Subject: Ackanomic Digest V1 #371
From: [email-masked] (Ackanomic Digest)
To: ackanomic-digest

Ackanomic Digest       Sunday, December 1 1996       Volume 01 : Number 371

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 02:07:44 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Acting Tabulator)
Subject: Acka: P1451 Fails 

Mohammed -15, Tammany bribe

Quorum achieved: 14 Eligible voters - 12 Players cast votes
6 YES votes - 6 NO votes - 1 PRESENT votes - Proposal FAILS

Proposal 1451 - Tue 19 Nov 17:33 CST 1996
King For a Day
Robert Sevin (Mitchell Harding)

Robert Sevin loses 7 points:

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

Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)   +3

Malenkai                     FUN          +3
Calvin N Hobbes              FUN          +3
Robert Sevin                              +3
Habeous Corpus                            +3
snowgod                      (None Yet)   +3

NO Votes:
- --------
mr cwm                       (None Yet)
breadbox
Mohammed
/dev/joe                     Vulcan
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
Tammany

PRESENT Votes:
- -------------
ThinMan                      Vulcan

Abstentions:
- -----------

Bascule
fnord

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

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 13:08:00 +0200 (EET)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka: Registrar

We have a new observer in Ackanomic

His name is Alex Frenkel  
his e-mail is [email-masked]

we welcome him to Ackanomic

Niccolo Flychuck
Registrar

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 02:07:47 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Acting Tabulator)
Subject: Acka: P1452 Passes 

Quorum achieved: 14 Eligible voters - 12 Players cast votes
12 YES votes - 1 NO votes - 1 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

Proposal 1452 - Tue 19 Nov 17:33 CST 1996
Simplified Succession
Malenkai (Randy Hall)

Malenkai gains 5 points:

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

Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)

Malenkai                     FUN
Robert Sevin
snowgod                      (None Yet)
mr cwm                       (None Yet)
breadbox
Mohammed
/dev/joe                     Vulcan
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
ThinMan                      Vulcan
Vulcan Unity Vote
(None Yet) Unity Vote

NO Votes:
- --------
Calvin N Hobbes              FUN

PRESENT Votes:
- -------------
Habeous Corpus

Abstentions:
- -----------

Bascule
fnord

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

     This is a Modest proposal.

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

     Amend R 362, "No Dead Players Allowed" to append the following
     paragraph at the end of the current rule:

     "
     If the player in question was the Speaker himself, the Speaker has
     2 days to respond to the original message in the public forum, or
     be placed on vacation with an expected duration of 2 days.
     "

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

     Amend R 457 to remove the following paragraph:

     "
     Succession Proceedings may not be called against a player on
     vacation.
     "

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

     Amend R 615, "Speaker", as follows:

     1) Amend the first sentence so that it reads:

     "
     This rule takes precedence over all mutable rules.
     "

     2) renumber current section "(viii)" to section "(vii)".

     3) add the following text to the end of the rule:

     "
     (viii) If it it ever the case that no active Player is Speaker or
     Acting Speaker, and the application of other rules and/or the
     preceeding clauses of this rule do not correct that situation, the
     following succession procedure is used to appoint an Acting
     Speaker:

     a) All offices are listed in the order of the rule number which
     creates or defines the office (in the case of a rule defining
     multiple offices, the offices are listed in the order in which
     they appear in the rule).

     b) All offices not held by an active player are then removed from
     the list.

     c) The player holding the office at the top of the list becomes
     the Acting Speaker. If, however, that office has more than one
     seat, the active player whose Ackanomic name appears first in an
     alphabetic listing of active seatholders of that office becomes
     the Acting Speaker. [The Acting Speaker then has the duty assure
     that all offices are filled, including Speaker, as the case may
     be, in accordance with the rules.]
     "

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

     Repeal Rule 779, "Succession Proceedings"

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 02:07:51 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Acting Tabulator)
Subject: Acka: P1453 Fails 

snowgod -5, tammany bribe

Quorum achieved: 14 Eligible voters - 12 Players cast votes
8 YES votes - 5 NO votes - 0 PRESENT votes - Proposal FAILS

Proposal 1453 - Tue 19 Nov 17:34 CST 1996
Don't Say the C-Word
Robert Sevin (Mitchell Harding)

Robert Sevin loses 7 points:

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

Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)    +3

Malenkai                     FUN           +3
Robert Sevin                               +3
snowgod                      (None Yet)    +3
breadbox                                   +3
Mohammed                                   +3
Habeous Corpus                             +3
tammany

NO Votes:
- --------
ThinMan                      Vulcan
mr cwm                       (None Yet)
/dev/joe                     Vulcan
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
Calvin N Hobbes              FUN

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

Abstentions:
- -----------

Bascule
fnord

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

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 02:07:53 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Acting Tabulator)
Subject: Acka: P1454 Fails 

Mohammed -15, Tammany Bribe
snowgod -5, Tammany Bribe

Quorum achieved: 14 Eligible voters - 13 Players cast votes
5 YES votes - 9 NO votes - 0 PRESENT votes - Proposal FAILS

Proposal 1454 - Tue 19 Nov 17:34 CST 1996
Mars Needs Women!
Robert Sevin (Mitchell Harding)

Robert Sevin loses 7 points:

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

fnord                                     +3
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)   +3

Malenkai                     FUN          +3
Robert Sevin                              +3
snowgod                      (None Yet)   +3

NO Votes:
- --------
ThinMan                      Vulcan
mr cwm                       (None Yet)
/dev/joe                     Vulcan
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
Calvin N Hobbes              FUN
breadbox
Mohammed
Habeous Corpus
Tammany

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

Abstentions:
- -----------

Bascule

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

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 02:07:56 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Acting Tabulator)
Subject: Acka: P1455 Fails 

snowgod -5, tammany bribe

Quorum achieved: 14 Eligible voters - 12 Players cast votes
5 YES votes - 7 NO votes - 1 PRESENT votes - Proposal FAILS

Proposal 1455 - Tue 19 Nov 17:35 CST 1996
Division by Zero
Robert Sevin (Mitchell Harding)

Robert Sevin loses 7 points:

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

mr cwm                       (None Yet)    +3
Malenkai                     FUN           +3
Robert Sevin                               +3
snowgod                      (None Yet)    +3
tammany

NO Votes:
- --------
/dev/joe                     Vulcan
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
Calvin N Hobbes              FUN
breadbox
Mohammed
Habeous Corpus
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)

PRESENT Votes:
- -------------
ThinMan                      Vulcan

Abstentions:
- -----------

Bascule
fnord

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

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 02:07:58 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Acting Tabulator)
Subject: Acka: P1456 Fails 

snowgod -5, tammany bribe

Quorum achieved: 14 Eligible voters - 12 Players cast votes
5 YES votes - 7 NO votes - 1 PRESENT votes - Proposal FAILS

Proposal 1456 - Tue 19 Nov 17:35 CST 1996
Magic, Mathematics, and Mayhem
Robert Sevin (Mitchell Harding)

Robert Sevin loses 7 points:

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

Calvin N Hobbes              FUN          +3
Habeous Corpus                            +3
Robert Sevin                              +3
snowgod                      (None Yet)   +3
tammany

NO Votes:
- --------
/dev/joe                     Vulcan
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
ThinMan                      Vulcan
Mohammed
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
mr cwm                       (None Yet)
Malenkai                     FUN

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

Abstentions:
- -----------

Bascule
fnord

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

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 02:08:00 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Acting Tabulator)
Subject: Acka: P1457 Passes (Congratulations Robert Sevin) 

Quorum achieved: 14 Eligible voters - 12 Players cast votes
8 YES votes - 2 NO votes - 2 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

Proposal 1457 - Wed 20 Nov 19:36 CST 1996
Unanimity Is Lovely (although not so lovely as it used to be)
Robert Sevin (Mitchell Harding)

Robert Sevin gains 10 points:

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

Calvin N Hobbes              FUN
Robert Sevin
snowgod                      (None Yet)
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
ThinMan                      Vulcan
Mohammed
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
Malenkai                     FUN

NO Votes:
- --------
/dev/joe                     Vulcan         +3
mr cwm                       (None Yet)     +3

PRESENT Votes:
- -------------
breadbox
Habeous Corpus

Abstentions:
- -----------

Bascule
fnord

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

     When a proposal passes, and had no votes other than YES votes
     cast, the President shall publicly congratulate the author by
     giving a formal speech. Also in celebration of this joyous
     occasion, the player with the lowest score shall have their score
     increased by 2 points. If more than one player is tied for lowest
     score, all of their scores change to 2. If this would cause a
     player to lose points, that player will instead have their score
     increased by 3 points.

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 02:08:06 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Acting Tabulator)
Subject: Acka: P1459 Fails 

snowgod -5, tammany

Quorum achieved: 14 Eligible voters - 11 Players cast votes
6 YES votes - 6 NO votes - 0 PRESENT votes - Proposal FAILS

Proposal 1459 - Wed 20 Nov 19:36 CST 1996
Ackademy Awards Ceremony
Robert Sevin (Mitchell Harding)

Robert Sevin loses 7 points:

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

Calvin N Hobbes              FUN           +3
Robert Sevin                               +3
snowgod                      (None Yet)    +3
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)    +3
Malenkai                     FUN           +3
Tammany

NO Votes:
- --------
Mohammed
mr cwm                       (None Yet)
breadbox
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
ThinMan                      Vulcan
/dev/joe                     Vulcan

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

Abstentions:
- -----------

Bascule
fnord
Habeous Corpus

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

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 02:08:03 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Acting Tabulator)
Subject: Acka: P1458 Passes 

snowgod -5, tammany

Quorum achieved: 14 Eligible voters - 11 Players cast votes
7 YES votes - 4 NO votes - 0 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

Proposal 1458 - Wed 20 Nov 19:36 CST 1996
Undead (aka I didn't come back as a bag of groceries)
Robert Sevin (Mitchell Harding)

Robert Sevin gains 10 points:

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

Calvin N Hobbes              FUN
Robert Sevin
snowgod                      (None Yet)
ThinMan                      Vulcan
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
Malenkai                     FUN
/dev/joe                     Vulcan
Tammany

NO Votes:
- --------
Mohammed                                   +3
mr cwm                       (None Yet)    +3
breadbox                                   +3
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan        +3

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

Abstentions:
- -----------

Bascule
fnord
Habeous Corpus

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

     Any player publicly that kisses an undead cannot cast votes for 4
     days following the kiss. The kiss will cause a scandal and an
     article about it must be published in at least one newspaper
     within the next 10 days (i.e. the newspaper, with the article,
     must be sent out within 10 days of the kiss) or all players who
     own newspapers lose 3 points.

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 02:08:08 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Acting Tabulator)
Subject: Acka: P1461 Fails  

snowgod -5, tammany

Quorum achieved: 14 Eligible voters - 11 Players cast votes
6 YES votes - 6 NO votes - 1 PRESENT votes - Proposal FAILS

Proposal 1461 - Wed 20 Nov 19:37 CST 1996
Presidential Debate
Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck)

Niccolo Flychuck loses 7 points:

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

Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan        +3
Robert Sevin                               +3
snowgod                      (None Yet)    +3
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)    +3
Malenkai                     FUN           +3
Tammany

NO Votes:
- --------
Mohammed
mr cwm                       (None Yet)
ThinMan                      Vulcan
/dev/joe                     Vulcan
Habeous Corpus
Calvin N Hobbes              FUN

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

Abstentions:
- -----------

Bascule
fnord

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

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 02:11:47 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Acting Tabulator)
Subject: Acka: Voting Results 

All of te voting results throught the beginning of the holiday have been
distributed.  Roberts Sevin's proposals provided a nice change from the
usual fare of modest proposals and rule fixes.  And though they provided me
with a nominal bit more work to do, I really enjoyed it.  In any event,
theyese are some of the most varied and interesting voting resutls released
in quite a while.... A couple of them I was sorry to see go down, but hey,
such is life.

Oh yeah, I mustn't forget to give a warm welcome to our newest observer.
With any luck he shall soon be p[laying with us.

snowgod
president
acting tabulator

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 02:42:25 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Acting Tabulator)
Subject: Acka: Cow Towen Hotel 

Brinjals death leaves the fate of the Cow town hotel uncertain.  I suppose
it is currently haunted by his undead.... what happens if someone wants to
go down to cow town?  A possible paradox?  does the money tranfer to his
undead?

I shouldn't be worrying about this at 2:39 in the morning.

snowgod

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 96 14:41:36 EST 
From: [email-masked] ()
Subject: Acka: TMBG?

Did anyone else get this message?

It gave me a good laugh.

Wayne

>From [email-masked] Fri Nov 29 16:03:16 1996
Posted-Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 22:02:42 +0100 (MET)
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 22:01:46 +0100
From: Kees Molenaar <[email-masked]>
Organization: Delta Lloyd
To: [email-masked]
Subject: great
Status: RO

Hey Wayne.

Nice to meet you. I wanna thank you for all the dazzling music
you make. But can you tell me if you fella's are preparing
a new CD yet ??

Rob Molenaar  The Netherlands
[email-masked]

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 15:22:45 -0600 (CST)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Acka: Ghost

> So ... since that last game was rather brief, would /dev/joe be
> willing to referee a new game of ghost? (Starting after the official
> holiday, of course.)
> 
> b

Maybe -- I need to sift through my holiday e-mail first.

Guy Fawkes won the first game of Ghost when 3 days passed and ThinMan
failed to post a word containing "amnem".  I note that there was exactly
one word in the official dictionary containing the word "amnem", and it
was "amnemonic".

I get A$8 for refereeing the game, and Guy Fawkes gets 5 points for
winning it.

I also note breadbox's (originally) private e-mail to me (shortly before
having resigned from the game, after having looked in the official dictionary
during play), which points out the inadequacy of the current official
dictionary.  Here is the complete list of words in the official dictionary
containing "mnem":

amnemonic
antimnemonic
gymnemic
hieromnemon
hypomnematic
mneme
mnemic
mnemiopsis
mnemonical
mnemonicalist
mnemonically
mnemonicon
mnemonics
mnemonism
mnemonist
mnemonization
mnemonize
mnemosyne
mnemotechnic
mnemotechnical
mnemotechnics
mnemotechnist
mnemotechny

Note that amnemonic, antimnemonic, mnemonical, mnemonics, mnemonist, etc.
are listed, but not amnemonic.  Particularly for longer words, this
dictionary seems to make the same error somewhat often -- the base form is
missing but derived forms are listed.

I would like to choose a new official dictionary before another game of
ghost begins.  I am somewhat tempted to choose the official Scrabble
tournament word list, which consists of the Official Scrabble Players'
Dictionary plus longer words from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate, 10th ed.,
but I'm not sure it meets the accessibility requirement.  You can check
words online at the scrabble server, by telnetting to eel.st.usm.edu,
port 7777, and entering "ospd word-you-want-to-look-up" (you can do more
there, including playing scrabble online, but you need to contact the
game organizer to get a password -- you can look words up without a
password, though). There is some way to access it from the web, which I
haven't tried.

/dev/joe

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 12:43:27 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Acting Tabulator)
Subject: Re: Acka: TMBG? 

>Did anyone else get this message?
>
>It gave me a good laugh.
>
>Wayne
>

[snip]

How funny.

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 17:41:36 -0600 (CST)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: back

I have returned from my unnofficial vacation.
Just when does this holiday end?

Guy Fawkes

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 18:10:47 -0600 (CST)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Auction

I bid A$250 for the Wizard seat.

- --Mohammed

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 18:26:10 -0600 (CST)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Prayer for Deliverance

I like my house where it is found--
The antistratospheric ground;
And so before the rains come hither.
I send this prayer to all thee thither.
A priest there was, his name was Hobbes
Who wasted time with real-life jobs
He did not pray; his house you see
Now swings pendulumescently.

All priests be warned; all must take ample
Heed from this quite grim example.
So please now pray, a wee few hours
Remain until the winter showers.
Though Holiday spirits stall our game
Priests must kneel and pray the same
Lest Acka suffer Calvin's fate
At close of this month's primal date.

But as for Calvin, it is time
We end his punishment divine.
So buy your wings and do not tarry;
Aid him, eleemonsynary.
Riki-tiki-tavi, fie-foe-fum;
(That tongues requirement is quite dumb)
And having fulfilled it, I plead again
Then end this prayer and say, "Amen."

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 19:00:06 -0600 (CST)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Brinjal's Hall nomination

I support Brinjal for Elder.

Guy Fawkes

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 19:20:16 -0600 (CST)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Grab-a-Donkey II; round 5

Round five of Grab-a-Donkey II, Revenge of the Mules, is beginning!

The Holiday-delayed results of round 4:
If any confusion about exactly when the Holdiay began remains, I know for 
a fact that at least six days have passed since round 4 began, and round 
three MUST be over (three days standard round plus a three day Holiday).

ThinMan and Mohammed grabbed snowgod's donkey and bounced.
snowgod and mr cwm grabbed ThinMan's donkey and bounced.
breadbox grabbed Bascule, who covered.
Habeous Corpus and fnord admired.

Current GAL (unchanged):

Habeous Corpus (+3)
Mohammed
snowgod
mr cwm
Bascule (+1)
ThinMan (+1)
fnord
breadbox

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 19:22:37 -0600 (CST)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Pyraic Auction

I bid 45 A$ for the Pyraic Frobnotzer.

Guy Fawkes

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 19:39:42 -0600 (CST)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal!  Mass Mail This Pronto!

[Synopsis:  this changes the requirement for winning by points. 
Currently, the Rules require an exact hit-- you must get exactly Magic
Number points.  If this passes, overshooting the Magic Number will be 
considered a win.]

1.  Rule 422 is amended by changing its title to "Points" and changing
- ---
     Immediately upon a single player reaching the Magic Number of points
     exactly, that player will be declared the Winner of the Cycle, and
     all rules pertaining to what happens when someone wins the cycle,
     including, but not limited to, Rule 666, shall apply.
- ---
to
- ---
     Being the only Player with at least the Magic Number of points is
     a Winning Condition. [See Rule 666 for the effects of winning a
     cycle.]
- ---
and by removing
- ---
     If the score of any player becomes greater than the Magic Number,
     then the Magic Number is increased by 16, or to 11 points above the
     highest player score, whichever is greater.
- ---

2.  Rule 666 ("End of Cycle") is amended by changing
- ---
     Upon a Cycle winning condition being achieved, the following steps
     occur, in order:
- ---
to
- ---
     Whenever a Player achieves a Winning Condition, the following
     steps occur, in order:
- ---
and by changing
- ---
      * c) The winner is given the title of winner of the cycle, and a
        Right-Handed Grapefruit and a Champion's Cloak are created in that
        player's possession. If this results in his having two Champion's
        Cloaks, one of them is instantly transformed into a Badge of
        Glory.
- ---
to
- ---
      * c) The Player who achieved the Winning Condition is given the
	title of winner of the cycle, Right-Handed Grapefruit and a
	Champion's Cloak are created in that Player's possession. If
	this results in his having two Champion's Cloaks, one of them
	is instantly transformed into a Badge of Glory.
- ---

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 19:42:39 -0600 (CST)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  private mail gone public.

	Argh!  I have never done this.  I am very, very sorry.  *sigh*
	I'm not sure whether a snafu like this meets the requirements for 
submitting a proposal.  Probably it does... the proposal appears as I 
wanted it, so whatever Guy Fawkes decides is fine with me.

- --Mohammed

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Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 01:54:37 +0000
From: Matt <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Grab-a-Donkey II; round 5

> Round five of Grab-a-Donkey II, Revenge of the Mules, is beginning!

I grab breadbox's donkey

Bascule

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Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 01:56:39 +0000
From: Matt <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: G&C RFC "Ye Olde Rusty Lantern"

> I'd like to play an unofficial game of this, to see whether it works, 
> before submitting it as a G&C proposal.

Count me in!

Bascule

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Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 01:58:43 +0000
From: Matt <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Grab-a-Donkey II; round 5

> > Round five of Grab-a-Donkey II, Revenge of the Mules, is beginning!
> 
> I grab breadbox's donkey
> 
> Bascule
> 

DOH! It looks as though snowgod's disease is sweeping through
ackanomic. If only there was a cure!

Bascule

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 20:13:43 -0600 (CST)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  RFC Pinkerton, take 2

This still isn't a proposal.  Changes:  the syntax changed, thanks to
breadbox's comments (was it breadbox?) (I like this syntax better, now); 
Malenkai is now maintained as the author of the rule being changed; The
machine-that-goes-*ping* rule is no longer amended, in response to
/dev/joe's request.  This RFC is shorter than the previous one. 

The big question now is, do we really want funny-looking structures in the
rule set?  (They aren't *that* funny-looking... are they?)

[Those interested:  I'll propose a separate amendment adding something
like, "Rule text may specify that one event 'triggers' a change or series
of changes. This sort of statement is also a trigger.  It is a permanent
trigger (Pinkerton will not automatically remove it) that goes off
whenever it becomes publicly knowable that the triggering event has
occurred, and Pinkerton is watching." ?  That would introduce a
plain-English alternative to the Whenever syntax.  What do you think?]

RFC 822
Pinkerton
Mohammed <[email-masked]>

1.  Rule 870 ("Self Deleting Text") is amended to read, in full:
"[This rule is being amended.]"

[Braces will work exactly as before, and this proposal adds some new uses 
for 'em.  It also ensures that multiple events in self-deleting text go 
off in order, not at once!  Some extra stuff was necessary to keep 
triggers from setting themselves off recursively; that's where Pinkerton 
came from.]

2.  Rule 870 ("Self Deleting Text") is amended by changing its title to
"Triggers".

3.  Rule 870 ("Triggers") is amended to read:
- ---
[Synopsis:  Triggers come in three forms:

        {{ _changes }}
        {{ upon _event : _changes }}
        {{ whenever _event : _changes }}

Triggers of the first type are applied once, when they are added to the 
rule set, and are then deleted.  "Upon" triggers are applied when the 
_event occurs and then deleted.  "Whenever" triggers act the same, except 
they are not deleted.]

Pinkerton is a unique, unownable entity that never sleeps.  Pinkerton is
always either watching or working.

The symbol {{ at the start of a paragraph begins a trigger, unless
it appears within a larger trigger or a note.  The trigger ends with the 
next }} that occurs at the end of a paragraph and isn't inside a note.

A fuse is a snip of text that consists of the word "upon" or "whenever",
followed by a phrase describing a time or event, and ended with a colon.
[e.g. "whenever a Player joins the game:" or "upon the beginning of the
first Cycle:"]  Fuses may not span paragraph breaks.  When it becomes
publicly knowable that the event or time specified by a fuse happened or
passed, the fuse lights-- just for a moment.

A trigger that begins with the {{ symbol, followed by a fuse, goes off
when the fuse lights and Pinkerton is watching.  Any other trigger goes
off as soon as it appears in a Rule and Pinkerton is watching.  When a
trigger goes off, Pinkerton adds it to the end of his list of triggered
triggers.  If more than one trigger goes off at once, Pinkerton adds them
to the end of his list in the order in which they appear in a numerical
listing of the Rules.

Any time there is at least one trigger on Pinkerton's list, and Pinkerton
is watching, he immediately stops watching and starts working.  Then:

He applies whatever changes are described in the text of the first 
trigger on his list (after the fuse, if it begins with one), in the order 
in which they appear and as fast as possible, acting with the authority 
of the Rule containing the trigger.  If other Rules would prevent 
Pinkerton from applying a certain change, he skips it.  When he finishes, 
the trigger might have to be deleted.  If the trigger began with the {{ 
symbol, followed by a "whenever" fuse, Pinkerton leaves it alone 
[it's a permanent trigger].  If the trigger has been deleted or modified 
since Pinkerton added it to his list, he leaves it alone.  Otherwise, he 
erases it from the Rule in which it appeared, and if this leaves the Rule
empty, he repeals the Rule as well.  Once that is settled, he scratches 
the first trigger (and any others that don't exist anymore) off his 
list.  If the list is now empty, he's done.  Otherwise, he repeats the 
process described in this paragraph.
 
When Pinkerton is done, he stops working and starts watching again.
 
{{
This rule is renumbered to 251.  [Pinkerton needs authority.]
Rule 545 ("Notes and Comments") is renumbered to 250.
The Title of Rule 250 is changed to "Notes" [which is what I intended].
}}
- ---

- --Mohammed

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 20:32:34 -0600 (CST)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 1492

Proposal 1492 -- Sun 1 Dec 20:28 CST 1996
I'd like to buy a vowel, please
Malenkai (Randy Hall)

This is a Modest proposal.

Amend R 1240 to replace all occurrances of:
 
"The player whose post was considered then forfeits 10 A$ to the Treasury." 

with:

"
The player whose post was considered then forfeits the Magic Letter 
Premium to the Treasury.  The Magic Letter Premium is based on the
type of letter chosen, from the following schedule: Common vowels ('a',
'e', 'i', 'o') cost A$25, Common consonants ('d', 'l', 'n', 'r', 's', 't')
cost A$15, all other letters cost A$5.
"

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 20:32:56 -0600 (CST)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 1493

Proposal 1493 -- Sun 1 Dec 20:28 CST 1996
Fixing one loophole introduced by the Entity rewrite
Malenkai (Randy Hall)

This is a Modest Proposal.

Amend R 1243, "Chartreuse Goose", to insert ", non-mimsy" after the
first occurrance of "nontradeable"

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 20:33:19 -0600 (CST)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 1494

Proposal 1494 -- Sun 1 Dec 20:28 CST 1996
Amending R1109
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)

Add to the end of R1109:

If a Modest proposal is voted down, then the author loses only half the
normal points. If a Grandiose proposal is voted down, the author loses all
normal points and then 6 more.

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 20:33:43 -0600 (CST)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 1496

Proposal 1496 -- Sun 1 Dec 20:28 CST 1996
Barracks As Temporary Lodgings
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)

A small, puny building is created (1 kaa), called the Barracks. It is used
to provided a home for players that do not possess any land or home. It can
house up to 6 players at any one time. The living conditions there are poor
but the building is built to bomb shelter, atomic shelter and seismic
shelter standards and can act as such.

No player owning land may live in the Barracks. Senators may use their
office in the Senate as their home and so do not qualify to live in the
barracks. The President and Speaker may also use the Senate in the same way.
The Historian may use the library in the same way.

If there is not enough space in the barracks, then a player with nowhere to
establish residence is said to be Homeless.

- ------------------------
Proposal
Title: Undead Space Reclamation
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)

Any player may become an Undeadbuster by publicly declaring this desire.

An Undeadbuster may go into a haunted home and exorcise it by posting a
message to that effect, preferably in the form of a poem. This removes the
undead from the premises, forcing it to leave for the Ackanomic Afterlife
where it will then stay.

The home where the undead was located then loses its name and is returned to
the common plots of lands to be used as free land. Until an undead is
removed from a haunted home that plot of land may not be used.

An Undeadbuster may only exorcise one haunted home per month. They can never
exorcise the home of a player that had joined the game before they did,
unless they have now been in the game for twice as long as the player had
been in Acka.

For each exorcism, the Treasury will pay A$321 to the Undeadbuster.

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 20:33:59 -0600 (CST)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 1497

Proposal 1497 -- Sun 1 Dec 20:29 CST 1996
Undead Space Reclamation
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)

Any player may become an Undeadbuster by publicly declaring this desire.

An Undeadbuster may go into a haunted home and exorcise it by posting a
message to that effect, preferably in the form of a poem. This removes the
undead from the premises, forcing it to leave for the Ackanomic Afterlife
where it will then stay.

The home where the undead was located then loses its name and is returned to
the common plots of lands to be used as free land. Until an undead is
removed from a haunted home that plot of land may not be used.

An Undeadbuster may only exorcise one haunted home per month. They can never
exorcise the home of a player that had joined the game before they did,
unless they have now been in the game for twice as long as the player had
been in Acka.

For each exorcism, the Treasury will pay A$321 to the Undeadbuster.

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 20:34:24 -0600 (CST)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 1495

Proposal 1495 -- Sun Dec 1 CST 20:29 CST 1996
Heretics! Heretics Everywhere!
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)

This is a Modest proposal.

All heretics may be burned at the stake. This burning is considered a public
event. Other rules may define other ways of becoming a Heretic. Four basic
ways are listed here.

(1) Any player that has A$ 1666 more than the poorest player will be
considered a Heretic until such time as by charitable contributions (money
transfers) to any player or to the treasury, the player no longer has A$1666
more than the poorest player.

(2) If a player uses the words "can", "fly" and "cows" in any order, in a
single message, then that player is considered a Heretic for three days.

(3) Every month, on the first of the month exactly, the leader of the
largest church (oldest if tie) shall publicly decide on an official ink
color for proposals. All proposals for that month will then have to have a
self deleting line that says:

"This proposal was written in <color> ink."

Where <color> is the color they wish to use. If it is not the legal color,
or no color is used, then the player is considered a heretic for the
following three days. If there is no church on the first of the month, or
self-deleting text is not allowed, or the church leader does not pick a
color, then proposals do not require a designated ink color.

(4) Every Monday, the Clerk of the Court may publicly decide on a flavor.
Every CFJ submitted on the next day must include a sentence that says:

"This is a <flavor> CFJ"

Where <flavor> is the flavor they wish to use. If it is not the legal
flavor, or no flavor is used, then the player is considered a Heretic for
the following three days. If there is no Clerk of the court, or no flavor is
picked, then CFJs do not require a flavor. This line must be removed (and is
allowed to be removed) by the judge ruling on the CFJ.

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 20:34:40 -0600 (CST)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 1498

Proposal 1498 -- Sun 1 Dec 20:30 CST 1996
Saving the President's Breath (aka Unanimity is Both Lovely and Special)
Guy Fawkes (Robert Shimmin)

This is a Modest Proposal

Replace the first instance of "When a proposal passes" in Rule 1457 with 
"When a non-modest proposal passes".

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 20:35:00 -0600 (CST)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 1499

Proposal 1499 -- Sun 1 Dec 20:30 CST 1996
Otzma Card Type Tactical Retreat
Guy Fawkes (Robert Shimmin)

Create a new rule, a member of the Otzma Cards Rule Suite; its title is 
"Otzma Card Type Tactical Retreat"; its text is as follows:

1.  This rule defines an Otzma Card type called "Tactical Retreat"
2.  Once an Otzma card of type "Tactical Retreat" is played, Swingers 
have another type of Party Chess move available.  They may, in their turn 
(but not on a special D-turn or special DD-turn) remove any single 
friendly Party Chess piece from the Party Board and add it to their 
collection of off-board pieces.  Swingers may exercise this option using 
the syntax for a Move, with the phrase "off-board" replacing the 
destination square.  This option will remain available until it is either 
exercised or the Tactical Retreat card which made it available is countered.
3. Counter-action:  When a Tactical Retreat card is Countered, the Party 
Chess option made available by the Tactical Retreat Card is no longer 
available.  If the option was not available when the Countering took 
place, the Counter-action has no further effect.
4. There may be at most 10 Otzma Cards of type "Tactical Retreat" 

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 20:35:18 -0600 (CST)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 1500

Proposal 1500 -- Sun 1 Dec 20:30 CST 1996
The No-Longer-Quite-So-Magic Number
Mohammed (Jason Orendorff)

[Synopsis:  this changes the requirement for winning by points. 
Currently, the Rules require an exact hit-- you must get exactly Magic
Number points.  If this passes, overshooting the Magic Number will be 
considered a win.]

1.  Rule 422 is amended by changing its title to "Points" and changing
- ---
     Immediately upon a single player reaching the Magic Number of points
     exactly, that player will be declared the Winner of the Cycle, and
     all rules pertaining to what happens when someone wins the cycle,
     including, but not limited to, Rule 666, shall apply.
- ---
to
- ---
     Being the only Player with at least the Magic Number of points is
     a Winning Condition. [See Rule 666 for the effects of winning a
     cycle.]
- ---
and by removing
- ---
     If the score of any player becomes greater than the Magic Number,
     then the Magic Number is increased by 16, or to 11 points above the
     highest player score, whichever is greater.
- ---

2.  Rule 666 ("End of Cycle") is amended by changing
- ---
     Upon a Cycle winning condition being achieved, the following steps
     occur, in order:
- ---
to
- ---
     Whenever a Player achieves a Winning Condition, the following
     steps occur, in order:
- ---
and by changing
- ---
      * c) The winner is given the title of winner of the cycle, and a
        Right-Handed Grapefruit and a Champion's Cloak are created in that
        player's possession. If this results in his having two Champion's
        Cloaks, one of them is instantly transformed into a Badge of
        Glory.
- ---
to
- ---
      * c) The Player who achieved the Winning Condition is given the
	title of winner of the cycle, Right-Handed Grapefruit and a
	Champion's Cloak are created in that Player's possession. If
	this results in his having two Champion's Cloaks, one of them
	is instantly transformed into a Badge of Glory.
- ---

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