Subject: Ackanomic Digest V1 #507
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Ackanomic Digest      Thursday, February 6 1997      Volume 01 : Number 507

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Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 01:13:20 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFJ 343 (ThinMan)

Feb 06 01:14 EST: -10 Niccolo Flychuck: did not respond to CFJ 343

It has been assigned to ThinMan

Clerk of the Courts
- ------------------------------------------------------------
Call For Judgement 343
  Subject: Building
Initiator: Jammer
    Judge: snowgod (declined)
2nd Judge: Bascule (declined)
3rd Judge: Niccolo Flychuck (failed to respond)
4th Judge: ThinMan (assigned Feb 06, 1997, 01:14h EST)
Judgement:

Statement:

Jammer should be allowed to build his house.

Jammer's Reasoning:

Basically, there is no rule against it.

According to Rule 101/1
The Game of Ackanomic

     Ackanomic is a self-modifying game of rules. All players must always
abide by all the rules then in effect, in the form in which they are then
in
     effect, and interpreted in accordance with current game custom.

     The rules and the game state may only be changed as described in the
rules. Actions described in the rules may only be performed, and shall only
     have those effects, as specified by the rules. Whatever is not
explicitly prohibited or regulated by the rules, however, is permitted and
     unregulated. Game custom, spirit of the game, and linguistic
interpretation are external concepts and are not regulated or part of the
game state.

     The game consists of a sequence of "Cycles". Cycles end when specified
by the Rules. At most one Cycle is in progress at any one time. A
     player may only win a Cycle by achieving a winning condition that is
defined by the Rules. A player may not win the Game of Ackanomic. A
     player always has the option to leave the Game of Ackanomic.

     This rule has precedence over all other rules.

Within the Rules there are rules regarding the size of buildings
Rule 839/6
Buildings
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)

     A building is a class of entity in Ackanomic which can be of six
sizes:

          small (aka cramped or puny) (1 land unit)
          cosy (2 land units)
          classy (4 land units)
          lavish (6 land units)
          sumptuous (9 land units)
          extravagant (12 land units)

     Each instance of a player Home is a Common Location, with the
restriction that no player may enter a Home they don't own without
permission
     of the owner.

     The Senate Building is lavish. The FM building is a classy place. The
Courthouse is a cosy building. These buildings may never be smaller that as
     defined originally but can be greater. All of these buildings are
Common Locations.

     All other land, with or without buildings on them, that is not owned
by players is called common lands. All deals to sell or buy common land
must
     be approved by Senate vote.

     The size of the buildings cannot be changed except as allowed by the
rules.

which does not refer in any way to how to build a building, as well as
rules
covering the size of thing that has some revelaence to the subject of
buildings

Rule 1519/0
The Size of Things
Jammer (John Lotz)

     I wish to make a modest proposal.

     All Items in Acka have a size measured in thingees.

     Negligible 0 Thingees
     Small 1 Thingees
     Medium 2 Thingees
     Large 4 Thingees
     Huge 5 Thingees
     Really Huge 6 Thingees

     The significance of this is that all structures and land have a
capacity measured in Thingees as well;
     A Space in a structure holds 10 Thingees.
     A Kaa of land holds 25 Thingees.
     A Tower holds 6 Thingees.

Once again there is no element of description of how to build one.

Additionally there are references to houses in
Rule 252/1
Joining the Game
Guy Fawkes (Robert Shimmin)

     For the purposes of this rule, a player whose most recent departure
from Ackanomic prompted the creation of an Undead is considered a
     Returning player. All other players are considered New.

     A person wishing to join the game, and who cannot do so as a Returning
player, should notify the Registrar, providing a valid email address, their
     real name, and the legal Ackanomic name they wish to play under. Upon
them providing this information, should the requested name indeed be a
     legal Ackanomic name, the Registrar shall post a public message
announcing the new player and providing their Ackanomic name, real name,
and
     email address, and if the prospective player provided it, how they
discovered the game. Upon the posting of such an announcement, the person
     becomes registered as a player.

     Upon the registration of a New player, the following procedure takes
place, in the order shown.

     1) The New player is granted 1 kaa of urban land and a Small building
thereupon as their legal residence. This building shall be known as their
     Home. This building shall also be known as "player name's House",
where "player name" is replaced by their official Ackanomic name. A player
     may change the name of this building by publically announcing the new
name and unambiguously identifying the building they wish to rename.

     2) The New player is paid from the Treasury the average A$balance of
all other extant players.

     3) The New player is given 100 newly created PFBonds associated with
himself. The Financier shall assign a label that may be used to refer to
     the PFBonds associated with the New player, although this procedure
may continue without waiting for him to do so.

     4) The Registrar shall select a Mentor for the new player. The Mentor
receives A$25 from the Treasury.

     A person able to join the game as a Returning player may do so by
posting a public message to that effect. This message must include their
     Ackanomic and real life names, as well as a valid email address. The
Registrar shall then record their return to the players list.

     Upon the registration of a Returning player, the following procedure
takes place:

     1) The Undead created in response to their most recent departure from
Acka, who bears the Ackanomic name that player had immediately prior
     to his most recent departure from Acka, transfers all entities it is
haunting to the Returning player. These entities are now no longer haunted.

     2) That Undead is destroyed.

     3) All Bond Promissories in that player's real life name are converted
to PFBonds associated with that player. Their label is the same as the
     PFBonds whose conversion created the Bond Promissories.

     4) If the player left during the current cycle, his score is the
minimum of 0 and the score he had upon last leaving the game. Otherwise,
his score is
     -15N, where N is the number of cycles he has won. If this causes his
score to be negative, he is given a Victory Eggplant, and his Eggplant
     Weight is set to -15N, where N is defined as above.

While the appropriate section of this rule
 1) The New player is granted 1 kaa of urban land and a Small building
thereupon as their legal residence. This building shall be known as their
     Home. This building shall also be known as "player name's House",
where "player name" is replaced by their official Ackanomic name. A player
     may change the name of this building by publically announcing the new
name and unambiguously identifying the building they wish to rename;

does seem to mention the creation of a house, neither states how this is
accomplished nor does it preclude any
other method of doing so.

Other mentions to buildings and houses and structu mention the size of a
building, not anything about how to build it.

At the same time it should be noted that there are rules on how to create
trinkets, blueprints and the like to provide a means to
make them, so it cannot be argued that it is emmpossible or there was
neither time nor room to concider it.

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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 00:35:26 -0600 (CST)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Re: Acka:  P1679 rejected (Wibble)

> Proposal 1679
> Votes cast by active players:  11 / 19 = 57.894737%
> Yes:  3    No:  6     Present:  2   ...Proposal rejected.

The results for Proposals 1677-1679 were apparently accidentally re-sent
along with the new results.  The time they were sent previously was
more than 7 days after they were first distributed, and they were
initially distributed after the end of the holiday, so the previous
results were released at a valid time.  I am ignoring the reposts.

/dev/joe

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Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 23:49:04 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: My Home

> I hereby go to the Castle on a Cloud, and present "Little Bag O' Chips B"
> to Ludwig.  I will give a "Little Bag O' Chips" with successive final
> characters to the next 24 players who attend Ludwig's house-naming party,
> unless they indicate they don't want one.  (I'm keeping "Little Bag O'
> Chips A" for myself.)

I shall naturally attend the housewarming party, since to do otherwise
might appear unneighborly.

I shall ack a Little Bag O' Chips trinket ("G", I think by now).

After chatting with my fellow ackazens for a few hours, I start
getting tired again, and return to the Senate.

breadbox

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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 03:04:55 -0500 (EST)
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: Acka: Free Fragments 

Ahhh... Well, it is not publicaly knowable yet, but I have voted on at least
one proposal, and meet the other conditions.  So when it becomes publicly
knowable, I would like a fragment please.

Narf

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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 04:46:53 -0500
From: [email-masked] (Steven A. Swiniarski)
Subject: Re: Acka: My Home

>
>> I hereby go to the Castle on a Cloud, and present "Little Bag O' Chips B"
>> to Ludwig.  I will give a "Little Bag O' Chips" with successive final
>> characters to the next 24 players who attend Ludwig's house-naming party,
>> unless they indicate they don't want one.  (I'm keeping "Little Bag O'
>> Chips A" for myself.)
>
>I shall naturally attend the housewarming party, since to do otherwise
>might appear unneighborly.
>
>I shall ack a Little Bag O' Chips trinket ("G", I think by now).
>
That reminds me, I ack the Little Bag O' Chips someone's be trying to hand me.
(Sorry I was distracted.)

Swann

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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 04:48:40 -0500
From: [email-masked] (Steven A. Swiniarski)
Subject: Re: Acka: P 1688 Bribes

>
>Swann - 14

I ack recipt of fragment 14.

Swann

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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 03:52:31 -0600 (CST)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Acka: Gift to Malenkai

As a reward for all the hard work he does here, and in addition to that,
creating some of the toughest treasure hunts Ackanomic has seen, and
for the Internomic win that deserves to be well-rewarded, I am giving
Malenkai A$47.

/dev/joe

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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 12:13:16 +0200 (EET)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Swinger

On Wed, 5 Feb 1997, Guy Fawkes wrote:

> 
> Until snowgod returns from Vacation, Guy Fawkes will be the Acting 
> Swinger for (None Yet).
> 
> GF
> 
So noted.

Niccolo Flychuck
Chess-Umpire

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Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 07:46:40 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: My Home

Brian Raiter wrote:

> I shall ack a Little Bag O' Chips trinket ("G", I think by now).

By my count it was "I".

Malenkai
Financier

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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 08:50:49 -0500
From: "Bollinger, John C." <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka: Auction

>
>I am calling a public auction.  I will be auctioning my Trinket
>called Runestone of Jukkasjarvi Fragment 16 (randomly chosen).  
>The minimum bid is A$3, and the auction ends in 3 days.

I bid A$ 50 for RoJ Fragment 16.

ThinMan

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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 11:18:50 -0800 (PST)
From: fnord <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Auction

> >I am calling a public auction.  I will be auctioning my Trinket
> >called Runestone of Jukkasjarvi Fragment 16 (randomly chosen).  
> 
> ThinMan bid A$ 50 for RoJ Fragment 16.

I bid A$62

fnord

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Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 10:46:59 -0800
From: Stephen McCulley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Auction

Salutations!

I bid A$75 for Fragment 16.

		Strider

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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 14:06:21 -0600 (CST)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Acka: Gumball

It is the first Thursday of February, and I am chewing the gumball.

/dev/joe

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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 14:47:46 -0600
From: Mitchell Harding <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Auction 

At 10:46 AM 2/6/97 -0800, you wrote:
>Salutations!
>
>I bid A$75 for Fragment 16.
>
>		Strider

I bid A$90 for Fragment 16.

Robert Sevin

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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 15:19:16 -0600 (CST)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Gumball

> It is the first Thursday of February, and I am chewing the gumball.

It is the first Thursday of February, and I am chewing the gumball.

- --Mohammed
suspicious

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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 16:56:00 -0600 (CST)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Gumball

It is the first Thursday of February, and I too am chewing the gumball.
I feel a strange wave of nausea pass over me, as if I have just caught 
some noxious Gumbally-transmitted disease.  I will probably fall down 
with snowgod's disease, soon.

GF
stop GTD's

On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Jason Orendorff wrote:

> > It is the first Thursday of February, and I am chewing the gumball.
> 
> It is the first Thursday of February, and I am chewing the gumball.
> 
> --Mohammed
> suspicious
> 

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Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 18:12:08 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFJ 343 Verdict

CFJ 343 has been judged FALSE.

Clerk of the Courts
- -----------------------------------------------------------------

Call For Judgement 343
  Subject: Building
Initiator: Jammer
    Judge: snowgod (declined)
2nd Judge: Bascule (declined)
3rd Judge: Niccolo Flychuck (failed to respond)
4th Judge: ThinMan (assigned Feb 06, 1997, 01:14h EST)
Judgement: FALSE

Statement:

Jammer should be allowed to build his house.

Jammer's Reasoning:

Basically, there is no rule against it.

According to Rule 101/1
The Game of Ackanomic

     Ackanomic is a self-modifying game of rules. All players must
always
abide by all the rules then in effect, in the form in which they are
then
in
     effect, and interpreted in accordance with current game custom.

     The rules and the game state may only be changed as described in
the
rules. Actions described in the rules may only be performed, and shall
only
     have those effects, as specified by the rules. Whatever is not
explicitly prohibited or regulated by the rules, however, is permitted
and
     unregulated. Game custom, spirit of the game, and linguistic
interpretation are external concepts and are not regulated or part of
the
game state.

     The game consists of a sequence of "Cycles". Cycles end when
specified
by the Rules. At most one Cycle is in progress at any one time. A
     player may only win a Cycle by achieving a winning condition that
is
defined by the Rules. A player may not win the Game of Ackanomic. A
     player always has the option to leave the Game of Ackanomic.

     This rule has precedence over all other rules.

Within the Rules there are rules regarding the size of buildings
Rule 839/6
Buildings
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)

     A building is a class of entity in Ackanomic which can be of six
sizes:

          small (aka cramped or puny) (1 land unit)
          cosy (2 land units)
          classy (4 land units)
          lavish (6 land units)
          sumptuous (9 land units)
          extravagant (12 land units)

     Each instance of a player Home is a Common Location, with the
restriction that no player may enter a Home they don't own without
permission
     of the owner.

     The Senate Building is lavish. The FM building is a classy place.
The
Courthouse is a cosy building. These buildings may never be smaller that
as
     defined originally but can be greater. All of these buildings are
Common Locations.

     All other land, with or without buildings on them, that is not
owned
by players is called common lands. All deals to sell or buy common land
must
     be approved by Senate vote.

     The size of the buildings cannot be changed except as allowed by
the
rules.

which does not refer in any way to how to build a building, as well as
rules
covering the size of thing that has some revelaence to the subject of
buildings

Rule 1519/0
The Size of Things
Jammer (John Lotz)

     I wish to make a modest proposal.

     All Items in Acka have a size measured in thingees.

     Negligible 0 Thingees
     Small 1 Thingees
     Medium 2 Thingees
     Large 4 Thingees
     Huge 5 Thingees
     Really Huge 6 Thingees

     The significance of this is that all structures and land have a
capacity measured in Thingees as well;
     A Space in a structure holds 10 Thingees.
     A Kaa of land holds 25 Thingees.
     A Tower holds 6 Thingees.

Once again there is no element of description of how to build one.

Additionally there are references to houses in
Rule 252/1
Joining the Game
Guy Fawkes (Robert Shimmin)

     For the purposes of this rule, a player whose most recent departure
from Ackanomic prompted the creation of an Undead is considered a
     Returning player. All other players are considered New.

     A person wishing to join the game, and who cannot do so as a
Returning
player, should notify the Registrar, providing a valid email address,
their
     real name, and the legal Ackanomic name they wish to play under.
Upon
them providing this information, should the requested name indeed be a
     legal Ackanomic name, the Registrar shall post a public message
announcing the new player and providing their Ackanomic name, real name,
and
     email address, and if the prospective player provided it, how they
discovered the game. Upon the posting of such an announcement, the
person
     becomes registered as a player.

     Upon the registration of a New player, the following procedure
takes
place, in the order shown.

     1) The New player is granted 1 kaa of urban land and a Small
building
thereupon as their legal residence. This building shall be known as
their
     Home. This building shall also be known as "player name's House",
where "player name" is replaced by their official Ackanomic name. A
player
     may change the name of this building by publically announcing the
new
name and unambiguously identifying the building they wish to rename.

     2) The New player is paid from the Treasury the average A$balance
of
all other extant players.

     3) The New player is given 100 newly created PFBonds associated
with
himself. The Financier shall assign a label that may be used to refer to
     the PFBonds associated with the New player, although this procedure
may continue without waiting for him to do so.

     4) The Registrar shall select a Mentor for the new player. The
Mentor
receives A$25 from the Treasury.

     A person able to join the game as a Returning player may do so by
posting a public message to that effect. This message must include their
     Ackanomic and real life names, as well as a valid email address.
The
Registrar shall then record their return to the players list.

     Upon the registration of a Returning player, the following
procedure
takes place:

     1) The Undead created in response to their most recent departure
from
Acka, who bears the Ackanomic name that player had immediately prior
     to his most recent departure from Acka, transfers all entities it
is
haunting to the Returning player. These entities are now no longer
haunted.

     2) That Undead is destroyed.

     3) All Bond Promissories in that player's real life name are
converted
to PFBonds associated with that player. Their label is the same as the
     PFBonds whose conversion created the Bond Promissories.

     4) If the player left during the current cycle, his score is the
minimum of 0 and the score he had upon last leaving the game. Otherwise,
his score is
     -15N, where N is the number of cycles he has won. If this causes
his
score to be negative, he is given a Victory Eggplant, and his Eggplant
     Weight is set to -15N, where N is defined as above.

While the appropriate section of this rule
 1) The New player is granted 1 kaa of urban land and a Small building
thereupon as their legal residence. This building shall be known as
their
     Home. This building shall also be known as "player name's House",
where "player name" is replaced by their official Ackanomic name. A
player
     may change the name of this building by publically announcing the
new
name and unambiguously identifying the building they wish to rename;

does seem to mention the creation of a house, neither states how this is
accomplished nor does it preclude any
other method of doing so.

Other mentions to buildings and houses and structu mention the size of a
building, not anything about how to build it.

At the same time it should be noted that there are rules on how to
create
trinkets, blueprints and the like to provide a means to
make them, so it cannot be argued that it is emmpossible or there was
neither time nor room to concider it.

ThinMan's Reasoning:

Jammer has argued convincingly that there was, at the time this CFJ
was submitted, no procedure established for the construction of new
buildings of any type.  Such construction is therefore neither
explicitly prohibited nor explicitly regulated.  However, that is
insufficient to render the action permissable -- it must also be the
case that the action does not affect the game state.

Does constructing a building, then, affect the game state?  I conclude
that it does, and refer to Rule 1321:

    Deep In the rain forest it was doing what it usually does in rain
    forests, which was raining: hence the name. This rain will cause a
    horrible flood to sweep through Ackanomic destroying all of the
    suction cups that keep us attached to the bottom of the earth is
    something is not done. Therefore, sometime during the first three
    days of each month every non-vacationing priest must post a prayer
    of deliverance to the public forum. This prayer must contain at
    lest 3 words with 6 syllables, and one line of text that is "spoken
    in tongues".

    If exactly one priest fails to comply with this rule his house
    shall lose it's suctions cups and dangle from the bottom of the
    earth. If two priest fail to comply, 5 buildings chosen at random
    will lose their suctions cups. If more than two priest fail to
    comply, the floods shall destroy all of the suction cups in
    Ackanomic, causing everything to dangle.

There is at least one instance in which a random determination among
the existing buildings must be made, the addition of a building not
only alters the odds of other buildings being randomly selected, but
allows the possibility that the new building will be selected.

I observe that if we agree that buildings are entities by game custom,
then construction of a new building necessarilly changes the game
state, as it gives the builder a new possession.  I am not entirely
confortable in deciding that buildings qualify as entities, however.

I also note that I am required to judge the truth or falsehood of the
statement as of the time that it was submitted for judgement.  Since
that time we have added R846 to the ruleset, which codifies the
construction and demolition of buildings, so Jammer can, in fact,
build a new house, provided that he complies with R 846.

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Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 17:34:04 -0800
From: Stephen McCulley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Auction

Mitchell Harding wrote:
> 
> At 10:46 AM 2/6/97 -0800, you wrote:
> >Salutations!
> >
> >I bid A$75 for Fragment 16.
> >
> >               Strider
> 
> I bid A$90 for Fragment 16.
> 
> Robert Sevin
I bid A$100 for Fragment 16

Strider

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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 17:42:07 -0800
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: Acting Registrar

Is there no registrar until snowgod returns?
If there is an acting registrar, who is it?

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Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 20:45:27 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Acting Registrar

[email-masked] wrote:
> 
> Is there no registrar until snowgod returns?
> If there is an acting registrar, who is it?

Niccolo Flychuck
Malenkai

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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 20:21:29 -0600
From: Mitchell Harding <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Auction 

>> >I bid A$75 for Fragment 16.
>> >
>> >               Strider
>> I bid A$90 for Fragment 16.
>> 
>> Robert Sevin
>I bid A$100 for Fragment 16
>
>Strider

I bid A$120 for Fragment 16.

Robert Sevin

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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 20:55:50 -0600 (CST)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  offer

I hereby offer Malenkai the Trinket I received in the Castle on a Cloud
(one of the Little Bags O' Chips), in exchange for all the Trinkets e owns
whose names contain two consecutive 'k's *and* Malenkai's Scroll of
Crumble.

- --Mohammed

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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 21:03:17 -0600 (CST)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: OMCL

I am using the OMCL to zap Malenkai, forcing him to accept the trade 
offer Mohammed proposed to him tonight.  (The one which included among 
its provisions the transfer of all the Runestone of Jukkasjarvi remaining 
in Malenkai's possession to Mohammed.)

Guy Fawkes 

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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 21:14:17 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  P1699 failed quorum (Chess Things)

Proposal 1699
Chess Things
Niccolo Flychuck

Votes cast by active players:  7 / 19 = 36.842105%
Yes:  5    No:  0     Present:  2   ...Proposal failed quorum.

Niccolo Flychuck +2 : EP P1699

YES votes:
	Guy Fawkes
	Mohammed
	ThinMan
	Swann
	Strider

NO votes:

PRESENT votes:
	Malenkai
	Lestrade

Active players who did not vote:
	fnord
	Robert Sevin
	Ludwig
	Calvin N Hobbes
	Niccolo Flychuck
	snowgod
	breadbox
	/dev/joe
	Narf
	Techno
	mr cwm
	Habeous Corpus

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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 21:14:18 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  P1701 failed quorum (Creation of a PartyChessPiece Sniper)

Proposal 1701
Creation of a PartyChessPiece Sniper
Guy Fawkes

Votes cast by active players:  9 / 19 = 47.368421%
Yes:  8    No:  0     Present:  2   ...Proposal failed quorum.

YES votes:
	Malenkai
	Guy Fawkes
	/dev/joe
	Niccolo Flychuck
	ThinMan
	Swann
	Strider
	Vulcan Unity vote

NO votes:

PRESENT votes:
	Lestrade
	breadbox

Active players who did not vote:
	Mohammed
	fnord
	Robert Sevin
	Ludwig
	Calvin N Hobbes
	snowgod
	Narf
	Techno
	mr cwm
	Habeous Corpus

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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 21:14:18 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  P1704 failed quorum (unSneeking the Active Player definition change)

Proposal 1704
unSneeking the Active Player definition change
Malenkai

Votes cast by active players:  9 / 19 = 47.368421%
Yes:  10    No:  0     Present:  0   ...Proposal failed quorum.

Malenkai +2 : EP P1704

YES votes:
	Malenkai
	Guy Fawkes
	/dev/joe
	Niccolo Flychuck
	ThinMan
	Lestrade
	breadbox
	Swann
	Strider
	Vulcan Unity vote

NO votes:

PRESENT votes:

Active players who did not vote:
	Mohammed
	fnord
	Robert Sevin
	Ludwig
	Calvin N Hobbes
	snowgod
	Narf
	Techno
	mr cwm
	Habeous Corpus

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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 21:14:15 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  P1694 accepted (Overworked-Rest in Peace)

Proposal 1694
Overworked-Rest in Peace
Malenkai

Votes cast by active players:  12 / 19 = 63.157895%
Yes:  12    No:  0     Present:  1   ...Proposal accepted.

Malenkai +2 : EP P1694

YES votes:
	/dev/joe
	Niccolo Flychuck
	Strider
	fnord
	Swann
	breadbox
	ThinMan
	Lestrade
	Guy Fawkes
	Mohammed
	Malenkai
	Vulcan Unity vote

NO votes:

PRESENT votes:
	Robert Sevin

Active players who did not vote:
	Ludwig
	Calvin N Hobbes
	snowgod
	Narf
	Techno
	mr cwm
	Habeous Corpus

Text of accepted proposal:

Proposal 1694
Overworked-Rest in Peace
Malenkai

Create a new rule entitled "Undead-Harfer", numbered 426,
with the following text:

"
      The Office of the Undead-Harfer is a Functional Office.
 
      The Duties are: 

      a) To maintain a list of all Undead, the entities they are
haunting, and any other pertinent details of the Undead.
      b) To make this list available to any player upon request.

$$
The text in this rule enclosed in double dollar signs, inclusive, is
known as 'This Section'.

Within a fortnight of the creation of this rule, the Undead-Harfer or
acting Undead-Harfer shall produce a list which is a good faith attempt
at an accurate list as specified in section a) above.  If no list
is published within the time limit, the null list is assumed to have
been published upon the expiration of the time limit.

[All officers shall make a good faith attempt to help the Undead-Harfer
compile such a list.  I have some of it, and I know of one player who
stated willingness to do the Undead-Harfer job].

Upon the contents of such a list being publically knowable, the following
will occur in the order specified:

1) All Undead not on the list shall be known as 'Lost Souls'.  No
other entities shall be known as 'Lost Souls'; any such attribute is
removed from any such entities.

2) All Lost Souls shall stop haunting all A$s they are haunting.  Any
other A$s being haunted, but not accounted for on the list, shall no
longer be being haunted as well.

3) All entities, including houses and land, being haunted by Lost
Souls shall have the attribute of 'ZZimsy'.  No other entities, except
as designated by this rule, shall have the attribute of ZZimsy.

4) All entities which are not on the list, but are being
haunted by Undead on the list, are given the attribute of ZZimsy as well.

5) All ZZimsy entites are destroyed.  This clause has precedence over all
rules.

6) All Lost Souls are destroyed.  This clause has precedence over all
rules.

7) This rule is amended to delete This Section.
$$

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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 21:14:17 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  P1700 failed quorum (Prime Otzma)

Proposal 1700
Prime Otzma
Niccolo Flychuck

Votes cast by active players:  8 / 19 = 42.105263%
Yes:  7    No:  1     Present:  1   ...Proposal failed quorum.

Niccolo Flychuck +2 : EP P1700

YES votes:
	Guy Fawkes
	/dev/joe
	Niccolo Flychuck
	ThinMan
	Swann
	Strider
	Vulcan Unity vote

NO votes:
	Malenkai

PRESENT votes:
	Lestrade

Active players who did not vote:
	Mohammed
	fnord
	Robert Sevin
	Ludwig
	Calvin N Hobbes
	snowgod
	breadbox
	Narf
	Techno
	mr cwm
	Habeous Corpus

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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 21:14:19 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  P1706 failed quorum (Reducing the ruleset size by a factor of 0.0006137)

Proposal 1706
Reducing the ruleset size by a factor of 0.0006137
Malenkai

Votes cast by active players:  8 / 19 = 42.105263%
Yes:  9    No:  0     Present:  0   ...Proposal failed quorum.

Malenkai +2 : EP P1706

YES votes:
	ThinMan
	Guy Fawkes
	/dev/joe
	Niccolo Flychuck
	Malenkai
	Lestrade
	breadbox
	Strider
	Vulcan Unity vote

NO votes:

PRESENT votes:

Active players who did not vote:
	Mohammed
	fnord
	Robert Sevin
	Ludwig
	Calvin N Hobbes
	snowgod
	Narf
	Techno
	mr cwm
	Swann
	Habeous Corpus

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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 21:14:16 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  P1695 accepted (Overworked II - Bond-Harfer)

Proposal 1695
Overworked II - Bond-Harfer
Malenkai

Votes cast by active players:  12 / 19 = 63.157895%
Yes:  11    No:  0     Present:  2   ...Proposal accepted.

Malenkai +2 : EP P1695

YES votes:
	/dev/joe
	Niccolo Flychuck
	Strider
	fnord
	Swann
	ThinMan
	Lestrade
	Guy Fawkes
	Mohammed
	Malenkai
	Vulcan Unity vote

NO votes:

PRESENT votes:
	Robert Sevin
	breadbox

Active players who did not vote:
	Ludwig
	Calvin N Hobbes
	snowgod
	Narf
	Techno
	mr cwm
	Habeous Corpus

Text of accepted proposal:

Proposal 1695
Overworked II - Bond-Harfer
Malenkai

Create a new rule entitled "Bond-Harfer Meta Rule", numbered 427.1, with
the following text:

"
[I.  Do we want bonds?]

Upon the creation of this rule, the following will occur, in the 
order specified:

1) A Hearing shall be called on the future of PFBonds, the valid responses
being:
 
"Bonds are worth the work, and I'm willing to do that work."
"Bonds are cool, but they just aren't worth the effort."

[II. No, we do not.]

Upon a result of the Hearing of "Bonds are cool, but they just aren't
worth the effort.", being publically knowable, with the added stipulation
that at least two thirds of the responses were this response, the stuff
on the following lettered list (Bond Repeal List) will occur in the order
specified:

a) All players are paid A$5 for every PFBond they possess.
b) All PBbonds, Bond Promissories, and Bond Options are destroyed.

c) Rule 252 is amended to delete the following 2 sections of text:
"
3) The New player is given 100 newly created PFBonds associated with
himself. The Financier shall assign a label that may be used to refer
to the PFBonds associated with the New player, although this procedure
may continue without waiting for him to do so.
"
and
"
3) All Bond Promissories in that player's real life name are converted
to PFBonds associated with that player. Their label is the same as the
PFBonds whose conversion created the Bond Promissories.
"

[and then the Spelling Bee renumbers the sections]

d) Rule 256 is amended to remove ", every PFBond associated with him is
destroyed", and
"
6) Every PFBond associated with him is converted into a Bond Promissory
in his real life name. Bond Promissories are tradeable entities.
"

e) Rules 507 ("PF Bonds"), 508 ("Bond Yields"), and 512 ("Bond Options")
are repealed.

f) Rule 666 is amended to remove
"g) Bond payments are held in suspension." and
"i) Bond payments are reinstituted, as if all players' scores were
their Eggplant Weight at the end of the previous bond cycle." 

[and then the Spelling Bee reletters the sections]
 
g) Rule 427.1, "Bond-Harfer Meta Rule", is then repealed.
 
[III.  Sure, lets keep bonds around.]
 
Upon any other result of the Hearing being publically knowable, including
a result of "Bonds are cool, but they just aren't worth the effort."
such that that response received less than two thirds of the responses,
the following will occur in the order specified:

1) A new rule entitled "Bond-Harfer", and numbered 427, shall be created
with the text below, delimited by double dollar signs:

[
$$
The Office of the Bond-Harfer is a Functional Office. The Duties of
the Bond-Harfer are: 

      (a) to calculate and publically report the yields on PFBonds,
per PFBond, when they occur.
      (b) to calculate and report PFBond yields per player based on the
PFBond yields per bond and players' PFBond portfolios.
$$
]

2) [A nomination for the functional office of Bond-Harfer now occurs]

3) Upon the results of the Nomination for the office of Bond-Harfer 
being publically knowable, one of the following will occur:

A) If there was at least one volunteer for the office, this rule
(Rule 427.1, "Bond-Harfer Meta Rule") is repealed upon a Bond-Harfer
being appointed.

B) If there were no volunteers for the office, Rule 427, "Bond-Harfer",
is repealed, the nomination for that office is terminated, then
steps a) thru g) on the list entitled "Bond Repeal List" occur.

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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 21:14:17 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  P1698 accepted (Postal Code)

Proposal 1698
Postal Code
/dev/joe

Votes cast by active players:  10 / 19 = 52.631579%
Yes:  10    No:  0     Present:  1   ...Proposal accepted.

/dev/joe +2 : EP P1698

YES votes:
	/dev/joe
	Niccolo Flychuck
	Strider
	Swann
	ThinMan
	Lestrade
	Guy Fawkes
	Mohammed
	Malenkai
	Vulcan Unity vote

NO votes:

PRESENT votes:
	breadbox

Active players who did not vote:
	fnord
	Robert Sevin
	Ludwig
	Calvin N Hobbes
	snowgod
	Narf
	Techno
	mr cwm
	Habeous Corpus

Text of accepted proposal:

Proposal 1698
Postal Code
/dev/joe

Repeal Rule 372, "Customary Subject Line".  {{[Incorporated into 422]}}

Amend Rule 422, "Postmaster", to read in full:

  The Postmaster is an optional functional office with one seat.

  A duty of the Postmaster shall be to create and maintain an official
  mailing list for Ackanomic, so public messages can be sent to one
  address and forwarded from there to all players and observers
  automatically.  The Postmaster shall create additional, optional
  lists as he deems it appropriate.  Another duty of the Postmaster
  shall be to keep a publicly available record of the Postal Code.

  The Postal Code is a document which may be changed by the Postmaster
  by publicly posting the desired changes; if fewer than 2 players
  publicly disagree with the change within 3 days, it is applied to
  the Postal Code; otherwise, the change is ignored.

  A message is a public message if and only if it is distributed to all
  non-vacationing Players or it is sent to any mailing list indicated
  as a public forum in the Postal Code, and any actions performed in the
  message obey all restrictions in the Postal Code for that list, and
  the subject line contains either "Ackanomic:" or "Acka:".
  [Only actions are regulated; discussion can take place anywhere,
  though players should try to post to appropriate lists.]

  For a player not on vacation not to be subscribed to at least one form
  official mailing list is a Crime.  There may be multiple forms of the
  official list, such as a regular list and a digest list.  Any person
  subscribed to any public forum who is not a player is considered to
  be an observer.  The Postal Code must always indicate which list is
  the official list.

  If a digest version of any mailing list exists, the Postmaster shall have
  the privilege of moving any player or observer from the normal list to
  the digest version of that list if that person's e-mail is bouncing.

  The Postmaster shall receive the usual salary for a Functional Office.

  {{The Postal Code now reads as follows:

  All addresses below which end in @wilma should be treated as having
  ".che.utexas.edu" appended to the name.  All mailing lists mentioned
  below are public forums unless otherwise specified.

  ackanomic@wilma is the official mailing list.
  ackanomic-digest@wilma is the digest version of this list.
  acka-priv@wilma is an alternate form of ackanomic@wilma, suitable for
  messages desiring a private reply.

  acka-games@wilma may only be used for actions pertaining to Games &
  Contest games, treasure hunts, Grab-a-Donkey, and The Machine that
  Goes *ping*.
  acka-games-priv@wilma is an alternate form of acka-games@wilma, with the
  same restrictions, but suitable for messages desiring a private reply.
  ackanomic-digest@wilma is also the digest form of acka-games@wilma

  acka-chess@wilma may only be used for actions in Party Chess.

  acka-financial@wilma may only be used for trades or gifts of entities.
  }}

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