OT : loadm & execute (was) Re: [Coco] Re: 6309 bitmd instruction

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 21 February 2006 08:21, James Hrubik wrote:
>But it's not just the fear of the language, David, it's what the
>language represents.  Language is the expression of culture; it is
>also the unifier of national spirit ( patriotism -- that dreaded
>disease of people proud of their heritage ).  There were good and bad
>things that were attached to both Spanish and English as the two
>cultures arrived on the continent.  There were hundreds of native
>languages that were replaced, with their attending cultures.  Our
>legal system, which underpins our freedoms, essentially followed the
>development of the English language; if you look closely, you see the
>parallels.  The breakdown of our legal system accelerated with the
>advent of the cultural breakdown of the late 60's and early 70's,
>when it became more important to blame everyone else for a person's
>problems than to look at the person himself as a possible
>contributor.  A whole new language was evolving -- many Amerenglish
>words do not mean the same thing today that they did 50 years ago.
>It's a fascinating study, and as we become more "multi-cultural", we
>can expect to lose more of our freedoms.  The saddest part is, the
>current generation has no reference point to look back and see what
>was lost.  I fully empathize with Sitting Bull.
>
>Maybe we should all speak C.  It might cause us to be more logical in
>our approach to problems.

Oh, I don't know, its just as possible to write cpu cycle wasting 
gibberish in C as in any  other high level language.

>On Feb 21, 2006, at 12:29 AM, David Macias wrote:
>> All this fear of assimilating another language and culture makes me
>> laugh. I look in the mirror and see the descendent of Native
>> Americans,
>> yet I do not speak any native language.  I speak the languages of my
>> first conquer (Spanish) and that of my second conqueror (English). 
>> It does not hurt to speak either language.  Your grandchildren will
>> get use
>> to it.
>
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And thats brilliant all by itself.  If I used a sig rotator, I'd add 
that one to the database, with attribution of course.

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