In article <5v0dhoF1k2jhlU1@mid.individual.net>
"Otter" wrote:
> In news:fmeuvv$9l4$1@news.albasani.net,
> Oksana Gutteridge typed:
>> In news:nemoMon011408104228@news.netspace.net.au,
>> Ronald Huttner typed:
>>> In article
>>> Snapper wrote:
>>>> Ronald Huttner wrote...
>>>> rule aus.legal. (P.S. Before retiring in 2003 I practised law
>>>> for 36 years - in private practice, government, and as a
>>>> University Law Lecturer. I can certainly "hold my own" in a
>>>> rational debate on the law, in the event that someone in this
>>>> newsgroup ever wants to engage in one rather than simply hurl
>>>> puerile insults).
>>>> And this begs the question - why the photon are you hanging
>>>> around here?Certainly it cannot be intellectually stimulating.
>>> That is an intelligent and good question, Snapper. I'll try to
>>> answer it as best I can. Although I am now retired from the actual
>>> practice of the law, I have certainly not lost my interest in it. I
>>> still read the journals and browse AustLII daily, reading recent
>>> decisions in the various fields in which I used to practice. I get
>>> a limited amount of enjoyment reading the outpourings of the many
>>> "bush lawyers" in aus.legal, struggling to rationally discuss what
>>> are frequently complex legal issues. The vehemence of their views
>>> is generally inversely proportional to how much they actually know
>>> about the topic and how deeply they have, (if ever), actually
>>> studied or researched it. Every now and then a topic comes up in
>>> aus.legal which is of interest to me and is one to which I feel I
>>> can make a useful contribution. I then do so. Regrettably, as I've
>>> said before, very few in this forum have the capacity for rational
>>> and intellectually stimulating debate on complex legal issues, and
>>> most just get their "kicks" out of flaming or insulting those whose
>>> views differ from their own. But aus.legal is only ONE of the legal
>>> forums in which I participate. For many years I have been a very
>>> active participant in the Law-Lib Discussion List. That is a List
>>> frequented by Law-Librarians (in private practice, government and
>>> academia) as well as other Legal Researchers, Legal Information
>>> Specialists and Lawyers with a particular interest in legal
>>> research. It is an excellent List, populated by some exceptionally
>>> well-informed and knowledgeable people. People are courteous and
>>> helpful and it is a most stimulating and useful legal research
>>> resource. I used to lecture in Advanced Computerised Legal Research
>>> at the University of Melbourne, so legal research is my specialty.
>>> I also contribute quite often to another Discussion List known as
>>> "Int-Law", which is essentially for people researching foreign or
>>> international law. That List, too, has some outstanding and
>>> extremely knowledgeable legal researchers on it, and is a wonderful
>>> resource and intellectually stimulating. No - aus.legal is largely
>>> a joke. And not a very good joke at that. Intellectual stimulation
>>> is certainly in rather short supply there. And then there are the
>>> ratbags that post nothing even remotely law-related - just regular
>>> anti-semitic filth, racism, bigotry, islamophobia, homophobia etc
>>> etc etc. But, when one is retired and doesn't want one's brain to
>>> prematurely rot, ANY stimulation becomes better than none !! I
>>> hope that I have answered your question satisfactorily, Snapper.
>> The truth, Ron Ron, is that you are desperate for someone, anyone,
>> to accept that you have the knowledge and skill to put a legal
>> argument coherently. This is plainly evidenced by your repeated
>> claims at legal qualifications and experience in the law.
>> This, however, is Usenet. The only thing that counts here (if
>> anything counts) is the quality of the argument. Claimed
>> qualifications, knowledge and skill mean nothing.
> Surely you don't suggest that Ronny is a bit of an Onanist? How
> awful!
It is actually Oksana that is a full-time dual-handed Onanist. That's
why his hands are rarely, if ever, free to type anything worth reading.
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