Subject: Ackanomic Digest V2 #2
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Ackanomic Digest         Monday, March 3 1997         Volume 02 : Number 002

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Date: Sat, 01 Mar 1997 22:24:16 -0800
From: Stephen McCulley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acke:IRC

JOIN US JOIN US JOIN US JOIN us

Strider

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Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 01:35:23 -0600 (CST)
From: Thierry Joffrain <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Prayer of Deliverance 

Astronautically speaking,
"laki atino makini lorhoho"
Is neither aerodynamical
Nor really astrobiologic.

CnH

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Date: Sat, 01 Mar 1997 23:37:21 -0800
From: Stephen McCulley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:IRC

Join us, Calvin N Hobbes!

Strider

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Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 23:47:17 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Auction

The auction for Fibber the Low-Grade Brass-Painted Cheapo Plastic Flea
has ended. snowgod is the purchaser at A$14.

May Fibber prove to be a valued friend, snowgod.

snowgod -14, trinket purchase
breadbox +1, chief cheese commission

breadbox
no longer Chief Cheese

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Date: Sat, 01 Mar 1997 23:58:39 -0800
From: Stephen McCulley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:Questions

The question game is played as follows.

All statements must be in the form of a question.
If you make a statement, your opponent gains a point.
If you repeat yourself, your opponent gains a point.

Strider

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Date: Sun, 02 Mar 1997 00:04:20 -0800
From: Stephen McCulley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:Questions

Second try

Whenever you make a statement or repeat yourself, you get a point.
This should work better for multiplayer.

get 10 points and you're out?

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Date: Sun, 02 Mar 1997 04:05:55 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Auction reminder

Just a reminder that these auctions end today:

RoJ Fragment 21 public auction (ends Sun Mar 2nd 23:53; ThinMan at $35) 

RoJ Fragment 10 public Shubik auction (ends Sun Mar 2nd 23:53; ThinMan at 
$42; Narf at A$10) 

RoJ Fragment 7 private auction (ends Sun Mar 2nd 23:53) 

Chief Cheese

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Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 03:29:11 -0600 (CST)
From: Thierry Joffrain <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Machine (CnH) 

>The Machine has teleported to Calvin N Hobbes's house.

Mesmerized by this object, I paused. It could have been warm to the touch
but in that instant my senses were surely deceiving me. A click, a whir and
a pong brought me back to reality and I reached for some paper on which to
write the new Truth. I could only wish the Y-Pair was here, who are so
interested in the Truth. No longer was it out there, but in here with me.

"IF AND ONLY IF today *** * **** ********** ******* **** ***** *** *** ****
***** ******, THEN the Machine That Goes *ping* shall go *ping*."

Calvin N Hobbes

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Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 03:33:23 -0600 (CST)
From: Thierry Joffrain <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Machine (CnH) 

Today is Sunday, the 2nd day of March, in the Year of Our Lord 1997, and the
Machine That Goes *ping* Has Gone *ping* today. Since I have been scholar,
the Machine has gone *ping* 1 time.

Calvin N Hobbes

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Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 13:42:56 -0600 (CST)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Re: Acka: Machine (CnH)

CnH wrote:
> Today is Sunday, the 2nd day of March, in the Year of Our Lord 1997, and the
> Machine That Goes *ping* Has Gone *ping* today. Since I have been scholar,
> the Machine has gone *ping* 1 time.

This is wrong.  The truth was only posted today, so the machine doesn't
start *ping*ing until tomorrow.  From R1209:

  V.  Beginning on the calendar day after the Scholar announces the Machine's
  truth, the Machine shall go *ping* exactly once on any calendar day the
  statement described by "today {if clause}" is at any time true. The
  Machine shall not otherwise go *ping*.
  ...
  The scholar may and must make this announcement if and only if the Machine
  has gone *ping* that day, and he must post exactly one announcement per
  *ping* during the day in which that *ping* occurred.

/dev/joe

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Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 13:03:17 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: ThinMan 

Is ThinMan's clock off?  I though I saw a messagfe from him when I was
downloading my mail, but when I went to read it it wasn't there.  I sort
messages by time sent (yeah, silly, I know) so I thought maybe his clock
was off.

snowgod
Evil Twin

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Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 13:49:42 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Yet Another New Player 

We have yet another new player in Ackanomic.  His real name is Wally
Holland and his email address is [email-masked].  For his
Ackanomic name he has chosen You can call me Al.

Can he call us betty? Anyway, I have been selected as his Mentor.

In response to the Market Research Question he writes:
>All right! Actually, I think I heard about Ackanomic by linking to it from
>Suber's page. I found some info on Nomic in general, read the ruleset, then
>went browsing for more info...visited Agora a few times, considered joining,
>put it all on hold for about a year, then came back to the Nomic site(s) out
>of curiosity and randomly chose the "silly Nomic game".
>
>More than you wanted to know, right? :v)

Let's welcome him to Ackanomic!

snowgod
Resgistrar

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Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 14:09:59 -0800
From: [email-masked] (John Martin Lotz)
Subject: Acka:  Band

Done

Tie # 6 to Smiley

I am creating a trinket called Smiley for 5 A$.  It is 
circular in shape, yellow and has of picture of a Smiley
Face on it.

At the party at the Band Shell, I will present this 
trinket to Smiley.

Jammer
Jammer -5 A$

Jammer,

	About the band.......If I can join, I would be happy to donate some
A$'s to the band.  I have 1072 A$ now.  I was thinking about donating to
you, as well as the Earth Defense Missles.  I thought it a good idea to
round my total out to an even number, easy to remember.  So, I will
donate 22 A$ to the band if you let me join.  Also, I will donate an
extra 50 A$ to the band if you would so kind as to let me have your "tie
#6", and create for me a trinket (seeing as though I can't do a thing
with my hands), that is called Smiley, and give it to me.  It needn't be
expensive; thus, worth only 5 A$.  The attributes of Smiley are as
follows: circular in shape, yellow, and has a picture of a Smiley Face
on it that looks like this:  

- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
			        *********
			     ***         ***
		          ***               ***
		       ***     ***     ***     ***
		     ***       ***     ***       ***
		   ***				   ***
		  ***				    ***
		  ***                               ***
		  ***                               ***
		   ***     ****            ****    ***
		     ***     ****        ****    ***
		       ***    ****      ****   ***
			  ***     *****     ***
			     ***	 ***
				*********

				   	(Picture of it not needed)
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------

	So, in conclusion, I will donate to the band if you meet these two
conditions:
	1} I can join the band
	2} you tell me HOW to donate! :o)

Well?  I'll be waiting.....

						Smiley :o)

P.S.- This is not a bribe.  It's simply just a buisiness compromise. 
Even if you don't give me the tie, and create for me the trinket, I'll
still join along with a 22 A$ donation.  Okay?  :o)  Bye!!

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Date: Sun, 02 Mar 1997 21:48:31 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Machine (CnH)

/dev/joe wrote:

[the machine went ping]

> This is wrong.  The truth was only posted today, so the machine doesn't
> start *ping*ing until tomorrow. 

It is publically knowable that the scholar ran afoul of part of
the machine rule, therefore the machine teleports to another player's
house, in this case it teleports to breadbox.

Malenkai

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Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 19:16:32 -0800
From: [email-masked] (John Martin Lotz)
Subject: RE: Acka:  Band

	Okay, I'm creating a trinket called "a trinket called Smiley" for 5 A$	
	It is circular in shape, yellow and has of picture of a Smiley
	Face on it.

	At the party at the Band Shell, I will present "a trinket called Smiley" to Smiley

Jammer
Jammer -5 A$

Jammer wrote:

> I am creating a trinket called Smiley for 5 A$.

This does not happen.  A trinket cannot have the name of a player
(or any other entity).

Malenkai

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Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 22:28:27 -0600
From: Mitchell Harding <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Meet on IRC at 10:45pm CST (Sunday) 

Be on Acka IRC at 10:45pm CST and we can harf around.

Robert Sevin

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Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 22:29:24 -0600 (CST)
From: Thierry Joffrain <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Machine (CnH) 

>> This is wrong.  The truth was only posted today, so the machine doesn't
>> start *ping*ing until tomorrow. 
>
>It is publically knowable that the scholar ran afoul of part of
>the machine rule, therefore the machine teleports to another player's
>house, in this case it teleports to breadbox.

Phew! That was going to be way too much work!     :-)
Still, all that preparation and to get off on a technicality.

krial-oocaj!!

CnH

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Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 22:40:58 -0600
From: Mitchell Harding <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Ghost game on Acka IRC at 11:30pm CST 

Be on Acka IRC at 11:30pm CST tonight to play a game of Ghost!

Robert Sevin

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