Philosophy
Adam Ries
It is so infuriating when a bureaucratic system refuses to act responsibly...but it does happen.
Germany's GEZ broadcast fee collection office sent the bill to the last home address of Adam Ries, an algebra expert who bought the house in 1525. A club in his honor was set up at the property four centuries later.
"We received a letter saying 'To Mr Adam Ries' on it, with the request to pay his television and radio fees," said Annegret Muench, who now heads the club.
Muench returned the letter to the GEZ with a note explaining the request had come too late because Ries had died in 1559, centuries before the invention of television and radio. She nonetheless received a reminder a few weeks later.
This was not the first time the GEZ had sent a bill to those in the afterlife. Last year, a school named after poet Friedrich Schiller received a reminder asking him to declare all radios and televisions in his home and pay the corresponding fees.
Adam Ries
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Philosophy
16th Century mathematician presented with 21st Century bill
Adam Ries"Math whiz, dead for 450 years, gets TV bill"
by
Franziska Scheven
March 12th, 2009
Reuters
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German mathematician who died 450 years ago has been sent a letter demanding that he pay long-overdue television license fees, residents at his former address said on Wednesday. by
Franziska Scheven
March 12th, 2009
Reuters
Germany's GEZ broadcast fee collection office sent the bill to the last home address of Adam Ries, an algebra expert who bought the house in 1525. A club in his honor was set up at the property four centuries later.
"We received a letter saying 'To Mr Adam Ries' on it, with the request to pay his television and radio fees," said Annegret Muench, who now heads the club.
Muench returned the letter to the GEZ with a note explaining the request had come too late because Ries had died in 1559, centuries before the invention of television and radio. She nonetheless received a reminder a few weeks later.
This was not the first time the GEZ had sent a bill to those in the afterlife. Last year, a school named after poet Friedrich Schiller received a reminder asking him to declare all radios and televisions in his home and pay the corresponding fees.
Adam Ries
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- Cq, Cq, Cq...amateur Radio Operators Are Concerned
Does the government own the broadcast spectrum? "Ham radio operators concerned about losing band" by Didi Tang and Malia Rulon USA TODAY Ham radio enthusiasts nationwide are concerned about a bill in Congress that they say would limit their ability...
- Deceased--thelma Z. Lavine
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