Subject: Ackanomic Digest V1 #421
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Ackanomic Digest      Tuesday, December 24 1996      Volume 01 : Number 421

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Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 02:44:49 -0600 (CST)
From: T Joffrain <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: CFJ 325 (snowgod) 

>Indeed.  One problem I see is that there is no free market competition to
>determine prices.  If the maker of a trinket sets its value at $A10, what
>choice do you have if you want that trinket?  The trinket maker has 
>cornered the market!

That was a concern of mine for some time. However, there are a number of
safeguards. First the gentle nature of Acka players. Second the power of the
majority, who could strip anyone of special powers if they managed to grant
such powers to themselves. Third is the fact that right now, anyone can
create anything. And of course existing legislation.

It is true that there is always the danger that someone could introduce,
using legislation and financial scams, a fixed value object that the
treasury recognizes. Then the person could blow the bank (potentially). But
not the system!

Trading a la snowgod is still fine. Creation of entities would have to be
reworked in legislation, but it's also fine. The market would eventually
recenter itself and since no one used Ackadollars, they would become
worthless. Hence it is not in anyone's interest to get all the A$. In fact,
you want to just own enough to make you rich, but not too rich that it would
encourage others to crash their value.

In the example you mention above, if one person corners a part of the
market, Acka would just ignore that corner, making the objects value
meaningless and untradeable at those prices. The owner would have to change
his price to sell, attract people to his corner if you want.

This is a big difference from RL. In Acka, we can always ignore any
cornering. In RL, there are certain things we cannot ignore. If someone was
to corner the food industry, health care, water supply, air ownership even,
the system crashes: there would be riots. That's the last resort RL way of
decornerning the market and it ain't pretty.

CnH
"decornering"???

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Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 10:48:26 +0200 (EET)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: CFJ 325 (snowgod)

On Tue, 24 Dec 1996, Eric L. Freeman wrote:

> T Joffrain wrote:
> > 
> > Worth, yes. This is the whole GNP issue I have been talking about. However,
> > the system does not crash. It is not a problem. The GNP has increased, the
> > number of Ackadollars is still constant. Good Thing (tm). You are confusing
> > the two because in real life the two are similar (though, I should note, not
> > identical either) while in Acka they are very different.
> > 
> > Remember, Acka has a different system than in RL. Current RL system is not
> > the only one that works, Acka's does too, and there are plenty more ways of
> > implementing an economy.
> > 
> > CnH
> 
> So how do we resolve the paradox of having $A75,000 in "paper money" and
> objects worth $A x?  Or is there a paradox?  I'm not familiar enough with
> the Rules to know.
> 
> AirHead
> 
This is not a paradox, is just the way the acka system works.
It is certainly not a closed system , since an arbitrarily large number of
objects can be created for no reason whatsoever.  

The CFJ in the subject of this thread is of a different nature. It points
out that the current rules dictate that  A$ are created where noe have
been before.

The fix suggested would be consisted in the ackanomic system. I would have
preffered to see a larger that would allow A$ to be destroyed upon
creation of a trinket.

I'd say something along the lines of tapping an extra-ackanomic natural
resource that allows us to create stuff. Tapping it costs A$, but since it
is an external resource the A$ are not paid to anyone, so they appear to
be destroyed.

Niccolo Flychuck

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Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 02:48:14 -0600 (CST)
From: T Joffrain <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Inernomic Trading 

Swann

I would love to read what you had begun in Agora. Could you post it? or
would you like to get it published in a newspaper? [hint hint]      :)

CnH
poorest media mogul in Acka

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Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 23:51:53 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: CFJ 325 (snowgod) 

>This is a big difference from RL. In Acka, we can always ignore any
>cornering. In RL, there are certain things we cannot ignore. If someone was
>to corner the food industry, health care, water supply, air ownership even,
>the system crashes: there would be riots. That's the last resort RL way of
>decornerning the market and it ain't pretty.

Hey hey hey! Didn't the Underworld party "corner" a market that we couldn't
ignore -- Perhaps the one and only market that we can't ignore -- with
their strike?

Of course, riots ensued. :)

snowgod

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Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 03:01:02 -0600 (CST)
From: T Joffrain <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: CFJ 325 (snowgod) 

AirHead said:

>So how do we resolve the paradox of having $A75,000 in "paper money" and
>objects worth $A x?  Or is there a paradox?  I'm not familiar enough with
>the Rules to know.

And then:

>So, does this mean that there is no paradox; no reason for CFJ 325?

First, let me explain what does NOT motivate the CFJ. it is not a claim that
the system we have is not a resolvable one. (sorry, double negation sounds
better here imho)

However, the system as it stands is not provably sound (in the logical
sense). There is a bug in its implementation that leads to a paradox (ie:
the rules contradict themselves). That's because of a glitch in an addition
that should not happen. That's what the CFJ is about, correcting a bug in
the system. The theory of the systen itself is not in question.

Once this is solved, the system should be sound. I'm always trying to prove
it to myself, and that's why I worked on GNP stuff that led to finding the
paradox (only a claimed paradox until it gets decided, of course)

What we have been discussion for a while back there is whether the system,
even once patched as I propose, will be sound. I say it should be. I won't
say it is for sure because I need to check it again.

However, finding bugs in implementation does not mean the theory is wrong.
The theory is sound, and I don't think I'm the only one claiming this.

CnH

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Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 03:15:08 -0600
From: "Eric L. Freeman" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: CFJ 325 (snowgod)

T Joffrain wrote:
 
> However, the system as it stands is not provably sound (in the logical
> sense). There is a bug in its implementation that leads to a paradox (ie:
> the rules contradict themselves). That's because of a glitch in an addition
> that should not happen. That's what the CFJ is about, correcting a bug in
> the system. The theory of the systen itself is not in question.

I guess I'm a bit confused.  Which rules are contradicting each other?

AirHead (still lacking the free time to read all the rules)

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Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 03:28:07 -0600 (CST)
From: T Joffrain <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Merry Christmas! 

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Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 00:34:39 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Merry Christmas! 

And a belated happy Hannakah to Niccolo Flychuck and myself :)

snowgod

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Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 03:43:36 -0600 (CST)
From: T Joffrain <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Merry Christmas! 

>And a belated happy Hannakah to Niccolo Flychuck and myself :)

Happy (belated) Hannakah!

Your name as "CFJ 325 (snowgod)" is everywhere in my mailbox. At least two
dozen times making a whole great big pile of snowgods. All making a snowman?
:)

CnH
wondering if saying many gods=one man is heretical

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Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 12:31:39 +0200 (EET)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka: Swingpoints

earlier today snowgod's Swingpoints all converted into points.

Then 2 Swingpoints were created and given to me, and 1 Swingpoints was
created and given to snowgod.

Niccolo Flychuck
Chess-Umpire

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Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 13:26:26 +0200 (EET)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Merry Christmas!

On Tue, 24 Dec 1996, Phil Ackley wrote:

> And a belated happy Hannakah to Niccolo Flychuck and myself :)
> 
> snowgod
> 
> 
Not to be outdone - 
Merry Christams
A slightly belated Happy Hanuka
and a belated
Birkat Ramadan 

greetings to all.

Not to forget the Ackanomic Holiday.

Niccolo Flychuck

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Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 02:54:13 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Ambassadorish 

Ackanomic's fame continues to grow.

Our Harfiness is becoming world renowned.  As a matter of fact, it from
what I can descern from posts on the Nomic WWW Bulletin Board, in
alt.games.nomic (which is mostly spam), and through private communications
with other liasons and representivies of non-internomic nomics, Ackanomic
has set the standard by which "fun" nomics are judged!

I quote from a post by a player of Oxford Nomic
(http://over.keble.ox.ac.uk/~nomic/):

>I am a player in this Nomic, and I think it's fair to say that by and
>large it's doing the things that we hoped
>it would do in the way we hoped it would do them. The game has been
>running for around five weeks now, and two
>games have finished, both with clear results. There have been around 90
>rules proposed so far and around 30 of
>them have passed. By and large it's a fairly serious game, despite certain
>players' efforts (myself included) to
>the contrary - certainly none of the style of, say, AckaNomic (just from
>browsing their rule set). We have 16
>players, about a dozen of whom are very active.

snowgod
ambassador

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Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 07:03:50 EST 
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: Fictionary

5. A Mongolian temple bell.

Habeous Corpus votes for #5

HC

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Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 03:15:02 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: P1544 Passes 

Quorum achieved: 19 Eligible voters - 12 Players cast votes
13 YES votes - 0 NO votes - 0 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

Proposal 1544 - Tue 10 Dec 12:36 CST 1996
"ing" is no longer an official word :(
Malenkai (Randy Hall)

Malenkai gains 5 points:

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

Habeous Corpus
Malenkai                     Harf
Lestrade
/dev/joe                     Vulcan
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan

fnord
snowgod                      (None Yet)
Robert Sevin                 Harf
ThinMan                      Vulcan
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
Mohammed
breadbox
Vulcan Unity Vote

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

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

NONE

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

Bascule
AirHead                      Harf
Clairence
Techno                       Harf
mr cwm                       (None Yet) (vacationing)
Calvin N Hobbes              Harf
Swann

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
Jammer
23 Skidoo
BuzzBee
G. Peefalt

[Am I forgeting anyone?]

Text of Passed Proposal:
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     [I understand the problem with the old official dictionary, yet
     find the new one too limiting. A simple union of the two should
     work, as presumably the deficiency in the first one was the
     absence of common forms of common words , which should be in the
     new one (I remember 'tower' not being in it, but 'towering' in
     there, go figure).

     The ideal solution would be to charge admission to acka and buy a
     subscription to the on-line OED :). Where *is* that Coke money?]

     This is a Modest proposal.

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

     Amend the rule created by Proposal 411, ("Web-Harfer" or "Office
     of the Web-Harfer"), to replace the text which currently reads:

     "
     b) To select and maintain a link to the Official Dictionary of the
     English language (hereafter referred to in the rules as the
     "Official Dictionary").
     "

     with:

     "
     b) To select and maintain one or more links to on-line
     Dictionaries of the English language. The term "Official
     Dictionary", as used elsewhere in the rules, shall be construed to
     mean the union of these Dictionaries.
     "

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Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 03:17:35 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: P1545 Passes 

Quorum achieved: 19 Eligible voters - 11 Players cast votes
10 YES votes - 0 NO votes - 2 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

Proposal 1545 - Tue 12 Dec 12:36 CST 1996
Otzma Card of type TruthSeeker
Malenkai (Randy Hall)

Malenkai gains 10 points:

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

Habeous Corpus
Malenkai                     Harf
/dev/joe                     Vulcan
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan

fnord
snowgod                      (None Yet)
ThinMan                      Vulcan
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
Mohammed
Vulcan Unity Vote

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

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

Lestrade
Robert Sevin                 Harf

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

Bascule
AirHead                      Harf
Clairence
Techno                       Harf
mr cwm                       (None Yet) (vacationing)
Calvin N Hobbes              Harf
Swann
breadbox

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
Jammer
23 Skidoo
BuzzBee
G. Peefalt

[Am I forgeting anyone?]

Text of Passed Proposal:
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     Create a rule entitled: "Otzma Card of type TruthSeeker", which is
     a member of Otzma Cards Rule Suite, and has the following text:

     "
     A Card of this type can only be played in the public forum, and
     its play must be accompanied with a payment (by the player playing
     it) to the Treasury of a quantity of A$ which is 10 times the
     square of a non-negative integer. This non-negative integer is
     referred to as "T" for the purposes of this rule.

     This card has the power to reveal portions of the Machine that
     goes *ping*'s Truth. The number of words revealed is equal to T.

     The Scholar of *ping* shall, within 3 days of the Card taking
     effect, privately post T words from the Machine's truth,
     undisgusied, to the player who played the Card. Such post shall
     also unambigiously specify where each word is locacated in the
     Truth.

     This rule has precedence over Rule 1240 where there is a conflict.
     This card has no effect if there is no Scholar of *ping*, if the
     current Scholar of *ping* has not revealed the Machine's Truth, or
     if T exceeds the number of words in the Machine's Truth.

     Its Counter-Action: The private post per above shall be posted
     publically as soon as humanly possible by either party who was
     privy to it. (Once posted by one player, the other player is not
     obligated to do so).

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Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 03:21:56 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: P1546 Fails 

Quorum achieved: 19 Eligible voters - 12 Players cast votes
6 YES votes - 7 NO votes - 0 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

Proposal 1546 - Tue 10 Dec 12:36 CST 1996
But not a Real Green Dress, that's cruel
fnord (Michael Thomas)

fnord loses 7 points:

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

Habeous Corpus
Malenkai                     Harf
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan

fnord
snowgod                      (None Yet)
Tammany

NO Votes:
- --------
breadbox
Lestrade
Robert Sevin                 Harf
ThinMan                      Vulcan
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
Mohammed
/dev/joe                     Vulcan

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

NONE

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

Bascule
AirHead                      Harf
Clairence
Techno                       Harf
mr cwm                       (None Yet) (vacationing)
Calvin N Hobbes              Harf
Swann

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
Jammer
23 Skidoo
BuzzBee
G. Peefalt

[Am I forgeting anyone?]

Text of Passed Proposal:
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Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 03:26:59 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: P1546 Fails (Financier) 

fnord bribed the Tammany with A$25.

fnord -25, Tammany Bribe

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Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 03:32:10 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: P1547 Passes 

Quorum achieved: 20 Eligible voters - 14 Players cast votes
12 YES votes - 1 NO votes - 2 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

Proposal 1547 - Wed 11 Dec 11:51 CST 1996
A Multitude of Web-Harfers
Robert Sevin (Mitchell Harding)

Robert Sevin gains 5 points:

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

Habeous Corpus
Lestrade
/dev/joe                     Vulcan
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan

fnord
Swann
snowgod                      (None Yet)
Robert Sevin                 Harf
ThinMan                      Vulcan
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
23 Skidoo
Vulcan Unity Vote

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

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

Malenkai                     Harf
breadbox

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

Bascule
AirHead                      Harf
Clairence
Techno                       Harf
mr cwm                       (None Yet) (vacationing)
Calvin N Hobbes              Harf

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
Jammer
BuzzBee
G. Peefalt

[Am I forgeting anyone?]

Text of Passed Proposal:
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     This is a modest proposal.

     Amend Rule 411 (Office of the Web-Harfer) by adding the following
     text (delimited by quotation marks) to the end of the list of
     Privileges:

     "c) To seek and appoint Assistant Web-Harfers (who must be
     volunteers) to help keep the Ackanomic WWW page up-to-date. [This
     mainly would be, for example, putting an assistant in charge of
     the CFJ portion of the page.]"

     and add the following text (delimited by quotation marks) to the
     end of the list of Duties:

     "c) To seek and appoint Assistant Web-Harfers as needed to keep
     the Ackanomic WWW page up-to-date. [This is a duty because the
     Web-Harfer is obligated to get help when it is needed, rather than
     let the Ackanomic WWW page become out-of-date.]"

     Amend R 1369.1, "Definition of Otzma Cards", as follows:

     I. replace section III, subsections 2 and 3, which currently read:

     "
     2. The following entities have the authority to declare an
     Otzma-Day: the President, the RuneMaker, any Institution. a
     proposal which has been accepted according to the rules can also
     declare an Otzma Day

     3. Otzma-Days must be declared at least three-days in advance,
     unless it has been declared by a proposal. An Otzma-Day last for
     three days or until the RuneMaker has declared the end of
     Otzma-Day, whichever comes first. Once an Otzma-Day is over, at
     least 10 days must pass before the next Otzma-Day can start.
     "

     with:

     "
     2. The following entities may declare an Otzma-Day: the President,
     the RuneMaker, any Institution, or any Rule.

     3. Otzma-Days must be declared at least three-days in advance,
     unless it has been declared by a rule. An Otzma-Day lasts for
     three days or until the RuneMaker has declared the end of the
     Otzma-Day, whichever comes first. Once an Otzma-Day is over, at
     least 10 days must pass before the next Otzma-Day can start; this
     sentence has precedence over section VI of this rule.
     "

     II. Add the following text at the end of the rule:

     "
     VI.
     Whenever a non-Null Proposal whose proposal number is prime is
     accepted, an Otzma Day is declared.
     "

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

     Amend the rule which was created by Proposal 396, either entitled
     "Promoter" or "Office of Promoter", by replacing section (b),
     which reads:

     "
     (b) assign the proposal a number and distribute it for voting.
     "

     with:

     "
     (b) assign the proposal a number 1 greater than the number
     assigned to the previously distributed proposal, and distribute it
     for voting.
     "

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

     Create a new rule entitled "I *really* wish my conditional rule
     changes proposal passed", with the following text [which
     effectively moves R 1535, if it was accepted, into the Otzma Card
     Rule Suite]:

     {{
     If proposal 1535 was accepted, perform the actions on the
     following list in the order listed:

     a) create a new rule, member of the Otzma Card Rule Suite, with
     text and title identical to the text and title, respectively, of R
     1535. Change authorship credit of this new rule to "Guy Fawkes
     (Robert Shimmin)"; this sentence takes precedence over the rule
     entitled "For Personal Glory...".

     b) repeal R 1535, "Otzma Card Type Amazing Hoover Building Mover".

     }}

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Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 03:36:33 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: P1548 Fails 

Quorum achieved: 20 Eligible voters - 14 Players cast votes
6 YES votes - 7 NO votes - 1 PRESENT votes - Proposal FAILS

Proposal 1548 - Wed 11 Dec 11:51 CST 1996
More Exciting Endgames
Guy Fawkes (Robert Shimmin)

Guy Fawkes loses 7 points:

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

Lestrade
/dev/joe                     Vulcan
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan

Swann
snowgod                      (None Yet)
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)

NO Votes:
- --------
Mohammed
23 Skidoo
ThinMan                      Vulcan
Habeous Corpus
fnord
Malenkai                     Harf
breadbox

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

Robert Sevin                 Harf

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

Bascule
AirHead                      Harf
Clairence
Techno                       Harf
mr cwm                       (None Yet) (vacationing)
Calvin N Hobbes              Harf

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
Jammer
BuzzBee
G. Peefalt

[Am I forgeting anyone?]

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

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Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 03:40:55 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: P1549 Fails 

Quorum achieved: 20 Eligible voters - 14 Players cast votes
6 YES votes - 6 NO votes - 2 PRESENT votes - Proposal FAILS

Proposal 1549 - Wed 11 Dec 11:52 CST 1996
Faster Points for Whamiols
Habeous Corpus (Ed Graham)

Habeous Corpusloses 7 points:

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

/dev/joe                     Vulcan

fnord
snowgod                      (None Yet)
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
ThinMan                      Vulcan
Habeous Corpus

NO Votes:
- --------
Mohammed
23 Skidoo
Swann
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
Lestrade
Malenkai                     Harf

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

Robert Sevin                 Harf
breadbox

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

Bascule
AirHead                      Harf
Clairence
Techno                       Harf
mr cwm                       (None Yet) (vacationing)
Calvin N Hobbes              Harf

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
Jammer
BuzzBee
G. Peefalt

[Am I forgeting anyone?]

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

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Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 03:52:42 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: P1551 Passes 

Quorum achieved: 20 Eligible voters - 14 Players cast votes
9 YES votes - 4 NO votes - 1 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

Proposal 1551 - Wed 11 Dec 11:52 CST 1996
A Sort-of Experiment with the Value of Money (and exploring another idea)
Malenkai (Randy Hall)

Malenkai gains 10 points:

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

/dev/joe                     Vulcan

fnord
snowgod                      (None Yet)
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
ThinMan                      Vulcan
23 Skidoo
Swann
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
Malenkai                     Harf

NO Votes:
- --------
Mohammed
Lestrade
breadbox
Habeous Corpus

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

Robert Sevin                 Harf

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

Bascule
AirHead                      Harf
Clairence
Techno                       Harf
mr cwm                       (None Yet) (vacationing)
Calvin N Hobbes              Harf

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
Jammer
BuzzBee
G. Peefalt

[Am I forgeting anyone?]

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

     Create a new rule entitled "Museum", which reads:

     "
     I. Ackanomic Museum of Antiquities

     The Ackanomic Museum of Antiquities (Museum) exists; it is a
     classy building near the Library. It is a Common Location. The
     Museum has 3 wings: the East Wing, the West Wing, and the McCumber
     Annex. The West Wing is the most prestigious, but the McCumber
     Annex is sort of cramped and unused.

     II. Curator

     The Financier is the curator of the Museum, and it is a duty of
     that office to maintain records of the Museum's inventory, and
     other relavent Museum details.

     III. Donation

     A player may donate any Gadget, Trinket, or Prosthetic Forehead
     that they own to the Museum, by going there and publically
     announcing which object(s) they are donating. All newly donated
     objects (along with the name of the associated benefactor) are
     placed on display in the East Wing. The Museum has high standards,
     so it will not accept Prosthetic Forehead donations if it already
     has 15 such pieces on display. Items on display in the Museum are
     not considered in the Treasury.

     IV. Donation Value

     Objects on display are valued by the Museum as follows:
     a) Prosthetic Foreheads: A$10.
     b) Gadgets: The most recent price paid for that type of Gadget at
     an auction such that the proceeds of that auction went to the
     Treasury. If that value is undefined, its value is A$50.
     c) Trinkets: The value the Trinket had when it was donated. If it
     was once part of a Buried Treasure for more than 60 continuous
     days, it is an Antiquity, and its value is increased by 30%
     (fractions truncated), upon donation, and it is no longer
     considered to have once been part of a Buried Treasure for for
     that length for the purposes of this sub-section, unless it again
     acquires that attribute.

     V. Benefactor Value and Renaming the East Wing

     Each Museum benefactor has a benefactor value (BV), which is the
     sum of the value of all objects on display in the East Wing that
     that benefactor donated (the benefactor of record is considered to
     be the last player to donate a particular object). Upon a
     benefactor's BV exceeding A$1000, the East Wing is renamed in his
     honor to his player name; this rule is amended to replace all
     occurrances of the string 'East' which directly precede the word
     "Wing" or are in single quotes, in this rule with that player's
     name (the occurrance in single quotes being replaced last).

     VI. Bonus Vote

     On the first day of each month, the Museum throws a party honoring
     its benefactors. This is a private gathering. There are door
     prizes, but as the Museum is always tight on funds, they are
     pretty lame. The only one of note is a Bonus Vote, which is
     awarded to a random benefactor. Each benefactor's probability of
     receiving this Vote is their BV divided by the total BV. If the
     total BV is zero, however, no award is bestowed.

     VII. The Value of Winning

     Upon a benefactor's BV exceeding A$5000, all objects donated by
     that benefactor are transferred to the West Wing, and a big
     ceremony, which is a public gathering, is held. If this appears to
     occur simultaneously with a renaming of the East Wing, however, it
     will occur an infintestimal time afterwords instead. This rule is
     then amended to replace all occurrances of the player's name which
     directly precede the word "Wing" or is in single quotes, with the
     concatenation of the strings "No" and "rth", and then all
     occurrances of the string 'West' which directly precede the word
     "Wing" or are in single quotes, are replaced by the player's name.
     That player is then declared the winner of the Cycle. No player
     may win a Cycle more than once in this manner, and if it appears
     that they otherwise would, no part of this section preceding this
     sentence shall apply in that instance.

     VIII. Museum Security

     Objects may not be removed or stolen from the Museum except as
     described by the rules. Any person caught stealing from the
     Museum, as described in the rules, shall go to Gaol with a
     sentence of 7 days per object pilfered, in addition to any other
     penalties described in the rules.

     {{renumber this rule to 850}}
     "

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Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 04:01:38 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: P1553 Passes 

Quorum achieved: 20 Eligible voters - 14 Players cast votes
9 YES votes - 2 NO votes - 3 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

Proposal 1553 - Wed 11 Dec 11:53 CST 1996
Ackanomic History Guild
Guy Fawkes (Robert Shimmin)

Guy Fawkes gains 10 points:

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

/dev/joe                     Vulcan

snowgod                      (None Yet)
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
Robert Sevin                 Harf
Swann
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
Malenkai                     Harf
Lestrade
Habeous Corpus

NO Votes:
- --------
Mohammed
fnord

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

23 Skidoo
ThinMan                      Vulcan
breadbox

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

Bascule
AirHead                      Harf
Clairence
Techno                       Harf
mr cwm                       (None Yet) (vacationing)
Calvin N Hobbes              Harf

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
Jammer
BuzzBee
G. Peefalt

[Am I forgeting anyone?]

Text of Passed Proposal:
- -----------------------
      Create a new rule with text as delimited by the ":p" symbols.

     :p
     1. There exists an Institution called the Ackanomic History Guild,
     hereafter called the Guild.

     2. The Ackanomic History Guild consists of all players who have a
     Guild Ranking greater than zero. Guild rankings may not be changed
     except as described by the rules.

     3. Any player may submit a public message called a Historical
     Dissertation. A Historical Dissertation must: (a) be at least 50
     lines in length, excluding blank lines; (b) state that it is a
     Historical Dissertation; (c) describe in detail one or more events
     in Ackanomic history.

     4. Unless more than one-third of the members of the Ackanomic
     History Guild express disapproval of a particular Historical
     Dissertation within a week of its posting, the author of that
     Historical Dissertation shall have his Guild Ranking incremented
     by 1 seven days after its posting.

     5. Only members of the Ackanomic History Guild are eligible for
     Nomination for the Office of Historian.
     :p

     For the purposes of this proposal, y=621 if Proposal 1539 did not
     pass, and y=420 if Proposal 1539 did pass.

     Add, to the end of the second paragraph in Rule y, "The Historian
     should maintain a copy of all Historical Dissertations."

     Renumber Rule y to y.1

     Renumber Rule 1553 to y.2

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Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 04:06:19 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: P1554 Passes 

Quorum achieved: 21 Eligible voters - 15 Players cast votes
9 YES votes - 4 NO votes - 3 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

Proposal 1554 - Thu, 12 Dec 1996 22:46:34 -0600 (CST)
Land Baroncy
Jammer (John-Martin Lotz)

Jammer gains 5 (+bonus) points:

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

/dev/joe                     Vulcan

snowgod                      (None Yet)
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
ThinMan                      Vulcan
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
Lestrade
Habeous Corpus
Jammer
Vulcan Unity Vote

NO Votes:
- --------
Mohammed
fnord
23 Skidoo
Swann

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

Robert Sevin                 Harf
breadbox
Malenkai                     Harf

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

Bascule
AirHead                      Harf
Clairence
Techno                       Harf
mr cwm                       (None Yet) (vacationing)
Calvin N Hobbes              Harf

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
BuzzBee
G. Peefalt

[Am I forgeting anyone?]

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

     For the purposes of this rule, the area of Acka is the map of Acka
     as currently maintained by the Map Harfer. For the purposes of
     this rule, occupied places are locations that a player owns and
     places that are officially set aside in the rules. For the
     purposes of this rule, unoccupied places are all places within the
     area of Acka, that are not occupied places.

     All players entering the game are allocated one kaa with the area
     of Acka. Any active player may purchase an unoccupied place within
     Acka by paying the current rate.
     The current rate starts at 50 A$, and every week the keeper of
     Random events shall either raise the rate by five percent (5%)
     raise the rate by 1%, keep the rate the same, reduce the rate by
     one percent(-1%), or reduce the rate by five percent (-5%). While
     the current rate may be a decimal value, the rate that a player
     pays to purchase the place shall be given in the integer portion
     of the current rate.

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Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 04:11:45 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: P1555 Fails 

Quorum achieved: 21 Eligible voters - 15 Players cast votes
9 YES votes - 6 NO votes - 1 PRESENT votes - Proposal FAILS

Proposal 1555 - Thu, 12 Dec 1996 22:46:34 -0600 (CST)
Minor Ownership Clarifications
ThinMan (John Bollinger)

ThinMan loses 7 points:

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

/dev/joe                     Vulcan

snowgod                      (None Yet)
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
ThinMan                      Vulcan
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
Jammer
Vulcan Unity Vote
fnord
Malenkai                     Harf

NO Votes:
- --------
Mohammed
23 Skidoo
Swann
Lestrade
Habeous Corpus
breadbox

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

Robert Sevin                 Harf

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

Bascule
AirHead                      Harf
Clairence
Techno                       Harf
mr cwm                       (None Yet) (vacationing)
Calvin N Hobbes              Harf

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
BuzzBee
G. Peefalt

[Am I forgeting anyone?]

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

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Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 04:15:15 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: P1555 Fails 

Quorum achieved: 21 Eligible voters - 14 Players cast votes
3 YES votes - 10 NO votes - 2 PRESENT votes - Proposal FAILS

Proposal 1556 - Thu, 12 Dec 1996 22:46:34 -0600 (CST)
The 100, more or less, kaa Acka
Jammer (John-Martin Lotz)

Jammer loses 7 points:

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

ThinMan                      Vulcan
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
Jammer

NO Votes:
- --------
fnord
Malenkai                     Harf
/dev/joe                     Vulcan

snowgod                      (None Yet)
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
Mohammed
23 Skidoo
Swann
Lestrade
Habeous Corpus
breadbox

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

Robert Sevin                 Harf

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

Bascule
AirHead                      Harf
Clairence
Techno                       Harf
mr cwm                       (None Yet) (vacationing)
Calvin N Hobbes              Harf

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
BuzzBee
G. Peefalt

[Am I forgeting anyone?]

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

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Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 04:26:38 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: P1558 Passes 

Quorum achieved: 21 Eligible voters - 14 Players cast votes
13 YES votes - 2 NO votes - 0 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

Proposal 1558 - Thu, 12 Dec 1996 22:46:34 -0600 (CST)
Amend R 1502
Malenkai (Randy Hall)

Malenkai gains 10 points:

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

ThinMan                      Vulcan
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
Jammer
Robert Sevin                 Harf
fnord
Malenkai                     Harf
/dev/joe                     Vulcan

snowgod                      (None Yet)
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
Mohammed
23 Skidoo
Lestrade
breadbox
Vulcan Unity Vote

NO Votes:
- --------
Habeous Corpus
Swann

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

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

Bascule
AirHead                      Harf
Clairence
Techno                       Harf
mr cwm                       (None Yet) (vacationing)
Calvin N Hobbes              Harf

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
BuzzBee
G. Peefalt

[Am I forgeting anyone?]

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

     [the amendment to R 720 allows for a reuseable senate voting
     procedure, which can be used here. It also seems the wording of
     the second line below could be misconstrued.]

     Amend R 1502, "Experts" to replace:

     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.

     with:

     For each title of Expert requested, the Senate shall conduct a
     vote on whether to approve the request are not. The player shall
     become an Expert in each area approved. This vote has a voting
     period of 2 weeks.

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Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 04:36:29 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: P1559 Fails 

Quorum achieved: 21 Eligible voters - 15 Players cast votes
5 YES votes - 7 NO votes - 3 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

Proposal 1559 - Thu, 12 Dec 1996 22:46:34 -0600 (CST)
Summaries
Robert Sevin (Mitchell Harding)

Robert Sevin loses 7 points:

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

ThinMan                      Vulcan
Robert Sevin                 Harf
snowgod                      (None Yet)
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
23 Skidoo

NO Votes:
- --------
Habeous Corpus
Swann
Mohammed
Lestrade
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
Jammer
/dev/joe                     Vulcan

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

Malenkai                     Harf
breadbox
fnord

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

Bascule
AirHead                      Harf
Clairence
Techno                       Harf
mr cwm                       (None Yet) (vacationing)
Calvin N Hobbes              Harf

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
BuzzBee
G. Peefalt

[Am I forgeting anyone?]

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

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