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ackanomic digest      Saturday, October 24 1998      Volume 03 : Number 373

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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 12:10:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tom Walmsley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: SYI

Duncan Richer wrote:

> > Tsk, tsk, tsk. This looks like a blatant case of illegal action here. Owning
> > too many otzma cards and not destroying any. On this ocaision though I don't
> > think I'll call a CFCJ :-).
>
> What action?  Doing nothing is not an action.

Wild Card owned more than 6 OCs. You may have done as well I'm not sure. The
efinition of Otzma Cards rule states something like "no player may own more than
six otzma cards". One of the early rules says "breaking the rules is the crime of
illegal action". Wild Card was breaking the rules by owning more than 6 OCs and
was therefore committing the crime of illegal action.

RRM.

- --
Tom Walmsley [email-masked]
http://website.lineone.net/~t.walmsley/index.html
AIM: TGW666 ICQ 2925739
Bonvolu alsendi la pordiston, lausajne estas rano en mia bideo.

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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:02:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: SYI

On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Duncan Richer wrote:
>On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Tom Walmsley wrote:
>
>> 
>> 
>> Jonathan David Amery wrote:
>> 
>> >  I give the Otzma Card Share Your Income to Slakko.
>> 
>> Tsk, tsk, tsk. This looks like a blatant case of illegal action here. Owning
>> too many otzma cards and not destroying any. On this ocaision though I don't
>> think I'll call a CFCJ :-).
>
>What action?  Doing nothing is not an action.
>
>I destroy my Otzma Card Paratroop.
>
>I play my Otzma Card Share Your Income, naming A Mean Hat and the amount
>A$2500.

Actually, this didn't occur as Wild Card was unable to give you the OC
SYI since he had 7 at the time he attempted to give it to you, therefore
this action could not possibly have occured (although your destruction of
a paratroop did)

- --JT

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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:22:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka Paella (fwd)

On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, K 2 wrote:
>JT wrote:
>
>> I create a trinket named "the empty, nonenforceable promise to give me
>> the next ephemeral gadget that e gets from a spell book of chorg" worth
>> A$2 and with the description of "JT will give the next ephemeral gadget
>> he gets from a Spell Book of Chorg to A Mean Hat."
>
>This trinket creation fails: the name suplied has ~109 characters
>
>Rule 500.1 (Entity Names):
>A name is a sequence of no more than seventy name characters.
>
>You were just testing weren't you JT? ;)

Actually, I wasn't.  I donate A$1 to the twits.
I then give A$2 to A Mean Hat.

I now give A$2 to the twits for having tried to do this on acka-research
the first time.

- --JT

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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:26:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Oars (Alfvaen)

Alfvaen has found the Oars this week.

- --JT

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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:52:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mueller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Oars (Alfvaen)

At 03:26 PM 10/24/98 -0400, JT wrote:
>Alfvaen has found the Oars this week.

Let's do the rafting thing!

Signup Sheet:

Oars -  
Raft - 
Idiot1 - Studge
Idiot2 - 

Studge

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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 17:00:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Head Apollo" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: The Discordian Times

The Discordian Times
Volume 1 Issue 2
Saturday 24 October 1998

“Putting the Fun into Fundamentalist Dogma”

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They Might Be Slumbering Tabulators*

Breadbox (Xebra Bod - hilarious acronyms ed.) was impeached this month after
a
lengthy term of inactivity, most of his offices were handled by JT as
President but
Fortunato did amazing work tabulating the results of those proposals whose
results
had gone unreported by the former tabulator. /dev/joe (invalid parameters -
hilarious
computing ed.) is now officially responsible for handling votes and
proposals and has
set up a handy bot for this very purpose. All Hail Ackabot.

At time of going to press (and when I say press I mean a word-processor
actually,
which doesn’t press so much as annoy every time it crashes, I suppose I’m
getting all
I deserve for choosing microsoft, well for sticking with what came free with
my PC
anyway [snip] - that’s enough rambling - ed.) plans were under way to allow
breadbox
to undergo the procedure for induction into the hall of elders. Will this
plan succeed?
Stay tuned.

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EXCLUSIVE FEATURE

Every issue, our resident Scaremonger, risE, will target one particular
audience to fill
with dread, apprehension and general panic-stricken hysteria. This week’s
target: The
anti-voters.

“Anti-voters? Anti-voters!!?!?? Too right you’re anti-voters, I haven’t seen
you voting
in a long time. Do you think that this kind of concerted apathy will do your
cause any
good? Since anti-voting was repealed you seem to have tried to re-introduce
its
problem of good proposals being rejected by just causing quorum failures. No
one
will stand for this!! We’ll come round to your houses!!! We’ll kick your
cat!!!! We’ll
force you to count each and every vote to check to see if each proposal
makes
quorum!!!!! What kind of job could be more boring than that? Just ask
breadbox! He
hated it so much he erased himself from existence!!?!??!!!@~##*&%$£....”

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The Ackans Are Revolting

Or rather, they aren’t. Whilst enough votes were tabulated to pass Rambo R
Minuteman’s Governments Rule Suite proposal, not enough Ackans have revolted
to
test the effects of this proposal. A proposal authored by A Mean Hat to
artificially
induce this effect by changing the Government type to anarchy failed to
garner
enough interest. Therefore this reporter must ask, if the majority of Ackans
don’t
want this rule suite, why don’t you repeal it? I hereby make a public appeal
to all
players who have not already done so, to put their rebelliousness
characteristic on or
put your efforts behind a repeal. An unused rule is not worth keeping.

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DISCLAIMER

Any sources quoted in The Discordian Times are probably made up. All persons
and
events are coincidental. If something appears to make sense, you’ve misread
it. The
Discordian Times is the product of a mind fuelled by Guinness, caffeine and
the
writings of Allen Ginsberg, it is therefore unsanitary and should be
approached with
caution.

(*Additional: The use of references to They Might Be Giants is not to be
encouraged.
It has caused this editor to miss out on at least one treasure. It is a
stereotypical
Student activity (except in the UK where Radiohead should be substituted)
and may
cause blindness, irritability and death.)

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Editor: risE (Gavin Logan) [email-masked]
All submissions reviewed and rejected.

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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 17:01:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Head Apollo" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Oars (Alfvaen)

>At 03:26 PM 10/24/98 -0400, JT wrote:
>>Alfvaen has found the Oars this week.
>
>Let's do the rafting thing!
>
>Signup Sheet:
>
>Oars -
>Raft -
>Idiot1 - Studge
>Idiot2 - risE
>
>Studge
>

risE

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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 18:46:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Argh!

I apologize profusely for not getting around to voting on yesterdays
proposals. While I often miss votes these days, I am rarely aware that I'm
doing so until after the fact. This time, I was in the middle of finishing
work on a book so it could go to press so I could go to a big party that
the company was throwing in honor of our new building, and while I knew I
was going to mess up some results I *just didn't have the time*  But I
still feel bad about it. Sorry all you authors.

With that said...

Memo to myself: Do the dumb things I gotta do. Touch the puppet head.

(again)

Vynd

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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 18:48:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Nothing important

I check the time. Long overdue, I'm afraid. Closing my pocketwatch, I
leave the Vulcan Party.

Vynd

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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 19:30:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: Org

> While I'm here.... I offer Alfvaen A$10 for one of eir sanity points -
> whichever number e chooses.

I accept this offer, naming Sanity Point #22 as the particular Sanity
Point which I give to K 2 in exchange for eir A$10.

> finding out _exactly_ why the org harfer position has created.

It was originally created so that I wouldn't have to do all this work
myself.

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- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.connect.ab.ca/~alfvaen/ )
Song In My Head--Starland Vocal Band:Afternoon Delight
Current Book--Juanita Coulson:Legacy of Earth
Six crazy kings vowed to abolish my quite pitiful jousts.

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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 19:33:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: Oars (Alfvaen)

> Alfvaen has found the Oars this week.

I hereby announce that, already having successfully rafted down the
Ackanomian River, not to mention having submitted a Proposal to repeal
the whole thing, I am going to toss the Oars in my basement for the
next two weeks, because I'm just a party-pooper.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.connect.ab.ca/~alfvaen/ )
Song In My Head--Myles & Lenny:Can You Give It All To Me
Current Book--Juanita Coulson:Legacy of Earth
Revenge is a dish best served...with tangy Miracle Whip!

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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 21:17:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jonathan David Amery <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: SYI

On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, JT wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Duncan Richer wrote:
> >On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Tom Walmsley wrote:
> >
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Jonathan David Amery wrote:
> >> 
> >> >  I give the Otzma Card Share Your Income to Slakko.
> >> 
> >> Tsk, tsk, tsk. This looks like a blatant case of illegal action here. Owning
> >> too many otzma cards and not destroying any. On this ocaision though I don't
> >> think I'll call a CFCJ :-).
> >
> >What action?  Doing nothing is not an action.
> >
> >I destroy my Otzma Card Paratroop.
> >
> >I play my Otzma Card Share Your Income, naming A Mean Hat and the amount
> >A$2500.
> 
> Actually, this didn't occur as Wild Card was unable to give you the OC
> SYI since he had 7 at the time he attempted to give it to you, therefore
> this action could not possibly have occured (although your destruction of
> a paratroop did)
> 

 I destroy one Otzma Card Truthseeker.

 I give Slakko one Otzma Card Share Your Income.

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Jonathan David Amery, Trinity Hall, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 1TJ.             #####
http://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/~jda23/home.html                  o__#######
Wild Card of Acka, member of SPAM, wearing a Silly Agenda Hat.   \'#######
Follower of Banna, the EBS and Odo.  Holding the Silver Key to the Vault.

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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 21:44:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Paella Anyone?

Heh, just kidding.

But I am burying a Bonus Vote (since I have one) and A$100 as treasure.  I
am revealing this portion of the map.  Or something.

SnVzdCBzYXkgV29vZiEK
====

Yours truly-
IB

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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 22:07:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Otzma gift

I give the Otzma Card Go Fish which I own (aquired from my SBoC) to
IdiotBoy.

- --JT

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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 22:10:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Otzma gift

Woo-hoo, dig'm!

IB

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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 22:15:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Rule 206

Sometime between the failure of Proposal 3654 and 3655, Calvin N Hobbes
became the first player in untold months to have caused Rule 206 to invoke
itself, when eir score dropped to -64.  Let's give em a big hand!

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- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.connect.ab.ca/~alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Thompson Twins:Side Kicks
Current Book--Juanita Coulson:Legacy of Earth
They say Confucius does his crosswords with a pen.

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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 22:40:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Bryan Federico" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Org

>Bryan Federico wrote:
>
>> >At 08:39 PM 10/23/98 -0400, you wrote:
>> >>I pay the SHF and creat a new Organization named "We threw gas on 
the
>> >>fire, and now we have stumps for arms" minus the quotes.  I invite 
JT
>> >>and Studge to join
>> >
>> >Count me in
>> >
>> >Studge
>> This time I really play the SHf at the right time
>> I now change the it to a Communist single player membership policy
>>
>> Leather Artifact
>
>On the subject of org founding rule 1003 has the following to say:
>"
>then the pseudo Founder forms the Organization by announcing the
>Organization's name, its type, pays the standard Harfer's Fee, and
>announces the name of its members.
>"
>
>you've quoted the name, you've paid the fee - who the hell are the 
members?
>
>In the interests of my sanity please explicitly state them; the quoted 
text
>is an invitation to join - not necessarily the reality
>
>Apologies if I sound (type?) a bit frayed but this org sequence is
>consuming a lot of my time :/
>
>While I'm here.... I offer Alfvaen A$10 for one of eir sanity points -
>whichever number e chooses.
>
>K 2
>finding out _exactly_ why the org harfer position has created.
>
Sorry K2
okay here is a list of the current members
Leather Artifact
Studge
JT
Dev/Joe
if i still neeed to I pay the SHF
The org's name is We threw gas on the fire and now we have stumps for 
arms

Leather Artifact
(:|Worker|General Contractor|Daring Adventurer|:)

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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 22:51:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Org

On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Bryan Federico wrote:
>Sorry K2
>okay here is a list of the current members
>Leather Artifact
>Studge
>JT
>Dev/Joe
>if i still neeed to I pay the SHF
>The org's name is We threw gas on the fire and now we have stumps for 
>arms

Now that this org is actually formed, I suggest that it adopt a communist
single player entrance policy and approve this.

- --JT

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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 23:08:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Bryan Federico" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Org

>Now that this org is actually formed, I suggest that it adopt a 
communist
>single player entrance policy and approve this.
>
>--JT

I also approve this as founder this happens (I think)

Leather Artifact
(:|Worker|General Contractor|Daring Adventurer|:)

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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 23:25:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mueller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Org

Leather wrote:
>
>
>>Now that this org is actually formed, I suggest that it adopt a 
>communist
>>single player entrance policy and approve this.
>>
>>--JT
>
>I also approve this as founder this happens (I think)

Yo.  I did it when the org didn't really exsit and I'll do again.

Studge

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