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That's about as subtle of a Star Wars reference as slicing someone's arm off with a light saber.

Repeat until you stop day dreaming about owning a light saber or riding shotgun with Han Solo.

And when that happens, Iran will liberalize of its own accord, and all of America's saber-rattling and sanctions will have done nothing.

This jumping on the Rupert Murdoch saber-rattling bandwagon is getting old really quick.

With a team, I can take down a mastodon, kill a marauding saber tooth tiger, fight off enemy clans.

In many related languages, these are 4 different verbs (In spanish ser, estar, saber, conocer).

Lisp has become like Jedi training, you aren't a real Lisp geek until you have built your own light saber (aka rolled your own Lisp dialect).

The crackle and hum of a light saber in motion.

Unfortunately, when the US does shit like invade Iraq, saber rattle Iran, and sticks nukes on the 38th parallel (did you not wonder why NK developed nukes?

It's utterly absurd, but when the DHS and FBI are saber rattling and procurement departments have the backing of all the three-letter agencies, town and city officials often show deference.

This is largely political saber rattling.

Frankly, I'm surprised Putin hasn't rattled that saber yet.

Sucks strategically and politically." It just means Japan can't get saber-rattly in the US's direction.

All this testing, book-rewriting, and saber-rattling over accountability -- well, the proponents get an "F" for change implementation.

Then there's Putin's latest saber rattling: "Russia threatens to use 'nuclear force' over Crimea and the Baltic states".[1] Yeah, Putin's a peaceful, misunderstood, fun loving guy.

Among other things, enforcing a de facto blockade using naval forces to prevent innocent passage of civilian vessels is -- as well as arguably a violation of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea -- clear saber rattling, not "diplomatic means".

C language environments that worked like this have been commercially available in the past: Saber-C in the '90s, and perhaps earlier, was one example.