[Coco] Linux RBF filesystem support

[Joel Ewy]

Frank Pittel wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 08:39:13AM -0400, Chuck Youse wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 22:29 -0400, Charlie wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Hey, as the father of an autistic child I don't appreciate you throwing 
>>> around the retarded thing as an insult.You can't begin to understand the 
>>> pain a parent feels daily when faced with the reality of a mental disorder. 
>>> If you think its a waste of your money...fine. Who gives a shit about you 
>>> anyway.... But please find a more intelligent way to insult people.
>>>       
>
> <idiocy deleted>
>
> Chuck,
>
> What I find amazing is that you haven't figured out why people don't want to
> help you with your questions or problems.
>
>   
Well, it seems he has told us why.  He says he has Asperger's Syndrome
and is therefore incapable of understanding 'the stupid social games
that "norms" play', including apparently those of civility and tact.  So
maybe Chuck doesn't have a choice in the matter, though it doesn't sound
like he thinks it's appropriate for people to take the abilities,
disabilities, thoughts, or feelings of others into account when
interacting with them, so I assume he wouldn't want us to make that a
consideration in our interactions with him.  I've long ago made up my
mind that this is simply the way Chuck is, and I'm not ever going to
take anything that Chuck says personally.  This is a choice I can make
in my responses to Chuck, and it is a choice I have made before in
interactions with some others on this list.  Still, when discussing
purely technical issues, Chuck can sometimes have something useful to
contribute, and I simply chuck the rest.  :-)  (Yes, I got the Richard
joke...)

I was interested in following Chuck's hardware projects and would have
liked to have seen more -- especially of the HD floppy controller and
Ethernet adapter.  But alas, it sounds as if Chuck has decided to play a
"stupid social game" and stomp off in a huff with all his marbles, and
getting rid of all his CoCo stuff.  If he's serious about that, I hope
Ward is also serious about picking it up, so it can be of use to someone.

Chuck, I agree with you that many of the social games 'norms' play are
stupid.  I may not be two standard deviations off the 'norm', but I
probably am one.  Still, think of it as a quirk in the compiler that you
have to work around.  Learn to play the game just well enough to avoid
making everybody mad.  If empathy for other people's feelings isn't a
part of your register set, you can at least emulate it in software. 
Make it one of your direct page variables, and check its contents every
time you feel like using words like 'stupid' or 'dumbass' or you get the
urge to ridicule somebody's politics, religion, or choice of operating
system.  I get those urges too.  But I try not to act on them. 

You'll probably get more answers to your technical questions if fewer
people have you on their kill lists.  Believe it or not, even those who
have a vastly different world-view from your own are capable of
comprehending and imparting complex technical information, and
appreciating your own technical skills and accomplishments.  But they
are much more likely to do these things if you refrain from calling them
names.

JCE

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