Some day you will learn the concept of peaceful coexistence...
I mean, I live in a low crime neighborhood. Thanks for pointing out the crime of having offered up "southern conservative". Indeed, I live south of the Potomac, and embrace the traditional "conservative" values of individual liberty, equality before the law and private property that are currently under such systematic attack by godless Commie sodomites. Guilty.
If it's not an abacus, it can't count. Most of the rational people have quit fet due to database failures, update disasters, an incredibly primitive unthreaded discussion format and a contingent of highly abusive individuals. Abusiveness and primitiveness has done for tech forums, too, which is why Kuro5hin has been in death throes for some time.
A community is never stronger than the people who stand behind it and, in sadly far too many cases, the people standing behind the community are crouched down and in hiding.
And you only want to "rein in" the feds to extent that your corrupt local authorities have more power to practice their bigotry and demand conformity to your culture/religion/whatever. It is your own disregard for the truth that is on display here. I don't care how much you deny it. I know what "southern conservative" means.
Wow, I think you've reached damn_registrars levels of making stuff up out of whole cloth. Everything I say underscores disregard for truth? You've moved past strawmen to a comprehensive sort of Dyson sphere of tautology surrounding me now. Let me give you a golf clap. [clap]. Does the sound penetrate this bubble in which you've encapsulated me?
Can I ask where this bubble is going, since you're doing all the driving?
Your "concentration of power" nonsense is exactly that. The real complaint is its proximity, or rather, the lack thereof. You want your people to impose the rules.
What I actually want is to constrain the Federal government to its original enumerated powers. But the truth doesn't seem to amount to much with you anymore.
You believe your elected officials actually have their own power and act by their own "conscience", if you can call it that.
What I actually think, not that it amounts to a fart in your thunderstorm of stereotype, is captured nicely here:
Before delving into what this means, let us take a brief detour into theories of representation in a democracy. The "delegation model" holds that a legislator should reflect the interests of his constituents. The "trustee model" holds that a legislator should act in the best interests of his constituents, rightly understood. Since his constituents might not have the time or ability to understand how a piece of legislation will affect them, the elected representative must act to advance the people’s true interests. He may vote against their express preferences, but only because he knows better.
Let's stipulate that this is an 80/20 ratio in favor of delegation, and that when we say "delegation", we mean, "what the large-frogskin donors want".
But shag all that. Let's focus on what matters: your strawman collection.
No no, your boss is going to have a word with you about that:
class Greeter {
public void greet();
}
public class HelloWorld extends Greeter {
@Override
public void greet() {
System.out.println("Hello, World");
}
}
public class GreeterFactory {
public static Greeter getGreeter(String type) {
if (type == "HelloWorld") {
return new HelloWorld();
} else {
return nil;
}
}
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
GreeterFactory theFactory = GreeterFactory();
Greeter helloWorld = theFactory.getGreeter("HelloWorld");
helloWorld.greet();
}
}
Java has a reputation as the New Cobol partly because that's how Sun marketed it, but also because it kinda has the soul of a compliance officer.
An Ada exception is when a routine gets in trouble and says 'Beam me up, Scotty'.
