Martin said:
> Might as well let Jan and Jeroen sort this out for themselves. I also
> wrote two pulitzer-prize-grade-mails, but they were ignored.
You wrote the mails I would've written if I hadn't just spent a week in
bed with labyrinthitis. As far as I can see, you won the argument so
conclus
Wow, thanks Richard. I really appreciate that mail from you :)
Perhaps I should underline that the pulitzer-prize-part was just me
kidding - I didn't mean to show off or anything.
I'm also happy that we agree, although I don't think that my conclusions or
speculations are completely unassailable (
Martin said:
> Wow, thanks Richard. I really appreciate that mail from you :)
You're welcome, and thank you for saving me all that typing. I'll just
add a few notes. Firstly, as far as I can see the collapse of the Third
Reich was caused by lack of resources, most especially the shortage of
oil.
I agree. Also on your last point.
Martin Malmkvist
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You're welcome, and thank you for saving me all that typing. I'll just
add a few notes. Firstly, as far as I can see the collapse of the Third
Reich was caused by l
At Stardate 20030626.0002, Jan Coffey wrote:
> IIRC, that's not going to happen: the EU recently decided NOT to
> federalise.
Yes and the lack of the other two branches is troubeling.
The EU doesn't have these three branches yet because it's not a country;
the EU is a body in which a number of co
At Stardate 20030626.0008, Jan Coffey wrote:
> BTW, I don't know how this is handled elsewhere, but in The Netherlands
> going to Law School is just like going to any other school: the government
> doesn't pay for it, you'll have to pay for it yourself (despite the
> existence of student loans fro
At Stardate 20030626.0014, Jan Coffey wrote:
> That has nothing to do with the concept of trial by jury. The jury system
> doesn't have any more safeguards against an innocent man being convicted
> than our system has.
Your system has profesional judges who make decisions that is to much power,
A
At Stardate 20030626.0018, Jan Coffey wrote:
> >I trust an average person taken from the street far more than I would
> >trust someone who does it for a living.
>
> So, when you feel ill, you ask a not-medically-trained average person from
> the street for a diagnosis, rather than go see a physici
At Stardate 200326.0034, Bryon Daly wrote:
When someone allegedly broke a law, do you really believe that uneducated
Joe Average is more qualified to determine whether a law really was
broken than someone who has actually *studied* the laws?
I think that a large part of the judgement of a case i
At Stardate 20030625.1226, Richard Baker wrote:
You wrote the mails I would've written if I hadn't just spent a week in
bed with labyrinthitis.
Labyrinthitis?
Jeroen van Baardwijk
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Wonderful-World-of-Brin-L Website:
Jeroen said:
> Labyrinthitis?
An infection of the inner ear that affects balance. It's very unpleasant
indeed to suffer from. Here's a description of my recent woes:
http://www.theculture.org/rich/sharpblue/archives/62.html
Rich, still dizzy.
[Sponsored by:]
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--- Jeroen van Baardwijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> At Stardate 20030626.0002, Jan Coffey wrote:
>
> > > IIRC, that's not going to happen: the EU recently decided NOT to
> > > federalise.
> >
> >Yes and the lack of the other two branches is troubeling.
>
> The EU doesn't have these three br
--- Jeroen van Baardwijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> At Stardate 20030626.0008, Jan Coffey wrote:
>
> > > BTW, I don't know how this is handled elsewhere, but in The Netherlands
> > > going to Law School is just like going to any other school: the
> government
> > > doesn't pay for it, you'll
--- Jeroen van Baardwijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> At Stardate 20030626.0014, Jan Coffey wrote:
>
> > > That has nothing to do with the concept of trial by jury. The jury
> system
> > > doesn't have any more safeguards against an innocent man being
> convicted
> > > than our system has.
> >
--- Jeroen van Baardwijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> At Stardate 20030626.0018, Jan Coffey wrote:
>
> > > >I trust an average person taken from the street far more than I would
> > > >trust someone who does it for a living.
> > >
> > > So, when you feel ill, you ask a not-medically-trained av
--- Jeroen van Baardwijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
See other post about law complexity.
> >Where more technical points of law are involved, the judge is involved,
> >and he/she can dismiss the case, declare a mistrial, exclude evidence,
> >instruct the jury on the points of law, order the jur
Jeroen van Baardwijk wrote:
> > we in the US do not trust our governemnt that much.
> You're contradicting yourself. On one hand you say you
> don't trust the government (in this case, a member of
> the Judicial branch), but on the other hand you've
> stated that the three branches (Legislative,
--- Steve Sloan II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Jeroen van Baardwijk wrote:
>
> > > we in the US do not trust our governemnt that much.
>
> > You're contradicting yourself. On one hand you say you
> > don't trust the government (in this case, a member of
> > the Judicial branch), but on t
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