The War on Drugs is a massively successful enterprise if your definition of success is the ability to extract billions of USD worth of funding from taxpayers, with a disproportionate amount of said funding going to the overt militarization of police forces in the USA at the expense of civil liberties and human rights. However, if your indicators of success are tied to social, medical, or economic improvement for the citizens of the United States of America, the entire affair is indeed a massive failure.

For reference, this is coming from someone who consumes nothing more than nicotine (vaping these days, gave up cigarettes after 20 years) and whiskey, and once wore an actual military uniform for a living.

Look, seriously, provide an address and I'll ship you a fucking copy of the book. Your choice.

You must have missed the motherfucking literary reference I linked. Read the fucking book (and hopefully a few more), you fucking retard.

"Business Analyst at Faccenda Group Ltd" ... it's almost worth reaching out to your employer to explain the more esoteric aspects of your ignorance here. Perhaps I'd spare a few clients the pain of professional malfeasance.

No, it was not informative, unless you're referring to being informed that the GP is hopelessly ignorant (plus you by extension). Start here.

With this remark, you also fail at crypto and information theory in the context of this discussion. No, the GP's suggestion does not pass the smell test. Why did you bother commenting?

Hint: 30 seconds of my time leads me to believe this applies to you: Pennsylvania’s New Right to Know Law. If I'm in error on the state in question, please let me know, and I'll be more than glad to guide you to the appropriate legislation for your jurisdiction.

You should probably resign tomorrow on grounds of not understanding the legal statutes you're subject to. Perhaps you should have consulted an attorney. I'm sure the taxpayers supporting your salary would be dismayed to learn you don't understand your own job requirements.

I'm appalled that your post has been modded "informative." Please do us all a favor and abstain from any future posts on cryptography. Instead, I recommend you spend your time with resources like Applied Cryptography. Seriously, please put down the shovel, and if you're doing anything involving crypto for a living, please do the world a favor and resign today.

The United States dollar is the currency preferred by drug dealers, whose trade is in fact made more profitable by the failed "War on Drugs".

I have little or no trouble with jet lag when I fly west. I have a lot of trouble when I fly east unless the flight is far enough that the jump is a complete reset. I'm in Colorado and flying to the eastern time zone is the pits. Flying to Europe on the other hand is not so bad.

That flying west isn't so bad is no surprise. I'm a night person so staying up a couple of hours and then sleeping in a couple of hours is my prefered schedule. Getting up early even for the shift to daylight savings time usually kicks my butt for a week or more and I don't even get a change of scenery.

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I've been to college myself, and I bet MIT would be around 1:1 too. The thing is, a lot of the teaching isn't done by faculty, it's done by graduate students. This includes recitations, answering questions one-on-one, and grading papers.

And there are a ton of administrators too, and they aren't sitting around on their hands doing nothing. They're doing stuff like administering grants and supervising the IT and physical plant people necessary to keep the faculty's lab research running.

The biggest time waster for MIT faculty, as far as I can tell, are other faculty.

No. Some wars are about controlling geopolitically strategic territory... and they start out rather like this as well.

Most folks today don't remember the Cold War or Alfred Thayer Mahan's sea power theories, but you can bet the old men on the Politburo Standing Committee do.

Of course you could replace the particles mentioned in the article with names from my kids' Pokemon decks and it would be just as meaningful to me, but I'm still taking it. Good news is hard to come by.

That clears everything up. Thanks.