The "old, dirty and cheap" effect is actually a fairly accurate representation of what it looks / feels like to live and work in Slough, where the UK version of the office is based.

It only "lasted" 2 seasons because the writers felt they would just be redoing the same thing over again if they did any more, instead of milking it for another 20 seasons until everyone got fed up with it. Instead of running the series in to the ground, they stopped while the idea was still funny.

There is a bit of a difference between the scenario you describe and what happened here. The issue here was that a question was published in a public document, detailing a question asked by an MP which was due to be answered later this week by someone else in Parliament. The Guardian obviously wanted to report on this question, and the company involved didn't want the bad press and so tried to get a court order against the newspaper highlighting the question on the grounds that it would be libellous. The information is (by law) freely available to the public, and noone was prevented from looking at the question, the newspaper just wasn't allowed to draw attention to it. There is no expectation of privacy in Parliament - what goes on is *expected* to be public, which is different from court cases involving children, where they often can't (and don't) name the children involved.

I really would recommend joining a site like Diabetes Daily. I have been there since about a week after I was diagnosed, and the opportunity to discuss problems I was having with other diabetics has proved invaluable. As I said before, you have to apply some common sense to some of the advice given there, but being able to have a conversation with somone who actually understands what going high/low actually feels like and may have experienced similar problems to you is very beneficial.

Basal insulin is designed to balance against the sugar output of the liver that takes place between meals. Typically, newly diagnosed diabetics are prescribed Lantus or Levemir for this purpose.

**I don't recommend changing your doses without a doctors advice**

Have you ever tried calculating the amount of carbohydrate in each meal? The carbohydrate content of most food is listed on the packaging, and when it isn't, sites like http://www.calorieking.com/ are useful. http://www.diabetesdaily.com/forum/articles/4579-counting-carbohydrates-how-why - This is a good article on counting carbohydrate ( http://www.diabetesdaily.com/ is a very useful site. Some stuff is very informative, some is just plain wrong; sadly, you have to work out which is which yourself. Again, I don't recommend changing things without a doctors advice). Once you know how to count the amount of carbohydrate in your food, you should be able to get an idea of how much insulin you need to take to cover a given amount of carbohydrate. The easiest way I found of doing this was to work out the carbs in a meal, guess the dose needed and write down the results. From a few days readings, you should be able to see what sort of insulin:carbohydrate ratios work for you.

Congratulations, it is always good to hear that someone is getting by without complications.

Have you ever spoken to a T2 diabetic who is seriously trying to control their diabetes? Most don't have the ability to give a dose of insulin if their blood sugar is high to bring it back down, and their anti-resistance medication can only do so much. To get non-diabetic numbers, a lot of T2 diabetics seem to need to eat less than 100g carbs a day and in some cases, less than 50g carbs a day. T2s don't have to worry about DKA, T1s have more freedom with their diet; Both a pretty crap things to have to put up with, and I wouldn't choose one over the other.

It isn't invariably fallacious, but I feel that in this case extrapolating from a games console manufacturer trying to sell more games than a competitor by not letting their games communicate with a competing product to the actions of bankers bringing about a global recession, causing many to lose their jobs ( or not be able to find jobs) and the associated negative effects is a bit of a big leap, with no obvious justification as to why the original poster's logic must extend to the latter situation.

"Slippery Slope" is a logical fallacy:
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/slippery-slope.html
http://www.fallacyfiles.org/slipslop.html

I know you can't calculate exact doses with body weight, but most T1 diabetics with a sensible diet will end up taking somewhere between 0.4 and 0.6 units of insulin per kg of body weight a day, with about half of that being basal. If your doses fit somewhere in this range, I would imagine that you aren't overly sensitive or resistant to insulin. I'll try to find some evidence to back this up when I have access to a few if my books.

How do you calculate what "makes sense" for each meal? Do you just look at your plate and guess? Or is there some maths involved?

And I didn't realise you had to have severe complications within X years of diagnosis to be classed as T1. There is evidence to suggest that C-peptide (a byproduct of insulin production in the body) actually has some use in repairing microvascular damage. C-peptide was found in the animal insulins used before the (relatively) recent switch to human analog insulins. Perhaps the presence of C-peptide in their insulin injections went some way towards preventing some of the damage they may have otherwise had. The odds are that someone diagnosed at the age of about 6 in the 1960s is a T1. The chances that someone else diagnosed at the age of 7 in 1959 who is now on an insulin pump in the UK is even more likely to be T1, seeing how T2 diabetics basically don't get pumps in the UK, and to get one you have to show a requirement for the fine dose control that you get with a pump; this doesn't fit with your theory that T2 diabetics just need to inject some insulin and the body will sort out the rest.

As far as I know, these are people with full-blown T1 diabetes, requiring fairly average amounts of insulin (I believe 0.5u insulin per KG body weight is a good rough guide).

What insulin(s) do you take? And how do you calculate your doses? There seem to be a lot of people who do the same dose every day, with corrections by their GP/consultant every 6-12 months based on their HbA1c. I don't see how this can lead to anything but bad control.

It may be arrogant, but they are, in my opinion, right. If you put effort in to actually controlling diabetes, you should be able to avoid complications for most of your life. I know a couple of diabetics with T1 for over 40 years and no complications; I have spoken with diabetics who have had it for over 50 years with minimal complications. These are people that, initially, could only test their urine for glucose, they had no idea what their blood sugar was doing, and they had horrible peaky insulins which made it difficult to prevent lows/ highs. Why can't we achieve the same thing with infinitely better glucose monitoring and insulin with vaguely sensible action profiles? Why spend years of your life in pain with a series of procedures that may not work (and might even kill you) to try to prevent complications that may not even happen if you control your diabetes correctly?

I, for one, think that regular "top ups" of islet cells produced with the patients own genetic material is the way to go.

Different people have different "strengths" of immune reaction. I've been diagnosed T1 diabetic for over a year now (and had symptoms for quite a while before I was diagnosed), and I am either incredibly sensitive to injected insulin, or my body hasn't quite managed to totally kill of my pancreas yet. Some people go from perfectly healthy to a coma in a matter of weeks, others like me can last much longer; If it has taken my body this long to destroy my pancreatic islet cells, then maybe a "top up" every year or so may do just about enough to push my pancreas to produce enough insulin to give up the injections.

T1 diabetics sometimes get pancreas transplants. I believe that sometimes the islet cells give up within a matter of months, other times an individual may be free from insulin injections for a couple of years [citation needed]

That sounds a lot like a convoluted way of saying "I have Type 2 diabetes"

Surely that would make the password much easier to guess? I am assuming that the icon it changes to is dependant on both the previous icon and the key you pressed.

Say you had an 8 digit password with letters chosen from [a-z]. To guess this password from scratch, I would need to try 26^8 possibilities. With the icon, if I know the sequence of icons, I would need to try at most 26 different letters to get the first icon change correct, then another 26 to get the second icon change etc., leaving me with having to do 26*8 attempts to break the password (2X10^11 vs 208).

This would make guessing the password only slightly more difficult than actually displaying the password in plain text.

I believe that around the time I got my first phone (2001 or so), credit on Orange expired after 6 months (I think); I certainly remember networks making a big deal about the fact that they had changed the system so that it didn't expire.

"We would like to announce that in 3 months time we will be charging half the price you are currently paying. We are telling you this now because we don't need any sales over the next 3 months while everyone holds off for a $100 saving."

Why do you think they announce the product 10 days before it is going to be released? It doesn't give consumers the option of waiting 3 months to pay $100 less. (Assuming that most people don't have a clue about WWDC and wont put the purchase off just in case)