It is my fervent wish that unabated capitalism like the type practiced in the current United States will disappear from the face of our Earth relatively soon (next 20 – 50 years). The excesses of our current economy sicken me with all the waste and proliferation of high carbon footprint automobiles and industries (coal fired power plants, etc.) Our economy is notorious for differentiating us into a majority lower poverty-stricken and disenfranchised class, a fleeting minority middle class, and millionaires and billionaires who have bought our federal government in almost its totality (“lock, stock, and barrel”).
Former and deceased President Dwight D. Eisenhower in one of his final speeches as President warned the United States citizens about the power of the military-industrial complex. We need strong armed forces, but how many times do we need to destroy our planet with our Nuclear (“Deterrent”) Triad. I am happy to read in hopefully the real news that our President Donald J. Trump is ready to negotiate better nuclear arms reduction treaties. I believe we need treaties banning cyberwarfare, computer and network hacking of any kind, creation of genetically modified organisms, and human manipulation of human and other animal genome (recombinant DNA machinations).
You may call the above diatribe sour grapes and perhaps you would be correct but only time will tell.
Author: jamespatewilliamsjr
My whole legal name is James Pate Williams, Jr. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia approximately 70 years ago. I barely graduated from LaGrange High School with low marks in June 1971. Later in June 1979, I graduated from LaGrange College with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a little over a 3 out 4 Grade Point Average (GPA). In the Spring Quarter of 1978, I taught myself how to program a Texas Instruments desktop programmable calculator and in the Summer Quarter of 1978 I taught myself Dayton BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) on LaGrange College's Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I took courses in BASIC in the Fall Quarter of 1978 and FORTRAN IV (Formula Translator IV) in the Winter Quarter of 1979. Professor Kenneth Cooper, a genius poly-scientist taught me a course in the Intel 8085 microprocessor architecture and assembly and machine language. We would hand assemble our programs and insert the resulting machine code into our crude wooden box computer which was designed and built by Professor Cooper. From 1990 to 1994 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from LaGrange College. I had a 4 out of 4 GPA in the period 1990 to 1994. I took courses in C, COBOL, and Pascal during my BS work. After graduating from LaGrange College a second time in May 1994, I taught myself C++. In December 1995, I started using the Internet and taught myself client-server programming. I created a website in 1997 which had C and C# implementations of algorithms from the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Alfred J. Menezes, et. al., and some other cryptography and number theory textbooks and treatises.
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