Since I was diagnosed at 21, actually. I was 6'7" (200cm) and 230 lbs (104kg) at the time. I could have stood to lose 10 pounds at the time, but otherwise I was pretty solid muscle. I didn't eat much sugar even before I was diagnosed.
I have shrunk a tiny bit in the interim. I took pancreatic stimulants (glipizide) until it stopped working due to degeneration of the pancreas. For the last 18 years it has been insulin for me.
I avoid starches, also. They don't make me feel great either.
The warped view of non-diabetics about what diabetes actually is...is not helped by the frequent obese gobblers of sweets that frequently have the disease. But I still resent being lumped in with that crowd.
And my point was that regardless of whether Flash lives or dies, whatever successor technology is chosen is going to be no better. So there we are, at an impasse.
It's just a different way of selecting representatives for the people. One which has built-in limitations in terms of removing said peers, but also has traditional constraints on their actions. I come from the US. I am resistant to the idea of a ruling class, but that doesn't mean I am blind to its existence.
It basically comes down to: would you rather have your ruling class composed of people who made a lot of money (or inherited it!) in the economy, or who just got the position via heredity? I don't see all that much to choose between either.
That was the intent, and the intent was achieved. It's a government of the elites constraining the sovereignty of the plebs. As a result, it is doomed to failure. The peoples constituting it will reject the loss of sovereignty eventually, based upon its lack of a dominating military force. The willy-nilly accession of nations which really weren't comparable to the original EEC members also did them no favors.
It seemed unstoppable as long as the economic forces constrained politics. Then 2008 happened, and that false prosperity was shown to be a lie.
Something akin to true federalism would have been a wiser choice, but no one involved in its creation wanted that kind of weak government. It's too late now to change course. You'd need another WWII type event to set the stage, which is unlikely to happen again in a useful way for pan-Europe enthusiasts.
You can say that, but someone will reimplement Flash because they need it and don't want to recreate the content and/or mode of delivery. The probability of this grows closer to 1 the closer to 2020 we get.
No need for flame retardants, this kind of thing has been discussed before.
I would look for an analogue in two places - first, the onion routed darknet. Second, Fidonet back in the dark ages. Both are overlays atop an existing communication infrastructure - the first atop the internet, the second atop the PSTN. The darknet has been persecuted to high heaven because criminal enterprises are best placed there, making the whole thing appear criminal - child porn, drug sales, etc. Fido flew under the radar because the bandwidth requirements were low and no one perceived what it could do. Which was a lot, particularly in places like the Eastern Bloc.
My belief is that any attempt to create such a network today would be bandwidth constrained from the get-go and would be swarmed by law enforcement as soon as they became aware we were trying to do it, because we've evolved to a more totalized (and hence totalitarian) society than in the 80s or 90s, believe it or not. And yes, I do remember the Soviets, but by the 80s it was Stalin-lite anyway. The social controls even in the supposedly liberal West are such that free association is immediately under surveillance. Therefore, in response to your five point plan - we can do it, but with the full knowledge we'll be made to regret it later, regardless of how well we try to cover our tracks and keep our noses clean.
This is the main reason why such things aren't happening today. We've made it difficult or impossible to innovate because of whatever the excuse for surveillance is today. "Think of the children" "War on Drugs" "Terrorism"...whatever.
Not in my opinion - the juice wouldn't be worth the squeeze for Adobe. However, one of their developers? That is a thought, certainly. Not enough for an accusation, of course, but it's a possible theory.
Someone is going to recreate Flash, Adobe lacks the power to kill it.
Moreover, whatever people use in preference to Flash in the future will be just as riddled with security issues because, news flash (ha ha ha), the security problems aren't because of Flash itself, they are endemic to remotely delivered applications with untrusted servers. Couple that with an almost entirely useless PKI infrastructure, and we're going to be blaming something other than Flash for the same security issues for years to come. Perhaps forever, unless we go to walled gardens such as Apple's IOS infrastructure or Microsoft's putative Windows Store.
Typical leftist - you want the Rorschach blot of a mental case to fit your views, same as your deluded friends at the Guardian. Too bad that his associates called him a leftist before he grew so unbalanced that it was hard to tell. Quoth Wikipedia:
"Records show that Loughner was registered as an Independent and voted in 2006 and 2008, but not in 2010.[39][40]
Loughner's high-school friend Zach Osler said, "He did not watch TV; he disliked the news; he didn't listen to political radio; he didn't take sides; he wasn't on the Left; he wasn't on the Right."[18] A former classmate, Caitie Parker, who attended high school and college with Loughner, described his political views prior to 2007, prior to his personality transformation, as "left wing, quite liberal,"[41] "radical."[42] The tone of Loughner's online writings and videos from immediately before the attack were described by The Guardian as "almost exclusively conservative and anti-government, with echoes of the populist campaigning of the Tea Party movement".[43]
Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center said that Loughner's political positions were a "hallmark of the far right and the militia movement."[44] Jesse Walker of Reason expressed deep scepticism at the connections drawn by Potok.[45] In the aftermath of the shooting, the Anti-Defamation League reviewed messages by Loughner, and concluded that there was a "disjointed theme that runs through Loughner's writings", which was a "distrust for and dislike of the government." It "manifested itself in various ways" – for instance, in the belief that the government used the control of language and grammar to brainwash people, the notion that the government was creating "infinite currency" without the backing of gold and silver, or the assertion that NASA was faking spaceflights."
You can read it yourself, with links at Wikipedia.
Does this ever come up in political discussions in India? I see a flow of issues from this:
1. Population Control
a. Yes, we need it, our population is so large that said population is not an asset
b. But we're having our best and brightest practice population control, which is self-defeating
I hope that made you feel better, buying all that bullshit.
Now, the truth. Colleges do not teach people how to be good programmers. Almost all of the biggest lazy, no-talent shitbags in the industry are CS graduates. The colleges indoctrinate people into subservient, bureaucratic modes of thought that are conducive to operating as a cog in a large organization. That, and a little English Comp to compensate for the illiteracy of those that are turned out of high schools.
The weeding you claim - hah. Just about every no-talent shitbag ends up getting a job somewhere. Most firms don't bother with a good interview process, and government agencies least of all. You'll find a home eventually, even if you suck. Only those who refuse to show for interviews, or refuse to relocate don't get hired. Obviously, getting a programming job in Bumfuck, IA is not happening, unless you can telework it.
On a related note: the interview process you describe reminds me of the scrum of people looking to get into the 'best schools' the summer after they graduate high school. Both groups - the young programmers and the prospective college students - have been marketed to heavily. They think this somehow makes a difference, working for MS or Amazon or Google - or in the other case going to a highly rated school.
Both groups are seriously deluded. Your internal wherewithal counts far more than acting as a cog in some bureaucratic machine. Having that line item on your resume is not that helpful in the future. Accomplish something, have some drive, and all of those certifications - which is all the degree or the job at the firm with the flaming hoop interview process are - become irrelevant faster than you would think. Caring about these certifications is all about despair, a belief that you have nothing unique to offer. I suppose some people might feel that way, but that sounds more like a mental illness - depression - than a logical strategy, to me.
And how is it persistence to drink beer, smoke weed and experiment sexually for (more like) five years while you occasionally pay attention to studies while someone else foots the bill(...at least in the short term)? I suppose it's persistent hedonism, so you might have a point there.
A degree is about indoctrination, as is all education. You are made to think the way that your betters believe that you should think, so that they find you useful in their bureaucracy.
A degree has nothing to do with intelligence and not even much to do with persistence. You'll make it through as long as you can pay the bill and show up occasionally.
TLS conveniently tells you the encryption technology in use.
RSA is toast. ECC is debatable in terms of security, and with quantum computers in practical use now, may be completely owned. We just don't know for sure. So what's your "beyond ECC" technology in the hopper that makes you think we are secure?
Stop trying to fool the plebs that this is anything but a speed bump. Or perhaps you don't realize this yourself.
Toxic work cultures are at least equally the fault of women. Let's look at motivations:
Men want to get laid, and/or want to dominate women. This is done for reasons of personal satisfaction and/or pecking order (though it is unlikely to result in a work benefit, e.g. promotion) and/or unhealthy obsession with demeaning women. Men like workplace dating because it's easy - "delivered pussy" is the term.
Women want to lure men in to having sex with them. This is done for reasons of pecking order (and in this case it could result in economic benefit due to promotion) and/or a feeling of belonging somewhere and/or economic reasons and/or a desire (healthy or unhealthy) for attention. Women like workplace dating mostly because it allows them to almost entirely transcend class differences, which would be hard to do in their social circle outside work.
Somehow, you think this is all men's fault because they have 'power'. This is false on multiple levels. The women have to buy into this. All superiors aren't men. All women aren't innocent of wrongdoing. The #1 cause of sexual harassment complaints is jilted women. The men in question may or may not have been predators, but the sexual harassment claims prima facie look identical.
So are you just willfully blind in regards to female culpability?
Curb cuts, ramps, accessible stalls, or my favorite, Section 508. The hubris of the ADA was that we could afford this colossal waste. Meanwhile, the economic participation of disabled workers has dropped by 50% since 1981. The implication being that the huge expenditure on infrastructure was a waste, since almost half preferred being on the dole and not taking advantage of the infrastructure.
The next time I see someone with a wheelchair using one of the curb cuts in my town, will be the first.
However, leadership is key here in modifying existing processes. Trump doesn't have to understand the complexity all that much - he has underlings to handle that kind of thing, even going downward through the echelons to people like me. What is needed is some fundamental reform to the acquisition process to minimize the abuses that cause the project failures. If he gets on that, he could do something useful.
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Since I was diagnosed at 21, actually. I was 6'7" (200cm) and 230 lbs (104kg) at the time. I could have stood to lose 10 pounds at the time, but otherwise I was pretty solid muscle. I didn't eat much sugar even before I was diagnosed.
I have shrunk a tiny bit in the interim. I took pancreatic stimulants (glipizide) until it stopped working due to degeneration of the pancreas. For the last 18 years it has been insulin for me.
I avoid starches, also. They don't make me feel great either.
The warped view of non-diabetics about what diabetes actually is...is not helped by the frequent obese gobblers of sweets that frequently have the disease. But I still resent being lumped in with that crowd.
And my point was that regardless of whether Flash lives or dies, whatever successor technology is chosen is going to be no better. So there we are, at an impasse.
It's just a different way of selecting representatives for the people. One which has built-in limitations in terms of removing said peers, but also has traditional constraints on their actions. I come from the US. I am resistant to the idea of a ruling class, but that doesn't mean I am blind to its existence.
It basically comes down to: would you rather have your ruling class composed of people who made a lot of money (or inherited it!) in the economy, or who just got the position via heredity? I don't see all that much to choose between either.
That was the intent, and the intent was achieved. It's a government of the elites constraining the sovereignty of the plebs. As a result, it is doomed to failure. The peoples constituting it will reject the loss of sovereignty eventually, based upon its lack of a dominating military force. The willy-nilly accession of nations which really weren't comparable to the original EEC members also did them no favors.
It seemed unstoppable as long as the economic forces constrained politics. Then 2008 happened, and that false prosperity was shown to be a lie.
Something akin to true federalism would have been a wiser choice, but no one involved in its creation wanted that kind of weak government. It's too late now to change course. You'd need another WWII type event to set the stage, which is unlikely to happen again in a useful way for pan-Europe enthusiasts.
You can say that, but someone will reimplement Flash because they need it and don't want to recreate the content and/or mode of delivery. The probability of this grows closer to 1 the closer to 2020 we get.
No need for flame retardants, this kind of thing has been discussed before.
I would look for an analogue in two places - first, the onion routed darknet. Second, Fidonet back in the dark ages. Both are overlays atop an existing communication infrastructure - the first atop the internet, the second atop the PSTN. The darknet has been persecuted to high heaven because criminal enterprises are best placed there, making the whole thing appear criminal - child porn, drug sales, etc. Fido flew under the radar because the bandwidth requirements were low and no one perceived what it could do. Which was a lot, particularly in places like the Eastern Bloc.
My belief is that any attempt to create such a network today would be bandwidth constrained from the get-go and would be swarmed by law enforcement as soon as they became aware we were trying to do it, because we've evolved to a more totalized (and hence totalitarian) society than in the 80s or 90s, believe it or not. And yes, I do remember the Soviets, but by the 80s it was Stalin-lite anyway. The social controls even in the supposedly liberal West are such that free association is immediately under surveillance. Therefore, in response to your five point plan - we can do it, but with the full knowledge we'll be made to regret it later, regardless of how well we try to cover our tracks and keep our noses clean.
This is the main reason why such things aren't happening today. We've made it difficult or impossible to innovate because of whatever the excuse for surveillance is today. "Think of the children" "War on Drugs" "Terrorism"...whatever.
Not in my opinion - the juice wouldn't be worth the squeeze for Adobe. However, one of their developers? That is a thought, certainly. Not enough for an accusation, of course, but it's a possible theory.
Someone is going to recreate Flash, Adobe lacks the power to kill it.
Moreover, whatever people use in preference to Flash in the future will be just as riddled with security issues because, news flash (ha ha ha), the security problems aren't because of Flash itself, they are endemic to remotely delivered applications with untrusted servers. Couple that with an almost entirely useless PKI infrastructure, and we're going to be blaming something other than Flash for the same security issues for years to come. Perhaps forever, unless we go to walled gardens such as Apple's IOS infrastructure or Microsoft's putative Windows Store.
I did suggest the 'universal hate' felt pretty similar, though.
Typical leftist - you want the Rorschach blot of a mental case to fit your views, same as your deluded friends at the Guardian. Too bad that his associates called him a leftist before he grew so unbalanced that it was hard to tell. Quoth Wikipedia:
"Records show that Loughner was registered as an Independent and voted in 2006 and 2008, but not in 2010.[39][40]
Loughner's high-school friend Zach Osler said, "He did not watch TV; he disliked the news; he didn't listen to political radio; he didn't take sides; he wasn't on the Left; he wasn't on the Right."[18] A former classmate, Caitie Parker, who attended high school and college with Loughner, described his political views prior to 2007, prior to his personality transformation, as "left wing, quite liberal,"[41] "radical."[42] The tone of Loughner's online writings and videos from immediately before the attack were described by The Guardian as "almost exclusively conservative and anti-government, with echoes of the populist campaigning of the Tea Party movement".[43]
Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center said that Loughner's political positions were a "hallmark of the far right and the militia movement."[44] Jesse Walker of Reason expressed deep scepticism at the connections drawn by Potok.[45] In the aftermath of the shooting, the Anti-Defamation League reviewed messages by Loughner, and concluded that there was a "disjointed theme that runs through Loughner's writings", which was a "distrust for and dislike of the government." It "manifested itself in various ways" – for instance, in the belief that the government used the control of language and grammar to brainwash people, the notion that the government was creating "infinite currency" without the backing of gold and silver, or the assertion that NASA was faking spaceflights."
You can read it yourself, with links at Wikipedia.
Back in the days when Mono was considered a submarine way to give Microsoft control over Linux, there was such universal hate then.
Does this ever come up in political discussions in India? I see a flow of issues from this:
1. Population Control
a. Yes, we need it, our population is so large that said population is not an asset
b. But we're having our best and brightest practice population control, which is self-defeating
And so on...
I hope that made you feel better, buying all that bullshit.
Now, the truth. Colleges do not teach people how to be good programmers. Almost all of the biggest lazy, no-talent shitbags in the industry are CS graduates. The colleges indoctrinate people into subservient, bureaucratic modes of thought that are conducive to operating as a cog in a large organization. That, and a little English Comp to compensate for the illiteracy of those that are turned out of high schools.
The weeding you claim - hah. Just about every no-talent shitbag ends up getting a job somewhere. Most firms don't bother with a good interview process, and government agencies least of all. You'll find a home eventually, even if you suck. Only those who refuse to show for interviews, or refuse to relocate don't get hired. Obviously, getting a programming job in Bumfuck, IA is not happening, unless you can telework it.
On a related note: the interview process you describe reminds me of the scrum of people looking to get into the 'best schools' the summer after they graduate high school. Both groups - the young programmers and the prospective college students - have been marketed to heavily. They think this somehow makes a difference, working for MS or Amazon or Google - or in the other case going to a highly rated school.
Both groups are seriously deluded. Your internal wherewithal counts far more than acting as a cog in some bureaucratic machine. Having that line item on your resume is not that helpful in the future. Accomplish something, have some drive, and all of those certifications - which is all the degree or the job at the firm with the flaming hoop interview process are - become irrelevant faster than you would think. Caring about these certifications is all about despair, a belief that you have nothing unique to offer. I suppose some people might feel that way, but that sounds more like a mental illness - depression - than a logical strategy, to me.
And how is it persistence to drink beer, smoke weed and experiment sexually for (more like) five years while you occasionally pay attention to studies while someone else foots the bill(...at least in the short term)? I suppose it's persistent hedonism, so you might have a point there.
Accomplishment is the salve for your ego, not sheepskin.
But you're apparently one of those snowflakes. Keep it up with the REEEEEEE... It'll get you far.
I certainly wouldn't comment without having experienced the system.
A degree is about indoctrination, as is all education. You are made to think the way that your betters believe that you should think, so that they find you useful in their bureaucracy.
A degree has nothing to do with intelligence and not even much to do with persistence. You'll make it through as long as you can pay the bill and show up occasionally.
TLS conveniently tells you the encryption technology in use.
RSA is toast. ECC is debatable in terms of security, and with quantum computers in practical use now, may be completely owned. We just don't know for sure. So what's your "beyond ECC" technology in the hopper that makes you think we are secure?
Stop trying to fool the plebs that this is anything but a speed bump. Or perhaps you don't realize this yourself.
I venture to say others don't have that problem. Including me.
We have generalizations because they communicate something meaningful.
Toxic work cultures are at least equally the fault of women. Let's look at motivations:
Men want to get laid, and/or want to dominate women. This is done for reasons of personal satisfaction and/or pecking order (though it is unlikely to result in a work benefit, e.g. promotion) and/or unhealthy obsession with demeaning women. Men like workplace dating because it's easy - "delivered pussy" is the term.
Women want to lure men in to having sex with them. This is done for reasons of pecking order (and in this case it could result in economic benefit due to promotion) and/or a feeling of belonging somewhere and/or economic reasons and/or a desire (healthy or unhealthy) for attention. Women like workplace dating mostly because it allows them to almost entirely transcend class differences, which would be hard to do in their social circle outside work.
Somehow, you think this is all men's fault because they have 'power'. This is false on multiple levels. The women have to buy into this. All superiors aren't men. All women aren't innocent of wrongdoing. The #1 cause of sexual harassment complaints is jilted women. The men in question may or may not have been predators, but the sexual harassment claims prima facie look identical.
So are you just willfully blind in regards to female culpability?
Net Neutrality just locked that situation in place and made the ISPs into permanent monopolies by discouraging investment in infrastructure.
It was a stupid idea and deserved to die.
This is pointless grandstanding.
My ex-wife easily exceeds this, probably every year. She prefers reverse cowboy.
Curb cuts, ramps, accessible stalls, or my favorite, Section 508. The hubris of the ADA was that we could afford this colossal waste. Meanwhile, the economic participation of disabled workers has dropped by 50% since 1981. The implication being that the huge expenditure on infrastructure was a waste, since almost half preferred being on the dole and not taking advantage of the infrastructure.
The next time I see someone with a wheelchair using one of the curb cuts in my town, will be the first.
It's not simple.
However, leadership is key here in modifying existing processes. Trump doesn't have to understand the complexity all that much - he has underlings to handle that kind of thing, even going downward through the echelons to people like me. What is needed is some fundamental reform to the acquisition process to minimize the abuses that cause the project failures. If he gets on that, he could do something useful.