Re: Marie Jean Faucounau sues me for at least 8,487 Swiss Francs

From: Franz Gnaedinger (frgn_at_bluemail.ch)
Date: 11/21/04 

Date: 21 Nov 2004 06:50:33 -0800

frgn@bluemail.ch (Franz Gnaedinger) wrote in message news:<2bf25455.0411192346.4f6315cd@posting.google.com>...

Trojan War and Switzerland, or: Do we ever learn from history?
dedicated to Dr.iur. Marcel Rochaix of Eberle Kämpfen Bösiger
Theiler www.ekbt-law.ch

The Trojans were favored by geography, placed on the mouthing
of the Dardanelles into the Aegean. The rare and precious tin,
required for casting bronze, coming from the ore mountains up
the River Danube and from Central Asia, was bound to pass by
Troy. The Trojans charged high tributes from the Achaean ships,
from transports over land, and from sailors who used the Trojan
harbor in the Besik bay on the Aegean shore while waiting for
favorable winds. The Achaeans camped in a harbor of their own
in the swamps one or two kilometers north of the Hisarlik,
where they built a long wall of wood and bricks as protection
against the Trojans, who, however, stormed the wall and killed
many Achaeans. Further incidents and battles ensued. Neither
side was able to win. Then a heavy storm occurred. On the next
morning the guards of the Trojan harbor on the Aegean shore
saw a helpless wreck drifting by, mast broken, sail missing,
covered with shrubs. Lo and behold: the bow sprit is shaped
into a stallion, so it must be the famous ship of "Odysseus"
who must have died with his crew in that horrible storm last
night! We are finally rid of the Achaean arch-schemer! Let us
haul in the ship and celebrate ... So the fools hauled in the
wreck with the famous bow-sprit in the shape of a stallion,
not knowing that it was a made up wreck actually transporting
the most daring Achaeans well hidden in wooden boxes below deck,
and when the ship was dragged into the harbor of the Besik bay
these men sprang up, out of the ship, and took the guards of
the harbor by surprise. An urgent signal for help was sent to
the citadel, some ten kilometers airline east of the harbor.
Now the Trojan army, fearing an attack on the Trojan harbor,
left their quarters in downtown Troy that gave protected shelter
to over 5,000 people, and sped toward the Aegean shore, assuming
the entire Achaean army there. But no, the Achaeans hid behind
the cliffs north of Troy, and when the Trojan army had left,
the Achaeans stormed the citadel and burned it down. This
happened in the summer of 1184 BC. In the fall of the same year,
heavy rains made the rivers coming from the Ida mountain swell,
and caused a flood that swept away the remains of the Achaean
camp north of the Hisarlik.

The Achaean bards have remembered those events, condensing them
by and by into ballads, which have then been compiled into the
epics Iliad and Odyssey. The true cause of the Trojan war, namely
the rare and precious tin, required for casting bronze, was turned
into a symbol: Helen of the white arms. Copper was turned into
xanthos Menelaos = Menelaos of the yellow, red or auburn hair.
Bronze, the alloy of copper and tin, was symbolized by Menelaos
and Helen's lovely daughter Hermione who resembled golden
Aphrodite. Ships turned into horses, oxen, sheep and goats.
Troy, greedily charging high tributes for the rare metals tin,
silver and gold passing by the Dardanelles, either on landway
or waterway, was symbolized by the abominable giant Polyphem,
who resembled more a wooden mountain top than a man who eats
bread, and who made his sheep and goats graze during day and
milked them upon returning into his cave on the evening. The
Trojan army, clad in copper, marching toward the Achaean wall,
turned into the River Xanthos. The storming of the Achaean wall
and the ensuing battle turned into Polyphem devouring one of
Odysseus's comrades. And the final sacking of Troy turned into
the horrible tale of Polyphem's blinding, while the washing
away of the Achaean wall and camp was turned into a flood
summoned by Poseidon and Apollon.

So far my reconstruction of Troy's fall.

Can we learn from history?

Switzerland is making much the same mistake as the Trojans did.
Most of my compatriots believe that the International River of
Money will forever flow through our small country and irrigate
our fields ...

   Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch

> A lesson on the Usenet, for Dr. Marcel Rochaix www.ekbt-law.ch
>
> I give private lessons for a relief organization (for free,
> although I am living most modestly - so very modestly nobody
> of you would believe it and hold it as possible). Just now I
> am teaching mathematics to a woman who suffers from discalculy.
> We are mostly playing, calculating without actually calculating,
> thus developing new ways of learning and teaching mathematics.
> The local universities recognize no necessity for such new ways,
> despite the drastic decline of the Swiss public schools. But
> my relief organization does, and encourages me. The woman I am
> teaching now is eagerly participating, and although she goes
>
> twelve minus one equals one
>
> she knows more about mathematics than Dr.iur. Marcel Rochaix,
> expert on computer law in Europe, knows about the Usenet.
>
> If he published his indictment paper against me online, people
> would ROFL (any idea what that means, Dr. Marcel Rochaix?) and
> call him a KOOK (you know what _that_ means, at least in terms
> of money) for having not the faintest notion of the Usenet,
> and a rather dubious one on the Web (taking 18,700 entries on
> the Phaistos Disk for as many articles by as many authors).
>
> If Dr. Marcel Rochaix weren't up to ruin my bare existence
> I had pity for him, and if he should believe to be the lawyer
> of a honorable scholar, professional mathematician and member
> of the Linguistic Society of Paris, not knowing that he actually
> supports grapheus - well, in that case I already pity him, and
> for free. Picture yourself as a hopeful and still relatively
> young lawyer, expert on computer law in Europe. Would you like
> to bust your career by becoming the lawyer of grapheus?
>
> Well, I better give Dr. Rochaix a lesson on the Usenet.
>
> The Usenet is an open medium. Everybody can publish in the
> unmoderated scientific groups and participate in the ensuing
> discussions. However, that freedom has a price: one has to fight
> if one comes up with new ideas, insights, approaches, theses,
> or even theories (if a thesis can be compared with a piece of
> wood, a theory would correspond to a piece of furniture; theses
> and theories are often confounded, even by edus).
>
> The Usenet is the Wild Wild West sector of the World Wide Web.
> People are continually shooting at each other, and the most
> priceworthy bullet available is the word kook. Almost everybody
> in the Usenet has been called a kook, and not just once.
>
> You, Dr. Marcel Rochaix, are quoting the Webster's definition
> of a kook. As a lawyer you are doing a lot of talking, I guess,
> and should therefore know some basic laws of semantics. For
> example this one: the meaning of a word is defined by the usage
> of that word, and the usage of a word can largely depend on
> the given context. Calling somebody a kook in the Usenet is not
> at all the same as calling a scholar a kook in a prestigious
> journal.
>
> And anyway, summoning the law is a bad way of handling a conflict
> in the Usenet, which, I say it again, is a free and open medium.
> The good way of handling a conflict in the Usenet is by replying
> and giving back and correcting mistakes and uncovering lies of
> an adversary. If someone does you wrong you can give back, even
> shoot back with words, if necessary, and you are in the moral
> right, the more so the more unjust an attack on you has been.
> The magic term here is self-regulation. You can't rule the
> Usenet from the outside, and certainly not if you know nothing
> about it. If you try nevertheless you must be man enough to
> stand the colorful names you are called for doing so.
>
> The Usenet is an easily accessible, pluridisciplinary facility
> for publishing, discussing and further developing new ideas.
> A fantastic medium, however, much and often and grossly abused.
> One of those who makes abuse of several groups is grapheus,
> beyond any reasonable doubt identical with your client Marie
> Jean Faucounau. If you, Dr.iur. Marcel Rochaix, know a different
> Jean Faucounau than we do, please tell us about him, and explain
> why you cover grapheus, an exemplary spammer and molestor, whose
> anonymized e-mail address made it on a Google list for spamming
> and harassing.
>
> Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch

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