Subject: Ackanomic Digest V1 #353
From: [email-masked] (Ackanomic Digest)
To: ackanomic-digest

Ackanomic Digest       Monday, November 18 1996       Volume 01 : Number 353

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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 09:08:41 +0200 (EET)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka : G & C web page

I put the game hisory of the current game of Ghost on the Games & Contest
web-page. It's just one file with all the mail that was as part of the
game. I'll get around o do some editing later.

Niccolo Flychuck
GamesMaster

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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 01:10:50 -0900 (AKST)
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: P1416 Passes

> 	Those of you interested in network programming shall learn 
> Python.

Amazing!

I think about learning python, and the next day you prophesize that it
shall be so.  Oh, lucky of luck days.  We are truly blessed.

snowgod
rambling

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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 01:12:43 -0900 (AKST)
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Worms

If any of you have ever considered purchasing a game known as "Worms" for
your computer -- STOP!  DON"T DO IT!  I've been sitting like a zombie in
front of my computer for the past 5 hours trying to blow up itty bitty
little worms before they blow me up.

I'm going to dream about worms throwing grenades tonight, i can tell.

snowgod

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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 01:54:40 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Acting Tabulator)
Subject: Acka: Internomic: Greetings & request for membership (FWD) 

Fellow Ackanomians,

The following has come across the internomic list, and I am forwarding it
to you.  Now more than ever I believe it is important to find a new and
better way to handle players entering and leaving internomic.  Is anyone
interested in devising a solution?

snowgod
ambassador

>Sender: [email-masked]
>Precedence: bulk
>Reply-To: [email-masked]
>Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 22:39:58 -0600 (CST)
>From: Hugh Harrison <[email-masked]>
>X-Sender: hharri01@orionc0
>To: Internomic <[email-masked]>
>cc: Binary SuperNomic List -- Don Beck <[email-masked]>,
>        Gary Durk <[email-masked]>,
>        Hugh Harrison <[email-masked]>,
>        Ron Doyle <[email-masked]>
>Subject: Greetings & request for membership
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>Status: RO
>X-Status:
>
>
>Greetings esteemed nomic players of Internomic,
>
>My name is Hugh Harrison.  I am currently a member in two relatively small
>nomic games: Pumpkin Patch Nomic; and Binary SuperNomic.  Pumpkin patch
>Nomic has six or seven players and several lurkers and, Binary SuperNomic
>has 4 players.
>
>At this time, Pumpkin Patch Nomic is considering requesting to join your
>nomic of nomics.
>
>Binary SuperNomic has elected myself as liaison to Internomic.  I have
>subscribed to the Internomic mail list and reviewed the ruleset.  Binary
>SuperNomic has now instructed me to ask Internomic to accept Binary
>SuperNomic as a voting member.
>
>Thank you for your consideration,
>Hugh Harrison
>

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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 04:58:47 -0600
From: [email-masked] (Mitchell Harding)
Subject: Acka: Help! 

I've been out of the loop too long. Who do I sent my votes and proposals to?
Thanks,

Robert Sevin
Wearing a Silly Vacation Hat

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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 02:05:00 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Acting Tabulator)
Subject: Re: Acka: Help! 

>I've been out of the loop too long. Who do I sent my votes and proposals to?
>Thanks,
>
>Robert Sevin
>Wearing a Silly Vacation Hat

Votes are sent to me, snowgod, the president and acting tabulator at
[email-masked]. Proposals are sent to Guy Fawkes, real honest to god
promoter, at [email-masked]  Votes on hearings, etc, are sent to
Count Tabula Malenkai at [email-masked] (that adress may be
nonfunctioning.  I believe malenkai has posted an alternate adress to the
list).

snowgod
helpful

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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 02:10:45 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Acting Tabulator)
Subject: Acka: Quorum, etc 

I am starting to believe that my ISPs mail server has recently been eating
messages.  I have seen a few messages quoted that I never saw originally,
etc... and i am afraid some votes were eaten to due to the remarkably low
turnout on some proposals.

In the event that any proposals that i am about to relase fail due to
quorum, I request that any player who feels they voted and it was not
recorded to call a CFJ on the matter.

snowgod
who is sure something isn't right

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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 03:24:05 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Acting Tabulator)
Subject: Acka: P1427 Passes 

Quorum achieved on P1426: 15 Eligible voters - 10 Players cast votes
9 YES votes - 0 NO votes - 3 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

Proposal 1427 - Fri 8 November 8:19 CST 1996
Really Synchronizing Whamming
/dev/joe (Joseph DeVincentis)

/dev/joe gains 5 points:

YES Votes:
- ---------

/dev/joe                     Vulcan
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
mr cwm                       (None Yet)

Mohammed
snowgod                      (None Yet)
ThinMan                      Vulcan
(None Yet) Unity Vote
Vulcan Unity Vote

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

PRESENT Votes:
- -------------
Malenkai                     FUN
habeous Corpus
breadbox

Abstentions:
- -----------
Robert Sevin
Calvin N Hobbes

Bascule
fnord
Brinjal

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

     This is a modest proposal.

     Create a new rule reading:
     {{ Change the second sentence of the Whamiol's Blueprint to read:
     "Whenever the time since the last new player became active is an
     even integral number of days greater than or equal to 30, the
     Whamiol becomes anxious and subtracts one point from its owner's
     score." }}

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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 03:24:00 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Acting Tabulator)
Subject: Acka: P1428 Passes 

Quorum achieved on P1428: 15 Eligible voters - 10 Players cast votes
8 YES votes - 2 NO votes - 1 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

Proposal 1428 - Fri 8 Novemer 8:19 CST 1996
Processing Chips
Habeous Corpus (Ed Graham)

Habeous gains 10 points:

YES Votes:
- ---------

Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
mr cwm                       (None Yet)

Mohammed
snowgod                      (None Yet)
ThinMan                      Vulcan
Malenkai                     FUN
habeous Corpus
(None Yet) Unity Vote

NO Votes:
- --------
/dev/joe                     Vulcan
breadbox

PRESENT Votes:
- -------------
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan

Abstentions:
- -----------
Robert Sevin
Calvin N Hobbes

Bascule
fnord
Brinjal

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

     {{All extant Processing Chips are destroyed}}

     Create a Rule entitled: Processing Chips, with text:

     The Acka-Entities known as Processing Chips Exist. They are
     Protected and non-Tradable. Processing Chips (PC's) may only be
     created, possessed or destroyed in accordance with Rules. A
     Processing Chip (PC) is an eight (8) pin dual-in-line package
     (DIP) with the first two pins bent up at 180 degrees. The back of
     the DIP is covered with scortching. It resembles a rather large,
     distinctly ugly bug.

     Whenever a Proposal is accepted, a PC is created and and presented
     to the author of the accepted Proposal, under the following
     conditions:
     1. If the Proposal was Modest, no PC is created.
     2. All other Proposals shall result in 1 PC created and presented
     to the author of the Proposal.
     3. If the Proposal is Grandiose, 1additional PC is created and
     presented to the author of the proposal.
     4. If the Proposal creates a new rule, 2 additional PC's are
     created and presented to the author of the Proposal.
     5. If the Proposal creates a new Acka-Entity, 1 additional PC is
     created and presented to the author of the Proposal.

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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 03:24:09 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Acting Tabulator)
Subject: Acka: P1426 Passes 

Quorum achieved on P1426: 15 Eligible voters - 10 Players cast votes
9 YES votes - 2 NO votes - 1 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

Proposal 1426 - Fri 8 November 8:19 CST 1996
He's Still Dead, Jim
snowgod (Phil Ackley)

snowgod actually gains 5 points:

YES Votes:
- ---------

/dev/joe                     Vulcan
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
mr cwm                       (None Yet)

Mohammed
snowgod                      (None Yet)
ThinMan                      Vulcan
(None Yet) Unity Vote
Vulcan Unity Vote

NO Votes:
- --------
habeous Corpus                                  +3

breadbox                                        +3

PRESENT Votes:
- -------------
Malenkai                     FUN

Abstentions:
- -----------
Robert Sevin
Calvin N Hobbes

Bascule
fnord
Brinjal

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

     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 wins a cycle of the game 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: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 03:24:14 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Acting Tabulator)
Subject: Acka: P1425 Passes 

Quorum achieved on P1424: 15 Eligible voters - 11 Players cast votes
11 YES votes - 1 NO votes - 0 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

Proposal 1425 - Fri 8 November 8:18 CST
Jun-ken-pow
Guy Fawkes (Robert Shimmin)

Guy Fawkes gains 10 points:

YES Votes:
- ---------

/dev/joe                     Vulcan
habeous Corpus
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
mr cwm                       (None Yet)
Malenkai                     FUN
Brinjal
Mohammed
snowgod                      (None Yet)
breadbox
(None Yet) Unity Vote

NO Votes:
- --------
ThinMan                      Vulcan                          +3

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

Abstentions:
- -----------
Robert Sevin
Calvin N Hobbes

Bascule
fnord

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

     Amend Rule 1276 as follows:

     1) Reletter section G as section H.

     2) Insert the following text after section F:

     G) If and when there are exactly two players left on the GAL, the
     permissible moves become (a) rock, (b) scissors, (c) paper. Any
     player not making such a move in this case is removed from the GAL
     at the end of the round. If at the end of a round, any of the
     following are true:
     Player A chose rock while Player B chose scissors
     Player A chose scissors while Player B chose paper
     Player A chose paper while Player B chose rock
     Player A is said to have successfully grabbed Player B's donkey,
     and Player B loses his donkey and is removed from the GAL.

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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 03:24:18 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Acting Tabulator)
Subject: Acka: P1424 Passes 

Quorum achieved on P1424: 15 Eligible voters - 11 Players cast votes
11 YES votes - 1 NO votes - 1 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

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

Guy Fawkes gains 5 points:

YES Votes:
- ---------

Vulcan Unity Vote
/dev/joe                     Vulcan
ThinMan                      Vulcan
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
mr cwm                       (None Yet)
Malenkai                     FUN
Brinjal
Mohammed
snowgod                      (None Yet)
(None Yet) Unity Vote

NO Votes:
- --------
Habeous Corpus                                    +3

PRESENT Votes:
- -------------
breadbox

Abstentions:
- -----------
Robert Sevin
Calvin N Hobbes

Bascule
fnord

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

     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: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 03:24:22 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Acting Tabulator)
Subject: Acka: P1423 Fails 

Quorum achieved on P1423: 15 Eligible voters - 11 Players cast votes
5 YES votes - 4 NO votes - 3 PRESENT votes - Proposal FAILS

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

Niccolo Flychuck loses 7 points:

YES Votes:
- ---------

Vulcan Unity Vote
/dev/joe                     Vulcan
ThinMan                      Vulcan
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)

NO Votes:
- --------
mr cwm                       (None Yet)              +3
Habeous Corpus                                       +3
Malenkai                     FUN                     +3
Brinjal                                              +3

PRESENT Votes:
- -------------
breadbox
Mohammed
snowgod                      (None Yet)

Abstentions:
- -----------
Robert Sevin
Calvin N Hobbes

Bascule
fnord

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

NONE

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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 03:24:26 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Acting Tabulator)
Subject: Acka: P1421 Passes 

Quorum achieved on P1421: 15 Eligible voters - 11 Players cast votes
9 YES votes - 2 NO votes - 1 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

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

Malenkai gains 10 points:

YES Votes:
- ---------
Brinjal
Mohammed
Habeous Corpus
mr cwm                       (None Yet)
Vulcan Unity Vote
/dev/joe                     Vulcan
ThinMan                      Vulcan
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
Malenkai                     FUN

NO Votes:
- --------
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)               +3
snowgod                      (None Yet)               +3

PRESENT Votes:
- -------------
breadbox

Abstentions:
- -----------
Robert Sevin
Calvin N Hobbes

Bascule
fnord

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

     {{[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: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 03:24:34 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Acting Tabulator)
Subject: Acka: P1419 Passes 

Quorum achieved on P1419: 15 Eligible voters - 11 Players cast votes
8 YES votes - 1 NO votes - 3 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

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

Niccolo Flychuck gains 5 points:

YES Votes:
- ---------
Brinjal
/dev/joe                     Vulcan
ThinMan                      Vulcan
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
Vulcan Unity Vote
Mohammed
Habeous Corpus

NO Votes:
- --------
mr cwm                       (None Yet)             +3

PRESENT Votes:
- -------------
snowgod                      (None Yet)
breadbox
Malenkai                     FUN

Abstentions:
- -----------
Robert Sevin
Calvin N Hobbes

Bascule
fnord

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

     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: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 03:24:39 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Acting Tabulator)
Subject: Acka: P1418 Passes 

Quorum achieved on P1418: 15 Eligible voters - 11 Players cast votes
13 YES votes - 0 NO votes - 0 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

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

ThinMan gains 5 points:

YES Votes:
- ---------
Brinjal
/dev/joe                     Vulcan
ThinMan                      Vulcan
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
Vulcan Unity Vote
Mohammed
Malenkai                     FUN
Habeous Corpus
mr cwm                       (None Yet)
snowgod                      (None Yet)
breadbox
(None Yet) Unity Vote

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

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

Abstentions:
- -----------
Robert Sevin
Calvin N Hobbes

Bascule
fnord

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

     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: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 03:24:30 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Acting Tabulator)
Subject: Acka: P1420 Fails :( 

snowgod -10, Tammany Bribe

Quorum achieved on P1420: 15 Eligible voters - 11 Players cast votes
6 YES votes - 5 NO votes - 1 PRESENT votes - Proposal FAILS

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

snowgod loses 7 points:

YES Votes:
- ---------
Brinjal
Mohammed
Habeous Corpus
mr cwm                       (None Yet)
snowgod                      (None Yet)
Tammany

NO Votes:
- --------
/dev/joe                     Vulcan                +3
ThinMan                      Vulcan                +3
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)            +3
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan                +3
breadbox                                           +3

PRESENT Votes:
- -------------
Malenkai                     FUN

Abstentions:
- -----------
Robert Sevin
Calvin N Hobbes

Bascule
fnord

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

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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 10:27:20 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Help!

Acting Tabulator wrote:

> Votes on hearings, etc, are sent to
> Count Tabula Malenkai at [email-masked] (that adress may be
> nonfunctioning.  I believe malenkai has posted an alternate adress to the
> list).

[email-masked] functioning again.  They claim they were "tweaking and
configuring" their mail server, and that I should experience no more
problems.  Of course, they've been saying that for 3 months, and I
will experience more problems.

Just out of curiousity, did any of my mail actually bounce?

Malenkai

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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 12:27:19 -0600 (CST)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Ghost (Guy Fawkes)

Let's start anew with "n"

Guy Fawkes

On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote:

> Guy Fawkes
> ThinMan
> snowgod
> 
> There is no ghost word, and it is Guy Fawkes's turn.

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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 12:27:46 -0600 (CST)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 1448

Proposal 1448 -- Sun 17 Nov 12:21 CST 1996
Crazy French-Scotsmen
Robert Sevin (Mitchell Harding)

     Any new player of Ackanomic (defined, for these purposes, as a player
who has been a player of Ackanomic for less than 31 days) that is playing
Ackanomic for the first time (i.e. they have only joined the game of
Ackanomic once) may publicly complain when they lose any points or currency.
When they exercise this option, the penalty will immediately be
counteracted. In order for this complaint to have the effects described in
this rule, it must express the sentiment "I didn't understand the rules! You
keep changing the rules! You never told me about that rule!". It need not
(and in fact is encouraged not to) use those exact phrases, but it must
adequately express those sentiments.
     If the penalty involved a loss of points, the penalized player's score
(after having the penalty revoked) will be raised to the first prime number
higher than their current score. If the penalty involved a loss of currency,
the player with the most currency (in case of a tie, the player with the
most currency whose Ackanomic name occurs first alphabetically) must give
the new player currency, the amount of which must be positive and non-zero.
The player cannot be selected to give themselves currency. In this case,
whichever player (other than the penalized player) with the most vowels in
their name will give the penalized player a positive non-zero amount of
currency.
     This public complaining may only be exercised 3 times by any player. If
a player manages to legitimately exercise this ability 3 times within a 48
hour period, they will be dubbed a Crazy Scotsman. If the player manages to
legitimately exercise this ability 3 times within a 24 hour period, they
will instead by dubbed a Crazy French-Scotsman.

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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 12:28:10 -0600 (CST)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 1449

Proposal 1449 -- Sun 17 Nov 12:21 CST 1996
mr cwm's apple
snowgod (Phil Ackley)

mr cwm's apple exists.  It is unique but not tradeable. The owner of mr
cwm's apple may cast two votes in any hearing concerning the validity of a
translation in the Codex of Kra.  This rule takes precedence over any
mutable rule which would deny the apple's owner the right to cast two votes
in a hearing.

{{mr cwm's apple is given to mr cwm in recognition of his accomplishments
in the feild of ackaphysics, most notably the realization that gravity is a
myth, Newton a fraud, and that the universal force is actually pressure}}

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

Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 12:28:35 -0600 (CST)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 1450

Proposal 1450 -- Sun 17 Nov 12:22 CST 1996
Amend R 1428 and remove Resolutions
Malenkai (Randy Hall)

This is a Modest proposal.

Amend R 1428 to read:

     The Entities known as Processing Chips Exist.  A Processing 
     Chip (PC) is an eight (8) pin dual-in-line package (DIP) with
     the first two pins bent up at 180 degrees. The back of the DIP
     is covered with scortching. It resembles a rather large, distinctly
     ugly bug.

     When a non-Null, non-Modest Proposal is accepted, a Processing
     Chip is created and given to the author of that Proposal.  
     Additionally, for each condition the proposal met on the following
     bonus schedule, the quantity of addituional PCs listed for that
     condition is created and given to the author.

     1. If the Proposal was Grandiose: 1 additional PC.

     2. If the Proposal created one or more new non-Self Deleting Rules:
        2 additional PC's.

     3. If the Proposal created one or more rules which creates or defines
        a new Entity or class of Entity (other than a new instance of a
        rule, preexisting nameless entity, or class of nameless entity
        [e.g. creating more Ackadollars doesn't count]): 1 additional PC.

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

Create a new rule entitled "Here's hoping P 1435 passed so conditional
rule changes are no longer a hassle" with the following text:

{{
	If Proposal 1436 [sic] was not accepted, remove all occurrances
of the string "non-Null, " from R 1428.
}}

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

Amend R 414, "The Office of the Tabulator" to remove all occurrances
of the string " and Resolutions".
 
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Amend R 870, "Self Deleting Text", in the following ways:

1) Append the following sentence to the end of the first paragraph:

"Such rules, and only such rules, are called "Self Deleting Rules""

2) Delete the third paragraph.

3) Delete the last sentence that appears in square brackets.

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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 12:49:54 -0600 (CST)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Acka: Ghost (ThinMan)

Guy Fawkes played at Nov 17, 13:27 EST

The current ghost word is:   n

It is ThinMan's turn.

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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 16:55:05 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 1448

Guy Fawkes wrote:
> 
> Proposal 1448 -- Sun 17 Nov 12:21 CST 1996
> Crazy French-Scotsmen
> Robert Sevin (Mitchell Harding)

I am declaring this proposal Harfy.

Malenkai
Harfmeister
wondering if the Wrangler has ridden off into the sunset with our donkeys :)

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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 17:30:19 EST 
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: Trades

On  Sat, 16 Nov 1996,  /dev/joe wrote:

>I offer my recently acquired Scroll of Crumble (which I got from winning
>the Machine game) to Habeous Corpus in exchange for 50 pfHabeous.

>/dev/joe

I hereby ack the transaction

Habeous Corpus

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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 17:30:19 EST 
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka:  Re: unimportant

On Sat, 16 Nov 1996,  Mohammed wrote:

>Lemme tell ya something:  I love C++ to death, but it's no walk in the
park.

>- --Mohammed (wasting bandwidth) (using an inferior STL implementation)

>stuff

I hereby nominate Mohammed for the longest ever sig file in Acka.  Eir
reward should be to scribe the entire length of snowgo's tower with the
words: "I will not waste bandwidth" as many times as it takes to cover
the tower.  While e's at it,  try to read what future Proposals of mine
will pass.

HC

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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 16:36:57 -0600 (CST)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Grab-a-Donkey II; round 2

Round two of Grab-a-Donkey is beginning!

The results of the holiday-extended round 1:

/dev/joe and Mohammed grabbed fnord's donkey and bounced.
Malenkai and snowgod grabbed Brinjal's doneky and bounced.
mr cwm and Bascule grabbed Calvin N Hobbes' donkey and bounced.
Habeous Corpus successfully grabbed /dev/donkey.
fnord grabbed breadbox, who covered.
ThinMan and Robert Sevin covered.
Niccolo Flychuck, Calvin N Hobbes & Brinjal admired.

Current GAL:

Habeous Corpus (+1)
Mohammed
Malenkai
snowgod
mr cwm
Bascule
Brinjal
Niccolo Flychuck
Calvin N Hobbes
Robert Sevin
ThinMan
fnord
breadbox

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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 23:02:58 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Frobnotzer reminder

The Frobnotzer was completed sunday nite (the time during the holiday
did not count towards the blueprint's 7 day existance requirement).

It can be auctioned once the Inventor executes R 786, step d.

Malenkai
keeping track of things

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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 23:30:44 -0600 (CST)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Frobnotzer reminder

> The Frobnotzer was completed sunday nite (the time during the holiday
> did not count towards the blueprint's 7 day existance requirement).
	Right.  The Pyraic Frobnotzer is finished and shiny.  I hereby 
call an Auction for the new Gadget; since today (the 17th) is an 
odd-numbered day, the Auctioneer will be Count Tabula (Malenkai).

- --Mohammed

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Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 00:51:10 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Frobnotzer reminder

Jason Orendorff wrote:
> 
> > The Frobnotzer was completed sunday nite (the time during the holiday
> > did not count towards the blueprint's 7 day existance requirement).
>         Right.  The Pyraic Frobnotzer is finished and shiny.  I hereby
> call an Auction for the new Gadget; since today (the 17th) is an
> odd-numbered day, the Auctioneer will be Count Tabula (Malenkai).
> 
> --Mohammed

Actually, today, is the 18th, (due to the time zone rule), and 
Mohammed is the Auctioneer.

The auctioneer doesn't do much in a public auction anymore, except
not bid and collect a commission.  There is a proposal in the
queue to fix that, which may pass in time to fix it for the end of
this auction.

All bids should be public, Mohammed should start the auction.

Malenkai

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