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Translation: You made it up. It never happened.

Translation: You're feeling better and the "I don't want to fight" thing you had going was boring you.

Matt's in VANCOUVER. Now, if you remain "true to form", your next step will be to accuse him of being me, make several mentions of "levitating ladders", "inverted 747's" (it was really a 737), and a "counter" (or "counter-clerk").

Nope. He didn't. And it really is none of your business. I sincerely doubt he would know the police file number. I have no idea what *you* would do with it anyway. You're not involved in any way and the incident is obviously still under investigation.

Only a fool would give a known felon information like that

You know what? Doesn't matter if you believe me or not. If you get a call from the a pub in Burnaby, BC, asking you about a new DVR, you be sure to let me know.

That's good. I don't. Neither does anyone else

Would this be like the bar where the late MM spotted those ghosts?

How does your silly story (which you refuse to back up since you can't) have anything to do with your dissatisfied customers deciding to buy from my online store? Don't get me wrong now. I'm perfectly willing to help them select something better than what you offer.

They're more than welcome to pipe up. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

So... what? I call them up, get you a case number... why? So you can call and harass them? "Hi, I'm calling from Bufu, Florida to ask you about a recent theft..." Yeah, I'm sure they'll be glad to discuss the incident with you. They'll tell you it's none of your business as well.

Get over it.

If it happened there would be a case number. That's public information.

Harass the cops? Are you nuts?

There's nothing to get over. It didn't happen.

Well then you don't need to ask me for it.

No, the customer.

Because from what I've read here, I wouldn't put it past you.

Yeah, right. With no information as to location or date.

Bullshit! The simple truth is you made up the whole story.

That's more like what your pals, Olson and Mugford would do.

"Case numbers" are *not* public information unless one of the parties involved provides it. What do you figure the cops are doing? Publishing information about ongoing investigations? Get a life, Bass.

Then why would you want the "case number"??

Actually... I'm pretty disappointed in your feeble efforts at trying to denigrate the trade you "say" you were once part of. Care to tell us again how you managed to "found" an alarm company in 1979 in CT which also happens to be the same year you were convicted of felony assault in Florida and sentenced to five years probation? Care to tell us again how you "legally" installed and serviced alarm systems without a license until 1989? And how *do* you program a Napco LCD keypad to read "Attention Burglar! Go ahead, make my day!"?

I'm just imagining how the conversation goes if I actually give him the customer name and case number.

"Hello, xxxxx Pub" "Hello, this is Robert L Bass, calling from Bass Home Security in Florida. Can you confirm that this case number actually exists and that the suspects were caught?" "Huh? Who the f*ck are you and why are you asking?" "I just want to make sure that your current security provider isn't lying to me about this recent incident..." "HUH??? What the f*ck business is it of yours??"

Which is exactly what I told him: none of it is his business, and the case number is none of mine.

Of course, I suppose he could always lie and pretend to be a cop, insurance agent, or something else. That's always good for a fraud charge.

I don't suppose he'd be willing to share some of his customers' recent

That was obvious from the start.

Now *you're* assuming he *has* customers. I can't for the life of me imagine any online business operating without an 800 number or an email contact. At one time he had a far more comprehensive contact sheet that included his Nextel number, peer to peer voice contact ID, emails for both "sales", "service", and "technical support", fax, toll free, and local numbers. It's what you would expect from any successful business. Now-a-days, his dissatisfied customers will have to dial long distance to get an RMA number to return their goods (and they'll be lucky if someone actually answers the phone).

Bass is a nasty piece of work.

"Just Looking" wrote in news:46b24211$0$4725$ snipped-for-privacy@roadrunner.com:

Yes i did try Gilbarco. They were less than helpful.

Matt Ion wrote in news:rvusi.24988$fJ5.19556@pd7urf1no:

Thanks,

That is what i was looking for. I was hoping that it was something like that. but it is nice to have confirmation. Like i told Roland, Gilbarco was not very helpful.

So what's the status of your quest? Any luck yet?

Dunno if you tried Gilbarco's website, but they do have an area where you can sign up as a third-party developer and receive all kinds of information on the interface... might help, although they may not accept you if you're not actually a developer (they have an NDA you have to agree to as well).

How about these little samples.

This is just a couple of them. There are dozens more examples, should anyone care to see them.

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Subject: Moron Hates Texas Date: 1998/01/22 Author: Robert L Bass Posting History

You'll recall the recent discussion about a moron who hates Texas and the disgusting things he's been saying about the people of the Lone Star State. In order to avoid confusing this guy with some innocent person, I am including his home phone number below.

Here's the name, address and phone number. I am not suggesting you contact him. Just be sure you know who the guy is so you don't mistake him for someone else with a similar name.

xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxx XXXXX Xxxxxxand xx Xxxxins, XX xxxxx-xxxx

Here is the guy's personal phone number: xxx-xxx-xxxx Blue Skies, Robert L Bass

========================================== Subject: Robert L. Bass tries to screw Dave Houston From: snipped-for-privacy@aol.com (Group Moderator) Date: 05 Jan 2005 02:06:05 GMT

Subject: re Bass From: snipped-for-privacy@whocares.com (Dave Houston) Date: 7/3/2004 8:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time Message-id:

I'm sure this will do little good but when such an abominable lie is repeatedly spread by such an abominable liar as Bass, I think it requires a response. He knows I keep him in my killfile so I guess he figures he can take these shots with impunity.

When he posts, "Not too long ago when he was begging for help I tried to put aside our differences; privately offered to assist him and got publicly slammed for it." he is lying! Anybody who wishes can check Google for this group back in May/June of 2003 just after I got out of the hospital. You will find no post from me asking for help. You will certainly find no post from me "begging" for help. But being the bottom feeding dishonest bit of sub-human slime he is, Bass has repeated this lie several times.

I turned down offers from a few people who offered help when I said that I would probably have to move and stop posting here. I have since managed to get into the VA healthcare system which gets me my cardiac medications at $7 per prescription per month - a savings of a few hundred dollars each month. That has allowed me to stay in the apartment I've been in for the past

I did ask if anyone with the appropriate skills was interested in taking over an application I wrote several years ago that gave those without the ability to speak (from brain injury, ALS, CP, stroke, etc.) a way to control their environment and use text-to-speech to "speak", even originating and answering phone calls. I offered the sourcecode for free. Bass, being the slime-ball, con-artist, hypocrite he is, sent an e-mail trying to wheedle me into giving him the sourcecode. I guess he thought he could then sell it to someone else - he certainly has demonstrated no programming skills nor even a beginners understanding of computer related security issues although he ridiculed my warnings about active scripting. (CERT and other computer security experts this week recommended abandoning IE because of severe security holes related to active scripting.) If Bass would like to settle this in an appropriate venue, I can prove eveything I've said and disprove everything he has said. Bass would be the last person on earth that I would consider to take over the sourcecode.

I _gave_ that sourcecode to someone else who did have world-class programming skills. I'm not sure if he did anything with it. I wrote it back before the government would subsidize similar software so he may have decided there was no longer a market. Or he may have been unimpressed with it.

My diagnosis was severe congestive heart failure. My cardiologist has steadily increased my dosage of the two main medications and I'm functioning nearly as well, although with decreased mobility, as before. I'm trying to finish off several DIY HA related projects in whatever time I have remaining. Many are nearing completion.

The X-10 RF input module for the Ocelot/Leopard will probably be of interest to the greatest number but I'm also working on porting Commander-X to an embedded, networkable, under $100 system.

Continued ::::::::

Subject: Re: re Bass From: snipped-for-privacy@whocares.com (Dave Houston) Date: 7/6/2004 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time Message-id:

When Bass sees his lies refuted, he responds with another.

There was NEVER any such page on my website.

There was a notice that due to my health I could no longer maintain the site nor respond to emails it generated.

There was a link to a page which gave a brief detail of my health problems and which offered to give the sourcecode for SpeakOUT! (the text-to- speech application program for the disabled) to any qualified person who would update it and make it available (whether for free or as a commercial app) for those who could use it. The person I really wanted to take it over was an Air Force pilot who expressed strong interest but then got transferred and found himself with little free time to devote to it.

There was no plea for assistance. There was no request that anybody provide web space for ANY purpose. The page was already hosted on donated server space that did not cost me one cent so there was no reason to request that someone maintain a site.

When the emails actually increased, I shut the web page down.

When an individual with suspect motives posted a message here that it was still available in the WayBack archives, there was another spurt of email so I had it removed from the archive. (They understand copyright law.)

The page was hosted by a company that has an international IT business. They have servers in Europe, North America and Asia. All mirrored my pages; all were archived religiously on a daily basis.

There were dozens of people who emailed me offering free server space. Most said they had made personal archives of the pages and would publish them with no work on my part. Since that defeated the purpose of shutting down the pages, I declined all such offers telling them I would edit the pages and republish them at a later date. So, there are many, many archives of the pages held by independent parties which will prove that Bass is once again resorting to slander and libel.

To those complaining about my posts, I can only say that I did not initiate this exchange but I am not going to allow anybody to slander and libel me without responding. If you do not like that, use your killfile. If you do not want to use your killfile but still wish to complain, I can only suggest you follow the advice the Vice President gave to Sen. Leahy. ALL of those complaining made my killfile long, long ago.

Bass is a thoroughly dishonest slime artist who, lacking in technical ability, resorts to personal slander and libel when someone posts technical data that he cannot refute.

His "FAQ" linked to each of my web pages (without permission) for several years. Most of his "FAQ" is composed of work done by others and used without permission.

It amazes me that nobody has turned Bass into gator kibble.