2009-03-21, 03:58 PM
While I personally am entirely against both drugs and alcohol despite being of age to drink for some time now, this is a valid point:
Back in high school, our school servers were set up so that we had no start menu/task bar/ability to right click. Considering that we had projects to do which involved saving images and various other things, we couldn't just sit there letting things go as is, so a friend and I found numerous loopholes in the server to restore those settings. After that though, we kept going with it and eventually found ways to edit the images of students in the database, ways to alter library fines, and found all the logs of our school district. My friend only used the first two minority (changing the color of his shirt button in the school photo and having the library owe him 30 cents) and I never used it at all.
Though a year later, they gave everyone back menus and right click ability. We got bored then with everything since there was no longer a challenge to get things back that we needed so we just stopped messing with things.
Another good example of this closer related to drugs would be the prohibition of alcohol. The laws didn't stop the people and it just made them figure out more underground methods to transport and make it, eventually falling into the hands of crime syndicates. After it ended, going to a bar seemed normal and people didn't fight over sales for it.
Both alcohol and drugs
you up in the end, but there just might be a chance that this could have the reverse affect that everyone anticipates. Who knows? It'd never pass though and I'd still never try either alcohol or drugs if it did anyhow. So in the end, it doesn't effect me.
MaxHudson Wrote:When you gotta sneak around to do something. It gives more a rush. In a sense, people like a challenge.
Back in high school, our school servers were set up so that we had no start menu/task bar/ability to right click. Considering that we had projects to do which involved saving images and various other things, we couldn't just sit there letting things go as is, so a friend and I found numerous loopholes in the server to restore those settings. After that though, we kept going with it and eventually found ways to edit the images of students in the database, ways to alter library fines, and found all the logs of our school district. My friend only used the first two minority (changing the color of his shirt button in the school photo and having the library owe him 30 cents) and I never used it at all.
Though a year later, they gave everyone back menus and right click ability. We got bored then with everything since there was no longer a challenge to get things back that we needed so we just stopped messing with things.
Another good example of this closer related to drugs would be the prohibition of alcohol. The laws didn't stop the people and it just made them figure out more underground methods to transport and make it, eventually falling into the hands of crime syndicates. After it ended, going to a bar seemed normal and people didn't fight over sales for it.
Both alcohol and drugs
you up in the end, but there just might be a chance that this could have the reverse affect that everyone anticipates. Who knows? It'd never pass though and I'd still never try either alcohol or drugs if it did anyhow. So in the end, it doesn't effect me.