Subject: ackanomic digest V2 #269
From: [email-masked] (ackanomic digest)
To: [email-masked]

ackanomic digest        Monday, August 25 1997        Volume 02 : Number 269

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Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 22:00:46 -0600 (MDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Houses

There is the beginnings of a House Description page up, which should be
linked to the main web page under the rest of the "Entity Descriptions".
I've only got mine, Voting Gnome's, Ben's, and norpan's, as the only ones I
recall being described recently; anyone who provides me with their will get
it in there too.  And now I must dash--time for Babylon 5!

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Rob Jungklas:Closer To The Flame
Current Book--David Brin:Infinity's Shore
AAAAA--American Association Against Alliteration Abuse

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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 08:30:01 -0500
From: "Bollinger, John C." <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka: SR 104

Malenkai wrote:

> > The text following this sentence is a Senate Resolution with the
> > provisional title "Concerning that annoying 20 line limit".
> 
> I propose that Vulcan accept this Senate Resolution.
> 
I support this proposed Vulcan action.

ThinMan

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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 08:34:54 -0500
From: "Bollinger, John C." <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Also Concerning the Senate

I propose that Vulcan accept the Senate Resolution entitled "Also
Concerning the Senate".

I support this proposed Vulcan action.

ThinMan

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Date: 25 Aug 1997 08:54:56 CST/CDT
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: Long live the Rebellion

As permitted by Rule 1, I am making the following immediately effective
change to the game state.

Rule 411.1 is hereby repealed.

Guy Fawkes
Dictator

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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 08:51:10 -0500
From: "Bollinger, John C." <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka: [no subject]

Malenkai wrote:

> Well I could be wrong.  That was the way it worked in the old days --
> the
> entities would go to the treasury and be haunted by the undead.  Now I
> believe they are owned by the undead.  I was thinking of the general
> case
> where unowned entities are in the treasury.  I believe the treasury is
> in the treasury, for example ;-)
> 
Yes, that is my belief, too.  In fact, somewhere in the old mail
archives (>1yr old!) there is one of my Financier's reports that lists
all of the entities that I believed were in the Treasury at that time.
The Treasury itself is on the list.

ThinMan
ex-Financier

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Date: 25 Aug 1997 08:57:12 CST/CDT
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: Spell Book of Chorg

I am reading the next page of each of my Spell Books of Chorg (pages 3
and 12).

Also, to the harfer of the P/E page, my Evil Ballot Stuffer has long
since vanished.

GF

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Date: 25 Aug 1997 09:00:08 CST/CDT
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: Secret Lab

I am proposing that GF Mini-storage, Inc.'s Secret Laboratory produce a
Whamiol.  Supported, effected.

I am proposing that GF Mini-storage, Inc., offer its Whamiol to Guy
Fawkes.  Supported, effected.

I accept GF Mini-storage's trade offer of 1 Whamiol.

GF

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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 09:09:08 -0500
From: "Bollinger, John C." <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka: Also Concerning the Senate

I wrote:

> I propose that Vulcan accept the Senate Resolution entitled "Also
> Concerning the Senate".
> 
With the results of CFJ 444 now having been released, it is apparent
that "Also Concerning the Senate" has already been accepted.  Lest it
possibly be accepted again, I change my vote on the proposed action to
denounce it, if possible.  Otherwise, I request that another Vulcan
denounce the suggestion.  Sorry for the confusion.

ThinMan
Vulcan

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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 09:21:00 -0500
From: "Bollinger, John C." <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka: Long live the Rebellion

Guy Fawkes wrote:

> As permitted by Rule 1, I am making the following immediately
> effective
> change to the game state.
> 
> Rule 411.1 is hereby repealed.
> 
There is no rule 1.  Rule 101, however, prevents GF's attempt to
repeal R411.1 from working.

ThinMan

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Date: 25 Aug 1997 10:47:59 -0500
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: RFC: Proposed syntax for CGI-browsable Rules, Proposals, CFJs, CFCJs, CSRs, SRs, and anything else worthwhile.

	Henceforth in this discussion, any Rule, Proposal, CFJ, CFCJ,
CSR, or SR is called an "item".  Items are not limited to the
aforementioned, but may be extended by adherence to the described format
to include any other Ackanomic information.

	Each item consists of a Header and a Body.  The Header contains
colon-separated fields of the format "<field>: <data>", and the Body
contains the item's text.  Body text may contain valid HTML.  

	Case is defined as insensitive on all field names, and sensitive
in all field data.  Only one header of each field is allowed, and any
field may be omitted, unless otherwise specified.  The behaviour of the
CGI interface is formally "undefined" when multiple fields of the same
name are included in the item header and that field is not permitted to
have multiple copies.  Fields may be present and have no associated data.

	Fields of the header include, but are not limited to, the
following: 

	[Note that only the listed headers are used in any way; extra
headers may be included for any reason, but are not necessarily useful
for the current CGI interface.  In other words, extensions are allowed
that are merely for possible future use.]

    Field name		Data
============================================================================
    Type		The item type.  Types so far defined are: 
			Rule, Proposal, CFJ, CFCJ, CSR, and SR.
			Other types may be defined.
			Required.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Number		The item's number.
			Required.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Revision		The revision number of the item.  [So far, only
			relevant for items of type Rule.]
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Title		The item's title.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    From		The item's author, initiator, proposer, or caller.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Event		Multiple Event:s may exist.
			Each Event: header records one modification to
			the item's header or body, and includes the item
			or entity that caused the modification.
			Inclusion of date of modification is encouraged.
			Data must be of the form:
			"<action> by <entity or item> <extra text>"
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Status		The item's current status.  This data varies by
			item type.  Type Rule may be Active, Repealed, or
			Deleted.  Type Proposal/SR may be Accepted,
			Rejected, or Retracted.  CFJ/CFCJ may be True or
			False.  Other Status values may be defined.  [Not
			required, but strongly encouraged.]
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
(*) Date		Date the item was last modified.  This
			information is usually included in the last
			Event: header.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
(*) Creation-date	Date the item was first published.  This
			information is usually included in the first
			Event: header.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Keywords		Search keys for later searchable interface to
			items.  Can be used to contain the Rule's Suite
			name, if any.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

	[Fields marked with a (*) are possibly redundant.]

[	By way of example, here is Rule 1009 in the above format:

Type: Rule
Number: 1009
Revision: 9
Title: Big Tents and Rewarding Party Unity
From: Mitchell Harding
Keywords: 
Status: Active
Event: Created by Proposal 391, Feb 12 1996
Event: Amended by Proposal 1199, Sep 16 1996, by Malenkai (Randy Hall)
Event: Amended by Proposal 1304, Oct 13 1996, by Habeous Corpus (Ed Graham)
Event: Renumbered by Rule 1539, Dec 16 1996, by Malenkai (Randy Hall)
Event: Renumbered by Proposal 1618, Jan 15 1997, by Malenkai (Randy Hall)
Event: Amended by Proposal 1742, Feb 28 1997, by /dev/joe (Joseph DeVincentis)
Event: Amended by Proposal 1764, Mar 7 1997, by Mohammed (Jason Orendorff) [+self-deleting text, self-renaming]
Event: Renumbered by Proposal 1804, Mar 24 1997, by Mohammed (Jason Orendorff)
Event: Renumbered by Proposal 1888, Apr 6 1997, by Malenkai (Randy Hall)
Event: Amended by Proposal 2124, Jun 25 1997, by Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey)

A Big Tent is an Organizational Power. They are usually quite large,
covering more than a kaa of land when fully erected, and are blazoned
with broad, colorful stripes. An Organization may buy a Big Tent for
A$300.

An Organization that has a Big Tent is called a Political Party.  It is a
Crime to be a member of more than one Political Party at once.

At the end of a proposal's voting period, but before votes on that
proposal are counted, if every active non-vacationing player member of a
given Political Party voted YES on that proposal, and no member of the
Party is also a member of some other Party, then the Political Party
itself shall cast an additional YES vote on that proposal for every three
active non-vacationing player members it has.

Party membership and how players voted are determined based on the facts
in force at the end of the voting period for each proposal.

]

[Comments:

	This is a syntax similar to RFC822-compliant messages, and was
chosen for human-readability, extensibility, and coding ease.  RFC822 is
a common format, and excellent libraries for parsing such messages exist
in Python (the initial CGI scripting language I'm working in.  I believe
similar libs exist in Perl).

	Anyone may code CGIs based on this format; commonality of format
makes such code easier.  Also, this format is easily presented on the
existing web pages with little lost (it's not the prettiest but it's
readable and contains all the data currently presented for items on the
pages).

]

- -- 
Archie Leach <[email-masked]>
PGP Fingerprint: 
             BC AB 28 19 A6 A4 FF 5B  CA 4D B4 03 3A A7 F4 5C

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Date: 25 Aug 1997 11:09:50 CST/CDT
From: [email-masked]
Subject: RE: Acka: Long live the Rebellion

AC>Guy Fawkes wrote:

AC>> As permitted by Rule 1, I am making the following immediately
AC>> effective
AC>> change to the game state.
AC>>
AC>> Rule 411.1 is hereby repealed.
AC>>
AC>There is no rule 1.  Rule 101, however, prevents GF's attempt to
AC>repeal R411.1 from working.

AC>ThinMan

I attempted to create a Rule 1 which would give me this power more than
two weeks ago.  There were no objections during that time, and so the
retractivity clause caused the Rule to be created.  I apologize for the
inconvenience.

GF

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Date: 25 Aug 1997 11:21:32 CST/CDT
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: GF for Poet Laureate

As requested, I have written an interesting sonnet concerning the shape
of the earth.  It deserves a close examination

Terrestrial shape, beneath which we abide,
Hear this my plea, and answer me so that
Each player which doth tethered to thee ride
May know beyond a doubt that thou art flat.
O truth of truths, for thy sake I will Duel,
Believing the true flat shape of the Earth,
Immortally inscribed in sacred Rule
Until proposals alter Terra's girth.
Still, many shapes are flat -- some have four sides,
Some ten, some one, though that is not the norm.
Ten thousand tortures truly I'd abide,
Resolving at the end the Earth's true form.
Indeed, Earth, thy flat shape's a mystery.
Please show within this verse thy form to me.

Guy Fawkes

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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 10:21:48 -0600 (MDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: Spell Book of Chorg

> I am reading the next page of each of my Spell Books of Chorg (pages 3
> and 12).

> Also, to the harfer of the P/E page, my Evil Ballot Stuffer has long
> since vanished.

Mimas take.  When did that happen, approximately?

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Elton John:Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Current Book--David Brin:Infinity's Shore
Get your monkeys for nothing and your chimps for free.

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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 11:51:47 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Long live the Rebellion

GF wrote:
> I attempted to create a Rule 1 which would give me this power more than
> two weeks ago.  There were no objections during that time, and so the
> retractivity clause caused the Rule to be created.  I apologize for the
> inconvenience.

Guy Fawkes refers to a message of August 8, where he wrote:
> And if the Rules contain some mechanism by which I can legally
> create a Rule 1 whose text is, "Guy Fawkes may change any part of the
> game state at any time by posting a public message naming the change to
> the game state," I do so, if only to say I was once dictator of Acka.

However, the rules contain no such mechanism, so you didn't do so.
At best, the rules might contain a way for you to do so illegally.
The retroactive error-correction clause only works on actions
that were illegal originally, but your statement clearly says you
performed the action only if it was legal, so the error-correction
clause could not possibly have modified the legality of that action.

/dev/joe
Watched "Yesterday's Enterprise" last night. :-)

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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 12:57:23 -0400
From: "Vivian Norwood" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: GF for Poet Laureate

> 
> As requested, I have written an interesting sonnet concerning the shape
> of the earth.  It deserves a close examination
> 
> Terrestrial shape, beneath which we abide,
> Hear this my plea, and answer me so that
> Each player which doth tethered to thee ride
> May know beyond a doubt that thou art flat.
> O truth of truths, for thy sake I will Duel,
> Believing the true flat shape of the Earth,
> Immortally inscribed in sacred Rule
> Until proposals alter Terra's girth.
> Still, many shapes are flat -- some have four sides,
> Some ten, some one, though that is not the norm.
> Ten thousand tortures truly I'd abide,
> Resolving at the end the Earth's true form.
> Indeed, Earth, thy flat shape's a mystery.
> Please show within this verse thy form to me.
> 
> Guy Fawkes

He's a witch!  Burn him!  He turned me into a newt!

Balsamic Newt

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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 12:24:29 -0500
From: "Bollinger, John C." <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka: GF for Poet Laureate

Balsamic Dragon wrote:

> > Guy Fawkes
> 
> He's a witch!  Burn him!  He turned me into a newt!
> 
> Balsamic Newt
> 
Don't worry, BD, if pseudo-history repeats itself then you'll get
better.  Besides, _they_ dressed him up like that.  And that isn't
his nose, it's a false one.

ThinMan

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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 12:30:09 -0500
From: "Bollinger, John C." <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka: Long live the Rebellion

Guy Fawkes wrote:

> I attempted to create a Rule 1 which would give me this power more
> than
> two weeks ago.  There were no objections during that time, and so the
> retractivity clause caused the Rule to be created.  I apologize for
> the
> inconvenience.
> 
Nice try.  For those of you watching at home, Guy Fawkes is attempting
to use Rule 713 to validate his claim to have created a rule 1
giving him dictatorial powers.  Here is the relevant section:

	If, however, the illegally or impossiblility of a publically
	knowable change to the game state goes unreported for at least
14
	days, the action or inaction which caused that change is
considered
	legal, but it is still a Crime. The change is deemed to have
	occurred retroactively to the time of the attempt. The
preceeding
	does not apply to the case of events which occur automatically,
but
	whose occurrance is not (or erroneously) reported [e.g., loss of
the 
	Great Trombone]. This paragraph has precedence over rule 103. 

Guy is apparently claiming that his post constituted a change to the
game state.  I will allow that it described a change to the game
state that GF wished to make, but at no time did the rules allow GF
or anyone to change the rules by such a procedure.  I see no way,
therefore, that GF's post can be considered to be a change to the
game state -- that is, changes to the game state are defined by the
rules, and GF's post does not conform to any aspect of the definition.
Indeed, even GF describes it as an _attempt_ to create a rule.  I.e.,
he was attempting a public action.

Without consideration, then, of the supposed text of Rule 1 or of the
question of whether or not any objections were raised, I direct your
attention to rule 373:

	This rule defers to all other rules. 

	Each attempt to perform an action either succeeds or fails. To
	perform an action entails two things: first, to attempt the
action;
	and second, for the attempt to succeed. 

	The rules may specify that certain possible courses of play are
	public actions. Any active player may attempt any public action
	available to him or her simply by sending a public message
	specifying the action to be taken. However, if any information
that
	is necessary to specify the action fully and unambiguously is
left
	out of that message, then the attempt fails. [An attempt may
also
	fail for other reasons.] 

	If the rules specify that a certain course of play is available
to
	a player or organization, but do not specify how that course of
	play is to be taken, then that course of play is a public
action,
	and it is taken as described above.

Guy Fawkes may well have _attempted_ to create a Rule 1 as he
specifies, but that does not mean that the attempt succeeded.  If the
success or failure of that action has not yet been reported that
does not mean or imply that it was successful.  The rules at the time
of the attempt in no way empowered GF to change the rules by mandate,
but did explicitly state that the rules could only be changed as
specified by the rules.  The attempt therefore failed.

GF may write a CFJ on the matter if he wants to, but I really wish that
we wouldn't even think about going there.  I do not relish the thought
of carefully pouring over every single public message to make sure that
no one slips a fast one in.  I don't think that the CFJ would be
found true in any case, but it's a matter of principle -- do we even
have to consider it?

As I was writing this, /dev/joe's response to the situation came in,
making GF's position look even weaker than I first thought.  If GF
wants to call that CFJ then he is permitted to do so, but I will
continue to ignore any attempt on his part to exercise dictatorial
powers until and unless he is judged to have some.

ThinMan

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Date: 25 Aug 1997 12:41:14 CST/CDT
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: Acka: Spell Book of Chorg

AC>> I am reading the next page of each of my Spell Books of Chorg (pages 3
AC>> and 12).

AC>> Also, to the harfer of the P/E page, my Evil Ballot Stuffer has long
AC>> since vanished.

AC>Mimas take.  When did that happen, approximately?

Three days after its creation.  Since I never used it or traded it, it
shouldn't make a difference for anything.
Guy Fawkes       page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
                   lton John:Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
                   vid Brin:Infinity's Shore
                    for nothing and your chimps for free.

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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 12:39:24 -0500
From: "Bollinger, John C." <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka: SR 104

Malenkai wrote:

> The text following this sentence is a Senate Resolution with the
> provisional title "Concerning that annoying 20 line limit".
> 
> {{
> Rule 411.1 is amended to remove the following text from the second
> paragraph:
> 
> "
> is longer than 20 80-character lines, or if it 
> "
> 
> ---
> 
> Rule 1005 is amended to replace "If, after a suggestion is made, all
> members", with "If, after a suggestion is made, all non-vacationing,
> non-gaoled members"
> }}
> 
As of my acceptance this morning of this S.R., it is accepted.

ThinMan

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Date: 25 Aug 1997 12:47:50 CST/CDT
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: Acka: Long live the Rebellion

AC>GF wrote:
AC>> I attempted to create a Rule 1 which would give me this power more than
AC>> two weeks ago.  There were no objections during that time, and so the
AC>> retractivity clause caused the Rule to be created.  I apologize for the
AC>> inconvenience.

AC>Guy Fawkes refers to a message of August 8, where he wrote:
AC>> And if the Rules contain some mechanism by which I can legally
AC>> create a Rule 1 whose text is, "Guy Fawkes may change any part of the
AC>> game state at any time by posting a public message naming the change to
AC>> the game state," I do so, if only to say I was once dictator of Acka.

AC>However, the rules contain no such mechanism, so you didn't do so.
AC>At best, the rules might contain a way for you to do so illegally.
AC>The retroactive error-correction clause only works on actions
AC>that were illegal originally, but your statement clearly says you
AC>performed the action only if it was legal, so the error-correction
AC>clause could not possibly have modified the legality of that action.

The rules contain multiple such mechanisms.  One would be for me to
propose the change to the rules, and for that proposal to be accpeted.
As for the retroactivity clause, it does provide a means for the action
to be perfored legally, _if_ no one objects.  Game custom holds that the
"retroactivity" of this clause is a thread split situation where if no
objects to the action, it is legal -- otherwise, it is illegal.  After
two weeks passed, enough information had been gathered to determine
whether the retroactivity clause would indeed be a legal means to
perform the creation of Rule 1.  As a result, the action was attempted,
and it succeeded.  If you disagree, file a CFJ.

To resolve any further confusion, I am making the following immediately
effective change to the game state: Rule 1 is hereby repealed.

Guy Fawkes

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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 14:00:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Long live the Rebellion

On 25 Aug 1997 [email-masked] wrote:

> AC>GF wrote:
> AC>> I attempted to create a Rule 1 which would give me this power more than
> AC>> two weeks ago.  There were no objections during that time, and so the
> AC>> retractivity clause caused the Rule to be created.  I apologize for the
> AC>> inconvenience.
> 
> AC>Guy Fawkes refers to a message of August 8, where he wrote:
> AC>> And if the Rules contain some mechanism by which I can legally
> AC>> create a Rule 1 whose text is, "Guy Fawkes may change any part of the
> AC>> game state at any time by posting a public message naming the change to
> AC>> the game state," I do so, if only to say I was once dictator of Acka.
> 
> AC>However, the rules contain no such mechanism, so you didn't do so.
> AC>At best, the rules might contain a way for you to do so illegally.
> AC>The retroactive error-correction clause only works on actions
> AC>that were illegal originally, but your statement clearly says you
> AC>performed the action only if it was legal, so the error-correction
> AC>clause could not possibly have modified the legality of that action.
> 
> The rules contain multiple such mechanisms.  One would be for me to
> propose the change to the rules, and for that proposal to be accpeted.
> As for the retroactivity clause, it does provide a means for the action
> to be perfored legally, _if_ no one objects.  Game custom holds that the
> "retroactivity" of this clause is a thread split situation where if no
> objects to the action, it is legal -- otherwise, it is illegal.  After
> two weeks passed, enough information had been gathered to determine
> whether the retroactivity clause would indeed be a legal means to
> perform the creation of Rule 1.  As a result, the action was attempted,
> and it succeeded.  If you disagree, file a CFJ.

You could have proposed something like that, yes.  However, your proposing
something does not mean that it passed.  If anything, your proposal was
illegaly never distributed by the Promoter, and  now that this illegal
event is 14 days in the past, it cannot be undone, as you have already
mentioned.  Also, where is this buisness about actions occuring so long as
no one objects to them coming from?  Is this from Rule 101?  Rule 101 says
quite clearly that you can only take actions in this manner if they are
not regulated by the rules, submitting proposals, etc are regulated by the
rules.  So far as the other "multiple mechanisms" are concerned, name one,
because I don't see them.  You can talk all you want about us needing to
call a CFJ, but I don't think it will come as a suprise if the Speaker
decides to play the "none of this happened" thread.

> 
> To resolve any further confusion, I am making the following immediately
> effective change to the game state: Rule 1 is hereby repealed.
> 
> Guy Fawkes
> 

                                 - Vynd

[email-masked]

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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 18:43:52 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Also Concerning the Senate

> With the results of CFJ 444 now having been released, it is apparent
> that "Also Concerning the Senate" has already been accepted.  Lest it
> possibly be accepted again, I change my vote on the proposed action to
> denounce it, if possible.  Otherwise, I request that another Vulcan
> denounce the suggestion.  Sorry for the confusion.

I denounce this.

Malenkai

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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 21:29:46 -0400
From: Dan Knapp (A.K.A. TheWiz) <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re:Acka: Houses

At 10:00 PM on 8/24/97, Aaron V. Humphrey wrote:

> There is the beginnings of a House Description page up, which should be
> linked to the main web page under the rest of the "Entity Descriptions".
> I've only got mine, Voting Gnome's, Ben's, and norpan's, as the only ones I
> recall being described recently; anyone who provides me with their will get
> it in there too.  And now I must dash--time for Babylon 5!

  If it's permitted by the rules, I do the following; f it's unregulated, I
do it anyway: I'm changing the description of my house to:
>>>>>
  A huge red barn, almost the only thing in Acka that's purely monomorphic.
In the back a cow grazes.
<<<<<

____________________________________________________________________________
|The Mauve Baron|  Beep  [email-masked] * http://www.bergen.org/~dankna|
|---------------|  Blip  |-------------------------------------------------|
|   Dan Knapp   |  Bonk  |     This notice copyright (C)1997 Dan Knapp     |
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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 18:43:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: "An Italian Sonnet on the Earth and Earthly Consequences"

> The election lasts for 3 days, reply to vote.  Perhaps a sonnet on
> the shape of the earth by the candidates would be appropriate :)

In heresy, we find something delicious.
    It turns our minds to taste the sacreligious.
    And even rules most forcibly litigious--
And even fires hotly avaricious--

They will not stop the ones who are ambitious,
    The ones who choose their words to be prodigious.
    They will be heard to claim the irreligious.
They will not stop to claim the rest fictitious.

Myself I am not drawn to such pursuits,
And view the game Platonically at that:
    'Tis only through the Rules our World's revealed.

And Rules there are, that say the World is flat.
And so it is--it must be, by fiat--
    Until, that is, we get that Rule repealed.

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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 21:40:37 -0400
From: Dan Knapp (A.K.A. TheWiz) <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re:Acka: Long live the Rebellion

> As permitted by Rule 1, I am making the following immediately effective
> change to the game state.

  Wouldn't that be "Rule 101"?
  Also, can someone fill me in on how this is possible, please?

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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 21:46:45 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Potato + Aliens

Alfvaen has found the magic potato.

The aliens rolled

4356
2430
4332

This is the second week with no abduction (I think)

Malenkai
Speaker

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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 19:57:59 -0600 (MDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: Potato + Aliens

> Alfvaen has found the magic potato.

Yay!  I knew that if I kept the Little Lamb long enough eventually I would.
Now all I have to do is find Phoebe.  And get some Proposals in the queue
so I can at least take advantage of the Tuba bonus...

> The aliens rolled
> 
> 4356
> 2430
> 4332
> 
> This is the second week with no abduction (I think)

Yeah, I think so too.  Last week Cow Town was brought back, and nothing
else was abducted.

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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 21:05:18 -0600 (MDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: snowgod's disease

> Red Barn is found to have snowgod's disease by a 5-0 vote

Okay, now who's the Public Health Examiner?  C'mon, let's go, let's go.
(Maybe I'll put this up on the PE page...)

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Current Album--Van Morrison:Astral Weeks
Current Book--David Brin:Infinity's Shore
This is where international orange begins forever.  --billbill

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