[PLUG-TALK] From another list - hard headed discussions

[Paul Heinlein]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Michael Rasmussen wrote:

> OP:
>> In the interest of moving this discussion away from the binary 
>> world "you're wrong!" / "No!  You're wrong!"  I'm curious about ...
>
> Tim replies:
> 010101000110100001101001011100110010000001101001011100110010000001101110011011110111010000100000011000010010000001100010011010010110111001100001011100100111100100100000011001000110100101110011011000110111010101110011011100110110100101101111011011100010000
> 100001101000010100000110100001010010100110110111101110010011100100111100100101100001000000110001101101111011101010110110001100100011011100010011101110100001000000111001001100101011100110110100101110011011101000010111000101110001011100010000001000001011011
> 10011001000010000001100001011100100110010100100000011101110110010100100000011010000110000101110110011010010110111001100111001000000110011001110101011011100010000001111001011001010111010000111111
>
>
> For those amongst us who don't speak binary as a first language, 
> what Tim said was:
>
> 0x54, 0x68, 0x69, 0x73, 0x20, 0x69, 0x73, 0x20,
> 0x6e, 0x6f, 0x74, 0x20, 0x61, 0x20, 0x62, 0x69,
> 0x6e, 0x61, 0x72, 0x79, 0x20, 0x64, 0x69, 0x73,
> 0x63, 0x75, 0x73, 0x73, 0x69, 0x6f, 0x6e, 0x21,
> 0x0d, 0x0a, 0x0d, 0x0a, 0x53, 0x6f, 0x72, 0x72,
> 0x79, 0x2c, 0x20, 0x63, 0x6f, 0x75, 0x6c, 0x64,
> 0x6e, 0x27, 0x74, 0x20, 0x72, 0x65, 0x73, 0x69,
> 0x73, 0x74, 0x2e, 0x2e, 0x2e, 0x20, 0x41, 0x6e,
> 0x64, 0x20, 0x61, 0x72, 0x65, 0x20, 0x77, 0x65,
> 0x20, 0x68, 0x61, 0x76, 0x69, 0x6e, 0x67, 0x20,
> 0x66, 0x75, 0x6e, 0x20, 0x79, 0x65, 0x74, 0x3f
>
> Oh, you don't speak hexadecimal, either?  Well, then, in ASCII it was:
>
> "This is not a binary discussion!

That guy's a wimp. He used 7-bit ASCII when he could have used UTF-8. 
Feh. :-)

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