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To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (8313)	9/6/2001 3:51:10 PM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Respond to of 74559

...now to something completely different, as Monty Pythons would say - from German yahoo, courtesy of DJ some just cant wait the print ink to dry For the first time in Germany a money transporter with euro and DM cash has been robbed. Close to Giessen the criminals stole Eurobank notes and also, momentarily still an unknown, but probably great, amount of old cash. The police had spoken first of a heist in the order of five to six million Marks. The enterprise, that was hit, however disclaimed this total later in the evening: this number lies " factors above the actually stolen amount". The crime occurred at 11.05 o'clock on a highway between Lich and Fernwald in the Giessen county. The 35 years old driver Halil Yurtsever from New Isenburg, together with an accomplice, who waited at the site of crime, supposedly bound and disarmed the second security person riding in the car. The criminals are still on the run. They were looking for DM notes in the first place. They left larger quantities of euro-banknotes on the scene, after ripping open individual packages and taking unknown quantity of new bank notes with them, so the police. The Euro-banknotes could serve as prototypes for falsificators before the official introduction of new money on 1 January 2002. Larger quantities of D-mark notes, however, would be difficult to dispose of before the cash conversion deadline, the police say. According to the European central bank (EZB) the euro-robbery does not have any effect on the security of the new currency. " There is no currency in the world, which is safer ", said EZB speaker Nile Buenemann in Frankfurt. The Giessener police is looking for a dark red OPEL Vectra and a likewise red Ford Escort Orion with the number OF-XG 470. A witness implicated also a black Audi A4 with the F-M 9707 plates.

To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (8313)	9/6/2001 4:39:28 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Good points BBM. Jargon is used by some to define truth and describe reality [CDMA engineers burbling on about Fourier transforms, orthogonality, erlangs, pops, pseudo random noise, Gaussian noise, rake receivers, gallium arsenide, hard handoff - which is not onanism]. Jargon is used by others to deceive and to conceal reality [lawyers angling for another buck, social 'scientists' angling for power and another buck, superstitious religious leaders angling for status the girls and another buck, socialists using dialectic materialism to get power and the money]. Of course some engineers use jargon to dupe and conceal, but that's the exception usually due to some blunder. Scientists with an agenda, such as climate scientists who claim to be able to give weather forecasts accurate for 100 years though they can't figure out whether it's going to rain this afternoon, also use flim flam jargon at times and perhaps more frequently than engineers. Some religionists, socialists and lawyers are no doubt honest in their use of jargon. The telling point in CB's attitude to jargon is the contempt she shows for those she calls the delusional who say in a modern art gallery, "Huh! My child, cat or dog could do that." While they are probably wrong, [I'm not convinced - 47 bricks in a row.... 'Wow'], it's the contempt for those trying to understand the jargon which is telling. Worse is the fact that the art aficiandos are not shy about compulsorily taking the money [taxes] from the who work to fund their private state-funded modern art jokes. The Lawyer guild is similarly untrammelled in their acquisition of loot from a captive population, with laws breeding on laws. Every aspect of human life becoming approved by a central commissariat. Lawyers being needed to create and interpret rules for state control of the most prosaic and personal of human activity. Mqurice

To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (8313)	9/6/2001 5:46:52 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

Not a sore spot so much as puzzlement and a bit of frustration. I've never tried to read academic journals about literature but suspect that I would not enjoy the experience. -g- I do read academic journals about law and medicine for my job, political science, history, economics and finance for one area of intellectual enrichment, which I do try to understand, and general science, like Nature, Science and the like, for other areas of intellectual enrichment, which I mostly let stream past me, trying to grasp the simple bits. Maybe I miss the one-upsmanship because I miss most of the nuances in things I don't understand. The frustration comes from having bested Maurice Winn in an argument (even though he may be the only person who realizes it besides me -g-) and so he keeps lawyer-bashing in what appears to be a querulous tantrum. But that's a sideshow, nothing to do with you.;^)