Er. Actually, I'm given to understand that the second amendment was adopted because the states were worried about a ubergovernment rolling over their freedoms with an army, so they wanted to keep state militias. I guess that's a similar idea, but with the caveat that it was intended to keep the national government from infringing on the rights of the state government. The individual person oppressed by the government didn't enter into the equation.
Though it is worth noting that that particular intended use failed. The national government did in fact roll over states' rights, and is in fact oppressing everyone uniformly now.
Also, I'd add that perfectly normal people have stupid kids as well. one of the things which seems to be in short supply nowadays is intelligent people. "what they do not understand, they fear, and what they fear, they destroy", as the quote goes.
LOC is a bad way to measure productivity. consider the case of a language like perl, where one can fit an incredibly large, incredibly complex program into just one or two LOC. thus, although I wrote a hell of a lot of code this past year, I haven't been writing it in perl.
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Er. Actually, I'm given to understand that the second amendment was adopted because the states were worried about a ubergovernment rolling over their freedoms with an army, so they wanted to keep state militias. I guess that's a similar idea, but with the caveat that it was intended to keep the national government from infringing on the rights of the state government. The individual person oppressed by the government didn't enter into the equation.
Though it is worth noting that that particular intended use failed. The national government did in fact roll over states' rights, and is in fact oppressing everyone uniformly now.
Also, I'd add that perfectly normal people have stupid kids as well. one of the things which seems to be in short supply nowadays is intelligent people.
"what they do not understand, they fear, and what they fear, they destroy", as the quote goes.
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LOC is a bad way to measure productivity. consider the case of a language like perl, where one can fit an incredibly large, incredibly complex program into just one or two LOC. thus, although I wrote a hell of a lot of code this past year, I haven't been writing it in perl.