Subject: Ackanomic Digest V1 #394
From: [email-masked] (Ackanomic Digest)
To: ackanomic-digest

Ackanomic Digest     Wednesday, December 11 1996     Volume 01 : Number 394

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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 01:06:04 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Presidential

Its time for Acka's 5th presidential election.  The results of the
previous 4 were:

Robert Sevin 9, Mohammed 3
/dev/joe 5, this is not a name 4
snowgod 7, Niccolo Flychuck 4, /dev/joe 2
snowgod 7, Niccolo Flychuck 5, Uncle Sam 2

If you would like to volunteer for this office, e-mail me.  The
nomination lasts for 3 days.

I was asked to moderate a debate last time.  I will do so this time
if anyone wants me to.

Malenkai
speaker

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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 21:34:32 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Phil Ackley)
Subject: Re: Acka: To the housing commission... 

>I'm sending this notice to indicate that I'm changing the name of my house from
>"23 Skidoo's House" to "Zone 23".  Also, Mr. Map-Harfer, I'd like it to be
>linked to http://www.clark.net/pub/rarnold/firesign/tft_sounds.html/linetap.wav
>if it's not too much trouble.
>

I think you mean http://www.clark.net/pub/rarnold/firesign/linetap.wav :)

snowgod
helpful, as always

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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 21:47:19 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Phil Ackley)
Subject: Acka: Presidents, etc... 

Come on, come on, let's get this show on the road!

Anyone wanna own up to running for president?  Get a little bit of
campaigning going before the real thing starts in a few days?  Is anyone
besides Niccolo running for president (and I don't mean that in a negative
way towards Niccolo)?

So who's it gonna be?

snowgod

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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 23:17:09 -0800 
From: David Thomas Fisher <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: To the housing commission... 

>>I'm sending this notice to indicate that I'm changing the name of my house fr
om
>>"23 Skidoo's House" to "Zone 23".  Also, Mr. Map-Harfer, I'd like it to be
>>linked to http://www.clark.net/pub/rarnold/firesign/tft_sounds.html/linetap.w
av
>>if it's not too much trouble.
>>
>
>I think you mean http://www.clark.net/pub/rarnold/firesign/linetap.wav :)
>
>snowgod
>helpful, as always

Uh, yeah.  I'm acking this. if I'm got the lingo right.  The reference I
mentioned, as the ever-helpful mr. god pointed out, is meaningless, and the
correction he provided is correct.  Thank you, snowgod. :)

23 Skidoo
- --
David Fisher ([email-masked])
"Seduced, shaggy Samson snored./ She scissored short.  Sorely shorn,/ Soon
shackled slave, Samson sighed,/ Silently scheming/ Sightlessly seeking/ Some
savage, spectacular suicide."  - Stanislaw Lem, "The Cyberiad"

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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 01:57:46 -0600 (CST)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Acka: Time Zones and Portraits

For all those new players who don't know, and for all those old players
who haven't done so:

1. Please send me your approximate location and time zone, and whether
or not Daylight Savings Time is used where you live (nobody is in DST now,
but this will matter in April or so), so I check to see if your mailer
is configured correctly, and so I can put the information on the time
zones page.  This message is sent to the acka-priv address so you should
be able to reply to it and have the reply go only to me.

2. Visit the Gallery, and if you don't have a portrait there, submit one.

/dev/joe

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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 02:05:46 -0600
From: Mitchell Harding <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Presidents, etc... 

>Anyone wanna own up to running for president?  Get a little bit of
>campaigning going before the real thing starts in a few days?  Is anyone
>besides Niccolo running for president (and I don't mean that in a negative
>way towards Niccolo)?
>
>So who's it gonna be?
>
>snowgod

I wish to take this time to announce my candidacy for President of
Ackanomic. I was the first President of Ackanomic, and I am player who has
been in the game for the longest period of time. I imagine I also am in the
top 3 for longest time spent on vacation. Additionally I am a former
Speaker, Web-Harfer, and just about any other office you can name... I think
these credentials make me the logical choice for President.

And hey, if I'm elected President, I promise to be involved in more duels
than any previous President has been.

Robert Sevin, who may or may not be...
Wearing a Silly Vacation Hat

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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 23:57:17 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Phil Ackley)
Subject: Acka: P1499 Passes 

Quorum achieved: 15 Eligible voters - 13 Players cast votes
9 YES votes - 3 NO votes - 2 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

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

Niccolo Flychuck gains 10 points:

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

Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
snowgod                      (None Yet)
Mohammed
ThinMan                      Vulcan
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan

breadbox
/dev/joe                     Vulcan
Vulcan Unity Vote
Habeous Corpus

NO Votes:
- --------

Malenkai                     FUN                 +3
Calvin N Hobbes              FUN                 +3
mr cwm                       (None Yet)          +3

PRESENT Votes:
- -------------
Airhead
Robert Sevin

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

Bascule
fnord

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
Jammer
Clairence
Swann

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

     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: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 23:57:21 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Phil Ackley)
Subject: Acka: P1500 Fails 

Quorum achieved: 15 Eligible voters - 13 Players cast votes
5 YES votes - 6 NO votes - 2 PRESENT votes - Proposal FAILS

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

Mohammed loses 7 points:

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

Mohammed                                        +3
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan             +3

/dev/joe                     Vulcan             +3
Habeous Corpus                                  +3
Malenkai                     FUN                +3

NO Votes:
- --------

ThinMan                      Vulcan
Calvin N Hobbes              FUN
mr cwm                       (None Yet)
breadbox
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
snowgod                      (None Yet)

PRESENT Votes:
- -------------
Airhead
Robert Sevin

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

Bascule
fnord

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
Jammer
Clairence
Swann

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

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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 23:57:24 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Phil Ackley)
Subject: Acka: P1501 Fails 

Quorum achieved: 15 Eligible voters - 13 Players cast votes
5 YES votes - 6 NO votes - 2 PRESENT votes - Proposal FAILS

Proposal 1501 - Sun 1 Dec 20:31 CST 1996
Vault Divination II
Guy Fawkes (Robert Shimmin)

Guy Fawkes loses 7 points:

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

Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)         +3
ThinMan                      Vulcan             +3

/dev/joe                     Vulcan             +3
snowgod                      (None Yet)         +3
Malenkai                     FUN                +3

NO Votes:
- --------

Calvin N Hobbes              FUN
mr cwm                       (None Yet)
breadbox
Habeous Corpus
Mohammed
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan

PRESENT Votes:
- -------------
Airhead
Robert Sevin

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

Bascule
fnord

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
Jammer
Clairence
Swann

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

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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 23:57:27 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Phil Ackley)
Subject: Acka: P1502 Passes 

Quorum achieved: 15 Eligible voters - 13 Players cast votes
11 YES votes - 3 NO votes - 0 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

Proposal 1502 - Sun 1 Dec 20:34 CST 1996
Experts
Robert Sevin (Mitchell Harding)

Robert Sevin gains 10 points:

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

Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
ThinMan                      Vulcan

/dev/joe                     Vulcan
snowgod                      (None Yet)
Malenkai                     FUN
Calvin N Hobbes              FUN
Habeous Corpus
Mohammed
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
Vulcan Unity Vote
Robert Sevin

NO Votes:
- --------

Airhead                                          +3
mr cwm                       (None Yet)          +3
breadbox                                         +3

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

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

Bascule
fnord

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
Jammer
Clairence
Swann

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

     Any player may become an Expert on any area or areas of the
     Ackanomic rule set. An Expert in a given area must be
     knowledgeable about the area, particularly including knowledge of
     relevant rules and CFJs. In order for a player to become an Expert
     in a given area they must publicly state their desire to become an
     Expert, and they must declare the area (or areas, if they wish to
     become an Expert in more than one area simultaneously) in which
     they wish to be considered an Expert. The Senate has 2 weeks to
     discuss the matter. They must vote to grant the player the title
     of Expert in each requested area. If half (or more) of the Senate
     votes to grant the player the title of Expert in a given area, the
     player becomes an Expert in that area. By the end of the 2 week
     period the Senate must publicly announce the results of their
     voting, and declare what area(s) (if any) the player is an Expert
     in. If the Senate does not declare a player an Expert in a
     requested area, they have the option of posting the reasoning for
     their decision. There is no limit to the number of areas a player
     may be an Expert in, and there is no limit to the number of
     players that may be an Expert in a given area.

     When deciding whether or not a player is an Expert in a given
     area, the Senate must consider the following criteria:

     1. The player must be well versed in all rules and CFJs relevant
     to the area.
     2. The player must be keeping up to date with any relevant new
     proposals.
     3. The player must be honest, and willing to interpret the rules
     when a conflict arises that is relevant to their area of
     Expertness. They must do so without bias.
     4. The area must be well-defined and specific.
     5. The area must not be too broad (ie "the rules" is too broad,
     but "Acka economy" isn't)
     6. The area must not be so simple that everyone understands it
     well.

     An Expert may publicly resign as an Expert in any given area (or
     areas). This causes them to no longer be an Expert in that area
     (or areas). The Senate may, at any time, vote to cause a player to
     no longer be an Expert in any given area (or areas). The Senate
     must publicly announce their intention to do so, and then publicly
     announce the results of their vote. If 75% or more of the Senate
     votes to revoke the player's title of Expert in a given area (or
     areas), the player loses that title (or titles). The Senate must
     publicly give their reasoning for this decision.

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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 23:57:32 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Phil Ackley)
Subject: Acka: P1503 Passes 

Quorum achieved: 17 Eligible voters - 15 Players cast votes
16 YES votes - 1 NO votes - 1 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

Proposal 1503 - Tue 3 Dec 9:43 CST 1996
Killing 13 Blanket Precedence Clauses
Mohammed (Jason Orendorff)

Robert Sevin gains 10 points:

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

Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
ThinMan                      Vulcan

/dev/joe                     Vulcan
snowgod                      (None Yet)
Malenkai                     FUN
Calvin N Hobbes              FUN
Habeous Corpus
Mohammed
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
Vulcan Unity Vote
Robert Sevin
Airhead
mr cwm                       (None Yet)
breadbox
Swann
(None Yet) Unity Vote

NO Votes:
- --------

Techno

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

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

Bascule
fnord

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
Jammer
Clairence

Text of Passed Proposal:
- -----------------------
     This is a Modest Proposal.

     [Synopsis: one way to make the rule set less confusing is to
     remove the unnecessary uses of blanket precedence clauses (i.e.
     all of them.) This proposal does not remove -all- blanket
     precedence clauses from the rule set (there are literally dozens!)
     But it's a soft & easy start.]

     1. Rule 414 ("The Office of the Tabulator") shall be amended by
     changing:
     --
     (a) appoint someone to the Functional Office of Count Tabula
     (created by this rule). This is the only way the office can be
     filled. This clause takes precedence over any mutable rule which
     would define other ways to fill the office.
     ---
     to
     ---
     (a) appoint someone to the Functional Office of Count Tabula
     (created by this rule). This is the only way the office can be
     filled.
     ---

     2. Rule 504 ("The President of Ackanomia") is amended by changing:
     ---
     (iii) Whenever this Office is filled in an acting capacity, the
     Acting President may exercise Privilege "a" as listed in section
     (ii) of this Rule. This takes precedence over any Rule that would
     prevent this action.
     ---
     to
     ---
     (iii) Whenever this Office is filled in an acting capacity, the
     Acting President may exercise Privilege "a" as listed in section
     (ii) of this Rule.
     ---
     [That privilege, btw, is the power to appoint volunteers to
     Functional Offices.]

     3. Rule 549 ("The Blue Cross") is amended by removing the
     sentence:
     ---
     No player may ever have more than one Blue Cross Bonus; this takes
     precedence over any other mutable rule which would give a player
     more than one Blue Cross Bonus.
     ---
     from section 2. [The part that remains is sufficient to enforce
     this.]

     4. Rule 554 ("Tammany") is amended by replacing:
     ---
     (ii) Tammany may cast one vote on every Proposal. This takes
     precedence over any Rule that would deny Tammany the right to
     vote.
     ---
     with:
     ---
     (ii) Tammany may cast one vote on every Proposal.
     ---

     5. Rule 570 ("Player Names") is amended by changing:
     ---
     It is a duty of the Registrar to make sure the player's chosen
     name complies with this Rule, and the Registrar has the final
     right to approve or deny the chosen name. This clause takes
     precedence over any mutable rule which would deny the Registrar
     these duties.
     ---
     to:
     ---
     It is a duty of the Registrar to make sure the player's chosen
     name complies with this Rule, and the Registrar has the final
     right to approve or deny the chosen name.
     ---

     6. Rule 593 ("Ackanomic Research Guild") is amended by deleting
     the sentence "This takes precedence over Rule 613."

     [ Current text:
     III. When a Scientist is removed from their office by impeachment,
     he loses 20 points. If a Scientist resigns from their offcie while
     an Impeachment Paper is pending against him, he loses 5 points. An
     Impeachment Paper against a Scientist requires no quorum and a
     simple majority of votes in favor to be accepted. This takes
     precedence over Rule 613.
     ]

     7. Rule 609 ("Offices, Commonalities") is amended by changing:
     ---
     Officers have 3 days to complete the tasks and duties they are
     responsible for, not counting any time the officer is on vacation
     or in Gaol, unless other rules unambigiously specify a different
     finite amount of time for these things. This section takes
     precedence over any other mutable rule which specifies an
     unlimited amount of time, does not specify an amount of time, or
     is unclear in its time specifications with regards to the amount
     of time officers have to complete tasks and duties.
     ---
     to:
     ---
     Officers have 3 days to complete the tasks and duties they are
     responsible for, not counting any time the officer is on vacation
     or in Gaol, unless other rules unambigiously specify a different
     finite amount of time for these things.
     ---

     8. Rule 613 ("Offices, Impeachment") is amended by removing:
     ---
     This Rule takes precedence over all mutable rules.
     ---

     9. Rule 615 ("Speaker") is amended by changing:
     ---
     This rule takes precedence over all mutable rules, except that it
     defers to R 779.
     ---
     to
     ---
     This Rule defers to Rule 779 ("Succession Proceedings").
     ---

     10. Rule 665 ("Treasury and Hard Money") is amended by removing:
     ---
     This Rule claims precedence over any Rule that would create or
     destroy A$.
     ---
     [from the section marked "Hard Currency:"] and by changing:
     ---
     A player may donate any Tradeable, non-mimsy entity they own to
     the Treasury by publically announcing they are doing so. If the
     item is a Trinket, it is converted into its value in A$ upon
     transferrence to the Treasury.
     ---
     to:
     ---
     A player may donate any gift or tradeable 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.
     ---
     [...a minor bug fix while I'm in here...]

     11. Rule 710 ("Criminal Justice") is amended by changing:
     ---
     7a) Upon a verdict of TRUE, the judge may retain or alter the
     recommended penalty. The result will become the actual penalty.
     This will be imposed following a 3 day "grace period". This takes
     precedence over all other mutable rules which establish or
     dis-establish a grace period.
     ---
     to:
     ---
     7a) Upon a verdict of TRUE, the judge may retain or alter the
     recommended penalty. The result will become the actual penalty.
     This will be imposed following a 3 day "grace period".
     ---

     12. Rule 712 ("Gaoler") is amended by removing:
     ---
     This clause takes precedence over any other mutable rule
     regulating A$ transfers.
     ---
     [The rule is talking about bribing the Gaoler.]

     13. Rule 721 ("Organizations") is amended by changing:
     ---
     4.
     No Player may be forced to become a member of an Organization
     against their will. This section takes precedence over any other
     rule pertaining to membership in Organizations.
     ---
     to:
     ---
     4. No Player may be forced to become a member of an Organization
     against their will.
     ---

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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 23:57:36 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Phil Ackley)
Subject: Acka: P1504 Passes 

Quorum achieved: 17 Eligible voters - 15 Players cast votes
17 YES votes - 0 NO votes - 1 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

Proposal 1504 - Tue 3 Dec 9:43 CST 1996
Casting Bonus Votes is a Voting Action, and Be Consistent
/dev/joe (Joseph DeVincentis)

Robert Sevin gains 10 points:

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

Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
ThinMan                      Vulcan

/dev/joe                     Vulcan
snowgod                      (None Yet)
Malenkai                     FUN
Calvin N Hobbes              FUN
Habeous Corpus
Mohammed
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
Vulcan Unity Vote
Robert Sevin
Airhead
mr cwm                       (None Yet)
breadbox
Swann
Techno

NO Votes:
- --------

NONE

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

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

Bascule
fnord

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
Jammer
Clairence

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

     This is a modest proposal.

     Amend Rule 793, "Proposal Bribery", by adding the following after
     item C in section II: "D. Using a Bonus Vote by rule 1386."

     Amend Rule 1269 by changing "Bonus-Vote" to "Bonus Vote". [section
     4b]

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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 23:59:23 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Phil Ackley)
Subject: Re: Acka: Time Zones and Portraits 

>2. Visit the Gallery, and if you don't have a portrait there, submit one.
>
>/dev/joe

And if you don't have a a picture scanned, or artistic talent copntact
snowgod's portrait service!  Need references?  Ask Malenkai!

snowgod
portraiteer

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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 00:05:57 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Phil Ackley)
Subject: Acka: P1506 Passes 

Quorum achieved: 17 Eligible voters - 15 Players cast votes
10 YES votes - 3 NO votes - 3 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

Proposal 1506 - Tue 3 Dec 9:44 CST 1996
Simpler Swinger Pricing Schemes
Niccolo Flychuck

Robert Sevin gains 5 points:

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

Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
ThinMan                      Vulcan

/dev/joe                     Vulcan
Calvin N Hobbes              FUN
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
Vulcan Unity Vote
Robert Sevin
Airhead

Swann
Techno

NO Votes:
- --------

Mohammed
mr cwm                       (None Yet)
Malenkai                     FUN

PRESENT Votes:
- -------------
snowgod                      (None Yet)
breadbox
Habeous Corpus

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

Bascule
fnord

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
Jammer
Clairence

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

     This is a Modest Proposal.

     In R726 replace the text "A$600 are transferred" with the text "An
     amount of A$ equal to (100 + (Number of Swinger multiplied by 50))
     is transferred"

     {{[Yes, it does make sense. The less seats there, the higher the
     price, but it doesn't keep changing like my previous proposal. The
     maximum price is lower than the current price.]}}

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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 00:06:00 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Phil Ackley)
Subject: Re: Acka: P1504 Passes 

>>Proposal 1504 - Tue 3 Dec 9:43 CST 1996
>>Casting Bonus Votes is a Voting Action, and Be Consistent
>>/dev/joe (Joseph DeVincentis)
>>
>>Robert Sevin gains 10 points:

make that /dev/joe gains 5 points.

sorry,
snowgod

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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 00:06:02 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Phil Ackley)
Subject: Re: Acka: P1503 Passes 

>Proposal 1503 - Tue 3 Dec 9:43 CST 1996
>Killing 13 Blanket Precedence Clauses
>Mohammed (Jason Orendorff)
>
>Robert Sevin gains 10 points:

How about Mohammed gains 5 points?

snowgod
oops

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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 00:13:58 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Phil Ackley)
Subject: Acka: P1508 Passes 

Quorum achieved: 17 Eligible voters - 15 Players cast votes
11 YES votes - 2 NO votes - 2 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

Proposal 1507 - Tue 3 Dec 9:44 CST 1996
Creation of a PartyChessPiece Kamikaze
Guy Fawkes (Robert Shimmin)

Guy Fawkes gains 10 points:

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

Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)

/dev/joe                     Vulcan
Calvin N Hobbes              FUN
Robert Sevin
Airhead

Swann
Techno
snowgod                      (None Yet)
Habeous Corpus
Malenkai                     FUN
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan

NO Votes:
- --------
mr cwm                       (None Yet)
ThinMan                      Vulcan

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

Mohammed
breadbox

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

Bascule
fnord

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
Jammer
Clairence

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

     Create a new rule, a member of the Party Chess Rule Suite, with
     text as follows:

     1. A Kamikaze is represented by the ASCII character Z.
     2. Its material value is 6.
     3. A Kamikaze's move consists of two parts:
     First, the Kamikaze moves from 1 to 6 squares in any horizontal or
     vertical direction. Second, it moves from 1 to 6 squares, at a
     right angle to its direction of motion in the first half of its
     move. It must make both halves of its move in order to move at
     all. It may not jump over any pieces in its path.
     4. If a Kamikaze captures a piece, the capturing Kamikaze is
     destroyed immediately after it makes the capture.

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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 00:14:00 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Phil Ackley)
Subject: Acka: P1508 Passes 

snowgod -10, tammany bribe

Quorum achieved: 17 Eligible voters - 15 Players cast votes
10 YES votes - 5 NO votes - 1 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

Proposal 1508 - Tue 3 Dec 20:17 CST 1996
This Is Where The Party Ends
Robert Sevin (Mitchell Harding)

Guy Fawkes gains 10 points:

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

Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)

Robert Sevin

Swann
Techno
snowgod                      (None Yet)
Habeous Corpus
Malenkai                     FUN
Tammany
ThinMan                      Vulcan
Mohammed

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

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

breadbox

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

Bascule
fnord

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
Jammer
Clairence

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

     No player may shake hands with the Devil and then later claim to
     have been "only kidding" (or something substantially similar in
     meaning).

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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 00:17:48 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Phil Ackley)
Subject: Acka: P1509 Passes 

Quorum achieved: 17 Eligible voters - 15 Players cast votes
12 YES votes - 2 NO votes - 2 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

Proposal 1509 - Tue, 3 Dec 20:17 CST 1996
Otzma Card Type Paratroop
Guy Fawkes (robert Shimmin)

Guy Fawkes gains 10 points:

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

Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)

Swann
Techno
snowgod                      (None Yet)
Habeous Corpus
Malenkai                     FUN
ThinMan                      Vulcan
Mohammed
breadbox
/dev/joe                     Vulcan
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
Vulcan Unity Vote

NO Votes:
- --------
mr cwm                       (None Yet)
Calvin N Hobbes              FUN

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

Airhead
Robert Sevin

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

Bascule
fnord

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
Jammer
Clairence

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

     Create a new rule, a member of the Oztma Cards Rule Suite, with
     text as follows:

     1. This rule defines an Otzma Card type called "Paratroop."
     2. An Otzma Card of type Paratroop may be played only by a
     Swinger, and only in their turn. If the Swinger uses an Otzma card
     of type Paratroop, and before the end of his turn, places an
     off-board piece on the board, he may place that piece where it
     attacks one or more enemy pieces. This takes precedence over the
     usual conflicting restriction on placement plays.
     3. Counter-action: the piece placed under the influence of the
     Paratroop card is removed from the board and placed in its owner's
     collection of off-board pieces.
     4. There may be no more Paratroop cards in existence than 1.5
     times the number of Offices of Swinger.

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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 03:20:51 -0600 (CST)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Re: Acka: P1499 Passes

> Quorum achieved: 15 Eligible voters - 13 Players cast votes
> 9 YES votes - 3 NO votes - 2 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES
> 
> Proposal 1499 - Sun 1 Dec 20:30 CST 1996
> Otzma Card Type Tactical Retreat
> Guy Fawkes (Robert Shimmin)

> NO Votes:
> --------
> Malenkai                     FUN                 +3

With the scoring from this proposal, Malenkai wins another cycle of
Ackanomic.  After handling assorted other business in rule 666,
including the awarding of a rather large amount of money based on scores
I have not yet calculated in full, the scores are reset to zero, except
for the handful of past winners set to -15, and Malenkai, now a 4-time
winner, whose score is set to -60.

Also one of those silver moon committees happens.

/dev/joe

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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 00:24:02 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Phil Ackley)
Subject: Acka: P1510 Fails 

Quorum achieved: 17 Eligible voters - 14 Players cast votes
6 YES votes - 8 NO votes - 0 PRESENT votes - Proposal FAILS

Proposal 1510 - Tue 3 Dec 20:17 CST 1996
Forbidden Scores
Robert Sevin (Mitchell Harding)

Robert Sevin loses 7 points:

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

Habeous Corpus                               +3

Swann                                        +3
Robert Sevin                                 +3
Techno                                       +3
snowgod                      (None Yet)      +3
mr cwm                       (None Yet)      +3

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

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

NONE

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

Bascule
fnord
Airhead

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
Jammer
Clairence

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

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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 00:25:21 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Phil Ackley)
Subject: Acka: Tabulator Stuff 

I believe I have released all of the proposals up to the current date.  If
the holiday has me messed up, I would appreciate it if someone would call
it to my attention.  Also, I may have missed scoring on a couple of
proposals - I'm not sure but I have a feeling I did.  Sorry about that.

snowwgod
tabulator

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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 03:26:30 -0600 (CST)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Acka: End of Cycle Scores

Scores at the end of cycle 9, Dec 11, 03:57 EST:

Score   Ackanomic Name   Status  Real Name
- -----   --------------      ---  -------------
290     Malenkai             A   (Randy Hall)
221     Guy Fawkes           Ag  (Robert Shimmin)
148     Niccolo Flychuck     A   (Uri Bruck)
104     Habeous Corpus       A   (Ed Graham)
100     /dev/joe             A   (Joseph DeVincentis)
94      mr cwm               V   (Eric Murray)
68      Mohammed             A   (Jason Orendorff)
68      ThinMan              A   (John Bollinger)
50      snowgod              A   (Phil Ackley)
36      breadbox             A   (Brian Raiter)
25      Calvin N Hobbes      A   (Thierry Joffrain)
22      fnord                A   (Michael Thomas)
1       AirHead              A   (Eric Freeman)
1       Jammer               N   (John Lotz)
1       Swann                N   (Steven Swiniarski)
1       Clairence            N   (Clair Anthony Viglione)
0       Lestrade             N   (John Duncan)
0       Techno               R   (Jerome Herrman)
0       23 Skidoo            N   (David Thomas Fisher)
- -4      Robert Sevin         A   (Mitchell Harding)
- -13     Bascule              Av  (Matt Black)

Status:
A=Active, N=New, V=Vacationing, IV=Involuntary Vacation, I=On Ice,
D=Dead, R=Returning (non-active), v=Victory Eggplant, g=Chartreuse Goose

/dev/joe
Scorekeeper

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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 00:29:18 -0900
From: [email-masked] (Phil Ackley)
Subject: Acka: Java 

I just got my hands on Roaster, a macintosh JAVA development kit.  I'm just
learning the language, and am not able to do too much with it yet, but one
of the sample applets that came with the kit is a JAVA IRC client.  I know
I could easily modify this to connect to /dev/joe's IRC server rather than
the default EFnet.

What I want to know is this...  How manby people have web browsers that
suppport JAVA.  Or better yet, how many don't?  Would you be interested in
having a small java applet directly on the ackanomic web page that would
allow you to connect to an IRC server without having to worry about
configuring your own client?

snowgod
ahead of himself

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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 01:58:06 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Java

> What I want to know is this...  How manby people have web browsers that
> suppport JAVA.  Or better yet, how many don't?  Would you be interested in
> having a small java applet directly on the ackanomic web page that would
> allow you to connect to an IRC server without having to worry about
> configuring your own client?

I do all of my work over text terminals. For the web I use Lynx 2.6,
The Only Browser That Matters<tm>. IRC is no problem, but obviously I
couldn't care less about Java applets.

breadbox
you asked

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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 04:18:57 -0600 (CST)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Acka: End of Cycle Procedure

For the benefit of newcomers, here is the end of cycle procedure from
Rule 666, which was applied just after all the effects of proposal 1499:

a) Ackanomic Play is suspended (i.e., other things don't interfere with
  this procedure)
b) we get rid of all the chartreuse goose eggs, right-handed grapefruit,
  and victory eggplants, including those haunted by undead
c) Malenkai is declared winner of Cycle 9, and gets a right-handed
  grapefruit and a champion's cloak which immediately turns into a
  badge of glory
d) all players with 0 or fewer points get a chartreuse goose egg
  (Lestrade, Techno, 23 Skidoo, Robert Sevin, and Bascule)
e) (tax, which doesn't occur since we don't have too much money in
  circulation)
f) Each player gets A$ equal to their score minus their eggplant weight
  (e.w. = 0 for most players; -45 for Malenkai, -15 for Bascule, Mohammed,
  Robert Sevin, ThinMan and /dev/joe)
g) No bond payments are given for the score changes since the last bond
  payments.
h) Eggplant Weights are recalculated (Malenkai's becomes -60), and players'
  scores are set to their eggplant weights, and players with negative
  eggplant weights each get a Victory Eggplant
i) This bond cycle ends when it normally would have, and it will use the
  current scores as the score for the previous bond cycle.
j) All players on vacation the entire cycle are removed from the game (nobody)
k) The game cycle number is 10, and the Magic Number is 257.
l) All Gaolbirds break out of Gaol (nobody)
m) Ackanomic Play resumes.

/dev/joe

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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 04:32:12 -0600 (CST)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Acka: Score Report

Score changes this cycle:
Scores set to zero except -15 for Bascule, /dev/joe, ThinMan, Robert Sevin,
  Mohammed, and -60 for Malenkai
P1500-1510 scoring:
  P1503 was modest
    Swann became active with P1503, so the Whamiols give Habeous Corpus 30
    points and snowgod 15 points.
  P1504 was modest and short
    P1504 was also unanimous, but P1498 changed the new unanimity rule to
    only work on non-modest proposals.
  P1506 was modest
  P1508 was short
    Robert Sevin's and /dev/joe's Victory Eggplants are destroyed with the
    P1508 scoring.

Current Scores:

Score   Ackanomic Name   Status  Real Name
- -----   --------------      ---  -------------
36      Habeous Corpus       A   (Ed Graham)
21      snowgod              A   (Phil Ackley)
16      Guy Fawkes           Ag  (Robert Shimmin)
15      mr cwm               V   (Eric Murray)
11      Niccolo Flychuck     A   (Uri Bruck)
6       Calvin N Hobbes      A   (Thierry Joffrain)
6       Robert Sevin         A   (Mitchell Harding)
6       AirHead              A   (Eric Freeman)
3       breadbox             A   (Brian Raiter)
3       Swann                A   (Steven Swiniarski)
3       Techno               A   (Jerome Herrman)
1       /dev/joe             A   (Joseph DeVincentis)
0       fnord                A   (Michael Thomas)
0       Jammer               N   (John Lotz)
0       Clairence            N   (Clair Anthony Viglione)
0       Lestrade             N   (John Duncan)
0       23 Skidoo            N   (David Thomas Fisher)
- -9      ThinMan              Av  (John Bollinger)
- -15     Bascule              Av  (Matt Black)
- -14     Mohammed             Av  (Jason Orendorff)
- -54     Malenkai             Av  (Randy Hall)

Status:
A=Active, N=New, V=Vacationing, IV=Involuntary Vacation, I=On Ice,
D=Dead, R=Returning (non-active), v=Victory Eggplant, g=Chartreuse Goose

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

Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 05:22:39 -0600 (CST)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Acka: Broken RUle Changes

From P1503:
> 9.  Rule 615 ("Speaker") is amended by changing:
> ---
>      This rule takes precedence over all mutable rules, except that it
>      defers to R 779.
> ---
> to
> ---
>      This Rule defers to Rule 779 ("Succession Proceedings").
> ---

The first sentence was changed back in P1452 to just say "This rule
takes precedence over all mutable rules."

/dev/joe

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

Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 08:05:18 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Score Report

Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote:

> Current Scores:
> 
> Score   Ackanomic Name   Status  Real Name
> -----   --------------      ---  -------------

> -54     Malenkai             Av  (Randy Hall)

Gee, just in time for that Tornado ;)

Malenkai

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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 07:12:52 -0600 (CST)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Mail Problems

It's amazing how fast assorted drafts of Malenkai's re-org and my 
player's consolidation will fill up an inbox, even a 400 K one :)

Guy Fawkes

On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote:

> The messages aren't bouncing, nor are they still in the mail queue on
> wilma.  However, Guy Fawkes did have some mail bounce today, due to a
> full mailbox, including most of the proposal results snowgod posted;
> I think everything that bounced to him is in digest #391 available on
> the FTP site, which I won't remail to him until he asks for it, to
> avoid filling his box again.  More recent mail has not bounced.

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