On 7/21/2025 at 11:20 PM, Lacessit said:

Without internet, work on my autobiography, currently 162,000 words. There is always something to add.

 

 

For some reason, this made me laugh. 

11 hours ago, NorthernRyland said:

Pretty sure I was browsing AOL with a 2400 baud modem in 1995.

I had Compuserve (I think that was the name) and a 300 baud modem in 1988.  It was useless.   Later, I remembered thinking, 19,400 baud.  Wow, that's fast. 

11 hours ago, NorthernRyland said:

here's the computer I had in 1995.

 

 

running Netscape Navigator and the original WWW 1.0 would have looked like something like this:

 

 

 

 

That looks like the one they use at immigration

15 hours ago, Cameroni said:

 

You're an Australian engineer. I'm a City of London trained international funds lawyer. Are you sure you want to go down the education route?

 

You know you're basically unarmed in that regard.

I am armed with science. I produce knowledge. You produce reams of meaningless paper. Or electrons, nowadays.

 

Who paid for your education? Did you win any scholarships?

 

Could you explain why lawyers are one of the most despised professions on the planet?

 

What could you possibly write about in your life or career which would be remotely interesting to anyone else?

8 hours ago, TedG said:

For some reason, this made me laugh. 

Your autobiography only needs to be one word.

 

Loser.

22 hours ago, Lacessit said:

I don't have any comments about ASEAN on it.

 

The sentences in it would be way too long for your comprehension level and attention span.

Yet my IQ is 20 points above yours. 

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

Your autobiography only needs to be one word.

 

Loser.

Rants of an angry old man

 

Be yours.

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

I am armed with science. I produce knowledge. You produce reams of meaningless paper. Or electrons, nowadays.

 

Who paid for your education? Did you win any scholarships?

 

Could you explain why lawyers are one of the most despised professions on the planet?

 

What could you possibly write about in your life or career which would be remotely interesting to anyone else?

Well for starters he has manners and doesn't abuse people for nothing. I can't imagine why anyone would want another book from an angry lefty. That space is so 10 years ago.

2 hours ago, Lacessit said:

I am armed with science.

 

Sicence? You're an engineer, you didn't split the atom, did you? Engineers are a dime a dozen. Even Philippines has engineers. It's the lowest of the professions. On TV endless medical dramas, endless legal dramas. Where's the TV shows about engineers, Lacessit?

 

 

2 hours ago, Lacessit said:

You produce reams of meaningless paper.

 

Actually the offering documents I have drafted have resulted in people making billions of dollars. If they were meaningless why did people pay me 500 USD per hour? For meaningless paper? Really?

 

2 hours ago, Lacessit said:

Who paid for your education? Did you win any scholarships?

 

Back in the day I did actually get a scholarship, but only because of my passport so my tuition fees were paid because of some reciprocal EU arrangement so I didnt' have to pay tuition fees in the UK. That's obviously out the window now. Of course my father helped with living costs and after two years the highest payinglaw firm in London that recruited me generously paid me a grant and scholarship for both living costs and tuition at law school. So  I ended up with no debt at all. Untiil I met my wife that is.

 

2 hours ago, Lacessit said:

Could you explain why lawyers are one of the most despised professions on the planet?

 

Sure, that is because we are the gatekeepers of the game, the ones who decide the rules by interepreting them. And of course that service is very expensive. People generally have to go to a lawyer when they have no choice, they are forced to get one, and then they have to pay inordinate sums for them to solve their problem, which often can't be solved. But it's probably mostly envy, Lacessist, we're seen as the most intelligent and the highest paid profession, so one can understand that we are envied. Unlike engineers, whom we mostly pity.

 

2 hours ago, Lacessit said:

What could you possibly write about in your life or career which would be remotely interesting to anyone else?

 

Well, there've been some interesting basketball matches. My equestrian exploits in Spain. My training Karate with Wayne Otto. My bagging the best looking girl in the Clifford Chance summer placement of 1996. How I spent all my summers in the largest nightclub in the Baleraics, when nightclubs still involved a suit and a tie, and I met 4 Asturian girls who all invited me to visit them. My trip there, taking in the Michael Jackson concert in Madrid, and how I met a lovely Spanish girl in Asturias called Reyes who showed me how to dance the Pasodoble in a fiesta in a night only Ava Gardner could have portrayed in film. I just sent her 24 yellow roses and thanked her for teaching me how to dance the Pasodoble. Then off to England alas, to work in the higerst paying law firm in the City and helped a Japanese client to obtain a betting licence in the UK, who was eternally grateful. I then switched from corporate to Capital Markets at one of the premier international law firms, working for Japanese banks would wouldn't bat an eyelid to pay 2 million pound invoices for the meaningless paper you referred to. Then I got an offer to head the capital markets department at a Cayman Islands law firm, so I flew to the Caribbean, all expenses paid of course, and after a year experienced hurricane Ivan whilst I was holidaying in Cuba. I came back to a war zone, sleeping in the office. Then left after 4 years and worked with that law firm, heading up the Zurich office, whilst working remotely. Mostly travelled the world, by which I mean Asia. Met a Filipina and my life swiftly went downhill from there. So nothing terribly interesting, I'm sure your life is more filled with drama. After all that's why we see the endless TV shows about engineers.

 

They'll be ripping your autobiography out of hands. Or you completely wasted your time of course and two people will read it. One or the other.

 

 

 

 

 

 

3 hours ago, Cameroni said:

It's the lowest of the professions.

According to Top 10 Most Hated Professions

Lawyers are only just behind politicians and just ahead of estate agents!

PS; Engineers do not appear in the top 10! (or should that read "bottom 10!)

4 minutes ago, DezLez said:

According to Top 10 Most Hated Professions

Lawyers are only just behind politicians and just ahead of estate agents!

PS; Engineers do not appear in the top 10! (or should that read "bottom 10!)

 

Cause nobody cares about engineers. Basically the girl goes for the engineer when she couldn't get the lawyer.

 

I feel sorry for engineers really.

6 hours ago, Lacessit said:

Your autobiography only needs to be one word.

 

Loser.

LOL….you're a narcissist. 

1 hour ago, Cameroni said:

Cause nobody cares about engineers. Basically the girl goes for the engineer when she couldn't get the lawyer.

I feel sorry for engineers really.

The girl goes for the lawyer when she needs money to support the children that the drug dealer/gang member/murderer that impregnated her won't. And after she married the lawyer, she'll still withhold sex from him, while happily banging the pool boy/postman/gardener. 

25 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

And after she married the lawyer, she'll still withhold sex from him, while happily banging the pool boy/postman/gardener. 

 

Not my experience at all. Of course I didn't have a pool back then. Thankfully the gardener was 79 years old and the postman was a post woman.

On 7/24/2025 at 10:02 AM, Cameroni said:

 

Sicence? You're an engineer, you didn't split the atom, did you? Engineers are a dime a dozen. Even Philippines has engineers. It's the lowest of the professions. On TV endless medical dramas, endless legal dramas. Where's the TV shows about engineers, Lacessit?

 

 

 

Actually the offering documents I have drafted have resulted in people making billions of dollars. If they were meaningless why did people pay me 500 USD per hour? For meaningless paper? Really?

 

 

Back in the day I did actually get a scholarship, but only because of my passport so my tuition fees were paid because of some reciprocal EU arrangement so I didnt' have to pay tuition fees in the UK. That's obviously out the window now. Of course my father helped with living costs and after two years the highest payinglaw firm in London that recruited me generously paid me a grant and scholarship for both living costs and tuition at law school. So  I ended up with no debt at all. Untiil I met my wife that is.

 

 

Sure, that is because we are the gatekeepers of the game, the ones who decide the rules by interepreting them. And of course that service is very expensive. People generally have to go to a lawyer when they have no choice, they are forced to get one, and then they have to pay inordinate sums for them to solve their problem, which often can't be solved. But it's probably mostly envy, Lacessist, we're seen as the most intelligent and the highest paid profession, so one can understand that we are envied. Unlike engineers, whom we mostly pity.

 

 

Well, there've been some interesting basketball matches. My equestrian exploits in Spain. My training Karate with Wayne Otto. My bagging the best looking girl in the Clifford Chance summer placement of 1996. How I spent all my summers in the largest nightclub in the Baleraics, when nightclubs still involved a suit and a tie, and I met 4 Asturian girls who all invited me to visit them. My trip there, taking in the Michael Jackson concert in Madrid, and how I met a lovely Spanish girl in Asturias called Reyes who showed me how to dance the Pasodoble in a fiesta in a night only Ava Gardner could have portrayed in film. I just sent her 24 yellow roses and thanked her for teaching me how to dance the Pasodoble. Then off to England alas, to work in the higerst paying law firm in the City and helped a Japanese client to obtain a betting licence in the UK, who was eternally grateful. I then switched from corporate to Capital Markets at one of the premier international law firms, working for Japanese banks would wouldn't bat an eyelid to pay 2 million pound invoices for the meaningless paper you referred to. Then I got an offer to head the capital markets department at a Cayman Islands law firm, so I flew to the Caribbean, all expenses paid of course, and after a year experienced hurricane Ivan whilst I was holidaying in Cuba. I came back to a war zone, sleeping in the office. Then left after 4 years and worked with that law firm, heading up the Zurich office, whilst working remotely. Mostly travelled the world, by which I mean Asia. Met a Filipina and my life swiftly went downhill from there. So nothing terribly interesting, I'm sure your life is more filled with drama. After all that's why we see the endless TV shows about engineers.

 

They'll be ripping your autobiography out of hands. Or you completely wasted your time of course and two people will read it. One or the other.

 

 

 

 

 

 

You seem to have a thing about engineers.

 

There's an old joke about chemical engineers. Smarter than an engineer, not smart enough to be a chemist.

 

However, your opening diatribe is meaningless. My primary qualification is in chemistry, post-graduate qualifications in environmental science and accounting.

 

I had three scholarships, the first to Haileybury College in Australia. It's now an education behemoth that even has a campus in China. 4 years of tuition costs. 

Second scholarship was for the cost of textbooks in college.

 

I was reading Charles Dickens before age 10, and had the periodic table memorized in full two weeks after my first chemistry class.

 

I then won a Commonwealth scholarship to university. Ironically, it was in languages, where my honors were  better than my marks in chemistry, physics, and maths, which was my preferred career path.

 

I worked in 5 industries. Soaps and detergents, polyurethane, iron ore, glass and finally steel. In hindsight, those experiences produced a generalist rather than a narrow specialist.

 

I was working at the start of the first iron ore boom in Port Hedland, Australia. While there, I trained under the South Pacific Open jui-jutsu champion to brown belt level. I also bought a house, and paid off the mortgage in 18 months. Have not owed money since.

 

As far as other sport goes, I was a competent footballer, a stubborn opening bat who infuriated bowlers, and a tricky off-spinner in secondary college. I was a late bloomer in golf, a sport I have played for 70 years. I have been a champion multiple times at open amateur and senior amateur level, making it into the quarter finals of the Australian Senior Amateur championship.

 

My experience of equestrian sport consists of knowing one end kicks, and the other end bites.

 

In applying for my last job in the steel industry, there was the usual battery of tests. I scored 100% on literacy and math. The HR person said it was the first time in thousands of job applications he had seen a perfect score in both categories.

 

I was actually hired as a superintendent of about 60 people. A perceptive manager realized I was solving plant problems which had been lurking in the business for years, and my metamorphosis to a research scientist began. I was eventually relieved of all management duties to focus on process chemistry. 

 

You probably would not understand the eureka moments scientists get when they define a new relationship in the variables of a process, develop a new way of measuring an attribute, or solve problems.

 

In your profession, someone wins, someone loses. In mine, everybody wins.

 

I have published multiple scientific reports in journals, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute in the eighties. I had two world patents, now expired but still in use.

 

I have lectured at international conferences in the UK and USA as an invited speaker. I have worked as a process chemistry and environmental consultant in South Africa, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, New Zealand and the USA.

 

Watch "Chernobyl" if you want to understand where scientists really sit.

 

No doubt this is all boring to you, so i will end with this:

 

I have been a millionaire. Twice.

 

Both times, I lost half my assets, courtesy of the legal system and lawyers in Australia.

 

So excuse me for declining to p!ss on you, if you happen to be on fire.

 

 

2 hours ago, Lacessit said:

You seem to have a thing about engineers.

 

I do indeed,. An unfortunate incident in my past.

 

2 hours ago, Lacessit said:

My primary qualification is in chemistry, post-graduate qualifications in environmental science and accounting.

 

Well, why didn't you say so? That changes everything .Chemistry is the King of sciences in my book.My grandfather was a Chemist at BASF.

 

2 hours ago, Lacessit said:

I had three scholarships, the first to Haileybury College in Australia. It's now an education behemoth that even has a campus in China. 4 years of tuition costs. 

Second scholarship was for the cost of textbooks in college.

 

Never heard of it. But scholarships is good.

2 hours ago, Lacessit said:

In your profession, someone wins, someone loses. In mine, everybody wins.

 

No, that's for trial lawyers. I was a corporate lawyer ,a funds lawyer. So everyone always won. Unless the fund failed, then only I won.

 

2 hours ago, Lacessit said:

and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute in the eighties.

 

Sounds impressive. I was also also elected to the Law Society of England and Wales, and to the Supreme Court, as it was called then, now the the Senior Courts.

2 hours ago, Lacessit said:

I have lectured at international conferences in the UK and USA as an invited speaker.

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I was also invited to lecture at international conferences in Shanghai, Brussels and Miami.

 

Curiously enough, I was also a double millionaire over my lifetime. Women, in my case. 

 

Not into watersports, so no worries. But I would have no issue to urinate on you, should the opportunity arise.

2 hours ago, Cameroni said:

 

I do indeed,. An unfortunate incident in my past.

 

 

Well, why didn't you say so? That changes everything .Chemistry is the King of sciences in my book.My grandfather was a Chemist at BASF.

 

 

Never heard of it. But scholarships is good.

 

No, that's for trial lawyers. I was a corporate lawyer ,a funds lawyer. So everyone always won. Unless the fund failed, then only I won.

 

 

Sounds impressive. I was also also elected to the Law Society of England and Wales, and to the Supreme Court, as it was called then, now the the Senior Courts.

'

I was also invited to lecture at international conferences in Shanghai, Brussels and Miami.

 

Curiously enough, I was also a double millionaire over my lifetime. Women, in my case. 

 

Not into watersports, so no worries. But I would have no issue to urinate on you, should the opportunity arise.

Effectively, you were messed around by an engineer, I've been messed around by lawyers. So our attitudes to both professions have developed from there.

 

You do have a point about engineers, several problems I had to fix were actually caused by them trying to cut corners in a process.

 

I can still remember a lawyer who was holding funds of mine after I sold a property. It took eight months and a complaint to the Law Society of Victoria to get him to disgorge the money. I later found out he was lending it out at Shylock rates, and keeping the interest.

 

Same here, women got half my assets - twice. Women are the single biggest threat to any man's wealth.

3 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

I can still remember a lawyer who was holding funds of mine after I sold a property. It took eight months and a complaint to the Law Society of Victoria to get him to disgorge the money. I later found out he was lending it out at Shylock rates, and keeping the interest.

 

 

Well, that's just criminal. Good you complained, those rotten apples have to be eliminated,.

 

4 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Same here, women got half my assets - twice. Women are the single biggest threat to any man's wealth.

 

So true, and the worst, we think it's just and dandy  and willingly complied back then.

On 7/24/2025 at 10:15 AM, Lacessit said:

I am armed with science. I produce knowledge. You produce reams of meaningless paper. Or electrons, nowadays.

 

Who paid for your education? Did you win any scholarships?

 

Could you explain why lawyers are one of the most despised professions on the planet?

 

What could you possibly write about in your life or career which would be remotely interesting to anyone else?

Do you know the difference between a dead dog on the road and a dead lawyer on the road??

 

There are skid marks in front of the dog!

3 hours ago, emptypockets said:

Do you know the difference between a dead dog on the road and a dead lawyer on the road??

 

There are skid marks in front of the dog!

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-04/class-actions-law-firms-litigation-funders-justice-four-corners/105604998

The prospect of having no Internet is real.

 

The Internet system depends on electricity - how many components of the Internet system (from source to user, and all in between components) have 100% reliable electricity 24/7/52?

 

And finally, Electo Magnetic Pulse weapons can destroy all electronic components within the weapons range of influence.

 

Where are the backup alternative system to the Internet, with respect to money transactions, phone calls, etc.?

2 hours ago, Lacessit said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-04/class-actions-law-firms-litigation-funders-justice-four-corners/105604998

Yes I read that earlier. Claimants may get 10-14,000 dollars. Law firms tens of millions.

Criminal.