Linus' hatred of CVS doesn't make things any easier.
If Linus hates CVS, why not set up a Perforce server for him? I was recently looking at their web site, and saw that Open Source developers can obtain licenses for FREE!
It's more powerful than CVS, and has a great user community to help solve problems.
I just downloaded it, installed it, and started submitting files in about an hour -- and half that was the download (modems suck, especially after having had ADSL, 1-way cable, and 2-way cable).
No relation to Perforce, just very pleased with their interface and their attitude.
I firmly believe we're at least 100 years away from a turing-test level of language processing. And no, Moore's Law does nothing for this problem.
Moore's Law does nothing, agreed. However, with nanotechnology around the corner (5-10 years), we're going to be able to create nanocomputers 1,000,000 times more powerful than the human brain, in the space of a sugar cube (from Engines of Creation).
With only a handful of those sugar cubes, you'll have more brainpower than the entire scientific community.
Now imagine that everyone has a handful of those sugar cubes. One million years of "engineering" done in less than a single year's time. They don't call it a singularity for nothing!
Now imagine a Beowulf cluster of sugar cubes... mmm...
Intelligence is in the hardware, not the software.
Consider that every atom in your body is exchanged every 7 years or so. Add to that the memories you have of 8 or more years ago.
The intelligence is most definitely in the software. The patterns in my brain are more important than what they're made up of.
I'm waiting for the day when we'll be able to convert our brain infrastructure -- process the same "software" but do it 1,000,000 times faster. Or with more links than is currently physically possible, so there are more associations to remember stuff by. The weirdest thing will be the complete separation between people who convert and people who don't -- are you going to want to wait 11 1/2 days of "experienced" time for the one-second pause between sentences when a "non-convert" is speaking?
Re:Explain this one to me...
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Likewise, maybe a few techno freaks might figure out a way to do freenet even if their ISP blocks it, but most people won't if it takes too much effort.
All it takes is one techno freak. He takes the encrypted content and packages it into.MP3,.OGG,.AVI,.DOC, etc. format, and shares it with the world.
The lazy people will then get it from BearShare. Or FreeNet. Or Swaptor. (In another thread, someone else asked if they were the only ones who hadn't heard of Swaptor; I hadn't, either. So I downloaded it, and tried two searches: "matrix" came back with nothing, and "beatles" hung for over 10 minutes, so I killed it.)
The point is, there only needs to be one hacker. So arguments that say "the average person wouldn't have time/energy/skills/money for this" are invalid.
I replied earlier to jcapell, and since yours was the post that sent me to Lenny's, I thought I'd direct you to my reply. I think you'll like it -- I took the script that was there and improved it quite a bit.
Enjoy,
Re:Cost them $ with your mouse - it's easy:
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Hit 'em where it hurtz
Agreed completely. I visited Lenny's war on spam and found a script there that almost worked (perhaps it did, back in February; goto.com must have changed their formatting).
After 4 hours or so of picking at it, I've fixed it up so it will keep a log, give you reports on how much you've cost each spammer, a total for each day, as well as the grand total.
I want to take it further, and create a web page for it to send data to -- so it can drop the lines it adds to the logfile, and we can have a backend that collects these from around the world, and displays a running total like those world population signs. But that was too much for just one evening.;-)
I emailed it to Lenny, but I'll post it here for those who want it now.
You can easily add this as a cron job (or NT's equivalent) and have it run every, say, 15 minutes. You won't notice the bandwidth it takes up, and you'll be costing them about $2,400 a day.
From here to the end of this post (my sig), it's all script. The name is kill_goto_spammers.pl.
Thanks to the lameness filters, I am not able to share this with you. If you want it, email me.
These solutions could be used to blunt future patents based upon the resulting "prior art" from this effort.
Check out PriorArt.org -- they are collecting submissions from the community, for free, to create a database of prior art to combat absurd patents with.
... the ethical position we harbour against pedophilia to those African tribes that firmly believe in female genital mutilations...
Fortunately, that's a problem which is specific to a very small area of the world.
Circumcision is a far worse problem. Without going into too many details, I've read that it reduces sexual enjoyment to 20-40% of its original level. (What do you expect when you remove skin that contains so many nerves?)
And we say it's done for cleanliness. Teach your kid to use a fucking bar of soap!
To stay on topic, people used to marry at 12. It's only recently, evolutionarily speaking, that sex has been restricted to "adults." To add insult to injury, the growth hormones that we put in our chickens and our cows are being passed through to the kitchen table, and are causing children to mature faster. Females have breasts at a much earlier age now, making them sexual targets.
I'm not defending the pedophile; I'm simply trying to explain the behavior, objectively.
I can see an alternative though. Set up a website (or better yet, a voluntary series of mirrored sites) where users can go, and ASK to have their computer portscanned, and fixed if necessary. Make the "good" worms "sterile" (IE: unable to reproduce) so if the machine is infected, it can be automatically innoculated and patched against further infection.
There exists such a web site already: check out Steve Gibson's site, and check out the "Shields UP!" section. This will portscan your machine for you and report the ports it finds open. (It was designed for Windows machines.) --
I work for a web hosting company, Colossus. We have zero dialup lines; we only do web hosting. The margins are slightly better, and there's a lot less support to do.
Perhaps this might be one way to go, as there are many people saying you'd have to be crazy to start an ISP these days.
As others have mentioned, we only do support through email. This makes it easier to be specific and exact when telling a customer what to do, and allows us to interact with the customers when our time permits (we answer all calls within 24 hours).
We're in the USA. I'm not sure how well this business plan would translate to Australia, but as I said above, the margins should be better than running an ISP. --
Re:Migration/Transition issues (Score:2) by 2nd Post!(louis_wang(at)hp.com)
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wrote: It's probably a good start towards mission critical code style, in which there needs to be correctness, validation and verification built into the language in the first place.
I'd like to see a trend start for GPL'd software to become "mission critical" -- in other words, for there to be certification standards, and have libraries then pass that certification, and then have programs which are built using only certified libraries, etc.
I suppose this could be one aspect of the Linux Standard Base, on further thought. Here's a URL: linuxbase.org. --
Howie said: I generally work about 10am to 8pm, largely to avoid traffic (and because I'm a lazy pig in the morning) - the management here doesn't really mind what hours I work, as long as nothing catches fire, and things are pretty much on schedule.
I wholeheartedly agree.
However, my politician Manager, who just made Vice President after not watching the Team I'm on because he was too busy "promoting" himself to the higher-ups, has decided that I'm a bad apple and need to be on double-secret probation until I've "learned my lesson."
Here's a guy who was tasked with making sure the Team I'm on made its goals. He put the Team Lead in charge, a youngster with no managerial skills, and personality issues that prevent him both from working effectively with others and from taking advantage of these others' very useful skills! The Team Lead failed miserably, and the Manager got a promotion, a nice corner office, and (most likely) a bundle of stock and a big raise.
It's no wonder everybody on the Team got a bad performance appraisal this year. Which means less stock and salary for the little guys -- which of course means there's more to go around "up there." (Their behavior is not lost on me; I'm learning to play politics myself. But I've got nowhere to go at that company -- they've made sure I have a reputation as a loose cannon, and they're doing everything they can to promote that because it helps their agenda, somehow.)
Those who are reading this know who I am. So know this: I got stock and salary this year. Both of which were above the average -- and some people got nothing. If I was rewarded, then how can my performance be so abysmal that I need to be subjected to Performance Counseling, and forced into fixed hours which are simply not possible with the insomnia my psychiatrist has diagnosed me with? It's obvious to me I'm being rushed out the door.
It's also obvious to my attorney.
This situation had better go away over this coming weekend, or there will be Hell to pay. The attorney's not cheap; why be on the defensive when there's a pot of gold if you pull the trigger? (Retaliation three days after you make Management aware of a very serious problem will be acknowledged by a jury -- which will significantly reward the victim, who is out of a job either way.)
Back to the point: flex time is a wonderful thing. As long as you are exceeding your expectations (and are not pushed into a corner and then constantly interrupted), then it shouldn't matter if you come in late, or even if you come in at all! Why waste resources when you can do more with less? (I.e., gas, time driving, the expense of maintaining an office and a parking lot, a corporate network, etc. -- just pay for ADSL for your employees, and let them work from home. They don't work out? Firing them's a lot easier when they're not on site to pull a completely different kind of trigger.)
I'll have my own company soon. And I'll treat the employees like black boxes. It won't matter to me if they're tripping on acid -- as long as they're achieving more than I expect of them, I'll be happy with their performance.
The company I work for used to be like that. It isn't now. And the stock's down. Coincidence?
They'd like us to think so. --
Re:Nevada "None of the Above"
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Anyway, more to the point, this isn't about Minesweeper, it's a problem called the "MineSweeper Consistentcy Problem" and it's important to remember that. Essentially, the MCP is: given a half finished minesweeper board, is it consistent? That is, is it a valid board within the rules of the game? It is possible to get this board through normal play?
From the article:
So, write a program that can decode Minesweeper for any size board, and you will join the pantheon of mathematical greats, alongside Euler and Pythagoras.
Who's right?
I'll add one observation: I have managed, on several occasions, to get to a state where there are N uncovered squares and N-M bombs left, and no clues as to which is right -- it's a coin toss. --
I have a radical idea. What currently controls the government? Individuals, and corporations, which donate money to the elected officials.
These "bribes" may be illegal, but they'll be done. There's no stopping it; whether it's to "rent" a night in the White House, or a flight on Air Force One (haven't seen them do that yet, wouldn't put it past them), or cash in briefcases, it'll happen.
Rather than fighting that urge, then, why don't we use it to benefit the system?
We can do away with taxes of all kinds (see FairTax, it's a great idea -- and this is completely different; I'd keep tarrifs and fees but eliminate all income, sales, estate, ad nauseum taxes), and simply use the following algorithm:
For every dollar that you donate to the government, you'll get one vote.
Read further -- I know a lot of you stopped when you saw that.
What I'm proposing is not "the richest gets the most votes." Because their money supply will run out; they have to contribute every time we hold a vote.
What will end up happening is, the most efficient person/organization will end up having better profit margins, and will be able to make a difference.
If the person or organization strives toward efficiency, what type of politician do you think they'll want to vote for?
My guess is Libertarian, which leads to a disclaimer: I'm going to vote Libertarian, for the first time, this year; I'm not sure I agree with the radical extremists, but I do agree with eliminating unconstitutional TLAs (Three Letter Agencies).
However, since this idea makes too much sense to me (please -- poke holes in it, I'd like to discuss it), I'm sure it'll never be accepted by The Powers That Be -- who have decided not to allow third parties any chance at winning.
But one can hope, and dream.;-)
Besides, nanotech is coming fast -- we'll be off the planet before the next President is elected (i.e. the 2004 election season). So what the meek are doing now doesn't concern me -- they can and will inherit the Earth. The rest of us are going to the stars. --
This is way off topic, but your.sig (and just seeing Dogma) got me thinking.
"An apology for the Devil: it must be remembered we have heard only one side of the story. God has written all the books." -Samuel Butler
God didn't write all the books. She can't speak to humans -- She has to speak through the Metatron.
Besides, the Devil is the "Price of Lies," is he not? And he's not forbidden from frolicking among the mortals. So I'm sure he's had his hand in these books we read.
Just another thought to scare your ultra-religious relatives with.;-)
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But what I've learned in my 31 years is this: the pains that you suffer as a child want to hide. When your parents abused you (and they invariably did; nobody can have all their needs taken care of, but some of us got smacked more than others), you had a choice: integrate the experience with your world view, or repress it.
To integrate would be a death sentence -- it would be admitting that your parents didn't love you, which would lead to understanding that they won't provide for you, you won't have food, clothes, a roof over your head -- basically, the child would die, knowing it wouldn't be taken care of. So repression was a survival instinct.
Now, what does all this have to do with drugs?
I used pot to help me forget. To help me remove the pain of the past, so I could wallow in false happiness. And, it is false -- my problems weren't any closer to being solved the next morning.
I'll smoke again; I'm sure of it. But not for a while -- a year or two, perhaps more. It's not evil -- it's just a tool, and tools can be used for good or bad. (Ban guns -- why not ban knives? Or screwdrivers? But that's another subject.)
Social use and solitary use are two different things; if you find yourself in the latter group, talk to someone about it.
I hope my experience can help other kids understand the reasons they use. I'm in therapy and highly recommend it for adults who were abused as children.
As far as harder drugs, I've tried 'em, never got hooked -- I was lucky. Try to avoid the more expensive drugs, which have physical addiction potential -- crack, cocaine, heroin, alcohol, tobacco.
The best to start with is pot. Mushrooms are nice, but I prefer acid. And don't overdo that -- it could lead to insanity.
But in moderation, you should be free to experience the world at your discretion. It's your body. --
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If Linus hates CVS, why not set up a Perforce server for him? I was recently looking at their web site, and saw that Open Source developers can obtain licenses for FREE!
It's more powerful than CVS, and has a great user community to help solve problems.
I just downloaded it, installed it, and started submitting files in about an hour -- and half that was the download (modems suck, especially after having had ADSL, 1-way cable, and 2-way cable).
No relation to Perforce, just very pleased with their interface and their attitude.
Moore's Law does nothing, agreed. However, with nanotechnology around the corner (5-10 years), we're going to be able to create nanocomputers 1,000,000 times more powerful than the human brain, in the space of a sugar cube (from Engines of Creation).
With only a handful of those sugar cubes, you'll have more brainpower than the entire scientific community.
Now imagine that everyone has a handful of those sugar cubes. One million years of "engineering" done in less than a single year's time. They don't call it a singularity for nothing!
Now imagine a Beowulf cluster of sugar cubes... mmm...
Others have pondered whether we'd give "rights" to software, if it could simulate a human well enough.
Does this mean we're going to have to wait another 12+ years before we're able to connect these AIs to, say, ICQ? (Without breaking COPPA, that is...)
Consider that every atom in your body is exchanged every 7 years or so. Add to that the memories you have of 8 or more years ago.
The intelligence is most definitely in the software. The patterns in my brain are more important than what they're made up of.
I'm waiting for the day when we'll be able to convert our brain infrastructure -- process the same "software" but do it 1,000,000 times faster. Or with more links than is currently physically possible, so there are more associations to remember stuff by. The weirdest thing will be the complete separation between people who convert and people who don't -- are you going to want to wait 11 1/2 days of "experienced" time for the one-second pause between sentences when a "non-convert" is speaking?
See Foresight vs. Scientific American -- they've been adversaries of nanotechnology for many years.
All it takes is one techno freak. He takes the encrypted content and packages it into .MP3, .OGG, .AVI, .DOC, etc. format, and shares it with the world.
The lazy people will then get it from BearShare. Or FreeNet. Or Swaptor. (In another thread, someone else asked if they were the only ones who hadn't heard of Swaptor; I hadn't, either. So I downloaded it, and tried two searches: "matrix" came back with nothing, and "beatles" hung for over 10 minutes, so I killed it.)
The point is, there only needs to be one hacker. So arguments that say "the average person wouldn't have time/energy/skills/money for this" are invalid.
I replied earlier to jcapell , and since yours was the post that sent me to Lenny's, I thought I'd direct you to my reply . I think you'll like it -- I took the script that was there and improved it quite a bit.
Enjoy,
Agreed completely. I visited Lenny's war on spam and found a script there that almost worked (perhaps it did, back in February; goto.com must have changed their formatting).
After 4 hours or so of picking at it, I've fixed it up so it will keep a log, give you reports on how much you've cost each spammer, a total for each day, as well as the grand total.
I want to take it further, and create a web page for it to send data to -- so it can drop the lines it adds to the logfile, and we can have a backend that collects these from around the world, and displays a running total like those world population signs. But that was too much for just one evening. ;-)
I emailed it to Lenny, but I'll post it here for those who want it now.
You can easily add this as a cron job (or NT's equivalent) and have it run every, say, 15 minutes. You won't notice the bandwidth it takes up, and you'll be costing them about $2,400 a day.
From here to the end of this post (my sig), it's all script. The name is kill_goto_spammers.pl.
Thanks to the lameness filters, I am not able to share this with you. If you want it, email me.
Check out PriorArt.org -- they are collecting submissions from the community, for free, to create a database of prior art to combat absurd patents with.
It was created with the help of the Foresight Institute , which also runs a Slashdot-like interface at NanoDot.org .
(PS NanoDot appears to currently be down.)
Here's the link, for the lazy. ;-)
Fortunately, that's a problem which is specific to a very small area of the world.
Circumcision is a far worse problem. Without going into too many details, I've read that it reduces sexual enjoyment to 20-40% of its original level. (What do you expect when you remove skin that contains so many nerves?)
And we say it's done for cleanliness. Teach your kid to use a fucking bar of soap!
To stay on topic, people used to marry at 12. It's only recently, evolutionarily speaking, that sex has been restricted to "adults." To add insult to injury, the growth hormones that we put in our chickens and our cows are being passed through to the kitchen table, and are causing children to mature faster. Females have breasts at a much earlier age now, making them sexual targets.
I'm not defending the pedophile; I'm simply trying to explain the behavior, objectively.
Heh. "Pi"-racy.
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The latest SuSE Linux 7.2 comes on 7 CDs and 1 DVD.
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There exists such a web site already: check out Steve Gibson's site, and check out the "Shields UP!" section. This will portscan your machine for you and report the ports it finds open. (It was designed for Windows machines.)
--
Perhaps this might be one way to go, as there are many people saying you'd have to be crazy to start an ISP these days.
As others have mentioned, we only do support through email. This makes it easier to be specific and exact when telling a customer what to do, and allows us to interact with the customers when our time permits (we answer all calls within 24 hours).
We're in the USA. I'm not sure how well this business plan would translate to Australia, but as I said above, the margins should be better than running an ISP.
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I'd like to see a trend start for GPL'd software to become "mission critical" -- in other words, for there to be certification standards, and have libraries then pass that certification, and then have programs which are built using only certified libraries, etc.
I suppose this could be one aspect of the Linux Standard Base, on further thought. Here's a URL: linuxbase.org.
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www.naziauction.com
www.naziauction.net
www.naziauction.org
www.naziauction.tv
www.naziauction.cc
www.naziauction.ws
I smell a business opportunity... ;-)
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Is Microsoft going after Google as well, now?
And if not, why not?
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I wholeheartedly agree.
However, my politician Manager, who just made Vice President after not watching the Team I'm on because he was too busy "promoting" himself to the higher-ups, has decided that I'm a bad apple and need to be on double-secret probation until I've "learned my lesson."
Here's a guy who was tasked with making sure the Team I'm on made its goals. He put the Team Lead in charge, a youngster with no managerial skills, and personality issues that prevent him both from working effectively with others and from taking advantage of these others' very useful skills! The Team Lead failed miserably, and the Manager got a promotion, a nice corner office, and (most likely) a bundle of stock and a big raise.
It's no wonder everybody on the Team got a bad performance appraisal this year. Which means less stock and salary for the little guys -- which of course means there's more to go around "up there." (Their behavior is not lost on me; I'm learning to play politics myself. But I've got nowhere to go at that company -- they've made sure I have a reputation as a loose cannon, and they're doing everything they can to promote that because it helps their agenda, somehow.)
Those who are reading this know who I am. So know this: I got stock and salary this year. Both of which were above the average -- and some people got nothing. If I was rewarded, then how can my performance be so abysmal that I need to be subjected to Performance Counseling, and forced into fixed hours which are simply not possible with the insomnia my psychiatrist has diagnosed me with? It's obvious to me I'm being rushed out the door.
It's also obvious to my attorney.
This situation had better go away over this coming weekend, or there will be Hell to pay. The attorney's not cheap; why be on the defensive when there's a pot of gold if you pull the trigger? (Retaliation three days after you make Management aware of a very serious problem will be acknowledged by a jury -- which will significantly reward the victim, who is out of a job either way.)
Back to the point: flex time is a wonderful thing. As long as you are exceeding your expectations (and are not pushed into a corner and then constantly interrupted), then it shouldn't matter if you come in late, or even if you come in at all! Why waste resources when you can do more with less? (I.e., gas, time driving, the expense of maintaining an office and a parking lot, a corporate network, etc. -- just pay for ADSL for your employees, and let them work from home. They don't work out? Firing them's a lot easier when they're not on site to pull a completely different kind of trigger.)
I'll have my own company soon. And I'll treat the employees like black boxes. It won't matter to me if they're tripping on acid -- as long as they're achieving more than I expect of them, I'll be happy with their performance.
The company I work for used to be like that. It isn't now. And the stock's down. Coincidence?
They'd like us to think so.
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If Florida was that skewed, how can we be certain that the other states weren't, either?
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Anyway, more to the point, this isn't about Minesweeper, it's a problem called the "MineSweeper Consistentcy Problem" and it's important to remember that. Essentially, the MCP is: given a half finished minesweeper board, is it consistent? That is, is it a valid board within the rules of the game? It is possible to get this board through normal play?
From the article:
So, write a program that can decode Minesweeper for any size board, and you will join the pantheon of mathematical greats, alongside Euler and Pythagoras.
Who's right?
I'll add one observation: I have managed, on several occasions, to get to a state where there are N uncovered squares and N-M bombs left, and no clues as to which is right -- it's a coin toss.
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What we need is some kind of reform
I have a radical idea. What currently controls the government? Individuals, and corporations, which donate money to the elected officials.
These "bribes" may be illegal, but they'll be done. There's no stopping it; whether it's to "rent" a night in the White House, or a flight on Air Force One (haven't seen them do that yet, wouldn't put it past them), or cash in briefcases, it'll happen.
Rather than fighting that urge, then, why don't we use it to benefit the system?
We can do away with taxes of all kinds (see FairTax, it's a great idea -- and this is completely different; I'd keep tarrifs and fees but eliminate all income, sales, estate, ad nauseum taxes), and simply use the following algorithm:
For every dollar that you donate to the government, you'll get one vote.
Read further -- I know a lot of you stopped when you saw that.
What I'm proposing is not "the richest gets the most votes." Because their money supply will run out; they have to contribute every time we hold a vote.
What will end up happening is, the most efficient person/organization will end up having better profit margins, and will be able to make a difference.
If the person or organization strives toward efficiency, what type of politician do you think they'll want to vote for?
My guess is Libertarian, which leads to a disclaimer: I'm going to vote Libertarian, for the first time, this year; I'm not sure I agree with the radical extremists, but I do agree with eliminating unconstitutional TLAs (Three Letter Agencies).
However, since this idea makes too much sense to me (please -- poke holes in it, I'd like to discuss it), I'm sure it'll never be accepted by The Powers That Be -- who have decided not to allow third parties any chance at winning.
But one can hope, and dream. ;-)
Besides, nanotech is coming fast -- we'll be off the planet before the next President is elected (i.e. the 2004 election season). So what the meek are doing now doesn't concern me -- they can and will inherit the Earth. The rest of us are going to the stars.
--
"An apology for the Devil: it must be remembered we have heard only one side of the story. God has written all the books." -Samuel Butler
God didn't write all the books. She can't speak to humans -- She has to speak through the Metatron.
Besides, the Devil is the "Price of Lies," is he not? And he's not forbidden from frolicking among the mortals. So I'm sure he's had his hand in these books we read.
Just another thought to scare your ultra-religious relatives with. ;-)
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Perl skills a must.
On-line references preferred (i.e., links to web sites or open source/free software projects you've worked on).
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Yes, I know it's not physically addictive.
But what I've learned in my 31 years is this: the pains that you suffer as a child want to hide. When your parents abused you (and they invariably did; nobody can have all their needs taken care of, but some of us got smacked more than others), you had a choice: integrate the experience with your world view, or repress it.
To integrate would be a death sentence -- it would be admitting that your parents didn't love you, which would lead to understanding that they won't provide for you, you won't have food, clothes, a roof over your head -- basically, the child would die, knowing it wouldn't be taken care of. So repression was a survival instinct.
Now, what does all this have to do with drugs?
I used pot to help me forget. To help me remove the pain of the past, so I could wallow in false happiness. And, it is false -- my problems weren't any closer to being solved the next morning.
I'll smoke again; I'm sure of it. But not for a while -- a year or two, perhaps more. It's not evil -- it's just a tool, and tools can be used for good or bad. (Ban guns -- why not ban knives? Or screwdrivers? But that's another subject.)
Social use and solitary use are two different things; if you find yourself in the latter group, talk to someone about it.
I hope my experience can help other kids understand the reasons they use. I'm in therapy and highly recommend it for adults who were abused as children.
As far as harder drugs, I've tried 'em, never got hooked -- I was lucky. Try to avoid the more expensive drugs, which have physical addiction potential -- crack, cocaine, heroin, alcohol, tobacco.
The best to start with is pot. Mushrooms are nice, but I prefer acid. And don't overdo that -- it could lead to insanity.
But in moderation, you should be free to experience the world at your discretion. It's your body.
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