Subject: ackanomic digest V2 #279
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ackanomic digest       Monday, September 1 1997       Volume 02 : Number 279

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Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1997 00:26:39 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Mad Scientist

Rex Mundi wins the Mad Scientist election 3-0.

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Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1997 00:44:23 -0400
From: Dice Server <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Ackanomicon Determination

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# Ackanomicon determination for Vynd
# based on the following (using a 51 sided die):
# 1 -15: arcane trivia
# 16-20: vile prophecies
# 21-25: inner workings
# 26-30: arcane lore
# 31-33: terrorizing pages
# 34-34: ancient artifact
# 35-36: mutation
# 37-38: dark domain
# 39-39: visitation
# 40-40: the secret
# 41-42: long lost treasure
# 43-44: doomsday
# 45-45: forbidden fruit
# 46-46: catastrophe
# 47-50: not so forbidden fruit
# 51-51: ancient one
# Malenkai

No. of sides on every die:     51
No. of dice for every roll:     1
No. of dice rolls requested:    1
No. of rolls per line:          1

     51

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> #T Acka: Ackanomicon Determination
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> #C Ackanomicon determination for Vynd
> #C based on the following (using a 51 sided die):
> #C 1 -15: arcane trivia
> #C 16-20: vile prophecies
> #C 21-25: inner workings
> #C 26-30: arcane lore
> #C 31-33: terrorizing pages
> #C 34-34: ancient artifact
> #C 35-36: mutation
> #C 37-38: dark domain
> #C 39-39: visitation
> #C 40-40: the secret
> #C 41-42: long lost treasure
> #C 43-44: doomsday
> #C 45-45: forbidden fruit
> #C 46-46: catastrophe
> #C 47-50: not so forbidden fruit
> #C 51-51: ancient one
> #C Malenkai

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Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1997 00:51:51 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFJ 453 (Ben)

Ben has been chosen.

Clerk of the Courts
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Call For Judgment 453
  Subject: Empowering the Vulcan Party
Initiator: Niccolo Flychuck
    Judge: Ben (selected Sep 01, 1997, 00:51h EDT)
Judgement:

Statement:

Rule 1 does not empower the Vulcan Party to change the rules.

Niccolo Flychuck's Reasoning:

Having been enlightened by ThinMan insistence of ambiguity,
I'd like to direct the judge's attention to the reasoning or CFJ 452. The
four cases presented are indeed intriguing. Two of them are trivially
false - the ones that claim that either the Vulcan Party, that is the
Organization whose name is Vulcan and owns a Big Tent and whose membership
at the time of invoking this CFJ (/dev/joe, ThinMan, Malenkai, Vynd), or
the Organization founded by Alfvaen with the name "The organization
vulcan" capitalization, by rule, notwithstanding, have the power to change
the rules while the other ones doesn't, ask us to choose a single
interpretation to an obviously ambigous refference, where neither
interpretation has any advantage over the other. The two other
interpretations may appear to balance each other out but they do not.
One suggests that both Organizations have the power to change the rules,
the other suggests that neither has the power to change rules. Of these
two, the former attempt to manipulate regulated constructs, ie,
Organizational Actions, in ways which are not present anywhere within the
rules, and the results of such attempt would be obviously paradoxical,
while the latter, will not allow any such manipulation, and by that virtue
is the least paradoxical not only of the two bilateral options, but also
of all the options presented so eloquently by ThinMan and refferenced
here.

It is also my opinion that a verdict of True on CFJ452 will strongly
suggest a verdict of true on this CFJ.

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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 23:04:07 -0600 (MDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: Ackanomicon Determination

> # 51-51: ancient one

>      51

So Vynd gets the Chartreuse Goose.  Just in time to feed it this month,
too!  Another victory for the Rebellion!

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Song--Kate Bush:Breathing
Current Book--Robert Silverberg:The New Springtime
What would this sentence be like if it were not self-referential?

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Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1997 01:13:09 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Potato + Aliens

ThinMan has found the magic potato.

In any threads where the highest rule is 5001, the aliens rolled:
4000
3455
4568

In any threads where the highest rule is 1323, the aliens rolled:
817
277
376

The primeness and majik stuff does not apply to either set of rolls.

Malenkai
Speaker

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Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 01:21:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Ackanomicon Determination

On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, Aaron V. Humphrey wrote:

> 
> > # 51-51: ancient one
> 
> >      51
> 
> So Vynd gets the Chartreuse Goose.  Just in time to feed it this month,
> too!  Another victory for the Rebellion!
> 

I hurried into the Library and quickly bared the door behind me.
Screaming hordes of rebels slammed into it soon after, but to no avail,
for it held fast.  From the shouting outside though, it wouldn't be long
before they hauled up a BWG Laser to blast their way in.  I knew I had
only one chance.  Dreadful as it may be, I knew I must enter *that*
room....

....A thunderous roaring filled the air.  The candles flickered and went
out as a vortex of purple smoke filled the center of the room!  I screamed
out the final words of the incantation I had found in the Book, the wind
so loud I could not hear them.  A blinding light errupted, and then all
fell silent.  In the middle of the room, sitting on the very Book itself
was, err...  that's the Chartruse Goose, isn't it?  the book didn't say
anything about the Chartruse Goose.  And from the looks of it, the
Chartruse Goose wasn't informed about me either...

                               - Vynd

[email-masked]

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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 23:29:09 -0600 (MDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: NF GM

Now that the Free Market has been reattached, I seem to recall something
about Niccolo Flychuck wanting me to reattach his house with the
Monopole...  I make my way over to Mohammed's Winter Mosque(hmmm, odd
name), and shimmy up the tether(my wings are tired!).  I attach the
Gravitational Monopole, and then close my eyes and feel the Force
surrounding me.  It permeates all things, I am told.  Sort of like the
talenzien force, I guess.  With the confidence of the undefeatable I press
the red button.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Song In My Head--Kate Bush:Breathing
Current Book--Robert Silverberg:The New Springtime
I never buy music on impulse.  Only on warp.

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Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1997 01:36:05 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: NF GM

> Now that the Free Market has been reattached, I seem to recall something
> about Niccolo Flychuck wanting me to reattach his house with the
> Monopole...  I make my way over to Mohammed's Winter Mosque(hmmm, odd
> name), and shimmy up the tether(my wings are tired!).  I attach the
> Gravitational Monopole, and then close my eyes and feel the Force
> surrounding me.  It permeates all things, I am told.  Sort of like the
> talenzien force, I guess.  With the confidence of the undefeatable I press
> the red button.

This works.  If I was a priest, I would be praying right about now about
cheaping out, but I don't think I'm a priest, am I?

Malenkai

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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 23:48:03 -0600 (MDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: NF GM

> > Now that the Free Market has been reattached, I seem to recall something
> > about Niccolo Flychuck wanting me to reattach his house with the
> > Monopole...  I make my way over to Mohammed's Winter Mosque(hmmm, odd
> > name), and shimmy up the tether(my wings are tired!).  I attach the
> > Gravitational Monopole, and then close my eyes and feel the Force
> > surrounding me.  It permeates all things, I am told.  Sort of like the
> > talenzien force, I guess.  With the confidence of the undefeatable I press
> > the red button.

> This works.  If I was a priest, I would be praying right about now about
> cheaping out, but I don't think I'm a priest, am I?

If Seleya's still a Church, you are...  I don't have any record of you
having left it, at least.

It is that time again, isn't it?  Well.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Song In My Head--Kate Bush:Breathing
Current Book--Robert Silverberg:The New Springtime
I tried to play the shoehorn.  All I got was footnotes.

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Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1997 01:55:03 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: NF GM

> If Seleya's still a Church, you are...  I don't have any record of you
> having left it, at least.

Well, I don't think it is a church anymore, but do I become unpriested?
As has been discussed, acka has very little in the way of destructors.
I guess I could just check the rule myself, but I mam brain-stoppingly
lazy :)

Malenkai

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Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1997 01:58:22 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: BWG

looking for a parka?
in the gizz tonite it is
and this ain't a prayer

Malenkai

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Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 00:21:38 -0600 (MDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: NF GM

> > If Seleya's still a Church, you are...  I don't have any record of you
> > having left it, at least.
 
> Well, I don't think it is a church anymore, but do I become unpriested?
> As has been discussed, acka has very little in the way of destructors.
> I guess I could just check the rule myself, but I mam brain-stoppingly
> lazy :)

Aren't you thinking of the Markovian Dream, which went away when Mr.
Lunatic Fringe...well, ceased being a player?  AFAIK, nothing like that has
happened with Seleya.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Song In My Head--Kate Bush:Breathing
Current Book--Robert Silverberg:The New Springtime
Damn!  I could have sworn there was a zero around here somewhere...

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Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1997 02:24:16 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: NF GM

> Aren't you thinking of the Markovian Dream, which went away when Mr.
> Lunatic Fringe...well, ceased being a player?  AFAIK, nothing like that has
> happened with Seleya.

I thought Seleya only had 3 members now.  At least I can only think of
3 (no offense to anyone who may be in Seleya who I forgot to count, but
my brain right now is somewhere between soggy cereal and the goo that 
leaks from a basket of rotting fruit).

Malenkai

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Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 00:49:44 -0600 (MDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: NF GM

> > Aren't you thinking of the Markovian Dream, which went away when Mr.
> > Lunatic Fringe...well, ceased being a player?  AFAIK, nothing like that has
> > happened with Seleya.

> I thought Seleya only had 3 members now.  At least I can only think of
> 3 (no offense to anyone who may be in Seleya who I forgot to count, but
> my brain right now is somewhere between soggy cereal and the goo that 
> leaks from a basket of rotting fruit).

<checks>  You're right.  I had missed that.  I guess all its possessions go
into the Treasury too.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Song In My Head--Valeria Lagrange:Le Jeu
Current Book--Robert Silverberg:The New Springtime
Heck's Angels: Born to be Mild.

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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 22:55:37 -0800
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Rebeliion

Reebels,

Speak up and be heard!  Stever Gardner from Thring has asked the following
questions:

>
>1. Could you please post the text of the relevant Rules, and any
>other texts you think might be relevant to the situation?
>
>2. I hear that you are a member of the coup. Has reaction from the
>non-coup members been as sanguine as you imply above?
>
>3. I'd like to monitor the political situation in Acka for myself.
>What's the address of your mailing list?
>
>Agoran Registrar Steve

Reply to [email-masked] whilst you can still influence the nomic
community.  Viva La RRebellion

Dead Guy

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Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 04:46:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 2281 accepted

I note that with the release of the results of Proposal 2281, Oneiros
is now an active player. Welcome to our little nook of democracy and
despotism!

breadbox

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Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1997 12:12:35 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 2287

> I suggest Vulcan take the following action instead:
> Change the rules by creating a new rule entitled "Parry"
> and numbered 10, with the following text (delimited by
> the next two pairs of adjacent ampersands):
> 
> &&
> {{Proposal 2287 is hereby immediately deemed invalid.}}
> &&

I denounce this action.

Malenkai

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Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1997 21:18:01 -0700
From: **Alexandre Muniz <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Widening the thread split.

In the CFJ 452 FALSE thread, I am retracting proposal 2287.

**two-star

sorry.

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Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 10:26:00 -0600 (MDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Bond Corrections

I just noticed that with the addition of the anxious Whamiol penalties
which I had forgotten until recently, some of the bond dividends for last
cycle are slightly off.  /dev/joe, Techno, and Voting Gnome each had one
less A$ than they would otherwise have had.  (Oh, no!  Game state crash!)

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Song In My Head--Hair:Walking In Space
Current Book--Robert Silverberg:The New Springtime
They say Confucius does his crosswords with a pen.

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Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 10:15:49 -0600 (MDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Salaries

As this is the first Monday of the month, the following salaries are paid
out:

Sep 01 12:00 EDT: +35 A$ Malenkai: salary - speaker 35
Sep 01 12:00 EDT: +25 A$ breadbox: salary - promoter 25
Sep 01 12:00 EDT: +25 A$ Alfvaen: salary - web-harfer 25
Sep 01 12:00 EDT: +25 A$ breadbox: salary - tabulator 25
Sep 01 12:00 EDT: +25 A$ Malenkai: salary - count tabula 25
Sep 01 12:00 EDT: +25 A$ Alfvaen: salary - registrar 25
Sep 01 12:00 EDT: +25 A$ Alfvaen: salary - scorekeeper 25
Sep 01 12:00 EDT: +25 A$ Alfvaen: salary - financier 25
Sep 01 12:00 EDT: +25 A$ Malenkai: salary - clerk of the court 25
Sep 01 12:00 EDT: +25 A$ Vynd: salary - CSRR 25
Sep 01 12:00 EDT: +25 A$ breadbox: salary - postmaster 25
Sep 01 12:00 EDT: +25 A$ two-star: salary - map-harfer 25
Sep 01 12:00 EDT: +25 A$ Alfvaen: salary - undead-harfer 25
Sep 01 12:00 EDT: +25 A$ Alfvaen: salary - bond-harfer 25
Sep 01 12:00 EDT: +25 A$ Malenkai: salary - trinket-harfer 25
Sep 01 12:00 EDT: +1 autosculp Malenkai: salary - treasure-harfer 25
Sep 01 12:00 EDT: +25 A$ Niccolo Flychuck: salary - chess-umpire 25

As Web-Harfer, I am giving 5 A$ to each of my Assistant Web-Harfers,
breadbox and Malenkai.

Also...

Sep 01 12:00 EDT: -18 A$ Vynd: goose feed

Bond dividends will be posted shortly.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Song In My Head--Hair:Walking In Space
Current Book--Robert Silverberg:The New Springtime
I'm not gay.  I'm British, and I want a cigarette.

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Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 10:23:45 -0600 (MDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Bond Dividents, September 1, 1997

This bond cycle is a bit more exciting than the last, what with the
Whamiols going off, and a few Proposals going through the queue, and even
the recent Duel with Vynd and breadbox(which unexpectedly finished in time
for this cycle...)

Score changes used for bond cycle calculation:
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Ace Rimmer: 0
Alfvaen: -1
Antimatter: 0
Archie Leach: 0
Atilla the Pun: 0
AZTEC GOD: 0
Balsamic Dragon: 3
Ben: 11
breadbox: -9
Calvin N Hobbes: 0
CarsesraC: 0
Chaos: 0
Darth Vader: 0
/dev/joe: 4
Dread Pirate Roberts: 0
fnord: -3
Guy Fawkes: 21
ILIOS: 0
Karma: 0
Malenkai: 1
mr cwm: 1
Mr. Lunatic Fringe: 0
Niccolo Flychuck: 2
norpan: 4
Oneiros: 3
Red Barn: 1
Rex Mundi: 1
Robert Sevin: 0
Techno: 17
ThinMan: 0
two-star: 1
Voting Gnome: 34
Vynd: 12
Whiz: 0
 
Bond Dividends
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Ace Rimmer: 0.0  -->  100*0
Alfvaen: -0.795  -->  69*-1/2 + 10*-9/2
Antimatter: 0.0  -->  95*0
Atilla the Pun: 0.0  -->  100*0
AZTEC GOD: 0.0  -->  100*0
Balsamic Dragon: 3.0  -->  100*3
Ben: 11.0  -->  100*11
breadbox: -3.69  -->  82*-9/2
Calvin N Hobbes: 0.0  -->  100*0
CarsesraC: 0.0  -->  100*0
Darth Vader: 0.0  -->  100*0
Dread Pirate Roberts: 0.0  -->  100*0
/dev/joe: 21.47  -->  90*4 + 2*1 + 15*17 + 10*0 + 45*34
fnord: -1.34  -->  1*-9/2 + 2*4 + 93*-3/2 + 1*1 + 1*0 + 1*1
Guy Fawkes: 15.75  -->  75*21
Karma: 0.0  -->  100*0
Malenkai: 0.79  -->  79*1
mr cwm: 0.835  -->  2*-9/2 + 1*-3/2 + 94*1 + 5*0 + 1*0
Niccolo Flychuck: 1.9  -->  5*-1/2 + 5*-9/2 + 5*4 + 5*1 + 50*2 + 5*1 + 5*0 + 5*17
norpan: 4.0  -->  100*4
Red Barn: 0.9  -->  90*1
Robert Sevin: 0.235  -->  1*-3/2 + 1*1 + 85*0 + 2*12
Techno: 15.9  -->  30*2 + 30*17 + 30*34
ThinMan: 0.075  -->  5*-1/2 + 10*1 + 89*0
two-star: 2.73  -->  5*0 + 1*4 + 99*1 + 5*34
Voting Gnome: 6.8  -->  20*34
Vynd: 11.76  -->  98*12
Whiz: 0.0  -->  100*0
Ackers: 0.0  -->  4*0
Chaos: 0.36  -->  11*-1/2 + 2*4 + 5*-3/2 + 2*1 + 5*1 + 17*2
Mr. Lunatic Fringe: 8.57  -->  1*1 + 3*2 + 50*17
Narf: 0.05  -->  5*1
Odo on the Wormhole: -0.05  -->  10*-1/2
RexBank: 1.0  -->  100*1

#award Alfvaen: -1 A$ : dividend Sep 1
#award Balsamic Dragon: 3 A$ : dividend Sep 1
#award Ben: 11 A$ : dividend Sep 1
#award breadbox: -4 A$ : dividend Sep 1
#award /dev/joe: 22 A$ : dividend Sep 1
#award fnord: -2 A$ : dividend Sep 1
#award Guy Fawkes: 16 A$ : dividend Sep 1
#award Malenkai: 1 A$ : dividend Sep 1
#award mr cwm: 1 A$ : dividend Sep 1
#award Niccolo Flychuck: 2 A$ : dividend Sep 1
#award norpan: 4 A$ : dividend Sep 1
#award Red Barn: 1 A$ : dividend Sep 1
#award Robert Sevin: 1 A$ : dividend Sep 1
#award Techno: 16 A$ : dividend Sep 1
#award ThinMan: 1 A$ : dividend Sep 1
#award two-star: 3 A$ : dividend Sep 1
#award Voting Gnome: 7 A$ : dividend Sep 1
#award Vynd: 12 A$ : dividend Sep 1
#award Chaos: 1 A$ : dividend Sep 1
#award Mr. Lunatic Fringe: 9 A$ : dividend Sep 1
#award Narf: 1 A$ : dividend Sep 1
#award Odo on the Wormhole: -1 A$ : dividend Sep 1
#award RexBank: 1 A$ : dividend Sep 1

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Song In My Head--Hair:Walking In Space
Current Book--Robert Silverberg:The New Springtime
All rising to a great place is by a winding stair.

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Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1997 16:21:20 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFCJ 141 (Balsamic Dragon)

Karma did not deliver verdict.  Balsamic Dragon has been picked.
You gotta love those dice :)

Clerk of the Courts
- -----------------------------------------------------------------
Call for Criminal Judgement 141
  Subject: Whatever that thing is 
Initiator: Rex Mundi
    Judge: Karma (deadbeat)
2nd Judge: Balsamic Dragon (selected Sep 01, 1997, 16:21h EDT)
Judgement:

Statement:

Malenkai has committed a crime.

Rex Mundi's Reasoning:

On the 16th of August, at about 22:25, Malenkai wrote "I think the Zilruhti
or whatever is a cool use of the CFCJ."
Now, we don't know much about Zuriti'ili, but it seems likely that
misspelling Zuriti'ili is itself Zuriti'ili.

Suggested penalty:

A deduction of 1 point, a fine of 1 A$, and a public apology of 1 or more
lines.

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Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 00:16:48 +0100
From: "Gavin Doig" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Mad Scientist

> Rex Mundi wins the Mad Scientist election 3-0.

Zey leffed et me back et ze Academy, ze fools! Bwahahaha!

I am building a monzter, and itz name iz Valaraukar!

Rex Mundi, Qvestor for ze truth!

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Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 01:00:39 +0100
From: "Gavin Doig" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Mad Scientist

> Rex Mundi wins the Mad Scientist election 3-0.

Az ze new Mad Scientizt, I vould like to announze zat ze Earth iz round,
round I tell you!

Rex Mundi.

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Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 20:36:43 -0500 (CDT)
From: Thierry Joffrain <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFJ

I decline the CFJ given to me.

CnH

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Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1997 21:53:50 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFJ 451 (Malenkai)

Malenkai has been selected

Clerk of the Courts
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Call For Judgment 451
  Subject: Points are Points,  wherever they come from
Initiator: Voting Gnome
    Judge: Balsamic Dragon (declined)
2nd Judge: Calvin N Hobbes (declined)
3rd Judge: Malenkai (selected Sep 01, 1997, 21:53h EDT)
Judgement:

Statement:

If two or more Players become Active simultaneously,  Whamiols award
Points for each Player becoming Active.

Voting Gnome's Reasoning:

While I can't quote the current wording of the Whamiol Blueprint right
now,  I do remember it saying something along the lines of "when a Player
becomes Active",  not "whenever one or more Players become Active".  The
intent was the the Player should activate the point award,  not the time
frame of the event.

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Date: 1 Sep 1997 22:22:10 CST/CDT
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: Acka: NF GM

AC>> > Now that the Free Market has been reattached, I seem to recall something
AC>> > about Niccolo Flychuck wanting me to reattach his house with the
AC>> > Monopole...  I make my way over to Mohammed's Winter Mosque(hmmm, odd
AC>> > name), and shimmy up the tether(my wings are tired!).  I attach the
AC>> > Gravitational Monopole, and then close my eyes and feel the Force
AC>> > surrounding me.  It permeates all things, I am told.  Sort of like the
AC>> > talenzien force, I guess.  With the confidence of the undefeatable I pre
AC>> > the red button.

AC>> This works.  If I was a priest, I would be praying right about now about
AC>> cheaping out, but I don't think I'm a priest, am I?

AC>If Seleya's still a Church, you are...  I don't have any record of you
AC>having left it, at least.

AC>It is that time again, isn't it?  Well.

AC>--
AC>--Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
AC>Song In My Head--Kate Bush:Breathing
AC>Current Book--Robert Silverberg:The New Springtime
AC>I tried to play the shoehorn.  All I got was footnotes.

I don't think that the rules say that which a Church goes belly-up, the
priests of it are no longer priests -- they may simply be prests at
large

GF

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Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 22:31:56 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Color Scheme results

The results and answers for Color Scheme, a somewhat nomic-like contest
published in the April 1997 issue of GAMES Magazine, appear in the current
(October) issue.  The correct answer was the one I came up with for the
more reasonable-sounding of two possible interpretations of one sentence --
so that it means "the number of (red sentences and blue sentences)
containing the word 'purple.'"  GAMES did not comment on the other possible
interpretation "the number of (red sentences) and (blue sentences containing
the word 'purple,'" but they did note that 31% of the 1156 entries had the
correct answer -- better than they expected.  

It you wish to see the contest itself (which was posted here back when it
first came out 6 months ago, before a number of the current players had
joined Ackanomic) or the answer, let me know privately.

I didn't recognize any of the winners' names (in this contest or in the
hidden contest from the same issue) as Ackanomic players.

/dev/joe

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