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Grab a camel and court perl. You'll find no greater joy or beauty. Perl also runs everywhere, on everything, so you're safe to practice monogamy.

Be minimist. Everyone is the same as you - swamped. Build to simplify and remove, and you will succeed.

Wonderful answer - thank you so much!

No, I'm not enlightened: I was wondering what it means. While I do think my "world view" is remarkably complete and accurate, I am aware that I purposefully deceive myself (I enjoy building mental pictures of fantasy reality futures, like, "what if I invented an anti-gravity device", and the corresponding fun I'd have building fake space-ships to prank people; some of these get so intricate and awesome that I don't want to look too deep at the seed of the idea (anti-gravity)... )

I have what I call my inbuilt "bullshit filter", and I no doubt annoy rather a lot too many people by not simply swallowing their ideas. Unfortunately, reality is not something that many people seem able to grasp. By way of quick example: global warming (now called "climate change", on account of the "warming" not actually being "global"). Everyone worships one side or the other of this debate - there are few, if any, people in the middle. The problem, is that there are 7+ billion of us. Whether or not global warming is true is utterly irrelevant, because there is simply nothing possible that can be done about changing the overall direction of all those people that could make any measurable difference. Now - take that "truth", and apply it to local problems: Should I put my plastic in the recycling bin? Should I pay more for electricity? Should I suffer the annoying blueness of LED lights, instead of the nice warm glow of incandescent? Why should I do what all those lunatics are telling me, and all these new "green" laws are forcing down my throat, when it's all just a 100% waste of time?

Same goes for conservation (aka: the "fun police"), road rules (would it be more, or less, safe on the roads, if all rules were abolished? And no, I don't mean immediately, I mean after the inevitable carnage that takes place between the "end of rules" and the point where drivers understand about using their brains when they drive. We don't have "how not to bump into people on sidewalk" rules, do we?), religious rules (many which make it into real government rules), and so on...

So, back to my point: "totally enlightened master" - that's the bit that triggered my bullshit-alarm.

I'm doubting any such thing is possible, or at least, not in our modern world anymore. Knowledge is so vast, nobody could become "finally enlightened" without cutting themselves of from it all. [amusingly, seems I've worked out form 1st-principals the idea behind monasteries?]. Even if you do master enlightenment in one part of your life, that's going to conflict with the "stupid people" you inevitably have to interact with, so you then have to somehow master the manipulation and/or tolerance of them, and being, as there are, so many people out there, not all of whom you can reach or influence, and indeed, many of them running media empires or otherwise swamping the conscience of others with bogus crap, you are basically screwed. You now have to deal with "knowing", but also "tolerating" those who do not, who also make rules and laws for you.

This seems a majorly thorny meme.

I am though, super-interested in your "some questions about very simple terms". I wonder what you'd ask?

Yikes! Me too. Exactly.

Would you possibly be able to explain "enlightenment" to me?

As far as I can tell, pretty much all of reality agrees with my understanding of it. Does that mean I'm already "enlightened"?

My guess is you mean something deeper? Perhaps a self-awareness capable of formulating thought/actions to (successfully) modify ones own disposition/situation? (which I guess often means influencing other people?).

No, not really - if you're a MITM, you control what the user sees, as well as what gets sent to the device, and nothing prevents those 2 things being different. You might SEE that you're sending $100 to Grandma, but when you tap the key, you're authenticating your entire bank balance to some place in the Bahamas.

They pay upwards of $100k+ per year to have a seat on the board and direct the "standard" to suit their products.

LOL "No need for ... client software..." ... Uses ... built-in support directly into the browser".

So when did a browser stop being "client software" ?

Never let the truth get in the way of a good advertising claim eh?

When you're paying your 107,000 workers $53bn to insert backdoors into everything, finding new and interesting ways to hide exploits in source code becomes an art form. Of course you can't find any reason why a payload for a "keepalive" was necessary... because it simply wasn't, but absent some data, you can't insert the exploit.

My sales are $2000/day, 7 days - I'm in my 15th year of business. 100% of my presence is automated (I do nothing day-to-day). The only advice I'm qualified to give, is how to succeed: don't listen to anyone elses advice: use your brain. It is 100% common sense - everyone elses opinions are uninformed and almost always from someone who doesn't really know. Nobody who has succeeded will willingly reveal how to succeed - they're too busy enjoying the fruits of success to waste the time. If you find someone who is willing to tell you, they are usually fake - the "telling you" part is a cog in whatever scam they're involved with (stock investment, bitcoins, realestate, whatever).

Read my lips:

COMMON SENSE.

And, no, I like my income. I'm not telling what I'm doing!