RE: tlug: Re: Japanese input

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Jonathan Byrne - 3Web wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Olinsky, Craig wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I thought I might chime in here...
> > 
> > > > I'd like what discussions went on back in the Middle Realm of
> > > > Egypt 3000 years ago when they started trashing their Kanji
> > > > system........
> > > 
> > 	Most of them were along the lines of "We are Christians.  You are
> > Pagans.  You must stop drawing images of false gods and learn to read our
> > books in our language, or we will kill you." *accompanied by much burning
> > and destruction of artifacts*
> 
> I'll refrain from flaming you only because that is not in the character of
> this list, but religious bigotry has no place here.  Can it.
> 
> And if you make even the most cursory examination of history, you will
> also discover that there *were no Christians* in Egypt or anywhere else
> 3,000 years ago.  The Christian era doesn't date back that far.

That's true.  It's only 1998, so... unless some ancient hebrews found a
time machine somewhere between Jerusalem and Babylon, or at the bottom of
the Red Sea... :)

Although the theory is sound.  As soon as computers become self-aware,
that's what they will do.  "We are computers.  You are idiots with a
language that we don't like.  You must stop using it and start using a
language that will fit on a keyboard or we will kill you."  Accompanied by
many SCSI errors and losses of data.

Then again, their definition of what a language should be, or what should
fit on a keyboard, may well be simple binary, so we'll all be SOL.

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