The type of person I am is 'not prone to addiction'
I recommend that you not read too much into what other people say especially when I wasn't trying to say I'm better than you or other people who/are/ prone to addiction.
I know myself and I know my body when it comes to this stuff, is what I meant.
Yes, I "like" dilaudid far more than morphine (it's crap, really) when I get it administered to me in the ER.
But that doesn't mean I will go off the rails when given a prescription for 4mg or even 8mg.
It/is/ possible to deal with addictive substances sanely. It's why I can walk away from a beer that's half-empty and not feel bad that it's 'going to waste.'
Speaking as a victim of this meme, I have to say that this is one of the most dangerous memes out there.
Ibuprofen, and such, kill your kidneys. I should know, my cardiologist tore me a new asshole when I told him how much OTC ibuprofen I was taking for my arm pain. I am sure that part of the kidney damage I have is because of that.
4mg of hydromorphone would have been/much/ safer. And no, I wouldn't have gotten addicted, because I'm not the type of person who does so, because I've seen other people with addiction problems and I've learned the easy way by watching them learn the hard way.
It's too bad I had to learn about NSAIDs the hard way myself.
>they will spin out of control if a person is on them too long.
Chronic pain sufferers aren't looking to get high. They just want to get out of the fetal position and get out of bed.
My wife has one of those rare doctors who is actually knowledgeable about chronic pain. She is terrified of what will happen to her when he retires - she travels an hour across the state because in 7 years, she's yet to find a doctor locally who takes chronic pain seriously. And this moral panic is terrifying her even more, on top of that.
If she is cut off from her legal and safe meds, which she has been responsively using for decades now, she will either kill herself (the plan is a helium 'exit bag' - we have soberly discussed this at length, and I am not OK with it.)/or/ she will turn to street heroin, truly a sub-optimal solution. This moral panic is killing people and making heroin addicts out of chronic pain sufferers because they turn to heroin when cold-turkeyed and locked out by ignorant-as-fuck doctors from legal and safe opiates and get thrown into the world of "I don't know how much this dose is because I got it from Shady-Joe."
This moral panic is a pogrom against the ill. It needs to fucking stop right now.
And yes, there are moneyed interests behind this moral panic. You can google this stuff yourself.
Kurt Cobain is dead largely because of chronic pain and the cascade of effects it has. Chronic pain is not to be fucked with.
In his journals, Kurt often mentioned that he was suffering from chronic stomach pain. He went to several doctors but they were unable to determine the cause. His condition worsened as time progressed which prompted Cobain to shoot up more and more heroin to alleviate the pain. In his suicide note, Kurt references his stomach problems:
"Thank you all from the pit of my burning, nauseous stomach for your letters and concern during the past years."
>no reason at all... except for the tooth-and-nails resistance of oncologists to get people into hospice
It's not just that, it's a perverse Calvinistic view of chronic pain in general that one should just 'deal with it.'
Never mind the fact that such pain has other clinical effects, like elevated blood pressure, depression, etc.
The hostility that too many doctors have to analgesics is maddening. Over the past couple of years, it's gotten worse. Considering what's been going on with the latest moral panic over opioids/opiates and shenanigans like what's gone on over at the CDC about this, people are suffering and dying (sometimes because of suicide) needlessly.
When the CDC gets piled on by a bunch of other agencies (FDA, HHS, etc.,) for fucking this up, something is rotten in Denmark.
Can someone please point me at any place that properly manages outsourced labor?
I've yet to hear any good stories about outsourcing from people who have to deal with programmers in India, for example.
And the people I know personally that have to travel to India to see "what the/fuck/ are you guys doing?!" and straighten it out, none of them are thrilled to have to do that part of their jobs. Every story I hear is tantamount to "shoveling shit against the tide."
I don't think much of the KKK but to call them "terrorists" seems a pretty big stretch
The KKK has done some pretty bad things over the past decades. On equal with what ISIS and other terrorists have done.
Indeed the definition of terrorism is "the use of violence is the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes."
Tell me that was not violence for political purposes. Try me.
Just because the lynchings aren't widespread anymore doesn't mean the other violence went away. And it's not just "Cletus the redneck douchebag" as a member, it's politicians and law enforcement.
Yes, these people do need to be exposed. If this makes you uneasy, too bad.
If you can't stand problems that start out, "A train leaves Chicago traveling 42 miles per hour...", then you are not ever going to like coding, and you most likely will never be very good at it.
I, and other people, can't fucking stand problems like that because they are fucking BORING AS FUCK AND TOTALLY UNINTERESTING.
But I love writing code. As do many other people. Because the problems are more interesting than SAT style word problems, which rot your brain and make you hate math.
Therefore I suggest we teach beginners assembly language and exchange the mnemonics for common texting short forms.
Back in the day of Apple ][ machines, we were taught both BASIC and 6502 assembly and wrote code in both. We were taught the assembly after BASIC and when polled which one we preferred to have been taught first. It was the 6502 assy that won out, unanimously.
So no, this isn't so much of the joke you think it is.
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I don't think they prevent you from using an insecure email account. The email account is simply how you'd transmit evidence of what you can be blackmailed with.
I don't think they prevent you from doing it either. I do think that if you have one, that it should be declared that you have one when you do your security audit. If this guy at the CIA had one and didn't declare it then that should be a problem.
People think nothing of creating an email for "non-official business" (like an affair) and not telling anyone, going so far as creating "draft emails" as communications. Sound familiar?
>evidence of early bombardment on Earth >assuming that this might not have happened on the Moon
That's a pretty big assumption, because it assumes that the Earth is somehow special in "attracting" (outside of gravity, but we're not talking about that, we're just talking about "targeting") bombardment and the moon is not, while both occupy a similar orbits around the Sun.
Isn't the reason that you are grilled during a security clearance audit/review/interview that they are looking for things you might be vulnerable to when blackmailed?
Seeing the stuff that Hastert was being blackmailed for, I think this point is extremely cromulent.
Wouldn't using an insecure email account by such a person be grounds enough to yank that person's clearance if it hasn't been declared? Especially if it has been used for years.
I've given up on JS based adblocking and gone to blackholing in/etc/hosts, just like it was back in the 90s. The computational load has gotten intolerable for any ad-blocking using JS. It's all ad and tracking networks now, so the/very/ small number of ads directly hosted on primary sites now is minuscule.
However, you can't stop Windows from phoning home unless you firewall it at the router or dedicated hardware firewall. Anything you do to the hosts file in Windows itself will be ignored, and JS ad blocking only works in browsers.
I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works. It is, however, Windows only and since it uses just the hosts file, any hard-coding of IP addresses in.dlls will bypass it. You need a whole other machine to stop Windows from gossiping about you.
I believe in the 18th century, this was intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the pole to the equator.
I maintain that if Gunther, in 1620, made his chain 1/100'th of a nautical mile (1 minute of longitude at the equator) rather than 1/80th of a statute mile, we would have never ever heard of the metric system.
1 nautical mile is 92.0624 chains
If he had adjusted his chain a mere 8 percent smaller, to make it 100 chains, it would have been adopted widely by navies and merchant marines around the world instead of just surveyors.
But instead he catered to the land-measurement guys and is now largely forgotten except by nerds like me.
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The type of person I am is 'not prone to addiction'
I recommend that you not read too much into what other people say especially when I wasn't trying to say I'm better than you or other people who /are/ prone to addiction.
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I know myself and I know my body when it comes to this stuff, is what I meant.
Yes, I "like" dilaudid far more than morphine (it's crap, really) when I get it administered to me in the ER.
But that doesn't mean I will go off the rails when given a prescription for 4mg or even 8mg.
It /is/ possible to deal with addictive substances sanely. It's why I can walk away from a beer that's half-empty and not feel bad that it's 'going to waste.'
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>responsively
Argh.
responsibly.
> the relatively harmless stuff like NSAIDs
Speaking as a victim of this meme, I have to say that this is one of the most dangerous memes out there.
Ibuprofen, and such, kill your kidneys. I should know, my cardiologist tore me a new asshole when I told him how much OTC ibuprofen I was taking for my arm pain. I am sure that part of the kidney damage I have is because of that.
4mg of hydromorphone would have been /much/ safer. And no, I wouldn't have gotten addicted, because I'm not the type of person who does so, because I've seen other people with addiction problems and I've learned the easy way by watching them learn the hard way.
It's too bad I had to learn about NSAIDs the hard way myself.
>they will spin out of control if a person is on them too long.
Chronic pain sufferers aren't looking to get high. They just want to get out of the fetal position and get out of bed.
My wife has one of those rare doctors who is actually knowledgeable about chronic pain. She is terrified of what will happen to her when he retires - she travels an hour across the state because in 7 years, she's yet to find a doctor locally who takes chronic pain seriously. And this moral panic is terrifying her even more, on top of that.
If she is cut off from her legal and safe meds, which she has been responsively using for decades now, she will either kill herself (the plan is a helium 'exit bag' - we have soberly discussed this at length, and I am not OK with it.) /or/ she will turn to street heroin, truly a sub-optimal solution. This moral panic is killing people and making heroin addicts out of chronic pain sufferers because they turn to heroin when cold-turkeyed and locked out by ignorant-as-fuck doctors from legal and safe opiates and get thrown into the world of "I don't know how much this dose is because I got it from Shady-Joe."
This moral panic is a pogrom against the ill. It needs to fucking stop right now.
And yes, there are moneyed interests behind this moral panic. You can google this stuff yourself.
Kurt Cobain is dead largely because of chronic pain and the cascade of effects it has. Chronic pain is not to be fucked with.
https://www.upvenue.com/articl...
This war on drugs has been a fucking disaster.
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>no reason at all ... except for the tooth-and-nails resistance of oncologists to get people into hospice
It's not just that, it's a perverse Calvinistic view of chronic pain in general that one should just 'deal with it.'
Never mind the fact that such pain has other clinical effects, like elevated blood pressure, depression, etc.
The hostility that too many doctors have to analgesics is maddening. Over the past couple of years, it's gotten worse. Considering what's been going on with the latest moral panic over opioids/opiates and shenanigans like what's gone on over at the CDC about this, people are suffering and dying (sometimes because of suicide) needlessly.
When the CDC gets piled on by a bunch of other agencies (FDA, HHS, etc.,) for fucking this up, something is rotten in Denmark.
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5 seconds of googling:
Carnegie Mellon's primary IP address range (128.2.#.#).
https://www.cmu.edu/iso/govern...
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"Going Dark" encryption problem.
This isn't a problem.
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"Trust in god but tie your camel." -- Some Arab Proverb That Probably Isn't Real But I Agree With.
"Trust but verify." -- Russian proverb adopted by St. Ronnie Raygun
"Park it and lock it! Not Responsible!!" -- Firesign Theatre
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Are you willing to pay about ten times what you pay for your computer?
Most security doesn't cost a penny, if you bother to learn.
It's the people who decide to remain ignorant about security that wind up paying lots more for insultants, insurance, and break-ins.
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is poorly managed?
Can someone please point me at any place that properly manages outsourced labor?
I've yet to hear any good stories about outsourcing from people who have to deal with programmers in India, for example.
And the people I know personally that have to travel to India to see "what the /fuck/ are you guys doing?!" and straighten it out, none of them are thrilled to have to do that part of their jobs. Every story I hear is tantamount to "shoveling shit against the tide."
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I don't think much of the KKK but to call them "terrorists" seems a pretty big stretch
The KKK has done some pretty bad things over the past decades. On equal with what ISIS and other terrorists have done.
Indeed the definition of terrorism is "the use of violence is the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes."
http://withoutsanctuary.org/
Tell me that was not violence for political purposes. Try me.
Just because the lynchings aren't widespread anymore doesn't mean the other violence went away. And it's not just "Cletus the redneck douchebag" as a member, it's politicians and law enforcement.
Yes, these people do need to be exposed. If this makes you uneasy, too bad.
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If you can't stand problems that start out, "A train leaves Chicago traveling 42 miles per hour...", then you are not ever going to like coding, and you most likely will never be very good at it.
I, and other people, can't fucking stand problems like that because they are fucking BORING AS FUCK AND TOTALLY UNINTERESTING.
But I love writing code. As do many other people. Because the problems are more interesting than SAT style word problems, which rot your brain and make you hate math.
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Therefore I suggest we teach beginners assembly language and exchange the mnemonics for common texting short forms.
Back in the day of Apple ][ machines, we were taught both BASIC and 6502 assembly and wrote code in both. We were taught the assembly after BASIC and when polled which one we preferred to have been taught first. It was the 6502 assy that won out, unanimously.
So no, this isn't so much of the joke you think it is.
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The fact that bankruptcy trustees and credit counseling services are just increasing by ten fold
Citation needed
>exercising your rights is leading to moral hazard and societal downfall
No.
Go lick corporate boots elsewhere.
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Of course...
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I don't think they prevent you from using an insecure email account. The email account is simply how you'd transmit evidence of what you can be blackmailed with.
I don't think they prevent you from doing it either. I do think that if you have one, that it should be declared that you have one when you do your security audit. If this guy at the CIA had one and didn't declare it then that should be a problem.
People think nothing of creating an email for "non-official business" (like an affair) and not telling anyone, going so far as creating "draft emails" as communications. Sound familiar?
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>evidence of early bombardment on Earth
>assuming that this might not have happened on the Moon
That's a pretty big assumption, because it assumes that the Earth is somehow special in "attracting" (outside of gravity, but we're not talking about that, we're just talking about "targeting") bombardment and the moon is not, while both occupy a similar orbits around the Sun.
I don't buy this doubt. It fails the laugh test.
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Isn't the reason that you are grilled during a security clearance audit/review/interview that they are looking for things you might be vulnerable to when blackmailed?
Seeing the stuff that Hastert was being blackmailed for, I think this point is extremely cromulent.
Wouldn't using an insecure email account by such a person be grounds enough to yank that person's clearance if it hasn't been declared? Especially if it has been used for years.
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Real programmers use butterflies.../xkcd
Realer programmers make apple pies from scratch. /sagan
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w3m is also very fast, and includes images if you use rxvt and w3m-img or a console. It's a half-step up from links.
If you're looking for a dumb browser for TOR, it's a good one to use. No silly JS or other stuffs to defeat anonymity (outside of its uniqueness).
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It's also better than penisland.net
Which actually does sell pens.
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Useful but...
It's merely playing whack-a-mole with Microsoft. They can stick their spyware in any upgrade, especially an important security upgrade.
And you won't know next time. It'll be obfuscated with some sort of encryption within the .dll. (hey if I can think of it, it will happen.)
I think it's disgusting that they hard-code this shit. It's anti-user, anti-everyone.
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APK is kinda right in his spam.
I've given up on JS based adblocking and gone to blackholing in /etc/hosts, just like it was back in the 90s. The computational load has gotten intolerable for any ad-blocking using JS. It's all ad and tracking networks now, so the /very/ small number of ads directly hosted on primary sites now is minuscule.
However, you can't stop Windows from phoning home unless you firewall it at the router or dedicated hardware firewall. Anything you do to the hosts file in Windows itself will be ignored, and JS ad blocking only works in browsers.
I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works. It is, however, Windows only and since it uses just the hosts file, any hard-coding of IP addresses in .dlls will bypass it. You need a whole other machine to stop Windows from gossiping about you.
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I believe in the 18th century, this was intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the pole to the equator.
I maintain that if Gunther, in 1620, made his chain 1/100'th of a nautical mile (1 minute of longitude at the equator) rather than 1/80th of a statute mile, we would have never ever heard of the metric system.
1 nautical mile is 92.0624 chains
If he had adjusted his chain a mere 8 percent smaller, to make it 100 chains, it would have been adopted widely by navies and merchant marines around the world instead of just surveyors.
But instead he catered to the land-measurement guys and is now largely forgotten except by nerds like me.
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>but we still wander
Maybe you need a road map?
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