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Subject: Re: Secret Opcodes

Author: Stuart Cracraft

Date: 14:28:05 12/25/05

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On December 25, 2005 at 10:27:34, Gerd Isenberg wrote:

>Nice blog on "Evolution of a Go program" from Frank de Groot:
>http://www.moyogo.com/blog/blog.htm
>
>I found following article on popcount instruction particular interesting:
>http://www.moyogo.com/blog/2005/09/secret-opcodes.html
>
>The answer from Christian Ludloff on my question in sandpile forum some time ago
>is still a mystery to me:
>
>"PS: Don't call it POPCOUNT. The proper mnemonic would have BT
>at the beginning, though BTC is already taken..."
>
>Gerd

I find his commentary about popcount highly plausible.

Look, when they stopped Ken Thompson and Belle from heading to Mother Russia
back a couple decades ago on the grounds that Belle's technology could hurt
someone, I'll believe that an instruction won't be implemented because the
U.S. government is such a paranoid entity that it must have boogeyman
around which to rally the populace for some disturbed politician to
misdirect us away from the true sufferers, our own people in the city,
in the bayou, in the ghetto, in the barrio.

So when Ken Thompson replies to the U.S. Government, "Sure, Belle could hurt
someone, if you dropped it out of the plane on them." I applaud his commentary
and recommend you all to take a good hard look at your government and whom
you elect (not that you have much choice now given that the machines
themselves are rigged and controlled by GOP-sympathizers who are ex-felons
who are not allowed to vote (yet control the vote.) It was obvious in 2000 and
2004 and many universities have tabulated the odds of the exit poll so
dramatically differing from the final tally at extremely unlikely.

There goes the democracy and republic "my fellow Americans".

Stop Imperialism now!

Off my stump,

Stuart Cracraft

P.S. Moderator feel free to delete this political commentary.




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