  25               
  Wayne                  Underworld           = -28               

2 PRESENT votes:
  Bascule                FUN                   =  21
  Habeous Corpus                               = 123

4 ABSTENTIONS:
  Brinjal                                     
  this is not a name     (None Yet)           
  Calvin N Hobbes        FUN                  
  skinny                                      

Players on Vacation who did not vote:
  fon                                         
  Robert Sevin                                
  Pascal                                      

New players who are not active:
  Tim                                         
================================
/dev/joe paid A$25 to bribe Tammany

====================================================
Wayne, your friendly Tabulator
====================================================

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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 96 18:46:00 EDT 
From: [email-masked] ()
Subject: Ackanomic: Prop 1231 Fails

Here are the voting results for : 1231
  Proposal 1231 - Thu Sep 12 14:04:15 EDT 1996
  Power to the Parties
  Wayne  (Wayne Sheppard)

Quorum met : 21 eligible voters -- 19 players cast votes

11 YES votes   12 NO votes   0 PRESENT votes
Proposal FAILS

Wayne loses 7 points.  -28 -> -35

11 YES votes:  3 point each
  Malenkai               FUN                  294 -> 297          
  gnome                                       =   0               
  Bascule                FUN                   21 -> 24           
  Bash                   Underworld            48 -> 51           
  Techno                 Underworld            87 -> 90           
  Guy Fawkes             FUN                   70 -> 73           
  IdiotBoy               Underworld            75 -> 78           
  Tammany                                     =   0               
  skinny                                       18 -> 21           
  Underworld Unity vote                        =   0               
  Wayne                  Underworld           -35 -> -32          

12 NO votes:  
  Robin Hood                                  =  44               
  Brinjal                                     =  21               
  ThinMan                Vulcan               =  16               
  Niccolo Flychuck       Vulcan               =  70               
  snowgod                (None Yet)           =  16               
  Habeous Corpus                              = 123               
  Vulcan Unity vote                           =   0               
  /dev/joe               Vulcan               = 197               
  fnord                                       =   9               
  breadbox                                    =  -4               
  Uncle Sam                                   =  24               
  mr cwm                 (None Yet)           =  25               

0 PRESENT votes:

2 ABSTENTIONS:
  Calvin N Hobbes        FUN                  
  this is not a name     (None Yet)           

Players on Vacation who did not vote:
  fon                                         
  Robert Sevin                                
  Pascal                                      

New players who are not active:
  Tim                                         
===============================
Malenkai paid A$5 to bribe the Tammany

====================================================
Wayne, your friendly Tabulator
====================================================

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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 18:44:43 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Ackanomic: Prop 1225 Fails

[email-masked] wrote:
> 
> Here are the voting results for : 1225
>   Proposal 1225 - Thu Sep 12 11:49:49 EDT 1996
>   Honor Among Theives
>   Guy Fawkes  (Robert Shimmin)

I am certain this proposal was retracted.

Malenkai

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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 18:04:52 -0500
From: [email-masked] (John Bollinger)
Subject: Re:  Acka: Financier 

>I am transferring the sum of A$338 to ThinMan.
>
>frozenwaterdiety
>who type word instead of line :)

I acknowledge the transaction, and have noted it in my records.

ThinMan
Financier and Journalist

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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 18:06:05 -0500 (CDT)
From: robert gene shimmin <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Ackanomic: Prop 1225 Fails

Several people can verify that I publically retracted this several days ago.

Guy Fawkes

On Thu, 19 Sep 1996 [email-masked] wrote:

> Here are the voting results for : 1225
>   Proposal 1225 - Thu Sep 12 11:49:49 EDT 1996
>   Honor Among Theives
>   Guy Fawkes  (Robert Shimmin)
> 
> Quorum met : 21 eligible voters -- 18 players cast votes
> 
> 11 YES votes   8 NO votes   1 PRESENT votes
> Proposal FAILS
> 
> Guy Fawkes loses 7 points.  65 -> 58
> 
> 11 YES votes:  3 point each
>   Robin Hood                                   41 -> 44           
>   Brinjal                                      15 -> 18           
>   ThinMan                Vulcan                17 -> 20           
>   Bascule                FUN                   15 -> 18           
>   snowgod                (None Yet)             7 -> 10           
>   Habeous Corpus                              124 -> 127          
>   /dev/joe               Vulcan               198 -> 201          
>   Guy Fawkes             FUN                   58 -> 61           
>   fnord                                         6 -> 9            
>   breadbox                                     -7 -> -4           
>   mr cwm                 (None Yet)            19 -> 22           
> 
> 8 NO votes:  
>   Malenkai               FUN                  = 288               
>   Niccolo Flychuck       Vulcan               =  67               
>   gnome                                       =   0               
>   Bash                   Underworld           =  45               
>   Techno                 Underworld           =  87               
>   IdiotBoy               Underworld           =  69               
>   Underworld Unity vote                        =   0               
>   Wayne                  Underworld           = -31               
> 
> 1 PRESENT votes:
>   Uncle Sam                                    =  21
> 
> 3 ABSTENTIONS:
>   Calvin N Hobbes        FUN                  
>   this is not a name     (None Yet)           
>   skinny                                      
> 
> Players on Vacation who did not vote:
>   fon                                         
>   Robert Sevin                                
>   Pascal                                      
> 
> New players who are not active:
>   Tim                                         
> 
> ====================================================
> Wayne, your friendly Tabulator
> ====================================================
> 

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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 19:15:41 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFJ 292 Verdict

CFJ 292 has been judged FALSE.

Clerk of the Courts
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Call For Judgement 292
  Subject: Gnomic Paradox
Initiator: Wayne
    Judge: breadbox (selected Sep 18, 1996, 01:29h EDT)
Judgement: FALSE

Statement:

It cannot be determined with finality whether the Gnome Buddy is the
player with the lowest score if the player has the same score as someone
else.

Wayne's Reasoning:

Two sentences from Rule 355:

At any time, the Player with the lowest score will have control of
the Voting Gnome.

If there is more than one person who is tied for the
lowest score, then the next lowest score is used, and
continues until the lowest single score is found.

The first sentence declares that the player with the lowest score is
the Gnome Buddy.  But the second sentence chooses someone else.

This is the same reasoning as CFJ 269.

breadbox's Reasoning:

As many people have pointed out in the public fora, Rule 210 has been
amended between the submission of CFJ 269 and the submission of this
CFJ, and the reasoning no longer has the same force. I quote:

     If two statements in the same rule conflict with each other, and
     the rule doesn't define a way to resolve the conflict, then the
     statement which appears later in the rule takes precedence.

I trust I do not need to spell this out any further.

HOWEVER: I wish to emphasize that I would still find the statement to
be False even without the above. Consider the first sentence quoted:
"At any time, the Player with the lowest score will have control of
the Voting Gnome." Player is singular. Thus, this sentence is silent
in the case where there is no Player with the lowest score. The second
quoted sentence is: "If there is more than one person who is tied for
the lowest score, then the next lowest score is used, and continues
until the lowest single score is found." This sentence specifically
outlines a procedure that is to be used when the lowest score is tied.
It is silent in the case where there is no tie and exactly one Player
has the lowest score. The two sentences are disjoint; thus, they
cannot contradict each other.

And between them, they are complete; they cover all possibilities. It
is unclear, to this judge anyway, that having the first sentence
explicitly mention that it does not attempt to define the case where
no one Player has the lowest score, adding rhetorical decorations such
as "however" and the like, or pasting the two sentences into one with
a semicolon to discourage out-of-context quotations, would add and not
subtract from its clarity.

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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 19:23:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: IdiotBoy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Make up your own mind.

DOn't let some namby-pamby, wishy-washy review turn you off from the hottest
magazine on the bond market today.  The Hot Tips Newsletter is the most
respected periodical devoted to the PFBond trade in Ackanomia.  Ask IdiotBoy
for details on discounted subscription rates.

IB
- --
IdiotBoy, as always, dumber than a box of hammers.
[email-masked]

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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 19:21:45 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFJ 294 (Guy Fawkes)

Guy Fawkes has been chosen, and has 3 days to accept/decline.

Clerk of the Courts
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Call For Judgement 294
  Subject: Overworking the CotC
Initiator: frozenwaterdiety
    Judge: Guy Fawkes (selected Sep 19, 1996, 19:24h New York Time)
Judgement:

Statement:

This statement cannot be judged true

Reasoning:

	[none - CotC]

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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 18:32:17 -0500 (CDT)
From: robert gene shimmin <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: CFJ 294 (Guy Fawkes)

May Godel roll over in his grave, and if he's not dead, may he roll over 
in his bed.

I accept Judgment.

Guy Fawkes

On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Malenkai wrote:

> Guy Fawkes has been chosen, and has 3 days to accept/decline.
> 
> Clerk of the Courts
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Call For Judgement 294
>   Subject: Overworking the CotC
> Initiator: frozenwaterdiety
>     Judge: Guy Fawkes (selected Sep 19, 1996, 19:24h New York Time)
> Judgement:
> 
> Statement:
> 
> This statement cannot be judged true
> 
> Reasoning:
> 
> 	[none - CotC]
> 

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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 15:37:55 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Phil Ackley)
Subject: Acka:  Name Change 

I am once again  changing my ackanomic name.  This time I change my
ackanomic from frozenwaterdiety to snowgod - my reasoning for this attempt
atchanging my name (as required by the rules) is that my previous attempt
to change my name is no longer needed as the coup attempt against me has failed.

snowgod
feels good to be home

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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 18:43:45 -0500 (CDT)
From: robert gene shimmin <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: pragmatic player purchasing prosthesis

Foreheads, foreheads galore...

As I look through the treasury vaults, gazing upon the infinite variety 
of Prosthetic Foreheads, I see one that captures my fancy.

It is bright green.  (I mean *bright* green, the sort of glow-in-the-day, 
put-a-neon-highlighter-to-shame green that you can see from miles away.)

Aside from this, its most prominent feature is an odd protrusion growing 
from the middle of its brow that looks exactly like me.  As I stand 
agape, it too drops its jaw and stares at me as I stare at it.  I jump 
backwards in surprise, and it makes a mostly fruitless attempt to jump 
back into the main body of the Prosthetic Forehead.

When I smile, it smiles.  When I frown, it frowns.  It mirrors my every 
action.  When I vote, it tries to vote, but the Tabulator ignores its 
attempt.  In a brief instant of egomania, I pay 7 A$, remove it from its 
shelf, and place it on my real head.

As I do so, I look in the mirror and notice the protrusion now is wearing 
a miniature replica of my prosthesis, which in turn wears a miniature of 
it, which in turn...

As far as the eye can see.

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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 19:10:11 -0500 (CDT)
From: robert gene shimmin <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Gumball

Today being the third Thursday of the month, I am undeterred by the 
gumball's recent passage through the Little Lamb's digestive system, and 
I am chewing it.

Unfortunately, it leaves an unpleasant grassy aftertaste.

Guy Fawkes

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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 20:39:48 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Trade

I am giving A$35 to snowgod for services rendered, assuming he 
acks the transaction.

Malenkai

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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 21:27:57 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFCJ 115 (Guy Fawkes)

Guy Fawkes has been selected to judge the following, and has
3 days to accept or decline the appointment.

Would the Financier please note snowgod's A$20 Court Fee.

Clerk of the Courts
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Call for Criminal Judgement 115
  Subject:  Illegal Press
Initiator:  snowgod
    Judge:  Guy Fawkes (selected Sep 18, 1996, 21:31 EDT)

Statement:

IdiotBoy has broken the rules.

snowgod's comments:

IdiotBoy has started a newsparer (the Hot Tips Newletter) in violation of
R891, which states that "Any Player may start a newspaper, by publically
declaring that they are doing so.  Newspapers must be given names, which
must be announced at the same time that the newspaper is created.  A small
fee of A$20 must be paid to the treasury to cover start-up costs."

IdiotBoy may or may not have complied with the first two sentences of R891,
depending on interpretaion, but there can be no doubt that he has not
complied with the third sentence that requires him to pay a fee of A$20 to
the treasury.

The rules do not define exactly what a newspaper is, but I contend that the
Hot Tips Newsletter is exactly that.  It is a weekly report, always
published under the same title.  It contains news and information which is
meant to inform it subscribers.  IdiotBoy calls himself "editor" of the HTN
(and who has heard of an editor with no publication?).

With no clear defination of a newspaper in the rules, the judge must reach
his desicion in accordance with currently existing game custom (which would
require the common sense interpretation of a what a newspaper is) and the
spirit of the game (which is tough on crime).

Suggested Penalty:

A FINE of $150 credits [due to the commercial nature of the publication]
payable to the treasury.

and

a SENTENCE in the Gaol of 3 days

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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 21:37:10 -0500
From: [email-masked] (John Bollinger)
Subject: Acka: Official: Bond Yields 

Ackazens,

Here are the bond yields for the cycle that ended at 12:00 noon
Monday, September 16.

    PFBond        Last Score       "Current" Score    Bond Yield, A$
      /dev          142                177                35 
    Bascule           0                 15                15 
      Bash            0                 12                12
    breadbo          -7                 -7                 0
    Brinjal           5                  3                -1
     Calvin           0                  0                 0
    De'ghew           0                  0                 0
     fnord            0                  6                 6
      fon             0                  0                 0
     Geezer         -10                -10                 0
      Guy             0                 49                49
    Habeous          -7                 97               104
    IdiotBo           0                 28                28
    Malenka          53                186               133
     Mellon          31                 31                 0
       mr             0                  9                 9 
    Niccolo          16                 52                36
     Pascal           5                 -5                -5
     Robert           0                  0                 0
     Robin            8                 20                12 
     skinny           0                  0                 0
    snowgod          -2                  1                 3 
     Techno          11                 48                37 
    ThinMan          -4                 11                15
      this           12                 35                23 
     Uncle            0                  0                 0
     Wayne           23                 12                -5

Here are the bond holdings as of that time that I used to divide up the
dividends (Players owning no bonds other than all 100 of their own not
listed):

frozenwaterdiety: 50 PFsnowgod, 25 PFGuy
Guy Fawkes: 75 PFGuy, 30 PFNiccolo, 30 PFHabeous, 25 PFsnowgod
Habeous Corpus: 70 PFHabeous
IdiotBoy: 30 PFIdiotBo, 10 PFMalenka, 20 PFTechno
Malenkai: 80 PFMalenka
Niccolo Flychuck: 50 PFNiccolo, 20 PFIdiotBo, 25 PFTechno
Techno: 55 PFTechno, 20 PFNiccolo, 50 PFIdiotBo, 25 PFsnowgod, 10 PFMalenka

And here are the total bond payments per player:
/dev/joe    +35 
Bascule     +15 
Bash        +12
Brinjal      -1
fnord        +6
Guy Fawkes  +80
Habeous Corpus +73
IdiotBoy    +28
Malenkai   +106 
mr cwm       +9 
Niccolo     +33
Pascal       -5
Robin Hood  +12 
snowgod     +13
Techno      +55
ThinMan     +15
tinan       +23 
Wayne        -5

ThinMan
Financier

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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 21:38:02 -0500
From: [email-masked] (John Bollinger)
Subject: Acka: Official: Accounts 

Ackazens,

Here are the most recent accounts, as of 9:25 EST, 9/19/96.  There has been
alot of activity lately, so please scrutinize these results.  I know that
there are a few details missing, particularly one or two CFCJ filing fees,
and one, perhaps two Supreme Court tardiness penalties.  These will not
substantially alter anyone's balance.  I just don't have time right now
to look up the details; I will do so tomorrow.

If anyone is interested in volunteering to be an assistant Financier, then
please let me know.  I am particularly interested in someone to log and
acknowledge transactions for me.

ThinMan
Financier

%%%

Stats:
Ackadollars in circulation:
A$ 15506

Ackadollars held by 25 Players:
A$ 11751

Ackadollars haunted by 9 undead:
A$ 3735

Orkatass Lawn Care Company and Motor Inn:
A$ 20

Treasury:
A$ 59494

Average Per Player:
A$ 470

The following entities are stored in the Treasury:

The Gumball, The Voting Gnome, Tammany, Phoebe, The Fat Lady, An endless
supply and endless variety of Prosthetic Foreheads, The Brass Monkey, The
Map of Ackanomia, The Rules of Ackanomic, the Proposals of Ackanomic, the
Judgements of Ackanomic, the three Blueprints currently in existence, and
every other legal document of Ackanomic, Game custom, The Ackanomic Afterlife,
the Senate Building, the Free Market, the Treasury, the Gaol, the Library, and
every other public building, Scads of PFs of fromer players, An infinite
number of points, The Great Trombone of Ackanomia, and probably a few others.
- --------

Name of Player [Acka Name]
A$xxx           nnn PFxxx       Other entities

/dev/joe
A$861           100 PF/dev      Prosthetic Forehead

Bascule
A$383           100 PFBascule   2 Newspapers, Big Blue Thing

Bash
A$472           100 PFBash

breadbox
A$521           100 PFbreadbo

Brinjal
A$399           100 PFBrinjal

Calvin N Hobbes
A$249           100 PFCalvin

chess piece face (u)
A$278           100 BPs

De'ghew (u)
A$412           100 BPs

fnord
A$436           100 PFfnord

fon
A$337           100 PFfon

Geezer(u)
A$417           100 BPs

Guy Fawkes
A$348           75 PFGuy, 30 PFHabeous, 30 PFNiccolo, 30 PFUncle, 25 PFsnowgod,
                Prosthetic Forehead

Habeous Corpus
A$558           70 PFHabeous   Whamiol, Vending Machine

IdiotBoy
A$248           30 PFIdiotBo, 10 PFThinMan, 30 PFUncle, 10 PFsnowgod,
                used Prosthetic Forehead

Kelly Martin(u)
A$316           100 Bond promissories

Malenkai
A$1386          80 PFMalenka, 20 PFTechno

Mellon(u)
A$635           100 BPs

Mohammad(u)
A$440           100 BPs

mr cwm
A$385           100 PFmr        2 Prosthetic Foreheads

Niccolo Flychuck
A$272           50 PFNiccolo, 20 PFIdiotBo, 25 PFTechno, Scroll of Crumble,
                Prosthetic Forehead

pTang1001001sos(u)
A$601           100 BPs, Blue Cross

Pascal
A$301           100 PFPascal

Robert Sevin
A$313           100 PFRobert

Robin Hood
A$348           100 PFRobin

Simon Marty Harriman (u)
A$308           100 BPs

skinny
A$452           100 PFskinny

snowgod
A$236           40 PFsnowgod, 25 PFGuy,   Electronic Potato,
                2 Prosthetic Foreheads

Techno
A$285           55 PFTechno, 50 PFIdiotBo, 25 PFsnowgod, 20 PFNiccolo,
                10 PFMalenka

The Great Old One(u)
A$328           100 BPs

ThinMan
A$885           90 PFThinMan, 10 PFMalenka

this is not a name
A$495           100 PFthis

Uncle Sam
A$661           like-new Prosthetic Forehead

Wayne
A$439           100 PFWayne, 40 PFUncle

"Tim"
A$481           100 PFTim

Undead are marked with "(u)".

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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 22:49:43 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Official: Accounts

John Bollinger wrote:

> If anyone is interested in volunteering to be an assistant Financier, then
> please let me know.  I am particularly interested in someone to log and
> acknowledge transactions for me.

I volunteer, as I am going to be keeping the information on the 
Speaker's page anyway.  Once I get this stuff updated, I am going to
post updated balances on that page within a day or 2 of a change being
posted.

Then the balances can be cross checked at bond dividend time.

Malenkai

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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 23:12:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: IdiotBoy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: CFCJ 115 (Guy Fawkes)

I'm taking my case to the court of the common Ackazen!

On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Malenkai wrote:

> Call for Criminal Judgement 115
>   Subject:  Illegal Press
> Initiator:  snowgod
>     Judge:  Guy Fawkes (selected Sep 18, 1996, 21:31 EDT)
> 
> Statement:
> 
> IdiotBoy has broken the rules.
> 
> snowgod's comments:
> 
> IdiotBoy has started a newsparer (the Hot Tips Newletter) in violation of
> R891, which states that "Any Player may start a newspaper, by publically
> declaring that they are doing so.  Newspapers must be given names, which
> must be announced at the same time that the newspaper is created.  A small
> fee of A$20 must be paid to the treasury to cover start-up costs."
> 
Except for that part where this is a NEWSLETTER, not a NEWSPAPER, and
thereby wholly unregulated.

> IdiotBoy may or may not have complied with the first two sentences of R891,
> depending on interpretaion, but there can be no doubt that he has not
> complied with the third sentence that requires him to pay a fee of A$20 to
> the treasury.
> 
I have complied completely with R891, by not creating a newspaper.

> The rules do not define exactly what a newspaper is, but I contend that the
> Hot Tips Newsletter is exactly that.  It is a weekly report, always
> published under the same title.  It contains news and information which is
> meant to inform it subscribers.  IdiotBoy calls himself "editor" of the HTN
> (and who has heard of an editor with no publication?).
>
I think an interesting distinction between the Ackanomic newspapers and the
Hot Tips newsletter is summed up in the word "subscribers".  I am selling
information and opinion, not a newspaper.

> With no clear defination of a newspaper in the rules, the judge must reach
> his desicion in accordance with currently existing game custom (which would
> require the common sense interpretation of a what a newspaper is) and the
> spirit of the game (which is tough on crime).
> 
The game custom in this case would indeed be a comparison on my alleged
newspaper and other extant verifiable newspapers.  I do not purport to cover
the broad spectrum of Ackanomic events.  The majority of my newsletter is
concerned with the publishing of my opinions on the course of the bond
market.  Further, I do not distribute my publication by means of the public
forum as all extant newspapers do.

My publication meets none of the criteria of a newspaper, beyond the fact
that it has a consistent title.  But then, so do the posts of the CotC and
the Tabulator, which provide news and information to the subscribers to the
public forum.

> Suggested Penalty:
> 
> A FINE of $150 credits [due to the commercial nature of the publication]
> payable to the treasury.
> 
> and
> 
> a SENTENCE in the Gaol of 3 days
> 
If the court finds merit to these frivolous charges, I ask that the
suggested penalty be double, or even trebled. 

IB
- --
IdiotBoy, as always, dumber than a box of hammers.
[email-masked]

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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 22:50:41 +0000
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: Acka: Ransom

> Ackazens;
> 
> I have kidnapped Phoebe the Steel Flee and am holding her for Ransom.  If
> the following conditions are not met within 9 days,  I shall superglue
> her red and blue,  rather pretty box closed and dispose of her somewhere
> in the Wilds of Ackanomia.
> 
> First,  I call for the immediate repeal of Rules 115 and 219.  
> 
> Second,  Malenkai shall be stripped of all wins,  and titles associated
> with those wins.
> 
> Third,  disband the Vulcan Party.  Ackanomia is no place for pure Logic.
> 
> Lastly,  I want A$200,000 and 100 Prosthetic Foreheads delivered to a
> Location to be specified when all other demands are met.
> 
> Believe me,  I mean bussiness.
> 
> bodyofabadlyspelledcrime
> (obvious alias)
> 
>
Give me a break.  At least demand things that are going to be of 
advantage.  We should CFCJ this.  But instead, the UW has sent a hit 
man to take care of the foolish terrorist.

Techno 
"Don't learn the tricks of the trade, learn the trade."

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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 22:50:41 +0000
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: Ackanomic: Proposal 1260

> Proposal 1260 - Thu Sep 19 12:06:47 EDT 1996
> Trains
> snowgod  (Phil Ackley)
> 
> 
>  Whenever two trains approach each other from opposite directions, each
> must stop and neither may resume travel until the other has fully passed.
> 
> 
> 
>
This is a paradox waiting to happen.  How can either train fully pass 
if they have to stop and may not resume.

Techno
PS...  Snowgod, if you really want this to pass, reply to me by 
private email asap.
"Don't learn the tricks of the trade, learn the trade."

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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 23:43:15 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Acka: Current Scores

Another fun day of changes to the Magic Number.

I recorded mr cwm's -2 for retracting P1249 and no other
non-proposal-triggered score changes since the last score report.

P1225 was retracted several days ago, and I logged the score change
for the retraction at that time.

When proposal 1223 passed, Malenkai's score went from 268 to 278
(causing the Magic Number to increase to 289), and then he got 2 points
from the potato, making his score 280.

Proposal 1224 was short and modest, and its author has the Magic Potato.
Malenkai thus scores 7 points for regular proposal points and for
shortness, and 1 point for the potato, leaving him at 288.
When he scored 3 points for voting on 1228, the Magic Number
increased again, to 305.

Wayne has been gnome buddy for all the proposals whose results were posted
today.

These are the current scores.

Score   Ackanomic Name   Status  Real Name
- -----   --------------      ---  -------------
297     Malenkai             A   (Randy Hall)
194     /dev/joe             A   (Joseph DeVincentis)
120     Habeous Corpus       A   (Ed Graham)
90      Techno               A   (Jerome Herrman)
78      IdiotBoy             A   (Matt Miller)
77      Guy Fawkes           A   (Robert Shimmin)
70      Niccolo Flychuck     A   (Uri Bruck)
51      Bash                 A   (Erez Bashan)
41      Robin Hood           A   (R Shaw)
38      this is not a name   A   (Mike Epstein)
24      Uncle Sam            A   (Sam Peterson)
22      mr cwm               A   (Eric Murray)
21      Bascule              A   (Matt Black)
21      skinny               A   (Shlomi Bernthal)
18      Brinjal              A   (Simon Clarke)
13      ThinMan              A   (John Bollinger)
13      snowgod              A   (Phil Ackley)
6       fnord                A   (Michael Thomas)
0       Calvin N Hobbes      A   (Thierry Joffrain)
0       fon                  I   (Adrian Smith)
0       Robert Sevin         I   (Mitchell Harding)
0       "Tim"                N   (Tim Carter)
- -5      Pascal               I   (Jason Reed)
- -7      breadbox             A   (Brian Raiter)
- -32     Wayne                A   (Wayne Sheppard)

/dev/joe
Scorekeeper

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