Subject: Ackanomic Digest V1 #336
From: [email-masked] (Ackanomic Digest)
To: ackanomic-digest

Ackanomic Digest      Thursday, November 7 1996      Volume 01 : Number 336

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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:34:16 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Acting Tabulator)
Subject: Acka: P1384 Passes 

Quorum achieved on P1384: 16 Eligible voters - 13 Players cast votes
12 YES votes - 2 NO votes - 1 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

Proposal 1384 - Tue 29 Oct 10:14 CST 1996
Smooth Transition of Duties
Guy Fawkes (Robert Shimmin)

Guy Fawkes Gains 10 points:                    55 -> 65

YES Votes:
- ---------
snowgod                      (None Yet)          = 2
Brinjal                                          = 20
mr cwm                       (None Yet)          = 10
fnord                                            = 9
ThinMan                      Vulcan              = 4
/dev/joe                     Vulcan              = 21
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan              = 20
Habeous Corpus                                   = 14
Vulcan Unity Vote
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)          = 65
(None Yet) Unity Vote
Mohammed                                         = 8

NO Votes:
- --------
Malenkai                     FUN                49 -> 52
IdiotBoy                                         1 -> 4

PRESENT Votes:
- -------------
breadbox                                         = 16

Abstentions:
- -----------
Robert Sevin                                     = -14
Calvin N Hobbes                                  = 1

Players On Vacation Who Didn't Vote:
- -----------------------------------
Bascule                                          = -14

Text of Passed Proposal:
- -----------------------

     Amend Rule 612, section (vi) to read

     (vi) Whenever a Functional Office has a vacant Seat, or if the
     current holder of that Seat publically states an intent to vacate
     his Seat and requests the President conduct a Nomination to fill
     it, the President shall conduct a Nomination for that Seat. After
     the Nomination, the President shall select an eligible Nominee and
     announce that Nominee's name publically. That Nominee shall hold
     the Functional Office. If the Nomination was initiated at the
     Functional Officer's request, he shall be considered to have
     resigned at the instant the new Officer is announced, if he has
     not already left the Seat.

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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:34:26 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Acting Tabulator)
Subject: Acka: Boring Tabulator Stuff 

A couple of scores may appear to be wrong in the voting results.  I am
offline as I do this (would you believe that the phone company disconnected
my phone by mistake?) so I am going by the last saved copy of the
scorekeepers report.  Also, I noticed that somehow or other I mangaed to
change Niccolo Flychucks score to 20 (?).  I'm not sure how this happened
bu I am aware of it, so his score should be correct in later voting
results...

snowgod

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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:34:20 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Acting Tabulator)
Subject: Acka: P1385 Passes 

Quorum achieved on P1385: 16 Eligible voters - 13 Players cast votes
10 YES votes - 0 NO votes - 4 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

Proposal 1385 - Tue 29 Oct 10:15 CST 1996
Swinger ex-parte
Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck)

Niccolo Flychuck gains 10 points:              62 -> 72

YES Votes:
- ---------
snowgod                      (None Yet)          = 2
Brinjal                                          = 20
ThinMan                      Vulcan              = 4
/dev/joe                     Vulcan              = 21
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan              = 62
Vulcan Unity Vote
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)          = 65
Mohammed                                         = 8
Malenkai                     FUN                 = 52
IdiotBoy                                         = 4

NO Votes:
- --------
NONE

PRESENT Votes:
- -------------
breadbox                                         = 16
Habeous Corpus                                   = 14
mr cwm                       (None Yet)          = 10
fnord                                            = 9

Abstentions:
- -----------
Robert Sevin                                     = -14
Calvin N Hobbes                                  = 1

Players On Vacation Who Didn't Vote:
- -----------------------------------
Bascule                                          = -14

Text of Passed Proposal:
- -----------------------
   I.
     Append the following text to R726
     "
     A Party may declare eir Seat to be Warm at any time.

     If there fewer than 7 non-Warm Seats at Party-Hall, then
     additional Seats may be created in the following manner:
     a. Any player who is not currently a Swinger, and who is not a
     member of a Party, two members of which are currently Swingers may
     anounce eir desire to buy an Office of Swinger.
     b. A$600 are transferred from that players account to the the
     Treasury, if e does not have that much money the entire procedure
     of creating an additional Swinger's Office is cancelled.

     c. The player names eir Swinger's Office.

     Swingers who acquire eir Offices in this manner are known as
     Capital-Swingers.
     When a Capital-Swinger goes on Vacation, no acting-Swinger is
     appointed. A Capital-Swinger's Office is Tradable. If a
     Capital-Swinger's office is traded, then the previous owner ceases
     to be Swinger, and the new owner becomes Swinger in eir stead.
     A Capital-Swinger may anounce eir resignation at any time. In this
     case the Office of Swinger e resigned from is destroyed."

     II.
     Ammend R985.1 2 D (iv) to read in whole:
     "
     When a Player purchases a PartyChessPiece e anounces the Office of
     Swinger e is purchasing the piece for, and the piece becomes the
     propery of tha Office of Swinger."

     delete R985.1 2 D (v)
     renumber R985.1 2 D (vi) to R990 2 D (v)

     III.
     in R985.1 delete section 2 E.
     Rename section 2 F to Section 2 E
     in R985.2,R985.2 change all refferences to R985.1 section 2 F, to
     R985.1 section 2 E
     {{[R985.2 2 D does the same thing, and is better worded]}}}

     IV.
     Append to R985.2 2H the following text:
     "
     (iii)When there are 7 or more Swingers with on-board pieces, the
     turn of any Swinger who has no on-board pieces is skipped
     entirely.
     "

     V.
     In section R985.2 2 h replace the phrase:
     "It is permissible for a Party with a Warm Office" with the
     phrase:
     "It is permissible for a Party or a Swinger with a Warm Office"

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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:33:59 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Acting Tabulator)
Subject: Acka: This isn't is 

This is not an issue of is.  Instead consider it a friendly reminder.  is
is still accepting responses to the poll question "What are the origins of
your Ackanomic name?".  I have recieved several, but would like to recienve
a few more before publishing.

send your replies to [email-masked]

snowgod
publisher

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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:34:11 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Acting Tabulator)
Subject: Acka: P1383 Passes 

Quorum achieved on P1383: 16 Eligible voters - 12 Players cast votes
10 YES votes - 1 NO votes - 2 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES
P1383 was modest

Proposal 1383 - Mon 28 Oct 7:20 CST 1996
What if I want unload all those Prosthetic Foreheads without burying them?
Malenkai(Randy Hall)

Malenkai Gains 5 points:                         44 -> 49

YES Votes:
- ---------
snowgod                      (None Yet)          = 2
Brinjal                                          = 20
Malenkai                     FUN                 = 49
mr cwm                       (None Yet)          = 10
fnord                                            = 9
ThinMan                      Vulcan              = 4
/dev/joe                     Vulcan              = 21
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan              = 20
Habeous Corpus                                   = 14
Vulcan Unity Vote

NO Votes:
- --------
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)          = 55

PRESENT Votes:
- -------------
IdiotBoy                                         = 1
breadbox                                         = 16

Abstentions:
- -----------
Robert Sevin                                     = -14
Calvin N Hobbes                                  = 1
Mohammed                                         = 8

Players On Vacation Who Didn't Vote:
- -----------------------------------
Bascule                                          = -14

Text of Passed Proposal:
- -----------------------

     This is a Modest proposal.

     Amend R 665 to add the following to the end of the Rule:

     "
     Donation:
     A player may donate any Tradeable, non-mimsy entity they own to
     the Treasury by publically announcing they are doing so. If the
     item is a Trinket, it is converted into its value in A$ upon
     transferrence to the Treasury.
     "

     -------------------------------------------------------------------

     Amend R 1348.2 to add the following sentence at the end of the
     second paragraph:

     "
     Buried Treasure is not considered part of the Treasury. This
     clause has precedence over R 665."
     "

     --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:34:07 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Acting Tabulator)
Subject: Acka: P1382 Fails 

snowgod -10, Tammany Bribe

Quorum achieved on P1382: 16 Eligible voters - 13 Players cast votes
8 YES votes - 5 NO votes - 2 PRESENT votes - Proposal FAILS
P1382 was harfy.

Proposal 1382 - Mon 28 Oct 7:19 CST 1996
The Old Lightbulb Bit
snowgod (Phil Ackley)

snowgod loses 7 points:                           6 -> -1

YES Votes:
- ---------
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)          52 -> 55
snowgod                      (None Yet)         -1  -> 2
Brinjal                                          17 -> 20
Malenkai                     FUN                 41 -> 44
mr cwm                       (None Yet)          7  -> 10
fnord                                            6  -> 9
(None Yet) Unity Vote
Tammany

NO Votes:
- --------
ThinMan                      Vulcan              = 4
/dev/joe                     Vulcan              = 21
Mohammed                                         = 8
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan              = 20
Habeous Corpus                                   = 14

PRESENT Votes:
- -------------
IdiotBoy                                         = 1
breadbox                                         = 16

Abstentions:
- -----------
Robert Sevin                                     = -14
Calvin N Hobbes                                  = 1

Players On Vacation Who Didn't Vote:
- -----------------------------------
Bascule                                          = -14

Text of Passed Proposal:
- -----------------------
NONE

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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:34:35 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Acting Tabulator)
Subject: Acka: P1387 Passes 

Quorum achieved on P1387: 16 Eligible voters - 13 Players cast votes
14 YES votes - 1 NO votes - 0 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES
P1387 was modest

Proposal 1387 - Tue 29 Oct 10:16 CST 1996
Netscape ate the last line of P 1347
Malenkai (Randy Hall)

Malenkai gains 5 points:                        55 -> 60

YES Votes:
- ---------
snowgod                      (None Yet)          = 2
Brinjal                                          = 20
ThinMan                      Vulcan              = 4
/dev/joe                     Vulcan              = 21
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan              = 62
Vulcan Unity Vote
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)          = 65
Mohammed                                         = 8
Habeous Corpus                                   = 14
fnord                                            = 9
mr cwm                       (None Yet)          = 13
Malenkai                     FUN                 = 60
breadbox                                         = 16
(None Yet) Unity Vote

NO Votes:
- --------
IdiotBoy                                         = 4

PRESENT Votes:
- -------------
NONE

Abstentions:
- -----------
Robert Sevin                                     = -14
Calvin N Hobbes                                  = 1

Players On Vacation Who Didn't Vote:
- -----------------------------------
Bascule                                          = -14

Text of Passed Proposal:
- -----------------------

     This is a Modest proposal.

     Repeal R 1347.

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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 01:37:24 -0600 (CST)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Acka: *ping*

Today is Thursday, the 7th day of November, in the Year of Our Lord 1996, 
and the Machine That Goes *ping* Has Gone *ping* today. 
Since I have been scholar, the Machine has gone *ping* 1 times.

/dev/joe
Scholar of *ping*

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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:34:03 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Acting Tabulator)
Subject: Acka: P1381 Fails (Ignore Previous) 

Quorum achieved on P1381: 16 Eligible voters - 13 Players cast votes
5 YES votes - 3 NO votes - 5 PRESENT votes - Proposal FAILS
P1381 was Modest.

Proposal 1381 - Mon 28 Oct 7:19 CST 1996
Synchronized Whamming
snowgod (Phil Ackley)

snowgod loses 7 points:                        10 -> 3

YES Votes:
- ---------
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)          49 -> 52
snowgod                      (None Yet)          3  -> 6
ThinMan                      Vulcan              1  -> 4
Brinjal                                          13 -> 17
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan              17 -> 20

NO Votes:
- --------
fnord                                            = 6
/dev/joe                     Vulcan              = 21
Mohammed                                         = 8

PRESENT Votes:
- -------------
IdiotBoy                                         = 1
breadbox                                         = 16
Malenkai                     FUN                 = 41
Habeous Corpus                                   = 14
mr cwm                       (None Yet)          = 7

Abstentions:
- -----------
Robert Sevin                                     = -14
Calvin N Hobbes                                  = 1

Players On Vacation Who Didn't Vote:
- -----------------------------------
Bascule                                          = -14

Text of Passed Proposal:
- -----------------------
NONE

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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:34:30 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Acting Tabulator)
Subject: Acka: P1386 Passes 

Quorum achieved on P1386: 16 Eligible voters - 13 Players cast votes
11 YES votes - 2 NO votes - 1 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

Proposal 1386 - Tue 29 Oct 10:15 CST 1996
Bonus Votes
Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck)

Niccolo Flychuck gains 10 points:              62 -> 72

YES Votes:
- ---------
snowgod                      (None Yet)          = 2
Brinjal                                          = 20
ThinMan                      Vulcan              = 4
/dev/joe                     Vulcan              = 21
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan              = 72
Vulcan Unity Vote
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)          = 65
Mohammed                                         = 8
Habeous Corpus                                   = 14
fnord                                            = 9
IdiotBoy                                         = 4

NO Votes:
- --------
mr cwm                       (None Yet)          10 -> 13
Malenkai                     FUN                 52 -> 55

PRESENT Votes:
- -------------
breadbox                                         = 16

Abstentions:
- -----------
Robert Sevin                                     = -14
Calvin N Hobbes                                  = 1

Players On Vacation Who Didn't Vote:
- -----------------------------------
Bascule                                          = -14

Text of Passed Proposal:
- -----------------------

     {{All extant Bonus Votes are destroyed}}
     1. Bonus Votes are Protected.
     2. Bonus Votes are Tradeable
     3. A player can own at most five Bonus Votes at an given time. If
     a Player who already owns five Bonus Votes receives an additional
     Bonus Vote, by any means, the additional Bonus Vote is destroyed.
     4. Bonus Votes are used in the following manner - A Player sends a
     message to the Tabulator that e is using a Bonus Vote on a
     specific proposal, and the legal type of Vote that Bonus Vote
     represents. Players can only use Bonus Votes that they own. Bonus
     Votes can only be used once. Any Bonus Vote which does not meet
     these restrictions is not a valid vote, and is destroyed.
     5. A player can use at most one Bonus Vote per proposal. A Player
     can use at most one Bonus Vote on any string of three consecutive
     proposals. On any single proposal, at most four Bonus Votes are
     counted. If more than four Bonus Votes were sent to the Tabulator
     on a single proposal, only the last four valid Bonus Votes to have
     arrived before the end of the voting are counted, the rest are
     destroyed.
     6. Other rules may specify means by which Bonus Votes are acquired
     or destroyed, subject to the restrictions in this rule.
     7. This rule takes precedence over any rule that concerens
     tradeable entities that can be used as Votes.

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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:41:32 -0900 (AKST)
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: STOP !!

OOPS!!

I meant to get these all out before I went in Gaol... They have been
queued all day, but my phone was disconnected.  Hehehe, Oh well.  go
ahead... Throw me in a deeper darker cell :)

snowgod
Ackanomic's premeir GaolBird!

On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, Malenkai wrote:

> Acting Tabulator wrote:
> > 
> > Quorum achieved on P1381: 16 Eligible voters - 13 Players cast votes
> > 5 YES votes - 3 NO votes - 5 PRESENT votes - Proposal FAILS
> > P1381 was Modest.
> 
> You're in Gaol.
> 
> Malenkai
> pedantically enforcing the rules :)
> 

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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 10:56:03 +0200 (EET)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka: scoring the same points twice

It appears that these are two differnet proposals, yet I got the same ten
points for both :)
Niccolo Flychuck

On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, Acting Tabulator wrote:

> 
> Quorum achieved on P1385: 16 Eligible voters - 13 Players cast votes
> 10 YES votes - 0 NO votes - 4 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES
> 
> Proposal 1385 - Tue 29 Oct 10:15 CST 1996
> Swinger ex-parte
> Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck)
> 
> Niccolo Flychuck gains 10points:              62 -> 72

> 
> Quorum achieved on P1386: 16 Eligible voters - 13 Players cast votes
> 11 YES votes - 2 NO votes - 1 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES
> 
> Proposal 1386 - Tue 29 Oct 10:15 CST 1996
> Bonus Votes
> Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck)
> 
> Niccolo Flychuck gains 10 points:              62 -> 72

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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 00:15:45 -0900 (AKST)
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka: scoring the same points twice

On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Uri Bruck wrote:

> It appears that these are two differnet proposals, yet I got the same ten
> points for both :)
> Niccolo Flychuck
> 
> 
> On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, Acting Tabulator wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Quorum achieved on P1385: 16 Eligible voters - 13 Players cast votes
> > 10 YES votes - 0 NO votes - 4 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES
> > 
> > Proposal 1385 - Tue 29 Oct 10:15 CST 1996
> > Swinger ex-parte
> > Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck)
> > 
> > Niccolo Flychuck gains 10points:              62 -> 72
> 
> > 
> > Quorum achieved on P1386: 16 Eligible voters - 13 Players cast votes
> > 11 YES votes - 2 NO votes - 1 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES
> > 
> > Proposal 1386 - Tue 29 Oct 10:15 CST 1996
> > Bonus Votes
> > Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck)
> > 
> > Niccolo Flychuck gains 10 points:              62 -> 72
> > 

Uh Oh.

That really ought to say 72 -> 82 on P1386.  My bot has a bug that crashes
my computer when I try to run it (I think I'm making a lousy system call
somewhere) so I am still doing all of this by hand.  Perhaps I oughta
upgrade my brain to a more powerful chip.

snowgod
who can't play his turn in party chess do to persecution
Why's everybody always picking on me? :)

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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 00:17:52 -0900 (AKST)
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka: scoring the same points twice

> 
> Uh Oh.
> 
> That really ought to say 72 -> 82 on P1386.  My bot has a bug that crashes
> my computer when I try to run it (I think I'm making a lousy system call
> somewhere) so I am still doing all of this by hand.  Perhaps I oughta
> upgrade my brain to a more powerful chip.

Thank God we have a fine scorekkeper in /dev/joe who can fix all of my
mistakes :)  (Sorry /dev)
> 
> snowgod
> who can't play his turn in party chess do to persecution
> Why's everybody always picking on me? :)
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 00:21:33 -0900 (AKST)
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Tower

A question...

Was the Tower Of Bandwidth ever built?  It seems to me that the results of
the CFJ appeal should not matter, since I posted that the Tower had been
built after it was publicly knowable that the senate did in fact approve
the plan for the tower.

snowgod

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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 11:49:48 +0200 (EET)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka: G & C grahpics

Citizens of Ackanommic,hark!

As some ofyou may or may not have noticed, I do not draw.
If anyone would like to contibute small icons or images to the the G & C
home page, or perhaps to any other page I maintain, please do so.
Full credit will be given.

Niccolo Flychuck

verbalist

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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 01:49:16 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Tower

> Was the Tower Of Bandwidth ever built?  It seems to me that the
> results of the CFJ appeal should not matter, since I posted that the
> Tower had been built after it was publicly knowable that the senate
> did in fact approve the plan for the tower.

I think it's safe to say that the tower was built. The only question
was whether it was built according to the rules. Since the Supreme
Court obviously thinks it wasn't, someone could call a CFCJ on you. I
really hope no one here is that vindictive, seeing as how you built it
only after I publically stated that it was approved.

breadbox
doesn't understand the Supreme Court sometimes

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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 01:21:28 -0900 (AKST)
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Tower

On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Brian Raiter wrote:

> > Was the Tower Of Bandwidth ever built?  It seems to me that the
> > results of the CFJ appeal should not matter, since I posted that the
> > Tower had been built after it was publicly knowable that the senate
> > did in fact approve the plan for the tower.
> 
> I think it's safe to say that the tower was built. The only question
> was whether it was built according to the rules. Since the Supreme
> Court obviously thinks it wasn't, someone could call a CFCJ on you. I
> really hope no one here is that vindictive, seeing as how you built it
> only after I publically stated that it was approved.
> 
> breadbox
> doesn't understand the Supreme Court sometimes

They'll have to get inline behind whoever is going to CFCJ me for
distributing voting results while in Gaol :) 

However, I wouldn't have done that If I realized my Gaol term had started
before I sent the results.  Like I said, I queued them up earlier, but
couldn't get them out.

Perhaps I oughta just change my home to the gaol :)

snowgod
having dun despite himself

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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 12:36:37 +0200 (EET)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka: Proposal 1416

On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, Bollinger, John C. wrote:
> 
> It simplifies the language of the rules, a goal that I hope
> we, as Vulcan members, both support. 

I certainly do support it.

> Indeed, that is the
> function of a great deal of the Entities proposal, and a 
> great deal of simplification will be achieved if it passes.
> In conjuction with other parts of the proposal, the legal
> implications of this particular change are nil.

However, especially when concerned with such large proposals, it is often
to clarify some points in order to ascertain that the above desirable
effect is indeed the actual effect.
Having examined the proposal and its effects, I have satisfied myself that
the above analysis is correct and therefore I will add my vote of YES to
this proposal. This should add one (or even two ) votes for this.

Niccolo Flychuck

We have differences: May we, together, become greater than the sum of both
of us. -
         Surak

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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 07:47:08 -0600 (CST)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 1418

Proposal 1418 -- Thu 7 November 7:43 CST 1996
It's cosy in here
ThinMan (John Bollinger)

This is a modest proposal.

R 1312 shall be amended in the following ways:

The third sentence of the first paragraph shall be replaced with the
following text: "The owner, and only the owner, of a particular garment
may
don that garment if he is currently wearing no garment, or remove it if
he
is currently wearing it.  These actions, when legal, are accomplished by
publicly announcing them.  The owner of a particular garment is said to
be
wearing it only from such time as he dons it until such time as he
removes it
or no longer owns it; no player is said to be wearing any garment he
does not
own."

The second and third paragraphs of R 1312 shall be deleted.

{{[ The main thing that this revision would do is to clarify the current
    R 1312 language.  The reason I decided to write it in the first
place
    was that I saw: "Owners of Garments must publically announce that
they
    are wearing or unwearing a Garment, to change the state of the
Garment,"
    followed by "Garments are assumed to be unworn in the case of
    transferrence (with respect to both the old, and new owner)" in the
text.
    I very much dislike "assumption," and I think it unwise to put
    contradictory statements in any rule, R 210 protections
notwithstanding.
    I didn't think it worth the trouble to CFJ whether Malenkai and I
were
    both wearing the Purple Robe, but I am not convinced that the
current
    language of R 1312 is sufficient to say otherwise (hence the
proposal
    title).

    As long as I was working on the rule, it seemed to make sense to
    incorporate the second and third paragraphs into the first.

    This amendment will work fine whether or not P1416 is accepted.
]}}

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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 07:47:35 -0600 (CST)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 1419

Proposal 1419 -- Thu 7 November 7:43 CST 1996
Synod maintenance
Niccolo Flychuck

This is a Modest proposal.

In R1356 "Synod" section 8 second paragraph repalce the text:
"
(A$ currently owned by the Church minus (A$ owned by the Church after the
     previous profit distribution, or on the most recent date the Synod
was not in Session, which was more
     recent))
"

With the text:
(A$ currently owned by the Synod minus (A$ owned by the Synod after the
     previous profit distribution, or on the most recent date the Synod
was not in Session, whichever  was more
     recent))

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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 07:47:56 -0600 (CST)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 1420

Proposal 1420 -- Thu 7 November 7:44 CST 1996
This Rule Has An Inconspicous Title
snowgod (Phil Ackley)

Section A:

With the exception of Section A, the text of this rule shall may not be
posted, in full or in part, in any official Ackanomic document -- including
public messages and Ackanomic web pages.  In place of the text of this
rule, excluding section A, shall be placed the words "!!! CENSORED !!!".
Instead, the President must maintain a copy of the complete text of this
rule which he shall distribute to any PLAYER upon request.  It is a crime
to distribute the text of this rule to any person who is not a player of
Ackanomic.

Section B:

Ackanomic shall strive to achieve complete dominance of the extra-nomic
world through whatever means possible.  This includes control of business,
government, and private entities.  Once under the control of Ackanomic,
players must do whatever is in their power to mold the outside world to the
will of Ackanomic.  Unless described in other rules, the will of ackanomic
includes enforcing our rules and game custom in extra-nomic realms.

Any player who manages to become a national political leader in whatever
country their physical body resides, and speaks the words "For the power
and greater glory of the Gumball," in a televised adress to his nation
shall win the current cycle so long as this fact is provable.

Any player who manages to take control of Coca-Cola Company, and lower it's
market share by 25% (as revenge for unpaid debts) shall gain 25 points upon
the completion of this act.

Any Player who manages to convince NASA (or at least it's core group of
physicists) that the earth is flat shall be exhalted as a god and have a
tower standing 500 meters tall built in his honor.  This tower will be paid
for by the treasury.

Section C:

Though not required, it is considered good form for each player to
occasionally post a summary of his attempts to achieve world domination and
their progress.  However, these reports mustn't contain any specific
reference to this rule.

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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 07:48:23 -0600 (CST)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 1421

Proposal 1421 -- Thu 7 November 7:44 CST 1996 
Crash Patch, take II
Malenkai (Randy Hall)

{{[R 629, Constitutional Convention, always seemed useless to me
and needlessly long unless there was a crisis which prevented normal
rule changes (since the effect of a CC can be done with a multi-rule
change proposal without all the clutter of delagates and the 7/8
supermajority).  Rather than repeal it outright, I attempt to replace
it with something more straightforward.  If we think the game is
crash-proof, perhaps we should just repeal the thing.  Of course,
this doesn't make it crash-proof, obviously]}}

Amend R 629 so that its title is "Crisis Resolution" and so that its
text is:

{{all current States of Crisises cease to exist.  All State of Crisis
Resolution Documents are destroyed}}

1) The Speaker, and only the Speaker, may declare a State of Crisis at any
time via public announcement, provided the game is not in a State of
Crisis.  Upon such declaration being legally made, the game is said to
be in a State of Crisis until the State of Crisis is lifted as specified
by the rules.

2) When, and only when, the game is in a State of Crisis the following
officers have the following powers:

        a) The Speaker may declare the State of Crisis lifted.
        b) The President may publically issue a State of Crisis
Resolution Document detailing a list of changes to be made in the
ruleset.  These changes will be applied three days after the issuance
of that document, or at the end of a failed challenge (whichever is
later) unless it has been challenged and defeated.

3) Any player may publically challenge the State of Crisis Resolution
Document within three days of its issuance, provided that document has
not been previously challenged.  If such a challenge is lodged, a Hearing
is called.  The valid responses in this Hearing are "The President is
scamming us", and "This will patch the crisis".  If the verdict of the
Hearing shows that the President is scamming us, the document is
defeated, and an Impeachment Paper is immediately filed against the
President.  Otherwise, the challenge is said to have failed.

This rule takes precedence over any mutable rule with which it conflicts.

- ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Amend R 414 to remove the sections labelled "(a.5)" and "(a.6)".

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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 07:49:00 -0600 (CST)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 1422

Proposal 1422 -- Thu 7 November 7:45 CST 1996
He's Dead, Jim (Huh?)
snowgod (Phil Ackley)

This is a modest proposal

Amend R798 to Read in full:

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 the Official Dictionary, provided that
such dictionary exists and 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 who submitted the Proposal that created the Rule shall:

(1) win the current cycle of the game

(2) receive the honorific title "Sage o' Doe Gas" to hold until such time
as another Player receives points under this Rule.

{{[ The payoff for creating a palindromic rule does not provide sufficient
incentive for the work and research involved.  Instead, lets give anyone
creative enough to fulfill the conditions of this rule a win.  After all,
Palindrom wins will be few and far between]}}

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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 07:49:34 -0600 (CST)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 1423

Proposal 1423 -- Thu 7 November 7:45 CST 1996
Capital-Swinger price fixing
Niccolo Flychuck

This is a Modest proposal.
Ammend R726 in the following way:
Replace text:
"A$600 are transferred from that players account to the Treasury"

with the text:
"{{CSOP (Capital-Swinger Office Price) is set at 600)}}
CSOP A$ are trasferred from that player's account to the Treasury.
Every Tuesday, if a week or more has passed since an Office of Swinger has
been purchased, the CSOP is decreased by (8-NoS)*20. Whenever a new Office
of Capital-Swinger is created CSOP is  increased by NoS*20. The value of
CSOP can never drop below 200, or rise above 800. NoS is defined as the
number of Swingers."

Replace the text:
"A Capital-Swinger's Office is Tradable."
with the text:
"A Capital-Swinger's Office is Tradable and Ownable, this sentence takes
precedence over R609."

Append the text:
"In all matters concerning Party-Hall, whenever the duty of tracking
something is explicitly assigned, it becomes the duty of the Chess-Umpire.
{{[this makes some sense. The only function of Party-Hall is to serve as
the house of PartyChess, and the Chess-Umpire runs that, might as well do
the admin Party-Hall stuff as well. ]}}

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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 07:50:22 -0600 (CST)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 1424

Proposal 1424 -- Thu 7 November 7:46 CST 1996
Preemptive strike I
Guy Fawkes (Robert Shimmin)

This is a Modest proposal.

Insert the following sentence as the next-to-last sentence of the first 
paragraph of Rule 491.

If an amendment to a rule does not unambiguously describe the amendment 
to take place, it is not a valid rule change.

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Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 09:01:03 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFJ 319 (IdiotBoy)

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

Clerk of the Courts
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Call For Judgement 319
  Subject: Tower of Confusion
Initiator: Malenkai
    Judge: IdiotBoy (selected Nov 07, 1996, 09:00h EDT)
Judgement:

Statement:

snowgod's Tower of Bandwidth was built.

Malenkai's Reasoning:

As of the time CFJ 312's statement was filed, and hence the time the 
verdict retroactively applies to, the Tower of Bandwidth had not been
approved by the senate.  That does not necessarily mean that the Tower
was never approved.  In fact, a Senator did announce the Tower was
approved after CFJ 312 was filed.  The point of this rambling is that
it is possible for CFJ 312 to have been judged FALSE, and the Tower to
have been approved.

The preceeding two sentences, obviously, do not assure that the Tower
was actually approved.  There is still considerable doubt about this
in the public forum, and thus a CFJ is indicated, even if the verdict
is obvious.  The truth be known, I simply enjoy CFJs and reading people's
judgements of them.
  
If the Tower was ever approved, it was built by snowgod.  Otherwise, its
off to the Gaol again :)

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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 13:51:44 -0500 (EST)
From: mr cwm <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 1422

Um ... if we replace getting points with winning the cycle, shouldn't we
replace keeping the title "Sage o' Doe Gas" until someone else gets points
with keeping it until someone else gets a palindrome win?

- -mr cwm

On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Guy Fawkes wrote:

>
>Proposal 1422 -- Thu 7 November 7:45 CST 1996
>He's Dead, Jim (Huh?)
>snowgod (Phil Ackley)
>
>This is a modest proposal
>
>Amend R798 to Read in full:
>
>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 the Official Dictionary, provided that
>such dictionary exists and 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 who submitted the Proposal that created the Rule shall:
>
>(1) win the current cycle of the game
>
>(2) receive the honorific title "Sage o' Doe Gas" to hold until such time
>as another Player receives points under this Rule.
>
>{{[ The payoff for creating a palindromic rule does not provide sufficient
>incentive for the work and research involved.  Instead, lets give anyone
>creative enough to fulfill the conditions of this rule a win.  After all,
>Palindrom wins will be few and far between]}}
>
>
>
>
>

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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 13:42:40 -0600 (CST)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Re: Acka: P1385 Passes

While trying to apply Proposal 1385, I found:

>      renumber R985.1 2 D (vi) to R990 2 D (v)

Thanks to the update in R451, I believe the mistake in the rule number
here (990 instead of 985.1) is treated as if the correct number was here.
In any case, I don't think this is sufficient to make a new rule 990 with
the text of section 2 D (vi) of rule 985.1.

>      in R985.2,R985.2 change all refferences to R985.1 section 2 F, to
>      R985.1 section 2 E

I could not find any such references.

/dev/joe
Web-Harfer

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