A moment of silence...

From: Richard Erlacher <richard_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Tue May 30 11:33:27 2000

HEY! . . . Smile when you say that, pardnuh! ... My father came from
Munich, but my mother was born in Berlin.

Aside from my half-year stay in Munich in '47, I lived outside Munich
(Groebenzell) for most of my first few years, Though I was born outside
Berlin, since that's where the Reich had stationed my father's unit
(Regiment Gross-Deutschland), which was a small "regiment" most of which was
on the eastern front while one battalion was in Berlin serving at the
pleasure of the leadership.

Your lamentations are sounding more and more like my Papa all the time. He
frequently began with "It should be illegal to do this . . ." and the like.)

In California, too, they have all-too-often tried to legislate good sense,
though they haven't managed it yet. Often it is too easy to start with
"there ought to be a law ..." but all that does is make work for the
lawyers.

Unfortunately, you can't have it both ways. Here, in the "land of
opportunity" the opportunity can be viewed as an opportunity to get screwed.
It's all in how you look at things.

now . . . about those 'Sau-Preussen' you were referring to . . .

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: Hans Franke <Hans.Franke_at_mch20.sbs.de>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: A moment of silence...

<snip>


> Zero - I wouldn't mind Americanos or even French, as long as we get
> less immigrants from other Parts of Germany (read Prussians :).
>
> > The average house in Silicon Valley costs $577,280 (Source: SJ Mercury
News,
> > 29 May 2000, page 7B). ( That's 1.216.791 DM at today's exchange rates,
or
> > 622.134,66 Euros. )
>
> House prices in Munich _start_ somewhere at ~1.2m DM (~600 kUSD) for
> connected houses, while single houses _start_ at about 1.7m DM (~800 kUSD)
> so there's still room :)
>
> > Commercial real estate has undergone similar escalation, with landlords
now
> > commonly asking for substantial percentages of stock in pre-IPO
companies
> > in addition to high rents. I know personally of a deal that fell
through
> > because the company that lost was unwilling to give approximately 1% of
the
> > outstanding stock to the landlord (in addition to the high rent); the
> > "winning" company gave more stock+cash.
>
> That's the new thing - I don't know about any similar stuff in Muncih.
>
> > If Silicon Valley weren't Paradise (esp. for geeks), it wouldn't make
> > sense... But...
>
> Now we're back on topic - is it still a paradise if surplus dealers and
> other sources of fun gear are closing down ?
>
> Gruss
> H.
>
> --
> VCF Europa 2.0 am 28./29. April 2001 in Muenchen
> http://www.vintage.org/vcfe
> http://www.homecomputer.de/vcfe
>
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