I've always wondered how conservatives can justify to themselves their vigorous defense of the rights granted under the Second Amendment, but seem far less concerned with those granted under the First and Fourth.
Wow you totally obliterated that straw man. He never had a chance. Good job.
Considering that the citizens of the UK aren't armed there's no reason for the government to respect them. Oh, you don't like it? What are you going to do about it, vote? Don't be ridiculous. What proof do you have that the vote isn't rigged? Even if it isn't rigged why should they respect the vote? Again: the citizens can't do jack shit if they can't force the government to obey. If the citizens aren't armed how can they force anything?
The only way to get the former instead of the latter is for the citizens to have weapons. Otherwise, if the government is the only armed entity, there's no way to make them respect the laws that constrain them (the constitution).
Buy guns. Get all your friends to buy guns. Be an honest, careful, and responsible citizen. But buy guns.
Maybe I like C++ because I don't have to manually implement vtables and linked lists. (not that I ever use linked lists if I can help it...)
Maybe I like being able to overload functions and do some generic programming.
Maybe I like the features that came out with C++11.
Because it's not about reducing crime. It's not about anything other than preparing for a proper tyranny that doesn't have to hide behind the fig leaf of our current system.
But every once and a while for a few pages I'd totally agree with him then it would be "because of the dirty jews" and I'd be thinking what wait, what?
Every good lie contains a grain of truth.
He was spot-on with his analysis of the problems that lower class households face. Obviously, though, it wasn't the fault of anyone but those members of the households. But it's human nature to avoid blame and responsibility: thus it must all have been the Jews' fault!
Let's see if we can find some modern parallels shall we?
Gender wage gap: choose a different career path or work fewer hours and you'll be paid differently. But no no no, it must be patriarchy at fault.
99% vs 1%: you don't suppose that maybe going to college for something other than medieval basket weaving and/or getting and keeping a job might be the key to success do you? But no no no, it must be those evil rich white men keeping you down.
Healthcare: oh, it's expensive? You don't suppose that reducing government bullshit might cut some of those costs do you? Also, perhaps you shouldn't be fat? Maybe you shouldn't smoke? Maybe you should pay for your own stuff instead of forcing other to pay for it? But no no no, let's add thousands and thousands of pages of legalese to the situation to make it nice and complicated and let's also raise taxes to help pay for it and drive more doctors out of practice. That should fix things up nice and proper. Wait, why does the government now determine which doctors I can see and what kind of treatments are available for me?
#blacklivesmatter: do you suppose maybe it's not such a good idea to pick a fight with a cop or to rob convenience stores? No, you're right, it's evil racis' crackahs keeping you down.
Making people (especially the stupid masses) take responsibility for their own lives and actions will never make those people your friends. Telling them that they're victims and making scapegoats will always buy votes.
And that's the real genius of Mein Kampf: Hitler played the Germans perfectly to gain power. Things were very very bad in Germany at the time and Hitler didn't let a good crisis go to waste.
Except that "X% of $Y scientists agree about $Z; and that's why you're wrong" really boils down to an assertion that what's "accepted" is True, not theoretical, and is proven to be True because of the consensus. And this argument is used frequently concerning certain theories and problems that are in the public eye these days.
You may not be one of the people using this argument. Real scientists probably don't use this argument. But it is trotted out frequently by people who have a virtue-signalling or intelligence-signalling agenda. Just look around/. if you don't believe me.
Now it's you who's speaking for yourself instead of characterizing "most people". Either that or you're virtue-signalling-- which would make you foolish since you're posting as AC.
And no doubt someone will fork it if/when Mozilla cuts it loose.
But for now why bother when it's still supported and works pretty well?
Very few people are forking the Linux kernel. Why? Because all the momentum, support, community, and features are already present under the current kernel project so why bother?
Don't prematurely optimize.
Don't fix what isn't broken.
Don't fork what isn't defunct.
There's a less cheerful name for it too, parasites...
1. I am absolutely not defending rich people who are assholes with what I'm about to say.
2. Anyone who takes government handouts when they could be working and earning their own living is a parasite too.
Yeah, because they're just going to completely ignore the walls around a nuclear reactor, never perform maintenance, and just assume that all is well without checking, right?
Ideally everyone works hard and then gives the fruit of their labor to the community to share so that nobody goes hungry and everything is free on demand. And unicorns and rainbows light up the sky.
In reality most people slack off because they realize that working hard won't get them anywhere and the fruit of their labor is taken (stolen) by the government to be handed out as rewards for the good ole boys and then doled out in dribs and drabs so that the proles don't literally starve (though they often do as happened in Russia, China, and N. Korea).
In other words, the fruits of labor are stolen by a group of thugs (the government) and then used to buy loyalty from the gullible, the stupid, and/or the powerless. It's still a capitalist system where things are bought with money (government vouchers or coupons or just plain old money) and everyone has to work to live. It just has a massive theft problem... and there's no reason for the thugs to let you live if you don't produce or are not useful in some other way. So it's actually way worse than "greedy crony capitalist pigs taking advantage of the little guy".
Is the competition really so tough, that you're happy just to get to the bottom rung? Does it actually affect anyone but the lowest performers? (Yes, yes, slashdot'll scream "it's not meritocracy!" here.)
The problem here is that by disregarding the value of meritocracy completely destroys your own argument.
If we shouldn't care about meritocracy then why should we care if women make it into STEM fields at all in the first place?
There's no freaking way a bunch of citizens with rifles can defeat the US Army.
Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria are all proof to the contrary. Rebels don't necessarily fold easily against even a modern tyrant's army.
Artillery, tanks, helicopters, and drones don't hold territory. They must be used very judiciously in a civil war lest the government piss off the very citizens that it's fighting for control over.
But beyond all that: what do you propose? Just lay down and die?
Not everyone wants to be a tyrant's slave, even at the price of death.
Trust us to act according to the Constitution, even though there is absolutely no oversight to make us.
This is why we have the Second Amendment.
YOU are the oversight.
YOU are expected to vote in the polls, pay taxes, fight in the wars, and enforce constitutional limits on your government. That's the price of freedom. And damned grateful that you have the opportunity to pay it instead of being a tyrant's slave.
And surprise! Intel's processors beat the crap out of AMD's in benchmarks. Really shitty of Intel to do that.
Who seriously was using Intel's compiler to benchmark and compare AMD vs. Intel???
What imbeciles took such benchmarks seriously?
Do people expect Nvidia's drivers to work on ATI cards and run just as well as ATI's stuff?
How moronic can you get?
Slashdot Mirror
Do you have a website for your project, your team, etc?
If you're including suicides in that firearm deaths figure then you're being disingenuous.
I've always wondered how conservatives can justify to themselves their vigorous defense of the rights granted under the Second Amendment, but seem far less concerned with those granted under the First and Fourth.
Wow you totally obliterated that straw man. He never had a chance. Good job.
Considering that the citizens of the UK aren't armed there's no reason for the government to respect them. Oh, you don't like it? What are you going to do about it, vote? Don't be ridiculous. What proof do you have that the vote isn't rigged? Even if it isn't rigged why should they respect the vote? Again: the citizens can't do jack shit if they can't force the government to obey. If the citizens aren't armed how can they force anything?
The only way to get the former instead of the latter is for the citizens to have weapons. Otherwise, if the government is the only armed entity, there's no way to make them respect the laws that constrain them (the constitution).
Buy guns. Get all your friends to buy guns. Be an honest, careful, and responsible citizen. But buy guns.
Maybe I like C++ because I don't have to manually implement vtables and linked lists. (not that I ever use linked lists if I can help it...)
Maybe I like being able to overload functions and do some generic programming.
Maybe I like the features that came out with C++11.
Because it's not about reducing crime. It's not about anything other than preparing for a proper tyranny that doesn't have to hide behind the fig leaf of our current system.
Considering the reach of the alphabet agencies I think it more likely that they just gave him back a completely 0wn3d machine so that they could watch him.
But every once and a while for a few pages I'd totally agree with him then it would be "because of the dirty jews" and I'd be thinking what wait, what?
Every good lie contains a grain of truth.
He was spot-on with his analysis of the problems that lower class households face. Obviously, though, it wasn't the fault of anyone but those members of the households. But it's human nature to avoid blame and responsibility: thus it must all have been the Jews' fault!
Let's see if we can find some modern parallels shall we?
Gender wage gap: choose a different career path or work fewer hours and you'll be paid differently. But no no no, it must be patriarchy at fault.
99% vs 1%: you don't suppose that maybe going to college for something other than medieval basket weaving and/or getting and keeping a job might be the key to success do you? But no no no, it must be those evil rich white men keeping you down.
Healthcare: oh, it's expensive? You don't suppose that reducing government bullshit might cut some of those costs do you? Also, perhaps you shouldn't be fat? Maybe you shouldn't smoke? Maybe you should pay for your own stuff instead of forcing other to pay for it? But no no no, let's add thousands and thousands of pages of legalese to the situation to make it nice and complicated and let's also raise taxes to help pay for it and drive more doctors out of practice. That should fix things up nice and proper. Wait, why does the government now determine which doctors I can see and what kind of treatments are available for me?
#blacklivesmatter: do you suppose maybe it's not such a good idea to pick a fight with a cop or to rob convenience stores? No, you're right, it's evil racis' crackahs keeping you down.
Making people (especially the stupid masses) take responsibility for their own lives and actions will never make those people your friends. Telling them that they're victims and making scapegoats will always buy votes.
And that's the real genius of Mein Kampf: Hitler played the Germans perfectly to gain power. Things were very very bad in Germany at the time and Hitler didn't let a good crisis go to waste.
1. So what do you use instead?
2. Did you know C++ has moved on quite a bit in the past twenty years?
Second attempt:
Apps run at a stroke.
To refactor: disaster.
Don't fix what's not broke.
(fixed the rhyming scheme)
Obviously. And nobody disagrees with that.
/. if you don't believe me.
Except that "X% of $Y scientists agree about $Z; and that's why you're wrong" really boils down to an assertion that what's "accepted" is True, not theoretical, and is proven to be True because of the consensus. And this argument is used frequently concerning certain theories and problems that are in the public eye these days.
You may not be one of the people using this argument. Real scientists probably don't use this argument. But it is trotted out frequently by people who have a virtue-signalling or intelligence-signalling agenda. Just look around
Are those scientists independent?
his inner fascist
I don't believe you've every read a single word that Heinlein wrote.
Now it's you who's speaking for yourself instead of characterizing "most people". Either that or you're virtue-signalling-- which would make you foolish since you're posting as AC.
Haiku:
The program ran fine.
To refactor: disaster.
Don't fix what's not broke.
And no doubt someone will fork it if/when Mozilla cuts it loose.
But for now why bother when it's still supported and works pretty well?
Very few people are forking the Linux kernel. Why? Because all the momentum, support, community, and features are already present under the current kernel project so why bother?
Don't prematurely optimize.
Don't fix what isn't broken.
Don't fork what isn't defunct.
There's a less cheerful name for it too, parasites...
1. I am absolutely not defending rich people who are assholes with what I'm about to say.
2. Anyone who takes government handouts when they could be working and earning their own living is a parasite too.
Yeah, because they're just going to completely ignore the walls around a nuclear reactor, never perform maintenance, and just assume that all is well without checking, right?
Communism/Socialism:
Ideally everyone works hard and then gives the fruit of their labor to the community to share so that nobody goes hungry and everything is free on demand. And unicorns and rainbows light up the sky.
In reality most people slack off because they realize that working hard won't get them anywhere and the fruit of their labor is taken (stolen) by the government to be handed out as rewards for the good ole boys and then doled out in dribs and drabs so that the proles don't literally starve (though they often do as happened in Russia, China, and N. Korea).
In other words, the fruits of labor are stolen by a group of thugs (the government) and then used to buy loyalty from the gullible, the stupid, and/or the powerless. It's still a capitalist system where things are bought with money (government vouchers or coupons or just plain old money) and everyone has to work to live. It just has a massive theft problem... and there's no reason for the thugs to let you live if you don't produce or are not useful in some other way. So it's actually way worse than "greedy crony capitalist pigs taking advantage of the little guy".
Is the competition really so tough, that you're happy just to get to the bottom rung? Does it actually affect anyone but the lowest performers? (Yes, yes, slashdot'll scream "it's not meritocracy!" here.)
The problem here is that by disregarding the value of meritocracy completely destroys your own argument.
If we shouldn't care about meritocracy then why should we care if women make it into STEM fields at all in the first place?
There's no freaking way a bunch of citizens with rifles can defeat the US Army.
Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria are all proof to the contrary. Rebels don't necessarily fold easily against even a modern tyrant's army.
Artillery, tanks, helicopters, and drones don't hold territory. They must be used very judiciously in a civil war lest the government piss off the very citizens that it's fighting for control over.
But beyond all that: what do you propose? Just lay down and die?
Not everyone wants to be a tyrant's slave, even at the price of death.
Trust us to act according to the Constitution, even though there is absolutely no oversight to make us.
This is why we have the Second Amendment.
YOU are the oversight.
YOU are expected to vote in the polls, pay taxes, fight in the wars, and enforce constitutional limits on your government. That's the price of freedom. And damned grateful that you have the opportunity to pay it instead of being a tyrant's slave.
Holy smokes we need more people like you! Please run for office!
And surprise! Intel's processors beat the crap out of AMD's in benchmarks. Really shitty of Intel to do that.
Who seriously was using Intel's compiler to benchmark and compare AMD vs. Intel???
What imbeciles took such benchmarks seriously?
Do people expect Nvidia's drivers to work on ATI cards and run just as well as ATI's stuff?
How moronic can you get?