Subject: ackanomic Digest V4 #149
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Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 00:00 EDT

ackanomic Digest	Monday, June 07 1999	Volume: 04  Issue: 149

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From: K 2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Random Proposal (2472)
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 08:30:37 -0400 (EDT)

Matt Miller wrote:

> As Rule Harfer I note that this is a Null Proposal.
>
> IB

P4169:  A proposal is selected at random and its effects are applied.

P4169 did cause a proposal to be randomly selected so it did have one
valid effect even if it didn't result in a rule amendment.

K 2

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From: K 2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Commission d'Arts
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 08:30:41 -0400 (EDT)

Towsner wrote on **14 Apr 1999 16:42:15**:

> And the members are:
> Studge
> IdiotBoy
> BLMP
> else...if
> rufus
> two-star
>
> I leave and am replaced by Robin Hood.

I have a sneaking suspison that the commission has failed in eir duty.... bad
members

K 2

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From: K 2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Just for fun?
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 08:30:48 -0400 (EDT)

(NB: Harfers, Trinket creation in step vii :-)

Interested parties so far:
K 2
Vynd
King Felix
IdiotBoy
BLMP

i) Any player of Ackanomic may alter The Proposal.
ii) No more than one turn per player per week (7 day units starting now :-).
iii) A turn consists of the addition of a single (and preferably sort
sentence) to the proposal and rearrangement of it sentence order, if desired.
iv) A player may submit the proposal after their turn provided that they have
contributed at least two sentences.
v) The proposal may be submitted any number of times provided it can get
around the 'substantially similar' rule wrt to any other proposals in the q.
vi) The 'winner' is the player responsible for the legal submission of the
Proposal in the form that is either accepted or declared harfy.
vii) The trophy shall be a "Doctorate of Philosophy in Proposal Origami" which
is a trinket worth A$100. Having the text of The Proposal in its final form as
a description. I create this trinket now and bury it as a treasure.
viii) Changes to the above by consensus :-)

--------The Proposal Exists Bellow this line------------

The Plastic Spatula is a type of Motorized Shovel.

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From: K 2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Getting in Early
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 08:30:51 -0400 (EDT)

The impending pay-day should fall out as follows:

/dev/joe             40 Promotor & Tabulator
r-Attila the Farce   20 CotC
Slakko               40 Web Harfer & Map Harfer
IdiotBoy             20 Rule Harfer
K 2                 100 Financier, Scorekeeper, Treasure Harfer,
                        DM & Org Harfer
rufus                40 Registrar & Trinket Harfer
Dr. Gaga Nome,       40 Postmaster, Herald
Niccolo Fly Chuck    20 Chess Umpire
O Olde Alpha         70 Count Tabula, Speaker & Dean
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                    390

No card thingies are outstanding.

K 2

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From: David Scheidt <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Commission d'Arts
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 08:35:22 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, K 2 wrote:

> 
> 
> Towsner wrote on **14 Apr 1999 16:42:15**:
> 
> > And the members are:
> > Studge
> > IdiotBoy
> > BLMP
> > else...if
> > rufus
> > two-star
> >
> > I leave and am replaced by Robin Hood.
> 
> I have a sneaking suspison that the commission has failed in eir duty.... bad
> members
> 

I was not a member of this commission.

rufy

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From: David Scheidt <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Just for fun?
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 08:36:44 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, K 2 wrote:

> (NB: Harfers, Trinket creation in step vii :-)

Thanks!

rufufus 

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From: K 2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Alas
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 08:50:29 -0400 (EDT)

AARON KEESLER wrote:

> *grin*
>
> Fortunato - he created the... er, the Monolith!  Yeah, yeah.  And he...
> uh... he won two games of Grab-A-Donkey!  Who's done *that*, I ask you?
> And... er...
>
>
> > I nominate Fortunato for the hall of elders, and support the nomination,
> > or do whatever I have to to get him in, presuming the hall still exists
> > and hasn't been repealed whilst I wasn't looking.
> >

I second this.

K 2

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From: K 2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Announcement
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 09:26:53 -0400 (EDT)

The PE/score pages are now uptodate... rush over and take a look

K 2

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From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Announcement
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 11:16:31 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, K 2 wrote:

> The PE/score pages are now uptodate... rush over and take a look

If the PE page is really correct and I have the RBBT, I point it at Trent,
supply the anagram 'T. T. Ren' and press the energize button paying
whatever fee is associated with this.

--JT

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[ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.                  ]
[ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ]
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From: [email-masked] (John Bollinger)
Subject: Re:  Acka: Magic Potato (rice)
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 14:35:53 -0400 (EDT)

>Potato has received the Magic rice.
>Therefore, Robin Hood has received the Great Tuba of Ackanomic.

Shouldn't that be "Robin Tuba has received the Great Hood of Ackanomic" ?

ThinMan

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From: "Gavin Logan" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: DeeJay (Trent)
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 18:43:06 -0400 (EDT)

The results of the DeeJay election were as follows:

King Felix:
King Felix

Trent:
IdiotBoy
Trent
Studge
ThinMan

rice:
Laa Laa

Which means Trent is the new DeeJay.

King Felix
(Count Tabula)

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From: "Gavin Logan" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: non-elder (Fortunato)
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 18:43:07 -0400 (EDT)

The confirmation period for elder is over. Fortunato received 10
confirmation points out of a required 14. The fickle players of Acka have
decided not to grant him elder status.

King Felix
(Speaker)

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From: Gabe Drummond-Cole <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: DeeJay (Trent)
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 19:12:14 -0400 (EDT)

At 06:43 PM 6/7/99 -0400, you wrote:
>The results of the DeeJay election were as follows:
>
>King Felix:
>King Felix
>
>Trent:
>IdiotBoy
>Trent
>Studge
>ThinMan
>
>rice:
>Laa Laa
>
>Which means Trent is the new DeeJay.
>

To celebrate, I go to the library and play 'We Are the Champions' by Queen.
-- T. T. Ren

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From: [email-masked]
Subject: ACKA: ACKA
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 19:41:07 -0400 (EDT)

  I wish to join the Anti-Canada Kamikazee Alliance.

404notfound

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Shameless Plug: Imperial Nomic has now started.  
http://www.negativeseven.com/impnom/

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From: Gabe Drummond-Cole <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: The Beginning of the End for the Canadian Scum
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 19:49:07 -0400 (EDT)

I announce the founding of ACKA (the Anti-Canada Kamikaze Alliance)

Members:

Trent
Studge
404 not found

It will own a spherical rotor
-- T. T. Ren

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From: Gabe Drummond-Cole <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Scamology Survey
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 20:06:38 -0400 (EDT)

As an Undergrad Researcher in Scamology, I am trying to gather data for my
thesis.  I would appreciate it if any and all Acka players would respond to
the survey, and as a measure of my gratitude, any players who do will
receive a free gift.  The survey is completely anonymous.

1.) How long (approximately) have you been playing Acka?
2.) Do you belong to any institutions?  If so, which one(s)?
3.) How many scams (approximately) have you participated in?  
4.) If you have participated in scams, have you felt guilty afterwards?
5.) Do you consider yourself pro-scam or anti-scam?
6.) What color do you want your gift in?
7.) Do you have any other comments on Scamology?

-- T. T. Ren

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Subject: Acka: Bot updates
From: Joseph DeVincentis <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 20:17:25 -0400 (EDT)

K2 pointed out a bug in the bot.  Due to this bug, the bot wasn't
correctly awarding extra mannna for part (d) of the mannna rule,
which awards a player the absolute value of his vote in mannna when
the absolute value of his vote equals the absolute value of the
proposal's acceptance index.  This happened 3 times:

Laa Laa, P4139 (100)
rice, P4139 (100)
rufus, P4160 (23)

In addition, rice has an additional 4 mannna because when he went into
debt subsequently to this, it was by a smaller amount (less than 100
in debt) so his penalty was only 10 instead of 14.

Also, I have added sphere Anti-Canada Kamikaze Alliance (abbr. acka)
to the bot and fixed T. T. Ren's name.

/dev/joe
Proposal/Tabulator

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