15/Apr/2010 PA
12/Apr/2009 Sunrise Circus
15/Mar/2009 Lego
08/Mar/2009 Moomba
13/Feb/2009 Car Smokey Sunset
26/Jan/2009 Fireworks
26/Oct/2008 Synchrotron
07/Jun/2008 Model Trains
06/Jun/2008 Wedding
04/Jun/2008 Central Coast Trip
more photos...
03/Nov/2011 yuvvalues
03/Nov/2011 yuvrfps
03/Nov/2011 yuvdiff
03/Nov/2011 yuvaddetect
03/Nov/2011 yuv2jpeg
more lavtools...
The TRIP is the mental projection of my digital self. Including all areas of digital work I have been involved with, including Music, video, photography...
All good web pages must have the collection of absolutely useless pictures. Designed for no purpose other than to consume kilobits. And hopefully show off some of my Photographic skills. Web design skills, and uses one php script to drive the whole index. Also see the Photography section of the Silicontrip Website.
The Creative section of the TRIP is my imagination trying to run free. I have a fascination with sexual, spiritual and meta physical abilities, and these stories show it.
Part of the images directory contains some of my digital artwork. These images have been created or enhanced by myself, with the help of the 1s and 0s machine.
23/Feb/2011 Trace
17/Jan/2010 Food
30/Oct/2009 Airbrush
18/Jun/2009 Focal
01/Jun/2009 Transport
01/Jun/2009 Misc
31/May/2009 Artwork
24/Apr/2009 AirbrushScales
18/Apr/2009 Probe
10/Jan/2009 Scanimation
more album...
27/Jan/2012 ZFS for OSX
14/Dec/2011 Scripting Bridge
02/Dec/2011 Core Audio Units
01/Mar/2011 A useful bit of code
22/Dec/2010 Larger than 4G files on FAT for OSX
08/Dec/2009 Time machine on non HFS drives
21/Oct/2009 My Strengths
27/Aug/2009 Train Hitchiking
11/Jul/2009 A litre of onions
19/Jun/2009 FSCK for NTFS
18/Jun/2009 Automated Focal Deconstruction
12/Jun/2009 Perl code to write BMPs
07/Jun/2009 More Lego
01/Jun/2009 Latest Airbrushing
30/May/2009 Happy Birthday to me
24/May/2009 Comments Engine
09/May/2009 Skills Matrix
24/Apr/2009 Airbrush simulator
19/Apr/2009 Ben 10 Board game
29/Mar/2009 How fresh is your fresh food?
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If it were as easy as `Just say no' why do so many not say no?
Do the lawmakers think that people lack so much control that all they need to do is tell them, don't start in the first place, this is true to an extent, same as not playing a dangerous sport should not lead to an injury resulting from that sport.
Remove the temptation and the weak won't fall? But is the temptation really removed? Are you solving your fear of people by locking yourself in your house? You no longer experience that fear but have you really solved it?
Trying to fight the problem the way they are is hurting more than it is doing good. They spend billions a year trying to fight it, where does the money come from? The fight becomes a self sustaining entity it's ultimate goal is to elimiate the need for it's own existance. Once all the drugs are gone, why need the agency that fights it. So it looks for new things to fight, to create a need for it's existance.
Who wins in this fight? Not the people with the addictions. Only the two entities that are fighting, the DEA who will get more funding to fight, and the suppliers, with each bust, their product raises in value. If drugs were legal drug dealers would be out of business and so would the agency that fights them. It is in both their best interest that the problem remains.
It only harms the people. It harms the addicts who are not taught how to understand their needs. They have an overwhelming desire for that release. Yet they are told that drugs are bad. They are now in additional conflict trying to balance their needs with the perception of society. They get labelled junkies. They become criminals in their desperation to fulfil their need from the over inflated prices caused by the fight.
If society understood the problem, then it could really be addressed. If you think the problem can be solved by just saying no, by making it illegal and by throwing money at stopping the supply, how little you understand about yourself. Who do you blame when something bad happens to you? Yourself? Of course not, you're just the victim here.
When we are growing up we take on a belief system that is not the true us. By the time our minds are old enough to begin to understand ourselves we begin to rebel against the beliefs we were told. We go into anger and frustration at what we have been told. This behaviour is usually suppressed and as teenagers we do not express that anger that it needed to find our true selves.
In the 1960's there was a mass rebellion against society. Two major influences acted on this. One was the vietnam war, society imposed the war and so they rebelled against society. At this time LSD was not illegal. The drug brought about a shift in ideas and attitude. The adolescent was waking to his own ideas. Then they began to rebel. Like any unenlightened parent, society reacted punishing the teenager, taking away that which gave the teenager their new ideas. Like a scared parent that doesn't know what to do when their child has cut themselves and is bleeding, they ran to their doctor, they ran to the lawmakers and said "you must fix it" So laws were passed but nothing was fixed.
The rebellion was suppressed but the teenager had only begun to understand their true self. Society could be happy again knowing that no one was going to ruffle the feathers and that everything was perfect. We did not learn that societies ideals are not inline with people's true self. Issues occur when what we truely want is not what is accepted.
People's teaching is not inline with what they truely want, so internal conflicts and problems arise, people deal with it in anyway they know how, one of those ways is a drug induced reality.
This is highlighted by the so called drug problem. There is no system of teaching that enables these people to find and confront the false teachings of society. They feel the conflict but do not have the tools to confront it. They escape the pain in some way. Some drugs can even give us the ability to attempt to face what we are really feeling and inspire us to move forward.
Just saying no does not solve the inner conflicts that these people face the drug gives them the release they feel they need, they feel that they cannot cope that society and the world is against them, and they turn to the only thing that can bring them peace.
And we would do anything to find our inner peace. Ask why, don't just say no.