mjw@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Witbrock) (09/13/88)
First: I'd like to repeat the apology I posted a couple of days ago. I know
what a joy children are. I have a 7 year old nephew who spent his infancy in
the same house as me. He's the nicest, cutest kid in the world. Experts agree.
I also know what an effort coping with kids who cry for five hours every night
is, and how important the social rewards of parenthood (including being able
to post to the net, hand out cigars (or whatever ritual has replaced this) etc)
are in dealing with the trials of 3am feeds (and worse, nappy [diaper] changes
).
O.K, so now that I've used up net bandwidth making a case for WHY I AM NOT THE
GRINCH WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS (aka an uncaring, cold, unintelligent twit),
why did I make the post?
In this country, and in many others, gay and lesbian people are in a position
where we are told we can't be good parents. We almost always lose our
children in custody cases. We are almost never allowed to adopt. In many
cases, our relationships are shunned, condemned, or illegal. In view of
this, it is easy to resent the approval which heterosexual couples expect
and recieve for their relationships, the support which they can count on as
they grow up, form families, and raise kids. It's easy to resent it, but
doing so doesn't help.
I know that raining on other people's parades doesn't help, but sometimes,
just like calling someone a twit, it makes one feel better for a few minutes.
I hope I didn't hurt anyone's feelings too badly. I regard many of the
people who post to this group as friends, although I've never met them.
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p.s. I hope no one is too upset at my using up bandwidth with this. I have
been explaining why I made the post by mail to the people who posted in
reply, but it is beginning to stop me from doing research.
Just to make people feel better about it, 2 questions:
1) Is there a curses emulation package which one can use with Manx C,
preferably a P.D. one. I'm trying to encourage the port of some CMU
neural network software to the Amiga.
2) If you could add a simple, fast speech recognising interface (say 100
isolated words, speaker independent) to an existing Amiga software
package (by intercepting I/O messages etc), what package would you
choose to add it to. DPAINTII (to replace clicking icons)? what else?
My boyfriend and I are interested in playing with doing this, and I'd
like to know what program people think would be the most fun to talk
to.
2a) Has anyone played with capturing sound with Perfect Sound while
still multitasking (i.e. poll poll poll ahah,noise
digitise digitise quiet poll poll poll ....). It seems simple
enough, but hey, if someone else has written the code...
regards. michael the twit
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