If you're using nodejs then try uglify-js. On Ubuntu, assuming you already have nodejs installed, you can install uglify with:
> sudo npm install -g uglify-js
And then get the options:
> uglifyjs -h
So if I have a source file foo.js which looks like this:
> function foo(bar,baz){console.log("something something");return true;}
I can beautify it like so:
> uglifyjs foo.js --beautify --output cutefoo.js
uglify uses spaces for indentation by default so if I want to convert the 4-space-indentation to tabs I can run it through unexpand which Ubuntu 12.04 comes with:
> unexpand --tabs=4 cutefoo.js > cuterfoo.js
so after all this I wind up with a file that looks like so:
function foo(bar, baz) {
console.log("something something");
return true;
}
Because every dollar spent on actually supporting pursuit of knowledge is a dollar that can't be spent on decorating safe spaces, funding diversity surveys, or on sexual equality exploration symposiums. In other words, as you said, profit.
So if you're not a foaming-at-the-mouth Marxist then you're one of those fundament-- er-- despicable sub-human right wingers?
Also, since when should the US care about how the rest of the world runs their countries?
This is just name calling. Also, you left out the part I mentioned where I believe we must balance the budget in order to deal with AGW.
You let yourself be sucked along with propaganda, presumably because it's more comfortable that way.
An ad hominem attack.
However, you seem to have an opinion based on what you've seen and read...
Yes. That's true. How else should one form an opinion?
but you appear to be unwilling to think beyond that, to what's really going on.
Why don't you tell me what's really going on?
Now, if you went through this and had no real opinion, that would be fine. However...
So you felt like you needed to adjust my opinion on the matter? Thus proving what I said about self-righteous motivations and vegans.
Q: How do you know who's a vegan?
A: Oh, they'll let you know.
Considering that the RPi shares Ethernet with USB 2.0 and thus results in pathetic IO rates even for a cheapo SBC you could probably get better data rates on a wax tablet than with even an SSD on an RPi.
If you care about IO speed on an inexpensive SBC then I think you'll need to look at the ODROID offerings: ODROID C2 is limited to USB 2.0 but has real Gbit ethernet. ODROID XU4 has USB 3.0 and Gbit ethernet.
* In practice, things like welfare drug tests determine almost nobody (like 0.01%) is actually on welfare and on drugs, without drops in welfare enrollment. Most states implementing welfare drug tests repeal them due to the cost being in massive excess of the savings.
Interesting. I didn't know that.
As for the rest, it sounds promising. But I'm a paranoid and skeptical sort. Would it be possible to test and prove your system in one state before implementing it for the whole country? If so, then which state would be most suitable do you think?
1. Serious Engine has only just been released as open source so of course there's not a lot of derivatives.
2. This isn't really about getting a bunch of derivatives up and running. It may just be as simple as letting people port Serious Sam to new and weird platforms.
3. I love Urban Terror and I've been playing every night for close to a decade. Frozen Sands, the team behind UrT, has been good about releasing updates over the years. The fact that the Q3 source code was released was a big help to that game and its community. Perhaps we'll see the same with Serious Sam.
I work on a VR project using TRI's Infernal Engine, then Unreal 3, and now Unreal 4. My boss started out making mods for Quake and the work I did on building a game is one of the prime reasons I was hired.
I'm interested in your Citizen's Dividend idea. Is there a place I can go to learn the details?
* Such a plan does reduce taxes on consumer take-home pay, increasing take-home pay per dollar wage-labor paid by the employer (including taxes), thus making *everyone* richer; *but* it's an expensive waste of money to give "our hard-earned taxpayer dollars" to drug dealers and lazy bums. (X causes Y; I like Y, but I don't like X. More politics.)
This is most likely the one I would have responded with if I we were having a conversation and I hadn't thought about what I was going to say. I still dislike the notion of paying societal parasites. Wouldn't your plan still work if we didn't hand out money to people who don't contribute to the system? Why is it necessary that the parasites be given a free ride?
If you can give them facts and figures they can understand, you can make them acknowledge those facts and figures are right and your conclusions are correct, and then immediately make a logically-disconnected statement about how they don't believe it anyway.
Frequently it's because I still feel like there's something critical missing or because I feel like there's other options or choices than just the one that has been presented.
For example (please don't kill me!) : global warming. I'm perfectly willing to believe that the global climate is trending hotter. I'm willing to believe that CO2 in the atmosphere is the cause. I'm even willing to believe that humans are the major source of that CO2. But when I say that I don't think anything should be done about it I get all kinds of nastiness thrown at me.
But here's my thoughts:
1. The Studies Have Shown (tm) that the temperature increase will be a couple of degrees C at most on average. So comfort-wise it'll not even noticed. In terms of crop yeilds and sea-level rise it still won't even be a big deal: Venice has been dealing with this stuff for centuries with no problem. Also, farmers can just move north a little. Obviously these are still big changes in absolute terms, but it'll be gradual and won't even be noticed against the background noise of wars, normal famines, and social upheaval. It doesn't make sense to be outraged/scared of the former while being blase about the latter.
2. None of the "solutions" that those who're alarmed about AGW have put forward encompass acceptable changes to my air conditioning, convenient transportation (car/bike/whatever), a computer, and fast internet. Any AGW ideas I run into must account for an satisfy those in order for me to care. We must balance the federal budget before anything else or else we won't be able to do anything in the first place. I'm not opposed to moving our energy infrastructure away from fossil fuels; I just think that it shouldn't be rammed down anyone's throats and that the market ultimately will make the decision.
3. I read articles just about every other day that make a case in both directions for and against AGW. I'm no expert and I also don't want to change my lifestyle since nothing I do will have any impact whatsoever on the global trend. As much of a doofus as Romney is he was right about one thing: it's Global warming. China and India are by far the bigger problems in this regard than the US is (and me by extension). This, of course, doesn't mean that the US has no obligation. It just means we should recognize the limits of our contribution one way or the other and not ruin ourselves in a futile attempt to save the world when the world isn't even ending in the first place.
4. This is the most important item on the list: it always seems that, like vegans, AGW alarmists are in it for self-righteous cool points not because they actually care about the planet or about the well-being of humanity as a whole (which is what AGW actually threatens). I already buy energy efficient lighting. I already set my A
The problem is that we haven't found a way to to it *economically* or *practically* for all those students whose parents can't afford to hire an individual tutor.
Nothing in life, including life, is guaranteed. Let's not allow the perfect to be the enemy of the good. Let those who can afford it buy the best education they can for their kids. If most cannot hire personal tutors then that's no different than most people also not being able to afford luxury yachts.
It's literally impossible for everyone to be rich because "rich" is a relative term. There will always be luxuries that the wealthy have access to while everyone else can't afford it. But the rising tide floats all ships. As the free market increases the wealth in the world things will get better for everyone. If one is impatient then let them strive for wealth.
Want a job in the gaming industry? Make a mod or make improvements to an open source game engine and instantly impress at the job interview. (ioQuake3, ioDoom3, Irrlicht, Unreal 4, Unity, etc. and now Serious Sam)
Want to build a therapy tool or viz tool or prototype but don't want to re-invent the wheel? Use an existing engine. (see above)
Thank you, id, Croteam, Epic, and others for your generosity. Stuff like this helps keep up the momentum of innovation and drives human progress forward.
Don't misunderstand me, though: I think it's perfectly appropriate to charge money for software. A man/woman has gotta eat!
and Valve lately has been working to "Microsoft-Proof" their business model with SteamOS and cross-platform games.
I believe it's a good move that will work for Valve if they can get more acceptance of SteamOS and Linux in general. I'm not a fanatic about everything being open source, and I do play a lot of games so I was ecstatic when Steam came to Linux. Alien Isolation ran flawlessly for me, XCOM and XCOM 2 are running great, Empire: Total War was a blast, Chivalry runs great for me, the Source games run great-- the point is that there are real AAA titles on Linux and they really do run well.
Because of the huge variety of high quality and easy to use desktops available for Linux and because Steam has brought good solid gaming to the Linux desktop now is, without sarcasm, the best time to switch to Linux.
I urge you slashdotters to seriously consider using Linux (Ubuntu, Mint, Debian whatever) as your primary or even full-time desktop for a couple months. If you like it and it works for you then why not stay?
So they're re-inventing things like window managers, platform libraries, GUI toolkits etc. and it's all (of course!) closed off proprietary locked-down bullshit that can't be used on any other platform. So you must try to cobble together a solution that will work for each platform separately and also learn from scratch several different platforms's APIs.
I hate to say this, but maybe the web is and should be the platform of the future.
1. You can hook your PC up to your TV-- most TVs these days support HDMI, Display Port, and/or DVI.
2. A lot of PC games are unconnected to the internet.
3. You've been extremely snooty throughout your post.
4. Your whole post is about how you play games and has nothing at all to do with anyone else.
5. Your inability to practice self-discipline doesn't invalidate anyone else's points about PC gaming.
6. Why is this an "Us vs. Them" thing between console and PC gamers? Why is anyone getting childish about this?
Seems to me like the Steam Machines are exactly aimed at your situation.
As an alternative, you could try running Ubuntu + Steam. This is what I do and I must say that I am never short of good games to play and Linux is working very well on the desktop these days. By the way, it's 100% free of cost and most of the software I run is free as in freedom too.
Judging by your aggravation over Sony jerking you around and now your frustration at getting the same treatment from Windows it seems like freedom might be the thing you're after.
And because of their self-righteous rejection of the right to keep/bear arms the Aussies have no resort. Their government can do, and is doing, whatever the hell they want; and there's nothing the Australian people can do to stop them. Votes mean nothing without the ability to make the government obey the vote.
“False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils, except destruction. Laws that forbid the carrying of arms laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they act rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” – Quoting Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishment
“No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms [within his own lands].” – Proposed Constitution for Virginia – Fair Copy, Section IV: Rights, Private and Public, June 1776; The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Federal Edition, Editor: Paul Leicester Ford, (New York and London, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904-5); Vol. 2
“A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks.” – Letter to Peter Carr, 1785; The Letters of Thomas Jefferson: 1743-1826, Electronic Text Center of University of Virginia
“[W]hat country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.” – Letter to William Stephens Smith, November 13, 1787; The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Federal Edition (New York and London, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904-5) Vol. 5
Patrick Henry
“O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone; and you have no longer an aristocratical, no longer a democratical spirit. Did you ever read of any revolution in a nation, brought about by the punishment of those in power, inflicted by those who had no power at all?” – Speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 5, 1778; “Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution,” Jonathan Elliot, editor, vol. 3, pp. 50-53
“Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?” – Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, Jonathan Elliot, ed. 1836, vol. 3, p.168
“The great object is, that every man be armed Every one who is able may have a gun.”– Debates in the Several State Conventions on Adoption of the Federal Constitution, Jonathan Elliot, ed. 1836, vol. 3, p. 386
Alexander Hamilton
“If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual State. In a single State, if t
Because if you have a neighbor that you think is bent on murdering you, and you're dumb enough to insist on living only 160 feet from him, then you deserve to get murdered for the good of humanity.
Wait, what??? So it's right for someone with murderous intent to get their way? But somehow it's also wrong/stupid of me to give him a target?
What about just not letting the one with murderous intent get their way?
I like how you're going on about ethics as an atheist. Please answer and/or explain the following:
1. What is morality?
2. Where does it come from and why is it valuable? Note: not "why is it valuable to you", but "why is it valuable to everyone."
3. Why is it that you think it would only be ethical for Israel to suffer the same casualties as their enemies? Can there be no such thing as a side that both wins a war and is ethically and morally in the right?
4. Do you know what the phrase "lying with statistics" means?
Not even ARM Holdings, whose chips designs will be in most IoT devices.
Didn't you notice that Intel and Microsoft are on the list? This is a move by the Old Guard to gather all their old allies so they can get into IoT and the maker movement now that IoT and "making" have been around for a couple years and have proven that there's some money to be made. They're trying to infiltrate the grassroots tech scene-- and IoT and the maker movement are the core.
Time will tell whether this is good or bad. But considering the likes of Microsoft are involved I'm not holding my breath.
Slashdot Mirror
If you're using nodejs then try uglify-js. On Ubuntu, assuming you already have nodejs installed, you can install uglify with:
/. support markdown for comments?)
> sudo npm install -g uglify-js
And then get the options:
> uglifyjs -h
So if I have a source file foo.js which looks like this:
> function foo(bar,baz){console.log("something something");return true;}
I can beautify it like so:
> uglifyjs foo.js --beautify --output cutefoo.js
uglify uses spaces for indentation by default so if I want to convert the 4-space-indentation to tabs I can run it through unexpand which Ubuntu 12.04 comes with:
> unexpand --tabs=4 cutefoo.js > cuterfoo.js
so after all this I wind up with a file that looks like so:
function foo(bar, baz) {
console.log("something something");
return true;
}
(when will
Because every dollar spent on actually supporting pursuit of knowledge is a dollar that can't be spent on decorating safe spaces, funding diversity surveys, or on sexual equality exploration symposiums. In other words, as you said, profit.
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So if you're not a foaming-at-the-mouth Marxist then you're one of those fundament-- er-- despicable sub-human right wingers?
Also, since when should the US care about how the rest of the world runs their countries?
You're selfish.
This is just name calling. Also, you left out the part I mentioned where I believe we must balance the budget in order to deal with AGW.
You let yourself be sucked along with propaganda, presumably because it's more comfortable that way.
An ad hominem attack.
However, you seem to have an opinion based on what you've seen and read...
Yes. That's true. How else should one form an opinion?
but you appear to be unwilling to think beyond that, to what's really going on.
Why don't you tell me what's really going on?
Now, if you went through this and had no real opinion, that would be fine. However...
So you felt like you needed to adjust my opinion on the matter? Thus proving what I said about self-righteous motivations and vegans.
Q: How do you know who's a vegan?
A: Oh, they'll let you know.
Considering that the RPi shares Ethernet with USB 2.0 and thus results in pathetic IO rates even for a cheapo SBC you could probably get better data rates on a wax tablet than with even an SSD on an RPi.
If you care about IO speed on an inexpensive SBC then I think you'll need to look at the ODROID offerings:
ODROID C2 is limited to USB 2.0 but has real Gbit ethernet.
ODROID XU4 has USB 3.0 and Gbit ethernet.
* In practice, things like welfare drug tests determine almost nobody (like 0.01%) is actually on welfare and on drugs, without drops in welfare enrollment. Most states implementing welfare drug tests repeal them due to the cost being in massive excess of the savings.
Interesting. I didn't know that.
As for the rest, it sounds promising. But I'm a paranoid and skeptical sort. Would it be possible to test and prove your system in one state before implementing it for the whole country? If so, then which state would be most suitable do you think?
1. Serious Engine has only just been released as open source so of course there's not a lot of derivatives.
2. This isn't really about getting a bunch of derivatives up and running. It may just be as simple as letting people port Serious Sam to new and weird platforms.
3. I love Urban Terror and I've been playing every night for close to a decade. Frozen Sands, the team behind UrT, has been good about releasing updates over the years. The fact that the Q3 source code was released was a big help to that game and its community. Perhaps we'll see the same with Serious Sam.
I work on a VR project using TRI's Infernal Engine, then Unreal 3, and now Unreal 4. My boss started out making mods for Quake and the work I did on building a game is one of the prime reasons I was hired.
* Such a plan does reduce taxes on consumer take-home pay, increasing take-home pay per dollar wage-labor paid by the employer (including taxes), thus making *everyone* richer; *but* it's an expensive waste of money to give "our hard-earned taxpayer dollars" to drug dealers and lazy bums. (X causes Y; I like Y, but I don't like X. More politics.)
This is most likely the one I would have responded with if I we were having a conversation and I hadn't thought about what I was going to say. I still dislike the notion of paying societal parasites. Wouldn't your plan still work if we didn't hand out money to people who don't contribute to the system? Why is it necessary that the parasites be given a free ride?
If you can give them facts and figures they can understand, you can make them acknowledge those facts and figures are right and your conclusions are correct, and then immediately make a logically-disconnected statement about how they don't believe it anyway.
Frequently it's because I still feel like there's something critical missing or because I feel like there's other options or choices than just the one that has been presented.
For example (please don't kill me!) : global warming. I'm perfectly willing to believe that the global climate is trending hotter. I'm willing to believe that CO2 in the atmosphere is the cause. I'm even willing to believe that humans are the major source of that CO2. But when I say that I don't think anything should be done about it I get all kinds of nastiness thrown at me.
But here's my thoughts:
1. The Studies Have Shown (tm) that the temperature increase will be a couple of degrees C at most on average . So comfort-wise it'll not even noticed. In terms of crop yeilds and sea-level rise it still won't even be a big deal: Venice has been dealing with this stuff for centuries with no problem. Also, farmers can just move north a little. Obviously these are still big changes in absolute terms, but it'll be gradual and won't even be noticed against the background noise of wars, normal famines, and social upheaval. It doesn't make sense to be outraged/scared of the former while being blase about the latter.
2. None of the "solutions" that those who're alarmed about AGW have put forward encompass acceptable changes to my air conditioning, convenient transportation (car/bike/whatever), a computer, and fast internet. Any AGW ideas I run into must account for an satisfy those in order for me to care. We must balance the federal budget before anything else or else we won't be able to do anything in the first place. I'm not opposed to moving our energy infrastructure away from fossil fuels; I just think that it shouldn't be rammed down anyone's throats and that the market ultimately will make the decision.
3. I read articles just about every other day that make a case in both directions for and against AGW. I'm no expert and I also don't want to change my lifestyle since nothing I do will have any impact whatsoever on the global trend. As much of a doofus as Romney is he was right about one thing: it's Global warming. China and India are by far the bigger problems in this regard than the US is (and me by extension). This, of course, doesn't mean that the US has no obligation. It just means we should recognize the limits of our contribution one way or the other and not ruin ourselves in a futile attempt to save the world when the world isn't even ending in the first place.
4. This is the most important item on the list: it always seems that, like vegans, AGW alarmists are in it for self-righteous cool points not because they actually care about the planet or about the well-being of humanity as a whole (which is what AGW actually threatens). I already buy energy efficient lighting. I already set my A
The problem is that we haven't found a way to to it *economically* or *practically* for all those students whose parents can't afford to hire an individual tutor.
Nothing in life, including life, is guaranteed. Let's not allow the perfect to be the enemy of the good. Let those who can afford it buy the best education they can for their kids. If most cannot hire personal tutors then that's no different than most people also not being able to afford luxury yachts.
It's literally impossible for everyone to be rich because "rich" is a relative term. There will always be luxuries that the wealthy have access to while everyone else can't afford it. But the rising tide floats all ships. As the free market increases the wealth in the world things will get better for everyone. If one is impatient then let them strive for wealth.
Want a job in the gaming industry? Make a mod or make improvements to an open source game engine and instantly impress at the job interview. (ioQuake3, ioDoom3, Irrlicht, Unreal 4, Unity, etc. and now Serious Sam)
Want to build a therapy tool or viz tool or prototype but don't want to re-invent the wheel? Use an existing engine. (see above)
Thank you, id, Croteam, Epic, and others for your generosity. Stuff like this helps keep up the momentum of innovation and drives human progress forward.
Don't misunderstand me, though: I think it's perfectly appropriate to charge money for software. A man/woman has gotta eat!
and Valve lately has been working to "Microsoft-Proof" their business model with SteamOS and cross-platform games.
I believe it's a good move that will work for Valve if they can get more acceptance of SteamOS and Linux in general. I'm not a fanatic about everything being open source, and I do play a lot of games so I was ecstatic when Steam came to Linux. Alien Isolation ran flawlessly for me, XCOM and XCOM 2 are running great, Empire: Total War was a blast, Chivalry runs great for me, the Source games run great-- the point is that there are real AAA titles on Linux and they really do run well.
Because of the huge variety of high quality and easy to use desktops available for Linux and because Steam has brought good solid gaming to the Linux desktop now is, without sarcasm, the best time to switch to Linux.
I urge you slashdotters to seriously consider using Linux (Ubuntu, Mint, Debian whatever) as your primary or even full-time desktop for a couple months. If you like it and it works for you then why not stay?
So they're re-inventing things like window managers, platform libraries, GUI toolkits etc. and it's all (of course!) closed off proprietary locked-down bullshit that can't be used on any other platform. So you must try to cobble together a solution that will work for each platform separately and also learn from scratch several different platforms's APIs.
I hate to say this, but maybe the web is and should be the platform of the future.
We need some kind of automatic bounds checking for sarcasm so that these kind of comment overflow attacks can't happen.
1. You can hook your PC up to your TV-- most TVs these days support HDMI, Display Port, and/or DVI.
2. A lot of PC games are unconnected to the internet.
3. You've been extremely snooty throughout your post.
4. Your whole post is about how you play games and has nothing at all to do with anyone else.
5. Your inability to practice self-discipline doesn't invalidate anyone else's points about PC gaming.
6. Why is this an "Us vs. Them" thing between console and PC gamers? Why is anyone getting childish about this?
Seems to me like the Steam Machines are exactly aimed at your situation.
As an alternative, you could try running Ubuntu + Steam. This is what I do and I must say that I am never short of good games to play and Linux is working very well on the desktop these days. By the way, it's 100% free of cost and most of the software I run is free as in freedom too.
Judging by your aggravation over Sony jerking you around and now your frustration at getting the same treatment from Windows it seems like freedom might be the thing you're after.
Have you tried the taste of freedom?
And because of their self-righteous rejection of the right to keep/bear arms the Aussies have no resort. Their government can do, and is doing, whatever the hell they want; and there's nothing the Australian people can do to stop them. Votes mean nothing without the ability to make the government obey the vote.
Tomas Jefferson:
“False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils, except destruction. Laws that forbid the carrying of arms laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they act rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” – Quoting Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishment
“No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms [within his own lands].” – Proposed Constitution for Virginia – Fair Copy, Section IV: Rights, Private and Public, June 1776; The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Federal Edition, Editor: Paul Leicester Ford, (New York and London, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904-5); Vol. 2
“A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks.” – Letter to Peter Carr, 1785; The Letters of Thomas Jefferson: 1743-1826, Electronic Text Center of University of Virginia
“[W]hat country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.” – Letter to William Stephens Smith, November 13, 1787; The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Federal Edition (New York and London, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904-5) Vol. 5
Patrick Henry
“O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone; and you have no longer an aristocratical, no longer a democratical spirit. Did you ever read of any revolution in a nation, brought about by the punishment of those in power, inflicted by those who had no power at all?” – Speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 5, 1778; “Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution,” Jonathan Elliot, editor, vol. 3, pp. 50-53
“Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?” – Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, Jonathan Elliot, ed. 1836, vol. 3, p.168
“The great object is, that every man be armed Every one who is able may have a gun.”– Debates in the Several State Conventions on Adoption of the Federal Constitution, Jonathan Elliot, ed. 1836, vol. 3, p. 386
Alexander Hamilton
“If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual State. In a single State, if t
This is literally why the Second Amendment exists.
Why is this modded funny? Isn't there a mod option for "deadly serious" or "too real to be funny"?
Because if you have a neighbor that you think is bent on murdering you, and you're dumb enough to insist on living only 160 feet from him, then you deserve to get murdered for the good of humanity.
Wait, what??? So it's right for someone with murderous intent to get their way? But somehow it's also wrong/stupid of me to give him a target?
What about just not letting the one with murderous intent get their way?
I like how you're going on about ethics as an atheist. Please answer and/or explain the following:
1. What is morality?
2. Where does it come from and why is it valuable? Note: not "why is it valuable to you", but "why is it valuable to everyone."
3. Why is it that you think it would only be ethical for Israel to suffer the same casualties as their enemies? Can there be no such thing as a side that both wins a war and is ethically and morally in the right?
4. Do you know what the phrase "lying with statistics" means?
Not even ARM Holdings, whose chips designs will be in most IoT devices.
Didn't you notice that Intel and Microsoft are on the list? This is a move by the Old Guard to gather all their old allies so they can get into IoT and the maker movement now that IoT and "making" have been around for a couple years and have proven that there's some money to be made. They're trying to infiltrate the grassroots tech scene-- and IoT and the maker movement are the core.
Time will tell whether this is good or bad. But considering the likes of Microsoft are involved I'm not holding my breath.
It is about forbidding government the tools of tyranny
Forbid all you want. It means nothing without the means to enforce it.
And that's why Americans have the Second Amendment.