Reg Edwards wrote:

Kids considered by the City Authorities to be a nuisance, living with rats
in the sewers of Rio are ocasionally culled, perhaps not explicitly by the
Authorities, to reduce their nunbers by police armed with guns.

Amongst other ways of making a living they survive be selling home-brewed
cigarettes, loaded with cannobis and more powerful drugs on the city
streets. It is not surprising why the Authorities consider them to be a
nuisance - it has a bad effect on the wealthy tourist trade.

Now selling cigarettes involves monetary and arithmetical transactions.
Accepting bank notes and coins and giving correct change. Mental
calculations involve percent of drugs per inch of cigarette length, the
number of cigarettes in the pack, wastage etc. All must be done very fast
before an armed policeman appears. And must be done accurately and honestly
to avoid upsetting customers with the consequent longer-term bad effect of
loss in trade.

There has evolved in the sewers of Rio an arithmetical method of addition,
subtraction, multiplication and division, altogether different from the
Arabic procedures (Baghdad, Basrah, Mosul, before foreign weapons of mass
destruction were introduced) now adopted by the rest of the educated world.

Not so very long ago a small party of professors, Phd's, students etc., from
an English univerity made an expedition to Rio specifically to investigate
this apparent revolution in the very foundation of Mathematics.

They returned with a new insight into how the human brain works with numbers
and retired to study and then present their findings.

Or else lose their grant funding.

Since then all has been silence. I have not spent much time with Google. But
there is no doubt that the self-taught sewer kids of Rio are better educated
at arithmetic than the so-called engineers who argue amongst themselves in
words on this newsgroup without any use of numbers and relative quantities.

Better educated? Ridiculous. More proficient, perhaps.

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 21:18:39 +0000 (UTC), "Reg Edwards"
wrote:
loaded with cannobis and more powerful drugs

Hi Reggie,

If you are expected to be taken seriously, even the sewer rats of Rio
know how to spell hemp.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

"Richard Clark" wrote
loaded with cannobis and more powerful drugs

Hi Reggie,

If you are expected to be taken seriously, even the sewer rats of Rio
know how to spell hemp.

==========================
Hi Dick,

Yes, at the time, I was aware of the mis-spelling. But I could't think of
the name 'hemp' which even I CAN spell correctly. Very interesting, its the
only defect you could find in my story.

Your "If you are expected to be taken seriously" is an indication that you
think there is something serious in what I say.

Regardless of South American un-culled sewer rats - Engineers who regularly
demonstrate they are afraid of using numbers can hardly be considered to be
well educated. (Refer to Kelvin).

This criticism is not so much directed against individuals as it is against
the present-day, Western World engineering educational system in which
university professors just sit on their fat, lazy, well-paid, self-satisfied
arses, obtaining easy money under mutually-plagiarising false pretences.
----
Reginald, G4FGQ

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 13:34:31 +0000 (UTC), "Reg Edwards"
wrote:

|
|"Richard Clark" wrote
| loaded with cannobis and more powerful drugs
|
| Hi Reggie,
|
| If you are expected to be taken seriously, even the sewer rats of Rio
| know how to spell hemp.
|
|==========================
|Hi Dick,
|
|Yes, at the time, I was aware of the mis-spelling. But I could't think of
|the name 'hemp' which even I CAN spell correctly. Very interesting, its the
|only defect you could find in my story.

If you would have just typed "cannobis" in Google, it would have
asked: "Do you mean: cannabis?"

|
|Your "If you are expected to be taken seriously" is an indication that you
|think there is something serious in what I say.

Never.
|
|Regardless of South American un-culled sewer rats - Engineers who regularly
|demonstrate they are afraid of using numbers can hardly be considered to be
|well educated. (Refer to Kelvin).

Hmmm. The USA is now being overrun with denizens of the countries to
the south, including no doubt some South American sewer rats. By your
estimation, the education level here should have improved.

I think not. For example, I left a pair of slacks at the dry cleaners
a few days ago. The fee was $1.75 (USD). I gave the girl $10.00 and
she broke out a calculator to determine that my change was $8.25.

Contrast this to a tale related to me by an old friend. Jim was in
the U.S. Marine Corps when the flight of the Enola Gay took place.
Shortly after, he and his group were sent up some river in China to
ferret out some Japs...sorry...Asians who hadn't gotten the word yet
that they had lost. The Marines set up a camp and immediately began a
trade relationship with the local Chinese "service industry."

Jim said it took all of 15-20 minutes for the natives to master the
U.S. currency system. (It probably would have taken them a couple of
hours to figure out the British system of the day [G])

Richard Clark wrote:
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 05:52:39 -0800, "Ed Price" wrote:


Those "Russian scientists" often seemed to come up with controversial and
unrepeatable results.


Hi Ed,
snip
Another story is their development of a supersonic torpedo. That's
right, a jet powered torpedo that can dart through the ocean at
600MPH. It was speculated that it was the cause of the sinking of
their submarine, the Kursk. It was thought that the propellant lit
off in its bay, and the rest is history.


Rocket powered, actually. Interesting how it works physically. I have
read some speculation on making manned submarines on the same principle.
I would think running into a whale would be a serious issue, though,
even if unlikely.

tom
K0TAR

Wes Stewart wrote:
If you would have just typed "cannobis" in Google, it would have
asked: "Do you mean: cannabis?"

Oops Wes, you have just joined the FBI's most wanted list.
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp


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"Reg Edwards" wrote in message
...

Kids considered by the City Authorities to be a nuisance, living with rats
in the sewers of Rio are ocasionally culled, perhaps not explicitly by the
Authorities, to reduce their nunbers by police armed with guns.

Now selling cigarettes involves monetary and arithmetical transactions.
Accepting bank notes and coins and giving correct change. Mental
calculations involve percent of drugs per inch of cigarette length, the
number of cigarettes in the pack, wastage etc. All must be done very fast
before an armed policeman appears. And must be done accurately and
honestly
to avoid upsetting customers with the consequent longer-term bad effect of
loss in trade.

Or much more likely, a "culling" by customers / compettiors.

So why would you expect this particular geographic environment to provide
unique educational stimulus, above and beyond the crystal meth dealers of LA
or the rock cocaine vendors of Chicago?


There has evolved in the sewers of Rio an arithmetical method of addition,
subtraction, multiplication and division, altogether different from the
Arabic procedures now adopted by the rest of the educated world.

Not so very long ago a small party of professors, Phd's, students etc.,
from
an English univerity made an expedition to Rio specifically to investigate
this apparent revolution in the very foundation of Mathematics.

They returned with a new insight into how the human brain works with
numbers
and retired to study and then present their findings.

Since then all has been silence.

After they sobered up, they realized that the Brazilian Renaissance only
changed the course of world thinking for 12 minutes.

Ed
wb6wsn

"Reg Edwards" wrote in message
...

"Richard Clark" wrote
loaded with cannobis and more powerful drugs

Hi Reggie,

If you are expected to be taken seriously, even the sewer rats of Rio
know how to spell hemp.

==========================
Hi Dick,

Yes, at the time, I was aware of the mis-spelling. But I could't think of
the name 'hemp' which even I CAN spell correctly. Very interesting, its
the
only defect you could find in my story.

Your "If you are expected to be taken seriously" is an indication that you
think there is something serious in what I say.

Regardless of South American un-culled sewer rats - Engineers who
regularly
demonstrate they are afraid of using numbers can hardly be considered to
be
well educated. (Refer to Kelvin).

This criticism is not so much directed against individuals as it is
against
the present-day, Western World engineering educational system in which
university professors just sit on their fat, lazy, well-paid,
self-satisfied
arses, obtaining easy money under mutually-plagiarising false pretences.
----
Reginald, G4FGQ


But you just cited an example of profs and students organizing a research
expedition to Rio to count the sewer rats, or was it to study how the sewer
rats count?

Ed
wb6wsn

"Wes Stewart" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 13:34:31 +0000 (UTC), "Reg Edwards"
wrote:

|
|"Richard Clark" wrote
| loaded with cannobis and more powerful drugs
|
| Hi Reggie,
|
| If you are expected to be taken seriously, even the sewer rats of Rio
| know how to spell hemp.
|
|==========================
|Hi Dick,
|
|Yes, at the time, I was aware of the mis-spelling. But I could't think
of
|the name 'hemp' which even I CAN spell correctly. Very interesting, its
the
|only defect you could find in my story.

If you would have just typed "cannobis" in Google, it would have
asked: "Do you mean: cannabis?"

|
|Your "If you are expected to be taken seriously" is an indication that
you
|think there is something serious in what I say.

Never.
|
|Regardless of South American un-culled sewer rats - Engineers who
regularly
|demonstrate they are afraid of using numbers can hardly be considered to
be
|well educated. (Refer to Kelvin).

Hmmm. The USA is now being overrun with denizens of the countries to
the south, including no doubt some South American sewer rats. By your
estimation, the education level here should have improved.

I think not. For example, I left a pair of slacks at the dry cleaners
a few days ago. The fee was $1.75 (USD). I gave the girl $10.00 and
she broke out a calculator to determine that my change was $8.25.

Contrast this to a tale related to me by an old friend. Jim was in
the U.S. Marine Corps when the flight of the Enola Gay took place.
Shortly after, he and his group were sent up some river in China to
ferret out some Japs...sorry...Asians who hadn't gotten the word yet
that they had lost. The Marines set up a camp and immediately began a
trade relationship with the local Chinese "service industry."

Jim said it took all of 15-20 minutes for the natives to master the
U.S. currency system. (It probably would have taken them a couple of
hours to figure out the British system of the day [G])


Thirty minutes after you acclimated them to US funding, the limeys would
have been priced out of the market! No wonder Reg is perennially ****ed at
the world; lackanookie!

Ed
wb6wsn

"Tom Ring" wrote in message
. ..
Richard Clark wrote:
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 05:52:39 -0800, "Ed Price" wrote:


Those "Russian scientists" often seemed to come up with controversial and
unrepeatable results.


Hi Ed,
snip
Another story is their development of a supersonic torpedo. That's
right, a jet powered torpedo that can dart through the ocean at
600MPH. It was speculated that it was the cause of the sinking of
their submarine, the Kursk. It was thought that the propellant lit
off in its bay, and the rest is history.


Rocket powered, actually. Interesting how it works physically. I have
read some speculation on making manned submarines on the same principle. I
would think running into a whale would be a serious issue, though, even if
unlikely.

tom
K0TAR


Now that would be darn considerate of them, as we could track them all
without leaving Narragansett Bay.

Ed
wb6wsn