Subject: ackanomic digest V2 #371
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ackanomic digest     Wednesday, November 19 1997     Volume 02 : Number 371

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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 07:54:30 +0200 (EET)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 2379

On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Duncan Richer wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Uri Bruck wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Brian Raiter wrote:
> > 
> > > Proposal 2379
> > > Clearing away the Dross
> > > Slakko (Duncan Richer)
> > > 
> > > This is a Modest Proposal.
> > > 
> > > Create a New Rule, with the following text delimited by BLINK:
> > > BLINK
> > > {{The Capital Swinger Office known as the Office of Ben will be returned
> > > to the Treasury, stripped of its name, and all pieces held by that Office
> > > will be destroyed.
> > 
> > Isn't that Office already in the Treasury?
> > It should be destroyed, not returned to the Treasury.
> 
> If it is in the Treasury, then how come the never-sold Swinger's Offices
> (also in the Treasury) don't have to be listed on the Party Chess page,
> but this does?

That's two different things. A Capital Swinger's Office is only created
when it first purchased, it has no existence before that.
Regardless its current location, it should really be destroyed.

Niccolo Flychuck

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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 07:54:59 +0000 ()
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 2379

On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Uri Bruck wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Duncan Richer wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Uri Bruck wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Brian Raiter wrote:
> > If it is in the Treasury, then how come the never-sold Swinger's Offices
> > (also in the Treasury) don't have to be listed on the Party Chess page,
> > but this does?
> 
> That's two different things. A Capital Swinger's Office is only created
> when it first purchased, it has no existence before that.
> Regardless its current location, it should really be destroyed.

Actually I believe the rules state it must have some kind of existence
before that, because there are restrictions on the number that can be
purchased, and the way it is expressed the ones yet to be purchased
languish in the Treasury.
Therefore they do exist to some extent - whether this is enough for Party
Chess to get annoyed about them or not is probably a bit iffy - not that
it matters when the seat is warm.

Yours,
Chess-Umpire Slakko
- --
Duncan C. Richer -- aka Slakko the Lost Warner Brother -- Now Really Lost!
Queens' College  -- PhD, Pure Maths, Graph Theory --  Cambridge University
"... and entirely motivated by hormones.  Works for me!"   --  Freakazoid!
http://dcr24.quns.cam.ac.uk/Nomic/27/Index.html <-- Imperial Nomic Game 27

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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 08:51:44 +0000 ()
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: General Party Chess Alert

Karma! 
It's your turn!
The deadline is today at 6:05pm, and the general message went out at that
time on Sunday (times here are GMT).  So, if you're listening, please
submit a turn or Pass.

- --
Duncan C. Richer -- aka Slakko the Lost Warner Brother -- Now Really Lost!
Queens' College  -- PhD, Pure Maths, Graph Theory --  Cambridge University
"... and entirely motivated by hormones.  Works for me!"   --  Freakazoid!
http://dcr24.quns.cam.ac.uk/Nomic/27/Index.html <-- Imperial Nomic Game 27

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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 16:35:24 +0200 (EET)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka : metamorph public action - buy More Than Human

As a member of MetaMorph I suggest the following public action for
MetaMorph :

Purchase a More Than Human.

Niccolo Flychuck

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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 07:44:50 -0700 (MST)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: acka : metamorph public action - buy More Than Human

> As a member of MetaMorph I suggest the following public action for
> MetaMorph :

> Purchase a More Than Human.

Oh, sure, why not.

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- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Song In My Head--REM:Man On The Moon
Current Book--Dave Duncan:Future Indefinite
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.

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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 10:00:35 -0500 (EST)
From: "A.K.A. TheWiz" <[email-masked]>
Subject: I'm back.

  My email is no longer bouncing, fyi.

___Dan_Knapp____The_Mauve_Baron______________________Beep Blip Bonk_______
<[email-masked]><[email-masked]> http://users.bergen.org/~dankna
Visit rec.games.video.classic and find out about Pac-Man's contemporaries!
What do you call an alligator crossed with a twiddled gorilla?

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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 07:18:59 -0800
From: Alexandre Muniz <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka : metamorph public action - buy More Than Human

Uri Bruck wrote:
> 
> As a member of MetaMorph I suggest the following public action for
> MetaMorph :
> 
> Purchase a More Than Human.
> 
> Niccolo Flychuck

I support this action.
**two-star

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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 16:14:57 -0500
From: "Michael James" <[email-masked]>
Subject: re acka magic potato

actually on nov 11th you had announced i found the magic potatoe malenkai

- -karma

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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 22:58:17 +0000 ()
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 2363 rejected

I hereby retract Proposal 2373.

Yours sincerely,
Slakko

- --
Duncan C. Richer -- aka Slakko the Lost Warner Brother -- Now Really Lost!
Queens' College  -- PhD, Pure Maths, Graph Theory --  Cambridge University
"... and entirely motivated by hormones.  Works for me!"   --  Freakazoid!
http://dcr24.quns.cam.ac.uk/Nomic/27/Index.html <-- Imperial Nomic Game 27

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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 15:37:42 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Gone Postal (Red Barn)

Never let it be said that I am a hasty person, but the evidence has
been piling up all day. No doubt about it: Red Barn has Gone Postal.

breadbox
Postmaster

PS: The act of Going Postal is regulated by Rule 422 (and, by
extension, Rule 594.17).

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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 20:13:14 -0700 (MST)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: acka : metamorph public action - buy More Than Human

> Uri Bruck wrote:

> > As a member of MetaMorph I suggest the following public action for
> > MetaMorph :

> > Purchase a More Than Human.

> I support this action.
> **two-star

All the members of MetaMorph have supported the action(that's what I was
doing, in case anyone wondered), and so it occurs.

By the way, the members of SPAM might like to support Slakko's charter in
the next couple of days or the action might fail.  I think--I'm not sure if
"declaring a charter" is really an action or not, but it wouldn't hurt for
two-thirds of the membership(or three-quarters, in this case)to declare
their support.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Boston:Greatest Hits
Current Book--Dave Duncan:Future Indefinite
Sentimental gentlemen are not afraid to show you when

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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 20:53:26 -0700 (MST)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: New Observer

I got an email from a guy named Keith Smith, who said something like:

> I have been interested in playing nomic for sometime now and would like
> the opportunity to observe.  After observing, I plan to join but figure
> that taking a peek first is a sound idea.

So I figured, what the heck.  I mean, it can't hurt, right?

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Boston:Greatest Hits
Current Book--Dave Duncan:Future Indefinite
Taking a bath with your toaster.  It's a bad idea.

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Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 20:14:25 -0800
From: **Alexandre Muniz <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: CFJ 471 (two-star)

Malenkai wrote:
> 
I accept this cfj.

> two-star has been picked.
> 
> Clerk of the Courts
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Call For Judgment 471
>   Subject: That message
> Initiator: Alfvaen
> Submitted: 97-11-14 21:33
>     Judge: Malenkai (declined)
> 2nd Judge: Slakko (declined)
> 3rd Judge: two-star (selected 97-11-18 23:22)
> Judgement:
>

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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:50:44 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Tornado

Nov 17 22:22 EST: -78 mr cwm: Tornado
Nov 17 22:22 EST: -88 Archie Leach: Tornado
Nov 17 22:22 EST: -111 Alfvaen: Tornado
Nov 17 22:22 EST: -24 Niccolo Flychuck: Tornado
Nov 17 22:22 EST: -70 Robert Sevin: Tornado
Nov 17 22:22 EST: -67 /dev/joe: Tornado
Nov 17 22:22 EST: -48 Malenkai: Tornado
Nov 17 22:22 EST: +50 breadbox: Tornado
Nov 17 22:22 EST: -29 Fortunato: Tornado
Nov 17 22:22 EST: -30 ThinMan: Tornado
Nov 17 22:22 EST: -43 Karma: Tornado
Nov 17 22:22 EST: +7 Crackfoo: Tornado
Nov 17 22:22 EST: +15 Balsamic Dragon: Tornado
Nov 17 22:22 EST: +0 Slakko: Tornado
Nov 17 22:22 EST: +19 Calvin N Hobbes: Tornado
Nov 17 22:22 EST: +5 Voting Gnome: Tornado
Nov 17 22:22 EST: +158 Rex Mundi: Tornado
Nov 17 22:22 EST: -27 Antimatter: Tornado
Nov 17 22:22 EST: +70 AZTEC GOD: Tornado
Nov 17 22:22 EST: +48 norpan: Tornado
Nov 17 22:22 EST: +10 Vynd: Tornado
Nov 17 22:22 EST: +29 Darth Vader: Tornado
Nov 17 22:22 EST: +22 Ace Rimmer: Tornado
Nov 17 22:22 EST: +113 Dread Pirate RobertsnIi: Tornado
Nov 17 22:22 EST: +19 Red Barn: Tornado
Nov 17 22:22 EST: +50 SonOfWu: Tornado
mr cwm              :  85
Archie Leach        :  5
Alfvaen             :  -26
Niccolo Flychuck    :  55
Robert Sevin        :  0
/dev/joe            :  -12
Malenkai            :  0
breadbox            :  79
Fortunato           :  0
ThinMan             :  -1
Karma               :  -20
Crackfoo            :  29
Balsamic Dragon     :  29
Slakko              :  11
Calvin N Hobbes     :  29
Voting Gnome        :  14
Rex Mundi          :  163
Antimatter          :  -27
AZTEC GOD           :  70
norpan              :  48
Vynd                :  9
Darth Vader         :  22
Ace Rimmer          :  10
Dread Pirate RobertsnIi:  93
Red Barn            :  -7
SonOfWu             :  23

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