Subject: Ackanomic Digest V1 #258
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Ackanomic Digest      Tuesday, September 24 1996      Volume 01 : Number 258

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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 15:38:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: mr cwm <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Overload

On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, /dev/joe wrote:

[snip]
>
>Our new player Wendy already unsubscribed from the mailing list.
>I like the idea of the Official Moron choosing names for players who don't
>choose their own names, although I had been considering making a proposal
>to have the registrar do it.  I am also considering a CFJ to ask if Tim and
>Wendy ever legally joined the game.
>

I hope my welcoming/mentor message (on which I spent at least A$25 worth
of real time) didn't drive her away.

- -mr cwm
 wearing a Silly Vacation Hat

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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 13:40:23 -0600
From: Uncle Sam <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Overload 

At 02:21 PM 9/23/96 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm back from Dallas, and I see that there is a huge pile of work awaiting me.
>I will try to get most of it done tonight.
>
>Malenkai's mail was bouncing yesterday for about 2 or 3 hours, due to
>his mail server's /tmp being full.  This is why he thought his mail
>wasn't going out, and he re-sent a lot of it.
>
>Our new player Wendy already unsubscribed from the mailing list.
>I like the idea of the Official Moron choosing names for players who don't
>choose their own names, although I had been considering making a proposal
>to have the registrar do it.  I am also considering a CFJ to ask if Tim and
>Wendy ever legally joined the game.

Wendy emailed me because of her email problems.  Northwestern won't allow
students to be subscribed to any mailing lists.  I am going to set her up
with a mail account on my server so she can play Ackanomic.  Hopefully she
will stay in the game.

Uncle Sam
Member of the Great Underworld Party

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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 14:29:09 -0600
From: Uncle Sam <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Wendy Peterson 

Wendy has announced to me that she still wants to be a member of Ackanomic
and her Ackanomic name will be Dagny.  Since Northwestern won't allow her to
be on a mailing list I've set her up on my server.  Her email will be
[email-masked].

Uncle Sam
The Underworld Votes Can Be Bought

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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 17:57:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: mr cwm <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  CSR 7

To:   Ackanomians
From: mr cwm, CSRR Officer, wearing a Silly Vacation Hat

I hereby submit the following improved proposed rule changes as CSR 7.  I
do not believe there are any current controversies surrounding any of
these changes, but I remind all that objections by two different players
posted within three days will prevent them. Thanks to Malenkai, Niccolo
Flychuck, and snowgod for their suggestions. 

- --------

Amend R695 by appending the following text:

{{All CSR's, past and present, shall have 100 added to their number if
their number is less than 101.}}

- --------

Amend R424 by appending the following text to the sentance in item (e):

"if the player provides the information"

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Amend R1112.1 by appending the following text:

{{P1194 hereby loses its Harfy status.}}

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Amend R1237 by increasing all numbers in the enumerated list by one, and
numbering "Witch Burnings" as 1).

- --------

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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 16:59:03 -0500
From: Dagny <[email-masked]>
Subject: Rejoining 

Hi, this is Wendy Peterson.  I'm still interested in playing.  I've changed
my e-mail information to [email-masked].  My ackanomic name is going to
be Dagny.  Thanks.

Dagny

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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 17:57:42 -0500 (CDT)
From: robert gene shimmin <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Ackanomic: Proposal 1273

It's a cool idea, but I'm afraid it could crash us -- if 101 was the 
LEAST important immutable, or if the judgment process was among the least 
preferred of mutables...

Guy Fawkes
crash no, burn yes

On Mon, 23 Sep 1996 [email-masked] wrote:

> Proposal 1273 - Mon Sep 23 14:41:54 EDT 1996
> Gumball Precedence
> snowgod  (Phil Ackley)
> 
> This rule defers precedence to R210 and any other rules that deal with
> resolving conflicts, except for during the twelve hours immediatly
> following the legal chewing of the ackanomic gumball [12 hours from the
> time of the announced chewing in the time zone in which the gumball was
> chewed], at which time it takes precedence over R210 and any other
> applicable rules.
> 
> If two or more mutable rules conflict with one another, or if two or more
> immutable rules conflict with one another, then the rule with the highest
> effective ordinal number takes precedence. If at least one of the rules in
> conflict explicitly says of itself that it defers to another rule (or type
> of rule) or takes precedence over another rule (or type of rule), then such
> provisions shall be reversed and the rule that claims precedence shall
> defer precedence. If two or more rules claim to take precedence over one
> another, or to defer to one another, then the numerical method must again
> govern except in cases where one of the rules containes the word silly,
> than it shall have precedence.
> 
> Hereafter, 'number' refers to a rule's effective ordinal number. Lowest
> number is defined as follows:
> 
> 1. Each rule has a number of the form 'X' or 'X.Y' where X and Y may be any
> positive integers.
> 
> 2. Among a set of rules, the rule(s) with the lowest value of X are
> considered to have the lowest number(s).
> 
> 3. If a rule has the number X and one or more other rules have number(s) of
> the form 'X.Y', for the same X and any Y, then the rule with the number 'X'
> has the lowest number among these rules.
> 
> 4. Among a set of rules with the same X, all of which have numbers of the
> form 'X.Y', the rule with the lowest value of Y is considered to have the
> lowest number.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 20:31:41 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Acka: Scores

In the new cycle, the first scoring event was Habeous Corpus's points for
the Whamiol upon Dagny joining the game.

Changes from the obvious proposal scoring:
P1232 was modest.  P1237 was harfy (+5).  P1240 was harfy.  P1241 was modest.

Gnome log:
On P1232, Habeous Corpus was gnome buddy.
On P1233, Guy Fawkes was gnome buddy.
On P1234, there were no players who didn't share scores with another player,
so there was no gnome buddy.
On P1235-1236, Techno was gnome buddy.
On P1237-1243, Robin Hood was gnome buddy.
After P1243 passed, the voting gnome no longer has the ability to vote.

Sometimes Wayne didn't get the gnome vote right, but in these cases the
gnome's vote did not change the result.

Current scores:

Score   Ackanomic Name   Status  Real Name
- -----   --------------      ---  -------------
31      snowgod              A   (Phil Ackley)
30      Guy Fawkes           A   (Robert Shimmin)
18      Wayne                A   (Wayne Sheppard)
17      Habeous Corpus       A   (Ed Graham)
16      Malenkai             A   (Randy Hall)
15      Uncle Sam            A   (Sam Peterson)
14      Niccolo Flychuck     A   (Uri Bruck)
12      IdiotBoy             A   (Matt Miller)
9       Bash                 A   (Erez Bashan)
9       breadbox             A   (Brian Raiter)
9       fnord                A   (Michael Thomas)
7       Techno               A   (Jerome Herrman)
6       skinny               A   (Shlomi Bernthal)
6       /dev/joe             A   (Joseph DeVincentis)
6       Bascule              A   (Matt Black)
6       mr cwm               A   (Eric Murray)
3       Brinjal              A   (Simon Clarke)
3       ThinMan              A   (John Bollinger)
2       Robin Hood           A   (R Shaw)
0       this is not a name   A   (Mike Epstein)
0       Calvin N Hobbes      A   (Thierry Joffrain)
0       fon                  I   (Adrian Smith)
0       Robert Sevin         I   (Mitchell Harding)
0       "Tim"                N   (Tim Carter)
0       Pascal               I   (Jason Reed)
0       Dagny                N   (Wendy Peterson)

/dev/joe
Scorekeeper

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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 17:56:46 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Phil Ackley)
Subject: Re: Acka: Scores 

Feast your eyes on this list.  You'll never see my name at the top of it
again :)

snowgod
who likes proposing fun little things that are doomed to failure

>-----   --------------      ---  -------------
>31      snowgod              A   (Phil Ackley)
>30      Guy Fawkes           A   (Robert Shimmin)
>18      Wayne                A   (Wayne Sheppard)
>17      Habeous Corpus       A   (Ed Graham)
>16      Malenkai             A   (Randy Hall)
>15      Uncle Sam            A   (Sam Peterson)
>14      Niccolo Flychuck     A   (Uri Bruck)
>12      IdiotBoy             A   (Matt Miller)
<snip>

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** *
Amazing things happen when great minds work together.

That's why IdiotBoy is working closely with the underworld party to insure
that your investments will provide you with maximum cash flow and minimum
risk.  Only IdiotBoy actively promotes Waynenomics as part of his
investment package!
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 

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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 18:03:08 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Phil Ackley)
Subject: Acka: Official 

On behalf of the (None Yet) party, I am publically welcoming our newest member:

Guy Fawkes!

snowgod
swinger for (None Yet)

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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 18:03:14 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Phil Ackley)
Subject: Acka: Malenkai 

Hey there,

Sorry I didn't get back to you earlier with the plans for the coup.  I've
been at work all day, and then I have class in an hour (ick).  It's also
Yom Kippur so I am hungry and cranky (you're wife is jewish, isn't she?).
In any event, I promise to tell you the plans as soon as I get back from
class, and have had some food and have enough free time to write it all
down.

snowgod
fasting

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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 18:04:29 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Phil Ackley)
Subject: Acka: Darn it! 

Please, (Oh please) disregard my last message.

It was supposed to be private.

snowgod

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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 22:14:48 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Acka: Score correction

In the recently published set of scores, I forgot to give Malenkai 2 points
for the magic potato.  Which reminds me: monday's almost up and the potato
has not yet been redistributed.

/dev/joe
Scorekeeper

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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 22:45:13 -0500 (CDT)
From: robert gene shimmin <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: the Machine's Truth

As I sat in Xanadu, admiring the Machine which now existed there, I fell 
into a half-sleeping sort of reverie, in which, I believe, the Machine 
began to speak, saying such wondrous words of wisdom that I could not 
help but be amazed.  Alas -- for when I awoke and scribbled down the 
Machine's Truth, my penmanship did indeed greatly fail me, and now this 
is all I can announce to the citizenry of Acka.

IF AND ONLY IF today *** * **** ***** ** ***** ** ****** ********* ** 
****, THEN the Machine That Goes *ping* shall go *ping*.

Guy Fawkes
Scholar of *ping*

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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 21:19:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Michael J. Thomas" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Ackanomic: Prop 1237 Passes

snowgod spake thusly
> 
> How funny!
> 
> The four people who voted NO on this proposal were my oppenant in the last
> election and three new players who weren't around to witness the silliness.

Actually, snowgod, I was around when this 'silliness' occurred.  That
had nothing to do with why I voted "No".  Part of it was scheming for
points, which, my being a newbie, I still do on an increasingly less
frequent basis.

fnord

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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 00:02:37 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Financial

I am giving A$30 to IdiotBoy for goods to be delivered.

Malenkai
Gnome killer

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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 00:47:37 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFJ 297  Appeal

Malenkai wrote:

> CFJ 297 has been judged TRUE, without comment.

I am appealing CFJ 297 to the Supreme Court.

Malenkai

> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Call For Judgement 297
>   Subject: Paradox of winning by Paradox
> Initiator: IdiotBoy
>     Judge: Techno (selected Sep 22, 1996, 10:17h EDT)
> Judgement: TRUE
> 
> Statement:
> 
> It can not be determined with finality whether it is possible to win
> by paradox.
> 
> IdiotBoy's Reasoning:
> 
> Rule 215 gives judges the power to use game custom to make a decision when
> the Rules are "silent, inconsistent, or unclear" on a statement in question.
> Inconsistent must be construed as to mean that the Rules could be
> interpreted to both allow and disallow an action or interpretation. This
> would give Judges the power to resolve questions where a statement or action
> is equally legal and illegal.
> 
> Rule 219 states that if "some action appears equally legal and illegal" then
> the player may call for Judgement on the action.  If the Judgement is
> returned TRUE than the player is declared the winner.
> 
> The Rules state that Judges are required to use game custom to resolve
> potential paradoxes (inconsistencies) and also that Judges are to return a
> verdict which declares a paradox to exist.  The proper course for a Judge
> can not be determined.

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