Subject: ackanomic Digest V4 #209
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ackanomic Digest	Friday, August 06 1999	Volume: 04  Issue: 209

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From: Towsner <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Summarizer
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 10:13:29 -0400 (EDT)

	I didn't count the votes, but they were all FOR.  I think it can be
reasonable assumed that, as of 6-something this evening, I will take over
as Summarizer.

--
-Henry Towsner

	<[email-masked]>

	Thank heavens, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and
enjoy it.
		-Logan Pearsall Smith

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From: Towsner <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Summarizer
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 11:17:33 -0400 (EDT)

	It turns out that I greatly underestimated the number of active
players, and the IP did not pass.  The office of Summarizer is now empty.

--
-Henry Towsner

	<[email-masked]>

	Thank heavens, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and
enjoy it.
		-Logan Pearsall Smith

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From: "Gavin Logan" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: elections (President)
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 15:00:32 -0400 (EDT)

The nominees for President are as follows:

else...if
Emperor Ai! Pedrito!
K 2
King Felix
Studge

Reply to vote within three days.

King Felix
(cattle prods and the IMF)

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From: "Gavin Logan" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: phoebe (Alfvaen)
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 15:00:32 -0400 (EDT)

Alfvaen has found Phoebe's matchbox.

King Felix
(OiCoRT)

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From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: elections (President)
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 15:41:52 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Gavin Logan wrote:

> The nominees for President are as follows:
> 
> else...if
> Emperor Ai! Pedrito!
> K 2
> King Felix
> Studge
> 
> Reply to vote within three days.
> 
> King Felix
> (cattle prods and the IMF)
> 

As someone who pays little attention to the major issues and personalities
of the day, I would appreciate it if the candidates would put forward
their positions on the Voting Gnomeand his buddy, anti-voting, and the
lack of roundness of the Earth. This should greatly assist me in
determining how to cast my ballot.

Vynd

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From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: TGME
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 17:47:12 -0400 (EDT)

Goodbye entity.
Farewell, ChessChamp's Cardigan.
4284 damn.

-- 
Duncan C. "Slakko" Richer - http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~dcr24/
Queens' College Cambridge, 2nd Year Ph.D. (Pure Maths) - Graph Theory
My stream of consciousness has dried up.  Time to try irrigation.

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From: "Gavin Logan" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: elections (President)
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 18:02:11 -0400 (EDT)

>As someone who pays little attention to the major issues and personalities
>of the day, I would appreciate it if the candidates would put forward
>their positions on the Voting Gnomeand his buddy, anti-voting, and the
>lack of roundness of the Earth. This should greatly assist me in
>determining how to cast my ballot.
>

Well, the voting gnome is before my time as an ackan, but as a gnome he can
only be a repository of great and undeniable evil. Gnomes overrun our
eco-system devouring resources which causes other lifeforms to dwindle and
die. They soon multiply to infinite numbers in their subterranean tunnels on
a diet of biscuits and prechewed donuts. I don't think it would be a good
idea to grant such a creature suffrage. I think my point is clear.

Anti-voting is the only true voting.

The lack of roundness of the earth is just a conspiracy of cartographers. Or
possibly freemasons. Who poison our resources.

King Felix
(the fever is wearing off, really)

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From: Mueller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: elections (President)
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 18:46:31 -0400 (EDT)

Vynd wrote:
>As someone who pays little attention to the major issues and personalities
>of the day, I would appreciate it if the candidates would put forward
>their positions on the Voting Gnomeand his buddy, anti-voting, and the
>lack of roundness of the Earth. This should greatly assist me in
>determining how to cast my ballot.

I am very strongly anti-voting.  As we all know, there's nothing worse than
voting, and I will do all in my power to eradicate it.  From this clear and
unassaultable goal, all my other political positions follow.

The voting Gnome is just one more entity who wants to vote.  We have MORE
than enough of those.  I am firmly against this devious little miscreant.

As for the Earth, its shape is irrelevant except to the degree that this
shape is dictated by a strong and benevolent ruler.  Considering that (1)my
power is great and only increasing, and (2) that I am without a doubt the
candidate of the greatest benevolence (witness the courageous sacrifice in
P4295), I think a very strong case can be made that _I_ should be this
Earth-shaping ruler.

And now, since I'm becoming too choked up with emotion for Acka, I will end
this address...

<And a hushed awe of Studge's sincerity spreads through Acka...>

Studge

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From: Mueller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 4258 accepted
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 23:32:46 -0400 (EDT)

At 12:39 AM 7/25/99 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Subcommittee vote for: 180   against:0
>Subcommittee Acceptance Index: 180.0
>Passed subcommittee
>Total vote for: 585   Total vote against:-140
>Acceptance Index: 375.0: proposal accepted
> 
> Proposal 4258
> Scam Prevention
> /dev/joe
> Due: Sat Jul 24 23:21:32 1999
> Sphere: Hypnotist of Ladies
> Status: accepted
> 
> 
> Repeal rule 17-2-1, "Declaration of War: Agora".
> 
> All Declarations of War cease to exist.
> 
> Amend Rule 17-2, "A Few of Our Least Favorite Things", by inserting
> "voluntarily" before "registered players" in the last paragraph, and
> also by replacing "rival nomic" with "any nomic with which Ackanomic
> is in a State of War" in that paragraph.

I have a custom question.  If something that happened MORE than two weeks
ago is in question, are things that are thread dependent set in stone as
THEY pass the two week mark or not?

Either way, I'll be safe and request that these results not be pragmatized
into permanence.  I think the results and resulting Mannna totals are
different than they appear in some threads.

Studge

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Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 4258 accepted
From: Joseph DeVincentis <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 23:56:51 -0400 (EDT)

Mueller wrote:
> >Total vote for: 585   Total vote against:-140
> >Acceptance Index: 375.0: proposal accepted
> > 
> > Proposal 4258
> > Scam Prevention
> > /dev/joe
> > Due: Sat Jul 24 23:21:32 1999
> > Sphere: Hypnotist of Ladies
> > Status: accepted
> > 
> > 
> > Repeal rule 17-2-1, "Declaration of War: Agora".

> I have a custom question.  If something that happened MORE than two weeks
> ago is in question, are things that are thread dependent set in stone as
> THEY pass the two week mark or not?
> 
> Either way, I'll be safe and request that these results not be pragmatized
> into permanence.  I think the results and resulting Mannna totals are
> different than they appear in some threads.

Studge pointed out to me that he attempted to vote -160, -180, and -200
on this proposal (after his accepted vote of 59).  This alone is not enough
to make this proposal fail, but Emperor Ai! Pedrito! also attempted to
vote -160 and -200 (in addition to his recorded -140).  Both -200's,
if valid (i.e., if both players managed to raise their VCs and neither was
actually in mannna debt at the time), will sink this proposal and probably
give the game over to the Agorans.

/dev/joe

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