Subject: Ackanomic Digest V2 #108
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Ackanomic Digest         Monday, June 2 1997         Volume 02 : Number 108

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Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 09:03:08 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Humphrey <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Duel

Okay, now that I know what I'm supposed to do as two-star's Second...

I hereby announce that two-star has challenged Mohammed to a Duel, mainly
because of some ongoing challenge of Mohammed's that I only understand
vaguely at this time, which requires defeating him in a duel.  (No personal
animosity is present, I believe.)  A Challenge has been made.  And I've
fulfilled my initial duties under R1215.  :-)

Mohammed can find a Second(/dev/joe has volunteered, I believe), and has
the option of choosing the Game or Contest for the Duel, or passing that
option on to two-star.  But I'm sure he knew that already.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
Song In My Head--Animotion:I Engineer
Current Book--Lesley Choyce:Trapdoor To Heaven
There is no safe seat at the feast.

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Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 11:01:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: "A.K.A. TheWiz" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Prayer for Deliverance

>> A scrap of paper bears the protest
>> "Uijt jt opu uif ijeefo dpouftu."
>	:o)

  Huh?

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Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 11:07:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: "A.K.A. TheWiz" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Snowgod map auction

>I am auctioning the Snowgod Map Contract to the highest bidder in a public 
>Shubik auction. Minimum bid is A$100. The auction will end in 3 days or 3 hours 
>after the last bid, whichever is later. All A$ raised will go to me, of course.

  I bid A$100.

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Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 11:08:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: "A.K.A. TheWiz" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Snowgod map auction

>I am hereby announcing a public, Shubik auction for the trinket known as
>Antimatter.  Minimum bid is A$99.  The winner of Antimatter will have
>complete control of the fate of Antimatter's name.

  I bid A$99.

BwaHaHa!  Vote   Your_Name_Here   for Mad Scientist!

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Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 09:18:59 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Humphrey <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Prostho Plus

In celebration of my getting the Great Trombone, I will now exchange my
Rock To Wind A String Around for a Prosthetic Forehead.

As I browse through the Treasury looking for a PF(PF?  Is _that_ what those
really are?)that suits me, I see a number of them hanging on a big rack.
No, wait, that's not a rack--it's a Forehead itself, covered with a
tremendously huge set of deer antlers!  Tossing the other Foreheads that
were hanging on it onto the floor(the janitorial robot can clean it up
later, and besides, there's no gravity, so they don't hit the floor anyway),
I take this Forehead for my own, put it on, thankful there is no gravity so
that the antlers don't give me a permanent neck injury or anything.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
Song In My Head--Animotion:I Engineer
Current Book--Lesley Choyce:Trapdoor To Heaven
Tonight's the night--sleep in a eucalyptus tree!

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Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 10:35:10 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Acka: On CFJ 379's goosiness

Forwarded message:
> From: "Bollinger, John C." <[email-masked]>
> To: "[email-masked]'" <[email-masked]>
> Subject: RE: Acka: CFJ 379 (two star)
> Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 08:45:57 -0500
> 
> Guy Fawkes wrote:
> 
> > Even though the "cannot be determined with finality" clause has been 
> > removed from the Paradox Win criteria, it is my (non-Expert) opinion 
> > that asserting "The legality of [some game-state affecting player
> > action] 
> > cannot be determined with finality" is equivalent to saying that the 
> > action appears both legal and illegal under the ruleset -- its
> > legality 
> > cannot be determined with finality.  R601 does not explicitly that its
> > 
> > exact language must be used; IMO, the _content_ of this CFJ's
> > statement 
> > is sufficiently equivalent to one of the criteria to qualify as a
> > paradox 
> > win CFJ.
> > 
> Your point is acknowledged, but I am not sure I agree that R601 does
> not explicitly require the particular language it describes.  Perhaps
> it does not.  In any case, however, I think that "appears equally legal
> and illegal" is a much stronger claim than "cannot be determined with
> finality," and thus that the two are _not_ equivalent.  For example, an
> action for which most, but not all, indications were in agreement about
> its legality would not appear _equally_ legal and illegal to me, but
> its legality could not be determined with finality.
> 
> ThinMan

It was thus decided that CFJ 379 was not a paradox win CFJ, on May 13th.

/dev/joe

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Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 11:00:58 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Re: Acka: CFJ 392 (Antimatter)

> [Antimatter] (sorry I forget the new name, and its not on the pe page)
> has been chosen.

His actual current name is "Antimatter was here"

> Call For Judgment 392
> Statement:
> 
> For Bascule to give A$10 to Alfvaen is equally legal and illegal.

> Bascule's Reasoning:
> 
> Bascule has two contracts binding his actions. The contracts demand
> that he gives A$10 to Alfvaen, and that he does not give any A$
> to Alfvaen. There is no means for deciding precedence between
> contracts, and therefore the action of giving the A$ is equally legal
> and illegal.

> From Rule 1995:"Once a player has signed a contract, that player must
> obey any restrictions that that contract places on em"
> 
> The player _must obey_ any restrictions. This means that if I were to
> give A$10 to Alfvaen, this would be legal according to the first
> contract, but illegal according to the second. If I do not give any
> A$ to Alfvaen, this is illegal according to the first contract, but
> legal according to the second.

The contracts do not make anything legal.  All a contract does, by the
fragment of R1995 (now R517) above, is make it illegal to do other than
the contract stipulates.  The contract does not guarantee that the
actions it requires will be legal.  By Bascule's reasoning, I could
sign a contract that says "/dev/joe must take all A$ and PFbonds owned
by any player or organization" and make it actually happen -- but the
rule does not support this.  Signing a contract that can't be legally
filled is just a way of forcing yourself to commit a crime.  Signing
two contradictory contracts forces you to commit the specific (but
unnamed) crime in the contracts rule.  (Which ought to be called "Breach
of Contract" when the contract rule is patched up -- and as somebody
commented, signing a contract which conflicts with an earlier contract
you have already signed should be an impermissible action, and a crime,
perhaps called Fraud.)

As far as what actually happens with Bascule's two contracts, the Crime
rule tells us that an attempt to commit an "impermissible" action fails.
Game custom holds (and in cases such as reporting information, must hold)
that impermissible inaction can occur, however.  So regardless what Bascule
attempts, the inaction of not giving Alfvaen any A$ will actually occur.
Similarly, if the two contracts said Bascule must give some unique entity
to two different players, he couldn't give it to anybody; the inaction,
in violation of both contracts, would be the only *possible* action.

/dev/joe

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Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 11:22:52 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Acka: Red Barn's trinkets

>   Apparantly Malenkai is never to become Mine Alka... tsk, tsk.  Whatever
> shall I do?  I know!  I am creating the following trinkets:
> 
> (Hope I have the form right)
> #trinket A$1: : The Null Name (this should be a comment)
>   with the description, "It appears to be unseeable."  That is, by the
> way, indeed the name consisting of a sequence of 0 characters.
> 
> #trinket A$1:  : The Space Name
>   with the description, "It appears to be seeable but invisible."  Yes,
> this name consists of a single space

These creations are illegal, because the null and space names are considered
the same as the rule which already has the space name, R348 (which is also
the one which causes the trinket creations to fail; how convenient. :-)

>   I am changing my Ackanomic Name to "  Your_Name_Here  " - yes, indeed,
> with two spaces on either end.
>   To prevent trouble:
> 
> #trinket A$1: Red Barn: Safeguarding our heritage

This is also illegal, because the name change does not occur until the
registrar acks it.  (Good to prevent people from changing their names
around willy-nilly. :-)  For instance, if somebody tried to use up the
entire namespace (since only lower case letters and numbers count as
different characters by R348, that is 36^20, or
13367494538843734067838845976576 different possible names), I would
hope that the registrar refuses to acknowledge the name changes.

> #transfer Buried   Your_Name_Here  : +1 Red Barn: BwaHaHa.

This is backward (you want to transfer it from yourself to buried)
and impossible since the trinket creation failed.

>   While burying the treasure, I seem to have misplaced the map... oh, no,
> here it is... oh, wait, it's missing a piece:
> 
> Red Barn Treasure:
>   The Red Barn Treasure will be found by the first player to publically
> announce the (correct) ultimate answer to harf, the universe, and
> everything.

The answer is either 42, 47, or 541, and I know some people who would say
it might be 17. :-o

/dev/joe

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Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 08:30:49 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Blue Thing 

I am pointing the Blue thang at bascule and pressing the....

Oh wait, oops.  What was I thinking?  I am transferring my Blue Thing back
to bascule.  Thanks, man.

Mr. Nacho
who's name has been hijacked :)

#transfer Mr. Nacho, Bascule : Really Big Blue Thing That Doesn't Do Too \
Much, Really.

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Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 08:34:29 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Red Barn's trinkets 

>
>>   I am changing my Ackanomic Name to "  Your_Name_Here  " - yes, indeed,
>> with two spaces on either end.
>>   To prevent trouble:
>>
>> #trinket A$1: Red Barn: Safeguarding our heritage
>
>This is also illegal, because the name change does not occur until the
>registrar acks it.  (Good to prevent people from changing their names
>around willy-nilly. :-)  For instance, if somebody tried to use up the
>entire namespace (since only lower case letters and numbers count as
>different characters by R348, that is 36^20, or
>13367494538843734067838845976576 different possible names), I would
>hope that the registrar refuses to acknowledge the name changes.

As registrar, I am placing a moretorium on further name changes until
Antimatter was Here returns to me the name which he has hijacked :)  No
njame changes (except ones that I initiate will be accepted until that
happens.  Malpractice you say?  COnduct unbecoming an officer?

Nah!  :)

Mr. Nacho

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Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 10:46:45 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Humphrey <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: IP

Though it saddens me to do it, if it is possible, I would like to
submit an Impeachment Paper on the Registrar, Mr. Nacho.  His recent
flagrant abuses of his player-naming privileges(and/or his refusal to
perform said duties on request), not to mention the fact that he never
updates his web page(:-), make me think that the Office would be better put
in the hands of another.

Rule 403 says that Function Officers _may_ be impeached by the President,
or, in this case, the Acting President(who is that, by the way?); however,
it doesn't say that they _must_ be, so Rule 404 may still apply.  :-)  If
not, I request the Acting President to take a serious look at snowgod's
suitability for the position.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
Song In My Head--Lone Justice:Shelter
Current Book--Lesley Choyce:Trapdoor To Heaven
Have you considered trying to match wits with a rutabaga?

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Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 12:54:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: "A.K.A. TheWiz" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Red Barn's trinkets

>>>   I am changing my Ackanomic Name to "  Your_Name_Here  " - yes, indeed,
>>> with two spaces on either end.
>>>   To prevent trouble:
>>>
>>> #trinket A$1: Red Barn: Safeguarding our heritage
>>13367494538843734067838845976576 different possible names), I would
>>hope that the registrar refuses to acknowledge the name changes.

  BwaHaHa!  I am creating slightly fewer than (as many as possible)
13367494538843734067838845976576 trinkets worth A$0 apiece.  Each has a
different name and the description "Mostly Harmful".

>As registrar, I am placing a moretorium on further name changes until
>Antimatter was Here returns to me the name which he has hijacked :)  No
>njame changes (except ones that I initiate will be accepted until that
>happens.  Malpractice you say?  COnduct unbecoming an officer?

  Snowgod, you are a BAD NACHO!

- -  My_Name_Here  ?

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Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 12:58:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: "A.K.A. TheWiz" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Red Barn's trinkets

>> Red Barn Treasure:
>>   The Red Barn Treasure will be found by the first player to publically
>> announce the (correct) ultimate answer to harf, the universe, and
>> everything.
>
>The answer is either 42, 47, or 541, and I know some people who would say
>it might be 17. :-o

  Since this failed:

#trinket Red Barn: A$1: Nothing Tangible: No comment
#tranfer Red Barn Buried: Nothing Tangible

  The map is the same.  Anyone who has a guess, please provide
documentation: I don't believe the information is readily available at
present. :)

- -Red Barn (for Mad Scientist!)

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Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 13:02:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: "A.K.A. TheWiz" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Snowgod map auction

>  I bid A$99.
>
>BwaHaHa!  Vote   Your_Name_Here   for Mad Scientist!

  Or, rather, A$110 on BOTH auctions.

- -- Red Barn for Mad Scientist!!!!!

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Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 11:35:57 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Humphrey <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Snowgod map auction

>   Or, rather, A$110 on BOTH auctions.

I see your A$110 and I bid A$113 on both.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
Song In My Head--Our Lady Peace:Naveed
Current Book--Lesley Choyce:Trapdoor To Heaven
"Good job I can't see far with this leg."

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Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 12:53:39 -0500
From: "Bollinger, John C." <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka: IP

Alfvaen wrote:

> Rule 403 says that Function Officers _may_ be impeached by the
> President,
> or, in this case, the Acting President(who is that, by the way?)
> 
Niccolo Flychuck is the Real, For True, Annointed President of
Ackanomic his non-election occured at the time he volunteered for the
position, 9:10 EDT, Friday, May 30.  This was after the initial three
days of the nomination period had expired without a valid nomination.

ThinMan
unSpeaker

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Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 11:54:17 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Humphrey <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: IP

> Alfvaen wrote:
> 
> > Rule 403 says that Function Officers _may_ be impeached by the
> > President,
> > or, in this case, the Acting President(who is that, by the way?)

> Niccolo Flychuck is the Real, For True, Annointed President of
> Ackanomic his non-election occured at the time he volunteered for the
> position, 9:10 EDT, Friday, May 30.  This was after the initial three
> days of the nomination period had expired without a valid nomination.

And now that he's on vacation...?

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
Song In My Head--The Bears:The Man Behind The Curtain
Current Book--Lesley Choyce:Trapdoor To Heaven
"Would you give a man a backhoe who'd killed a man with a forklift?"

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Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 13:11:54 -0500
From: "Bollinger, John C." <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka: IP

> > Niccolo Flychuck is the Real, For True, Annointed President of
> > Ackanomic his non-election occured at the time he volunteered for
> the
> > position, 9:10 EDT, Friday, May 30.  This was after the initial
> three
> > days of the nomination period had expired without a valid
> nomination.
> 
> And now that he's on vacation...?
> 
Did he go back on vacation?  I guess I missed it, although I knew it
was imminent.  According to R 255, the Speaker or his designee is
acting President.  Since Malenkai has not appointed anyone else to the
task, he is acting President at this time.

ThinMan  

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Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 12:16:35 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Humphrey <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: NF's Vacation

Here's the originally posted message:

Forwarded message:
> From [email-masked] Sat May 31 17:50:27 1997
> Sender: [email-masked]
> Precedence: bulk
> Reply-To: [email-masked]
> Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 02:51:24 +0300 (EET DST)
> From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
> To: Ackanomic <[email-masked]>
> Subject: acka: Vacation
> Message-ID: <[email-masked]>
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
> 
> 
> I am going on Vacation. My expected date of return is June 18th.
> 
> Niccolo Flychuck

He only came back to become President, I guess.  :-)

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
Song In My Head--Charlene:I've Never Been To Me
Current Book--Lesley Choyce:Trapdoor To Heaven
I never buy music on impulse.  Only on warp.

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Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 11:19:50 -0800
From: "Ross Morgan-Linial" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: CFJ 391 (Robert Sevin)

"A.K.A. TheWiz" <[email-masked]> wrote:
>   Apparantly Malenkai is never to become Mine Alka... tsk, tsk.  Whatever
> shall I do?  I know!  I am creating the following trinkets:
> 
> (Hope I have the form right)
> #trinket A$1: : The Null Name (this should be a comment)
>   with the description, "It appears to be unseeable."  That is, by the
> way, indeed the name consisting of a sequence of 0 characters.

Okay, I think this works.

> #trinket A$1:  : The Space Name
>   with the description, "It appears to be seeable but invisible."  Yes,
> this name consists of a single space

This too.

>   I am changing my Ackanomic Name to "  Your_Name_Here  " - yes, indeed,
> with two spaces on either end.

This doesn't. Player names can't start or end with a space (see R251).

>   To prevent trouble:
> 
> #trinket A$1: Red Barn: Safeguarding our heritage

This would fail for lack of a description, but you're saved by the name change 
failing. Not to mention, name changes don't take effect until the registrar 
acks them, so this would fail anyways (and the evil Mr. Nacho would have the 
first change to steal your name :-)

> #transfer Buried   Your_Name_Here  : +1 Red Barn: BwaHaHa.

This doesn't work; Red Barn is a player, and can't be buried.

- -------------------------------
Antimatter * [email-masked]
You have the power of negation.

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Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 11:37:57 -0800
From: "Ross Morgan-Linial" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: CFJ 391 (Robert Sevin)

I wrote:
> "A.K.A. TheWiz" <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >   Apparantly Malenkai is never to become Mine Alka... tsk, tsk.  Whatever
> > shall I do?  I know!  I am creating the following trinkets:
> > 
> > (Hope I have the form right)
> > #trinket A$1: : The Null Name (this should be a comment)
> >   with the description, "It appears to be unseeable."  That is, by the
> > way, indeed the name consisting of a sequence of 0 characters.
> 
> Okay, I think this works.
> 
> > #trinket A$1:  : The Space Name
> >   with the description, "It appears to be seeable but invisible."  Yes,
> > this name consists of a single space
> 
> This too.

Okay, as /dev/joe pointed out, both of these fail. I think. So not one of the 
things you tried to do in that message had any effect :-)
- -------------------------------
Antimatter * [email-masked]
You have the power of negation.

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Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 17:08:52 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mitchell Harding <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: CFJ 391 (Robert Sevin) 

>Call For Judgement 391
>  Subject: Seeing Blue
>Initiator: Malenkai
>    Judge: Robert Sevin (selected Jun 01, 1997, 14:01h EDT)
>Judgement:

I decline judgement, and wish to be removed from the list of players that
judge CFJs. Thanks...

Robert Sevin

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Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 17:24:46 -0500 (CDT)
From: Thierry Joffrain <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Prayer for Deliverance 

Gargling astronautically,
"laki atino makini lorhocal"
Is as much aerodynamical
As astrobiologic. Is really.

Calvin N Hobbes

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Date: 2 Jun 1997 17:29:10 CST/CDT
From: [email-masked]
Subject: IN: trade 

I am offering my Vending Machine as a gift to Mr. Nacho.

Guy Fawkes

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Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 18:35:53 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Mad Scientist

The following candidates have volunteered for the office of
Mad Scientist.  Send your votes to me, and please include 
"Mad Scientist" in the subject line.  The election lasts for 3 days:

Alfvaen
Red Barn
two-star

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Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 18:53:08 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Official: IP

Alfvaen wrote:
 
> Though it saddens me to do it, if it is possible, I would like to
> submit an Impeachment Paper on the Registrar, Mr. Nacho.  His recent
> flagrant abuses of his player-naming privileges(and/or his refusal to
> perform said duties on request), not to mention the fact that he never
> updates his web page(:-), make me think that the Office would be better put
> in the hands of another.

> Rule 403 says that Function Officers _may_ be impeached by the President,
> or, in this case, the Acting President(who is that, by the way?);

I am the Acting President.  This will occur via rule 404.

> so Rule 404 may still apply.  :-) 

Your reading of the rules is correct, IMO.  In fact, there have been
IPs written under the auspices of what is now rule 404 in the past against
FOs, and the office rules have not changed substantially in over a year,
so your reading is supported by game custom.

The particulars (lifted from R 404):

1) Mr. Nacho becomes acting Registrar, which means he loses the privs of
the office.  The IP was called after salaries were paid for the month, so
Mr. Nacho receices his salary.

2) The voting ends Thu June 05, at 12:46.  Send votes to me.  Please put
"IP" in the subject line.

3) A quorum of active players excluding the Registrar is required, as
is at least a 2/3 majority of the votes for the IP to be ACCEPTed.

4) The valid responses are to ACCEPT or REJECT the IP.

Malenkai

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Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 19:12:49 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFCJ 133 (Malenkai)

Malenkai has been selected.  Hah! :)

#award ThinMan: -20 A$: Court Fee

Clerk of the Courts
- --------------------------------------------------------------------
Call for Criminal Judgement 133
  Subject: Failing to selecting a Mad Hatter
Initiator: ThinMan
    Judge: Malenkai (selected Jun 02, 1997, 19:12 EST)
Judgement: 

Statement:

ThinMan has committed a Crime.

ThinMan's Reasoning:

ThinMan was acting Speaker from the date that Malenkai left on vacation
until the date he returned, a total of about four weeks.  As Acting
Speaker, ThinMan was required to perform all the duties of the Speaker.
One such duty was the assignment of of a Mad Hatter for Malenkai, which
ThinMan failed to do.  From Rule 713: "Failure of an Officer to perform
a Duty of an Office e holds is a Crime."  Q.E.D.

Suggested Penalty:

A FINE of A$25

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Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 19:24:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: Anti-Gumball 

Today has a prime date greater than seven; therefore, I am chewing the
Anti-Gumball.

Before chewing it, I pause briefly to admire the perfect tetrahedral form of
the Anti-Gumball.  Then, I pop it into my mouth and bite down on it.

The fabric of the universe ripples briefly as the Anti-Gumball reacts to the
recent prescence of the Gumball.

- -Micah Smukler
AKA AtP

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Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 19:18:44 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFJ 394 (Antimatter)

Antimatter was Here has been chosen.

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

Call For Judgment 394
  Subject: Liar's Paradox Paradox
Initiator: mr cwm
    Judge: Antimatter was Here (selected Jun 02, 1997, 19:18h EDT)
Judgement:

Statement:
          
A Judge delivering a verdict of TRUE on a CFCJ whose
statement was "mr cwm has committed a Crime" is a player
action affecting the game state which appears equally legal and
illegal.
          
mr cwm's Reasoning:
          
>From R601: "It is a Crime for a Player to refuse to publish, in anewspaper he or she owns, a correction of an untrue statement
that previously appeared in that newspaper, after a public request
for such a correction has been made."
          
The statement in the May 29 issue of is: "In a move believed
unprecedented in the annals of Ackanomian journalism, and with
one eye fixed firmly on the calendar, is today publishes this
statement, which is untrue."
          
It should be easy to verify that both a request for correction and
a refusal have been posted publically.
          
It should (and almost certainly has) been noted that the statement
for which correction has been requested is the Liar's Paradox. If
we assume the statement is untrue (making refusal to correct it a
Crime), then what is untrue is that the statement is untrue,
making it not-untrue (making refusal to correct it not a Crime).
On the other hand (and I'm sure the Judge can see this coming)
if we assume the statement is true (making the refusal to correct
it not a Crime), then what is true is that the statement is untrue
(making the refusal to correct it a Crime). Since assumptions of
non-Criminality lead to Criminality, and assumptions of
Criminality lead to non-Criminality, I contend that the refusal
appears equally Criminal and non-Criminal.
          
Since a Judge must deliver a verdict in accord with the Rules,
and the statement under consideration is "mr cwm has committed
a Crime," a verdict of TRUE would be legal if the action in
question was a Crime, while a verdict of TRUE would be illegal
if the action in question had not been a Crime. Since the action
appears equally a Crime and not a Crime, a verdict of TRUE
appears equally legal and illegal. (In actuality, a Judge would
most likely return a verdict of UNDECIDED in such a CFCJ,
but that does not mean that a verdict of TRUE is not equally
legal and illegal.  Rather, likelihood of such a verdict is more
evidence that a verdict of TRUE is equally legal and illegal,
prompting it to be avoided.)
          
"This is a Paradox Win CFJ."

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

Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 19:22:25 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFJ 391 (CnH)

Robert Sevin declined.  It has been reassigned to CnH.

Clerk of the Courts
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Call For Judgement 391
  Subject: Seeing Blue
Initiator: Malenkai
    Judge: Robert Sevin (selected Jun 01, 1997, 14:01h EDT)
2nd Judge: Calvin N Hobbes (selected Jun 02, 1997, 19:22h EDT)
Judgement:

Statement:

The Blueprint for the 'The Really Big Blue Thing That Doesn't Do Too
Much, Really' (Blue Thing) defines behaviour for a Gadget that
could potentially break the rules, or could possibly be used to
break the rules.

Malenkai's Reasoning:

There exists an entity called 'Man Thin'.  The Blue Thing's Blueprint
specifies behaviour that would possibly allow someone to change the name
of our esteemed Senator Melvin to this name, which would be a violation
of rule 348.

Upon a verdict of TRUE, the Blueprint and all extant Blue Things are
destroyed, as described in rule 594 with interpretation clarified
by CFJ 261 (the last paragraph of CFJ 261's reasoning has been
superceeded by rule change; the other relavent rules (viz 594 sec (ii))
and customs remain unsubstantial

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

Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 18:44:25 -0500 (CDT)
From: Thierry Joffrain <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: CFJ 391 (CnH) 

>>I decline judgement, and wish to be removed from the list of players that
>>judge CFJs. Thanks...
>>
>>Robert Sevin
>
>Robert Sevin declined.  It has been reassigned to CnH.

I decline to judge this CFJ. If it ain't good enough for RS, it ain't good
enough for me.   ; )

Calvin N Hobbes

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

Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 19:50:49 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFCJ 133 Verdict

CFCJ 133 has been judged TRUE.

Clerk of the Courts
- --------------------------------------------------------------------
Call for Criminal Judgement 133
  Subject: Failing to selecting a Mad Hatter
Initiator: ThinMan
    Judge: Malenkai (selected Jun 02, 1997, 19:12 EST)
Judgement: TRUE

Statement:

ThinMan has committed a Crime.

ThinMan's Reasoning:

ThinMan was acting Speaker from the date that Malenkai left on vacation
until the date he returned, a total of about four weeks.  As Acting
Speaker, ThinMan was required to perform all the duties of the Speaker.
One such duty was the assignment of of a Mad Hatter for Malenkai, which
ThinMan failed to do.  From Rule 713: "Failure of an Officer to perform
a Duty of an Office e holds is a Crime."  Q.E.D.

Suggested Penalty:

A FINE of A$25

Malenkai's Reasoning:

I find ThinMan's reasoning valid and adequate.

Actual Penalty:

A PUBLIC APOLOGY of 3 lines [preferrably in the form of a haiku ;-)]

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Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 19:53:45 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFJ 391 (Techno)

CFJ 391 has been reassigned to Techno.

Clerk of the Courts
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Call For Judgement 391
  Subject: Seeing Blue
Initiator: Malenkai
    Judge: Robert Sevin (declined)
2nd Judge: Calvin N Hobbes (declined)
3rd Judge: Techno (selected Jun 02, 1997, 19:53h EDT)
Judgement:

Statement:

The Blueprint for the 'The Really Big Blue Thing That Doesn't Do Too
Much, Really' (Blue Thing) defines behaviour for a Gadget that
could potentially break the rules, or could possibly be used to
break the rules.

Malenkai's Reasoning:

There exists an entity called 'Man Thin'.  The Blue Thing's Blueprint
specifies behaviour that would possibly allow someone to change the name
of our esteemed Senator Melvin to this name, which would be a violation
of rule 348.

Upon a verdict of TRUE, the Blueprint and all extant Blue Things are
destroyed, as described in rule 594 with interpretation clarified
by CFJ 261 (the last paragraph of CFJ 261's reasoning has been
superceeded by rule change; the other relavent rules (viz 594 sec (ii))
and customs remain unsubstantial

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

Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 16:01:54 -0800
From: "Ross Morgan-Linial" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: CFJ 392 (Antimatter)

> [Antimatter] (sorry I forget the new name, and its not on the pe page)
> has been chosen.
> 
> Clerk of the Courts
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Call For Judgment 392
>   Subject: Where's that pate?
> Initiator: Bascule
>     Judge: [Antimatter] (selected Jun 02, 1997, 7:32h EDT)
> Judgement:

I decline to judge this CFJ, and CFJ 394, and ask to be put on the list of 
players ineligible to judge CFJs.
- -------------------------------
Antimatter * [email-masked]
You have the power of negation.

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Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 20:02:20 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Price of Land

The price of land increased by 1%.  It is now 48.454 A$/kaa.

Malenkai
negligent price-of-land harfer

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

Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 19:21:00 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Re: Acka: Anti-Gumball

Atilla the poorly spelled Pun wrote on June 2nd:
> Today has a prime date greater than seven; therefore, I am chewing the
> Anti-Gumball.

When did 2 become greater than 7?

/dev/joe

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

Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 20:16:08 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFJ 392 (CarsesraC)

CFJ 392 has been reassigned to CarsesraC

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

Call For Judgment 392
  Subject: Where's that pate?
Initiator: Bascule
    Judge: [Antimatter] (declined)
2nd Judge: CarsesraC (selected Jun 02, 1997, 20:16h EDT)
Judgement:

Statement:

For Bascule to give A$10 to Alfvaen is equally legal and illegal.

Bascule's Reasoning:

Bascule has two contracts binding his actions. The contracts demand
that he gives A$10 to Alfvaen, and that he does not give any A$
to Alfvaen. There is no means for deciding precedence between
contracts, and therefore the action of giving the A$ is equally legal
and illegal.

The first contract:

"Bascule must give A$10 to Alfvaen"

The second contract:

"Bascule must not give any A$ to Alfvaen"

>From Rule 1995:"Once a player has signed a contract, that player must obey any
restrictions that that contract places on em"

The player _must obey_ any restrictions. This means that if I were to
give A$10 to Alfvaen, this would be legal according to the first
contract, but illegal according to the second. If I do not give any
A$ to Alfvaen, this is illegal according to the first contract, but
legal according to the second.

As the restrictions imposed by my two contracts are contradictory,
the legality of my giving A$10 to Alfvaen is equally legal and
illegal, since no precedence exists regarding contracts.

Sorry to be so lame, but my elegant example got nuked. And I wasted
A$331.

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

Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 19:25:27 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Re: Acka: CFCJ 133 Verdict

> Call for Criminal Judgement 133
>   Subject: Failing to selecting a Mad Hatter
> Initiator: ThinMan
>     Judge: Malenkai (selected Jun 02, 1997, 19:12 EST)
> Judgement: TRUE
> 
> Statement:
> 
> ThinMan has committed a Crime.
> 
> ThinMan's Reasoning:
> 
> ThinMan was acting Speaker from the date that Malenkai left on vacation
> until the date he returned, a total of about four weeks.  As Acting
> Speaker, ThinMan was required to perform all the duties of the Speaker.
> One such duty was the assignment of of a Mad Hatter for Malenkai, which
> ThinMan failed to do.  From Rule 713: "Failure of an Officer to perform
> a Duty of an Office e holds is a Crime."  Q.E.D.

I note that the duty of assigning a Mad Hatter for Malenkai is still
unfulfilled, and it is now Malenkai's duty.

/dev/joe

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

Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 20:18:53 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFJ 394 (Alfvaen)

CFJ 394 has been reassigned to Alfvaen.

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

Call For Judgment 394
  Subject: Liar's Paradox Paradox
Initiator: mr cwm
    Judge: Antimatter was Here (declined)
2nd Judge: Alfvaen (selected Jun 02, 1997, 20:18h EDT)
Judgement:

Statement:
          
A Judge delivering a verdict of TRUE on a CFCJ whose
statement was "mr cwm has committed a Crime" is a player
action affecting the game state which appears equally legal and
illegal.
          
mr cwm's Reasoning:
          
>From R601: "It is a Crime for a Player to refuse to publish, in anewspaper he or she owns, a correction of an untrue statement
that previously appeared in that newspaper, after a public request
for such a correction has been made."
          
The statement in the May 29 issue of is: "In a move believed
unprecedented in the annals of Ackanomian journalism, and with
one eye fixed firmly on the calendar, is today publishes this
statement, which is untrue."
          
It should be easy to verify that both a request for correction and
a refusal have been posted publically.
          
It should (and almost certainly has) been noted that the statement
for which correction has been requested is the Liar's Paradox. If
we assume the statement is untrue (making refusal to correct it a
Crime), then what is untrue is that the statement is untrue,
making it not-untrue (making refusal to correct it not a Crime).
On the other hand (and I'm sure the Judge can see this coming)
if we assume the statement is true (making the refusal to correct
it not a Crime), then what is true is that the statement is untrue
(making the refusal to correct it a Crime). Since assumptions of
non-Criminality lead to Criminality, and assumptions of
Criminality lead to non-Criminality, I contend that the refusal
appears equally Criminal and non-Criminal.
          
Since a Judge must deliver a verdict in accord with the Rules,
and the statement under consideration is "mr cwm has committed
a Crime," a verdict of TRUE would be legal if the action in
question was a Crime, while a verdict of TRUE would be illegal
if the action in question had not been a Crime. Since the action
appears equally a Crime and not a Crime, a verdict of TRUE
appears equally legal and illegal. (In actuality, a Judge would
most likely return a verdict of UNDECIDED in such a CFCJ,
but that does not mean that a verdict of TRUE is not equally
legal and illegal.  Rather, likelihood of such a verdict is more
evidence that a verdict of TRUE is equally legal and illegal,
prompting it to be avoided.)
          
"This is a Paradox Win CFJ."

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